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city of new-york having received credible information that a great number of vessels are in great distress on the coast have provided the brig dean joshua sanford master to give immediate assistance to the sufferers and do hereby invite the masters mates and seamen to embark in so laudable an enterprise those who are disposed to undertake the cause of humanity will please to give in their names at the counting room of ebenezer stevens who is authorised to make arrangements for their compensation dec extract of a letter from boston dated december within a day or two past it has been discovered that there are a great many forged and dollar bills of the united states bank in circulation they are exceedingly well executed this is wittes to caution you against remitting me any of either of those denominations as you cannot pass them"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-21|1|2", "date": "1797-01-21", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", 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disposed to undertake the cause of humanity will please to give in their names at the counting room of ebenezer stevens who is authorized to make arrangements for their compensation extract of a letter from boston dated december within a day or two past it has been discovered that there are a great many forged and dollar bills of the united states bank in circulation they are exceedingly well executed this is written to caution you against remitting me any of either of those denominations as you cannot pass them"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1257, 1587], "b_span": [445, 769], "matched_words": 294, "similarity": 0.8990825688073395, "seeds": 46, "id": "M00002", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-04|1|3", "date": "1797-01-04", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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henderson belonged to mr william gray jun of salem massachusetts on a voyage from point-a-petre she was captured by the privateer prince william henry and carried to st kitts where some french property she had on board was taken out and condemned after her departure from st kitts she was met with on the th october by the french privateer citizen genet which had left philadelphia ten days before the privateer obliged capt henderson to hoist out his boat and bring his papers on board which being done he was asked to whom the french sugar on board belonged he replied to william gray of salem upon which the person who asked the question and who he understood was the french captain called him a damned liar and walking forward spoke to the men five sailors immediately advanced took capt henderson by the collar dragged him to one of the guns where they held him cut his trousers behind and beat him with lashes on the bare flesh until he was black and blue on expostulating on this extraordinary 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the men five sailors immediately advanced took capt henderson by the collar dragged him to one of the guns where they held him cut his trowlers behind and beat him with lashes on the bare flesh until he was black and blue on expostulating on the extraordinary treatment of a neutral vessel he was told that the americans were a parcel of damned rascals and did not deserve better treatment on captain henderson being dismissed six french sailors were sent with him on board the william these immediately fell to ransacking the vessel and plundered from her in cash and goods to the amount of about l before she was dismissed however four brazilian sailors who were prisoners on board the privateer were put on board her although capt henderson urged that he had scarcely provisions enough for his own crew the consequence was that captain henderson was under the necessity of retrenching the allowance of all the ship's company himself included the foregoing is presented the public as an accurate 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which fortunately did not communicate in consequence of the wetness of the floor an attempt was made on friday night to set fire to the house of peter williams tobacconist william street the matches and combustibles were found next morning in a place between two buildings but providentially it failed of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-07|1|3", "date": "1797-01-07", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797010701/0215.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "thursday morning about o'clock the door of the stable belonging to messrs tuckers and lownds adjoining their dwelling house in pearl-street was discovered to have been violently broken open the lock of the door having been forced off and a most daring attempt made to set the building on fire as 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"source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "de butts to the secretary of war dated presque-ile th december says it is with extreme concern i discharge the melancholy duty of announcing to you the death of major-general anthony wayne who after an exceedingly painful visitation of the gout expired between the hours of and o'clock this disorder attacked him about the th ultimo during a very unfavourable passage from detroit hither where we arrived on the evening of the preceding day it by turns affected his feet knees and hands with considerable inflammation and a great degree of pain until about the th when the violence of both beginning gradually to abate inspired fluttering hopes of his speedy recovery but alas these were of short duration for on the morning of the third inst it appeared that the gout had taken possession of his stomach where it remained with unconquerable obstinacy and extreme torture until it put a period to his existence his remains will be interred to-morrow within this fort with"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-14|1|2", "date": "1797-01-14", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797011401/0218.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "de butts to the secretary of war dated presque-isle th dec it is with extreme concern i discharge the melancholy duty of announcing to you the death of major-general anthony wayne who after an exceedingly painful visitation of the gout expired this morning between the hours of and o'clock this disorder attacked him about the th ultimo during a very favorable passage from detroit hither where we arrived on the evening of the succeeding day it by turns affected his feet knees and hands with considerable inflammation and a great degree of pain until about the th when the violence of both beginning gradually to abate inspired flattering hopes of his speedy recovery but alas these were of short duration for on the morning of the d inst it appeared that the gout had taken possession of his stomach where it remained with unconquerable obstinacy and extreme torture until it put a period to his existence his remains will be interred to-morrow within this fort with"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1117, 1456], "b_span": [2037, 2377], "matched_words": 327, "similarity": 0.9631811487481591, "seeds": 67, "id": "M00007", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-06|1|3", "date": "1797-01-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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commissioners but the people strongly bigotted to their ministers and their religion seem in several parts disposed to resist the confiscation by open force in which they are encouraged by the emigrants and refractory nonjuring priests the major part of the people of property in every part of belgium are either sending or have already sent their effects to foreign countries letters from berlin of the th inst bring advice that his prussian majesty has concluded an offensive and defensive alliance with the elector of saxony and the landgrave of hesse cassel in virtue of which both those princes reciprocally stipulate to grant each other every assistance that shall be required to resist any attacks made upon their respective territories by the house of austria or any other continental power that shall attempt to force them to relinquish their neutrality during the present war this treaty was concluded about the latter end of august but we understand that it has not as yet been finally ratified by the elector of saxony the dukes of brunswick mecklenburg and wirttemberg the margrave of baden and some other princes in the northern parts of germany have been invited to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-07|1|2", "date": "1797-01-07", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797010701/0214.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sorry to state that on saturday information was received that the malabar man of war of guns capt parr one of the convoy of our jamaica fleet foundered at sea on the th inst happily just as she was going down the martha merchantman capt sedmond hove in sight and was fortunate enough to save the whole crew with whom she arrived safe at portsmouth on friday the eurus frigate lately captured from the dutch capt ross sailed from the nore on saturday morning last for spithead with troops on board part of the th and st regiments destined as is supposed for gibraltar letters from brussels of the th inst state that the greatest ferment prevails throughout the belgic provinces especially in brabant where insurrections are every where apprehended the ecclesiastical property is about to be seized by the french commissioners but the people strongly bigotted to their ministers and their religion seem in several parts disposed to resist the confiscation by open force in which they are encouraged by the emigrants and the refractory non-juring priests the major part of the people of property in every part of belgium are either sending or have already sent their effects to foreign countries letters from berlin of the th inst bring advices that his prussian majesty has concluded an offensive and defensive treaty of alliance with the elector of saxony and the landgrave of hesse cassel in virtue of which both those princes reciprocally stipulate to grant each other every assistance that shall be required to resist any attacks made upon their respective territories by the house of austria or any other continental power that shall attempt to force them to relinquish their neutrality during the present war this treaty was concluded about the latter end of august but we understand that it has not as yet been finally ratified by the elector of saxony the dukes of brunswick mecklenburgh wirtemberg and the margrave of baden and some other princes in the northern parts of germany have been invited to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2395, 2552], "b_span": [232, 390], "matched_words": 149, "similarity": 0.946031746031746, "seeds": 30, "id": "M00008", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-06|1|3", "date": "1797-01-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily 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amongst which there are officers frankfort oct under this date a confirmation is given that gen moreau on his retreat attacked the imperial gen petrasch and repulsed him with the loss of from to men and that he had been"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-12|1|3", "date": "1797-01-12", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797011201/0199.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "papers received yesterday by the ship minerva to the th nov the difficulty of obtaining immediate translations and the lateness of the hour at which the papers were received prevent our detailing the articles they contain for this day's advertiser they will be furnished to morrow in a curious view however we have noted the following a letter from gen moreau 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for insertion the ship hope arrived the day before yesterday at new-london in days from liverpool particulars by this vessel i have not yet learnt the most important article is the return of lord malmesbury from paris as he went and that all parties are preparing to prosecute the"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1669, 2227], "b_span": [498, 1062], "matched_words": 528, "similarity": 0.9411764705882353, "seeds": 92, "id": "M00013", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-07|1|3", "date": "1797-01-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797010701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "citizen directors the courage of the army has gloriously extricated them out of the critical position in which it stood by the black forest we were surrounded by the enemy who hindered our passage through the narrow passes when at the same time the archduke charles advanced with a part of his army threatening to destroy the bridges over the rhine it was necessary at this juncture to open ourselves a way by vigorous efforts which the victory of biberach was not sufficient to effect about men commanded by generals petrasch and nauendorf had taken the posts by rothwell villigen donaueschingen and neustadt waldshut and even the forest towns were occupied by austrian troops and armed peasants from this you see that all our communications were cut off this was the more disagreeable to us as we could not receive letters from france nor receive any from thence i commenced to force a passage through the forest towns a half brigade escorting the ammunition waggons and the wounded and sick effected this without much difficulty that part of the army which was not necessary to check the progress of general latour who having recovered from his defeat by biberach did not cease to pursue us marched to rothwell and dittingen and after several vigorous battles drove the enemy from thence we took here part of his artillery and made prisoners it remained now to force the narrow passes in the black forest the center of the army marked out the line to attack the corps of the enemy stationed in hell valley this is a terrible defile for the passage of an army as this valley extends several miles between two steep mountains hardly from to fathoms distance the bravery of the troops surmounted all obstacles with loss of a cannon and prisoners the enemy was beaten and on the th oct the center of the army took position before friburg the division of the archduke had already advanced to ait breyach from whence they drove our troops and took prisoners which we retook together with those that escorted them the right and left wings of the army who had joined and continued to check the generals latour petrasch and nauendorf defiled on the th th and th oct without the least loss all the equipment and transports passed unmolested through the forest towns covered by the right wing of the army thus an army of which the enemy boasted he would certainly make prisoners now threatens him with an attack and returns to cover the frontiers after a march of leagues without the least loss during which they took from the enemy pieces of cannon pair of colours and nearly prisoners amongst which there are officers i send you this short sketch to alleviate your anxiety but i owe it to the brave army which i have the honour to command to give a more specific description of the many battles it fought to praise the patience and calm courage which they shewed under the greatest difficulties the resignation with which they bore the want of provisions in the horrid places which they passed every corps signalised itself and the officers did not cease to give proofs of their talents and bravery several of them in particular did gallant actions of which i think it my duty"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-21|1|1", "date": "1797-01-21", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012101/0221.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "citizen directors the courage of the army has gloriously extricated them out of the critical position in which it stood by the black forest we were surrounded by the enemy who hindered our passage through the narrow passes when at the same time the archduke charles advanced with a part of his army threatening to destroy the bridges over the rhine it was necessary at this juncture to open ourselves away by vigorous efforts which the victory of biberach was not sufficient to effect about men commanded by generals petrasch and nauendorf had taken the positions by rothwell villengen donaushingen and feustadt waldshut and even the forest towns were occupied by austrian troops and armed peasants from this you see that all our communications were cut off this was the more disagreeable to us as we could not send letters to france neither receive any from thence i commenced to force a passage thro the forest towns a half brigade escorted the ammunition waggons and the wounded and sick and effected this without much difficulty this part of the army which was not necessary to check the progress of gen latour who having recovered from his defeat by biberach did not cease to pursue us marched to rothwell and dittingen and after several vigorous battles drove the enemy from thence we took here part of his artillery and made prisoners it remained now to force the narrow passes in the black forest the centre of the army marked out the line to attack the corps of the enemy stationed in hell valley this is a terrible defile for the passage of an army as this valley extends several miles betwixt two deep mountains hardly from to fathoms distance the bravery of the troops surmounted all obstacles with the loss of a cannon and prisoners the enemy was beaten and on the th october the center of the army took a position before fryburg the divisions of the arch duke had already advanced to alt breyach from whence they drove our troops and took prisoners which we retook together with those that escorted them the right and left wing of the army who had joined and continued to check the generals latour petrasch and nauendorf defiled on the th th and th of oct without the least cost all the equipage and transports passed unmoled thro the forest towns covered by the right wing of the army thus an army of which the enemy boasted he would certainly make prisoners now threatens him with an attack and returns to cover the frontiers after a march of one hundred leagues without the least loss during which they took from the enemy pieces of cannon pair of colors and nearly prisoners amongst which there are officers i send you this short sketch to alleviate your anxiety but i owe it to the brave army which i have the honor to command to give a more specific description of the many battles it fought to praise the patience and calm courage which they showed under the greatest difficulties the resignation with which they bore the want of provisions in the horrid places which they passed every corps signalized itself and the officers did not cease to give proofs of their talents and bravery several of them in particular did gallant actions of which i think it my duty"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3210, 3404], "b_span": [2621, 2815], "matched_words": 191, "similarity": 0.9845360824742269, "seeds": 44, 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hundred that it will be advisable to prepare to continue the war with redoubled forces the same has sent another message proposing to prohibit the importation of english goods in all the ports of the republic letters from l'orient and rochefort mention that five ships of the line and several frigates have failed from both ports to join the fleet at brest october the council of five hundred had yesterday a secret conference in which the deputy patteret in the name of the committee for the treaty of peace with the king of naples made the report of articles of peace agreed on which were afterwards ratified the articles are briefly these the king of naples engages to withdraw his troops out of the places in the papal domains he obliges himself to keep no more than a certain number of men of war in commission he secures us commercial advantages his ports shall be shut for the english until the end of the war he will give satisfaction on account of the insults given to the french envoy in"}, 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forage at five o'clock in the evening however we completed the blockade of mantua and took possession of the gates of pradella and ceresio as i had the honor of informing you in my last dispatch that detachment finding themselves by this means separated from mantua endeavored to retire towards florence they were no sooner arrived at reggio than the inhabitants were apprized of their approach they ran to arms and prevented them from passing by which impediment they were compelled to retire into the strong castle of montechierogolo in the dominions of the duke of parma the brave inhabitants of reggio pursued and afterwards surrounded them and forced them to surrender themselves prisoners of war by capitulation in the firing of musketry which took place the national guards of reggio have had two men killed these are the first who have shed their blood for the establishment of the liberty of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-21|1|1", "date": "1797-01-21", "paper": "The New Hampshire 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to arms and prevented them from passing by which impediment they were compelled to retire into the strong castle of montechieronolo in the dominions of the duke of parma the brave inhabitants of reggio pursued and afterwards surrounded them and forced them to surrender themselves prisoners of war by capitulation in the firing of musketry which took place the national guards of reggio have had two men killed these are the first who have shed their blood for the establishment of the liberty of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2605, 2886], "b_span": [780, 1058], "matched_words": 268, "similarity": 0.9588550983899821, "seeds": 46, "id": "M00016", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-07|1|3", "date": "1797-01-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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present but in all future wars the french republic shall have a right to put garrisons in civita vechia and ancona milan oct and we are assured that the hostilities between the pope and the french republic will shortly be commenced according to a proclamation of general buonaparte the truce between the republic and the duke of modena is declared to be suspended all young men above the age of years are compelled to the military service under a great penalty there was a bloody conflict between some inhabitants of leghorn who paid their devotion to an image of the holy maria and the french several lives were lost on the occasion it is said that the republic of venice intends to accede to an alliance concluded on the th sept between the pope and the king of naples and that the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-21|1|2", "date": "1797-01-21", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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present but all future wars the french republic shall have a right to put garrisons in cevita vecchia and ancona milan oct we are assured that hostilities between the pope and the french republic will shortly be commenced according to a proclamation of general buonaparte the truce between the republic and the duke of modena is declared to be suspended all young men above the age of years are compelled to the military service under a great penalty there was a bloody conflict between some inhabitants of leghorn who paid their devotion to an image of the holy maria and the french several lives have been lost on that occasion it is said that the republic of venice intends to accede to an alliance concluded on the th sept between the pope and king of naples and that the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2777, 2886], "b_span": [693, 802], "matched_words": 106, 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occasion was about men that of the french was considerably greater some accounts making it amount to men it seems to have been the object of moreau to raise the siege of kehl with a view to secure a retreat over the rhine at strasburgh but the activity of the archduke had defeated this scheme and after several actions in which he must have sustained very great loss he was compelled to make good"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|2", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797011901/0202.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "three hamburg mails due since wednesday last arrived in town this morning by the letters which they bring it appears that general wurmser gained a complete victory over the french 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wartensleben was wounded in the left arm by a grape shot the loss of the french is very considerable and they have been obliged to abandon elzach and emmendingen the head quarters of the archduke charles were removed on the th from herbolheim to emmendingen the austrian troops have again entered freybourg victorious and the communication between general moreau and the corps which had advanced to huningen is cut off fribourg october after a continued fighting for four days the austrians have driven the enemy from elzach and out of fribourg into which they yesterday entered these advantages cost them about men but the enemy according to the account of the french generals themselves lost between and men among which are prisoners"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|2", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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had taken place between the austrian general alvinzy and the french general massena on the th ult near vicenza in which the former were defeated the french having made about prisoners and a number of officers prisoners the cannon and all the baggage of the austrians also fell into"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|3", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797011901/0203.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a report in circulation that ministers have received accounts from belfast that a vessel bearing american colours had fed into that harbour but seeing a king's ship lying at anchor had endeavoured to throw off but was taken and it was found that she had stand of arms on board the captain had time to burn his papers and he would neither say from whence he came nor whither he was bound we repeat the story exactly according to rumour but on the face of it it is a most improbable tale if there was any design either on the part of the enemy or the disaffected persons in this country if there are any really disaffected to smuggle fire arms into that kingdom they would hardly have sent a vessel into a port so public as belfast the irish papers say nothing of such an event yesterday an account was received from dover stating that intelligence had been communicated by the telegraph to lile a few hours before the falling of a vessel from calis arrived there that an engagement had taken place between the austrian gen albinzy and the french general malsna on the th ult near trieste in which the former were defeated the french having made about croats and a number of officers prisoners the cannon and all the baggage of the austrians also fell into"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], 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is doubtful but perhaps it is necessary to hazard it for the repulse of europe and the glory of the french republic november"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|2", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797011901/0202.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be conquered but in london we think that if the british government refuses to accept just conditions of peace and if they persist in arming europe against the republic we must carry the war to the banks of the thames and force the government to accept the olive-branch we do not dissemble the multiplied dangers of such an enterprise success is doubtful but perhaps it is necessary to hazard it for the repose of europe and the glory of the french 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but was repulsed with loss of men said to amount to and of some baggage and artillery the imperialists though they fought with the greatest bravery could not re-sist the superior number of the french it is not expected that general moreau will speedily recross the rhine as his position at friburgh is very ad-vantageous his rear being covered by that river and both his wings by the fortresses of strasburg and hunningen meanwhile the archduke charles is collecting all the dispersed detachments to pre-vent general moreau's advancing and it is therefore very probable that a very decisive battle may hap-pen in the environs of brisgau general moreau has affected his retreat so well by feigned marches and his frequent attacks on the imperialists which were always"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|3", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", 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nothing less than to make the garrison prisoners of war and to raise the works and finally to cut off the communication of the left wing with the right of the army this affair cost the enemy more"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-08|1|2", "date": "1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030801/0743.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "exerting himself in the most spirited manner to maintain the independence of his ports the english having infringed that independence and taken a spanish frigate there the algerines have re-claimed it and are preparing their whole maritime force november citizens directors i hasten to communicate to the executive directory the reception of letters from brest of the d instant november brought by an extraordinary courier which announce that a general revolution has just taken place in ireland this interesting news came by two ships brought into the road the same evening by our privateers and which lately failed from liverpool the captains state that the irish after taken possession of stand of arms in dublin attacked and defeated english troops that the whole country is in a state of insurrection the arrest and some other arbitrary proceedings of which the english minister is accused seemed to have provoked the commotion health and respect truguet general bournonville to the executive directory mulheim d brumaire i had the honor to give you an account yesterday of the attack of the army made by the enemy in the night between the th and th vendemaire upon the head of the bridge and the isle of newwied he had projected nothing less than to make the garrison prisoners of war and to raise the works and finally to cut off the communication of the left wing with the right of the army 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were left in our hands prisoners whereof were wounded those that were drowned are estimated to be or and the loss of the enemy on the right wing must have been extraordinary great as they received from the bridge battery a most astonishing fire the troops under general kleber and grenier have distinguished themselves most wonderfully"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|3", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797011901/0203.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from the head quarters at mulheim dated the d oct of the crossing of the rhine which the austrians attempted on the d at night at neuwied c this account agrees in the whole with that of the french already published among other articles it is said that all of the enemy who crossed the rhine at neudorf were either killed taken prisoners or drowned on the left bank of the rhine were left in our hands prisoners whereof were wounded those that were drowned are estimated at or and the loss of the enemy on the right wing must have been extraordinary great as they received from the bridge battery a most fire generals kleber and grenier have distinguished themselves most wonderfully"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2649, 2848], "b_span": [27, 227], "matched_words": 190, "similarity": 0.9523809523809523, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00034", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-11|1|2", "date": "1797-01-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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arms with modena was disturbed by disguised accidents in one of the modenese villages scandiano the inhabitants cut down the tree of liberty armed themselves insulted and killed some republican minded persons who would go and visit a french commissary in scandiano the noted abbe spallanzani it is said"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|3", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797011901/0203.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "admiral langara has taken some english men of war in the mediterranean sea and that if he had had orders of hostility hours sooner he could have taken the english division of admiral mann consisting of five ships of the line with a convoy of men in extremadura will be raised 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knee feeling his situation and believing his wound to be mortal he cried out to one of his aids carry me forward and let me die in the fort when he entered it he gave orders to stop the effusion of blood by the sword and to make the garrison prisoners of war this humane command was the more generous as the garrison consisted of some of the troops who had used the bayonet without mercy at the paoli in the year he bore an active part in the campaign which reduced the army of lord cornwallis to the necessity of surrendering prisoners of war after this event he was sent by general washington to conduct the war in the state of georgia here his prudence courage and military skill were amply tried he contended with equal success with british soldiers indian savages and american traitors in a short time he established peace and liberty in that once distressed state as a reward for his eminent services the legislature of georgia presented him with a valuable farm upon the return of peace he 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capt valkenburgh guns cathor capt clarisse guns bellona capt valk guns sirene capt de cere guns havik capt bezemer guns and maria floership total guns troops and seamen the ships under admiral elphinstone were monarch tremendous america stately ruby seepre trident jupiter crescent sphinx molelle rattlesnake echo hope yesterday arrived here his majesty's frigate andromeda captain taylor in days passage from england halifax paper we somer time since stated that moreau had retreated to stocknach and freybourg instead of retiring by huningue as it was supposed he would in retreating to freybourg his design was to re-cross the rhine at kehl and stra burg to protect those places and perhaps to retain possession of the right bank of the rhine in the brisgau with this view he had marched as far as freybourg here the archduke attacked him on the th and after an obstinate conflict in which the archduke behaved with great personal gallantry the french posts were defeated and their army compelled to retire with the loss of prisoners and probably about half that number in killed and wounded moreau still entertained hopes of maintaining himself on the right bank of the rhine and posted himself advantageously for that purpose but the austrians having made dispositions to attack him on the th he again retired and retreated across the rhine into france on the th still keeping possession of the strong head of the bridge at huningue by which he secures a passage into germany from the th to the th there seems to have been continual actions of posts in which the austrians generally had the advantage but at no time not even on the th did the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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far as freybourg here the archduke attacked him on the th and after an obstinate conflict in which the archduke behaved with great personal gallantry the french troops were defeated and their army compelled to retire with the loss of prisoners and probably about half that number in killed and wounded moreau still entertained hopes of maintaining himself on the right bank of the rhine and posited himself advantageously for that purpose but the austrians having made dispositions to attack him on the th he again retired and retreated across the rhine into france on the th still keeping possession of the strong head of the bridge at hohenheim by which he secures a passage into germany from the th to the th there seem to have been continual actions of posts in which the austrians generally had the advantage but at no time not even on the th did the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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"1797-03-04", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030401/0738.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gibraltar which state that on the morning of the th of october the spanish batteries consisting of pieces of heavy artillery were expected to commence playing against the fortress which however was in so excellent a state of defence that not the smallest apprehension was entertained for its safety the garrison at gibraltar according to the report lately made consists of near effective men"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2050, 2204], "b_span": [2498, 2655], "matched_words": 143, "similarity": 0.9196141479099679, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00056", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-14|1|3", "date": "1797-01-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797011401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the london gazette of november contains a series of letters from captain austurber and r crauford esq from the th to the th of october giving detail of a number of successive actions ultimate and bloody but fortunate to the austrians the following is the last of the letters alluded to head quarters of his royal highness the archduke charles of austria mappach october my lord i have the honor to inform your lordship that in the course of last night general moreau's army retreated across the rhine at huningen the left of his rear guard was this morning still on the heights of weilel on which he had constructed a large and solid work but after a little skirmishing with the hussars they evacuated the height and redoubt before any infantry could come up and nothing now remains on this side of the river but a few troops in a small tete de"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-08|1|2", "date": "1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030801/0743.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the london gazette of november contains a series of letters from capt anstruther and r crauford esq from the th to the th of october giving details of a number of successive actions obstinate and bloody but fortunate on the part of the austrians the following is the last of the letters alluded to head quarters of his royal highness the archduke charles of austria macpath oct my lord i have the honor to inform your lordship that in the course of last night gen moreau's army retreated across the rhine at huningen the last of his rear guard was this morning still on the heights of weiler on which he had constructed a large and solid work but after a little skirmishing with the hussars they evacuated the height and redoubt before any infantry could come up and nothing now remained on this side of the river but a few troops in a small tete de"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1395, 1586], "b_span": [10, 146], "matched_words": 134, "similarity": 0.8195718654434251, "seeds": 29, "id": "M00057", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-16|1|3", "date": "1797-01-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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reproaches as disgusting as they are without foundation nor by reciprocal insults that a sincere intention is shown to further the work of peace the undersigned proceeds therefore to the first object of discussion set forth in the answer of the executive directory viz that of a separate negotiation to which it has without the least foundation"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0210.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "department of foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy of the british cabinet the undersigned has not failed to transmit to his court the answer of the executive directory to the propositions which he was charged to make and which were intended to serve as overtures to a negotiation of peace with respect to the injurious and offensive insinuations contained in that answer and which are only fit to throw new obstacles in the way of that reconciliation which the french government professes to desire the king has thought it far beneath his dignity to allow any reply whatever to be returned on his part the undersigned proceeds therefore to the first object of discussion set forth in the answer of the executive directory that of a separate negotiation to which it has without the least foundation"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2085, 2312], "b_span": [302, 527], "matched_words": 216, "similarity": 0.9557522123893806, "seeds": 35, "id": "M00058", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-16|1|3", "date": "1797-01-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": 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delacroix returned the following answer answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the note of lord malmesbury the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to call on you to point out as speedily as possible nominatively the subjects of reciprocal compensations which you have to propose he is decidedly charged to ask of you what are the dispositions to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and the king furnished so conspicuous a proof at the commencement of the present campaign the executive directory is ignorant of them it was the emperor and king by"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0210.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "add to this demand the express declaration that while his majesty shall acquit his august allies with all his successive steps relative to the object of this present negotiation and faithful towards those sovereigns in the most efficacious manner every duty of a good and faithful ally he will at the same time neglect nothing on his part both to dispose them to concur in this negotiation by all such means as are most fitted to accelerate its progress and ensure its success and to preserve them in dispositions favourable to his wish for the return of a general peace on just permanent and honourable conditions malmesbury paris november to the above note the french minister for foreign affairs delacroix returned the following answer answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the note of lord malmesbury the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to call on you to point out as speedily as possible and nominatively the subjects of reciprocal compensation which you have to propose he is decidedly charged to ask of you what are the dispositions to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and king furnished so conspicuous a proof at the commencement of the present campaign the executive directory are ignorant of them it was the emperor and king by"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1395, 2319], "b_span": [1425, 2346], "matched_words": 907, "similarity": 0.9831978319783198, "seeds": 186, "id": "M00059", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-16|1|3", "date": "1797-01-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797011601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "department of foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy of the british cabinet the undersigned has not failed to transmit to his court the answer of the executive directory to the propositions which he was charged to make and which were intended to serve as overtures to a negotiation of peace with respect to the injurious and offensive insinuations contained in that answer and which are only fit to throw new obstacles in the way of that reconciliation which the french government professes to desire the king has thought it fit to bear with his dignity to allow any reply whatever to be returned on his part the progress and result of the negotiation will no doubt evince the principles on which it shall have been conducted on either side and it is neither by reproaches as disgusting as they are without foundation nor by reciprocal insults that a sincere intention is shown to further the work of peace the undersigned proceeds therefore to the first object of discussion set forth in the answer of the executive directory viz that of a separate negotiation to which it has without the least foundation supposed that the undersigned was authorized to accede his credentials and powers drawn up in the usual form fully authorize him to negotiate and conclude a peace but they prescribe neither the form and nature nor the terms of the future treaty on these points he must pursuant to the custom long established and acknowledged conform himself to the instructions received from his court and he has consequently not failed to inform the minister for the department of foreign affairs in their very first conference that the king his master had expressly enjoined him not to listen to any proposal tending to separate the interests of his majesty from those of his allies a negotiation which embraces the interests and pretensions of all the powers who make a common cause with the king in this present war is therefore the only one which can take place in the course of such a negotiation the intervention or at least the participation of these powers will no doubt become absolutely necessary and his majesty hopes to find at all times the same disposition to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and king gave the french government so striking a proof at the very moment of the opening of this campaign but to wait for a formal and definitive authority on the part of the king's allies before great britain and france should begin to discuss even provisionally the principles of the negotiation would cause it appears a very useless delay a course widely different has been pursued by the two powers on all former occasions of the same nature and his majesty is of opinion that the best pledge which at this moment they can give to all europe of their mutual desire to put a period as soon as possible to the calamities of war would be to settle without delay a basis of combined negotiation and to invite their allies to participate in it in the best manner calculated to accelerate a general peace it was with this view that the undersigned had it in command to propose at the very commencement of this negotiation a principle which his majesty's generosity and good faith could alone dictate to him viz to indemnify france by proportionate restitutions for such arrangements as she will consent to in order to satisfy the just claims of the allies of the king and to preserve the political balance of europe the executive directory has not explained itself in a precise manner either on the approbation of this principle nor in the alterations and modifications which it may desire nor has it proposed any other principle tending to the same end the undersigned is therefore ordered to resume this subject and to demand on this head an open declaration in order to shorten the delay which must otherwise result from the difficulties raised by the directory with respect to the form of his powers he is authorized to add to this demand the express declaration that whilst his majesty shall acquaint his august allies with all his successive steps relative to the object of this present negotiation and fulfil towards those foreign sovereigns in the most efficacious manner every duty of a good and faithful ally he will at the same time neglect nothing on his part both to dispose them to concur in this negotiation by all such means as are most fitted to accelerate its progress and ensure its success and to preserve them in dispositions favorable to his wish for the return of a general peace on just permanent and honorable conditions signed malmesbury paris nov to the above note the french minister for foreign affairs delacroix returned the following answer answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the note of lord malmesbury the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to call on you to point out as speedily as possible nominatively the subjects of reciprocal compensations which you have to propose he is decidedly charged to ask of you what are the dispositions to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and the king furnished so conspicuous a proof at the commencement of the present campaign the executive directory is ignorant of them it was the emperor and king by whom the armistice was broken signed ch"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "department of foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy of the british cabinet the undersigned has not failed to transmit to his court the answer of the executive directory to the propositions which he was charged to make and which were intended to serve as overtures to a negotiation of peace with respect to the injurious and offensive insinuations contained in that answer and which are only fit to throw new obstacles in the way of that reconciliation which the french government professes to desire the king has thought it far beneath his dignity to allow any reply whatever to be returned on his part the progress and result of the negotiation will no doubt evince the principles on which it shall have been conducted on either side and it is neither by reproaches as disgusting as they are without foundation nor by reciprocal insults that a sincere intention is shown to further the work of peace the undersigned proceeds therefore to the first object of discussion set forth in the answer of the executive directory viz that of a separate negotiation to which it has without the least foundation supposed that the undersigned was authorised to accede his credentials and powers drawn up in the usual form fully authorised him to negotiate and conclude a peace but they prescribe neither the form nature nor the terms of the future treaty on these points he must pursuant to the custom long established and acknowledged conform himself to the instructions received from his court and he has consequently not failed to inform the minister for the department of foreign affairs in their very first conference that the king his master had expressly enjoined him not to listen to any proposal tending to separate the interests of his majesty from those of his allies a negotiation which embraces the interests and pretensions of all the powers who make a common cause with the king in this present war is therefore the only one which can take place in the course of such a negotiation the intervention or at least the participation of these powers will no doubt become absolutely necessary and his majesty hopes to find at all times the same disposition to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and king gave the french government so striking a proof at the very moment of the opening of this campaign but to wait for a formal and definitive authority on the part of the king's allies before great britain and france should begin to discuss even provisionally the principles of the negotiation would cause it appears a very useless delay a course widely different has been pursued by the two powers on all former occasions of the same nature and his majesty is of opinion that the best pledge which at this moment they can give to all europe of their mutual desire to put a period as soon as possible to the calamities of war would be to settle without delay a basis of combined negotiation and to invite their allies to participate in it in the best manner calculated to accelerate a general peace it was with this view that the undersigned had it in command to propose at the very commencement of this negotiation a principle which his majesty's generosity and good faith could alone dictate to him viz to indemnify france by proportionate restitutions for such arrangements as she will consent to in order to satisfy the just claims of the allies of the king and to preserve the political balance of europe the executive directory has not explained itself in a precise manner either on the approbation of this principle nor in the alterations and modifications which it may desire nor has it proposed any other principle tending to the same end the undersigned is therefore ordered to resume this subject and to demand on this head an open declaration in order to shorten the delay which must otherwise result from the difficulties raised by the directory with respect to the form of his powers he is authorised to add to this demand the express declaration that whilst his majesty shall acquaint his august allies with all his successive steps relative to the object of this present negotiation and with respect to those sovereigns in the most efficacious manner every duty of a good and faithful ally he will at the same time neglect nothing on his part both to dispose them to concur in this negotiation by all such means as are most fitted to accelerate its progress and ensure its success and to preserve them in dispositions favourable to his with for the return of a general peace on just permanent and honourable conditions signed malmesbury paris november to the above note the french minister for foreign affairs delacroix returned the following answer answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the note of lord malmesbury the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to call on you to point out as speedily as possible and nominatively the subjects of reciprocal compensations which you have to propose he is also charged to ask of you what are the dispositions to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and king furnished so conspicuous a proof at the commencement of the present campaign the executive directory is ignorant of them it was the emperor and king by whom the armistice was broken signed ch"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2911, 2996], "b_span": [1021, 1106], "matched_words": 84, "similarity": 0.9882352941176471, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00060", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-17|1|2", "date": "1797-01-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797011701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "upper rhine state that the last battle between the archduke and moreau was extremely bloody and decisive we are assured that eight thousand were left on the field of battle and that the crossing of the rhine by the french was the event of this action that which took place on the th ult in the hundsruck was not consequential as to the loss of men on the part of the imperialists but the gains which the french recovered on this occasion are of extreme"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797012601/0206.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "upper rhine state that the last battle between the archduke and moreau was extremely bloody and decisive we are assured that eight thousand were left on the field of battle and that the crossing of 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line and two spanish frigates arrived at toulon the remainder of the spanish fleet of the spanish fleet is cruising off the coast of toulon the executive directory has received dispatches from the general in chief buonaparte they are dated from the head-quarters at verona on the th brumaire a letter from toulon announces that the spanish fleet is cruising off that coast it consists of twenty-six sail of the line of which eight are three deckers three of guns and rest of besides frigates a corvette and a brig don joseph cordova commands the first division gonde morales-deles prios commands the second and don juan joachim the third accounts from the upper rhine as late as the th of oct state that since gen moreau has completely repassed the rhine prince charles has advanced towards kehl and still"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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at dunkirk and the other towns on that line of the coast have been ordered to march to join the army of gen bounnouville from these corresponding movements it seems evident that if the directory ever did entertain the frantic design of an invasion of england they have prudently abandoned"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797012601/0206.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "good authority that the troops stationed in the harbour of brest had been sent into the interior of the country and by a letter from dover brought over in an american vessel we learn that the troops which had been collected at dunkirk and the other towns on that line of the coast have been ordered to march to join the army of gen bournonville from these corresponding movements it seems evident that if the directory did ever entertain the frantic design of an invasion of england they have prudently abandoned"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2638, 2771], "b_span": [1381, 1514], "matched_words": 129, "similarity": 0.9699248120300752, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00063", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-17|1|3", "date": "1797-01-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797011701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "nov yesterday evening wiffen the messenger was dispatched from the secretary of 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lately arrived from rochfort and l'orient it appears that that fleet is to have provisions for six months which proves that they are destined for some expedition in a remote quarter and not for the improbable and ridiculous plan of making a descent upon england it will be commanded by admiral villaret joyeuse we feel a pleasure in pointing out to the public the admiral whom"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2656, 2866], "b_span": [2128, 2316], "matched_words": 161, "similarity": 0.8090452261306532, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00065", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-17|1|3", "date": "1797-01-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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war has been appointed viceroy of mexico and don alvarez mingrelia replaces him as war minister don varela minister of marine is to replace don gardoqui appointed ambassador to the court of turin in the department of finances don juan de langara who commands our fleet at sea is to be minister of the marine the above fleet consists of ships of war and was seen off barcelona on the th"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0226.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lord malmesbury on the subject of the demand of the directory for him to produce his powers to negotiate for peace on the part of the emperor high authority assures says the london paragraphist that the government 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general massena in which the former was completely defeated and prisoners and all the austrian artillery and baggage fell into the hands of the enemy it was also reported that general wurmer during the above action made a sortie from the garrison of mantua and succeeded in destroying the greater part of the enemy's works and killing a great number of men but that after a desperate conflict the austrians were driven back into the fortress by a numerous reinforcement which arrived to the aid of the french from piedmont and tyrol as not only the letters from vienna of the th ult and from italy of the th brought by the last hamburg mail but even a letter from trieste written on the day subsequent to that on which the action is pretended to have taken place take not the smallest notice of any such event we incline to believe that those reports have not the smallest foundation"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": 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number of men but that after a desperate conflict the austrians were driven back in the fortress by a numerous reinforcement which arrived to the aid of the french from piedmont and tyrol as not only the the letters from vienna of the th ult and from italy of the th brought by the last hamburg mail but even a letter from trieste written on the day subsequent to that on which the action is pretended to have taken place take not the smallest notice of any such event we incline to believe that these reports have not the smallest foundation"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [559, 1094], "b_span": [1069, 1622], "matched_words": 379, "similarity": 0.6966911764705882, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00067", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-19|1|3", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", 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order to protect the return of its detachment in the simonswald that of the left was to fall back behind the eltz upon the first attack of reutzingen which it occupied by the bridges of anweiler and theningen but the brave general beaupuis who had the command of this movement was killed at the beginning of this action so that the detachment continued to fight in the bad position which it occupied till new orders could be given and all their bravery was requisite to prevent them from being driven in by a superiority of force and numerous artillery after this engagement in which fortunately we did not lose a single piece of artillery the army preserved its position behind the eltz the right at the entrance of the defile of waldkirk the left at riges but as the moselle at theningen was commanded by the heights of mundingen i took position five hundred toises behind defending the mouth of the passage in front by hagenzingen the right by the mountains the loss of the enemy is about five hundred killed and one hundred and fifty made prisoners the attack of the right wing succeeded and its advanced guard resumed its position at st pierre upon the th the enemy attacked nimburg they displayed in artillery infantry and cavalry considerable forces the heads of their columns were ready to seize the passes at all the other points had they succeeded in forcing this one but their efforts were useless and their attacks which they continued to repeat with fresh troops from ten o'clock in the morning till late at night were repelled with the greatest courage the light artillery especially performed prodigies of valor the enemy likewise attempted an attack upon the left of the centre of the army but vigorously repelled by the th demi-brigade they confined themselves to this trial i am retiring towards huningen yesterday the enemy followed us with their artillery but the rear-guard commanded by generals abbatucci and laboisserie completely kept them in check upon the th th and th the advanced guards were engaged we have made a out prisoners health and respect signed moreau extract of a letter addressed to the executive directory by the commander in chief of the army of the rhine and moselle dated october citizens directors on the st of this month the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-21|1|1", "date": "1797-01-21", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012101/0221.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "moreau to the executive directory on the eighteenth oct the right wing was attacked in the passes of hell of st petre and st mergen the advanced guard was obliged to fall back but the main body preserved its position the pass was guarded and the enemy could not open it i gave orders to attack the enemy on the following day the centre of the army was to sustain this attack by a detachment which moved by the pass of simonswald on the th prince charles who had united all his forces at elfach and eningen attacked the advanced guard of the centre and that of the left they were to fall back upon the army but that of the centre was obliged to resist in its position to cover the return of the detachment in the simonswald that of the left was to fall back behind the elft at the first attack from renfengen which it occupied by the bridges of the amwafer and theningen but the brave general beaupis who was to command this movement was killed at the commencement of the action in consequence of which the troops continued to fight in the bad position which they occupied till fresh orders could be given them and it required all their bravery to prevent being beat by the superior force and numerous artillery of the enemy after this battle in which we fortunately did not lose single piece of cannon the army preserved its position behind the elft the right at the entry of the pass of waldskirch the left at riget but as the opening of theningen was commanded by the heights of mindingen i took a position of five hundred toises in the rear defending the defile before hagenzingen the right to the mountains the loss of the enemy is men killed and about prisoners the attack of the right wing succeeded and its advanced guard retook the position of st pierre on the th the enemy attacked nimbarg he employed a very considerable force in artillery infantry and cavalry the heads of his columns were ready to open upon several other points if he had forced this but his efforts were useless and his attacks which he did not cease to repeat with fresh troops from ten in the morning till late at night were repulsed with the greatest courage every where prodigies of valour he likewise tried an attack upon the left of the centre of the army but vigorously repulsed by the hundred and tenth half brigade he ceased from the attempt i am retiring by huningen the enemy followed us yesterday with their artillery but our rear guard commanded by generals abbatucci and labbassiere kept him perfectly in check i would have yesterday acquainted you with these events but during the series of affairs i had neither equipage nor couriers near me and we were scarcely off horseback for hours on the th th and th the advanced guards were engaged we took about prisoners from the enemy greeting and respect signed moreau extract of a letter addressed to the executive directory by the general in chief of the army of the rhine and moselle dated th brumaire october th citizen directors the army took a position on the st of this month the"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1392, 1486], "b_span": [161, 256], "matched_words": 93, "similarity": 0.9841269841269841, "seeds": 21, "id": "M00068", "a": {"key": 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capt of the privateer having bribed two of the hands to swear she was british property she and her cargo were both condemned without even the semblance of a trial that her cargo was instantly landed ports knocked into her and that she was immediately sent on a cruise as a french privateer it has been so long since mr maloy left st iago upwards of days that he can give no confirmation or contradiction of the intelligence respecting the capture of our vessels by the spaniards but he says that a number of americans have been sent into st iago by french privateers all of whom had met the same fate as himself and that a french nod is spanish law in that part of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|3", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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no-but he added that when the directory shall have explained themselves on the principle laid down in his memorial we shall give all the important papers relative to this grand negotiation he would dispatch couriers to give an account to the different courts of the state of the negotiation and to receive their orders it was then asked the ambassador if he could not at least specify the principles of retrocessions which concern the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "for foreign affairs are already suspended in the first conference it was demanded of the english negoti tor if he was furnished with pow ers and instructions from other bel ligious powers to stipulate in their name he answered no but he added that when the directory shall have explained themselves on the principle laid down in his me morial we shall give all the im portant papers relative to his grand negotiation he would dispatch cour iers to give an account to the dif ferent courts of the state of the ne gociation and to receive their or ders it was then asked the ambaf-ador if he could not at least spe cify the principle of retrocessions which concern the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1289, 1401], "b_span": [1875, 1989], "matched_words": 106, "similarity": 0.9380530973451328, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00074", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-19|1|2", "date": "1797-01-19", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the emperor as soon as he heard the object of his mission gave orders to treat him with the utmost kindness but no person can visit him without a card of admission from our minister of foreign affairs this application is made at a time when england on her side has sent proposals to france for a negotiation a crisis of which the french government seems desirous to profit nov yesterday his majesty signed an order of council granting letters of marque and reprisals against all ships and vessels belonging to the subjects of the king of spain"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|3", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797012401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "says the french courier who lately arrived here was sent by the directory to gen buonaparte by him to our court the universal belief is that he has brought proposals for an armistice and a negotiation gen buonaparte in the letter which he sent to field marshal wurmser to demand a pass for him stated that the early delivery of his message was of the utmost importance the emperor as soon as he heard the object of his mission gave orders to treat him with the utmost kindness but no person can visit him without a card of admission from our minister for foreign affairs this application is made at a time when england on her side has sent proposals to france for a negotiation a crisis of which the french government seem desirous to profit the courier is still in vienna and is daily served at dinner with eight and at supper with six dishes he has visited the theatre and other public places but not on foot nor without an escort since his arrival the emperor has been continually in council with the ministers nov yesterday his majesty 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surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the illinois regiment to execute deeds for the same for altering the day of the court of holtings of the town of alexandria for altering a quarterly session of the court of holtings for the city of williamsburg concerning the tobacco destroyed by the burning of dixon's warehouse to establish a town at the red springs to amend the act intitled an act to amend and reduce into one act the several acts for opening and extending the navigation of appamattox river to amend the act intitled an act to alter the boundary line of the counties of botetourt and montgomery to authorise the potomac company to employ a certain number of slaves from maryland for a limited time to repeal the act for altering the quarterly courts of the county of mecklenburg to establish a town on the lands of george carrington in the county of halifax to establish several inspections of tobacco to alter the time of holding courts in the county of campbell to establish several new ferries and for other purposes to authorise a lottery in the county of shennandoah concerning certain lands lying in the northern neck authorising peter caverly to lease out for the benefit of the orphans of david arell certain lots whereof he died seized in the town of alexandria vetting in rodolph huffer a piece of land therein mentioned for paying to the administrators and administrators of thomas elder dec the money produced by the sale of his lands for the purposes therein mentioned for cutting a canal from the waters of elizabeth river to the waters of north river for reassesting the lands in the county of ohio for adding part of the county of bath to the county of pendleton to authorise one or more lotteries in the borough of norfolk giving further time to build upon and save the lots in certain towns to authorise a lottery for repairing certain roads authorising a lottery in the county of gloucester to incorporate the trustees of the charity school of frederickburg to amend the act intitled an act for opening and improving the navigation of quantico creek in the county of prince william for opening and improving the navigation of pig river adding to the town of alexandria certain lots contiguous thereto and for other purposes therein mentioned to establish several towns to amend the act appropriating money for repairing the road leading from savage river to morgan-town to amend the penal laws of this commonwealth for killing squirrels or crows in certain counties concerning the town of alexandria to amend the act concerning public"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-02-01|1|2", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797020101/0666.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "court day and quarterly session of the county of southampton to amend an act entitled an act to amend the act for reducing into one the several acts concerning the land office ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste or unappropriated lands for settling the title and bounds of lands directing the mode of precessioning and prescribing the duty of the surveyors concerning the special court of appeals appointing trustees of the town of fairfax and allowing the owners of lots therein further time to build thereon authorising a lottery for the benefit of the sufferers by fire in the town of lexington to raise by lottery a sum of money for the use of the new london academy to incorporate the trustees of an academy in the county of brunswick concerning anthony street to alter the mode of appointing and commissioning inspectors of tobacco in certain cases to amend the act intitled an act against usury to authorise carter beverly to build a toll bridge over the north branch of rappahannock river for selling the 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minister at paris containing an examination of the notes of the french minister and such information as i thought might be useful to mr pinckney in any further representations he might find necessary to be made to the french government the immediate object of his mission was to make to that government such explanations of the principles and conduct of our own as by manifesting our good faith might remove all jealousy and discontent and maintain that harmony and good understanding with the french republic which has been my constant solicitation to preserve a government which required only a knowledge of the truth to justify its measures could not but be anxious to have this fully and frankly displayed g washington united states january the house went into a committee of the whole on the subject of future revenue mr dent in the chair when a long but somewhat irregular debate took place in the course of which two or three different amendments were proposed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", 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notwithstanding a most violent engagement on the th i ordered the enemy to be attacked all along the lines the left wing commanded by gen defais directed its march towards biberach the center under the orders of gen st cyr directed the attack in the front upon the town of sienhausen and the success was complete about prisoners numbers of colors and pieces of cannon are the advantages we have gained this day we pursued the flying enemy during all the night they were in the utmost disorder i shall do all in my power to conduct the army to honor in the details i intend to forward i shall designate the military corps who have in a particular manner distinguished themselves in general they have all"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-08|1|2", "date": "1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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they were in the utmost disorder i shall do all in my power to conduct the army to honor in the details i intend to forward i shall designate the military corps who have in a particular manner distinguished themselves in general they have all"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3162, 3555], "b_span": [2922, 3191], "matched_words": 264, "similarity": 0.797583081570997, "seeds": 45, "id": "M00085", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-21|1|2", "date": "1797-01-21", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012101/0222.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "informed and from an authority which we rely on that mr jefferson has written to mr 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of dec says for thirty-eight days past we have not seen twenty-four hours pass without experiencing a snow storm the snow is now inches deep upon a level the sleighs move briskly the predictions last fall of a hard winter have already been fully verified until within these two or three days cold the most extreme has been experienced the thermometer of farenheit has been several days from to below and a similar degree of cold has been felt in all the states we have heard from the lakes and rivers are frozen up and our markets are daily visited with sleighs from canada our harbor is completely blockaded and business suffers much the flour shipped at the port of philadelphia for exportation for the year past amounts to bbls sublime idea oh washington shouldst thou descend till earth's millennial day shall end and paine and hell like lightning rise till time shall cease and nature dies a space between you would remain too vast too boundless to explain january tuesday last no drew the prize 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one kind and friendly stalk they both may flourish ninety-four pound cannon were a few days since proved at the hope furnace near providence by capt peirce of the federal army they all bore the proof and are intended for the frigates now building a whitestown paper of dec says for thirty-eight days past we have not seen twenty-four hours pass without experiencing a snow storm the snow is now inches deep on a level the sleighs move briskly the predictions last fall of a hard winter have already been fully verified until within these two or three days cold the most extreme has been experienced the thermometer at farenheit has been several days from to below and a similar degree of cold has been felt in all the states we have heard from the lakes and rivers are frozen up and our markets are daily visited with sleighs from canada our harbour is completely blockaded and business suffers much january tuesday last no drew the prize of dollars in the fourth class of harvard college lottery 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capture of all american vessels bound to british ports and that they should soon be at open war with america petitions to the administration were treated with the most illiberal contempt and indifference twelve other american vessels were there which had been treated in the same way among the vessels that had suffered under these unexampled atrocities was a brig hilman of portland brig abigail scot of new-york and brig reynolds of savannah the people of colour were averse to those measures and appeared much attached to the americans the persecution originated in the commissioners among whom is numbered the notorious sonthonax the american consul had written to the secretary of state on the subject enclosing the orders which had been published and placarded an embargo had continued there during the whole of capt atwood's stay a temporary suspension alone enabled him to leave the cape in a vessel employed by the administration capt atwood has entered his protest"}, "b": {"key": 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were distressed starving and would help themselves as they could that orders were issued for the capture of all american vessels bound to british ports and that they should soon be at open war with america petitions to the administration were treated with the most illiberal contempt and indifference twelve other american vessels were there which had been treated in the same way among the vessels that had suffered under these unexampled atrocities was a brig hilman of portland brig abigail scot of new-york and brig reynolds of savannah the people of colour were averse to those measures and appeared much attached to the americans the persecution originated in the commissioners among whom is numbered the notorious sonthonax the american consul had written to the secretary of state on the subject enclosing the orders which had been published and placarded an embargo had continued there during the whole of capt atwood's stay a temporary suspension alone enabled him to leave the cape in a 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minister of the french republic to the united states the former dated the th of october and the latter the th of november last and my answer to the first the latter note embracing numerous topics of complaint and going as far back as the year required a particular examination of all the transactions of our government from that time to the present the other indispensable duties of the office prevented my entering on this examination as early as i had expected and the current business has retarded the pursuit the result of this examination i am now by the direction of the president of the united states to communicate to you this history of our affairs you will find supported by documents many of which were delivered to you at your departure and the residue will be herewith transmitted the remarks and reasonings on facts you will duly appreciate and from the whole joined with your own observations you will be enabled it is believed to vindicate the united states and to demonstrate their impartiality as a neutral nation their fidelity in the observation of treaties and their friendship as an ally the discussion on which i am entering will involve much repetition for the general questions and particular cases grouped together in the minister's last note have been subjects of controversy and correspondence from may to this day some other points have indeed been contended for which the minister has now passed without notice why they are omitted i know not for in these cases the united states were as positively charged with violating treaties as in those which he has been pleased now to omit some of them it may be found proper to introduce to render less imperfect the view of our relations to france the complaints of the french minister against the united states have reference to three principal subjects st to the abandonment of their neutral rights to the injury of france in not maintaining the pretended principles of the modern law of nations that free ships make free goods and that timber and naval stores for the equipment and armament of vessels are not contraband of war d to violations of our treaties with france even in their letter d to the treaty of amity and commerce between the united states and great-britain which he alleges deprives france of all the advantages stipulated in a previous treaty a fourth complaint is truly ingenious the fortune of war has constrained some of the belligerent powers from enemies to become her allies and if the alleged abandonment of the rule of the modern law of nations in its consequences works an injury to those allies from that moment france is also injured perhaps it will be in time to notice this last charge when the allies themselves complain if the answer to the first involving the same principle should not render such notice altogether unnecessary i shall now present to your view those facts and observations which will prove we conceive that the minister's complaints are without any just foundation under the first charge that we have not maintained as we ought to have done our neutral rights it is alleged st that the position that free ships make free goods is an established principle of the modern law of nations and that great-britain by capturing french property on board our vessels has violated our neutral rights and that unless we compel great-britain to respect those rights france will be justified in violating them not to remark on the singular reasoning that if one warring power commits an act of injustice towards a neutral and innocent nation another warring power may lawfully commit the like injustice we may ask what authority is adduced to show that the modern law of nations has established the principle that free ships make"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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which were delivered to you at your departure and the residue will be herewith transmitted the remarks and reasonings on facts you will duly appreciate and from the whole joined with your own observations you will be enabled it is believed to vindicate the united states and to demonstrate their impartiality as a neutral nation their fidelity in the observation of treaties and their friendship as an ally the discussion on which i am entering will involve much repetition for the general questions and particular cases grouped together in the minister's last note have been subjects of controversy and correspondence from may to this day some other points have indeed been contended for which the minister has now passed without notice why they are omitted i know not for in these cases the united states were as positively charged with violating treaties as in those which he has been pleased now to detail some of them it may be found proper to introduce to render less imperfect the view of our relations to france the complaints of the french minister against the united states have reference to three principal subjects st to the abandonment of their neutral rights to the injury of france in not maintaining the pretended principles of the modern law of nations that free ships make free goods and that timber and naval stores for the equipment and armament of vessels are not contraband of war d to violations of our treaties with france even in their letter d to the treaty of amity and commerce between the united states and great britain which he alleges deprives france of all the advantages stipulated in a previous treaty a fourth complaint is truly ingenious the fortune of war has constrained some of the belligerent powers from enemies to become her allies and if the alleged abandonment of the rule of the modern law of nations in its consequences works an injury to those allies from that moment france is also injured perhaps it will be in time to notice this last charge when the allies themselves complain if the answer to the first involving the same principle should not render such notice altogether unnecessary i shall now present to your view those facts and observations which will prove we conceive that the minister's complaints are without any just foundation under the first charge that we have not maintained as we ought to have done our neutral rights it is alleged st that the position that free ships make free goods is an established principle of the modern law of nations and that great britain by capturing french property on board our vessels has violated our neutral rights and that unless we compel great britain to respect those rights france will be justified in violating them not to remark on the singular reasoning that if one warring power commits an act of injustice towards a neutral and innocent nation another warring power may lawfully commit the like injustice we may ask what authority is adduced to show that the modern law of nations has 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republic to the united states the former dated the th of october and the latter the th of november last and my answer to the first the latter note embracing numerous topics of complaint and going as far back as the year required a particular examination of all the transactions of our government from that time to the present the other indispensable duties of the office prevented my entering on this examination as early as i had expected and the current business has retarded the pursuit the result of this examination i am now by the direction of the president of the united states to communicate to you this history of our affairs you will find supported by documents many of which were delivered to you at your departure and the residue will be herewith transmitted the remarks and reasonings on facts you will duly appreciate and from the whole joined with your own observations you will be enabled it is believed to vindicate the united states and to demonstrate their impartiality as a neutral nation their fidelity in the observation of treaties and their friendship as an ally the discussion on which i am entering will involve much repetition for the general questions and particular cases grouped together in the minister's last note have been subjects of controversy and correspondence from may to this day some other points have indeed been contended for which the minister has now passed without notice why they are omitted i know not for in these cases the united states were as positively charged with violating treaties as in those which he has been pleased now to omit some of them it may be found proper to introduce to render less imperfect the view of our relations to france the complaints of the french minister against the united states have reference to three principal subjects st to the abandonment of their neutral rights to the injury of france in not maintaining the pretended principles of the modern law of nations that free ships make free goods and that timber and naval stores for the equipment and armament of vessels are not contraband of war d to violations of our treaties with france even in their letter d to the treaty of amity and commerce between the united states and great-britain which he alleges deprives france of all the advantages stipulated in a previous treaty a fourth complaint is truly ingenious the fortune of war has constrained some of the belligerent powers from enemies to become her allies and if the alleged abandonment of the rule of the modern law of nations in its consequences works an injury to those allies from that moment france is also injured perhaps it will be in time to notice this last charge when the allies themselves complain if the answer to the first involving the same principle should not render such notice altogether unnecessary i shall now present to your view those facts and observations which will prove we conceive that the minister's complaints are without any just foundation under the first charge that we have not maintained as we ought to have done our neutral rights it is alleged st that the position that free ships make free goods is an established principle of the modern law of nations and that great-britain by capturing french property on board our vessels has violated our neutral rights and that unless we compel great-britain to respect those rights france will be justified in violating them not to remark on the singular reasoning that if one warring power commits an act of injustice towards a neutral and innocent nation another warring power may lawfully commit the like injustice we may ask what authority is adduced to show that the modern law of nations has established the principle that free ships make"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-16|1|1", "date": "1797-03-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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of our affairs you will find supported by documents many of which were delivered to you at your departure and the residue will be herewith transmitted the remarks and reasonings on facts you will duly appreciate and from the whole joined with your own observations you will be enabled it is believed to vindicate the united states and to demonstrate their impartiality as a neutral nation their fidelity in the observation of treaties and their friendship as an ally the discussion on which i am entering will involve much repetition for the general questions and particular cases grouped together in the minister's last note have been subjects of controversy and correspondence from may to this day some other points have indeed been contended for which the minister has now passed without notice why they are omitted i know not for in these cases the united states were as positively charged with violating treaties as in those which he has pleased now to detail some of them it may be found proper to introduce to render less imperfect the view of our relations to france the complaints of the french minister against the united states have reference to three principal subjects st to the abandonment of their neutral rights to the injury of france in not maintaining the pretended principles of the modern law of nations that free ships make free goods and that timber and naval stores for the equipment of vessels are not contraband of war d to violations of our treaties with france even in their letter d to the treaty of amity and commerce between the united states and great britain which he alleges deprives france of all the advantages stipulated in a previous treaty a fourth complaint is truly ingenious the fortune of war has constrained some of the belligerent powers from enemies to become her allies and if the alleged abandonment of the rules of the modern law of nations in its consequences works an injury to those allies from that moment france is also injured perhaps it will be in time to notice this last charge when the allies themselves complain if the answer to the first involving the same principle should not render such notice altogether unnecessary i shall now present to your view those facts and observations which will prove we conceive that the minister's complaints are without any just foundation under the first charge that we have not maintained as we ought to have done our neutral rights it is alleged st that the position that free ships make free goods is an established principle of the modern law of nations and that great britain by capturing french property on board our vessels has violated our neutral right and that unless we compel great britain to respect those rights france will be justified in violating them not to remark on the singular reasoning that if one warring power commit an act of injustice towards a neutral and innocent nation another warring power may lawfully commit the like injustice we may ask what authority is adduced to show 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swanwick van allen van courtlandt venable williams nays messrs ames baldwin bailey bradbury bryan burgess cooper christie dana davenport dearborn a foster d foster franklin freeman gillespie griswold harper henderson holland a jackson g jackson locke s lyman w lyman maclay macon malbone potter read sherburne jer smith n smith studwick swift thatcher thomas thompson varnum wadsworth winn after a considerable debate on the latter part of the resolution viz for laying a direct tax on slaves with certain exception the question was taken by yeas and nays as follows yeas messrs ames baldwin blount bradbury brent buck cabell claiborne coles cooper craik davenport dent ege findley a foster franklin gallatin gillespie gilman glenn greenup gregg grove hampton hancock harper harrison hartley hathorn havens hindman holland a jackson kittera locke s lyman maclay macon madison milledge moore muhlenberg murray new nicholas orr page parker patten preston rutherford sewall sitgreaves isaac smith wm 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between such nations only as have so agreed to control it and it is plain that it was to avoid the inconveniences resulting from this general rule of the law of nations that france and the united states stipulated in the d article of their commercial treaty that free ships should give freedom to goods and that every thing should be deemed free which should be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects of either of the contracting parties although the whole lading or any part thereof should appertain to the enemies of either contraband goods being always excepted it is also plain that this stipulation was intended to operate indeed it was its sole object and otherwise could have no operation at all when one of the parties should be at war with a nation or nations with whom the other should be at peace france therefore has now no right to complain if the goods of her enemies find protection on board american ships or to pretend that in order to restore the balance of neutrality 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the nations at war should be free on board neutral vessels contraband goods excepted d that the articles of contraband should be regulated by the th and th articles of her treaty of commerce with great-britain extending the regulations of those articles to all the belligerent powers to enforce the observance of these principles she gave orders for equipping a considerable part of her marine in july of the same year denmark acceded to the principles of the armed neutrality and entered into a convention with russia for maintaining them assuming for her rule in determining what articles should be deemed contraband her treaty of commerce with great-britain concluded the th of july in the third article of this treaty the description of contraband goods is in general terms any provisions of war as soldiers arms machines cannon ships or other things of necessary use in war but by a convention concluded at london on the th of july between great-britain and denmark to explain the treaty of commerce of between the two powers the articles deemed contraband are particularly enumerated and among them we see timber for ship-building tar resin copper in sheets sails hemp and cordage and generally whatever serves directly for the equipment of a vessel unwrought iron and fir-planks excepted it is remarkable that these are the very articles admitted as contraband in the th article of our treaty of commerce with great-britain and for which admission mr adet declares all the commercial relations between france and the united states are entirely broken but it is further to be noticed that this convention between russia and denmark concluded in the midst of the american war for maintaining the principles of the armed neutrality and to which other european powers acceded is explicitly declared in the th article to have been concluded and agreed on for the time that war should last though it was to serve as a basis to future engagements which circumstances"}, "b": {"key": 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th article of our treaty of commerce with great britain and for which admission mr adet declares all the commercial relations between france and the united states are entirely broken but it is further to be noticed that this convention between russia and denmark concluded in the midst of the american war for maintaining the principles of the armed neutrality and to which other european powers acceded is explicitly declared in the th article to have been concluded and agreed on for the time that war should last though it was to serve as a basis to future engagements which circumstances"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3643, 3748], "b_span": [853, 959], "matched_words": 104, "similarity": 0.985781990521327, "seeds": 22, "id": "M00098", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-23|1|2", "date": "1797-01-23", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily 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to which other european powers acceded is explicitly declared in the th article to have been concluded and agreed on for the time that war should last though it was to serve as a basis to future engagements which circumstances"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-23|1|1", "date": "1797-03-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797032301/0233.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "year denmark acceded to the principles of the armed neutrality and entered into a convention with russia for maintaining them assuming for her rule in determining what articles should be deemed contraband her treaty of commerce with great britain concluded the th july in the third article of this treaty the description of contraband goods is in 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opposite samuel ege's stone house it immediately communicated to the adjoining two story house both of which were consumed but by the great exertions of citizens in cutting away the house of david loggan shoe-maker on the west with the assistance of the engine the fire was got under without further injury too much credit cannot be given to every description of our citizens who instantly repaired from different parts of the city to the scene and rendered every"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|3", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797012601/0207.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "city in the house occupied by daniel timmings tallow chandler on the east side of the bridge it immediately communicated to the adjoining two story house both of which were consumed but by the great exertions of the citizens in cutting away the house of david logan shoe maker on the west with the assistance of the engine the fire was got under without further injury too much credit cannot be given to every description of our citizens who instantaneously repaired from different parts of the city to the scene and rendered every"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2922, 3010], "b_span": [461, 549], "matched_words": 86, "similarity": 0.9772727272727273, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00101", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-23|1|3", "date": "1797-01-23", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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these steps of the king of sweden serve as additional proofs that the principles of the armed neutrality were not considered by the parties to the maritime convention as sanctioned by the existing law of nations for permanently to establish those assumed principles by introducing them into a maritime code was obviously the influential motive with the king for desiring a congress at which such a code might be settled with the assent of all the nations of europe but this project did not succeed no congress was formed the belligerent powers made peace at different periods and with that war ended the maritime convention this no nation has more reason to regret than our own as well because the principles in question respect some very valuable portions of our exports as because our disposition and our policy preserving us in peace such an extended liberty of commerce would prove highly advantageous to us as carriers for the powers at war we have seen then that the law of nations the marine laws of france her own treaties as well as those of other nations and even the system of the armed neutrality incontestably establish these principles that enemies goods on board neutral vessels are rightful subjects of capture and condemnation and that timber and other articles for the equipment and armament of ships are contraband of war and therefore that the admission of these principles in the treaty between the united states and great britain not being a grant to her of any right for in what sense could we be said to give what she before possessed furnishes no just ground of offence to france in what sense too can the united states be said to have refused to other nations a right which they and we voluntarily and mutually agreed to renounce or how are we chargeable with partiality in favour of england because we do not take arms to compel her also to renounce it but mr adet still resting on the idea that not to compel great britain to renounce is to grant her a right seems to imagine that we shall attempt to obviate his complaints by saying that france having the right by her treaty of to enjoy all the advantages in commerce and navigation which the united states have granted to england is not injured by the stipulations of the treaty of with great britain relative to contraband of war as they become common to her but we shall say no such thing the d article to which he refers has no relation to this subject had we granted any particular favor to great britain or to any other nation in respect to commerce and navigation we readily admit that by this article france would be immediately entitled to the same but in regard to contraband of war we have granted nothing and therefore under that article france can claim nothing under the influence of present and temporary interests the very nature of the stipulations between france and the united states on the subject of free commerce and the limitation of contraband seems to be forgotten they took for the basis of their treaty the most perfect equality and reciprocal prosperity would they then conspire to their own hurt would they voluntarily and mutually stipulate for injuries or for advantages certainly the latter and both considered the agreement reciprocally advantageous which secured to each in its turn the freedom of commerce provided by the rules that free ships should make free goods and that timber and naval stores should be excluded from the list of contraband connected with this subject is what concerns the article of provisions mr adet says that after having assured to the english the carriage of naval stores the federal government wished to assure them that of meals in a word it desired to have commerce only with england thus it stipulates by the th article that the american vessels laden with grain may be seized under the frivolous pretext that it is extremely difficult to define the cases wherein provisions and other articles which are generally excepted could be classed in the list of contraband of war there are so many extraordinary assertions in mr adet's notes those in the above paragraph excite no surprise the federal government is constituted of citizens who have a common interest with their fellow citizens of the united states that common interest has a peculiar relation to commerce on the freedom and extension of which the public revenue and the general prosperity of our country chiefly depend will it then be believed that the government wished this commerce to be restrained particularly the commerce in meals which compose the most valuable part of our exports especially will it be believed that the government desired that our citizens might have commerce only with england let the general sense of our fellow-citizens answer these charges let the great mass of our commercial brethren answer they who enterprize traverses every sea and explores every region of the globe to extend their gainful trade citizens whose commercial adventures to france and her colonies have risen annually to many millions adventures by which many have hazarded their credit and their fortunes yet among all our citizens none have been more solicitous to form a commercial treaty with britain none more decided in approving that which has been made for the reasoning of our own government on this subject i beg leave to refer you to my letter of september th written by the president's direction to mr monroe reaction to mr monroe therein it was attempted to show the necessity and our right of forming that treaty with great britain and i hope it will appear to you that the conclusion is there fairly drawn that even the th article as it respects provisions would operate favourably to france before the treaty with great britain her cruisers captured neutral vessels bound to france with provisions she asserted that in certain cases provisions were contraband of war consequently that she might lawfully capture and confiscate such provisions we opposed the principle and the practice britain insisted on her right in this dilemma it was agreed by the treaty that whenever provisions becoming contraband by the law of nations should be captured they should be paid for with a reasonable mercantile profit this stipulation without admitting the principle by securing the american merchants from loss in case of capture would certainly tend to promote rather than to discourage adventures in provisions to france but as this treaty has been the subject of serious complaint on the part of france it is important to enquire with what foundation the complaint is made i might pass over the unworthy insinuations of the minister that the treaty was entered into by us in order to assure advantages to the english and to furnish our own government with a reply to the claims of france and preemptory motives for refusals to accede to them that the true object of the negotiation was incessantly disguised under specious pretences and covered with the veil of dissimulation these insinuations have been indirectly addressed to the people of the united states they will gain no belief it may however be useful for you to be truly informed on this subject the president's message to the senate on the th of april does not declare as mr adet asserts that mr jay was sent to london only to obtain a redress of wrongs the president says that mr jay's mission would announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and that going immediately from the united states such an envoy would carry with him a full knowledge of the existing temper and sensibility of our country and thus be taught to vindicate our rights with firmness and to cultivate peace with sincerity and shall the pursuit of either of these objects be denied to us what were our complaints the most urgent regarded the spoliation on our commerce and the inexecution of the article of the treaty of peace respecting the posts with the latter was connected the indian war with which we had been harassed for so many years and with the former the injury or ruin of our merchants and the consequent extensive damage to agriculture these being the most prominent objects of the mission were of course most observable and most talked of and without them the mission probably would not at that time have been contemplated but had we no other complaints did not the impression of our seamen like the spoliations on our commerce excite an universal complaint had we never manifested our uneasiness at great britain's avoiding a commercial treaty was it not even a subject of complaint and reproach was not the inducing her to enter into such a treaty the object of divers measures agitated in congress had not a commercial treaty with great britain been earnestly sought for from the conclusion of the war to the time of mr jay's mission how also could mr jay after adjusting the primary objects of his mission better prove the sincerity of our pacific disposition and more effectually cultivate peace than by forming arrangements calculated to extend and protect our trade to promote good neighborhood and a friendly and mutually beneficial intercourse by prescribing a previous demand of justice and satisfaction to halting reprisals which naturally lead to war and by agreeing on other regulations to prevent disputes or to adjust them when they should arise all these objects then and whatever else would be the means of cultivating peace were clearly comprehended in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0234.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in europe and with the latter view the king of sweden manifested the utmost solicitude lest the war should be closed without the intervention of the neutral powers he therefore was urgent that the empress with all the parties to the maritime convention should propose to the belligerent powers the establishing of a congress in which the different concerns both of the powers at war and of the neutral states should be examined and terminated and these concerns he afterwards mentions to be the pacification and the settling of a maritime code of laws objects truly important and meriting all the solicitude manifested on the occasion by the king but these steps of the king of sweden serve as additional proofs that the principles of the armed neutrality were not considered by the parties to the maritime convention as sanctioned by the existing law of nations for permanently to establish those assumed principles by introducing them into a maritime code was obviously the influential motive with the king for desiring a congress at which such a code might be settled with the assent of all the nations of europe but this project did not succeed no congress was formed the belligerent powers made peace at different periods and with that war ended the maritime convention this no nation has more reason to regret than our own as well because the principles in question respect some very valuable portions of our exports as because our disposition and our policy preferring us in peace such an extended liberty of commerce would prove highly advantageous to us as carriers for the powers at war we have seen then that the law of nations the marine laws of france her own treaties as well as those of other nations and even the system of the armed neutrality incontestably establish these principles that enemies goods on board neutral vessels are rightful subjects of capture and condemnation and that timber and other articles for the equipment and armament of ships of war are contraband and therefore that the admission of these principles in the treaty between the united states and great britain not being a grant to her of any right for in what sense could we be said to give what she before possessed furnishes no just ground of offence to france in what sense too can the united states be said to have refused to other nations a right which they and we voluntarily and mutually agreed to renounce or how are we chargeable with partiality in favor of england because we do not take arms to compel her also to renounce it but mr adet still relying on the idea that to compel great britain to renounce is to grant her a right seems to imagine that we shall attempt to obviate his complaints by saying that france having the right by her treaty of to enjoy all the advantages in commerce and navigation which the united states have granted to england is not injured by the stipulations of the treaty of with great britain relative to contraband of war as they become common to her but we shall say no such thing the d article to which he refers has no relation to this subject had we granted any particular favor to great britain or to any other nation in respect to commerce and navigation we readily admit that by this article france would be immediately entitled to the same but in regard to contraband of war we have granted nothing and therefore under that article france can claim nothing under the influence of present and temporary interests the very nature of the stipulations between france and the united states on the subject of free commerce and the limitation of contraband seems to be forgotten they took for the basis of their treaty the most perfect equality and reciprocity would they then conspire to their own hurt would they voluntarily and mutually stipulate for injuries or for advantages certainly the latter and both considered the agreement reciprocally advantageous which seemed to each in its turn the freedom of commerce provided by the rules that free ships should make free goods and that timber and naval stores should be excluded from the list of contraband connected with this subject is what concerns the article of provisions mr adet says that after having assured to the english the carriage of naval stores the federal government wished to assure to them that of meals in a word it desired to have commerce only with england thus it stipulates by the th article that the american vessels laden with grain may be seized under the frivolous pretext that it is extremely difficult to define the cases wherein provisions and other articles which are generally excepted could be classed in the list of contraband of war there are so many extraordinary assertions in mr adet's notes those in the above paragraph excite no surprise the federal government is constituted of citizens who have a common interest with their fellow-citizens of the u states that common interest has a peculiar relation to commerce on the freedom and extension of which the public revenue and the general prosperity of our country chiefly depend will it then be believed that the government wished this commerce to be restrained particularly the commerce in meals which compose the most valuable part of our exports especially will it be believed that the government desired that our citizens might have commerce only with england let the general sense of our fellow-citizens answer these charges let the great mass of our commercial brethren answer they whose enterprise traverses every sea and explores every region of the globe to extend their gainful trade citizens whose commercial adventures to france and her colonies have risen annually to many millions adventures by which many have hazarded their credit and their fortunes yet among all our citizens none have been more solicitous to form a commercial treaty with britain none more decided in oppressing that which has been made for the reasoning of our own government on this subject i beg leave to refer you to my letter of september th written by the president's direction to mr monroe therein it was attempted to show the necessity and our right of forming that treaty with great britain and i hope it will appear to you that the conclusion is there fairly drawn that even the th article as it respects provisions would operate favorably to france before the treaty with great britain her cruisers captured neutral vessels bound to france with provisions she asserted that in certain cases provisions were contraband of war consequently that she might lawfully capture and confiscate such provisions we opposed the principle and the practice britain insisted on her right in this dilemma it was agreed by the treaty that whenever provisions becoming contraband by the law of nations should be captured they should be paid for with a reasonable mercantile profit this stipulation without admitting the principle for securing the american merchants from loss in case of capture would certainly tend to promote rather than to discourage adventures in provisions to france but as this treaty has been the subject of serious complaint on the part of france it is important to inquire with what foundation the complaint is made i might pass over the unworthy insinuations of the minister that the treaty was entered into by us in order to assure advantage to the english and to furnish our own government with a reply to the claims of france and presumptuous motives for refusal to accede to them that the true object of the negotiations was incessantly disguised under specious pretexts and covered with the veil of dissimulation these insinuations have been indirectly addressed to the people of the united states they will gain no belief it may however be useful for you to be truly informed on this subject the president's message to the senate on the th of april does not declare as mr adet asserts that mr jay was sent to london only to obtain a redress of wrongs the president says that mr jay's mission would announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and that going immediately from the united states such an envoy would carry with him a full knowledge of the existing temper and sensibility of our country and thus be taught to vindicate our rights with firmness and to cultivate peace with sincerity and shall the pursuit of either of these objects be denied to us what were our complaints the most urgent regarded the spoliations on our commerce and the inexecution of the article of the treaty of peace respecting the posts with the latter was connected the indian war with which we had been harassed for so many years and with the former the injury or ruin of our merchants and the consequent extensive damage to agriculture these being the most prominent objects of the mission were of course most observable and most talked of and without them the mission probably would not at that time have been contemplated but had we no other complaints did not the impressment of our seamen like the spoliations on our commerce excite an universal complaint had we never manifested our uneasiness at great britain's avoiding a commercial treaty was it not even a subject of complaint and reproach was not the inducing her to enter into such a treaty the object of divers measures agitated in congress had not a commercial treaty with great britain been earnestly sought for from the conclusion of the war to the time of mr jay's mission how also could mr jay after adjusting the primary objects of his mission better prove the sincerity of our pacific disposition and more effectually cultivate peace than by forming arrangements calculated to extend and protect our trade to promote good neighborhood and a friendly and mutually beneficial intercourse by prescribing a previous demand of justice and satisfaction to halcyon reprisals which naturally lead to war and by agreeing on other regulations to prevent disputes or to adjust them when they should arise all these objects then and whatever else would be the means of cultivating peace were clearly comprehended in"}, "profiles": ["broad", 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congress in which the different concerns both of the powers at war and of the neutral states should be examined and terminated and these concerns he afterwards mentions to be the pacification and the settling of a maritime code of laws objects truly important and meriting all the solicitude manifested on the occasion by the king but these steps of the king of sweden serve as additional proofs that the principles of the armed neutrality were not considered by the parties to the maritime convention as sanctioned by the existing law of nations for permanently to establish those assumed principles by introducing them into a maritime code was obviously the influential motive with the king for desiring a congress at which such a code might be settled with the assent of all the nations of europe but this project did not succeed no congress was formed the belligerent powers made peace at different periods and with that war ended the maritime convention this no nation has more reason to regret than our own as well because the principles in question respect some very valuable portions of our exports as because our disposition and our policy preserving us in peace such an extended liberty of commerce would prove highly advantageous to us as carriers for the powers at war we have seen then that the law of nations the marine laws of france her own treaties as well as those of other nations and even the system of the armed neutrality incontestably establish these principles that enemies goods on board neutral vessels are rightful subjects of capture and condemnation and that timber and other articles for the equipment and armament of ships are contraband of war and therefore that the admission of these principles in the treaty between the united states and great britain not being a grant to her of any right for in what sense could we be said to give what she before possessed furnishes no just ground of offence to france in what sense too can the united states be said to have refused to other nations a right which they and we voluntarily and mutually agreed to renounce or how are we chargeable with partiality in favour of england because we do not take arms to compel her also to renounce it but mr adet still resting on the idea that not to compel great britain to renounce is to grant her a right seems to imagine that we shall attempt to obviate his complaints by saying that france having the right by her treaty of to enjoy all the advantages in commerce and navigation which the united states have granted to england is not injured by the stipulations of the treaty of with great britain relative to contraband of war as they become common to her but we shall say no such thing the d article to which he refers has no relation to this subject had we granted any particular favor to great britain or to any other nation in respect to commerce and navigation we readily admit that by this article france would be immediately entitled to the same but in regard to contraband of war we have granted nothing and therefore under that article france can claim nothing under the influence of present and temporary interests the very nature of the stipulations between france and the united states on the subject of free commerce and the limitation of contraband seems to be forgotten they took for the basis of their treaty the most perfect equality and reciprocal prosperity would they then conspire to their own hurt would they voluntarily and mutually stipulate for injuries or for advantages certainly the latter and both considered the agreement reciprocally advantageous which secured to each in its turn the freedom of commerce provided by the rules that free ships should make free goods and that timber and naval stores should be excluded from the list of contraband connected with this subject is what concerns the article of provisions mr adet says that after having assured to the english the carriage of naval stores the federal government wished to assure them that of meals in a word it desired to have commerce only with england thus it stipulates by the th article that the american vessels laden with grain may be seized under the frivolous pretext that it is extremely difficult to define the cases wherein provisions and other articles which are generally excepted could be classed in the list of contraband of war there are so many extraordinary assertions in mr adet's notes those in the above paragraph excite no surprise the federal government is constituted of citizens who have a common interest with their fellow citizens of the united states that common interest has a peculiar relation to commerce on the freedom and extension of which the public revenue and the general prosperity of our country chiefly depend will it then be believed that the government wished this commerce to be restrained particularly the commerce in meals which compose the most valuable part of our exports especially will it be believed that the government desired that our citizens might have commerce only with england let the general sense of our fellow-citizens answer these charges let the great mass of our commercial brethren answer they who enterprize traverses every sea and explores every region of the globe to extend their gainful trade citizens whose commercial adventures to france and her colonies have risen annually to many millions adventures by which many have hazarded their credit and their fortunes yet among all our citizens none have been more solicitous to form a commercial treaty with britain none more decided in approving that which has been made for the reasoning of our own government on this subject i beg leave to refer you to my letter of september th written by the president's direction to mr monroe reaction to mr monroe therein it was attempted to show the necessity and our right of forming that treaty with great britain and i hope it will appear to you that the conclusion is there fairly drawn that even the th article as it respects provisions would operate favourably to france before the treaty with great britain her cruisers captured neutral vessels bound to france with provisions she asserted that in certain cases provisions were contraband of war consequently that she might lawfully capture and confiscate such provisions we opposed the principle and the practice britain insisted on her right in this dilemma it was agreed by the treaty that whenever provisions becoming contraband by the law of nations should be captured they should be paid for with a reasonable mercantile profit this stipulation without admitting the principle by securing the american merchants from loss in case of capture would certainly tend to promote rather than to discourage adventures in provisions to france but as this treaty has been the subject of serious complaint on the part of france it is important to enquire with what foundation the complaint is made i might pass over the unworthy insinuations of the minister that the treaty was entered into by us in order to assure advantages to the english and to furnish our own government with a reply to the claims of france and preemptory motives for refusals to accede to them that the true object of the negotiation was incessantly disguised under specious pretences and covered with the veil of dissimulation these insinuations have been indirectly addressed to the people of the united states they will gain no belief it may however be useful for you"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-23|1|1", "date": "1797-03-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797032301/0233.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in europe and with the latter view the king of sweden manifested the utmost solicitude that the war should be closed without the intervention of the neutral powers he therefore was urgent that the empress with all the parties to the maritime convention should propose to the belligerent powers the establishment of a congress in which the different concerns both of the powers at war and of the neutral states should be examined and terminated and these concerns he afterwards mentions to be the pacification and the settling of a maritime code of laws objects truly important and meriting all the solicitude manifested on the occasion by the king but these steps of the king of sweden serve as additional proofs that the principles of the armed neutrality were not considered by the parties to the maritime convention as sanctioned by the existing law of nations for permanently to establish those assumed principles by introducing them into a maritime code was obviously the influential motive with the king for desiring a congress at which such a code might be settled with the assent of all the nations of europe but this project did not succeed no congress was formed the belligerent powers made peace at different periods and with that war ended the maritime convention this nation has more to regret than our own as well because the principles in question respect some very valuable portions of our exports as because our disposition and our policy preserving us in peace such an extended liberty of commerce would prove highly advantageous to us as carriers for the powers at war we have seen then that the law of nations the marine laws of france her own treaties as well as those of other nations and even the system of the armed neutrality incontestibly establish these principles that enemies goods on board neutral vessels are rightful subjects of capture and condemnation and that timber and other articles for the equipment and armament of ships are contraband of war and therefore that the admission of these principles in the treaty between the united states and great britain not being a grant to her of any right for in what sense could we be said to give what she before possessed furnishes no just grounds of offence to france in what sense too can the united states be said to have refused to other nations a right which they and we voluntarily and mutually agreed to renounce or how are we chargeable with partiality in favor of england because we do not take arms to compel her to renounce it but mr adet still resting on the idea that not to compel great britain to renounce is to grant her a right seems to imagine that we shall attempt to obviate his complaints by saying that france having the right by her treaty of to enjoy all the advantages in commerce and navigation which the united states have granted to england is not injured by the stipulations of the treaty of with great britain of war as they will become common to her but we shall say no such thing the d article to which he refers has no relation to this subject had we granted any particular favour to great britain or to any other nation with respect to commerce and navigation we readily admit that by the article france would be immediately entitled to the same but in regard to contraband of war we have granted nothing and therefore under that article france can claim nothing under the influence of present and temporary interests the very nature of the stipulations between france and the united states on the subject of free commerce and the limitation of contraband seems to be forgotten they took for the basis of their treaty the most perfect equality and reciprocity would they then conspire to their own hurt would they voluntarily and mutually stipulate for injuries or for advantages certainly the latter and both considered the agreement reciprocally advantageous which secured to each in its turn the freedom of commerce provided by the rules that free ships should make free goods and that timber and naval stores should be excluded from the list of contraband connected with this subject is what concerns the article of provisions mr adet says that after having assured to the english the carriage of naval stores the federal government ought to assure them that of meats in a word it desired to have commerce only with england thus it stipulates by the th article that the american vessels laden with grain may be under the frivolous pretext that it is extremely difficult to define the cases wherein provisions and other articles which are generally excepted should be classed in the list of contraband of war there are so many extraordinary assertions in mr adet's notes those in the above paragraph excite no surprise the federal government is constituted of citizens who have a common interest with their fellow citizens of the united states that common interest has a peculiar relation to commerce on the freedom and extension of which the public revenue and the general prosperity of our country chiefly depend will it then be believed that the government ought to have commerce only with england let the general sense of our fellow citizens answer these charges let the great mass of our commercial brethren answer they whose enterprise traverses every sea and explores every region of the globe to extend their gainful trade citizens whose commercial adventures to france and her colonies have risen annually to many millions adventures by which many have hazarded their credit and their fortunes yet among all our citizens none have been more solicitous to form a commercial treaty with britain none more decided in approving that which has been made for the reasoning of our government on this subject i beg leave to refer you to my letter of september written by the president's direction to mr monroe therein it was attempted to shew the necessity and our right of forming the treaty with great britain and i hope it will appear to you that the conclusion is there fairly drawn that even the th article as it respects provisions would operate favorably to france before the treaty with great britain her cruisers captured neutral vessels bound to france with provisions she asserted that in certain cases provisions were contraband of war consequently that she might lawfully capture and confiscate such provisions we opposed the principle and the practice britain insisted on her right in this dilemma it was agreed by the treaty that whenever provisions becoming contraband by the law of nations should be captured they should be paid for with a reasonable mercantile profit this stipulation without admitting the principle by securing the american merchant from loss in case of capture would certainly tend to promote rather than to discourage adventures in provisions to france but as this treaty has been the subject of serious complaint on the part of france it is important to enquire with what foundation the complaint is made i might pass over the unworthy insinuation of the minister that the treaty was entered into by us in order to assure advantages to the english and to furnish our own government with a pretext to the claims of france and peremptory motives for refusing to accede to them that the true object of that negotiation was necessarily disguised under specious pretexts and that it was with the view of dissimulation these insinuations have been discreetly addressed to the people of the united states they will gain no belief it may however be useful for you"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1354, 1735], "b_span": [72, 453], "matched_words": 366, "similarity": 0.9606299212598425, "seeds": 74, "id": "M00104", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-23|1|3", "date": "1797-01-23", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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our merchants and the consequent extensive damage to agriculture these being the most prominent objects of the mission were of course most observable and most talked of and without them the mission probably would not at that time have been contemplated but had we no other complaints did not the impression of our seamen like the spoliations on our commerce excite an universal complaint had we never manifested our uneasiness at great britain's avoiding a commercial treaty was it not even a subject of complaint and reproach was not the inducing her to enter into such a treaty the object of divers measures agitated in congress had not a commercial treaty with great britain been earnestly sought for from the conclusion of the war to the time of mr jay's mission how also could mr jay after adjusting the primary objects of his mission better prove the sincerity of our pacific disposition and more effectually cultivate peace than by forming arrangements calculated to extend and protect our trade to promote good neighborhood and a friendly and mutually beneficial intercourse by prescribing a previous demand of justice and satisfaction to halting reprisals which naturally lead to war and by agreeing on other regulations to prevent disputes or to adjust them when they should arise all these objects then and whatever else would be the means of cultivating peace were clearly comprehended in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|1", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "declare as mr adet asserts that mr jay was sent to london only to obtain a redress of wrongs the president says that mr jay's mission would announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and that going immediately from the united states such an envoy would carry with him a full knowledge of the existing temper and sensibility of our country and thus be taught to vindicate our rights with firmness and to cultivate peace with sincerity and shall the pursuit of either of these objects be denied to us what were our complaints the most urgent regarded the spoliations on our commerce and the latter the inexecution of that part of the treaty of peace respecting the posts with the latter was connected the indian war with which we had been harassed for so many years and with the former the injury or ruin of our merchants and the consequent extensive damage to agriculture these being the most prominent objects of the mission were of course more observable and most talked of and without them the mission probably would not at that time have been contemplated but had we no other complaint did not the impressment of our seamen like the spoliations on our commerce excite an universal complaint had we never manifested our uneasiness at great britain's avoiding a commercial treaty was it not even a subject of complaint was not the inducing her to enter into such a treaty the object of divers measures agitated in congress had not a commercial treaty with great britain been earnestly sought for from the conclusion of the war to the time of mr jay's mission how also could mr jay after adjusting the primary objects of his mission better prove the sincerity of our pacific disposition and more effectually cultivate peace than by forming arrangements calculated to extend and protect our trade to promote good neighbourhood and a friendly and mutual beneficial intercourse by prescribing a previous demand for justice and satisfaction to hasty reprimands which generally lead to war and by agreeing to other regulations to prevent disputes or to adjust them when they should arise all these objects then and whatever else would be the means of cultivating peace were clearly comprehended in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [858, 1180], "b_span": [1609, 1916], "matched_words": 283, "similarity": 0.8998410174880763, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00105", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the minister of the french republic for foreign affairs by lord malmesbury his britannic majesty desiring as he has already declared to contri bute as far as depends on himself to the re-establishment of public tranquillity and to ensure by the means of just honorable and solid conditions of peace the future re pose of europe his majesty is of opinion that the best means of at taining with all possible expedi tion that salutary end will be to agree at the beginning of the ne gociation on the general principle which shall serve as a basis for the definitive arrangements the first object of the negoti ation for peace generally relates to the restitutions and cessions which the respective parties have mutually to demand in consequence of the events of the war great britain after the uninter-upted success of her naval war finds herself in a situation to have no restitutions to demand of france from which on the contrary she has taken establishments and colo nies of the highest importance and of a value almost incalculable but on the other hand france has made on the continent of eu rope conquests to which his maj esty can be the less indifferent as the most important interests of the people the most sacred engage ments of his own are essentially implicated therein the magnanimity of the king his inviolable good faith and his desire to restore repose to so many nations lead him in this situation of affairs to consider the means of procuring terms of peace just and equitable for all the belligerent powers and calculated to ensure in future the general tranquillity it is on this footing then that he proposes to negotiate by offer ing to compensate france by pro portionable restitutions for those arrangements to which she will be called upon to consent in order to satisfy the just demands of the king's allies and to"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|1", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797012601/0205.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the minister of the french republic for foreign affairs by lord malme-bury his britannic majesty desiring as he has already declared to contribute as far as depends on himself to the re-establishment of public tranquillity and to ensure by the means of just honourable and solid conditions of peace the future repose of europe his majesty is of opinion that the best means of attaining with all possible expedition the salutary end will be to agree at the beginning of the negotiation on the general principle which shall serve as a basis for the definitive arrangements the first object of the negotiation for peace generally relate to the restitutions and cessions which the respective parties have mutually demanded in consequence of the events of war great-britain after the uninterrupted success of her naval war finds herself in a situation to have no restitution to demand of france from which on the contrary she has taken establishments and colonies of the highest importance and of a value almost incalculable but on the other hand france has made on the continent of europe conquests to which his majesty can be the least indifferent as the most important interests of his people and the most sacred engagements of his crown are essentially implicated therein the magnanimity of the king his inviolable good faith and his desire to restore repose to so many nations lead him in this situation of affairs to consider the means of procuring terms of peace just and equitable for all the belligerent powers calculated to ensure in future the general tranquillity it is on this footing then that he proposes to negotiate by offering to compensate france by proportionable restitutions for those arrangements to which she will be called upon to consent in order to satisfy the just demands of the king's allies and to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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majesty cannot dispense with declaring that if this gene rous and equitable offer shall not be accepted or if unfortunately the discussions which may ensue may fail in the desired effect nei ther this general proposition nor those more detailed which may re sult from it shall be regarded in any case as points agreed upon or accorded by his majesty signed malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from the brit tannic majesty paris oct report to the directory by the minister for foreign affairs the th brumaire oct the executive directory having furnished me with full powers to treat for peace with great britain i had yesterday d brumaire my first conference with ld malmes bury plenipotentiary commissioner of his britannic majesty he presented to me the original of his powers sealed with the seal of gr britain and certified the copy he had before presented to me un signed and which i had laid before the directory we entered into discussion lord malmesbury presented to me the memorial which i laid before the directory i observed to him that speaking in the name of the allies of great britain and stipulat ing for their interests he was doubt less furnished with their powers instructions he answered me that he was not but that when the di rectory should have explained itself upon the principle laid down in his memorial he would expedite cour iers to give to the different courts an account of the negotiations to receive their orders i demand ed of him if he could at least spe cify the principle of cession in what concerned the republic and the government of great britain he replied that after the directory should have explained itself he would send a courier and demand instructions on this point i then thought it my duty to say to lord malmesbury that i would lay his memorial before the directory that i would take its orders and impart to him its answer signed cha delacroix answer of the directory the executive directory orders the minister for foreign affairs to make the following answer to lord malmesbury the executive directory see with pain that at the moment when they had reason to hope for the very speedy return of peace between the french republic and his britannic majesty the proposition of lord malmesbury offers nothing but dil atory or very distant means of bringing the negotiation to a conclusion the directory observe that if lord malmesbury would have treated separa tely as he was formally authorized by tenor of his credentials the negotiations might have been considerably abridged that the necessity of balancing with the interests of the two powers those of the allies of great britain multiplies the com binations increases the difficulties tends to the formation of a congress the forms of which it is known are always tardy and requires the accession of powers which hitherto have displayed no desire of accommodation and have not given to ld malmesbury himself according to his own declaration any power to stipu late for them thus without prejudging the inten tions of ld malmesbury without draw ing any conclusion from the circumstance of his declaration not appearing to ac cord with his credentials without sup posing that he had received any secret in structions which would destroy the effect of his ostensible powers without pre tending in short to assert that the brit ish government have had a double object in view to prevent by general proposi tions the partial propositions of other powers and to obtain from the people of england the means of continuing the war by throwing upon the republic the odium of a delay occasioned by them selves the executive directory cannot but perceive that the proposition of lord malmesbury is nothing more than a re newal under more amicable forms of the propositions made last year by mr wickham and that it presents but a dis tant hope of peace the executive directory farther ob serve with regard to the principle of cession advanced by lord malmesbury that such principle presented in a vague and isolated manner cannot serve as a basis of negoti ation that the first points of con sideration are the common necessity of a just and solid peace the political equi librium which absolute cessions might destroy and then the means which the belligerent powers may possess the one to retain conquests made at a time when it was supported by a great number of al lies now detached from the coalition and the other to recover them at a time when those who were at first its enemies have almost all either become its allies or neutre nevertheless the executive directory animated with an ardent desire of putting a stop to the scourge of war and to prove that they will not reject any means of reconciliation declare that as soon as lord malmesbury shall exhibit to the minister for foreign affairs sufficient pow ers from the allies of great britain for stipulating for their respective interests accompanied by a promise on their part to subscribe to whatever shall be conclud ed in their names the executive directory will give a speedy answer to the specific propositions which shall be made as far as may be consistent with the safety and dignity of the french"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797012601/0206.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having made this first overture his majesty will in the sequel explain himself in a more extensive manner on the application of this principle to the different objects which may be discussed between the respective parties it is this application which will constitute the subject of those discussions into which his majesty has authorized his minister to enter as soon as the principle to be adopted as the general basis of the negotiation is known but his majesty cannot dispense with declaring that if this generous and equitable offer shall not be accepted or if unfortunately the discussions which may ensue may fail in the desired effect neither this general proposition nor those more detailed which may result from it shall be regarded in any case as points agreed upon or accorded by his majesty signed malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty paris october report to the directory by the minister of foreign affairs the th brumaire oct the executive directory having furnished me with full powers to treat for peace with great britain i had yesterday d brumaire my first conference with lord malmesbury plenipotentiary commissioner of his britannic majesty he presented to me the original of his powers sealed with the seal of great britain and certified the copy which he had before presented to me unsigned and i had laid before the directory we entered into discussion lord malmesbury presented to me the memorial which i laid before the directory i observed to him that speaking in the name of the allies of great britain and stipulating for their interests he was doubtless furnished with their powers and instructions he answered me that he was not but that when the directory should have explained itself upon the principle laid down in his memorial he would expedite couriers to give to the different courts an account of the negotiations and to receive their orders i demanded of him if he could at least specify the principles of concession in what concerned the republic and the government of great britain he replied that after the directory should have explained itself he would send a courier and demand instructions on this point i then thought it my duty to say to lord malmesbury that i would lay his memorial before the directory that i would take its orders and import to him its answer signed cha delacroix answer of the directory the executive directory orders the minister of foreign affairs to make the following answer to lord malmesbury the executive directory fee with pain that at the moment when they had reason to hope for the speedy return of peace between the french republic and his britannic majesty the proposition of lord malmesbury offers nothing but dilatory or very distant means of bringing the negotiation to a conclusion the directory observe that if lord malmesbury would have treated separately as he was formally authorized by the tenour of his credentials the negotiations might have been considerably abridged that the necessity of balancing with the interests of the two powers those of the allies of great britain multiplies the combinations increases the difficulties tends to the formation of a congress the terms of which it is known are always tardy and require the accession of powers which hitherto displayed no desire of accommodation and have not given to lord malmesbury himself according to his own declaration any power to stipulate for them thus without prejudging the intentions of lord malmesbury without drawing any conclusion from the circumstances of his declaration not appearing to accord with his credentials without supposing that he had received any secret instructions which would destroy the effect of his ostensible powers without pretending to assert that the british government had a double object in view to prevent by general propositions the partial propositions of other powers and to obtain from the people of england the means of continuing the war by throwing upon the republic the odium of delay occasioned by themselves the executive directory cannot but perceive that the propositions of lord malmesbury is nothing more than a renewal under more amicable forms of the propositions made last year by mr wickham and that it presents but a distant hope of peace the executive directory farther observe with regard to the principle of cession advanced by lord malmesbury that such principles presented in a vague and isolated manner cannot serve as the basis of negotiation that the first points of consideration are the common necessity of a just and solid peace the political equilibrium which absolute cessions might destroy and then the means which the belligerent powers may possess the one to retain conquests made at a time when it was supported by a great number of allies now detached from the coalition and the other to recover them at a time when those who were at first its enemies have almost all either become its allies or neuter nevertheless the executive directory animated with an ardent desire of putting a speedy stop to the scourge of war and to prove that they will not reject any means of reconciliation declare that as soon as lord malmesbury shall exhibit to the minister for foreign affairs sufficient powers from the allies of great britain for stipulating for their respective interests accompanied by a promise of their part to subscribe to whatever shall be concluded in their names the executive directory will give a speedy answer to the specific propositions which shall be moved as far as they may be consistent with the safety and dignity of the french"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [701, 2156], "b_span": [25, 1409], "matched_words": 1288, "similarity": 0.9073617470940472, "seeds": 196, "id": "M00107", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "for foreign affairs are already suspended in the first conference it was demanded of the english negoti tor if he was furnished with pow ers and instructions from other bel ligious powers to stipulate in their name he answered no but he added that when the directory shall have explained themselves on the principle laid down in his me morial we shall give all the im portant papers relative to his grand negotiation he would dispatch cour iers to give an account to the dif ferent courts of the state of the ne gociation and to receive their or ders it was then asked the ambaf-ador if he could not at least spe cify the principle of retrocessions which concern the french repub lic and great britain he answer ed that after the directory should have explained itself he would ex pedite couriers and likewise request instructions on this point the following is the ambassador's memorial delivered to the minister of the french republic for foreign affairs by lord malmesbury his britannic majesty desiring as he has already declared to contri bute as far as depends on himself to the re-establishment of public tranquillity and to ensure by the means of just honorable and solid conditions of peace the future re pose of europe his majesty is of opinion that the best means of at taining with all possible expedi tion that salutary end will be to agree at the beginning of the ne gociation on the general principle which shall serve as a basis for the definitive arrangements the first object of the negoti ation for peace generally relates to the restitutions and cessions which the respective parties have mutually to demand in consequence of the events of the war great britain after the uninter-upted success of her naval war finds herself in a situation to have no restitutions to demand of france from which on the contrary she has taken establishments and colo nies of the highest importance and of a value almost incalculable but on the other hand france has made on the continent of eu rope conquests to which his maj esty can be the less indifferent as the most important interests of the people the most sacred engage ments of his own are essentially implicated therein the magnanimity of the king his inviolable good faith and his desire to restore repose to so many nations lead him in this situation of affairs to consider the means of procuring terms of peace just and equitable for all the belligerent powers and calculated to ensure in future the general tranquillity it is on this footing then that he proposes to negotiate by offer ing to compensate france by pro portionable restitutions for those arrangements to which she will be called upon to consent in order to satisfy the just demands of the king's allies and to preserve the political balance of europe having made this first overture his majesty will in the sequel ex plain himself in a more extensive manner on the application of this principle to the different objects which may be discussed between the respective parties it is this application which will constitute the subject of those dis cussions into which his majesty has authorized his minister to en ter as soon as the principle to be adopted as the general basis of the negotiation is known but his majesty cannot dispense with declaring that if this gene rous and equitable offer shall not be accepted or if unfortunately the discussions which may ensue may fail in the desired effect nei ther this general proposition nor those more detailed which may re sult from it shall be regarded in any case as points agreed upon or accorded by his majesty signed malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from the brit tannic majesty paris oct report to the directory by the minister for foreign affairs the th brumaire oct the executive directory having furnished me with full powers to treat for peace with great britain i had yesterday d brumaire my first conference with ld malmes bury plenipotentiary commissioner of his britannic majesty he presented to me the original of his powers sealed with the seal of gr britain and certified the copy he had before presented to me un signed and which i had laid before the directory we entered into discussion lord malmesbury presented to me the memorial which i laid before the directory i observed to him that speaking in the name of the allies of great britain and stipulat ing for their interests he was doubt less furnished with their powers instructions he answered me that he was not but that when the di rectory should have explained itself upon the principle laid down in his memorial he would expedite cour iers to give to the different courts an account of the negotiations to receive their orders i demand ed of him if he could at least spe cify the principle of cession in what concerned the republic and the government of great britain he replied that after the directory should have explained itself he would send a courier and demand instructions on this point i then thought it my duty to say to lord malmesbury that i would lay his memorial before the directory that i would take its orders and impart to him its answer signed cha delacroix answer of the directory the executive directory orders the minister for foreign affairs to make the following answer to lord malmesbury the executive directory see with pain that at the moment when they had reason to hope for the very speedy return of peace between the french republic and his britannic majesty the proposition of lord malmesbury offers nothing but dil atory or very distant means of bringing the negotiation to a conclusion the directory observe that if lord malmesbury would have treated separa tely as he was formally authorized by tenor of his credentials the negotiations might have been considerably abridged that the necessity of balancing with the interests of the two powers those of the allies of great britain multiplies the com binations increases the difficulties tends to the formation of a congress the forms of which it is known are always tardy and requires the accession of powers which hitherto have displayed no desire of accommodation and have not given to ld malmesbury himself according to his own declaration any power to stipu late for them thus without prejudging the inten tions of ld malmesbury without draw ing any conclusion from the circumstance of his declaration not appearing to ac cord with his credentials without sup posing that he had received any secret in structions which would destroy the effect of his ostensible powers without pre tending in short to assert that the brit ish government have had a double object in view to prevent by general proposi tions the partial propositions of other powers and to obtain from the people of england the means of continuing the war by throwing upon the republic the odium of a delay occasioned by them selves the executive directory cannot but perceive that the proposition of lord malmesbury is nothing more than a re newal under more amicable forms of the propositions made last year by mr wickham and that it presents but a dis tant hope of peace the executive directory farther ob serve with regard to the principle of cession advanced by lord malmesbury that such principle presented in a vague and isolated manner cannot serve as a basis of negoti ation that the first points of con sideration are the common necessity of a just and solid peace the political equi librium which absolute cessions might destroy and then the means which the belligerent powers may possess the one to retain conquests made at a time when it was supported by a great number of al lies now detached from the coalition and the other to recover them at a time when those who were at first its enemies have almost all either become its allies or neutre nevertheless the executive directory animated with an ardent desire of putting a stop to the scourge of war and to prove that they will not reject any means of reconciliation declare that as soon as lord malmesbury shall exhibit to the minister for foreign affairs sufficient pow ers from the allies of great britain for stipulating for their respective interests accompanied by a promise on their part to subscribe to whatever shall be conclud ed in their names the executive directory will give a speedy answer to the specific propositions which shall be made as far as may be consistent with the safety and dignity of the french"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "for foreign affairs are already suspended in the first conference it was demanded of the english negotiator if he was furnished with powers instructions from other belligerent powers to stipulate in their name he answered no but he added that when the directory shall have explained themselves on the principle laid down in his memorial he would dispatch couriers to give an account to the different courts of the state of the negotiation and to receive their orders it was then asked the ambassador if he could not at least specify the principle of retrocessions which concern the french republic and great britain he answered that after the directory should have explained itself he would expedite couriers and likewise request instructions on this point the following is the memorial of the ambassador memorial delivered to the minister of the f republic for foreign affairs by lord malmesbury his britannic majesty desiring as he has already declared to contribute as far as depends on himself to the re-establishment of public tranquility and to ensure by the means of just honorable solid conditions of peace the future repose of europe his majesty is of opinion that the best means of attaining with all possible expedition that salutary end will be to agree at the beginning of the negotiation on the general principle which shall serve as a basis for the definitive arrangements the first object of the negotiation for peace generally relate to the restitutions and cessions which the respective parties have mutually to demand in consequence of the events of the war great britain after the uninterrupted successes of her naval war finds herself in a situation to have no restitution to demand of france from which on the contrary she had taken establishments and colonies of the highest importance and of a value almost incalculable but on the other hand france has made on the continent of europe conquests to which her majesty can be the less indifferent as the most important interests of his people and the most sacred engagements of his crown are essentially implicated therein the magnanimity of the king his inviolable good faith and his desire to restore repose to so many nations lead him in this situation of affairs to consider the means of procuring terms of peace just and equitable for all the belligerent powers and calculated to ensure in future the general tranquility it is on this footing then that he proposes to negotiate by offering to compensate france by proportionable restitutions for those arrangements to which she will be called upon to consent in order to satisfy the just demands of the king's allies and to preserve the political balance of europe having made this first overture his majesty will in the sequel explain himself in a more extensive manner on the application of this principle to the different objects which may be discussed between the respective parties it is this application which will constitute the subject of those discussions into which his majesty has authorised his minister to enter as soon as the principle be adopted as the general basis of the negotiation is known but his majesty cannot dispense with declaring that if this generous and equitable offer shall not be accepted or if unfortunately the discussions which may ensue may fail in the desired effect neither this general proposition nor those more detailed which may result from it shall be regarded in any case as points agreed upon or accorded by his majesty signed malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty paris october report to the directory by the minister for foreign affairs the th brumaire oct the executive directory having furnished me with full powers to treat for peace with great britain i had yesterday d brumaire my first conference with lord malmesbury plenipotentiary commissioner of his britannic majesty he presented to me the original of his powers sealed with the seal of great britain and certified the copy which he had before presented to me unsigned and which i had laid before the directory we entered into discussion lord malmesbury presented to me the memorial which i laid before the directory i observed to him that speaking in the name of the allies of great britain and stipulating for their interests he was doubtless furnished with their powers and instructions he answered me that he was not but that when the directory should have explained itself upon the principle laid down in his memorial he would expedite couriers to give to the different courts an account of the negotiations and to receive their orders i demanded of him if he could at least specify the principle of concession in what concerned the republic and the government of great britain he replied that after the directory should have explained itself he would send a courier and demand instructions on this point i then thought it my duty to say to lord malmesbury that i would lay his memorial before the directory that i would take its orders and impart to him its answer signed cha delacroix answer of the directory the executive directory orders the minister for foreign affairs to make the following answer to lord malmesbury the executive directory see with pain that at the moment when they had reason to hope for the very speedy return of peace between the french republic and his britannic majesty the proposition of lord malmesbury offers nothing but dilatory or very distant means of bringing the negotiation to a conclusion the directory observe that if lord malmesbury would have treated separately as he was formally authorised by the tenor of his credentials the negotiations might have been considerably abridged that the necessity of balancing with the interests of the two powers those of the allies of g britain multiplies the combinations encreases the difficulties tends to the formation of a congress the forms of which it is known are always tardy and requires the accession of powers which hitherto have displayed no desire of accommodation and have not given to lord malmesbury himself according to his own declaration any power to stipulate for them thus without prejudging the intentions of lord malmesbury without drawing any conclusion from the circumstance of his declaration not appearing to accord with his credentials without supposing that he had received any secret instructions which would destroy the effect of his ostensible powers without pretending in short to assert that the british government have had a double object in view to prevent by general propositions the partial propositions of other powers and to obtain from the people of england the means of continuing the war by throwing upon the republic the odium of a delay occasioned by themselves the executive directory cannot but perceive that the proposition of lord malmesbury is nothing more than a renewal under more amicable forms of the propositions made last year by mr wickham and that it presents but a distant hope of peace the executive directory farther observe with regard to the principle of cession advanced by lord malmesbury that such principle presented in a vague and isolated manner cannot serve as the basis of negotiation that the first points of consideration are the common necessity of a just and solid peace the political equilibrium which absolute cessions might destroy and then the means which the belligerent powers may possess the one to retain conquests made at a time when it was supported by a great number of allies now detached from the coalition and the other to recover them at a time when those who were at first enemies have almost all either become its allies or neutral nevertheless the executive directory animated with an ardent desire of putting a stop to the scourge of war and to prove that they will not reject any means of reconciliation declare as soon as lord malmesbury shall exhibit to the minister for foreign affairs sufficient powers from the allies of great britain for stipulating for their respective interests accompanied by a promise on their part to subscribe to whatever shall be concluded in their names the executive directory will give a speedy answer to the specific propositions which shall be removed as far as may be consistent with the safety and dignity of the french"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1779, 1846], "b_span": [2039, 2104], "matched_words": 60, "similarity": 0.9090909090909091, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00108", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|3", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797012401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "reported that there has been concluded between spain and portugal a convention stating that all the ports of the latter are to be shut against the english during the war from italy it appears that mantua still holds out gen wurmser has lately made several ineffectual forties and the surrender of the garrison is very shortly expected to take place moreau has requested of the directory that"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030401/0735.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "reported that there has been concluded between spain and portugal a convention stating that all the ports of the latter should be shut against the english during the war from italy it appears that mantua still holds out general wurmser has made several ineffectual sorties and the surrender of the garrison is every day expected to take place moreau has requested of the directory that"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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"1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030801/0743.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "honor to give you an account yesterday of the attack of the army made by the enemy in the night between the th and th vendemaire upon the head of the bridge and the isle of newwied he had projected nothing less than to make the garrison prisoners of war and to raise the works and finally to cut off the communication of the left wing with the right of the army this affair cost the enemy more"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1871, 1981], "b_span": [2029, 2131], "matched_words": 95, "similarity": 0.8962264150943396, "seeds": 12, "id": "M00110", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-01-24|1|3", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797012401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "directors i hasten to communicate to the executive directory the reception of letters from brest of the d instant nov brought by an extraordinary courier which announces that a general revolution has just taken place in ireland this interesting news came by two ships brought into the road the same evening by our privateers and which lately sailed from liverpool their captain state that the insurrection after taking possession of near stand of arms in dublin attacked and defeated english troops that the militia joined the insurgents and that the whole country is in a state of insurrection the arrest and some other arbitrary proceedings of which the english minister"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-08|1|2", "date": "1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030801/0743.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "directors i hasten to communicate to the executive directory the reception of letters from brest of the d instant november brought by an extraordinary courier which announce that a general revolution has just taken place in ireland this interesting news came by two ships brought into the road the same evening by our privateers and which lately failed from liverpool the captains state that the irish after taken possession of stand of arms in dublin attacked and defeated english troops that the whole country is in a state of insurrection the arrest and some other arbitrary proceedings of which the english minister"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2262, 2844], "b_span": [3762, 4346], "matched_words": 576, "similarity": 0.9879931389365352, "seeds": 116, "id": "M00111", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|1", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012401/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "jay's negotiation was enveloped from its origin in the shadow of mystery and to whom was our government bound to unveil it to france or to her minister mr adet should answer or not have complained and was it for this to make us a dependence on the french empire that our alliance was formed did we stipulate to submit the exercise of our sovereignty if it is not a contradiction in terms to the direction of the government of france let the treaty itself furnish the answer the essential and direct end of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty sovereignty and independence absolute and unlimited of the said united states as well in matters of government as of commerce so likewise the treaty of amity and commerce in its preamble declares that his most christian majesty and the united states willing to fix the rules which ought to be followed relative to the correspondence and commerce which they desire to establish between their respective countries have taken for the basis of their government the most perfect equality and reciprocity and reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages corresponding with this declaration in our treaty of amity and commerce with france is the declaration of the marquis de noailles her ambassador at the court of london on the th of march five weeks after the treaty was signed some passages in this declaration are so pertinent to the subject in discussion i shall quote them at length the under-signed ambassador of his most christian majesty has received express orders to make the following declaration to the court of london the united states of north america who are in full possession of independence as pronounced by them on the th of july having proposed to the king to consolidate by a formal convention the connection begun to be established between the two nations the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence his majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between france and great-britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of london and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favour of the french nation and that the united states have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity why after all this do we hear from mr adet the complaint that the negotiations of the british treaty were secretly conducted in other words that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of government and commerce the united states did not lay open to the french minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for letting our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with great-britain so far as candor and friendship required a communication was made to the french minister he was officially informed that mr jay was instructed not to weaken our 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noailles her ambassador at the court of london on the th of march five weeks after the treaty was signed some passages in this declaration are so pertinent to the subject in discussion i shall quote them at length the undersigned ambassador of his most christian majesty has received express orders to make the following declaration to the court of london the united states of north america who are in full possession of independence as pronounced by them on the th of july having proposed to the king to consolidate by a formal convention the connection began to be established between the two nations the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence his majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between france and great britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of london and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favor of the french nation and that the united states have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity why after all this do we hear from mr adet the complaint that the negotiations of the british treaty were secretly conducted in other words that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of government and commerce the united states did not lay open to the french minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for letting our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with great britain so far as candor and friendship required a communication was made to the french minister he was officially informed that mr jay was instructed not to weaken our engagements to france this instruction was obeyed mr jay having taken care to insert in the th article of the treaty 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acts and laws what opinion is to be formed of mr adet's declaration that the executive directory regards the treaty of commerce concluded with great britain as a violation of the treaty made with france in and equivalent to a treaty of alliance with great britain i will now advert to the charge that far from offering the french the succours which friendship might have given without compromising it the american government in this respect violated the letter of treaties as far as i can discover the latter part of this charge is rested wholly on the th article of the commercial treaty which therefore it will be necessary to examine the stipulations are mutual but the examination will be simplified by considering their application to france alone the th article then declares st that the ships of war and privateers of france may freely carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies into the ports of the united states without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges d that such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the united states d that the officers of the united states shall not make any examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but th that they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions th that on the contrary no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the united states to such as shall have made prize of the subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stress of weather or the danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out and retire from thence as soon as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2273, 3240], "b_span": [473, 1417], "matched_words": 925, "similarity": 0.968079539508111, "seeds": 180, "id": "M00113", "a": {"key": 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states as well in matters of government as of commerce so likewise the treaty of amity and commerce in its preamble declares that his most christian majesty and the united states willing to fix the rules which ought to be followed relative to the correspondence and commerce which they desire to establish between their respective countries have taken for the basis of their government the most perfect equality and reciprocity and reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages corresponding with this declaration in our treaty of amity and commerce with france is the declaration of the marquis de noailles her ambassador at the court of london on the th of march five weeks after the treaty was signed some passages in this declaration are so pertinent to the subject in discussion i shall quote them at length the under-signed ambassador of his most christian majesty has received express orders to make the following declaration to the court of london the united states of north america who are in full possession of independence as pronounced by them on the th of july having proposed to the king to consolidate by a formal convention the connection begun to be established between the two nations the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence his majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between france and great-britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of london and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favour of the french nation and that the united states have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity why after all this do we hear from mr adet the complaint that the negotiations of the british treaty were secretly conducted in other words that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of government and commerce the united states did not lay open to the french minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for letting our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with great-britain so far as candor and friendship required a communication was made to the french minister he was officially informed that mr jay was instructed not to weaken our engagements to france this instruction was obeyed mr jay having taken care to insert in the th article of the treaty this explicit stipulation that nothing in this treaty contained shall be construed or operate contrary to former and existing public treaties with other sovereigns or states the government gave a further proof of its candor and friendship by communicating to the french minister the treaty itself prior to its ratification in order to enable him to make such observations thereon as he might judge proper these observations you will see in mr adet's letter to the secretary of state of june th and the refutation of his objections in the secretary's answer dated the th of july following with these facts in view facts of which the chief are drawn from our treaties with france and from her own acts and laws what opinion is to be formed of mr adet's declaration that the executive directory regards the treaty of commerce concluded with great-britain as a violation of the treaty made with france in and equivalent to a treaty of alliance with great-britain i will now advert to the charge that far from offering the french the succours which friendship might have given without compromising it the american government in this respect violated the letter of treaties as far as i can discover the latter part of this charge is rested wholly on the th article of the commercial treaty which therefore it will be necessary to examine the stipulations are mutual but the examination will be simplified by considering their application to france alone the th article then declares st that the ships of war and privateers of france may freely carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies into the ports of the united states without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges d that such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the u states d that the officers of the united states shall not make any examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but th that they may halt at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions th that on the contrary no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the united states to such as shall have made prize of the subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stress of weather or the danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|1", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "mystery and to whom was our government bound to unveil it to france or to her minister mr adet should answer or not have complained and was it for this to make us a dependence on the french empire that our alliance was formed did we stipulate to submit the exercise of our sovereignty if it is not a contradiction in terms to the direction of the government of france let the treaty itself furnish the answer the effectual and direct end of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty sovereignty and independence absolute and unlimited of the said united states as well in matters of government as of commerce so likewise the treaty of amity and commerce in its preamble declares that his most christian majesty and the united states willing to fix the rules which ought to be followed relative to the correspondence and commerce which they desire to establish between their respective countries have taken for the basis of their agreement the most perfect equality and reciprocity and reserving withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages corresponding with this declaration in our treaty of amity and commerce with france is the declaration of the marquis de noailles her ambassador at the court of london on the th of march five weeks after the treaty was signed some passages in this declaration are so pertinent to the subject in discussion i shall quote them at length the united states of america who are in full possession of independence as pronounced by them on the th of july having proposed to the king to consolidate by a formal convention the connection begun to be established between the two nations the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence his majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between france and great britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of london and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favour of the french nation and that the united states have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity why after all this do we hear from mr adet the complaint that the negotiations of the british treaty were secretly conducted in other words that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of government and commerce the united states did not lay open to the french minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for settling our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with great britain so far as candor and friendship required a communication was made to the french minister he was officially informed that mr jay was instructed not to weaken our engagements to france this instruction was obeyed mr jay having taken care to insert in the th article of the treaty this explicit stipulation that nothing in this treaty contained shall be construed or operate contrary to former and existing public treaties with other sovereigns or states the government gave a further proof of its candor and friendship by communicating to the french minister the treaty itself prior to its ratification in order to enable him to make such observations thereon as he might judge proper these observations you will see in mr adet's letter to the secretary of state of june th and the refutation of his objections in the secretary's answer dated the th july following with these facts in view facts of which the chief are drawn from our treaties with france and from her own acts and laws what opinion is to be formed of mr adet's declaration that the executive directory regards the treaty of commerce concluded with great britain as a violation of the treaty made with france in and equivalent to a treaty of alliance with great britain i will now advert to the charges that far from offering to the french the succours which friendship might have given without compromising it the american government in this respect violated the letter of treaties as far as i can discover the latter part of this charge is rested wholly on the th article of the commercial treaty which therefore it will be necessary to examine the stipulations are mutual but the examination will be simplified by considering their application to france alone the th article then declares st that the ships of war and privateers of france may freely carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies into the ports of the united states without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges that such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the united states that the officers of the united states shall not make an examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but that they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions that on the contrary no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the united states to such as shall be made prize of the subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stresses of weather or danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], 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merchandise or any other lading d nor purchase victuals except such as shall be necessary for their going to the nearest port of the prince or state from which they have commissions the cases that have occurred in the course of the present war in relation to our treaty with france particularly the th and d articles just mentioned have led to numerous discussions in which several points have been deliberately settled either by legislative or executive acts or by judicial decisions the first important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the president of the united states this was issued on the d of april at the next meeting of congress on the d of december the president laid this proclamation before both houses the senate in their address in answer to the president's speech thus expresses their opinion of the proclamation we deemed it a measure well-timed and wise manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation and calculated to promote it the address of the house of representatives was unanimously agreed to we read in it this paragraph the united states having taken no part in the war which had embraced in europe the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important duties of the magistrate charged with the faithful execution of the laws we accordingly witness with approbation and pleasure the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing by your proclamation admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties and promoting by a declaration of the existing legal state of things an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation yet this is the instrument thus approved by congress and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations which mr adet has ventured to call an invidious proclamation of neutrality the next executive act noticed by mr adet is the letter of the th of august written by the president's command by the secretary of the treasury to the collectors of the customs and accompanied by the rules which the president had adopted for preventing all armaments in favor of any of the belligerent powers these rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations the letter from the secretary of the treasury is explanatory of these rules and among other instructions particularly points the collectors to the th and d articles of our treaty with france lest by inattention or misconception of them they might be injured and her enemies benefited the letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions with vigilance care activity and impartiality because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions and proportionably to commit the good faith and peace of the country how could such rules with such reasons to enforce them not escape censure they were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality and consequently were to prevent frenchmen continuing these aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality which had been commenced under mr genet's orders and which were calculated to involve us in a war with britain spain and holland for at that time there were all combined against france frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty except that they were not forbidden to sell their lawful prizes in our ports and our citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of france as well as those of other powers the third offensive act was the president's submitting to congress these measures and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code giving competent jurisdiction to the courts and providing adequate penalties to prevent or punish violations of the laws of nations the next complaint respects the act of congress passed on the th of june for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states being those to which their attention had been called by the president's speech mr adet asks what was its result and gives himself the following answer in consequence of this law the greater part of the french privateers have been arrested as well as their prizes not upon formal depositions not upon established testimony not upon a necessary body of proofs but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the french republic frequently upon that of sailors of the enemy's powers sometimes according to the orders of the governors but often upon the demand of the district attorneys who assert upon principles avowed by the government that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them without complaint or regular information to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above mentioned and when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice of the government for the vexations experienced by the privateers in contempt of the th article of the treaty they have never been able to obtain satisfaction judging only by these declarations of mr adet a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts to harass and do injustice to frenchmen engaged in privateering but our own citizens place a different estimate on this impeachment of their president their senators and representatives in congress their judges and other public officers and an examination of the cases cited by mr adet to support his assertions will manifest their incorretness first case the french privateer sans pareil and her prize the perseverance on the th august mr fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the sans pareil had been illegally armed in the united states the answer of september d from the secretary of state which mr adet censures as indicative of delay assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of rhode island where the prize was carried to report the circumstances of the case without delay on the th of september the secretary informed mr fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored on the th of october mr fauchet renewed his complaint for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court the secretary of state answered on the d with information that ought to have satisfied mr fauchet for admitting that agreeably to the law of the th of june the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the united states or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports the right of doing which mr fauchet did not contest they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the sans pareil the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed the circular letter written on this occasion to the governors of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits d case glass and gibbs by the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the united states in this case you will see that the court did not as stated by mr adet determine that the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or to neutrals the question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo the former the property of a swede and the latter belonging partly to some swedes and partly to a citizen of the united states the opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the united states and after solemn argument the court decided that the district court of maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeably to law and right i will add only one more remark that the th article the letter of which we are charged with violating in suffering our courts to take cognizance of french prizes expressly refers to the ships and goods taken from their enemies and it is the examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes which the article forbids but no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals unless on clear evidence or reasonable presumption that the captures were made in circumstances which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty and territorial rights d case the french privateer l'ami de la pointe petre captain william talbot and her dutch prize the vrouw christiana magdalena to the information contained in the papers collected in this case i have to add that this cause was finally decided in the supreme court in august term the court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of talbot's case notwithstanding his french commission and his taking an oath of allegiance to the french republic he continued to be a citizen of the united states but the cause as i am informed did not appear to have turned on this point talbot had associated with one ballard commanding an armed vessel called the ami de la libert which had been fitted out in the united states and had no commission talbot and ballard cruized together as consorts and in fact it was ballard's vessel that took the prize talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture ballard was afterwards tried before the circuit court for piracy the court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence that talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the united states to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors ballard and talbot were both citizens of virginia the attempt of the latter to become a french citizen was considered to be fraudulent being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission under colour of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the united states were at peace an observation ought not to be omitted here that although the captors talbot and others had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort a right which alike exercised by the subjects of powers who were enemies to france has formed a principal subject of mr fauchet's and mr adet's continued complaints th under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions mr adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the french captors viz one of la nuestra se ora del carmen at rhode island and the other of la princesse des asturias at new-york yet says he the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured when they have declared the prizes illegal how far the facts will warrant this last assertion i am not possessed of documents to determine i presume it is to be understood in a general sense only and to admit of exceptions and in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it the captures here referred to were made either within our jurisdictional line or by illegal privateers being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the united states of these material facts the captors could not be ignorant consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts and of course were justly condemned in costs and damages in the case of the prizes of the privateer the citizen of marseilles damages were claimed by the captors but denied for those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal and although the setence of that court was reversed in the circuit court yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony on the part of the captors this last decision was affirmed in the supreme court yet without damages inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal the same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer general laurens with this addition that one of the judges dissented from the opinion of the court being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered american property the privateer the parisienne has been registered as an american coasting vessel under the name of the hawk during the embargo in the spring of she slipped out or charleston and went to port de paix where she was sold to one blochos a frenchman who armed her and provided her with a commission having afterwards arrived at charleston she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal possession of a couler the district court condemned her but on the application of blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value the judge permitted him to take her in a state of warlike equipment shortly afterwards she put to sea captured two valuable british prizes the brigantines c sar and favorite on their arrival the one at charleston the other at savannah suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer the decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors but without damages the supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages all the other cases of captures by french privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last august term in some of them the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages in others the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them when demanded you know that it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case hence when a party is drawn before the court without good cause and vexatiously damages are always given but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy th mr adet having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore descants on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injudicious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these cases from authentic documents cause of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new-york with a valuable spanish prize called the princessa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the conflicting evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr hamilton the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeance a french privateer had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordinateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to communicate to the secretary of state and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of october d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of general laurens could not be considered as evidence in the case and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to defend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the outer in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|1", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "notice the stipulations contained in the d article these are st that foreign privateers not belonging to french subjects or citizens having commissions from any other prince or state in enmity with france shall not fit their ships in the ports of the united states d nor sell their prizes nor in any other manner exchange their ships merchandise or any other lading d nor purchase victuals except such as shall be necessary for their going to the nearest port of the prince or state from which they have commissions the cases that have occurred in the course of the present war in relation to our treaty with france particularly the th and d articles just mentioned have led to numerous discussions in which several points have been deliberately settled either by legislative or executive acts or by judicial decisions the first important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the president of the united states this was issued on the d of april at the next meeting of congress on the d of december the president laid this proclamation before both houses the senate in their address in answer to the president's speech thus expresses their opinion of the proclamation we deem it a measure well timed and wise manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation and calculation to promote it the address of the house of representatives was unanimously agreed to we read in it this paragraph the united states having taken no part in the war which had embraced in europe the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important duties of the magistrate charged with the faithful execution of the laws we accordingly witness with approbation and pleasure the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing by your proclamation admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties and promoting by a declaration of the existing legal state of things an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation yet this is the instrument thus approved by congress and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations which mr adet has ventured to call an insidious proclamation of neutrality the next executive act noticed by mr adet is the letter of the th of august written by the president's command by the secretary of the treasury to the collectors of the customs and accompanied by the rules which the president had adopted for preventing all armaments in favor of any of the belligerent powers these rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations the letter from the secretary of the treasury is explanatory of these rules and among other instructions particularly points the collectors to the th and d articles of our treaty with france left by inattention or misconception of them the might be injured and her enemies benefited the letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions with vigilance care activity and impartiality because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions and proportionally to commit the good faith and peace of the country how could such rules with such reasons to enforce them not escape censure they were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality and consequently were to prevent frenchmen continuing those aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality which had been commenced under mr genet's orders and which were calculated to involve us in a war with britain spain and holland for at that time there were all combined against france frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty except that they were not forbidden to sell their lawful prizes in our ports and our own citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of france as well as those of other powers the third offensive act was the president's submitting to congress these measures and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code giving competent jurisdiction to the courts and providing adequate penalties to prevent or punish violations of the laws of nations the next complaint respects the act of congress passed on the th of june for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states being those to which their attention had been called by the president's speech mr adet asks what was its result and gives himself the following answer in consequence of this law the greater part of the french privateers have been arrested as well as their prizes not upon formal depositions nor upon established testimony not upon a necessary body of proofs but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the french republic frequently upon that of sailors of the enemy-powers sometimes according to the orders of the governors but often upon the demand of the district attorneys who assert upon principles avowed by the government that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them without complaint or regular information to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above-mentioned and when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice of the government for the vexations experienced by the privateers in contempt of the th article of the treaty they have never been able to obtain satisfaction judging only by these declarations of mr adet a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts to harass and do injustice to frenchmen engaged in privateering but our own citizens place a different estimate on this impeachment of their president their senators and representatives in congress their judges and other public officers and an examination of the cases cited by mr adet to support his assertions will manifest their incorrectness first case the french privateer sans pareil and her prize the perseverance on the th august mr fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the sans pareil had been illegally armed in the united states the answer of september d from the secretary of state which mr adet censures as indicative of delay assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of rhode-island where the prize was carried to report the circumstances of the case without delay on the th of september the secretary informed mr fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored on the th of october mr fauchet renewed his complaint for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court the secretary of state answered on the d with information that ought to have satisfied mr fauchet for admitting that agreeably to the law of the th of june the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the united states or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports the right of doing which mr fauchet did not contest they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the sans pareil the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed the circular letter written on this occasion to the governor of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits d case glat and gibbs by the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the united states in this case you will see that the court did not as stated by mr adet determine that the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or to neutrals the question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo the former the property of a swede and the latter belonging partly to some swedes and partly to a citizen of the united states the opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the united states and after solemn argument the court decided that the district court of maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeable to law and right i will add only one more remark that the th article the letter of which we are charged with violating in suffering our courts to take cognizance of french prizes expressly refers to the ships and goods taken from their enemies and it is the examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes which the article forbids but no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals unless on clear evidence or reasonable presumption that the captures were made in circumstances which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty and territorial rights d case the french privateer l'ami de la pointe a petre captain william talbot and her dutch prize the vrouw christian magdalena to the information contained in the papers collected in this case i have to add that this cause was finally decided in the supreme court in august term the court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of talbot's case notwithstanding his french commission and his taking an oath of allegiance to the french republic he continued to be a citizen of the united states but the cause as i am informed did not appear to have turned on this point talbot had associated with one ballard commanding an armed vessel called the ami de la liberte which had been fitted out in the united states and had no commission talbot and ballard cruised together as consorts and in fact it was ballard's vessel that took the prize talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture ballard was afterwards tried before circuit court for piracy the court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence that talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the united states to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors ballard and talbot were both citizens of virginia the attempt of the latter to become a french citizen was considered to be fraudulent being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission under color of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the united states were at peace an observation ought not to be omitted here that although the captors talbot and others had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort a right which alike exercised by the subjects of powers who were enemies to france has formed a principal subject of mr fauchet's and mr adet's continued complaints th under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions mr adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the french captors viz one of la nuestra senora del carmen at rhode-island and the other of la princesse des austrias at new-york yet says he the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured when they have declared the prizes illegal how far the facts will warrant this last assertion i am not possessed of documents to determine i presume it is to be understood in a general sense only and to admit of exceptions and in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it the captures here referred to were made either within our jurisdictional line or by illegal privateers being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the united states of these material facts the captors could not be ignorant consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts and of course were justly condemned in costs and damages in the case of the prizes of the privateer the citizen of marseilles damages were claimed by the captors but denied for those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal and although the sentence of that court was reversed in the circuit court yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony on the part of the captors this last decision was affirmed in the supreme court yet without damages inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal the same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer gen laveaux with this addition that one of the judges dissented from the opinion of the court being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered american property the privateer la parisienne had been re-gistered as an american coasting vessel under the name of the hawk during the embargo in the spring of she slipped out of charleston and went to port de paix where she was sold to one blochos a frenchman who armed her and provided her with a commission having afterwards arrived at charleston she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal predicament of a coaster the district court condemned her but on the application of blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value the judge permitted him to take her in a state of warlike equipment shortly afterwards she put to sea and captured two valuable british prizes the brigantines c sar and favorite on their arrival the one at charleston the other at savannah suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer the decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors but without damages the supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages all the other cases of captures by french privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last august term in some of them the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages in others the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them when demanded you know it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case hence when a party is drawn before a court without good cause and vexatiously damages are always given but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy th mr adet having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore desists on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these cases from authentic documents case of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new-york with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clashing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress for bidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he lays in the most convincing manner that the vengeance a vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to communicate to the secretary of state and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of october d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of gen laveaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3671, 4287], "b_span": [3, 620], "matched_words": 611, "similarity": 0.9910786699107867, "seeds": 128, "id": "M00115", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belonging exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2489, 4294], "b_span": [52, 1857], "matched_words": 1765, "similarity": 0.9778393351800554, "seeds": 358, "id": "M00116", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore descants on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injudicious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these cases from authentic documents cause of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new-york with a valuable spanish prize called the princessa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the conflicting evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr hamilton the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeance a french privateer had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordinateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to communicate to the secretary of state and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of october d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of general laurens could not be considered as evidence in the case and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to defend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the outer in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen of the united states there took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her sailing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august captain davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session captain davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties and for the damages the cassius has"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|1", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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de las austrias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses is the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clashing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate council in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcileable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from newyork and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of newyork in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeur la vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnature and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to communicate to the secretary of state and to request him to order the attorney of newyork district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of oct d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of gen lavaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the u s in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprize they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen of the united states there took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william linnsey belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her failing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session capt davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceedings within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this cause and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the u s had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in oct term the cause was bro't to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the of oct last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th nov intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties and for the damages the cassius has"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [7, 1011], "b_span": [1432, 2436], "matched_words": 977, "similarity": 0.9731075697211156, "seeds": 185, "id": "M00117", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the president of the united states this was issued on the d of april at the next meeting of congress on the d of december the president laid this proclamation before both houses the senate in their address in answer to the president's speech thus expresses their opinion of the proclamation we deemed it a measure well-timed and wise manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation and calculated to promote it the address of the house of representatives was unanimously agreed to we read in it this paragraph the united states having taken no part in the war which had embraced in europe the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important duties of the magistrate charged with the faithful execution of the laws we accordingly witness with approbation and pleasure the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing by your proclamation admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties and promoting by a declaration of the existing legal state of things an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation yet this is the instrument thus approved by congress and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations which mr adet has ventured to call an invidious proclamation of neutrality the next executive act noticed by mr adet is the letter of the th of august written by the president's command by the secretary of the treasury to the collectors of the customs and accompanied by the rules which the president had adopted for preventing all armaments in favor of any of the belligerent powers these rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations the letter from the secretary of the treasury is explanatory of these rules and among other instructions particularly points the collectors to the th and d articles of our treaty with france lest by inattention or misconception of them they might be injured and her enemies benefited the letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions with vigilance care activity and impartiality because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions and proportionably to commit the good faith and peace of the country how could such rules with such reasons to enforce them not escape censure they were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality and consequently were to prevent frenchmen continuing these aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality which had been commenced under mr genet's orders and which were calculated to involve us in a war with britain spain and holland for at that time there were all combined against france frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty except that they were not forbidden to sell their lawful prizes in our ports and our citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of france as well as those of other powers the third offensive act was the president's submitting to congress these measures and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code giving competent jurisdiction to the courts and providing adequate penalties to prevent or punish violations of the laws of nations the next complaint respects the act of congress passed on the th of june for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states being those to which their attention had been called by the president's speech mr adet asks what was its result and gives himself the following answer in consequence of this law the greater part of the french privateers have been arrested as well as their prizes not upon formal depositions not upon established testimony not upon a necessary body of proofs but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the french republic frequently upon that of sailors of the enemy's powers sometimes according to the orders of the governors but often upon the demand of the district attorneys who assert upon principles avowed by the government that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them without complaint or regular information to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above mentioned and when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice of the government for the vexations experienced by the privateers in contempt of the th article of the treaty they have never been able to obtain satisfaction judging only by these declarations of mr adet a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts to harass and do injustice to frenchmen engaged in privateering but our own citizens place a different estimate on this impeachment of their president their senators and representatives in congress their judges and other public officers and an examination of the cases cited by mr adet to support his assertions will"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|1", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "notice the stipulations contained in the d article these are that foreign privateers not belonging to french subjects or citizens having commissions from any other prince or state in enmity with france shall not fit their ships in the ports of the united states nor sell their prizes nor in any other manner exchange their ships merchandizes or any other lading nor purchase victuals except such as shall be necessary for their going to the nearest port of the prince or state from which they have commissions the cases that have occurred in the course of the present war in relation to our treaty with france particularly the th and d article just mentioned have led to numerous discussions in which several of the points have been deliberately settled either by legislative or executive acts or by judicial decisions the first important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the president of the united states this was issued on the d of april at the next meeting of congress on the d of december the president laid this proclamation before both houses the senate in their address in answer to the president's speech thus express their opinion of the proclamation we deem it a measure well timed and wise manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation and calculated to promote it the address of the house of representatives was unanimously agreed to we read in it this paragraph the united states having taken no part in the war which had embraced in europe the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important objects of the magistrate chartered with the faithful execution of the laws we accordingly with approbation and pleasure the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing by your proclamation admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties and promoting by a ratification of the existing legal state of things an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation yet this is the instrument thus approved by congress and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations which mr adet has ventured to call an insidious proclamation of neutrality the next executive act notified by mr adet is the letter of the th of august written by the president's command by the secretary of the treasury to the collectors of the customs and accompanied by the rules which the president had adopted for preventing all armaments in favour of any of the belligerent powers these rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations the letter from the secretary of the treasury is explanatory of these rules and among other instructions particularly points the collectors to the th and d articles of our treaty with france left by inattention or misconception of them the might be injured and her enemies benefited the letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions with vigilance care activity and impartiality because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions and proportionally to commit the good faith and peace of the country how could such rules with such reasons to enforce them not escape censure they were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality and consequently were to prevent frenchmen from continuing those aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality which had been commenced under mr genet's orders and which were calculated to involve us in a war with britain spain and holland for at this time there were all combined against france frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty except that they were not forbidden to tell their lawful prizes in our ports and our citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of france as well as those of other powers the third offensive act was the president's submitting to congress these measures and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code giving competent jurisdiction to the courts and providing adequate penalties to prevent and punish violations of the laws of nations the next complaint respects the act of congress passed on the th of june for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states being those to which their attention had been called by the president's speech mr adet asks what was its result and gives himself the following answer in consequence of this law the greater part of the french privateers have been arrested as well as their prizes not upon formal depositions not upon established testimony not upon a necessary body of proofs but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the french republic frequently upon that of sailor's of the enemy powers sometimes according to the orders of the governors but often upon the demand of the district attorneys who assert upon principles avowed by the government that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them without complaint or regular information to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above mentioned and when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice to the government for the vexations experienced by the privateers in contempt of the th article of the treaty they have never been able to obtain satisfaction judging only of these declarations of mr adet a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts to harass and do injustice to frenchmen engaged in privateering but our own citizens place a different estimate on this imputation of their president their senators and representatives in congress their judges and other public officers and an examination of the cases cited by mr adet to support his assertions will"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1021, 2569], "b_span": [700, 2234], "matched_words": 1499, "similarity": 0.972744970798183, "seeds": 286, "id": "M00118", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and her prize the perseverance on the th august mr fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the sans pareil had been illegally armed in the united states the answer of september d from the secretary of state which mr adet censures as indicative of delay assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of rhode island where the prize was carried to report the circumstances of the case without delay on the th of september the secretary informed mr fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored on the th of october mr fauchet renewed his complaint for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court the secretary of state answered on the d with information that ought to have satisfied mr fauchet for admitting that agreeably to the law of the th of june the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the united states or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports the right of doing which mr fauchet did not contest they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the sans pareil the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed the circular letter written on this occasion to the governors of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits d case glass and gibbs by the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the united states in this case you will see that the court did not as stated by mr adet determine that the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or to neutrals the question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo the former the property of a swede and the latter belonging partly to some swedes and partly to a citizen of the united states the opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the united states and after solemn argument the court decided that the district court of maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeably to law and right i will add only one more remark that the th article the letter of which we are charged with violating in suffering our courts to take cognizance of french prizes expressly refers to the ships and goods taken from their enemies and it is the examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes which the article forbids but no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals unless on clear evidence or reasonable presumption that the captures were made in circumstances which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty and territorial rights d case the french privateer l'ami de la pointe petre captain william talbot and her dutch prize the vrouw christiana magdalena to the information contained in the papers collected in this case i have to add that this cause was finally decided in the supreme court in august term the court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of talbot's case notwithstanding his french commission and his taking an oath of allegiance to the french republic he continued to be a citizen of the united states but the cause as i am informed did not appear to have turned on this point talbot had associated with one ballard commanding an armed vessel called the ami de la libert which had been fitted out in the united states and had no commission talbot and ballard cruized together as consorts and in fact it was ballard's vessel that took the prize talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture ballard was afterwards tried before the circuit court for piracy the court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence that talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the united states to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors ballard and talbot were both citizens of virginia the attempt of the latter to become a french citizen was considered to be fraudulent being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission under colour of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the united states were at peace an observation ought not to be omitted here that although the captors talbot and others had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort a right which alike exercised by the subjects of powers who were enemies to france has formed a principal subject of mr fauchet's and mr adet's continued complaints th under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions mr adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the french captors viz one of la nuestra se ora del carmen at rhode island and the other of la princesse des asturias at new-york yet says he the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured when they have declared the prizes illegal how far the facts will warrant this last assertion i am not possessed of documents to determine i presume it is to be understood in a general sense only and to admit of exceptions and in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it the captures here referred to were made either within our jurisdictional line or by illegal privateers being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the united states of these material facts the captors could not be ignorant consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts and of course were justly condemned in costs and damages in the case of the prizes of the privateer the citizen of marseilles damages were claimed by the captors but denied for those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal and although the setence of that court was reversed in the circuit court yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony on the part of the captors this last decision was affirmed in the supreme court yet without damages inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal the same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer general laurens with this addition that one of the judges dissented from the opinion of the court being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered american property the privateer the parisienne has been registered as an american coasting vessel under the name of the hawk during the embargo in the spring of she slipped out or charleston and went to port de paix where she was sold to one blochos a frenchman who armed her and provided her with a commission having afterwards arrived at charleston she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal possession of a couler the district court condemned her but on the application of blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value the judge permitted him to take her in a state of warlike equipment shortly afterwards she put to sea captured two valuable british prizes the brigantines c sar and favorite on their arrival the one at charleston the other at savannah suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer the decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors but without damages the supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages all the other cases of captures by french privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last august term in some of them the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages in others the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them when demanded you know that it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case hence when a party is drawn before the court without good cause and vexatiously damages are always given but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy th mr adet having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore descants on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injudicious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-06|1|1", "date": "1797-04-06", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797040601/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and her prize the perseverance on the th august mr fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the sans pareil had been illegally armed in the united states the answer of september d from the secretary of state which mr adet censures as indicative of delay assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of rhode island where the prize was carried to report the circumstances of the case without delay on the th of september the secretary informed mr fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored on the th of october mr fauchet renewed his complaint for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court the secretary of state answered on the d with information that ought to have satisfied mr fauchet for admitting that agreeably to the law of the th june the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the united states or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports the right of doing which mr fauchet did not contest they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the sans pareil the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed the circular letter written on this occasion to the governors of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits d case glas and gibbs by the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the united states in this case you will see that the court did not as stated by mr adet determine that the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or neutrals the question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo the former the property of a swede and the latter belonging partly to some swedes and partly to a citizen of the united states the opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the united states and after solemn arguments the court decided that the district court of maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeable to law and right i will add only one more remark that the th article the letter of which we are charged with violating in suffering our courts to take cognizance of french prizes expressly refers to the ships and goods taken from their enemies and it is the examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes which the article forbids but no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals unless on clear evidence or reasonable presumption that the captures were made in circumstances which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty and territorial rights d case the french privateer l'ami de la pointe capt william talbot and her dutch prize vrouw christiana magdalena to the information contained in the papers collected in this case i have to add that this cause was finally decided in the supreme court in august term the court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of talbot's case notwithstanding his french commission and his taking an oath of allegiance to the french republic he continued to be a citizen of the united states but the cause as i am informed did not appear to have turned on this point talbot had associated with one ballard commanding an armed vessel called ami de la liberte which had been fitted out in the united states and had no commission talbot and ballard cruised together as corsairs and in fact it was ballard's vessel that took the prize talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture ballard was afterwards tried before the circuit court for piracy the court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence that talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the united states to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors ballard and talbot were both citizens of virginia the attempt of the latter to become a french citizen was considered to be fraudulent being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission under colour of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the united states were at peace an observation ought not to be omitted here that although the captors talbot and others had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort and not like the enemies of france has formed a principal subject of mr fauchet's and mr adet's continued complaints th under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions mr adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the french captors viz one of le neuftra senora del carmen at rhode island and the other of la principessa des asturias at new-york yes says he the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured when they had declared the prizes illegal how far the facts will warrant this last assertion i am not possessed of documents to determine i presume it is to be understood in a general sense only and to admit of exceptions and in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it the captures here referred to were made either without our jurisdictional line or by illegal privateers being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the united states of these material facts the captors could not be ignorant consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts and of course were justly condemned in costs and damages in the case of the prizes of the privateer the citizen of meefilles damages were claimed by the captors but denied for those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal and although the sentence of that court was reversed in the circuit court yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony on the part of the captors this last decision was affirmed in the supreme court yet without damages inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal the same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer general louvaux with this addition that one of the judges dissented from the opinion of the court being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered american property the privateer la parisienne had been registered as an american coasting vessel under the name of the hawk during the embargo in the spring of she slipped out of charleston and went to port de paix where she was sold to one blochos a frenchman who armed her and provided her with a commission having afterwards arrived at charleston she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal predicament of a coasting vessel the district court condemned her but on the application of blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value the judge permitted him to take her in a state of warlike equipment shortly afterwards she put to sea and captured two valuable british prizes the brigantines cesar and favorite on their arrival the one at charleston the other at savannah suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer the decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors but without damages the supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages all the other cases of capture by french privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last august term in some of them the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages in others the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them when demanded you know it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case hence when a party is drawn before a court without good cause and vexatiously damages are always given but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy th mr adet having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassus for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore discants on them at some length but with so many abberations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2574, 3329], "b_span": [1495, 2248], "matched_words": 736, "similarity": 0.9761273209549072, "seeds": 146, "id": "M00119", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new-york with a valuable spanish prize called the princessa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the conflicting evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr hamilton the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeance a french privateer had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordinateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|1", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0245.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new york with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clothing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon enquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with this official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate council in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there were causes in which more contradiction and irreconcileable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other cases gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance sailed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informant was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed noble the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeance la vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3335, 4301], "b_span": [0, 967], "matched_words": 948, "similarity": 0.9808587687532333, "seeds": 191, "id": "M00120", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-24|1|2", "date": "1797-01-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of october d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of general laurens could not be considered as evidence in the case and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to defend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the outer in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen of the united states there took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her sailing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august captain davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session captain davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties and for the damages the cassius has sustained here the affair rests to be"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|2", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of oct st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of oct d that he received them that the bill of tale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of general livaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses h case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guener by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen of the united states there took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her when failing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session captain davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with an intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that his opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider on it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for the violation of treaties and for the damages the cassius had sustained here the affair rests to be"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [39, 3330], "b_span": [638, 3901], "matched_words": 3212, "similarity": 0.9801647848642051, "seeds": 637, "id": "M00121", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite at new-york and intimated an idea that the executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against le cassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate controul and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of november th acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of september a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esquire collector of the port of new-york of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite the having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a bulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been brought under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contended the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quoting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated august from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land letter june state papers p mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the confirmation of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in through stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to an asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their prizes on the th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrails the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgment finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obvi state papers p secretary of state to mr fauchet sept ously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequence of hasty decisions d it made an injudicious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief magistrate to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet injudicious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candor and good faith d by its chicane it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whole administration of justice our citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondence with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will show how loudly they can complain of the proceedings in our courts and at the same time with how little justice th it eluded the amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when colonel humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but colonel humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esquire who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with colonel humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conforming with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculais at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculais in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any wise take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to letter from the secretary of state to mr morris august state papers page preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to refuse to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite of new-york and intimated an idea that the executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against le cassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate controul and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case of which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of november acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of sept a very formidable complaint in the affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of new-york of the d nov you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite she having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been bro't under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be bro't under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will shew this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for altho the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quitting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated august th from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and bro't in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the mode of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in thro stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to an asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their prizes on the th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience and d in the time they choose to continue and tho the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then altho the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to erect a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in jan louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may st the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgment finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace it is the part of wisdom to reject all deliberations even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequences of hasty decisions d it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instruction to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candour and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their character needs no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equality impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondences with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will show how lovely they can complain of the proceedings in our courts and at the same time how little justice th it eluded the amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when colonel humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorised to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculais at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculais in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were it the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3337, 4202], "b_span": [96, 961], "matched_words": 854, "similarity": 0.9872832369942196, "seeds": 183, "id": "M00122", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armament done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only remnant on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to the injured party if as mr adet asserts damages have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has concurred at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradict it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long-suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she would have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which we should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would never have"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraints on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to the injured party if as mr ader asserts damages have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has authorized at the practice for that mr ader must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradicts it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr ader means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long-suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly inquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and g britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she would have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her ally but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would never have"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [67, 479], "b_span": [3, 459], "matched_words": 399, "similarity": 0.9193548387096774, "seeds": 70, "id": "M00123", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against le cassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate controul and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of november th acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of september a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esquire collector of the port of new-york of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite the having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a bulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been brought under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|2", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against lecassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate control and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of nov acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of sept a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of newyork of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite she having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been bro't under the cognizance of the courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentations of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdiction line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [480, 1272], "b_span": [413, 1202], "matched_words": 776, "similarity": 0.9816571790006325, "seeds": 152, "id": "M00124", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contended the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quoting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated august from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land letter june state papers p mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the confirmation of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in through stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to an asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|2", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbut of which i have already given some details which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quitting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated aug from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all letter june state papers p their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in through stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in aug was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to any asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1275, 3533], "b_span": [19, 2257], "matched_words": 2200, "similarity": 0.9786476868327402, "seeds": 437, "id": "M00125", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrails the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgment finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obvi state papers p secretary of state to mr fauchet sept ously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequence of hasty decisions d it made an injudicious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief magistrate to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet injudicious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candor and good faith d by its chicane it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whole administration of justice our citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondence with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will show how loudly they can complain of the proceedings in our courts and at the same time with how little justice th it eluded the amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when colonel humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but colonel humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esquire who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with colonel humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conforming with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculais at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculais in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any wise take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to letter from the secretary of state to mr morris august state papers page preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to refuse to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic agents the same reasoning will apply to captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armament done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only remnant on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|1", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience and d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the st part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence that goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may st the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgement finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than to risk the consequences of hasty decisions it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this approbation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whosoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candor and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe that they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondencies with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will show how loudly they can complain of the proceedings in our courts and at the same time with how little justice th it eluded the amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is truly in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when col humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to offer a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dy but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculeis at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister of foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculeis in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were then armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude it from the right of redressing the wrong were it the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic agents the same reasoning will apply to captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraints on the malignant passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3542, 4193], "b_span": [2, 654], "matched_words": 643, "similarity": 0.9869531849577897, "seeds": 138, "id": "M00126", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has concurred at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradict it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long-suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she would have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which we should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|2", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own condna or the omission of their consul or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has connived at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradicted it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensitive either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she should have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording 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cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate controul and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of november th acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of september a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esquire collector of the port of new-york of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite the having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a bulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been brought under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contended the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quoting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated august from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land letter june state papers p mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the confirmation of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in through stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to an asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their prizes on the th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrails the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgment finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obvi state papers p secretary of state to mr fauchet sept ously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequence of hasty decisions d it made an injudicious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief magistrate to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet injudicious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candor and good faith d by its chicane it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whole administration of justice our citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondence with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|1", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042001/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of congress january letter to mr pinckney minister plenipotentiary of the united states to the french republic continued from our last in his letter of the of june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite at new-york and intimated an idea that the executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against the le cassus to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate control and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertions in his note of november th acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the of september a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was issued for visitting and pillaging her that the was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of new-york of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the supposed articles on board the favorite the having been totally dashed her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of putting down the national flag and hoisting another in place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been brought under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or of augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your court or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favour of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quiting the contradictory declaration of the french minister and referring you to the letter dated august from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here st the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence to one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize of french men have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in by stresses of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stresses of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to any asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their prizes on the th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience and d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the act of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french minister were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some other of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states d it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such adequate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may th the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgement made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequence of hasty decisions d it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candour and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned the french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to the courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondencies with the french ministers formerly published jointly to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2581, 4200], "b_span": [725, 2308], "matched_words": 1547, "similarity": 0.9662710805746408, "seeds": 304, "id": "M00128", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|2", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when colonel humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but colonel humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esquire who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with colonel humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conforming with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculais at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculais in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any wise take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to letter from the secretary of state to mr morris august state papers page preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to refuse to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic agents the same reasoning will apply to captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armament done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only remnant on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to the injured party if as mr adet asserts damages have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has concurred at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradict it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long-suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she would have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which we should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|1", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a peace with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favourable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the bey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavouring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculeis at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated the th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculeis in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that the french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our vessels in our rivers and harbours and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic agents the same reasoning will apply to captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by the french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing the vessels when brought within our jurisdiction it is possible indeed that in some cases the agents or public agents of nations whose property was taken by the french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraint on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay the injured party if as mr adet asserts damages have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by infracting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government had connived at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradict it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go farther we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honour or our interest if we have manifested much long suffering we have not been singular neutral nations commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war the would have demanded of us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1994, 2160], "b_span": [1536, 1700], "matched_words": 156, "similarity": 0.9454545454545454, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00129", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|3", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in town via new-york from c francois capt atwood late of the schr jane of this place he went to the cape on a common trading voyage on his arrival there a guard of soldiers was immediately placed on board his vessel and soon after lighters sent along side and the whole of his cargo forcibly taken out not even excepting his own and the poor seamen's adventures the most ruffian fury marking the plunderers during the whole operation on enquiring the reasons for such conduct of the officers of the government he was told that they were authorised by the french directory that they were distressed starving and would help themselves as they could that orders were issued for the capture of all american vessels bound to british ports and that they should soon be at open war with america petitions to the administration were treated with the most illiberal contempt and indifference twelve other american vessels were there which had been treated in the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", 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that they should soon be at open war with america petitions to the administration were treated with the utmost contempt and indifference twelve other american vessels were there which had been treated in the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2285, 2365], "b_span": [910, 989], "matched_words": 78, "similarity": 0.9811320754716981, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00130", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-25|1|3", "date": "1797-01-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the th ult now in our hands says the last detachment of the federal troops after being drove to kingston the bay of quinty and other places being out days got into the mouth of genesee river about fifty miles from this when two officers and about men came through the bush and arrived here the th inst the vessel a small sloop being her first voyage arrived here the th inst with several who had been frost bitten"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|3", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0231.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the th ult now in our hands says the last detachment of the federal troops after being drove to kingston the bay of quinty and other places being out days got into the mouth of teneffee river about miles from this when two officers and about men came through the bush and arrived here the th inst the vessel a small sloop being her first voyage arrived here the th inst with several who had been frost bitten"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [39, 3329], "b_span": [968, 4258], "matched_words": 3214, "similarity": 0.9768996960486322, "seeds": 615, "id": "M00131", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her flag pillaged her citizens came also to brave the american people in their ports and to make a station whence to cruise on a favourable opportunity against the french this like most other of mr adet's charges is but the renewal of the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answer and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigates terpsichore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the thetis and hussar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raison are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of enquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbours thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon the second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been inserted in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candour and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'esperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th of january a few days after my arrival there by captain ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as possible would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retained by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate th it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading with them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending as us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication of the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of guadalupe mariegalante and desirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice-admiral commanding in the west indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british preferred to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in hand-bills and newspapers th it eluded all the advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce upon a more favorable footing to both nations it excused itself on the most frivolous pretexts whilst it anticipated great britain by soliciting a treaty in which prostituting its neutrality it sacrificed france to her enemies or rather looking upon her as obliterated from the map of the world it forgot the services she had rendered it and threw aside the duty of gratitude as if in gratitude were a government duty of the advances referred to the first were made by mr genet these you will see in the printed correspondence between him and mr jefferson mr genet's letter is dated the d of may in which he informed the government that he was authorized to propose a treaty on a liberal and fraternal basis mr jefferson's letter to mr morris our minister at paris dated the d of august assigns the reason for postponing the negotiation the senate says he being then in recess and not to meet again till the fall i apprised mr genet that the participation in matters of treaty given by the constitution to that branch of our government would of course delay any definitive answer to his friendly proposition as he was sensible of this circumstance the matter has been understood to lie over till the meeting of the senate congress were not to meet until december consequently there was no necessity of precipitating the business but with the best dispositions to form new commercial arrangements mutually more beneficial than those of the treaty of the unwarrantable conduct of mr genet from the moment he landed at charleston until the date of his letter on the subject of the negotiation was sufficient to excite caution in the american government he had there violated the sovereignty of the united states by authorizing the fitting and arming of vessels in that port enlisting men citizens and foreigners and giving them commissions to cruise and commit hostilities on nations at peace with us and with whom we had extensive commercial connections these privateers were taking and bringing prizes into our ports and the consuls of france were assuming to hold courts of admiralty on them to try condemn and authorize their sale as legal prize nevertheless the government really desirous of forming a new and more advantageous commercial treaty with france instructed the minister of the united states at paris to manifest the same to the executive of france and to suggest for this purpose that the powers of mr genet be renewed to his successor it is true that in his letter dated the th of september mr genet had renewed the proposition of negotiating a commercial treaty but how was it possible for the government to undertake a negotiation with that minister after the correspondence which had taken place between the executive and him a correspondence on his part replete with insults and the acts which he had thought proper to do and to countenance in opposition to the laws of the land after the government had instructed our minister at paris to desire mr genet's recall and to declare to the government of france the necessity of their having a representative here disposed to respect the laws and authority of the country and to do the best for their interest which they would permit and which it was only an anxious regard for those interests and a desire that they might not suffer which induced the executive in the mean time to receive his communications in writing and to admit the continuance of his functions so long as they should be restrained within the limits of the law as theretofore announced to him or should be of the tenor usually observed to wards independent nations by the representative of a friendly power residing with them under such circumstances what answer could the executive return to mr genet more proper and more marked with attention to france than that his letter would be considered with all the respect and interest which its object necessarily required it is probable that the powers to negotiate a commercial treaty were not renewed to mr genet's successor certainly they were not communicated to our government we now come to the fresh overtures of a commercial negotiation made by mr adet the first notices of them are found in memoranda of facts dated the th and th of june and subscribed by the secretary of state by these it appears that on the th of june mr adet arrived at philadelphia on the th mr fauchet introduced him to the secretary of state on the th mr adet informed the secretary that he should the next day send him some act of the french government relative to commerce but it was not sent on the d of june mr adet was reminded of the promised communication he said it was copying and gave reason to suppose that he should forward it on that day but on that day nothing was received on the th of june mr adet had an interview with the secretary of state he observed that he brought with him the commercial decrees which mr genet had formerly propounded to our government and was instructed to negotiate a treaty of commerce upon their basis he was asked whether he had any documents to communicate he replied that he would send them that day he said he had to communicate some inquietudes respecting the late treaty between the united states and great britain he observed that it was understood that the united states had disabled themselves from entering into a new commercial treaty upon a liberal scale with france the secretary answered that he had determined before he came to ask the permission of the president to communicate to him a copy of the treaty and then he might say in what part he supposed that any impropriety with respect to france existed the president having afterwards assented the secretary on the same day delivered to mr adet a printed copy of the treaty on which he promised to communicate his remarks these remarks dated june th and the secretary's answer dated july th refuting the objections they contained i have already noticed the subsequent proceedings will show either that those objections did not make any strong impressions on mr adet's mind or that the secretary's answer had removed them on the th june mr adet communicated a part of his instructions relative to a new commercial treaty and a new consular convention on to be entered into between france and the united states the instructions imported that he was only to prepare with the american government the means and arrangements of these treaties and then to communicate them to the committee of public safety the object of the new treaty was declared to be to found the commercial relations of the two republics upon stipulations more reciprocally advantageous and more clearly worded than that of and the object of the consular convention to secure the execution of the commercial treaty the secretary of state answered on the st of july expressing the readiness of the government to open the proposed negotiation and requested a communication of the dates of the decrees to which mr adet's instruction referred on the th of july mr adet replied to the secretary of state that he neither knew nor possessed any other decree relative to the new negotiation to be opened between france and the united states than that of the th of february last communicated to us by citizen genet this letter of the th was received the th accompanied by a note of the latter date apologizing for the delay on account of sickness on the th the secretary of state had written to him pressing him on the subject of the new negotiation on the th of july the secretary of state again wrote to mr adet and after informing him that he was not clothed with any very formal authority upon this subject the president of the united states had thought proper to place him the secretary of state upon the same no other footing the secretary proposed that the negotiation should be conducted in writing unless when either thought it expedient to have an interview on any particular difficulty and then assuring mr adet that no unnecessary procrastination should be found in the secretary of state further proposed that mr adet should state st the parts of the treaty which he wished to be abolished d those parts which he wished to be corrected and d any additions which seemed to him desirable but expressed the readiness of the secretary to adopt any other better mode of conducting the negotiation if such occurred to mr adet on the th of july mr adet mentioning his sickness which for fifteen days had obliged him to abstain from business replied on the subject of the negotiation in these words in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention from this detail it must i conceive be no easy task to find any facts by which mr adet's charge can be supported what he affects to call frivolous pretexts are substantial reasons and in respect to his own advances to treat the conduct of our government manifests an eagerness to enter on the negotiation certainly you will discover in it no disposition to elude or to procrastinate you will be pleased to observe fir that the letter from the secretary of state to mr adet explaining the manner in which they should proceed in the negotiation is dated the th of july and that mr adet's answer agreeing shortly to meet the secretary in order to take the necessary measures for commencing the business is dated the th of july yet in his note of november th after having charged the government of the united states with eluding all advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce and executing itself on the most frivolous pretexts after acknowledging that the president had authorized the secretary of state to negotiate and that the latter had explained the manner of proceeding he asks but at what time when the ratification of the treaty concluded between lord grenville and mr jay no longer permitted the undersigned to pursue that negotiation i am sorry fir in this place to call your attention to dates the british treaty was not ratified until the th of august that is about a month after the plan of negotiating with mr adet had been proposed to him by the secretary of state and twenty-five days after he had agreed to proceed in it and if that ratification finally induced him to abandon the idea of negotiating a new treaty between france and the united states it did not instantly produce this determination he doubtless perceived that his own objections to the british treaty were obviated by the answer from the secretary of state and when he acknowledged the receipt of it he had given up the right of judging of the treaty whether it was good or bad i shall says he in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbors thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr ader about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charged no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the capt of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been interest in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'esperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th january a few days after my arrival there by capt ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr ader has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west-indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of guadeloupe martinique and delirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice admiral commanding in the west-indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessel attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british preferred to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent to such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in handbills and newspapers th it eluded all the advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce upon a more favorable footing to both nations it excused itself on the most frivolous pretexts whilst it anticipated great britain by soliciting a treaty in which prostituting its neutrality it sacrificed france to her enemies or rather looking upon her as obliterated from the map of the world it forgot the services she had rendered it and threw aside the duty of gratitude as if ingratitude were a governmental duty of the advances referred to the first were made by mr genet these you will see in the printed correspondence between him and mr jefferson mr genet's letter is dated the d of may in which he informed the government that he was authorized to propose a treaty on a liberal and fraternal basis mr jefferson's letter to mr morris our minister at paris dated the d of august assigns the reason for postponing the negotiation the senate says he being then in recess and not to meet again till the fall i apprised mr genet that the participation in matters of treaty given by the constitution to that branch of the government would of course delay any definitive answer to his friendly proposition as he was sensible of this circumstance the matter has been understood to lie over till the meeting of the senate congress were not to meet until december consequently there was no necessity for precipitating the business but with the best dispositions to form new commercial arrangements mutually more beneficial than those of the treaty of the unwarrantable conduct of mr genet from the moment he landed at charleston until the date of his letter on the subject of the negotiation was sufficient to excite caution in the american government he had there violated the sovereignty of the united states by authorizing the fitting and arming of vessels in that port enlisting men citizens and foreigners and giving them commissions to cruise and commit hostilities on nations at peace with us and with whom we had extensive commercial connections these privateers were taking and bringing prizes into our ports and the consuls of france were assuming to hold courts of admiralty on them to try condemn and authorize their sale as legal prize nevertheless the government really desirous of forming a new and more advantageous commercial treaty with france instructed the minister of the united states at paris to manifest the same to the executive of france and to suggest for this purpose that the powers of mr genet be renewed to his successor it is true that in his letter dated the th of september mr genet had renewed the proposition of negotiating a commercial treaty but how was it possible for the government to undertake a negotiation with that minister after the correspondence which had taken place between the executive and him a correspondence on his part replete with insults and the facts which he had thought proper to do and to countenance in opposition to the laws of the land after the government had instructed our minister at paris to desire mr genet's recall and to declare to the government of france the necessity of their having a representative here disposed to respect the laws and authority of the country and to do the best for their interest which these would permit and when it was only an anxious regard for those interests and a desire that they might not suffer which induced the executive in the mean time to receive his communications in writing and to admit the continuance of his functions so long as they should be restrained within the limits of the law as therefore announced to him or should be of the tenor usually observed towards independent nations by the representative of a friendly power residing with them under such circumstances what answer could the executive return to mr genet more proper and more marked with attention to france than that his letter would be considered with all the respect and interest which its object necessarily required it is probable that the powers to negotiate a commercial treaty were not renewed to mr genet's successor certainly they were not communicated to our government we now come to the fresh overtures of a commercial negotiation made by mr ader the first notices of them are found in memoranda of facts dated the th and th of june and subscribed by the secretary of state by these it appears that on the th of june mr ader arrived at philadelphia on the th mr fauchet introduced him to the secretary of state on the th mr ader informed the secretary that he should the next day send him some act of the french government relative to commerce but it was not sent on the d of june mr ader was reminded of the promised communication he said it was copying and gave reason to suppose that he should forward it on that day but on that day nothing was received on the th of june mr ader had an interview with the secretary of state he observed that he brought with him the commercial decrees which mr genet had formerly propounded to our government and was instructed to negotiate a treaty of commerce upon their basis he was asked whether he had any documents to communicate he replied that he would send them that day he said he had to communicate some inquiries respecting the late treaty between the united states and great britain he observed that it was understood that the united states had disabled themselves from entering into a new commercial treaty upon a liberal scale with france the secretary answered that he had determined before he came to ask the permission of the president to communicate to him a copy of the treaty and then he might say in what part he supposed that any impropriety with respect to france existed the president having afterwards assented the secretary on the same day delivered to mr ader a printed copy of the treaty on which he promised to communicate his remarks these remarks dated june th and the secretary's answer dated july th refusing the objections they contained i have already noticed the subsequent proceedings will show either that those objections did not make any strong impressions on mr ader's mind or that the secretary's answer had removed them on the th june mr ader communicated a part of his instructions relative to a new commercial treaty and a new consular convention to be entered into between france and the united states the instructions imported that he was only to prepare with the american government the means and arrangements of these treaties and then to communicate them to the committee of public safety the object of the new treaty was declared to be to found the commercial relations of the two republics upon stipulations more reciprocally advantageous and more clearly worded than that of and the object of the consular convention to secure the execution of the commercial treaty the secretary of state answered on the st of july expressing the readiness of the government to open the proposed negotiation and requested a communication of the dates of the decrees to which mr ader's instruction referred on the th of july mr ader replied to the secretary of state that he neither knew or possessed any other decree relative to the new negotiation to be opened between france and the united states than that of the th of february communicated to us by citizen genet this letter of the th was received the th accompanied by a note of the latter date apologizing for the delay on account of sickness on the th the secretary of state had written to him pressing him on the subject of the new negotiation on the th of july the secretary of state again wrote to mr ader and after informing him that as he was not clothed with any very formal authority upon this subject the president of the united states had thought proper to place him the secretary of state upon the same and no other footing the secretary proposed that the negotiation should be conducted in writing unless when either the one or the other should think it expedient to have an interview on any particular difficulty and then assuring mr ader that no unnecessary procrastination should be found in the secretary of state further proposed that mr ader should take st the parts of the treaty which he wished to be abolished d those parts which he wished to be corrected and d any additions which seemed to him desirable but expressed the readiness of the secretary to adopt any other better mode of conducting the negotiation if such occurred to mr ader on the th of july mr ader mentioning his sickness which for fifteen days had obliged him to abstain from business replied on the subject of the negotiation in these words in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the dispensing of the new treaty and new consular convention from this detail it must i conceive be no easy task to find any facts by which mr ader's charge can be supported what he affects to call frivolous pretexts are substantial reasons and in respect to his own advances to treat the conduct of our government manifests an eagerness to enter on the negotiation certainly you will discover in it no disposition to elude or to procrastinate you will be pleased to observe sir that the letter from the secretary of state to mr ader explaining the manner in which they should proceed in the negotiation is dated the th of july and that mr ader's answer agreeing shortly to meet the secretary in order to take the necessary measures for commencing the business is dated the th of july yet in his note of november th after having charged the government of the united states with eluding all advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce and excusing itself on the most frivolous pretexts after acknowledging that the president had authorized the secretary of state to negotiate and that the latter had explained the manner of proceeding he asks but at what time when the ratification of the treaty concluded between lord grenville and mr jay no longer permitted the undersigned to pursue that negotiation i am sorry sir in this place to call your attention to dates the british treaty was not ratified until the th of august that is about a month after the plan of negotiating with mr ader had been proposed to him by the secretary of state and twenty-five days after he had agreed to proceed in it and if that ratification finally induced him to abandon the idea of negotiating a new treaty between france and the united states it did not instantly produce this determination he doubtless perceived that his own objections to the british treaty were obviated by the answer from the secretary of state and when he acknowledged the receipt of 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few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention the british treaty then did not obstruct the negotiation the principles of which might have been agreed on and the articles drawn into form to be submitted to the respective governments for that was all the respective negotiators were authorized to do will the minister of the french republic never cease to reproach us with ingratitudine if indeed france wrought as well as guaranteed the independence of the united states as mr adet asserts at a time when she might as the price of that very independence have granted them less liberal conditions our obligations are greater than we have hitherto imagined but it is time that these claims to our gratitude were investigated and their extent ascertained we have citizens yet alive who were actors and witnesses of the declaration of our independence and of the efforts to maintain it with their effects prior to our treaty with france but laying no stress on our own recollections or consciousness we will resort to the testimony of france herself france by her minister the marquis de noailles having in the declaration of the th of march which i have already quoted announced to the court of london the treaty of friendship and commerce she had formed with the united states and that to maintain the commerce of his subjects with them which was the object of that treaty his most christian majesty had taken eventual measures in concert with the united states of north america that court published a justificative memorial to vindicate to the world the war she had determined to wage against france in the observations of the court of france on this british memorial we find the following declarations on the part of france while the ambassador of england put the king's patience to the strongest proofs and while the court of london was constantly repeating denials of justice to his majesty's subjects at the same time that the british officers continued to desolate them on the sea an event came to pass in america which essentially changed the face of things in that quarter of the world this event was the defeat of the army under general burgoyne the news of this unexpected disaster which arrived in europe in november astonished the british ministers and must have the more sensibly affected them as it overthrew the plan they had laid for the reduction of the colonies the observations then suggest that this great event induced in the british cabinet the idea of conciliation with america and of a coalition against the crown of france in revenge for the supposed aid rendered by her to the united states and to gratify their most dear and constant with that of humbling france it was natural for the british ministry unable to subdue her colonies to seek to be reconciled to them and to engage them to espouse her resentment they might so much the more flatter themselves that they should succeed herein as the proceedings of france with regard to american privateers and especially the dislike the king had at all times manifested to any engagement with the congress must have given disgust and dissatisfaction to their deputies and induced them notwithstanding their well known aversion to seek even in england the safety of their country when they failed to find it in france the king well informed of the plan of the court of london and of the preparations which were the consequence of it perceived that no more time was to be lost if he would prevent the designs of his enemies his majesty determined therefore to take into consideration at length the overtures of the congress the commissioners from the united states proposed to the king a treaty of amity and commerce and an alliance offensive and defensive by which his majesty should engage not only to acknowledge simply and purely the independence of the united states but also to guarantee and defend it by force of arms the king ordered an answer to be given that he could indeed look upon the independence of the united states as existing but that it did not belong to him to acknowledge it because he had not any right to judge of it neither could he guarantee it as he did not intend to enter into war for its support his majesty in consequence refused an offensive alliance and confined himself to the treaty of amity and commerce but as it was more than probable that the court of london had formed a design of attacking france his majesty thought he ought to enter into an alliance with the united states eventual and purely defensive the stipulations contained in this second treaty are in substance that if france should be attacked by the court of london before the cessation of hostilities between that court and its colonies that the king and the united states should mutually assist each other against the common enemy that the king should guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the united states and that he should not lay down his arms till it should be acknowledged by great britain thus it is manifested that the united states were to be left still to fight their own battles unless great britain should choose to increase the number of her enemies by attacking france in which case it would be truly the interest of france as of the united"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|2", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0242.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "observations and the treaty in such important circumstances it is exclusively the province of my government to judge and i cannot permit myself to decide at all and then immediately adds in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention the british treaty then did not obstruct the negotiation the principles of which might have been agreed on and the articles drawn into form to be submitted to the respective governments for that was all the respective negotiators were authorized to do will the ministers of the french republic never cease to reproach us with ingratitude if indeed france wrought as well as guaranteed the independence of the united states as mr adet asserts at a time when she might as the price of that very independence have granted them less liberal conditions our obligations are greater than we have hitherto imagined but it is time that these claims to our gratitude were investigated and their extent ascertained we have citizens yet alive who were actors and witnesses of the declaration of our independence and of the efforts to maintain it with their effects prior to our treaty with france but laying no stress on our recollections or consciousness we will resort to the testimony of france herself france by her minister the marquis de noailles having in the declaration of the th of march which i have already quoted announced to the court of london the treaty of friendship and commerce she had formed with the united states and that to maintain the commerce of his subjects with them which was the object of that treaty his most christian majesty had taken eventual measures in concert with the united states of north america that court published a justificative memorial to vindicate to the world the war she had determined to wage against france in the observations of the court of france on this british memorial we find the following declarations on the part of france while the ambassador of england put the king's patience to the strongest proofs and while the court of london was constantly repeating denials of justice to his majesty's subjects at the same time that the british officers continued to desolate them on the sea an event came to pass in america which essentially changed the face of things in that quarter of the world this event was the defeat of the army under general burgoyne the news of this unexpected disaster which arrived in europe in nov astonished the british ministers and must have the more sensibly affected them as it overthrew the plan they had laid for the reduction of the colonies the observations then suggest that this great event induced in the british cabinet the idea of conciliation with america and of a coalition against the crown of france in revenge for the supposed aid rendered by her to the united states and to gratify their most dear and constant will that of humbling france it was natural for the british ministry unable to judge her colonies to seek to be reconciled to them and to engage them to espouse her resentment they might so much the more flatter themselves that they should succeed herein as the proceedings of france with regard to american privateers and especially the dislike the king had at all times manifested to any engagement with the congress must have given disgust and dissatisfaction to their deputies and induce them notwithstanding their well known aversion to seek even in england the safety of their country when they failed to find it in france the king well informed of the plan of the court of london and of the preparations which were the consequence of it perceived that no more time was to be lost if he would prevent the designs of his enemies his majesty determined therefore to take into consideration at length the overtures of the congress the commissioners from the u states proposed to the king a treaty of amity and commerce and an alliance offensive and defensive by which his majesty should engage not only to acknowledge simply and purely the independence of the united states but also to guarantee and defend it by force of arms the king ordered an answer to be given that he could indeed look upon the independence of the united states as existing but that it did not belong to him to acknowledge it because he had not any right to judge of it neither could he guarantee it as he did not intend to enter into a war for its support his majesty in consequence refused an offensive alliance and confined himself to the treaty of amity and commerce but as it was more than probable that the court of london had formed a design of attacking france his majesty thought he ought to enter into an alliance with the united states eventual and purely defensive the stipulations contained in this second treaty are in substance that if france should be attacked by the court of london before the cessation of hostilities between that court and its colonies then the king and the united states should mutually assist each other against the common enemy that the king should guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the united states and that he should not lay down his arms till it should be acknowledged by great britain thus it is manifest that the united states were to be left still to fight their own battles unless great britain should choose to increase the number of her enemies by attacking france in which case it would be as truly the interest of france as of the united"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [39, 1925], "b_span": [671, 2554], "matched_words": 1828, "similarity": 0.9700185725656673, "seeds": 342, "id": "M00133", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her flag pillaged her citizens came also to brave the american people in their ports and to make a station whence to cruise on a favourable opportunity against the french this like most other of mr adet's charges is but the renewal of the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answer and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigates terpsichore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the thetis and hussar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raison are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of enquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbours thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon the second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been inserted in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candour and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'esperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th of january a few days after my arrival there by captain ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as possible would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retained by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate th it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading with them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending as us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication of the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of guadalupe mariegalante and desirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice-admiral commanding in the west indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british preferred to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in hand-bills and newspapers th it eluded all the advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce upon a more favorable footing to both nations it excused itself on the most frivolous pretexts whilst it anticipated great britain by soliciting a treaty in which prostituting its neutrality it sacrificed france to her enemies or rather looking upon her as obliterated from the map of the world it forgot the services she had rendered it and threw aside the duty of gratitude as if in gratitude were a government duty of the advances referred to the first were made by mr genet these you will see in the printed correspondence between him and mr jefferson mr genet's letter is dated the d of may in which he informed the government that he was authorized to propose a treaty on a liberal and fraternal basis mr jefferson's letter to mr morris our minister at paris dated the d of august assigns the reason for postponing the negotiation the senate says he being then in recess and not to meet again till the fall i apprised mr genet that the participation in matters of treaty given by the constitution to that branch of our government would of course delay any definitive answer to his friendly proposition as he was sensible of this circumstance the matter has been understood to lie over till the meeting of the senate congress were not to meet until december consequently there was no necessity of precipitating the business but with the best dispositions to form new commercial arrangements mutually more beneficial than those of the treaty of the unwarrantable conduct of mr genet from the moment he landed at charleston until the date of his letter on the subject of the negotiation was sufficient to excite caution in the american government he had there violated the sovereignty of the united states by authorizing the fitting and arming of vessels in that port enlisting men citizens and foreigners and giving them commissions to cruise and commit hostilities on nations at peace with us and with whom we had extensive commercial connections these privateers were taking and bringing prizes into our ports and the consuls of france were assuming to hold courts of admiralty on them to try condemn and authorize their sale as legal prize nevertheless the government really desirous of forming a new and more advantageous commercial treaty with france instructed the minister of the united states at paris to manifest the same to the executive of france and to suggest for this purpose that the powers of mr genet be renewed to his successor it is true that in his letter dated the th of september mr genet had renewed the proposition of negotiating a commercial treaty but how was it possible for the government to undertake a negotiation with that minister after the correspondence which had taken place between the executive and him a correspondence on his part replete with insults and the acts which"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|2", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her th pillaged her citizens came also to draw the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favorable opportunity against the french this like most others of mr adet's charges is but the renewal of the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigate terpsichore and her prize la montague and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the thetis and husar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raison are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coasts and enter our harbors thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the valiant remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british frigate argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been injected in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the course of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the u states it is as follows the french ship of war l'esperance was bro't into lynn haven bay on the th of jan a few days after my arrival there by capt ball who had captured her fifteen leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst at lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate th it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the u s that it did not contend in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and actually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the sec of state represents this matter differently the british consul gen at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the island of guadeloupe marigalante and desidera were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's gen and v ad commanding in the west indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operating existence until months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british prescribed to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the u states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in hand-bills and newspapers th it eluded all the advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce upon a more favorable footing to both nations it excused itself on the most frivolous pretexts whilst it anticipated great britain by soliciting a treaty in which prostituting its neutrality it sacrificed france to her enemies or rather looking upon her as obliterated from the map of the world it forgot the services she had rendered it threw aside the duty of gratitude as if ingratitude were a governmental duty of the advances referred to the first were made by mr genet these you will see in the printed correspondence between him mr jefferson mr genet's letter is dated the d of may in which he informed the government that he was authorized to propose a treaty on a liberal and fraternal basis mr jefferson's letter to mr morris our minister at paris dated the d of aug assigns the reason for postponing the negotiation the senate says he being then in recess and not to meet again until the fall i apprised mr genet that the participation in matters of treaty given by the constitution to that branch of our government would of course delay any definitive answer to his friendly proposition as he was sensible of this circumstance the matter has been understood to lie over until the meeting of the senate congress were not to meet until dec consequently there was no necessity of precipitating the business but with the best dispositions to form new commercial arrangements mutually more beneficial than those of the treaty of the unwarrantable conduct of mr genet from the moment he landed at charleston until the date of his letter on the subject of the negotiation was sufficient to excite caution in the american government he had there violated the sovereignty of the u states by authorizing the fitting and arming of vessels in that port enlisting men citizens and foreigners and giving them commissions to cruise and commit hostilities on nations at peace with us and with whom we had extensive commercial connections these privateers were taking and bringing prizes into our ports and the consuls of france were assuming to hold courts of admiralty on them to try condemn and authorize their sale as legal prize nevertheless the government really desirous of forming a new and more advantageous commercial treaty with france instructed the minister of the united states at paris to manifest the same to the executive of france and to suggest for this purpose that the powers of mr genet be renewed to his successor it is true that in his letter dated the th sept mr genet had renewed the proposition of negotiating a commercial treaty but how was it possible for the government to undertake a negotiation with that minister after the correspondence which had taken place between the executive and him a correspondence on his part replete with insults and the acts which"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1928, 2275], "b_span": [1, 348], "matched_words": 337, "similarity": 0.9711815561959655, "seeds": 60, "id": "M00134", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "proper to do and to countenance in opposition to the laws of the land after the government had instructed our minister at paris to desire mr genet's recall and to declare to the government of france the necessity of their having a representative here disposed to respect the laws and authority of the country and to do the best for their interest which they would permit and which it was only an anxious regard for those interests and a desire that they might not suffer which induced the executive in the mean time to receive his communications in writing and to admit the continuance of his functions so long as they should be restrained within the limits of the law as theretofore announced to him or should be of the tenor usually observed to wards independent nations by the representative of a friendly power residing with them under such circumstances what answer could the executive return to mr genet more proper and more marked with attention to france than that his letter would be considered with all the respect and interest which its object necessarily required it is probable that the powers to negotiate a commercial treaty were not renewed to mr genet's successor certainly they were not communicated to our government we now come to the fresh overtures of a commercial negotiation made by mr adet the first notices of them are found in memoranda of facts dated the th and th of june and subscribed by the secretary of state by these it appears that on the th of june mr adet arrived at philadelphia on the th mr fauchet introduced him to the secretary of state on the th mr adet informed the secretary that he should the next day send him some act of the french government relative to commerce but it was not sent on the d of june mr adet was reminded of the promised communication he said it was copying and gave reason to suppose that he should forward it on that day but on that day nothing was received"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|3", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "proper to do and to countenance in opposition to the laws of the land after the government had instructed our minister at paris to desire mr genet's recall and to declare to the government of france the necessity of their having a representative here disposed to respect the laws and authority of the country and to do the best for their interest which these would permit and when it was only an anxious regard for those interests and a desire that they might not suffer which induced the executive in the mean time to receive his communications in writing and to admit the continuance of his functions so long as they should be restrained within the limits of the law as therefore announced to him or should be of the tenor usually observed towards independent nations by the representative of a friendly power refusing with them under such circumstances what answer could the executive return to mr genet more proper and more marked with attention to france than that his letter would be considered with all the respect and interest which its object necessarily required it is probable that the powers to negotiate a commercial treaty were not renewed to mr genet's success for certainly they were not communicated to our government we now come to the fresh overtures of a commercial negotiation made by mr adet the first notice of them are found in memoranda of facts dated the th and th of june and subscribed by the sec of state by these it appears that on the th of june mr adet arrived at philadelphia on the th mr fauchet introduced him to the sec of state on the th mr adet informed the secretary that he should the next day send him some act of the french government relative to commerce but it was not sent on the d of june mr adet was reminded of the promised communication he said it was copying and gave reason to suppose that he should forward it on that day but on that day nothing was received"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2277, 4377], "b_span": [18, 2154], "matched_words": 2027, "similarity": 0.9570349386213409, "seeds": 399, "id": "M00135", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|2", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th of june mr adet had an interview with the secretary of state he observed that he brought with him the commercial decrees which mr genet had formerly propounded to our government and was instructed to negotiate a treaty of commerce upon their basis he was asked whether he had any documents to communicate he replied that he would send them that day he said he had to communicate some inquietudes respecting the late treaty between the united states and great britain he observed that it was understood that the united states had disabled themselves from entering into a new commercial treaty upon a liberal scale with france the secretary answered that he had determined before he came to ask the permission of the president to communicate to him a copy of the treaty and then he might say in what part he supposed that any impropriety with respect to france existed the president having afterwards assented the secretary on the same day delivered to mr adet a printed copy of the treaty on which he promised to communicate his remarks these remarks dated june th and the secretary's answer dated july th refuting the objections they contained i have already noticed the subsequent proceedings will show either that those objections did not make any strong impressions on mr adet's mind or that the secretary's answer had removed them on the th june mr adet communicated a part of his instructions relative to a new commercial treaty and a new consular convention on to be entered into between france and the united states the instructions imported that he was only to prepare with the american government the means and arrangements of these treaties and then to communicate them to the committee of public safety the object of the new treaty was declared to be to found the commercial relations of the two republics upon stipulations more reciprocally advantageous and more clearly worded than that of and the object of the consular convention to secure the execution of the commercial treaty the secretary of state answered on the st of july expressing the readiness of the government to open the proposed negotiation and requested a communication of the dates of the decrees to which mr adet's instruction referred on the th of july mr adet replied to the secretary of state that he neither knew nor possessed any other decree relative to the new negotiation to be opened between france and the united states than that of the th of february last communicated to us by citizen genet this letter of the th was received the th accompanied by a note of the latter date apologizing for the delay on account of sickness on the th the secretary of state had written to him pressing him on the subject of the new negotiation on the th of july the secretary of state again wrote to mr adet and after informing him that he was not clothed with any very formal authority upon this subject the president of the united states had thought proper to place him the secretary of state upon the same no other footing the secretary proposed that the negotiation should be conducted in writing unless when either thought it expedient to have an interview on any particular difficulty and then assuring mr adet that no unnecessary procrastination should be found in the secretary of state further proposed that mr adet should state st the parts of the treaty which he wished to be abolished d those parts which he wished to be corrected and d any additions which seemed to him desirable but expressed the readiness of the secretary to adopt any other better mode of conducting the negotiation if such occurred to mr adet on the th of july mr adet mentioning his sickness which for fifteen days had obliged him to abstain from business replied on the subject of the negotiation in these words in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention from this detail it must i conceive be no easy task to find any facts by which mr adet's charge can be supported what he affects to call frivolous pretexts are substantial reasons and in respect to his own advances to treat the conduct of our government manifests an eagerness to enter on the negotiation certainly you will discover in it no disposition to elude or to procrastinate you will be pleased to observe fir that the letter from the secretary of state to mr adet explaining the manner in which they should proceed in the negotiation is dated the th of july and that mr adet's answer agreeing shortly to meet the secretary in order to take the necessary measures for commencing the business is dated the th of july yet in his note of november th after having charged the government of the united states with eluding all advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce and executing itself on the most frivolous pretexts after acknowledging that the president had authorized the secretary of state to negotiate and that the latter had explained the manner of proceeding he asks but at what time when the ratification of the treaty concluded between lord grenville and mr jay no longer permitted the undersigned to pursue that negotiation i am sorry fir in this place to call your attention to dates the british treaty was not ratified until the th of august that is about a month after the plan of negotiating with mr adet had been proposed to him by the secretary of state and twenty-five days after he had agreed to proceed in it and if that ratification finally induced him to abandon the idea of negotiating a new treaty between france and the united states it did not instantly produce this determination he doubtless perceived that his own objections to the british treaty were obviated by the answer from the secretary of state and when he acknowledged the receipt of it he had given up the right of judging of the treaty whether it was good or bad i shall says he in his letter of july th transmit it the secretary's answer to the french government together with my observations and the treaty in such important circumstances it is exclusively the province of my government to judge and i cannot permit myself to decide at all and then immediately adds in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention the british treaty then did not obstruct the negotiation the principles of which might have been agreed on and the articles drawn into form to be submitted to the respective governments for that was all the respective negotiators were authorized to do will the minister of the french republic never cease to reproach us with ingratitudine if indeed france wrought as well as guaranteed the independence of the united states as mr adet asserts at a time when she might as the price of that very independence have granted them less liberal conditions our obligations are greater than we have hitherto imagined but it is time that these claims to our gratitude were investigated and their extent ascertained we have citizens yet alive who were actors and witnesses of the declaration of our independence and of the efforts to maintain it with their effects prior to our treaty with france but laying no stress on our own recollections or consciousness we will resort to the testimony of france herself france by her minister the marquis de noailles having in the declaration of the th of march which i have already quoted announced to the court of london the treaty of friendship and commerce she had formed with the united states and that to maintain the commerce of his subjects with them which was the object of that treaty his most christian majesty had taken eventual measures in concert with the united states of north america that court published a justificative memorial to vindicate to the world the war she had determined to wage against france in the observations of the court of france on this british memorial we find the following declarations on the part of france while the ambassador of england put the king's patience to the strongest proofs and while the court of london was constantly repeating denials of justice to his majesty's subjects at the same time that the british officers continued to desolate them on the sea an event came to pass in america which essentially changed the face of things in that quarter of the world this event was the defeat of the army under general burgoyne the news of this unexpected disaster which arrived in europe in november astonished the british ministers and must have the more sensibly affected them as it overthrew the plan they had laid for the reduction of the colonies the observations then suggest that this great event induced in the british cabinet the idea of conciliation with america and of a coalition against the crown of france in revenge for the supposed aid rendered by her to the united states and to gratify their most dear and constant with that of humbling france it was natural for the british ministry unable to subdue her colonies to seek to be reconciled to them and to engage them to espouse her resentment they might so much the more flatter themselves that they should succeed herein as the proceedings of france with regard to american privateers and especially the dislike the king had at all times manifested to any engagement with the congress must have given disgust and dissatisfaction to their deputies and induced them notwithstanding their well known aversion to seek even in england the safety of their country when they failed to find it in france the king well informed of the plan of the court of london and of the preparations which were the consequence of it perceived that no more time was to be lost if he would prevent the designs of his enemies his majesty determined therefore to take into consideration at length the overtures of the congress the commissioners from the united states proposed to the king a treaty of amity and commerce and an alliance offensive and defensive by which his majesty should engage not only to acknowledge simply and purely the independence of the united states but also to guarantee and defend it by force of arms the king ordered an answer to be given that he could indeed look upon the independence of the united states as existing but that it did not belong to him to acknowledge it because he had not any right to judge of it neither could he guarantee it as he did not intend to enter into war for its support his majesty in consequence refused an offensive alliance and confined himself to the treaty of amity and commerce but as it was more than probable that the court of london had formed a design of attacking france his majesty thought he ought to enter into an alliance with the united states eventual and purely defensive the stipulations contained in this second treaty are in substance that if france should be attacked by the court of london before the cessation of hostilities between that court and its colonies that the king and the united states should mutually assist each other against the common enemy that the king should guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the united states and that he should not lay down his arms till it should be acknowledged by great britain thus it is manifested that the united states were to be left still to fight their own battles unless great britain should choose to increase the number of her enemies by attacking france in which case it would be truly the interest of france as of the united states to make it a common cause to be continued state papers p state papers p letter to mr morris august th state papers p state papers p mr adet has since corrected this date the decree intended being dated february this is already published with the state papers of that year page obs p obs p obs p obs"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|1", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0013.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th of june mr adet had an interview with the secretary of state he observed that he brought with him the commercial decrees which mr genet had formerly propounded to our government and was instructed to negotiate a treaty of commerce upon their basis he asked whether he had any documents to communicate he replied that he would send them that day he said he had to communicate some inquietudes respecting the late treaty between the united states and great britain he observed that it was understood that the united states had disabled themselves from entering into a new commercial treaty upon a liberal scale with france the secretary answered that he had determined before he came to ask the permission of the president to communicate to him a copy of the treaty then he might say in what part he supposed that any impropriety with respect to france existed the president having afterwards assented the secretary on the same day delivered to mr adet a printed copy of the treaty on which he promised to communicate his remarks these remarks dated june the secretary's answer dated july refuting the objections they contained i have already noticed the subsequent proceedings will show either that those objections did not make any strong impressions on mr adet's mind or that the secretary's answer had removed them on the th june mr adet communicated a part of his instructions relative to a new commercial treaty a new consular convention to be entered into between france and the united states the instructions imported that he was only to prepare with the american government the means and arrangements of these treaties and then to communicate them to the committee of public safety the object of the new treaty was declared to be to found the commercial relations of the two republics upon stipulations more reciprocally advantageous and more clearly worded than that of and the object of the consular convention to secure the execution of the commercial treaty the secretary of state answered on the st of july expressing the readiness of the government to open the proposed negotiation and requested a communication of the dates of the decrees to which mr adet's instruction referred on the th of july mr adet replied to the secretary of state that he neither knew nor possessed any other decree relative to the new negotiation to be opened between france and the united states than that of the th of february communicated to us by citizen genet this letter of the th was received the th accompanied by a note of the latter date apologizing for the delay on account of sickness on the th the secretary of state had written to him pressing him on the subject of the new negotiation on the th of july the se mr adet has since corrected this date the decree intended being dated feb this is already published with the state papers of that year page cretary of state again wrote to mr adet and after informing him that as he was not clothed with any very formal authority upon this subject the president of the united states had thought proper to place him the secretary of state upon the same and no other footing the secretary proposed that the negotiation should be conducted in writing unless when either thought it expedient to have an interview on any particular difficulty and then assuring mr adet that no unnecessary protraction should be found in the secretary of state further proposed that mr adet should state the parts of the treaty which he wished to be abolished and those parts which he wished to be corrected and d any additions which seemed to him desirable but expressed the readiness of the secretary to adopt any other better mode of conducting the negotiation if such occurred to mr adet on the th of july mr adet mentioning his sickness which for fifteen days had obliged him to abstain from business replied on the subject of the negotiation in these words in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention from this detail it must i conceive be no easy task to find any facts by which mr adet's charge can be supported what he affects to call frivolous pretexts are substantial reasons and in respect to his own advances to treat the conduct of our own government manifests an eagerness to enter on the negotiation certainly you will discover in it no disposition to elude or to procrastinate you will be pleased to observe sir that the letter from the secretary of state to mr adet explaining the manner in which they should proceed in the negotiation is dated the th of july and that mr adet's answer agreeing shortly to meet the secretary in order to take the necessary measures for commencing the business is dated the th of july yet in his note of nov th after having charged the government of the united states with eluding all advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce and excusing itself on the most frivolous pretexts after acknowledging that the president had authorized the secretary of state to negotiate and that the latter had explained the manner of proceeding he asks but at what time when the ratification of the treaty concluded between lord grenville and mr jay no longer permitted he undersigned to pursue that negotiation i am sorry sir in this place to call your attention to dates the british treaty was not ratified until the th of august that is about a month after the plan of negotiating with mr adet had been proposed to him by the secretary of state and days after he had agreed to proceed in it and if that ratification finally induced him to abandon the idea of negotiating a new treaty between france and the united states it did not instantly produce this determination he doubtless perceived that his own objections to the british treaty were obviated by the answer from the secretary of state and when he acknowledged the receipt of it he had given up the right of judging of the treaty whether it was good or bad i shall says he in his letter of july th transmit it the secretary's answer to the french government together with my observations and the treaty in such important circumstances it is exclusively the province of my government to judge and i cannot permit myself to decide at all and then immediately adds in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention the british treaty then did not obstruct the negotiation the principles of which might have been agreed on and the articles drawn into form to be submitted to the respective governments for that was all the respective negotiators were authorized to do will the ministers of the french republic never cease to reproach us with ingratitude if indeed france wrought as well as guaranteed the independence of the united states as mr adet asserts at a time when she might as the price of that very independence have granted them less liberal conditions our obligations are greater than we have hitherto imagined but it is time that these claims to our gratitude were investigated and their extent ascertained we have citizens yet alive who were actors and witnesses of the declaration of our independence and of the efforts to maintain it with their effects prior to our treaty with france but laying no stress on our own recollections or consciousness we will resort to the testimony of france herself france by her minister the marquis de noailles having in the declaration of the th of march which i have already quoted announced to the court of london the treaty of friendship and commerce she had formed with the united states and that to maintain the commerce of his subjects with them which was the object of that treaty his most christian majesty had taken eventual measures in concert with the united states of north america that court published a justificative memorial to vindicate to the world the war she had determined to wage against france in the observations of the court of france on this british memorial we find the following declaration on the part of france while the ambassador of england put the king's patience to the strongest proofs and while the court of london was constantly repeating denials of justice to his majesty's subjects at the same time that the british officers continued to desolate them on the sea an event came to pass in america which essentially changed the face of things in that quarter of the world this event was the defeat of the army under general burgoyne the news of this unexpected disaster which arrived in europe in november astonished the british ministers and must have the more sensibly affected them as it overbroke the plan they had laid for the reduction of the colonies the observations then suggest that this great event induced in the british cabinet the idea of conciliation with america and of a coalition against the crown of france in revenge for the supposed aid ren obs p dered by her to the united states and to gratify their most dear and constant wish that of humbling france it was natural for the british ministry unable to subdue her colonies to seek to be reconciled to them and to engage them to espouse her resentment they might so much the more flatter themselves that they should succeed herein as the proceedings of france with regard to american privateers and especially the dislike the king had at all times manifested to any engagement with the congress must have given disgust and dissatisfaction to their deputies and induce them notwithstanding their well known aversion to seek even in england the safety of their country when they failed to find it in france the king well informed of the plan of the court of london and of the preparations which were the consequence of it perceived that no more time was to be lost if he would prevent the designs of his enemies his majesty determined therefore to take into consideration at length the overtures of the congress the commissioners from the united states proposed to the king a treaty of commerce and an alliance offensive defensive by which his majesty should engage not only to acknowledge simply and purely the independence of the united states but also to guarantee and defend it by force of arms the king ordered an answer to be given that he could indeed look upon the independence of the united states as existing but that it did not belong to him to acknowledge it because he had not any right to judge of it neither could he guarantee it as he did not intend to enter into a war for its support his majesty in consequence refused an offensive alliance and confined himself to the treaty of amity and commerce but as it was more than probable that the court of london had formed a design of attacking france his majesty thought he ought to enter into an alliance with the united states eventual and purely defensive the stipulations contained in this second treaty are in substance that if france should be attacked by the court of london before the cessation of hostilities between that court and its colonies then the king and the united states should mutually assist each other against the common enemy that the king should guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the united states and that he should not lay down his arms till it should be acknowledged by great britain thus it is manifest that the united states were to be left still to fight their own battles unless great britain should choose to increase the number of her enemies by attacking france in which case it would be as truly the interest of france as of the united states to make it a common cause this last treaty remained secret because it was not in force at the time of concluding it but that of commerce was notified at the court of london march th the first words of the notification are these the united states of north america who are in full possession of independence c the whole paragraph has been already quoted the notifica obs p obs p obs p obs"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [93, 1424], "b_span": [4, 1327], "matched_words": 1275, "similarity": 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enquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbours thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon the second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been inserted in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candour and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'esperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th of january a few days after my arrival there by captain ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as possible would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retained by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate th it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading with them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending as us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication of the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of guadalupe mariegalante and desirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice-admiral commanding in the west indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british preferred to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|2", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0254.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigate terpsicore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'eperance the thetis and halsar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la ration are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsicore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arguments to give instant effect to the stipulations of the th article of the treaty of forbidding any asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executive were earnestly pressed to take the necessary steps for a prompt execution in future of this stipulation but why should the french minister complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps or and twenty days when against her express requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbours thence on favourable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carnagole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'eperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstances as improper in the capture but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion to soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'eperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been inserted in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'eperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th of january a few days after my arrival there by captain ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and the argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'eperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and their citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectively prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west-indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of gaudaloupe marigalente and desirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice admiral commanding in the west-indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great-britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british prescribed to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british should be so untruthful and issued orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1313, 1460], "b_span": [2159, 2306], "matched_words": 142, "similarity": 0.9659863945578231, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00137", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|3", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0210.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "has been repeatedly said that the spanish vessels take americans we do not believe it spain is on friendly terms with the united states the truth doubtless is that the french do much as they please in spanish ports in the west-indies as they do in italy they take and condemn american vessels it will be recollected that the treaty between france and spain though offensive and defensive is so only in regard to certain powers it does not require spain to wage war with every power at war with france it does not require spain to be at war with the united states even though france should engage in hostilities with us this as far as our recollection extends is the fact in regard to that treaty and it precludes all doubt on the subject of a war with spain fifty-eight sail of american vessels are"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [14, 109], "b_span": [714, 809], "matched_words": 93, "similarity": 0.9789473684210527, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00138", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|3", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "thinks it highly probable that mr pinckney will not be received by the terrible republic and therefore advises sending another minister mr madison is suggested there is no doubt with the aurora that he would be received with open arms the aurora is requested to inform us what ex-illing circumstances would render mr madison more acceptable to the directory than mr pinckney mr pinckney has been always friendly to the french nation it is true he is more friendly to the independence of the united states will that dis-qualify him for the amicable negotiation so"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|3", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0211.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "thinks it highly probable that mr pinckney will not be received by the terrible republic and therefore advises sending another minister mr madison is suggested there is no doubt with the aurora that he would be received with open arms the aurora is requested to inform us what existing circumstances would render mr madison more acceptable to the directory than mr pinckney mr pinckney has been always friendly to the french nation it is true he is more friendly to the independence of the united states will that disqualify him for the amicable negotiation so"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1474, 1616], "b_span": [13, 162], "matched_words": 138, "similarity": 0.9484536082474226, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00139", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-26|1|3", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "port-au-prince protect the american trade and often convoy american vessels out of the reach of the french cruisers the last sentence of the president's message to the house of representatives accompanying the doc-uments relative to french affairs is remarkable and deserves notice after assigning his motives for sending mr pinckney minister to france he says a government which required only a knowledge of the truth to justify its measures could not but be anxious to have this fully and frankly displayed that cautious officer the president would not have let such an expression fall from his pen with-out satisfactory evidence that some persons hostile to our government have been attempting to mislead the french directory the merchants in philadelphia have petitioned the legislature for a law to make notes of hand ne-gotiable all the banks have also sent in petitions for the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|3", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0211.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "port-au-prince protect the american trade and often convoy american vessels out of the reach of french cruisers extraordinary kind i thank you mr jay the last sentence of the president's message to the house of representatives accompanying the documents relative to french affairs is remarkable and deserves notice after assigning his motives for sending mr pinckney minister to france he says a government which required only a knowledge of the truth to justify its measures could not but be anxious to have this fully and frankly displayed that cautious officer the president would not have let such an expression fall from his pen with out satisfactory evidence that some persons hostile to our government have been attempting to mislead the french directory the merchants in philadelphia have petitioned the legislature for a law to make notes of hand negotiable all the banks have also sent in petitions for the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1603, 1916], "b_span": [152, 469], "matched_words": 300, "similarity": 0.9523809523809523, "seeds": 54, "id": "M00140", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|1", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-01-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"normalized_excerpt": "lord malmesbury on the subject of the demand made by the executive directory that he should produce the powers under which he opened any negotiation for peace on the part of the emperor we are assured by high authority that our government in this instance influenced alike by honour and policy will not accede to any propositions for a separate peace they have furnished lord malmesbury with certain documents which manifest the disposition of his imperial majesty to a lasting and equitable peace and which authorized the overtures made in his behalf should however direct credentials from the emperor to lord malmesbury be deemed requisite his lordship is directed to require time to obtain the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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application of this principle to the different objects which may be discussed between the respective parties it is this application which will constitute the subject of those discussions into which his majesty has authorized his minister to enter as soon as the principle to be adopted as the general basis of the negotiation is known but his majesty cannot dispense with declaring that if this generous and equitable offer shall not be accepted or if unfortunately the discussions which may ensue may fail in the desired effect neither this general proposition nor those more detailed which may result from it shall be regarded in any case as points agreed upon or accorded by his majesty signed malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty paris october report to the directory by the minister of foreign affairs the th brumaire oct the executive directory having furnished me with full powers to treat for peace with great britain i had yesterday d brumaire my first conference with lord malmesbury plenipotentiary commissioner of his britannic majesty he presented to me the original of his powers sealed with the seal of great britain and certified the copy which he had before presented to me unsigned and i had laid before the directory we entered into discussion lord malmesbury presented to me the memorial which i laid before the directory i observed to him that speaking in the name of the allies of great britain and stipulating for their interests he was doubtless furnished with their powers and instructions he answered me that he was not but that when the directory should have explained itself upon the principle laid down in his memorial he would expedite couriers to give to the different courts an account of the negotiations and to receive their orders i demanded of him if he could at least specify the principles of concession in what concerned the republic and the government of great britain he replied that after the directory should have explained itself he would send a courier and demand instructions on this point i then thought it my duty to say to lord malmesbury that i would lay his memorial before the directory that i would take its orders and import to him its answer signed cha delacroix answer of the directory the executive directory orders the minister of foreign affairs to make the following answer to lord malmesbury the executive directory fee with pain that at the moment when they had reason to hope for the speedy return of peace between the french republic and his britannic majesty the proposition of lord malmesbury offers nothing but dilatory or very distant means of bringing the negotiation to a conclusion the directory observe that if lord malmesbury would have treated separately as he was formally authorized by the tenour of his credentials the negotiations might have been considerably abridged that the necessity of balancing with the interests of the two powers those of the allies of great britain multiplies the combinations increases the difficulties tends to the formation of a congress the terms of which it is known are always tardy and require the accession of powers which hitherto displayed no desire of accommodation and have not given to lord malmesbury himself according to his own declaration any power to stipulate for them thus without prejudging the intentions of lord malmesbury without drawing any conclusion from the circumstances of his declaration not appearing to accord with his credentials without supposing that he had received any secret instructions which would destroy the effect of his ostensible powers without pretending to assert that the british government had a double object in view to prevent by general propositions the partial propositions of other powers and to obtain from the people of england the means of continuing the war by throwing upon the republic the odium of delay occasioned by themselves the executive directory cannot but perceive that the propositions of lord malmesbury is nothing more than a renewal under more amicable forms of the propositions made last year by mr wickham and that it presents but a distant hope of peace the executive directory farther observe with regard to the principle of cession advanced by lord malmesbury that such principles presented in a vague and isolated manner cannot serve as the basis of negotiation that the first points of consideration are the common necessity of a just and solid peace the political equilibrium which absolute cessions might destroy and then the means which the belligerent powers may possess the one to retain conquests made at a time when it was supported by a great number of allies now detached from the coalition and the other to recover them at a time when those who were at first its enemies have almost all either become its allies or neuter nevertheless the executive directory animated with an ardent desire of putting a speedy stop to the scourge of war and to prove that they will not reject any means of reconciliation declare that as soon as lord malmesbury shall exhibit to the minister for foreign affairs sufficient powers from the allies of great britain for stipulating for their respective interests accompanied by a promise of their part to subscribe to whatever shall be concluded in their names the executive directory will give a speedy answer to the specific propositions which shall be moved as far as they may be consistent with the safety and dignity of the french"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having made this first overture his majesty will in the sequel explain himself in a more extensive manner on the application of this principle to the different objects which may be discussed between the respective parties it is this application which will constitute the subject of those discussions into which his majesty has authorised his minister to enter as soon as the principle be adopted as the general basis of the negotiation is known but his majesty cannot dispense with declaring that if this generous and equitable offer shall not be accepted or if unfortunately the discussions which may ensue may fail in the desired effect neither this general proposition nor those more detailed which may result from it shall be regarded in any case as points agreed upon or accorded by his majesty signed malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty paris october report to the directory by the minister for foreign affairs the th brumaire oct the executive directory having furnished me with full powers to treat for peace with great britain i had yesterday d brumaire my first conference with lord malmesbury plenipotentiary commissioner of his britannic majesty he presented to me the original of his powers sealed with the seal of great britain and certified the copy which he had before presented to me unsigned and which i had laid before the directory we entered into discussion lord malmesbury presented to me the memorial which i laid before the directory i observed to him that speaking in the name of the allies of great britain and stipulating for their interests he was doubtless furnished with their powers and instructions he answered me that he was not but that when the directory should have explained itself upon the principle laid down in his memorial he would expedite couriers to give to the different courts an account of the negotiations and to receive their orders i demanded of him if he could at least specify the principle of concession in what concerned the republic and the government of great britain he replied that after the directory should have explained itself he would send a courier and demand instructions on this point i then thought it my duty to say to lord malmesbury that i would lay his memorial before the directory that i would take its orders and impart to him its answer signed cha delacroix answer of the directory the executive directory orders the minister for foreign affairs to make the following answer to lord malmesbury the executive directory see with pain that at the moment when they had reason to hope for the very speedy return of peace between the french republic and his britannic majesty the proposition of lord malmesbury offers nothing but dilatory or very distant means of bringing the negotiation to a conclusion the directory observe that if lord malmesbury would have treated separately as he was formally authorised by the tenor of his credentials the negotiations might have been considerably abridged that the necessity of balancing with the interests of the two powers those of the allies of g britain multiplies 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will not reject any means of reconciliation declare as soon as lord malmesbury shall exhibit to the minister for foreign affairs sufficient powers from the allies of great britain for stipulating for their respective interests accompanied by a promise on their part to subscribe to whatever shall be concluded in their names the executive directory will give a speedy answer to the specific propositions which shall be removed as far as may be consistent with the safety and dignity of the french"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [698, 769], "b_span": [787, 857], "matched_words": 68, "similarity": 0.9645390070921985, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00147", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-01-26|1|3", "date": "1797-01-26", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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and frigate under british colours came down statia road and commenced an attack upon the town and the medea french frigate and a sloop of war and after firing two hours in which time they were well answered from the fort and the two french ships they returned without doing the least damage to the town or the french ships excepting lodging about shot in the empty stores but in their progress they committed an action which will stand recorded an eternal disgrace in their naval history capt benjamin diamond in a sloop belonging to salem that very morning being in the road was wantonly run down by one of the british ships of war and his mate one sailor and a black and a white boy were drowned and the vessel and cargo entirely lost another ship endeavored to run down capt martin's schooner the mate only was on board the crew having all died and perceiving their intention endeavored to cut the cable but not being able to effect this he loosed it and the schooner fell off the ship just passing her one of the crew as he passed threw a barrel of wood at the mate from the forecastle and an officer looking over the quarter ordered the damn yank e rascal to haul down his colors which was immediately complied with but not content with this veering his ship he fired a broad side into the schooner and there were shot holes in her main-mast shot in the main-mast two of which remain there and a lb shot passed through the schooner's quarter and lodged in the lower hole in a barrel of sweet oil which shot capt martin has preserved and brought home as a lasting memorial of the amity of great-britain to this country n b capt martin's schooner is exactly seventy tons burthen capt diamond finding his vessel lost endeavored at the hazard of his life to preserve his crew he hired two negroes and a boat to go off and take up his men but the negroes finding the shot flew so thick refused to go off and neither threats nor persuasion could make them go capt diamond then went on board a danish brig where he was most brutally treated and threatened to be thrown overboard while on board the danish brig capt d saw one of his men at mast head waving his handkerchief for assistance but alas he could not relieve him and he with three of his companions perished victims to british insolence and wickedness capt d has entered his protest against this unwarrantable proceeding capt martin supplied capt diamond who has thus by the ruffian hand of violence been deprived of his all with money and offered him a passage in his vessel as did capt torv of marblehead with whom he took passage for philadelphia he was also supplied with clothing board c by gentlemen of st eustatia previously he had applied to the american consul who refused to give him"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-30|1|3", "date": "1797-01-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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being bound to antigua from charleston then lying in the road was wantonly run down by one of the british ships of war and his mate one sailor and a black and a white boy were drowned and the vessel and cargo entirely lost another ship endeavoured to run down capt martin's schooner the mate only was on board the crew having all died and perceiving their intention endeavoured to cut the cable but not being able to effect this he loosed it and the schooner fell off the ship just passing her one of the crew as she passed threw a billet of wood at the mate from the forecastle and an officer looking over the quarter ordered the damn yankee rascal to haul down his colours which was immediately complied with but not content with this veering his ship he fired a broad side into the schooner and there were shot in her main-sail shot in the main-mast two of which remain there and a lb shot passed thro the schooner's quarter and lodged in the lower hold in a barrel of sweet oil which shot capt martin has preserved and brought home as a lasting memorial of the amity of great britain to this country n b capt martin's schooner is exactly seventy tons burthen capt diamond finding his vessel lost endeavoured at the hazard of his life to preserve his crew he hired two negroes and a boat to go off and take up his men but the negroes finding the shot flew so thick refused to go off and neither threats or persuasion could make them go capt diamond then went on board a danish brig where he was most brutally treated and threatened to be thrown overboard while on board the danish brig captain d saw one of his men at mast head waving his handkerchief for assistance but alas he could not relieve him and he with three of his companions perished victims to british insolence and wickedness capt d has entered his protest against this unwarrantable proceeding capt martin supplied capt diamond who has thus by the ruthless hand of violence been deprived of his all with money and offered him a passage in his vessel as did capt story of marblehead with whom he took passage for philadelphia he was also supplied with cloathing board c by a gentleman of st eustatia previously he had applied to the american consul who refused to give him"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3941, 4032], "b_span": [2949, 3039], "matched_words": 81, "similarity": 0.8950276243093923, "seeds": 9, "id": "M00150", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0226.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "demerara was captured by a british frigate and ordered for martinique with a prize master and seamen on the passage thither capt m'cartney with the supercargo and his son secured the englishmen below and took the vessel a short time after being at helm with loaded pistols in the waistbands of his small clothes he received a blow from the tiller and one of the pistols went off and wounded him in the thigh mortally he then gave up his vessel again and released the englishmen she was carried into fort"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-30|1|3", "date": "1797-01-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "demerara was captured by a british frigate and ordered for martinique with a prize-master and seamen on their passage thither capt mccartney with the super-cargo and his son secured the englishmen below and retook his vessel a short time after being at helm with loaded pistols in the waistband of his small clothes he received a blow from the tiller and one of his pistols went off and wounded him in the thigh mortally he then gave up the vessel again and released the englishmen she was carried into fort"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [203, 311], "b_span": [3447, 3556], "matched_words": 107, "similarity": 0.9861751152073732, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00151", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0226.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "madison from the committee to whom it was referred to bring a bill for making provision for the satisfaction of the claim of m poirier secretary and aid-de-camp of general la fayette reported a bill which was twice read and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole to-morrow mr livingston said he had a proposition to make relative to the communication yesterday received from the president of the united states and therefore moved that the house and galleries might be cleared they were cleared accordingly and it being then half past two o'clock it is supposed the house after deciding on mr livingston's proposition adjourned"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|3", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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for the order of the day on the bill for making provision for the claim of monsieur poirier as secretary and aid-de-camp to major general la fayette the house accordingly went into a committee of the whole on the subject and rose and reported the bill without amendment the house then took it up when"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020201/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to whom was referred that part of the president's speech relating to the promotion of agriculture made a report recommending the institution of a society for that purpose under the patronage of government which might act as a common centre to all other societies of a similar kind throughout the united states no public provision is contemplated except for the salary of a secretary and for stationery but if the state of the treasury should make even this inadvisable it is stated that it might be carried into effect without pecuniary aid the report is accompanied by a plan the principle articles of which are that a society shall be established at the seat of government that it shall comprehend the legislature of the united states the judges the secretary of state the secretary of the treasury the secretary of war the attorney general and such other members as should chose to become members agreeable to the rules prescribed that an annual meeting should be held at the seat of government at which is to be chosen the president secretary c and a board to consist of not more than thirty persons which shall be called a board of agriculture that the society shall be a body corporate that a report shall be made annually c the report concluded in these words resolved that a society for the promotion of agriculture ought to be established at the seat of government of the united states a bill was received from the senate for repealing the limitation of the act in addition to an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states and to continue in force the same it was twice read and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole on monday mr w smith gave notice that he should tomorrow call up the report of the committee of ways and means on the subject of providing further revenue mr madison called for the order of the day on the bill for making provision for the claim of monsieur poiree as secretary and aid-de-camp to major general la fayette the house then took it up when"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3393, 3730], "b_span": [1954, 2303], "matched_words": 316, "similarity": 0.9212827988338192, 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action which will stand recorded an eternal disgrace in their naval history capt benjamin diamond in a sloop belonging to salem that very morning being in the road was wantonly run down by one of the british ships of war and his mate one sailor and a black and a white boy were drowned and the vessel and cargo entirely lost another ship endeavored to run down capt martin's schooner the mate only was on board the crew having all died and perceiving their intention endeavored to cut the cable but not being able to effect this he loosed it and the schooner fell off the ship just passing her one of the crew as he passed threw a barrel of wood at the mate from the forecastle and an officer looking over the quarter ordered the damn yank e rascal to haul down his colors which was immediately complied with but not content with this veering his ship he fired a broad side into the schooner and there were shot holes in her main-mast shot in the main-mast two of which remain there and a lb shot passed through the schooner's quarter and lodged in the lower hole in a barrel of sweet oil which shot capt martin has preserved and brought home as a lasting memorial of the amity of great-britain to this country n b capt martin's schooner is exactly seventy"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0219.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "martin which arrived at marblehead on monday evening last in days from st utiata we have the following intelligence on the th of december ships of the line and frigate under british colours came down stata road and commenced an attack upon the town and the media french frigate and a sloop of war and after firing two hours in which time they were well answered from the fort and the two french ships they returned without doing the least damage to the town or the french ships excepting lodging about shot in the empty stores but in their progress they committed an action which will stand recorded an eternal disgrace in their naval history capt benjamin diamond in a sloop belonging to salem that very morning carried in by a french privateer being bound to antigua from charlestown then lying in the road was wantonly run down by one of the british ships of war and his mate one sailor and a black and white boy were drowned and the vessel and cargo entirely lost another ship endeavoured to run down capt martin's schooner the mate only was on board the crew having all died and perceiving their intention endeavoured to cut the cable but not being able to effect this he loosened it and the schooner fell off the ship just passed her one of the crew as she passed threw a billet of wood at the mate from the forecastle and an officer looking over the quarter ordered the dam'd yankee rascal to haul down his colours which was immediately complied with but not content with this veering his ship he fired a broad side into the schooner and there were shot holes in her main-tail shot in the main mast of which remain there and a lb shot passed through the schooner's quarter and lodged in the lower hole in a barrel of sweet oil which that captain martin has preserved and brought home as a lasting memorial of the amity of great britain to this country n b captain martin's schooner is exactly seventy"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1774, 1873], "b_span": [2558, 2656], "matched_words": 96, "similarity": 0.9746192893401016, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00154", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0226.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the archduke charles of austria macepath oct my lord i have the honor to inform your lordship that in the course of the last night gen moreau's army retreated across the rhine at huningen the last of his rear guard was this morning still on the heights of weiler on which he had constructed a large and solid work but after a little skirmishing with the hussars they evacuated the height and redoubt before any infantry could come up and nothing now remains on this side of the river but a few troops in a small tete de pont"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-08|1|2", "date": "1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030801/0743.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the archduke charles of austria macpath oct my lord i have the honor to inform your lordship that in the course of last night gen moreau's army retreated across the rhine at huningen the last of his rear guard was this morning still on the heights of weiler on which he had constructed a large and solid work but after a little skirmishing with the hussars they evacuated the height and redoubt before any infantry could come up and nothing now remained on this side of the river but a few troops in a small tete de pont"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 2697], "b_span": [1719, 1786], "matched_words": 65, "similarity": 0.9774436090225563, "seeds": 12, "id": "M00155", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|3", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "no the fortunate number which drew dollars is owned by messrs reed and green of keen n h they had been confined in prison for some time for debt and one of them in custody of an officer arrived in town on saturday to claim this boon of fortune it is said that dollars have been drawn in the last lottery by three tickets owned within"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|3", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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"https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sorry to state that things assume every day a more gloomy appearance in ireland those who can see farther than the bare surface presage dreadful calamities to this country from the crisis to which they perceive things hastening in the sister kingdom the events we shall faithfully relate as they arise and we shall spare no pains to obtain the best information of every thing that concerns that country the following paragraph we copy literally from a dublin paper of saturday last saunders news letter it deserves the more attention as that paper is not charged with retailing matters inimical to the men in power notice it was yesterday said has been given to some of the military associations of the metropolis to hold themselves in readiness to take the several guards of the city in the event of the absence of the troops in garrison who we are informed have been instructed to be in immediate preparation for march with sixty rounds of ball cartridges these orders are we hear in consequence of dispatches from a nobleman who lately proceeded to the north and who it would seem from those precautionary measures presages something of a growing turbulence against which it may be necessary to oppose judicious"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0210.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sorry to state that things assume every day a more gloomy appearance in ireland those who can see farther than the bare surface presage dreadful calamities to this country from the crisis to which they perceive things hastening in the sister kingdom the events we shall faithfully relate as they arise and we shall spare no pains to obtain the best information of every thing that concerns that country the following paragraph we copy literally from a dublin paper of saturday last saunders's news letter it deserves the more attention as that paper it not charged with retailing matters inimical to the men in power notice it was yesterday said has been given to some of the military associations of the metropolis to hold themselves in readiness to take the several guards of the city in the eventual absence of the troops in garrison who we are informed have been instructed to be in immediate preparation for march with sixty rounds of ball cartridges these orders are we hear in consequence of dispatches from a nobleman who lately proceeded to the north and who it would seem from those precautionary measures 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of the directory overtures for peace in order to detach him from the coalition the report of a speedy armistice and negotiation for peace with austria assumes a consistency says the redacteur and the sending of a french messenger to vienna leaves no doubt upon the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|3", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0211.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "says that we may hope no other campaign will take place between austria and france it is concluded as certain says a paris paper of nov that the courier sent to vienna by buonaparte was charged to submit to the emperor in the name of the directory overtures for peace in order to detach him from the coalition the report of a speedy armistice and negotiation for peace with austria assume a consistency says the redacteur and the sending of a french messenger to vienna leaves no doubt upon the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 2703], "b_span": [1013, 1091], "matched_words": 70, "similarity": 0.9333333333333333, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00158", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|3", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "no the fortunate number which drew dollars is owned by messrs reed and green of keen n h they had been confined in prison for some time for debt and one of them in custody of an officer arrived in town on saturday to claim this boon of fortune it is said that dollars have been drawn in the last lottery by three tickets owned within eight miles of their residence from"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020901/0215.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "no the fortunate number which drew dollars in the boston harvard college lottery is owned by messrs reed and green of keene n h they had been confined in prison for some time for debt and one of them in custody of an officer arrived in town on saturday to claim this boon of fortune it is said that dollars have been drawn in the last harvard lottery by three 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deserves the more attention as that paper is not charged with retailing matters inimical to the men in power notice it was yesterday said has been given to some of the military associations of the metropolis to hold themselves in readiness to take the several guards of the city in the event of the absence of the troops in garrison who we are informed have been instructed to be in immediate preparation for march with sixty rounds of ball cartridges these orders are we hear in consequence of dispatches from a nobleman who lately proceeded to the north and who it would seem from those precautionary measures presages something of a growing turbulence against which it may be necessary to oppose judicious"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-08|1|3", "date": "1797-03-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797030801/0746.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "things hastening in the sister kingdom the events we shall faithfully relate as they arise and we shall spare no pains to obtain the best information of every thing that concerns that country the following paragraph we copy literally from a dublin paper of saturday last saunders's news letter it deserves the more attention as that paper is not charged with retaining matters inimical to the men in power notice it was yesterday said has been given to some of the military associations of the metropolis to hold themselves in readiness to take the several guards of the city in the eventual absence of the troops in garrison who we are informed have been instructed to be in immediate preparation for march with sixty rounds of ball cartridges these orders are we hear in consequence of dispatches from a nobleman who lately proceeded to the north and who it would seem from those precautionary measures envisages something of a growing turbulence against which it may be necessary to oppose judicious"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1080, 1152], "b_span": [2567, 2638], "matched_words": 71, "similarity": 0.993006993006993, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00160", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-01-28|1|3", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797012801/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from philadelphia dated wednesday says it is said mr madison is appointed envoy extraordinary to france and is soon to depart an appointment of this kind has been looked for with anxious expectation it is probable this was partly the subject of the late secret communications to the house and if it be true that mr madison is fixed on no doubt can be entertained but that salutary effects will result from"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from philadelphia dated wednesday says it is said mr madison is appointed envoy extraordinary to france and is soon to depart an appointment of this kind has been looked for with anxious expectation it is probable this was partly the subject of the late communications to the house and if it be true that mr madison is fixed on no doubt can be entertained but that salutary effects will result from"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [21, 3393], "b_span": [84, 3421], "matched_words": 3157, "similarity": 0.9411238634669846, "seeds": 533, "id": "M00161", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012801/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "connections with us in the court of france the actual organ of the nation had no regard to the interest of the united states but that their object was by seizing the occasion of dismembering the british empire to diminish the power of a formidable rival and that when after we had carried on a distressing war for seven years the great object for which we had contended independence was within our reach that court endeavored to postpone the acknowledgement of it by great britain and eventually to deprive us of its fairest fruits a just extent of territory the navigation of the mississippi and the fishery such being the motives and conduct of france what inspired our truly grateful sentiments towards that nation the ardent affection the sincere friendship of americans to frenchmen we were engaged in a common cause against great britain we received loans of money we were aided by troops and ships in attacking and conquering the common enemy in the bosom of our country and this association in war produced acquaintances and personal friendships and experiencing these benefits we gave way to our feelings without inquiring into the motives from which they were rendered but why are we so often reminded of the debt of gratitude is it really more than gratitude because compensation is expected to cancel it if compensation is the object the treaty of alliance has absolved the claim the contracting parties declare that being resolved to fulfil each on its own part the clauses and conditions of the present treaty of alliance according to its own power and circumstances there shall be no claim of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the war i am here naturally led to notice mr adet's charge already mentioned that we have not offered to france the succours which friendship might have given without compromising the government if mr adet had specified the kind of succours which might thus have been offered we could better judge of the correctness of his assertion but is it true that we have rendered no succours to france read the following passages in the secretary of state's letter of the th of august to mr morris we recollect with satisfaction that in the course of two years by unceasing exertions we paid up seven years arrears and instalments of our debt to france which the inefficacy of our first form of government had suffered to be accumulating that pressing on still to the entire fulfilment of our engagements we have facilitated to mr genet the effect of the instalments of the present year to enable him to send relief to his fellow-citizens in france threatened with famine that in the first moment of the insurrection which threatened the colony of st domingo we stepped forward to their relief with arms and money taking freely on ourselves the risk of an unauthorized aid when delay would have been denial that we have given the exclusive admission to sell here the prizes made by france on her enemies in the present war though unspatulated in our treaties and unprovided in her own practice or in that of other nations as we believe to this detail i have to add that of all the loans and supplies received from france in the american war amounting nearly to fifty-three millions of livres the united states under their late government had been enabled to pay not two millions and a half of livres that the present government after paying up the arrears and instalments mentioned by mr jefferson has been continually anticipating the subsequent instalments until in the year the whole of our debt to france was discharged by anticipating the payment of eleven millions and a half of livres no part of which would have become due until the second of september and then only one million and a half the residue at subsequent periods the last not until the year there remain yet various passages in mr adet's notes on which some observations are to be made in my letter of the first of november last in answer to mr adet's note of october in which he communicated the decree of the executive directory of the d of july last declaring that the flag of the republic of france should treat the flag of neutrals in the same manner as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english i asked an explanation of the decree mentioning the circumstances which excited doubts there seemed to be sufficient cause for enquiry had the decree referred to the past captures by the english our knowledge of them would have been some guide in forming our opinion of the threatened captures by the french but the operation of the decree was to depend on the future conduct of the english the french were to treat the flag of neutrals as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english as this could not be ascertained beforehand we wished to know whether the restraints then exercised by the british government were considered as of a nature to justify a denial of those rights which were pledged to us by our treaty with france whether the orders had actually been given to capture the vessels of the united states and if given what were the precise terms of those orders mr adet in his reply says that i appear not to have understood either the decree of the directory or his note which accompanied it the meaning of the decree is certainly not very obvious the manner of executing it was declared to depend on a contingency the future conduct of the english how were the french cruisers in the four quarters of the world to determine what was the conduct of the english at any given time if he could have furnished a copy of the orders actually given to french armed vessels under the decree we might have seen clearly what were the intentions of the directory if we are to take the practice of the french armed vessels and of some of the french tribunals as the true illustration of the decree mr adet's own explanation will be very defective he has specified only two cases the taking of english or other enemy's property on board american vessels and the seizure of all the goods classed as contraband in our treaty with great britain in the case of contraband goods the seizure of them is lawful only when they are destined to the ports of enemies and the contraband goods only are liable to confiscation but the special agents of the directory in the west-indies order the seizure of all vessels having on board contraband goods no matter whether destined to an enemy's or to a neutral or even to a french port and when seized they confiscate not merely the contraband articles but all other goods and the vessel herself in which they are laden they also assign in their decrees of confiscation another cause of capture and condemnation that the american vessel has failed to or from a port in possession of the english we are not informed that the english take any neutral vessels for this cause we have heard of several american vessels being captured and confiscated by the french merely because they had not a sea-letter when no doubt could have been entertained of the property being american yet it is conceded that the want of a sea-letter was never intended to exclude other proofs of property further ought we to have imagined that the executive directory intended to leave it to the discretion of every privateer and of every inferior tribunal to judge what at any time subsequent to their decree was the actual treatment received by american vessels from the british ought we to have imagined that the decree was formed in such indefinite terms on purpose to give scope for arbitrary construction and consequently for unlimited oppression ought we to have imagined what mr adet has himself declared to be the meaning of the decree that the french armed vessels were not to content themselves with capturing american vessels having english property or contraband goods on board and getting such property and goods condemned by their tribunals but if any english commanders were to practise executions towards americans that frenchmen were to do the same ought we to have imagined that the directory intended the citizens of france should be encouraged to take revenge on their friends for the outrages of their enemies and what is to limit these vexations if one english commander in a hundred perversely and wantonly abuses his power is every french officer to become his rival in dishonor or if we are to suffer only measure for measure and surely the decree goes not beyond this who is to designate the every hundredth french officer who is to be the instrument of similar oppression but french armed vessels are to make all these captures in violation of the treaty and we are to suffer all these vexations in violation of reason and humanity while we endure them from the english without an efficacious opposition and what opposition will be deemed efficacious for all captures made by the british contrary to the law of nations we have agreeably to that law demanded satisfaction the british have engaged to make us satisfaction and commissioners are now sitting to liquidate those demands what opposition could have been more efficacious what further opposition can be lawful in stead of further comments on this subject let me present to you some passages in mr adet's letter of the th of july in this letter he communicated to the secretary of state the decree of the committee of public safety of the d of january repealing the th article of the decree of the th of november the latter violated our treaty by subjecting the property of the enemies of france on board american vessels to capture and by adding to the list of articles contraband it was therefore repealed by the former mr adet seized this occasion to make the following declaration you will see sir said he in both the decrees the undignified disposition and sincere desire of the french government religiously to observe the engagements it has contracted with its allies and its readiness to redress infractions which have never taken place but from the impulse of circumstances it is amidst her triumphs that the republic loves to give this striking mark of its fidelity victorious france knows no other concern than that of justice no other diplomatic language than that of truth to this truth to this justice to this fidelity we now make our appeal from the stile of mr adet's complaint of the british being suffered to arm in our ports it might be imagined the instances were numerous none were permitted the actual armaments were few and are as old as the year and were represented by mr genet to the secretary of state what answer asks mr adet did the government give to the representations of the minister of the french republic in this respect it said that these vessels failed too suddenly that it was not able to cause them to be stopped the answer was given by the secretary of state in different words those from charleston and philadelphia have gone off before it was known to the government and the former indeed in the first moments of the war and before preventive measures could be taken in so distant a port in the case of the trusty captain hale at baltimore the governor of maryland having been informed that she had been buying guns had given orders to examine the fast but she got off before the officer could get on board having cleared out three or four days before i have not observed that mr genet ever renewed his complaint with regard to any of these vessels whence i suppose he was satisfied with the answer as indeed he ought to have been the two english vessels that sailed from philadelphia escaped even the vigilance of the french consuls both had departed many days before he had been informed of them this is stated by the consul himself in his report of the st of june to mr genet and yet the government is now charged by mr adet with violating the treaty because it did not stop them altho the officers of the united states had been required to be watchful and to report all illegal armaments in our ports yet it was natural for the government to expect to derive information from the french consuls who doubtless were charged by their own government to be particularly vigilant in regard to all attempts at such armaments by the enemies of the republic mr adet remarks that some inhabitants of the united states had aided in these illegal armaments of the enemies of france and asks what measures were taken against them was any search made to discover them to procure them never yet the very letter from mr genet to the secretary of state in which and its inclosures mr adet has found this subject of complaint suggests a different conclusion i learn with pleasure says mr genet by your letter of the d of this month june that the government of georgia have caused to be stopped a vessel armed in that state for the purpose of cruising against the french and that the persons interested in this vessel will be prosecuted i shall say but a few words on the subject of the letters of which mr adet complained that they remained unanswered the first of sept th contained those reproachful insinuations which were recited in my letter of the st of nov last why were these introduced by him if they were not to be applied an answer was draughted on the subject of his letter with animadversions on those insinuations but desiring to avoid irritation the answer was not sent it was deemed of the less consequence seeing in my letter to mr monroe of the th of september the sentiments and reasonings of the government on that and other subjects relating to france had been fully expressed to enable him to make immediate communications to the french government itself and it was hoped that the information given in that letter and in others written to him the preceding summer would have furnished materials and that these materials would have been timely used for such representations as would have satisfied the french government that the united states in forming the treaty with great britain had only exercised an indisputable right and neither by that treaty nor any other act had infringed a single article of our treaties with france on the subject of the impressions of our seamen mentioned in mr adet's letters of march and april i shall only add that nothing was more notorious than that those impressions had excited universal resentment in the united states and been the subject of repeated remonstrance from our government to the british court thus in mr pinckney's note to lord grenville in aug which was published here that year in the same collection of state papers with mr jefferson's letter of september th which mr adet has quoted and on the th page next succeeding it we find the following under this head it may be observed that for want of arrangements being made for the security of american seamen in the ports of this country england they are subject to the various hardships mr pinckney has so frequently detailed to lord grenville and in the next page in his letter to mr jefferson mr pinckney lays the protection afforded our seamen remains also on the same footing they the british government protest a willingness to secure to us all real american seamen when proved to be such but the proof they will not dispense with to remove as far as possible the embarrassments arising from this cause and more effectually to protect our seamen was the object of a bill pending in congress and the subject of public debate at the time i received mr adet's letters this bill was passed into a law all these acts demonstrated that the government did not assent but on the contrary that they resisted the impressment of american seamen and this resistance has been continued consequently we cannot be charged on this ground with a violation of our neutrality among the former subjects of complaint not now renewed by mr adet is that against the government for permitting the purchase and exportation of horses by british agents in the course of the last winter and spring the correspondence on this subject is lengthy and yet the question lies within a very narrow compass perhaps no rule is now better established than that neutral nations have a right to trade freely with nations at war either by carrying and selling to them all kinds of merchandise or permitting them to come and purchase the same commodities in the neutral territory in the latter case not refusing to one power at war what it permits another to purchase with this exception in respect to articles contraband that if the cruisers of one of the belligerent powers meet at sea with neutral vessels laden with such articles destined to the ports of their enemies the neutral vessels may be captured and the contraband goods will be lawful prize to the captors but the residue of their cargo and the vessels themselves are to be discharged but if there were any doubt on this point under the law of nations there can be none in relation to france and the united states because this matter is specially regulated by their treaty of commerce this treaty so far from restraining the trade of either party remaining neutral while the other is engaged in war provides regulations agreeably to which it should be conducted the th and th articles authorize either party that is at war to stop the neutral merchant vessels of the other destined to the ports of an enemy upon just grounds of suspicion concerning the voyage or the lading if on examining the ship's papers it appears there are any contraband goods on board consigned for a port under the obedience of his enemies they may be carried into port and the contraband articles may by regular proceedings in the admiralty be confiscated saving always as well the ship itself as any other goods found therein which by this treaty are to be esteemed free neither may they be detained on pretence of their being as it were infected by the prohibited goods much less shall they be confiscated as lawful prize it further provides that if the master of the neutral ship shall be willing to deliver the contraband goods to the captor and the latter receives them then is the neutral ship to be forthwith discharged and allowed freely to prosecute her voyage the d article goes further if the neutral ship shall have on board the enemies of the other they are not to be taken out unless they are soldiers in actual service these articles are so explicit it may seem strange that a doubt should arise concerning them i presume no doubt did arise for mr adet overlooking these provisions of the treaty demanded that the government should stop the exportation of horses by the british upon the principle that it was a neutral duty required by the law of nations an answer was given to his demands in which the regulations of our treaty with france were particularly brought into view as well as the rules of the law of nations mr adet however after some time renewed his claims but again kept the treaty out of sight an answer was given to these renewed claims and we heard no more of the subject until the french privateers in the west-indies began to capture american vessels which had horses on board you"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|1", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", 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friendship of americans to frenchmen we are engaged in a common cause against great britain we received loans of money we were aided by troops and ships in attacking and conquering the enemy in the bosom of our country and this association in war produced acquaintance and personal friendships and experiencing these benefits we gave way to our feelings enquiring into the motives from which they were rendered but why are we so often reminded of gratitude is it really because of gratitude because compensation is exacted if compensation is the object the treaty of alliance has abolished that claim the contracting parties declared that being related to fulfil each on its own part the clauses and conditions of the present treaty of alliance according to its own particular circumstances there shall be no other form of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the war i am here naturally led to notice mr adet's charge already mentioned that we have not offered to france the succors which friendship might have given without compromising the government if mr adet had specified the kind of succors which might have been offered we could better judge the correctness of his assertion but is it true that we have rendered no succors to france read the following passages in the secretary of state's letter of the th of july to mr morris we recollect with gratification that in the course of a war by unceasing exertions we paid our year's arrearages and instalments of our debt to france which the inefficiency of our full government had failed to be an exacting that pressing on us to the entire fulfilment of our engagements we have rendered to mr genet the effect of the instalments of the present year to enable him to send for his fellow citizens in france threatened with ruin that in the first moment of theurrection which threatened the colony of st domingo we stepped forward to their relief with arms and money taking freely on ourselves the risk of an unauthorised aid when delay would have been a denial that we have given an exclusive admission to tell how the present made by france on her enemies in the present war though unanticipated in our treaty and unprovided in her own practice or in that of other nations as we believe to this detail i have to add that all the loans and supplies received from france in the american war amounting nearly to fifty-three millions of livres the united states under their late government had been enabled to pay not two millions and a half of livres that the present government after paying up the arrearages and instalments mentioned by mr jefferson has been continually anticipating the subsequent instalments until in the year the whole of our debt to france was discharged by anticipating the payments of eleven millions and a half livres no part of which would have become due until the d of september and then only one million and a half the residue at subsequent periods the last not until the year there remain yet various passages in mr adet's notes on which some observations are to be made in my letter of the th of november last in answer to mr d'adet's note of october th in which he communicated the decree of the executive directory of the d of july last declaring that the flag of the republic of france should treat the flag of neutrals in the same manner as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english i asked an explanation of the decree mentioning the circumstances which excited doubts there seemed to be sufficient cause for enquiry had the decree referred to the pass captures by the english our knowledge of them would have been some guide in forming our opinion of the threatened captures by the french but the operation of the decree was to depend on the future conduct of the english the french were to treat the flag of neutrals as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english as this could not be ascertained before hand we wished to know whether the restraints then exercised by the english government were considered as of a nature to justify a denial of those rights which were pledged to us by our treaty with france whether the orders had actually been given to capture the vessels of the united states and if given what were the precise terms of those orders mr adet in his reply says that i appear not to have understood either the decree of the directory or his note which accompanied it the meaning of the decree is certainly very obvious the manner of executing it was declared to depend on a contingency the future conduct of the english how were french citizens in the four quarters of the world to determine what was the conduct of the english at any given time if he could have furnished a copy of the orders actually given to french armed vessels under the decree we might have seen clearly what were the intentions of the directory if we are to take the practice of the french armed vessels and of some of the french tribunals as the true illustration of the decree mr adet's own explanation will be very defective he has specified only two cases the taking of english or other enemy's property on board american vessels and the seizure of all the goods classed as contraband in our treaty with great britain in the case of contraband goods the seizure of them is lawful only when they are destined to the ports of their enemies and the contraband goods only are liable to confiscation but the special agents of the directory in the west indies order the seizure of all vessels having an enemy's destination to a neutral port or when seized they confiscate not merely the contraband articles but all other goods and the vessel herself in which they are laden they also seize in their decrees of capture and condemnation that the american vessel has failed to take from a port in possession of the english we are not informed that the english take any neutral vessels for this cause we have heard of several american vessels being captured and condemned by the french merely because they had not a sea-letter when no doubt could have been entertained of the property being american yet it is conceded that the want of a sea-letter was never intended to exclude other proofs of property further ought we to have imagined that the executive directory intended to leave it to the discretion of every privateer and of every inferior tribunal to judge what at any time should be their decree was the actual treatment of american vessels from the united states ought we to have imagined that the decree was framed in such indefinite terms on purpose to give scope for arbitrary controuls and consequently for unlimited oppression ought we to have imagined what mr adet has himself declared to be the meaning of the decree that the french armed vessels were not content themselves with capturing american vessels having english property or contraband goods on board and seizing such property and goods condemned by their tribunals but if any english commanders were to practice exactions towards americans that frenchmen were to do the same ought we to have imagined that the directory intended the citizens of france should be encouraged to take revenge on their friends for the outrages of their enemies and what is to limit these vexations if one english commander in a hundred perversely and wantonly abuses his power is every french officer to become his rival in dishonour or if we are to suffer only measure for measure and surely the decree goes not beyond this who is to designate the every hundredth french officer who is to be the instrument of similar oppression but french armed vessels are to make all these captures in violation of the treaty and we are to suffer all these vexations in violation of reason and humanity while we endure them from the english without an efficacious opposition and what opposition will be deemed efficacious for all captures made by the british contrary to the law of nations we have agreeably to that law demanded satisfaction the british have engaged to make us satisfaction and commissioners are now sitting to liquidate those demands what opposition could have been a more efficacious what further opposition can be lawful in stead of further comments on this subject let me present to you some passages of mr adet's letter of the th of july in this letter he communicated to the secretary of state the decree of the committee of public safety of the d of january respecting the th article of the decree of the th of november the letter violated our treaty by subjecting the property of the enemies of france on board american vessels to capture and by adding to the list of articles contraband it was there repealed by the former mr adet seized this occasion to make the following declaration you will see sir said he in both the decrees the undiluted disposition and sincere desire of the french government religiously to observe the engagement it has contracted with its allies and its readiness to redress infractions which have never been placed but from the impulse of circumstances it is amidst her triumphs that the republic loves to give this striking mark of its fidelity victorious france knows no other concern than that of justice no other diplomatic language than that of truth to this end to this justice to this fidelity we may make our appeal from the file of mr adet's complaint of the british being suffered to arm in our ports it might be imagined the instances were numerous none were permitted the actual armaments were few and are as old as they were represented by mr genet to the secretary of state what answer asks mr adet did the government give to the representations of the minister of the french republic in this respect it said that these vessels if too suddenly that it was not able to cause them to be stopped the answer was given by the secretary of state in different words those from charleston and philadelphia have gone off before they were known to the government and the former indeed in the moments of the war and before preventive measures could be taken in to distant ports in the case of the trinity captain hale at baltimore the governor of maryland had given orders to examine the last and given off before the officer could get on board having cleared out three or four days before i have not observed that mr genet renewed his complaint with regard to any of these vessels whence i suppose he was satisfied with the answer as indeed he ought to have been the two english vessels that sailed from philadelphia cleared even the vigilance of the french coast both had departed many days before he had been informed of their departure this is stated by the consul himself in his report of the st of june to mr genet and yet the government is now charged by mr adet with violating the treaty because it did not stop them although the treaty of the united states had been required to be watched and to report all illegal armaments in our ports which was natural for the government to respect to give information from the french coast yet no doubts were entertained by their own government to be particularly vigilant in regard to all attempts at such violations by the enemies of the republic mr adet remarks that some inhabitants of the united states had aided in these illegal armaments of the enemies of france and asks what measures were taken against them was any search made to discover them to prosecute them never yet the very letter from mr genet to the secretary of state in which and its index to mr adet has been this subject of complaint suggests a different conclusion i learn with pleasure says mr genet by your letter of the d of this month june that the government of georgia have caused to be stopped a vessel armed in that state for the purpose of cruising against the french and that the persons interested in this vessel will be prosecuted i shall say but a few words on the subject of the letters of which mr adet complained that they remained unanswered the letter of sept th contained those repulsive insinuations which were recited in my letter of the th of nov why were these introduced by him if they were not to be applied an answer was drafted on the subject of his letter with animadversions on those insinuations but desiring to avoid irritation the answer was not sent it was deemed of less consequence seeing in my letter to mr monroe of the th of sept the representations and representations of the government on that and other subjects relating to france had been fully expressed to enable him to make immediate communications to the french government itself and it was hoped that the information given in that letter and in others written to him the preceding summer would have furnished materials and that these materials would have been timely used for such representations as would have satisfied the french government that the united states in forming the treaty with great britain had only exercised an indispensable right and neither by that treaty nor any other act had infringed a single article of our treaties with france th nov d year th brumaire d year state papers p june state papers p state papers p on the subject of the impressions of our seamen mentioned in mr adet's letters of march and april i shall only add that nothing was more notorious than that those impressions had excited universal resentment in the united states and been the subject of repeated remonstrances from our government to the british court thus in mr pinckney's note to lord grenville in august which was published here that year in the same collection of state papers with mr jefferson's letter of sept th which mr adet has quoted and on the th page next succeeding it we find the following under this head it may be observed that for want of arrangements being made for the security of american seamen in the ports of this country england they are subject to the various hardships mr pinckney has so frequently detailed to lord grenville and in the next page in his letter to mr jefferson mr pinckney says the protection afforded our seamen remains also on the same footing that the british government professes a willingness to secure to us all real american seamen when proved to be such but the proof they will not dispense with to remove as far as possible the embarrassments arising from this cause and more effectually to protect our seamen was the object of a bill pending in congress and the subject of public debate at the time i received mr adet's letters this bill was passed into a law all these facts demonstrated that the government did not assent but on the contrary that they resisted the impression of american seamen and this resistance has been continued consequently we cannot be charged on this ground with a violation of our neutrality among the former subjects of complaint not now renewed by mr adet is that against the government for permitting the purchase and exportation of horses by british agents in the course of the last winter and spring the correspondence on this subject is lengthy and yet the question lies within a very narrow compass perhaps no nation now better understands that neutral nations have a right to trade freely with nations at war either by carrying and selling to them all kinds of merchandise or permitting them to come and purchase the same commodities in the neutral territory in the latter case not refusing to one power at war what it permits another to purchase with this exception in respect to articles contraband that if the cruisers of one of the belligerent powers meet at sea with neutral vessels laden with such articles destined to the ports of their enemies the neutral vessel may be captured and the contraband goods will be lawful prize to the captor but the residue of their cargo and the vessel themselves are to be discharged but if there were any doubt on this point under the law of nations there can be none in relation to france and the united states because this matter is specially regulated by their treaty of commerce this treaty so far from restraining the trade of either party remaining neutral while the other is engaged in war provides regulations agreed to in which it should be continued the th and th articles authorize either party that is at war to stop the neutral merchant vessels of the other destined to the ports of an enemy upon just grounds of suspicion concerning the voyage or lading if on examination the ships papers it appears there are no contraband articles on board consigned for a port under the obedience of his enemies she may be carried into port and the contraband articles may by regular proceedings in the admiralty be confiscated saying always that the ship itself as any other goods found therein which by this treaty are to be deemed free may they be detained on presence of the being as if were seized by the prohibited goods must release they be confiscated as lawful prize it further provides that if the master of the neutral vessel be willing to deliver the contraband goods to the captor and the latter receives them then is the neutral ship to be forewarned discharged and allowed freely to prosecute her voyage the d article goes further if the neutral ship shall have on board the enemies of the other they are not to be taken out unless they are separately in actual france these articles are so explicit it may seem strange that a doubt should arise concerning them i presume no doubt did arise for mr adet overlooking these provisions of the treaty defended that the government should stop the exportation of horses by the british upon the principle that it was a neutral duty required by the law of nations an answer was given to his demands in which the regulations of our treaty with france were particularly brought into view as well as the rules of the law of nations mr adet however after some time renewed his claims and again kept the treaty out of sight an 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have confiscated your vessel and cargo closing the sentence with opprobrious language mr adet on the th of may last revived his predecessor's claim of right by treaty to sell their prizes in our ports this occasioned the correspondence on this subject which you will find among the documents collected on this occasion he contents himself however with considering it as a right granted not positively but by implication that is because the treaty forbids the enemies of france to sell their prizes in our ports therefore it grants to her a right of selling her prizes as if my friend's denial of a favor to my enemy was in fact a grant of the same favor to me the simple statement of the ground of the claim would seem sufficient to show that the treaty will not support it that sales of french prizes have been at all permitted has been owing to the indulgence of the government this indulgence was continued until it interfered with a new positive obligation an obligation precisely the same that france herself contracted eight years subsequent to her treaty with us and with the same power this obligation is found in the th article of our treaty and the th of the french treaty with great britain thus france and the united states alike engaged to permit no enemy of great britain to arm privateers in their ports or to sell their prizes there or in any manner to exchange them consequently had france remained at peace and we engaged in a war with great britain our privateers would not be permitted to sell their prizes in french ports and by the maritime law of france prizes except they are taken from her enemies can stay in her ports no more than hours unless compelled by tempest to remain longer and the sales of such prizes are forbidden under severe penalties but notwithstanding the certainty of our right to forbid the sales of prizes in our ports and notwithstanding the express legal command of the chief justice of the united states holding a circuit court in south-carolina in may last prohibiting the sale of a particular prize the british ship amity at charleston the french agents sold the prize vessel and the sale received the formal sanction of the french consul yet even this affair has been made a subject of complaint by mr adet because the collector of that port refused a clearance to the prize vessel thus sold in defiance of the authority of the united states and because he also delayed until in a new case he should get advice to permit the exportation of the cargo of the prize ship which on a survey had been reported to be irreparable indeed the french minister has discovered an aptitude to complain i may cite as instances his letters of the th of january and d of march the former because the colours of france which he had presented to the united states were not permanently fixed and displayed before congress the latter because some printers of almanacks or other periodical publications in the united states in arranging the names of the foreign ministers and agents residing amongst us had placed those of great britain before those of france and spain mr adet desired my declaration in writing that the government of the united states had no concern in printing the works in which the agents of the french republic were registered after those of great britain and that the works themselves might be suppressed i gave him an answer in writing with my consent to his publishing it in the newspapers agreeably to his request the answer states that in matters of this kind the government did not nor could not interfere with regard to the colours i must observe that in what concerns our foreign relations the president being the sole representative of the united states they were properly presented to him he received them with all possible respect and directed them to be deposited with our national archives that both might be preserved with equal care it remains to notice a summary of complaints exhibited by m de la croix the french minister for foreign affairs to mr monroe our minister at paris under the date of march th to which the latter returned an answer under the date of march th these were inclosed in mr monroe's letter of the d of may and received at the department of state on the th of july copies of both papers and an extract of so much of his letter as relates to the subject are among the documents now collected first complaint the inexecution of treaties the courts of justice have taken and still take cognizance of prizes brought by french privateers into the ports of the united states d english ships of war have been admitted into those ports even in cases prohibited by the th article of the treaty that is when they have made prizes on the french republic or its citizens and have also conducted thither their prizes d the consular convention has in two points become illusory st for want of giving to the consuls the means of having their decisions executed in all disputes between frenchmen of which the consuls have the exclusive cognizance d because the judges charged with issuing warrants for apprehending french mariners who desert require the original roll of the crew to be first produced th the arrest of the corvette le cassius and her captain second complaint the impunity of the outrage committed on the republic in the person of its minister the citizen fauchet by the english ship africa in concert with the vice-consul of that nation within"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|2", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0008.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the documents on this subject the copy of a decree of the citizens victor hughes and lebas the special agents of the executive directory in the windward islands condemning an american vessel and her entire cargo for having a small number of horses on board not bound to their enemy's but to a neutral port and the special agents ground their decree on the advice they received from mr adet under the date of th messidor being july d this vessel and cargo were thus condemned without the sight of a single paper belonging to her the master had them in his pocket and would have brought them home but for the recollection of the interpreter some hours after the sentence of condemnation had been passed these citizens exercised indeed a very brief authority the process in the case of a second american vessel which to complete her lading had taken on board nineteen horses but which was also bound to a neutral port was in this form the captain having come before one of the agents he with any previous examination or hearing addressing himself to the captain pronounced sentence in these words i have confiscated your vessel and cargo closing the sentence with an obnoxious language mr adet on the th of may last revived his predecessor's claim of right by treaty to sell their prizes in our ports this occasioned a correspondence on this subject which you will find among the documents collected on this occasion he contends himself however with considering it as a right granted not positively but by implication that is because the treaty forbids the enemies of france to sell their prizes in our ports therefore it grants to her a right of selling her prizes as if my friend's denial of a favor to my enemy was in fact a grant of the same favor to me the simple statement of the ground of the claim would seem sufficient to show that the treaty will not support it that sales of french prizes have been at all permitted was owing to the indulgence of the government this indulgence continued until it interfered with a new positive obligation an obligation precisely the same that france itself contracted eight years subsequent to her treaty with us and with the same power this obligation is found in the th article of our treaty and the th of the french treaty with great-britain thus france and the united states alike engaged to permit no enemy of great-britain to arm privateers in their ports or to sell their prizes there or in any manner to exchange them consequently had france remained at peace and we engaged in a war with great-britain our privateers would not be permitted to sell their prizes in french ports and by the maritime law of france prizes except they are taken from her enemies can stay in her ports no more than hours unless compelled by tempest to remain longer and the sales of such prizes are forbidden under severe penalties but notwithstanding the certainty of our right to forbid the sales of prizes in our ports and notwithstanding the express legal command of the chief justice of the united states holding a circuit court in south carolina in may last prohibiting the sale of a particular prize the british ship amity at charleston the french agents sold the prize vessel and the sale received the formal sanction of the french consul yet even this affair has been made a subject of complaint by mr adet because the collector of that port refused a clearance to the prize vessel thus sold in defiance of the authority of the united states and because he also delayed until in a new case he should get advice to permit the exportation of the cargo of the prize ship which on a survey had been reported to be irreparable indeed the french minister has discovered an aptitude to complain i may cite as instances his letters of the th of january and d of march the former because the colors of france which he had presented to the united states were not permanently fixed and displayed before congress the latter because some printers of almanacs or other periodical publications in the united states in arranging the names of the foreign ministers and agents resident amongst us had placed those of great-britain before those of france and spain mr adet desired my declaration in writing that the government of the united states has no concern in printing the works in which the agents of the french republic were registered after those of great-britain and that the work themselves might be suppressed i gave him an answer in writing with my consent to his publishing it in the newspapers agreeably to his request the answer states that in matters of this kind the government did not and could not interfere with regard to the colors i must observe that in what concerns our foreign relations the president being the sole representative of the people of the united states they were properly presented to him he received them with all possible respect and directed them to be deposited with our national archives that both might be preserved with equal care it remains to notice a summary of complaints exhibited by m de la croix the french minister for foreign affairs to mr monroe our minister at paris under the date of march th to which the latter returned an answer under the date of march th these were inclosed in mr monroe's letter of the d of may and received at the department of state on the th of july copies of both papers an extract of so much of his letter as relates to this subject are among the documents now collected st complaint the inexecution of treaties the courts of justice have taken and still take cognizance of prizes bro't by french privateers into the ports of the united states d english ships of war have been admitted into those ports even in cases prohibited by the th article of the treaty that is when they have made prizes on the french republic or its citizens and have also conducted thither their prizes d the consular convention has in two points become illusory st for want of giving to the consuls the means of having their decisions executed in all disputes between frenchmen of which the consuls have the exclusive cognizance d because the judges charged with issuing 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great britain we received loans of money we were aided by troops and ships in attacking and conquering the common enemy in the bosom of our country and this association in war produced acquaintances and personal friendships and experiencing these benefits we gave way to our feelings without inquiring into the motives from which they were rendered but why are we so often reminded of the debt of gratitude is it really more than gratitude because compensation is expected to cancel it if compensation is the object the treaty of alliance has absolved the claim the contracting parties declare that being resolved to fulfil each on its own part the clauses and conditions of the present treaty of alliance according to its own power and circumstances there shall be no claim of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the war i am here naturally led to notice mr adet's charge already mentioned that we have not offered to france the succours which friendship might have given without compromising the government if mr adet had specified the kind of succours which might thus have been offered we could better judge of the correctness of his assertion but is it true that we have rendered no succours to france read the following passages in the secretary of state's letter of the th of august to mr morris we recollect with satisfaction that in the course of two years by unceasing exertions we paid up seven years arrears and instalments of our debt to france which the inefficacy of our first form of government had suffered to be accumulating that pressing on still to the entire fulfilment of our engagements we have facilitated to mr genet the effect of the instalments of the present year to enable him to send relief to his fellow-citizens in france threatened with famine that in the first moment of the insurrection which threatened the colony of st domingo we stepped forward to their relief with arms and money taking freely on ourselves the risk of an unauthorized aid when delay would have been denial that we have given the exclusive admission to sell here the prizes made by france on her enemies in the present war though unspatulated in our treaties and unprovided in her own practice or in that of other nations as we believe to this detail i have to add that of all the loans and supplies received from france in the american war amounting nearly to fifty-three millions of livres the united states under their late government had been enabled to pay not two millions and a half of livres that the present government after paying up the arrears and instalments mentioned by mr jefferson has been continually anticipating the subsequent instalments until in the year the whole of our debt to france was discharged by anticipating the payment of eleven millions and a half of livres no part of which would have become due until the second of september and then only one million and a half the residue at subsequent periods the last not until the year there remain yet various passages in mr adet's notes on which some observations are to be made in my letter of the first of november last in answer to mr adet's note of october in which he communicated the decree of the executive directory of the d of july last declaring that the flag of the republic of france should treat the flag of neutrals in the same manner as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english i asked an explanation of the decree mentioning the circumstances which excited doubts there seemed to be sufficient cause for enquiry had the decree referred to the past captures by the english our knowledge of them would have been some guide in forming our opinion of the threatened captures by the french but the operation of the decree was to depend on the future conduct of the english the french were to treat the flag of neutrals as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english as this could not be ascertained beforehand we wished to know whether the restraints then exercised by the british government were considered as of a nature to justify a denial of those rights which were pledged to us by our treaty with france whether the orders had actually been given to capture the vessels of the united states and if given what were the precise terms of those orders mr adet in his reply says that i appear not to have understood either the decree of the directory or his note which accompanied it the meaning of the decree is certainly not very obvious the manner of executing it was declared to depend on a contingency the future conduct of the english how were the french cruisers in the four quarters of the world to determine what was the conduct of the english at any given time if he could have furnished a copy of the orders actually given to french armed vessels under the decree we might have seen clearly what were the intentions of the directory if we are to take the practice of the french armed vessels and of some of the french tribunals as the true illustration of the decree mr adet's own explanation will be very defective he has specified only two cases the taking of english or other enemy's property on board american vessels and the seizure of all the goods classed as contraband in our treaty with great britain in the case of contraband goods the seizure of them is lawful only when they are destined to the ports of enemies and the contraband goods only are liable to confiscation but the special agents of the directory in the west-indies order the seizure of all vessels having on board contraband goods no matter whether destined to an enemy's or to a neutral or even to a french port and when seized they confiscate not merely the contraband articles but all other goods and the vessel herself in which they are laden they also assign in their decrees of confiscation another cause of capture and condemnation that the american vessel has failed to or from a port in possession of the english we are not informed that the english take any neutral vessels for this cause we have heard of several american vessels being captured and confiscated by the french merely because they had not a sea-letter when no doubt could have been entertained of the property being american yet it is conceded that the want of a sea-letter was never intended to exclude other proofs of property further ought we to have imagined that the executive directory intended to leave it to the discretion of every privateer and of every inferior tribunal to judge what at any time subsequent to their decree was the actual treatment received by american vessels from the british ought we to have imagined that the decree was formed in such indefinite terms on purpose to give scope for arbitrary construction and consequently for unlimited oppression ought we to have imagined what mr adet has himself declared to be the meaning of the decree that the french armed vessels were not to content themselves with capturing american vessels having english property or contraband goods on board and getting such property and goods condemned by their tribunals but if any english commanders were to practise executions towards americans that frenchmen were to do the same ought we to have imagined that the directory intended the citizens of france should be encouraged to take revenge on their friends for the outrages of their enemies and what is to limit these vexations if one english commander in a hundred perversely and wantonly abuses his power is every french officer to become his rival in dishonor or if we are to suffer only measure for measure and surely the decree goes not beyond this who is to designate the every hundredth french officer who is to be the instrument of similar oppression but french armed vessels are to make all these captures in violation of the treaty and we are to suffer all these vexations in violation of reason and humanity while we endure them from the english without an efficacious opposition and what opposition will be deemed efficacious for all captures made by the british contrary to the law of nations we have agreeably to that law demanded satisfaction the british have engaged to make us satisfaction and commissioners are now sitting to liquidate those demands what opposition could have been more efficacious what further opposition can be lawful in stead of further comments on this subject let me present to you some passages in mr adet's letter of the th of july in this letter he communicated to the secretary of state the decree of the committee of public safety of the d of january repealing the th article of the decree of the th of november the latter violated our treaty by subjecting the property of the enemies of france on board american vessels to capture and by adding to the list of articles contraband it was therefore repealed by the former mr adet seized this occasion to make the following declaration you will see sir said he in both the decrees the undignified disposition and sincere desire of the french government religiously to observe the engagements it has contracted with its allies and its readiness to redress infractions which have never taken place but from the impulse of circumstances it is amidst her triumphs that the republic loves to give this striking mark of its fidelity victorious france knows no other concern than that of justice no other diplomatic language than that of truth to this truth to this justice to this fidelity we now make our appeal from the stile of mr adet's complaint of the british being suffered to arm in our ports it might be imagined the instances were numerous none were permitted the actual armaments were few and are as old as the year and were represented by mr genet to the secretary of state what answer asks mr adet did the government give to the representations of the minister of the french republic in this respect it said that these vessels failed too suddenly that it was not able to cause them to be stopped the answer was given by the secretary of state in different words those from charleston and philadelphia have gone off before it was known to the government and the former indeed in the first moments of the war and before preventive measures could be taken in so distant a port in the case of the trusty captain hale at baltimore the governor of maryland having been informed that she had been buying guns had given orders to examine the fast but she got off before the officer could get on board having cleared out three or four days before i have not observed that mr genet ever renewed his complaint with regard to any of these vessels whence i suppose he was satisfied with the answer as indeed he ought to have been the two english vessels that sailed from philadelphia escaped even the vigilance of the french consuls both had departed many days before he had been informed of them this is stated by the consul himself in his report of the st of june to mr genet and yet the government is now charged by mr adet with violating the treaty because it did not stop them altho the officers of the united states had been required to be watchful and to report all illegal armaments in our ports yet it was natural for the government to expect to derive information from the french consuls who doubtless were charged by their own government to be particularly vigilant in regard to all attempts at such armaments by the enemies of the republic mr adet remarks that some inhabitants of the united states had aided in these illegal armaments of the enemies of france and asks what measures were taken against them was any search made to discover them to procure them never yet the very letter from mr genet to the secretary of state in which and its inclosures mr adet has found this subject of complaint suggests a different conclusion i learn with pleasure says mr genet by your letter of the d of this month june that the government of georgia have caused to be stopped a vessel armed in that state for the purpose of cruising against the french and that the persons interested in this vessel will be prosecuted i shall say but a few words on the subject of the letters of which mr adet complained that they remained unanswered the first of sept th contained those reproachful insinuations which were recited in my letter of the st of nov last why were these introduced by him if they were not to be applied an answer was draughted on the subject of his letter with animadversions on those insinuations but desiring to avoid irritation the answer was not sent it was deemed of the less consequence seeing in my letter to mr monroe of the th of september the sentiments and reasonings of the government on that and other subjects relating to france had been fully expressed to enable him to make immediate communications to the french government itself and it was hoped that the information given in that letter and in others written to him the preceding summer would have furnished materials and that these materials would have been timely used for such representations as would have satisfied the french government that the united states in forming the treaty with great britain had only exercised an indisputable right and neither by that treaty nor any other act had infringed a single article of our treaties with france on the subject of the impressions of our seamen mentioned in mr adet's letters of march and april i shall only add that nothing was more notorious than that those impressions had excited universal resentment in the united states and been the subject of repeated remonstrance from our government to the british court thus in mr pinckney's note to lord grenville in aug which was published here that year in the same collection of state papers with mr jefferson's letter of september th which mr adet has quoted and on the th page next succeeding it we find the following under this head it may be observed that for want of arrangements being made for the security of american seamen in the ports of this country england they are subject to the various hardships mr pinckney has so frequently detailed to lord grenville and in the next page in his letter to mr jefferson mr pinckney lays the protection afforded our seamen remains also on the same footing they the british government protest a willingness to secure to us all real american seamen when proved to be such but the proof they will not dispense with to remove as far as possible the embarrassments arising from this cause and more effectually to protect our seamen was the object of a bill pending in congress and the subject of public debate at the time i received mr adet's letters this bill was passed into a law all these acts demonstrated that the government did not assent but on the contrary that they resisted the impressment of american seamen and this resistance has been continued consequently we cannot be charged on this ground with a violation of our neutrality among the former subjects of complaint not now renewed by mr adet is that against the government for permitting the purchase and exportation of horses by british agents in the course of the last winter and spring the correspondence on this subject is lengthy and yet the question lies within a very narrow compass perhaps no rule is now better established than that neutral nations have a right to trade freely with nations at war either by carrying and selling to them all kinds of merchandise or permitting them to come and purchase the same commodities in the neutral territory in the latter case not refusing to one power at war what it permits another to purchase with this exception in respect to articles contraband that if the cruisers of one of the belligerent powers meet at sea with neutral vessels laden with such articles destined to the ports of their enemies the neutral vessels may be captured and the contraband goods will be lawful prize to the captors but the residue of their cargo and the vessels themselves are to be discharged but if there were any doubt on this point under the law of nations there can be none in relation to france and the united states because this matter is specially regulated by their treaty of commerce this treaty so far from restraining the trade of either party remaining neutral while the other is engaged in war provides regulations agreeably to which it should be conducted the th and th articles authorize either party that is at war to stop the neutral merchant vessels of the other destined to the ports of an enemy upon just grounds of suspicion concerning the voyage or the lading if on examining the ship's papers it appears there are any contraband goods on board consigned for a port under the obedience of his enemies they may be carried into port and the contraband articles may by regular proceedings in the admiralty be confiscated saving always as well the ship itself as any other goods found therein which by this treaty are to be esteemed free neither may they be detained on pretence of their"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|1", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0245.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "connections with us in the court of france the actual organ of the nation had no regard to the interest of the united states but that their object was by seizing the occasion of dismembering the british empire to diminish the power of a formidable rival and that when after we had carried on a distressing war for seven years the great object for which we had contended independence was within our reach that court endeavored to postpone the acknowledgment of it by great britain and eventually to deprive us of its fairest fruits a just extent of territory the navigation of the mississippi and the fishery such being the motives and conduct of france what inspired our truly grateful sentiments towards that nation the ardent affection the sincere friendship of americans to frenchmen we were engaged in a common cause against great britain we received loans of money we were aided by troops and ships in attacking and conquering the common enemy in the bosom of our country and this association in war produced acquaintances and personal friendships and experiencing these benefits we gave to our feelings without inquiring into the motives from which they were rendered but why are we so often reminded of the debt of gratitude it is really because more than gratitude because compensation is expected to cancel it if compensation is the object the treaty of alliance has abolished the claim the contracting parties declare that being resolved to fulfil each on its own part the clauses and conditions of the present treaty of alliance according to its own power and circumstances there shall be no after claim of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the war i am here naturally led to notice mr adet's charge already mentioned that we have not offered to france the succors which friendship might have given without compromising the government if mr adet had specified the kind of succors which might thus have been offered we could better judge of the correctness of his assertion but is it true that we have rendered no succors to france read the following passages in the secretary of state's letter of the th of august to mr morris we recollect with satisfaction that in the course of two years by unceasing exertions we paid up seven years arrears and instalments of our debt to france which the inefficacy of our first form of government had suffered to be accumulating that pressing on still to the entire fulfilment of our engagements we have facilitated to mr genet the effect of the instalments of the present year to enable him to send relief to his fellow-citizens in france threatened with famine that in the first moment of the insurrection which threatened the colony of st domingo we stepped forward to their relief with arms and money taking freely on ourselves the risk of an unauthorised aid when delay would have been denial that we have given the exclusive admission to fell here the prizes made by france on her enemies in the present war tho unspoliated in our treaties and unfound in her own practice or in that of other nations as we believe to this detail i have to add that of all the loans and supplies received from france in the american war amounting nearly to fifty-three millions of livres the united states under their late government had been enabled to pay not two million and a half of livres that the present government after paying up the arrears and instalments mentioned by mr jefferson has been continually anticipating the subsequent instalments until in the year the whole of our debt to france was discharged by anticipating the payment of eleven millions and a half of livres no part of which would have become due until the d of september and then only one million and a half the residue at subsequent periods the last not until the year there remain yet various passages in mr adet's notes on which some observations are to be made in my letter of the st november last in answer to mr adet's note of october th in which he communicated the decree of the executive directory of the d july last declaring that the flag of the republic of france should treat the flag of neutrals in the same manner as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english i asked an explanation of the decree mentioning the circumstances which excited doubts there seemed to be sufficient cause for inquiry had the decree referred to the past captures by the english our knowledge of them would have been some guide in forming our opinion of the threatened captures by the french but the operation of the decree was to depend on the future conduct of the english the french were to treat the flag of neutrals as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english as this could not be ascertained beforehand we wished to know whether the restraints then exercised by the british government were considered as of a nature to justify a denial of those rights which were pledged to us by our treaty with france whether the orders had actually been given to capture the vessels of the united states and if given what were the precise terms of those orders mr adet in his reply says that i appear not to have understood either the decree of the directory or his note which accompanied it the meaning of the decree is certainly not very obvious the manner of executing it was declared to depend on a contingency the future conduct of the english how were the french cruisers in the four quarters of the world to determine what was the conduct of the english at any given time if he could have furnished a copy of the orders actually given to french armed vessels under the decree we might have seen clearly what were the intentions of the directory if we are to take the practice of the french armed vessels and some of the french tribunals as the true illustration of the decree mr adet's own explanation will be very defective he has specified only two cases the taking of english or other enemy's property on board american vessels and the seizure of all the goods classed as contraband in our treaty with great britain in the case of contraband goods the seizure of them is lawful only when they are destined to the ports of their enemies and the contraband goods only are liable to confiscation but the special agents of the directory in the west-indies order the seizure of all vessels having on board contraband goods no matter whether destined to an enemy's or to a neutral or even to a french port and when seized they confiscate not merely the contraband articles but all other goods and the vessel herself in which they are laden they also assign in their decrees of confiscation another cause of capture and condemnation that the american vessel has failed to or from a port in possession of the english we are not informed that the english take any neutral vessels for this cause we have heard of several american vessels being captured and confiscated by the french merely because they had not a sea-letter when no doubt could have been entertained of the property being american yet it is conceived that the want of a sea-letter was never intended to exclude other proofs of property further ought we to have imagined that the executive directory intended to leave it to the discretion of every privateer and of every inferior tribunal to judge what at any time subsequent to their decree was the actual treatment received by american vessels from the british ought we to have imagined that the decree was formed in such indefinite terms on purpose to give scope for arbitrary constructions and consequently for unlimited oppression ought we to have imagined what mr adet has himself declared to be the meaning of the decree that the french armed vessels were not to content themselves with capturing american vessels having english property or contraband goods on board and getting such property and goods condemned by their tribunals but if any english commanders were to practise vexations towards americans that frenchmen were to do the same ought we to have imagined that the directory intended the citizens of france should be encouraged to take revenge on their friends for the outrages of their enemies and what is to limit these vexations if one english commander in a hundred perversely and wantonly abuses his power is every french officer to become his rival in dishonor or if we are to suffer only measure for measure and surely the decree goes not beyond this who is to designate the every hundredth french officer who is to be the instrument of similar oppression but french armed vessels are to make all these captures in violation of the treaty and we are to suffer all these vexations in violation of reason and humanity while we endure them from the english without any efficacious opposition and what opposition will be deemed efficacious for all captures made by the british contrary to the law of nations we have agreeably to that law demanded satisfaction the british have engaged to make us satisfaction and commissioners are now sitting to liquidate those demands what opposition could have been more efficacious what further opposition can be lawful instead of further comments on this subject let me present to you some passages in mr adet's letter of the th of july in this letter he communicated to the secretary of state the decree of the committee of public safety of the d of january repealing the th article of the decree of the th of november the latter violate our treaty by seizing the property of the enemies of france on board american vessels to capture and by adding to the list of articles contraband it was therefore repealed by the former mr adet seized this occasion to make the following declaration you will see sir said he in both the decrees the undisguised disposition and sincere desire of the french government religiously to observe the engagements it has contracted with its allies and its readiness to redress infractions which have never taken place but from the impulse of circumstances it is amidst her triumphs that the republic loves to give this striking mark of its fidelity victorious france knows no other concern than that of justice no other diplomatic language than that of truth to this truth to this justice to this fidelity we now make our appeal from the file of mr adet's complaint of the british being suffered to arm in our ports it might be imagined the instances were numerous none were permitted the actual armaments were few and are as old as the year and were represented by mr genet to the secretary of state what answer asks mr adet did the government give to the representations of the minister of the french republic in this respect it is said that these vessels failed too suddenly that it was not able to cause them to be stopped the answer was given by the secretary of state in different words those from charleston and philadelphia have gone off before it was known to the government and the former indeed in the first moments of the war and before preventive measures could be taken in so distant a port in the case of the trusty capt hale at baltimore the governor of maryland having been informed that she had been buying guns had given orders to examine the fact but the got off before the officer could get on board having cleared out three or four days before i have not observed that mr genet ever renewed his complaint with regard to any of these vessels whence i suppose he was satisfied with the answer as indeed he ought to have been the two english vessels that failed from philadelphia escaped even the vigilance of the french consul both had departed many days before he had been informed of them this is stated by the consul himself in his report of the st june to mr genet and yet the government is now charged by mr adet with violating the treaty because it did not stop them although the officers of the united states had been required to be watchful and to report all illegal armaments in our ports yet it was natural for the government to expect to derive information from the french consuls who doubtless were charged by their own government to be particularly vigilant in regard to all attempts at such armaments by the enemies of the republic mr adet remarks that some inhabitants of the united states had aided in these illegal armaments of the enemies of france and asks what measures were taken against them was any search made to discover them to protect them never yet the very letter from mr genet to the secretary of state in which and its inclosures mr adet has found this subject of complaint suggests a different conclusion i learn with pleasure says mr genet by your letter of the d of this month june that the government of georgia have caused to be stopped a vessel armed in that state for the purpose of cruising against the french and that the persons interested in this vessel will be prosecuted i shall say but a few words on the subject of the letters of which mr adet complained that they remained unanswered the first of sept th contained those reproachful insinuations which were recited in my letter of the st of nov last why were these introduced by him if they were not to be applied an answer was draughted on the subject of his letter with animadversions on those insinuations but desiring to avoid irritations the answer was not sent it was deemed of the less consequence seeing in my letter to mr monroe of the th of sept the sentiments and reasonings of the government on that and other subjects relating to france had been fully expressed to enable him to make immediate communications to the french government itself and it was hoped that the information given in that letter and in others written to him the preceding summer would have furnished materials and that these materials would have been timely used for such representations as would have satisfied the french government that the united states in forming the treaty with great britain and only exercised an indisputable right and neither by that treaty or any other act had infringed a single article of our treaties with france on the subject of the impresses of our seamen mentioned in mr adet's letters of march and april i shall only add that nothing was more notorious than that those impresses had excited universal resentment in the united states and been the subject of repeated remonstrance from our government to the british court thus in mr pinckney's note to lord grenville in august which was published here that year in the same collection of state papers with mr jefferson's letter of september th which mr adet thus quoted and on the th page next succeeding it we find the following under this head it may be observed that for want of arrangements being made for the security of american seamen in the ports of this country england they are subject to the various hardships mr pinckney has so frequently detailed to lord grenville and in the next page in his letter to mr jefferson mr pinckney says the protection afforded our seamen remains also on the same footing they the british government profess a willingness to secure to us all real american seamen when proved to be such but the proof they will not dispense with to remove as far as possible the embarrassments arising from this cause and more effectually to protect our seamen was the object of a bill pending in congress and the subject of public debate at the time i received mr adet's letters this bill was passed into a law all these acts demonstrated that the government did not affect but on the contrary that they resisted the impressment of american seamen and this resistance has been continued consequently we cannot be charged on this ground with a violation of our neutrality among the former subjects of complaint not now renewed by mr adet is that against the government for permitting the purchase and exportation of horses by british agents in the course of the last winter and spring the correspondence on this subject is lengthy and yet the question lies within a very narrow compass perhaps no rule is now better established than that neutral nations have a right to trade freely with nations at war either by carrying and selling to them all kinds of merchandize or permitting them to come and purchase the same commodities in the neutral territory in the latter case not refusing to one power at war what it permits another to purchase with this exception in respect to articles contraband that if the cruisers of one of the belligerent powers meet at sea with neutral vessels laden with such articles destined to the ports of their enemies the neutral vessels may be captured and the contraband goods will be lawful prize to the captors but the residue of their cargo and the vessels themselves are to be discharged but if there were any doubt on this point under the law of nations there can be none in relation to france and the united states because this matter is specially regulated by their treaty of commerce this treaty so far from restraining the trade of either party remaining neutral while the other is engaged in war provides regulations agreeably to which it should be conducted the th and th articles authorized either party that is at war to stop the neutral merchant vessels of the other destined to the ports of an enemy upon just grounds of suspicion concerning the voyage or the lading if on examining the ship's papers it appears there are any contraband goods on board consigned for a port under the obedience of his enemies they may be carried into port and the contraband articles may by regular proceedings in the admiralty be confiscated saving always as well the ship itself as any other goods found therein which by this treaty are to be esteemed free neither may they be detained on pretence of their"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3164, 4548], "b_span": [3, 1391], "matched_words": 1368, "similarity": 0.987012987012987, "seeds": 282, "id": "M00164", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-28|1|2", "date": "1797-01-28", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797012801/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "by the prohibited goods much less shall they be confiscated as lawful prize it further provides that if the master of the neutral ship shall be willing to deliver the contraband goods to the captor and the latter receives them then is the neutral ship to be forthwith discharged and allowed freely to prosecute her voyage the d article goes further if the neutral ship shall have on board the enemies of the other they are not to be taken out unless they are soldiers in actual service these articles are so explicit it may seem strange that a doubt should arise concerning them i presume no doubt did arise for mr adet overlooking these provisions of the treaty demanded that the government should stop the exportation of horses by the british upon the principle that it was a neutral duty required by the law of nations an answer was given to his demands in which the regulations of our treaty with france were particularly brought into view as well as the rules of the law of nations mr adet however after some time renewed his claims but again kept the treaty out of sight an answer was given to these renewed claims and we heard no more of the subject until the french privateers in the west-indies began to capture american vessels which had horses on board you will find among the documents on this subject the copy of a decree of the citizens victor hugues and lebas the special agents of the executive directory in the windward islands condemning an american vessel and her entire cargo for having a small number of horses on board not bound to their enemy's but to a neutral port and the special agents ground their decree on the advice they received from mr adet under the date of the th messidor being july d this vessel and cargo were thus condemned without the sight of a single paper belonging to her the master had them in his pocket and would have brought them home but for the recollection of the interpreter some hours after the sentence of condemnation had been passed these citizens exercise indeed a very brief authority the process in the case of a second american vessel which to complete her lading had taken on board nineteen horses but which was also bound to a neutral port was in this form the captain having come before one of the agents he without any previous examination or hearing addressing himself to the captain pronounced sentence in these words i have confiscated your vessel and cargo closing the sentence with opprobrious language mr adet on the th of may last revived his predecessor's claim of right by treaty to sell their prizes in our ports this occasioned the correspondence on this subject which you will find among the documents collected on this occasion he contents himself however with considering it as a right granted not positively but by implication that is because the treaty forbids the enemies of france to sell their prizes in our ports therefore it grants to her a right of selling her prizes as if my friend's denial of a favor to my enemy was in fact a grant of the same favor to me the simple statement of the ground of the claim would seem sufficient to show that the treaty will not support it that sales of french prizes have been at all permitted has been owing to the indulgence of the government this indulgence was continued until it interfered with a new positive obligation an obligation precisely the same that france herself contracted eight years subsequent to her treaty with us and with the same power this obligation is found in the th article of our treaty and the th of the french treaty with great britain thus france and the united states alike engaged to permit no enemy of great britain to arm privateers in their ports or to sell their prizes there or in any manner to exchange them consequently had france remained at peace and we engaged in a war with great britain our privateers would not be permitted to sell their prizes in french ports and by the maritime law of france prizes except they are taken from her enemies can stay in her ports no more than hours unless compelled by tempest to remain longer and the sales of such prizes are forbidden under severe penalties but notwithstanding the certainty of our right to forbid the sales of prizes in our ports and notwithstanding the express legal command of the chief justice of the united states holding a circuit court in south-carolina in may last prohibiting the sale of a particular prize the british ship amity at charleston the french agents sold the prize vessel and the sale received the formal sanction of the french consul yet even this affair has been made a subject of complaint by mr adet because the collector of that port refused a clearance to the prize vessel thus sold in defiance of the authority of the united states and because he also delayed until in a new case he should get advice to permit the exportation of the cargo of the prize ship which on a survey had been reported to be irreparable indeed the french minister has discovered an aptitude to complain i may cite as instances his letters of the th of january and d of march the former because the colours of france which he had presented to the united states were not permanently fixed and displayed before congress the latter because some printers of almanacks or other periodical publications in the united states in arranging the names of the foreign ministers and agents residing amongst us had placed those of great britain before those of france and spain mr adet desired my declaration in writing that the government of the united states had no concern in printing the works in which the agents of the french republic were registered after those of great britain and that the works themselves might be suppressed i gave him an answer in writing with my consent to his publishing it in the newspapers agreeably to his request the answer states that in matters of this kind the government did not nor could not interfere with regard to the colours i must observe that in what concerns our foreign relations the president being the sole representative of the united states they were properly presented to him he received them with all possible respect and directed them to be deposited with our national archives that both might be preserved with equal care it remains to notice a summary of complaints exhibited by m de la croix the french minister for foreign affairs to mr monroe our minister at paris under the date of march th to which the latter returned an answer under the date of march th these were inclosed in mr monroe's letter of the d of may and received at the department of state on the th of july copies of both papers and an extract of so much of his letter as relates to the subject are among the documents now collected first complaint the inexecution of treaties the courts of justice have taken and still take cognizance of prizes brought by french privateers into the ports of the united states d english ships of war have been admitted into those ports even in cases prohibited by the th article of the treaty that is when they have made prizes on the french republic or its citizens and have also conducted thither their prizes d the consular convention has in two points become illusory st for want of giving to the consuls the means of having their decisions executed in all disputes between frenchmen of which the consuls have the exclusive cognizance d because the judges charged with issuing warrants for apprehending french mariners who desert require the original roll of the crew to be first produced th the arrest of the corvette le cassius and her captain second complaint the impunity of the outrage committed on the republic in the person of its minister the citizen fauchet by the english ship africa in concert with"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "by the prohibited goods much less shall they be confiscated as lawful prize it further provides that if the master of the neutral ship shall be willing to deliver the contraband goods to the captor and the latter receives them then is the neutral ship to be forthwith discharged and allowed freely to prosecute her voyage the d article goes further if the neutral ship shall have on board the enemies of the other they are not to be taken out unless they are soldiers in actual service these articles are so explicit it may seem strange that a doubt should arise concerning them i presume no doubt did arise for mr adet overlooked these provisions of the treaty demanded that the government should stop the exportation of horses by the british upon the principle that it was a neutral duty required by the law of nations an answer was given to his demands in which the regulations of our treaty with france were particularly brought into view as well as the rules of the law of nations mr adet however after some time renewed his claims but again kept the treaty out of sight an answer was given to these renewed claims and we heard no more of the subject until the french privateers in the west-indies began to capture american vessels which had horses on board you will find among the documents on this subject the copy of a decree of the citizens victor hughes and lebas the special agents of the executive directory in the windward islands condemning an american vessel and her entire cargo for having a small number of horses on board not bound to their enemy's but to a neutral port and the special agents ground their decree on the advice they received from mr adet under the date of the th messidor being july this vessel and cargo were thus condemned without the light of a single paper belonging to her the master had them in his pocket and would have brought them home but for the recollection of the interpreter some hours after the sentence of condemnation had been passed these citizens exercise indeed a very brief authority the process in the case of a second american vessel which to complete her lading had taken on board nineteen horses but which was also bound to a neutral port was in this form the captain having come before one of the agents he without any previous examination or hearing addressing himself to the captain pronounced sentence in these words i have confiscated your vessel and cargo closing the sentence with approving language mr adet on the th of may last revived his predecessor's claim of right by treaty to sell their prizes in our ports this occasioned the correspondence on this subject which you will find among the documents collected on this occasion he contends himself however with considering it as a right granted not positively but by implication that is because the treaty forbids the enemies of france to sell their prizes in our ports therefore it grants to her a right of selling her prizes as if my friend's denial of a favor to my enemy was in fact a grant of the same favor to me the simple statement of the ground of the claim would seem sufficient to show that the treaty will not support it that sales of french prizes have been at all permitted has been owing to the indulgence of the government this indulgence was continued until it interfered with a new positive obligation an obligation precisely the same that france herself contracted eight years subsequent to her treaty with us and with the same power this obligation is found in the th article of our treaty and the th of the french treaty with great britain thus france and the united states alike engaged to permit no enemy of great britain to arm privateers in their ports or to sell their prizes there or in any manner to exchange them consequently had france remained at peace and we engaged in a war with great britain our privateers would not be permitted to sell their prizes in french ports and by the maritime law of france prizes except they are taken from her enemies can stay in her ports no more than hours unless compelled by tempest to remain longer and the sales of such prizes are forbidden under severe penalties but notwithstanding the certainty of our right to forbid the sales of prizes in our ports and notwithstanding the express legal command of the chief justice of the united states holding a circuit court in south carolina in may last prohibiting the sale of a particular prize the british ship amity at charleston the french agent sold the prize vessel and the sale received the formal sanction of the french consul yet even this affair has been made a subject of complaint by mr adet because the collector of that port refused a clearance to the prize vessel thus sold in defiance of the authority of the united states and because he also delayed until in a new case he should get advice to permit the exportation of the cargo of the prize ship which on a survey had been reported to be irreparable indeed the french minister has discovered an aptitude to complain i may cite as instances his letters of the th of january and the d march the former because the colors of france which he had presented to the united states were not permanently fixed and displayed before congress the latter because some printers of almanacs or other periodical publications in the united states in arranging the names of the foreign ministers and agents resident amongst us had placed those of great britain before those of france and spain mr adet desired my declaration in writing that the government of the united states had no concern in printing the works in which the agents of the french republic were registered after those of great britain and that the works themselves might be suppressed i gave him an answer in writing with my consent to his publishing it in the newspapers agreeably to his request the answer states that in matters of this kind the government did not and could not interfere with regard to the colors i must observe that in what concerns our foreign relations the president being the sole representative of the people of the united states they were properly presented to him he received them with all possible respect and directed them to be deposited with our national archives that both might be preserved with equal care it remains to notice a summary of complaints exhibited by m de la croix the french minister for foreign affairs to mr monroe our minister at paris under the date of march th to which the latter returned an answer under the date of march th these were inclosed in mr monroe's letter of the d of may and received at the department of state on the th of july copies of both papers and an extract of so much of his letter as relates to this subject are among the documents now collected first complaint the inexecution of treaties st the courts of justice have taken and still take cognizance of prizes brought by french privateers into the ports of the united states d english ships of war have been admitted into those ports even in cases prohibited by the th article of the treaty that is when they have made prizes on the french republic or its citizens and have also conducted thither their prizes d the consular convention has in two points become illusory st for want of giving to the consuls the means of having their decisions executed in all disputes between frenchmen of which the consuls have the exclusive cognizance and because the judges charged with issuing warrants for apprehending french mariners who desert require the original roll of the crew to be first produced th the arrest of the corvette le cassius and her captain second complaint the impunity of the outrage committed on the republic in the person of its minister the citizen fauchet by the english ship africa in concert with"}, "profiles": ["broad", 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inconveniences would attend the giving of the consuls a jurisdiction to the extent contended for on the part of the french republic to be exercised by french consuls in the united states and consequently by american consuls in france the inconveniences are manifestly so great as to require very explicit language in the convention of the two nations on this subject to authorize the conclusion that such an enlarged jurisdiction was intended it would be to erect in foreign countries complete courts of justice with effectual process to compel the appearance of parties and witnesses and to execute their decisions and as the transactions of commerce and navigation could not in the nature of things be confined to the foreigners alone the citizens of the country must often be necessary witnesses to those transactions and of course rendered amenable to this foreign jurisdiction in their own country whereas the jurisdiction demanded is only of french consuls over french citizens in the united states and reciprocally of american consuls over the citizens of the united states in france from these considerations a presumption would arise that the jurisdiction contemplated in the consular convention was to be merely voluntary but at the same time exclusive of the courts of the country an examination of the convention we believe will support this and no other construction the th article provides that all differences and suits between frenchmen in the united states and between citizens of the united states in france and particularly all disputes between seamen and their captains and between captains of different vessels of their nation shall be determined by the respective consuls either by reference to arbitrators or by a summary judgment and without costs no officer of the country civil or military shall interfere therein or take any part whatever in the matter this last clause alone would seem sufficient to repel the claim we are considering sheriffs marshals and their deputies cannot aid in the execution of consular decisions because they are officers of the country expressly forbidden to take any part in the matter but it was meant that the laws should give consuls the power to appoint such executive officers of their own nation we find no such thing in the convention on the contrary in the case of defectors from vessels mentioned in the th article whom the consuls are authorized to cause to be arrested they are expressly directed to apply in writing to the courts judges and officers competent to make the arrests meaning the courts judges and officers of the country where the consuls reside besides if power could be given to consuls to appoint officers to execute their decisions these officers must of course have their fees of compensation to be paid by one or other of the parties but the th article declares that the consular judgment shall be without costs to these observations i subjoin the deliberate opinions of two respectable lawyers mr harrison of new-york and mr bradford the late attorney general of the united states i have considered the th article of the convention between his late most christian majesty and the united states of america and also the act of congress concerning consuls and vice consuls so far as it prescribes the duty of marshals of the united states and it is my opinion that the marshals are not bound by law to execute any sentence of a french consul arising under the said article richard harrison attorney united states for the new-york district new-york th march i have considered the convention and act above referred to and i perfectly coincide in the opinion given by the attorney of the united states for the district of new-york wm bradford philadelphia th march the other complaint under this head is that the judges who are charged by act of congress to issue warrants of arrest against defectors from french vessels have required the original ship's roll to prove that the men alleged to have deserted were a part of the crew in contempt of the th article which admits in the tribunals of both countries copies certified by the consul if we look at the th article of the consular treaty we shall see that the consuls who demand the arrests of defectors from vessels of their nation must prove by an exhibition of the registers of the vessels or ships roll that those men were part of the crew it is apparent that the original roll and not a copy is here referred to nor indeed is the contrary pretended but it is said that the th article admits certified consular copies as evidence in the courts of both nations but the th article appears to have no relation to the subject of the th it stipulates that the consuls respectively shall have the exclusive right of receiving in their chancery or on board of vessels the declarations and all other acts which the captains masters crews passengers and merchants of their nation may choose to make there even their testaments and their dispositions by last will and the copies of the said acts duly authenticated by the said consuls under the seal of their consulate shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would the ship's roll or shipping paper of a vessel's crew is not an act to be done before the consul but the evidence of a private agreement between the captain of a vessel and his crew and when he alleges that any of them have deserted the th article requires this original evidence of the fact to be produced to the judge as the ground on which he shall issue his warrant to arrest them and this is the construction put on this article by the judges and for ought i know without any diversity of opinion the difference alleged by mr fauchet in one of his letters to the secretary of state i have inquired into and find he was under a mistake and the mistake arose probably from this circumstance that when from the information of the consul there was danger that the defector would wholly escape unless instantly apprehended the judge has issued his warrant to arrest and bring before him the alleged defector but when brought that judge has not committed the man or delivered him to the consul unless the original roll was produced to prove him one of the ship's crew as to the outrage against mr fauchet by the africa man of war in attempting to seize him and his papers within the jurisdiction of the united states and captain home's insult on their authority i do not know what measures more efficacious could have been taken by the executive than those which were adopted to obtain satisfaction after waiting a reasonable time for explanations on the part of capt home and of mr moore the english vice-consul and receiving none the president revoked the exequatur of the vice-consul and desired the governor of rhode island where the africa had been lying to communicate to captain home the demand of the president that he should immediately remove from a station within the jurisdiction of the united states where he had violated their rights and further to make known to him that in forty-eight hours after the requisition should be communicated to him all intercourse between the united states and his ship would be forbidden it is very true that the exequatur of the british vice-consul was withdrawn expressly for his knowingly transmitting to the governor of rhode island a most insulting letter from captain home because altho he was on board the africa when the attempt was made against mr fauchet the president had no evidence of his co-operation the minister of the united states in london was directed to represent to that court the conduct of capt home and to demand his exemplary punishment it was not to be expected that he would be judged unheard and consequently much delay must have ensued from her station on the coast of north america the africa went to the west indies seeing sometime since by an article in the news-papers that the africa was returning to england our minister in london was reminded of this affair that the demand of satisfaction"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|2", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0008.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "second complaint relative to the attempt of the english ship africa to seize mr fauchet and his papers and the d article under the first complaint relative to the consular convention all the charges in this summary have been already examined and we think proved to be unfounded as to the consular convention many inconveniences would attend the giving to the consuls a jurisdiction to the extent contended for on the part of the french republic to be exercised by french consuls in the united states and consequently by american consuls in france the inconveniences are manifest so great as to require very explicit language in the convention of the two nations on this subject to authorize the conclusion that such an enlarged jurisdiction was intended it would be to erect in foreign countries complete courts of justice with effectual process to compel the appearance of parties and witnesses and to execute their decision and as the transactions in commerce and navigation could not in the nature of things be confined to the foreigners alone the citizens of the country must often be necessary witnesses to those transactions and of course rendered amenable to this foreign jurisdiction in their own country whereas the jurisdiction demanded is only of french consuls over french citizens in the united states and reciprocally of american consuls over their citizens of the united states in france from these considerations a presumption would arise that the jurisdiction contemplated in the consular convention was to be merely voluntary but at the same time exclusive of the court of the country an examination of the convention we believe will support this and no other construction the th article provides that all differences and suits between frenchmen in the united states and between citizens of the united states in france and particularly all disputes between seamen and their captains and between captains of different vessels of the same nation shall be determined by the respective consuls either by a reference to arbitrators or by a summary judgment and without costs no officer of the country civil or military shall interfere therein or take any part whatever in the matter this last clause alone would seem sufficient to repeal the claim we are considering sheriffs marshals and their deputies cannot aid in the execution of consular decisions because they are officers of the country expressly forbidden to take any part in the matter but was it meant that the laws should give consuls the power to appoint such executive officers of their own nation we find no such thing in the convention on the contrary in the case of deserters from vessels mentioned in the th article whom the consuls are authorized to cause to be arrested they are expressly directed to apply in writing to the courts judges and officers appointed to make the arrests meaning the courts judges and officers of the country where the consuls reside besides if power could be given to consuls to appoint officers to execute their decisions those officers must of course have their fees of compensation to be paid by one or other of the parties but the th article declares that the consular judgments shall be without costs to these observations i submit the deliberate opinions of two respectable lawyers mr harrison of new-york and mr bradford the attorney general of the united states i have considered the th article of the convention between his late most christian majesty and the united states of america and also the act of congress concerning consuls and vice-consuls as far as it prescribes the duty of marshals of the united states and it is my opinion that the marshals are not bound by law to execute any sentence of a french consul arising under the said article richard harrison attorney united states for the new-york district new-york th month i have considered the convention and act above referred to and i perfectly coincide in the opinion given by the attorney of the united states for the district of new-york w bradford philadelphia march the other complaint under this head is that the judges who are charged by an act of congress to issue warrants of arrest against deserters from french vessels have required the original ship's roll to prove that the men alleged to have deserted were a part of the crew in contempt of the th article which admits in the tribunals of both countries copies certified by the consul if we look at the th article of the consular treaty we shall see that the consuls who demand the arrests of deserters from vessels of their nation must prove by an exhibition of the registers of the vessels or ship's roll that those men were a part of the crew it is apparent that the original roll and not a copy is here referred to nor indeed is the contrary pretended but it is said that the th article admits certified consular copies as evidence in the courts of both nations but the th article appears to have no relation to the subject of the th it stipulates that the consuls respectively shall have the exclusive right of receiving in their chancery or on board of vessels the declarations and all other acts which the captains masters crews passengers and merchants of their nation may choose to make there even their testaments and disposals by last will and the copies of the said acts duly authenticated by the said consuls under the seal of their consulate shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would the ship's roll or shipping paper of a vessel's crew is not an act to be done before the consul but the evidence of a private agreement between the captain of a vessel and his crew and when he alleges that any of them have deserted the th article requires this original evidence of the fact to be produced to the judge on the ground on which he shall issue his warrant to arrest them and this is the construction put on this article by the judges and for ought i know without any diversity of opinion the difference alleged by mr fauchet is one of his letters to the secretary of state i have enquired into and find he was under a mistake and the mistake arose probably from this circumstance that when from the information of the consul there was danger that the deserter would wholly escape unless instantly apprehended the judge has issued his warrant to arrest and bring before him the alleged deserter but when brought that judge has not committed the man or delivered him to the consul unless the original roll was produced to prove him one of the ship's crew as to the outrage against mr fauchet by the africa man of war in attempting to seize him and his papers within the jurisdiction of the united states and capt home's insult on their authority i do not know what measures more effectual could have been taken by the executive than those which were adopted to obtain satisfaction after waiting a reasonable time for explanations on the part of capt home and of mr moore the english vice-consul and receiving none the president revoked the exequatur of the vice-consul and desired the governor of rhode-island where the africa had been lying to communicate to capt home the demand of the president that he should immediately remove from a station within the jurisdiction of the united states where he had violated their rights and further to make known to him that in forty eight hours after the requisition should be communicated to him all intercourse between the citizens of the united states and his ship should be forbidden it is very true that the exequatur of the british vice-consul was withdrawn expressly for his knowingly transmitting to the governor of rhode-island a most insulting letter from capt home because although he was on board the africa when the attempt was made against mr fauchet the president had no evidence of his co-operation the minister of the united states in london was directed to represent to that court the conduct of capt home and to demand his exemplary punishment it was not to be expected that he would be judged unheard and consequently much delay must have ensued from her station on the coast of north america the africa went to the west-indies seeing some time since by an article in the newspapers that the africa was returning to england our minister in london was reminded of this affair that the demand of satisfaction"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [16, 1457], "b_span": [1420, 2870], 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the united states and consequently by american consuls in france the inconveniences are manifestly so great as to require very explicit language in the convention of the two nations on this subject to authorize the conclusion that such an enlarged jurisdiction was intended it would be to erect in foreign countries complete courts of justice with effectual process to compel the appearance of parties and witnesses and to execute their decisions and as the transactions of commerce and navigation could not in the nature of things be confined to the foreigners alone the citizens of the country must often be necessary witnesses to those transactions and of course rendered amenable to this foreign jurisdiction in their own country whereas the jurisdiction demanded is only of french consuls over french citizens in the united states and reciprocally of american consuls over the citizens of the united states in france from these considerations a presumption would arise that the jurisdiction contemplated in the consular convention was to be merely voluntary but at the same time exclusive of the courts of the country an examination of the convention we believe will support this and no other construction the th article provides that all differences and suits between frenchmen in the united states and between citizens of the united states in france and particularly all disputes between seamen and their captains and between captains of different vessels of their nation shall be determined by the respective consuls either by reference to arbitrators or by a summary judgment and without costs no officer of the country civil or military shall interfere therein or take any part whatever in the matter this last clause alone would seem sufficient to repel the claim we are considering sheriffs marshals and their deputies cannot aid in the execution of consular decisions because they are officers of the country expressly forbidden to take any part in the matter but it was meant that the laws should give consuls the power to appoint such executive officers of their own nation we find no such thing in the convention on the contrary in the case of defectors from vessels mentioned in the th article whom the consuls are authorized to cause to be arrested they are expressly directed to apply in writing to the courts judges and officers competent to make the arrests meaning the courts judges and officers of the country where the consuls reside besides if power could be given to consuls to appoint officers to execute their decisions these officers must of course have their fees of compensation to be paid by one or other of the parties but the th article declares that the consular judgment shall be without costs to these observations i subjoin the deliberate opinions of two respectable lawyers mr harrison of new-york and mr bradford the late attorney general of the united states i have considered the th article of the convention between his late most christian majesty and the united states of america and also the act of congress concerning consuls and vice consuls so far as it prescribes the duty of marshals of the united states and it is my opinion that the marshals are not bound by law to execute any sentence of a french consul arising under the said article richard harrison attorney united states for the new-york district new-york th march i have considered the convention and act above referred to and i perfectly coincide in the opinion given by the attorney of the united states for the district of new-york wm bradford philadelphia th march the other complaint under this head is that the judges who are charged by act of congress to issue warrants of arrest against defectors from french vessels have required the original ship's roll to prove that the men alleged to have deserted were a part of the crew in contempt of the th article which admits in the tribunals of both countries copies certified by the consul if we look at the th article of the consular treaty we shall see that the consuls who demand the arrests of defectors from vessels of their nation must prove by an exhibition of the registers of the vessels or ships roll that those men were part of the crew it is apparent that the original roll and not a copy is here referred to nor indeed is the contrary pretended but it is said that the th article admits certified consular copies as evidence in the courts of both nations but the th article appears to have no relation to the subject of the th it stipulates that the consuls respectively shall have the exclusive right of receiving in their chancery or on board of vessels the declarations and all other acts which the captains masters crews passengers and merchants of their nation may choose to make there even their testaments and their dispositions by last will and the copies of the said acts duly authenticated by the said consuls under the seal of their consulate shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would the ship's roll or shipping paper of a vessel's crew is not an act to be done before the consul but the evidence of a private agreement between the captain of a vessel and his crew and when he alleges that any of them have deserted the th article requires this original evidence of the fact to be produced to the judge as the ground on which he shall issue his warrant to arrest them and this is the construction put on this article by the judges and for ought i know without any diversity of opinion the difference alleged by mr fauchet in one of his letters to the secretary of state i have inquired into and find he was under a mistake and the mistake arose probably from this circumstance that when from the information of the consul there was danger that the defector would wholly escape unless instantly apprehended the judge has issued his warrant to arrest and bring before him the alleged defector but when brought that judge has not committed the man or delivered him to the consul unless the original roll was produced to prove him one of the ship's crew as to the outrage against mr fauchet by the africa man of war in attempting to seize him and his papers within the jurisdiction of the united states and captain home's insult on their authority i do not know what measures more efficacious could have been taken by the executive than those which were adopted to obtain satisfaction after waiting a reasonable time for explanations on the part of capt home and of mr moore the english vice-consul and receiving none the president revoked the exequatur of the vice-consul and desired the governor of rhode island where the africa had been lying to communicate to captain home the demand of the president that he should immediately remove from a station within the jurisdiction of the united states where he had violated their rights and further to make known to him that in forty-eight hours after the requisition should be communicated to him all intercourse between the united states and his ship would be forbidden it is very true that the exequatur of the british vice-consul was withdrawn expressly for his knowingly transmitting to the governor of rhode island a most insulting letter from captain home because altho he was on board the africa when the attempt was made against mr fauchet the president had no evidence of his co-operation the minister of the united states in london was directed to represent to that court the conduct of capt home and to demand his exemplary punishment it was not to be expected that he would be judged unheard and consequently much delay must have ensued from her station on the coast of north america the africa went to the west indies seeing sometime since by an article in the news-papers that the africa was returning to england our minister in london was reminded of this affair that the demand of satisfaction"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "second complaint relative to the attempt of the english ship africa to seize mr fauchet and his papers and the d article under the first complaint relative to the consular convention all the charges in this summary have been already examined and we think proper to be unfounded as to the consular convention many inconveniences would attend the giving to the consuls a jurisdiction to the extent contended for on the part of the french republic to be exercised by french consuls in the united states and consequently by american consuls in france the inconveniences are manifestly so great as to require very explicit language in the convention of the two nations on this subject to authorize the conclusion that such an enlarged jurisdiction was intended it would be to erect in foreign countries complete courts of justice with effectual process to compel the appearance of parties and witnesses and to execute their decisions and as the transactions in commerce and navigation could not in the nature of things be confined to the foreigners alone the citizens of the country must often be necessary witnesses to those transactions and of course rendered amenable to this foreign jurisdiction in their own country whereas the jurisdiction demanded is only of french consuls over french citizens in the united states and reciprocally of american consuls over the citizens of the united states in france from these considerations a presumption would arise that the jurisdiction contemplated in the consular convention was to be merely voluntary but at the same time exclusive of the courts of the country an examination of the convention we believe will support this and no other construction the th article provides that all differences and suits between frenchmen in the united states and between citizens of the united states in france and particularly all disputes between seamen and their captains and between captains of different vessels of their nation shall be determined by the respective consuls either by a reference to arbitrators or by a summary judgment and without costs no officer of the country civil or military shall interfere therein or take any part whatever in the matter this last clause alone would seem sufficient to repel the claim we are considering sheriffs marshals and their deputies cannot aid in the execution of consular decisions because they are officers of the country expressly forbidden to take any part in the matter but was it meant that the laws should give consuls the power to appoint such executive officers of their own nation we find no such thing in the convention on the contrary in the case of deserters from vessels mentioned in the th article whom the consuls are authorized to cause to be arrested they are expressly directed to apply in writing to the courts judges and officers competent to make the arrests meaning the courts judges and officers of the country where the consuls reside besides if power could be given to consuls to appoint officers to execute their decisions these officers must of course have their fees of compensation to be paid by one or other of the parties but the th article declares that the consular judgments shall be without costs to these observations i subjoin the deliberate opinions of two respectable lawyers mr harrison of new-york and mr bradford the late attorney general of the united states i have considered the th article of the convention between his late most christian majesty and the united states of america and also the act of congress concerning consuls and vice-consuls as far as it prescribes the duty of marshals of the united states and it is my opinion that the marshals are not bound by law to execute any sentence of a french consul arising under the said article richard harrison attorney united states for the n york district new-york th march i have considered the convention and act above referred to and i perfectly coincide in the opinion given by the attorney of the united states for the district of new-york wm bradford philadelphia th march the other complaint under this head is that the judges who are charged by an act of congress to issue warrants of arrest against deserters from french vessels have required the original ship's roll to prove that the men alleged to have deserted were a part of the crew in contempt of the th article which admits in the tribunals of both countries copies certified by the consul if we look at the th article of the consular treaty we shall see that the consuls who demand the arrests of deserters from vessels of their nation must prove by an exhibition of the registers of the vessels or ship's roll that those men were a part of the crew it is apparent that the original roll and not a copy is here referred to nor indeed is the contrary pretended but it is said that the th article admits certified consular copies as evidence in the courts of both nations but the th article appears to have no relation to the subject of the th it stipulates that the consuls respectively shall have the exclusive right of receiving in their chancery or on board of vessels the declarations and all other acts which the captains masters crews passengers and merchants of their nation may choose to make there even their testaments and their dispositions by last will and the copies of the said acts duly authenticated by the said consuls under the seal of their consulate shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would the ship's roll or shipping paper of a vessel's crew is not an act to be done before the consul but the evidence of a private agreement between the captain of a vessel and his crew and when he alleges that any of them have deserted the th article requires this original evidence of the fact to be produced to the judge as the ground on which he shall issue his warrant to arrest them and this is the construction put on this article by the judges and for ought i know without any diversity of opinion the difference alleged by mr fauchet in one of his letters to the secretary of state i have enquired into and find he was under a mistake and the mistake arose probably from this circumstance that when from the information of the consul there was danger that the deserter would wholly escape unless instantly apprehended the judge has issued his warrant to arrest and bring before him the alleged deserter but when brought that judge has not committed the man or delivered him to the consul unless the original roll was produced to prove him one of the ship's crew as to the outrage against mr fauchet by the africa man of war in attempting to seize him and his papers within the jurisdiction of the united states and capt home's insult on their authority i do not know what measures more efficacious could have been taken by the executive than those which were adopted to obtain satisfaction after waiting a reasonable time for explanations on the part of captain home and of mr moore the english vice consul and receiving none the president revoked the exequatur of the vice consul and desired the governor of rhode island where the africa had been lying to communicate to capt home the demand of the president that he should immediately remove from a station within the jurisdiction of the united states where he had violated their rights and further to make known to him that in forty-eight hours after the requisition should be communicated to him all intercourse between the citizens of the united states and his ship should be forbidden it is very true that the exequatur of the british vice consul was withdrawn expressly for his knowingly transmitting to the governor of rhode island a most insulting letter from capt home because altho he was on board the africa when the attempt was made against mr fauchet the president had no evidence of his co-operation the minister of the united states in london was directed to represent to that court the conduct of capt home and to demand his exemplary punishment it was not to be expected that he would be judged unheard and consequently much delay must have ensued from her station on the coast of north america the africa went to the west indies seeing sometime since by an article in the newspapers that the africa was returning to england our minister in london was reminded of this affair that the demand of satisfaction"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [757, 1538], "b_span": [2621, 3395], "matched_words": 747, "similarity": 0.9607717041800643, "seeds": 138, "id": "M00167", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-30|1|2", "date": "1797-01-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the subject of m de la croix's third and last complaint the british treaty has been already discussed allow me here to make a few remarks he says it will be easy to prove that the united states in this treaty have knowingly and evidently sacrificed their connections with the republic and the most essential and least contested prerogative of neutrality the reverse of what the minister considers so easy to prove we think has been demonstrated our legally binding connections with france we always considered as being formed by our treaties and we say with confidence that we have not knowingly violated these in a single article if individuals have at any time infringed them the government has been sincere and diligent in its endeavors to redress the wrong if the ties of affection of warm enthusiastic friendship have been weakened the cause is to be sought for not in the acts of the american government which have been constantly directed to the preservation of our peace with all nations these ties did not depend on treaties it was our friendship to france contrasted during our revolution and our partiality for the cause of liberty and self government for which she engaged in her own that made us endure numerous injuries almost without complaining we were not willing to ascribe to the republic the outrages of her ministers against the laws the sovereignty and the dignity of the united states or the exceptionalable rule of their communications even when for such flagrant aggressions often repeated we desired the recall of one of her ministers it was done in the most soothing language and in the meantime lest the interests of the republic should suffer he was permitted to exercise his functions in all cases in which those interests could be affected when his successor arrived he officially requested that the offending minister might be apprehended that he might be sent to france but the government satisfied by his removal declined the measure some irritations were experienced from that successor what sensations have been produced by mr adet's notes your own feelings on the perusal will enable you to judge if he intended to excite the general indignation of our citizens he is not disappointed but it is presumed this was not the object after an exhibition of complaints in a file so exceptionable he could add but one more improper act that of publishing his notes in the news-papers he had scarcely transmitted them to the executive before he forwarded them to the printer for publication from the foregoing statement we trust it will appear that there has been no attempt in the government of the united states to violate our treaty or weaken our engagements with france that whatever resistance it has opposed to the measures of her agents the maintenance of the laws and sovereignty of the united states and their neutral obligations have rendered indispensable that it has never acquiesced in any acts violating our rights or interfering with the advantages stipulated to france but on the contrary has opposed them by all the means in its power that it has withheld no favors from france that were compatible with the duties of neutrality to grant that as well by their independent political rights as by the express provisions of the commercial treaty with france the united states were at full liberty to enter into commercial treaties with any other nation and consequently with great britain that no facts manifesting a partiality to that country have been and i add that none such can be produced of the propriety and justness of these conclusions you will endeavor to satisfy the french government and conscious of the rectitude of our own proceedings during the whole course of the present war we cannot but entertain the most sanguine expectations that they will be satisfied we even hope that this has been already accomplished and that you will be saved from the pain of renewing a discussion which the government has entered upon with regret your mission and instructions prove its solicitude to have prevented this necessity and the sincerity of its present hopes that your endeavors agreeably to these instructions to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they are groundless to restore confidence so unfortunately and injuriously impaired to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of your own have been attended with success and as a consequence thereof we rely on the repeal of the decrees and orders which expose our commerce to indefinite injuries which militate with the obligations of treaties and our rights as a neutral nation i have the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|2", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0008.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the subject of m de la croix's third and last complaint the british treaty has been already discussed allow me here to make a few remarks he says it will be easy to prove that the united states in this treaty have knowingly and evidently sacrificed their connections with the republic and the most essential and least contested prerogatives of neutrality the reverse of what the minister considers to say to prove we think has been demonstrated our legally binding connections with france we always considered as being formed by our treaties and we say with confidence that we have not knowingly violated these in a single article if individuals have at any time infringed them the government has been sincere and diligent in its endeavors to redress the wrong if the ties of affection of warm enthusiastic friendship have been weakened the cause is to be sought for not in the acts of the american government which have been constantly directed to the preservation of our peace with all nations these ties did not depend on treaties it was our friendship to france contracted during our revolution and our partiality for the cause of liberty and self government for which she engaged in her own that made us endure numerous injuries almost without complaining we were not willing to ascribe to the republic the outrages of her ministers against the laws the sovereignty and the dignity of the united states or the exceptional title of their communications even when for such flagrant aggressions often repeated we desired the repeal of one of their ministers it was done in the most soothing language and in the mean time lest the interests of the republic should suffer he was permitted to exercise his functions in all cases in which those interests could be affected when his successor arrived he officially requested that the offending minister might be apprehended that he might be sent to france but the government satisfied by his removal declines the measure some irritations were experienced from that successor what sensations have been produced by mr adet's notes your own feelings on the perusal will enable you to judge if he intended to excite the general indignation of our citizens he is not disappointed but it is presumed this was not the object after an exhibition of complaints in a stile so exceptional he could add but one more improper act that of publishing his notes in the newspapers he had scarcely transmitted them to the executive before he forwarded them to the printer for publication from the foregoing statement we trust it will appear that there has been no attempt by the government of the united states to violate our treaty or weaken our engagements with france that whatever resistance it has opposed to the measures of her agents the maintenance of the laws and sovereignty of the united states and the neutral obligations have rendered indispensable that it has never acquiesced in acts violating our rights or interfering with the advantages stipulated to france but on the contrary has opposed them by all the means in its power that it has withheld succours from france that were compatible with the duties of neutrality to grant that by their independent policy it has expressed provisions of the treaty with france the united states were at full liberty to enter into commercial treaties with any other nation and consequently with great-britain that no facts manifesting a partiality to that country have been and i add that none such can be produced of the propriety and justness of these conclusions you will endeavour to satisfy the french government and conscious of the rectitude of our own proceedings during the whole course of the present war we cannot but entertain the most sanguine expectations that they will be satisfied we even hope that this has been already accomplished and that you will be saved from the pain of renewing a discussion which the government has entered into with regret your mission and instructions prove its solicitude to have prevented this necessity and the sincerity of its present hopes that your endeavours agreeably to those instructions to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they are groundless to restore confidence so unfortunately and injuriously impaired to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of your own have been attended with success and as a consequence thereof we rely on the repeal of the decrees and orders which expose our commerce to indefinite injuries which militate with the obligations of treaties and our rights as a 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complaining we were not willing to ascribe to the republic the outrages of her ministers against the laws the sovereignty and the dignity of the united states or the exceptionalable rule of their communications even when for such flagrant aggressions often repeated we desired the recall of one of her ministers it was done in the most soothing language and in the meantime lest the interests of the republic should suffer he was permitted to exercise his functions in all cases in which those interests could be affected when his successor arrived he officially requested that the offending minister might be apprehended that he might be sent to france but the government satisfied by his removal declined the measure some irritations were experienced from that successor what sensations have been produced by mr adet's notes your own feelings on the perusal will enable you to judge if he intended to excite the general indignation of our citizens he is not disappointed but it is presumed this was not the object after an exhibition of complaints in a file so exceptionable he could add but one more improper act that of publishing his notes in the news-papers he had scarcely transmitted them to the executive before he forwarded them to the printer for publication from the foregoing statement we trust it will appear that there has been no attempt in the government of the united states to violate our treaty or weaken our engagements with france that whatever resistance it has opposed to the measures of her agents the maintenance of the laws and sovereignty of the united states and their neutral obligations have rendered indispensable that it has never acquiesced in any acts violating our rights or interfering with the advantages stipulated to france but on the contrary has opposed them by all the means in its power that it has withheld no favors from france that were compatible with the duties of neutrality to grant that as well by their independent political rights as by the express provisions of the commercial treaty with france the united states were at full liberty to enter into commercial treaties with any other nation and consequently with great britain that no facts manifesting a partiality to that country have been and i add that none such can be produced of the propriety and justness of these conclusions you will endeavor to satisfy the french government and conscious of the rectitude of our own proceedings during the whole course of the present war we cannot but entertain the most sanguine expectations that they will be satisfied we even hope that this has been already accomplished and that you will be saved from the pain of renewing a discussion which the government has entered upon with regret your mission and instructions prove its solicitude to have prevented this necessity and the sincerity of its present hopes that your endeavors agreeably to these instructions to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they are groundless to restore confidence so unfortunately and injuriously impaired to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of your own have been attended with success and as a consequence thereof we rely on the repeal of the decrees and orders which expose our commerce to indefinite injuries which militate with the obligations of treaties and our rights as a neutral nation i have the honor to be with great respect sir your most obedient"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the subject of m de la croix's third and last complaint the british treaty has been already discussed allow me here to make a few remarks he says it will be easy to prove that the united states in this treaty have knowingly and evidently sacrificed their connections with the republic and the most essential and least contested prerogatives of neutrality the reverse of what the minister confiders so easy to prove we think has been demonstrated our legally binding connections with france we always considered as being formed by our treaties and we say with confidence that we have not knowingly violated these in a single article if individuals have at any time infringed them the government has been sincere and diligent in its endeavors to redress the wrong if the ties of affection of warm enthusiastic friendship have been weakened the cause is to be sought for not in the acts of the american government which have been constantly directed to the preservation of our peace with all nations these ties did not depend on treaties it was our friendship to france contracted during our revolution and our partiality for the cause of liberty and self government for which she engaged her own that made us endure numerous injuries almost without complaining we were not willing to ascribe to the republic the outrages of her ministers against the laws the sovereignty and the dignity of the u states or the exceptional file of their communications even when for such flagrant aggressions often repeated we desired the recall of one of her ministers it was done in the most soothing language and in the meantime left the interest of the republic should suffer he was permitted to exercise his functions in all cases in which those interests could be affected when his successor arrived he officially requested that the offending minister might be apprehended that he might be sent to france but the government satisfied by his removal declined the measure some irritations were experienced from that successor what sensations have been produced by mr adet's notes your own feelings on the perusal will enable you to judge if he intended to excite the general indignation of our citizens he is not disappointed but it is presumed this was not the object after an exhibition of complaints in a file so exceptional he could add but one more improper act that of publishing his notes in the newspapers he had scarcely transmitted them to the executive before he forwarded them to the printer for publication from the foregoing statement we trust it will appear that there has been no attempt in the government of the united states to violate our treaty or weaken our engagements with france that whatever resistance it has opposed to the measures of her agents the maintenance of the laws and sovereignty of the united states and their neutral obligations have rendered indispensable that it has never acquiesced in any acts violating our rights or interfering with the advantages stipulated to france but on the contrary has opposed them by all the means in its power that it has withheld no succors from france that were compatible with the duties of neutrality to grant that as well by their independent political rights as by the express provisions of the commercial treaty with france the united states were at full liberty to enter into commercial treaties with any other nation and consequently with great britain that no facts manifesting a partiality to that country have been and i add that none such can be produced of the propriety and justness of these conclusions you will endeavor to satisfy the french government and conscious of the rectitude of our own proceedings during the whole course of the present war we cannot but entertain the most sanguine expectations that they will be satisfied we even hope that this has been already accomplished and that you will be saved from the pain of renewing a discussion which the government has entered upon with regret your mission and instructions prove its solicitude to have prevented this necessity and the sincerity of its present hopes that your endeavors agreeably to those instructions to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they are groundless to restore confidence so unfortunately and injuriously impaired to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of your own have been attended with success and as a consequence thereof we rely on the repeal of the decrees and orders which expose our commerce to indefinite injuries which militate with the obligations of treaties and our rights as a neutral nation i have the honor to be with great respect sir your most obedient"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [44, 113], "b_span": [879, 947], "matched_words": 66, "similarity": 0.9635036496350365, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00169", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-30|1|3", "date": "1797-01-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", 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and indisposition of mr brown"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|2", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020901/0214.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "remembered and lamented by all who knew her for her amiable domestic and social virtues we have heard since saturday that the negro supposed to be burnt escaped unhurt mr brown is indebted under providence for his life to the fidelity and exertions of this black servant who conducted him on a ladder from the third story of his house to which he had ascended through a stair case while it was in flames in order to save his wife and children he was much injured by the fire but is now out of danger two apprentices were much bruised by leaping from the upper windows and two servant maids who were much burnt are now in the pennsylvania hospital all it is said upon the recovery we hear the philadelphia gazette will be continued by mr cary mr brown's assistant during the confinement and indisposition of mr brown"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2260, 2611], "b_span": [1954, 2303], "matched_words": 333, "similarity": 0.9514285714285714, "seeds": 53, "id": "M00171", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-30|1|3", "date": "1797-01-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "martin which arrived at marblehead on monday evening last in days from st eustatia we have the following intelligence on the th of december three ships of the line and one frigate under british colours came down statia road and commenced an attack upon the town and the medee french frigate and a sloop of war and after firing two hours in which time they were well answered from the fort and the two french ships they returned without doing the least damage to the town or the french ships excepting lodging about shot in the empty stores but in their progress they committed an action which will stand recorded an eternal disgrace in their naval history capt benjamin diamond in a sloop belonging to salem that very morning carried in by a french privateer being bound to antigua from charleston then lying in the road was wantonly run down by one of the british ships of war and his mate one sailor and a black and a white boy were drowned and the vessel and cargo entirely lost another ship endeavoured to run down capt martin's schooner the mate only was on board the crew having all died and perceiving their intention endeavoured to cut the cable but not being able to effect this he loosed it and the schooner fell off the ship just passing her one of the crew as she passed threw a billet of wood at the mate from the forecastle and an officer looking over the quarter ordered the damn yankee rascal to haul down his colours which was immediately complied with but not content with this veering his ship he fired a broad side into the schooner and there were shot in her main-sail shot in the main-mast two of which remain there and a lb shot passed thro the schooner's quarter and lodged in the lower hold in a barrel of sweet oil which shot capt martin has preserved and brought home as a lasting memorial of the amity of great britain to this country n b capt martin's schooner is exactly seventy"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley 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salem that very morning carried in by a french privateer being bound to antigua from charlestown then lying in the road was wantonly run down by one of the british ships of war and his mate one sailor and a black and white boy were drowned and the vessel and cargo entirely lost another ship endeavoured to run down capt martin's schooner the mate only was on board the crew having all died and perceiving their intention endeavoured to cut the cable but not being able to effect this he loosened it and the schooner fell off the ship just passed her one of the crew as she passed threw a billet of wood at the mate from the forecastle and an officer looking over the quarter ordered the dam'd yankee rascal to haul down his colours which was immediately complied with but not content with this veering his ship he fired a broad side into the schooner and there were shot holes in her main-tail shot in the main mast of which remain there and a lb shot passed through the schooner's quarter and lodged in the lower hole in a barrel of sweet oil which that captain martin has preserved and brought home as a lasting memorial of the amity of great britain to this country n b captain martin's schooner is exactly seventy"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [456, 1175], "b_span": [2051, 2768], "matched_words": 685, "similarity": 0.9540389972144847, "seeds": 124, "id": "M00172", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-30|1|4", "date": "1797-01-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013001/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they misled the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the countries in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppose them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one side long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ-church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debewy post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at new-burypport by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2996, 3134], "b_span": [983, 1120], "matched_words": 131, "similarity": 0.9527272727272728, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00173", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-31|1|3", "date": "1797-01-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and on the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strausburg as that place would be demolished that the head-quarters of the archduke charles were at offenberg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|3", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and on the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strausburg as that place would be demolished that the head-quarters of the archduke charles were at offenberg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between paris and vienna"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|3", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between paris and vienna"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2968, 3134], "b_span": [2373, 2540], "matched_words": 160, "similarity": 0.960960960960961, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00175", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-31|1|3", "date": "1797-01-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "federal gazette were yesterday favored with a number of hamburg papers to the th november brought by the anthony mangin the following from an hasty perusal appear to be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and on the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strausburg as that place would be demolished that the head-quarters of the archduke charles were at offenberg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-15|1|2", "date": "1797-03-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031501/0759.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "federal gazette were yesterday favored with a number of hamburg papers to the th november brought by the anthony mangin the following from a hasty perusal appear to be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and on the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strafsburgh as that place would be demolished that the head quarters of the arch duke charles were at offenburg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3378, 3442], "b_span": [2299, 2364], "matched_words": 62, "similarity": 0.9612403100775194, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00176", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-01-31|1|3", "date": "1797-01-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-01-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797013101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from copenhagen to a gentleman in this town dated october our government have lately passed a resolution permitting american vessels to bring india goods to this market direct from any port in the east-indies china excepted on the same footing in all respects as danish ships we expect this measure will give our friends in america a good opportunity of extending"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-15|1|2", "date": "1797-03-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031501/0759.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from copenhagen to a gentleman in this town dated october our government have lately passed a resolution permitting american vessels to bring india goods to this market direct from any port in the east indies china excepted on the same footing in all respects as danish ships we expect the measure will give our friends in america a good opportunity of extending"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1821, 1940], "b_span": [714, 834], "matched_words": 113, "similarity": 0.9456066945606695, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00177", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|2", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "capt crane arrived at marcus hook on the th inst arrived at port royal sir r abercrombie gen hope c from england after a passage of days in the antigua frigate and we learn that men may be expected in the course of this month it is supposed to attack guadaloupe although the most profound secrecy is observed at head-quarters tranquility is at length restored to the ill-fated islands of st vincent's and grenada and the insurgents of st lucia are nearly reduced the charibs have all surrendered and are now in the island of ballifoa on the th ult sail of the line with some frigates failed it is supposed to trinidad to cut out the spanish squadron"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|2", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020901/0214.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "capt crane arrived at marcus hook on the th inst arrived at fort royal sir r abercrombie gen hope c from england after a passage of days in the arethusa frigate and we learn that men may be expected in the course of this month it is supposed to attack guadeloupe although the most profound secrecy is observed at head-quarters tranquillity is at length restored to the ill-fated islands of st vincents and grenada and the insurgents of st lucia are nearly reduced the charibs have all surrendered and are now in the island of baillifoa on the th ult six sail of the line with some frigates failed it is supposed to trinidad to cut out the spanish squadron"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1125, 1451], "b_span": [1091, 1417], "matched_words": 318, "similarity": 0.9754601226993865, "seeds": 60, "id": "M00178", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|2", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a charleston paper of the th instant a gentleman of this city has received a letter from his friend in the havannah which mentions that mr thomas muir one of the gentlemen who were transported to botany bay by the british government about three years ago had arrived in that city a short time since the account he gave of himself was that he eluded the vigilance of his keepers at botany bay and got on board of a vessel which carried him to nootka sound that he went amongst the indians and after travelling nearly the whole length of the west coast of america he got to panama and there he made himself known to the governor who sent him across the isthmus of darien to la vera cruz from thence he was sent in a spanish frigate to the havannah where he expected to get on board an american vessel and reach the united states but unfortunately for him a letter was sent by the governor of la vera cruz to the governor of the havannah in which he mentions that tho he had shown mr muir every civility in his power yet he thought that a man professing his principles would be dangerous in the spanish dominions therefore he recommended his being sent to spain for the king to determine what should be done with him after being a few days at the havannah he was committed to a prison on the north side of cuba called la principia where he is to remain until a proper conveyance offers to carry him to spain his confinement is not rigorous and every indulgence is shown to him that is not incompatible with his situation the gentleman who writes the letter containing this account conversed with mr muir who was much disappointed at not meeting an american agent there as he had hoped thro his intercession to be released and be permitted to sail for"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020901/0215.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a charleston paper of the th inst a gentleman of this city has received a letter from his friend in the havannah which mentions that mr thomas muir one of the gentlemen who were transported to botany bay by the british government about three years ago had arrived in that city a short time since the account he gave of himself was that he eluded the vigilance of his keepers at botany bay and got on board of a vessel which carried him to nootka sound that he went among the indians and after travelling nearly the whole length of the west coast of america he got to panama and there he made himself known to the governor who sent him across the isthmus of darien to la vera cruz from thence he was sent in a spanish frigate to the havannah where he expected to get on board an american vessel and reach the united states but unfortunately for him a letter was sent by the governor of la vera cruz to the governor of the havannah in which he mentions that though he had thewn mr muir every civility in his power yet that he thought a man professing his principles would be dangerous in the spanish dominions therefore he recommended his being sent to spain for the king to determine what should be done with him after being a few days at the havannah he was committed to a prison on the north side of cuba called la principa where he is to remain until a proper conveyance offers to carry him to spain his confinement is not rigorous and every indulgence is thewn to him that is not incompatible with his situation the gentleman who writes the letter containing this account conversed with mr muir who was much disappointed at not meeting an american agent there as he had hoped through his intercession to be released and be permitted to sail for"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1811, 1976], "b_span": [1901, 2069], "matched_words": 154, "similarity": 0.924924924924925, "seeds": 26, "id": "M00179", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|2", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from martinique dated th january received by the schooner liberty capt crane arrived at marcus hook on the th inst arrived at port royal sir r abercrombie gen hope c from england after a passage of days in the antigua frigate and we learn that men may be expected in the course of this month it is supposed to attack guadaloupe although the most profound secrecy is observed at head-quarters tranquility is at length restored to the ill-fated islands of st vincent's and grenada and the insurgents of st lucia are nearly reduced the charibs have all surrendered and are now in the island of ballifoa on the th ult sail of the line with some frigates failed it is supposed to trinidad to cut out the spanish squadron consisting of ships of the line postscript of a letter from jamaica dated th of december general abercrombie and his army are landed at st domingo and were within a few miles of cape francois driving"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|3", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0235.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from martinique dated th january received by the schooner liberty capt crane arrived at marcus hook on the th inst arrived at fort royal sir r abercrombie gen hope c from england after a passage of days in the arethusa frigate and we learn that men may be expected in the course of this month it is supposed to attack guadaloupe although the most profound secrecy is observed at head quarters tranquility is at length restored to the ill fated islands of st vincents and grenada and the insurgents of st lucia are nearly reduced the charibs have all surrendered and are now on the island of barbuda on the th inst six sail of the line with some frigates failed it is supposed to trinidad to cut out the spanish squadron consisting of five ships of the line postscript of a letter from jamaica dated th december gen abercrombie and his army are landed in st domingo and were within a few miles of cape francois driving"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1719, 1786], "b_span": [1013, 1086], "matched_words": 67, "similarity": 0.9571428571428572, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00180", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|3", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "no the fortunate number which drew dollars is owned by messrs reed and green of keene n h they had been confined in prison for some time for debt and one of them in custody of an officer arrived in town on saturday to claim this boon of fortune it is said that dollars have been drawn in the last harvard lottery by three tickets owned within"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020901/0215.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "no the fortunate number which drew dollars in the boston harvard college lottery is owned by messrs reed and green of keene n h they had been confined in prison for some time for debt and one of them in custody of an officer arrived in town on saturday to claim this boon of fortune it is said that dollars have been drawn in the last harvard lottery by three tickets owned within"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3340, 4058], "b_span": [2051, 2768], "matched_words": 676, "similarity": 0.9421602787456446, "seeds": 110, "id": "M00181", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-01|1|4", "date": "1797-02-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020101/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general constituted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering them unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they misled the people at home and misrepresented them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and distemper that encouraged the counties in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of british by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up and opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and those who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indication at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have not one fide long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ-church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookeller at salem by mr denehy post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookeller at newburyport by mr e bliss bookeller at new-york by mr s campbell bookeller at baltimore by mr g hill bookeller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying 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stop to all proceedings in this"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|3", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0239.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "booth informs that some time last month the french privateer flying fish boarded a genoese ship and after an action of glasses captured her the genoese had one man killed and another wounded the mount vernon was not then condemned orders are expected from st domingo respecting her the governor is charged with partiality to the americans by the spanish merchants which has for the present put a stop to all proceedings in this"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": 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abroad it was those vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the east to rebel it was they that gave rise to the deprivation of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was the when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting dispositions of the people encouraged the french proceed from one degree of infolence to another at last their minister braves the president in history and a bullying commander comes and tells us this only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right over our ports and it is these gazettes that now have impudence to censure what their falsehood and ire have produced i shall be told that the pecuniary means that they are not obliged to read the abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else i suppose them is impossible they will vomit forth poison it is a privilege of their natures that we can abridge and therefore the only mode left is counteract its effects this must be done too in our own way books or periodical publications in form of books may be of some service but are to means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to look upon as a truth and when the detection at last appears it is often as useless as that of a doctor who finds his patient expired the only way of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp just i have long wished to see but i have wished and acted it in vain indignation at the supineness of ours at last got the better of all diffidence in own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one side long enough shall now hear the other condons porcupine's gazette will be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each year advertisements inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor among those pieces from the gazette that may appear preferring in a more portable form with simplifications and amendments as time may life to shall be published monthly and each subscriber entitled to a copy delivered with his paper the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1034, 1204], "b_span": [8, 178], "matched_words": 168, "similarity": 0.9882352941176471, "seeds": 34, "id": "M00184", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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said has been given to some of the military associations of the metropolis to hold themselves in readiness to take the several guards of the city in the eventual absence of the troops in garrison who we are informed have been instructed to be in immediate preparation for march with sixty rounds of ball cartridges these orders are we hear in consequence of dispatches from a nobleman who lately proceeded to the north and who it would seem from those precautionary measures envisages something of a growing turbulence against which it may be necessary to oppose judicious"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [10, 146], "b_span": [1425, 1614], "matched_words": 136, "similarity": 0.8369230769230769, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00185", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", 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that of a separate negotiation to which it has without the least foundation"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "department of foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy of the british cabinet the undersigned has not failed to transmit to his court the answer of the executive directory to the propositions which he was charged to make and which were intended to serve as overtures to a negotiation of peace with respect to the injurious and offensive insinuations contained in that answer and which are only fit to throw new obstacles in the way of that reconciliation which the french government professes to desire the king has thought it far beneath his dignity to allow any reply whatever to be returned on his part the progress and result of the negotiation will no doubt evince the principles on which it shall have been conducted on either side and it is neither by reproaches as disgusting as they are without foundation nor by reciprocal insults that a sincere intention is shown to further the work of peace the undersigned proceeds therefore to the first object of discussion set forth in the answer of the executive directory viz that of a separate negotiation to which it has without the least foundation"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [302, 527], "b_span": [2112, 2339], "matched_words": 217, "similarity": 0.9601769911504425, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00186", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0210.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "add to this demand the express declaration that while his majesty shall acquit his august allies with all his successive steps relative to the object of this present negotiation and faithful towards those sovereigns in the most efficacious manner every duty of a good and faithful ally he will at the same time neglect nothing on his part both to dispose them to concur in this negotiation by all such means as are most fitted to accelerate its progress and ensure its success and to preserve them in dispositions favourable to his wish for the return of a general peace on just permanent and honourable conditions malmesbury paris november to the above note the french minister for foreign affairs delacroix returned the following answer answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the note of lord malmesbury the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to call on you to point out as speedily as possible and nominatively the subjects of reciprocal compensation which you have to propose he is decidedly charged to ask of you what are the dispositions to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and king furnished so conspicuous a proof at the commencement of the present campaign the executive directory are ignorant of them it was the emperor and king by"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "add to this demand the express declaration that whilst his majesty shall acquaint his august allies with all his successive steps relative to the object of this present negotiation and with respect to those sovereigns in the most efficacious manner every duty of a good and faithful ally he will at the same time neglect nothing on his part both to dispose them to concur in this negotiation by all such means as are most fitted to accelerate its progress and ensure its success and to preserve them in dispositions favourable to his with for the return of a general peace on just permanent and honourable conditions signed malmesbury paris november to the above note the french minister for foreign affairs delacroix returned the following answer answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the note of lord malmesbury the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to call on you to point out as speedily as possible and nominatively the subjects of reciprocal compensations which you have to propose he is also charged to ask of you what are the dispositions to treat on a just and equitable basis of which his majesty the emperor and king furnished so conspicuous a proof at the commencement of the present campaign the executive directory is ignorant of them it was the emperor and king by"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1703, 1911], "b_span": [2353, 2562], "matched_words": 199, "similarity": 0.9544364508393285, "seeds": 32, "id": "M00187", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|2", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020201/0210.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have at length received the official letter of moreau on the victory of buchon this general gives a description very different from the fabrications of english ministerial prints of his situation and retreat his only view in approaching the french frontiers was to communicate with the army of the sambre and meuse and he brought with him from germany prisoners and officers thus vanish into smoke all the reports rumours fabrications and lies made told and circulated of this general if we were to credit some papers on this continent this general and his soldiers have more lives than cats he has more than times been cut to pieces he has been mortally wounded half a dozen times at least poor buonaparte was served in the same curvy manner he was cut to pieces was sometimes dead and sometimes defeated it was but the other day that wurmser pursued him to verona cutting down and up and refusing to give quarter yet he now keeps wurmser caged in mantua what lie is next to be told is the convention to be sacrificed and royalty established in france how long will the people suffer themselves to be duped by beings who have scarce sufficient ingenuity to tell a good"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0751.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have at length received the official letter of moreau on the victory at buchon this general gives a description very different from the fabrications of english ministerial prints of his situation and retreat his only view in approaching the french frontiers was to communicate with the army of the sambre and meuse and he brought with him from germany prisoners and officers thus vanishing into smoke all the reports rumors fabrications and lies made told and circulated of this general if we were to credit some papers on this continent this general and his soldiers have more lives than cats he has more than twenty times been cut to pieces he has been mortally wounded half a dozen times at least poor buonaparte was served in the same scurvy manner he was cut to pieces was sometimes dead and sometimes defeated it was but the other day that wurmsler pursued him to verona cutting down and up and refusing to give quarters yet he now keeps wurmsler caged in mantua what he is next to be told is the convention to be massacred and royalty established in france how long will the people suffer themselves to be duped by beings who have scarce sufficient ingenuity to tell a good"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [312, 479], "b_span": [130, 297], "matched_words": 163, "similarity": 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the french republic had by order of his government suspended his functions here he therefore cannot carry powers to negotiate an accommodation of that breach and it is not to be supposed that having suspended the functions of their ordinary minister here they will receive ours the federal executive if they sincerely with an accommodation of grievances will then certainly be ultimately under the necessity of sending an envoy extraordinary or of transmitting to mr pinckney"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|3", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0231.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "been for some days past rumoured that an envoy extraordinary was to be sent to france to settle the differences which have occurred between the sister republic the late message of the president on french affairs proves however that rumour unfounded and the executive appears to rely with confidence for the accomplishment of that object on the exertions of our ordinary minister mr pinckney but will mr pinckney be received as our minister it is reasonable to be supposed that he will not he left this country before the minister of the french republic had by order of his government suspended his functions here he therefore cannot carry powers to negotiate an accommodation of that breach and it is not to be supposed that having suspended the function of their ordinary minister here they will receive ours the federal executive if they sincerely with an accommodation of grievances will then certainly be ultimately under the necessity of sending an envoy extraordinary or of transmitting to mr pinckney"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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their effects to strasburg as that place would be demolished that head quarters of the archduke charles were at offenburg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|3", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0239.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and of the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strasbourg as that place would be demolished that the head quarters of the archduke charles were at offenburg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [312, 479], "b_span": [44, 210], "matched_words": 159, "similarity": 0.954954954954955, "seeds": 32, "id": "M00190", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|3", "date": "1797-02-02", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", 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the functions of their ordinary minister here they will receive ours the federal executive if they sincerely with an accommodation of grievances will then certainly be ultimately under the necessity of sending an envoy extraordinary or of transmitting to mr pinckney"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|3", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0754.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "been for some days past rumored that an envoy extraordinary was to be sent to france to settle the differences which have occurred between the sister republics the late message of the president on french affairs proves however that rumor ungrounded and the executive appears to rely with confidence for the accomplishment of that object on the exertion of our ordinary minister mr pinckney but will mr pinckney be received as our minister it is reasonable to suppose that he will not he left this country before the minister of the french republic had by order of his government suspended his functions here he therefore cannot carry powers to negotiate an accommodation of that breach and it is not to be supposed that having suspended the functions of their ordinary minister here they will receive ours the federal executive if they sincerely with an accommodation of grievances will then certainly be ultimately under the necessity of sending an envoy extraordinary or of transmitting to mr pinckney"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [983, 1120], "b_span": [2401, 2540], "matched_words": 133, "similarity": 0.9637681159420289, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00191", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-02|1|3", "date": 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french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-15|1|2", "date": "1797-03-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031501/0759.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and on the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strafsburgh as that place would be demolished that the head quarters of the arch duke charles were at offenburg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [780, 1074], "b_span": [158, 451], "matched_words": 288, "similarity": 0.9812606473594548, "seeds": 47, "id": "M00192", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-03|1|2", "date": "1797-02-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020301/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a respectable character in hillsboro north-carolina to his friend in philadelphia we have received a paper containing a statement of votes which decides the question of presidency in favor of mr adams and although we were opposed to his election the people here generally seem disposed to shew that submission to the majority which is always due from the minority in a republican government philadelphia february d sir in consequence of repeated publications in the several newspapers throughout the states intimating the illegality of the appointment of electors in the state of vermont arising from an idea that the legislature proceeded to the choice of electors not having an existing law directing the mode to counteract the ill impressions such publications may have made i enclose for your publication a true copy of the law under which the legislature of that state chose their electors isaac tichenor mr fenno an act directing the mode of appointing electors to elect the president and vice-president of the united states it is hereby enacted by the general assembly of the state of vermont that the electors for electing a president and vice-president of the united states be appointed by the ballot of the governor and council and house of representatives met in grand committee and that those persons to the number which they have a right to appoint who shall have a majority of all the votes of said grand committee shall be declared to be duly appointed electors of this state for the purposes aforesaid state of vermont secretary of state's office vergennes january th i hereby certify the preceding is a true copy of an act of the legislature of this state passed november third one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three and now remaining in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797020901/0215.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a respectable character in hillsboro north-carolina to his friend in philadelphia we have received a paper containing a statement of votes which decides the question of a presidency in favor of mr adams and though we were opposed to his election the people here generally seem disposed to throw that submission to the majority which is always due from the minority in a republican government philadelphia february sir in consequence of repeated publications in the several newspapers throughout the states intimating the illegality of the appointment of electors in the state of vermont arising from an idea that the legislature proceeded to the choice of electors not having an existing law directing the mode to counteract the ill impressions such publications may have made i enclose for your publication a true copy of the law under which the legislature of that state chose their electors isaac tichenor mr fenno an act directing the mode of appointing electors to elect the president and vice president of the united states it is hereby enacted by the general assembly of the state of vermont that the electors for electing a president and vice-president of the united states be appointed by the ballot of the governor council and house of representatives met in grand committee and that those persons to the number which they have a right to appoint who shall have a majority of all the votes of said grand committee shall be declared to be duly appointed electors of this state for the purposes aforesaid state of vermont secretary of state's office vergennes january i hereby certify the preceding is a true copy of an act of the legislature of this state passed november third one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three and now remaining in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1731, 2707], "b_span": [54, 1045], "matched_words": 953, "similarity": 0.9689883070665989, "seeds": 182, "id": "M00193", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-03|1|2", "date": "1797-02-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020301/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the american daily advertiser directions for preventing calamities by f i r e keep your chimnies and stove-pipes clean by sweeping them at least once every month never remove hot ashes in a wooden bucket or a wooden vessel of any kind and look well to the ash-hole after sweeping a hearth see that the hearth brush does not retain any particles of fire before you hang it up in its usual place oblige all your servants to go to bed before you every night and inspect all your fire places before you retire to rest for fear of accidents let a bucket of water be left in your kitchen every night the writer of these directions once saved his house from being consumed by fire by this precaution do not permit a servant to carry a can to his bed room if he sleeps in an unplastered garret cover up your fire carefully every night in ashes let the unburnt parts of the billets or chunks of wood be placed next to the hearth by which means no sparks will be emitted from the wood pour a little water upon the burning ends of the wood which are not completely covered by the ashes place before the fire a fender made of sheet iron this contrivance was well known in england many years ago by the name of a coverture it has lately received from a top being added to it the name of a hood remove papers and linen from near the fire when you leave it to a remote part of the room shut the doors of all the rooms in which you leave fire at night by thus excluding the supply of fresh air you will prevent a flame being kindled should a coal or spark fall upon the floor or upon any other combustible matter in the room the smoke which issues from this smothered fire will find its way into every part of the house and by waking the family may save it from destruction if sickened or any other cause should oblige you to leave a candle burning all night place it in such a situation as to be out of the reach of the rats a house was once destroyed by a rat running away with a lighted candle for the sake of the tallow and conveying it into a hole filled with rags and other inflammable matters never read in bed by candle light especially if your bed be surrounded by curtains strictly forbid the use of segars in your family at all times but more especially after night may not the greater frequency of fires in the united states than in former years be ascribed in part to the more general use of segars by careless servants and children there is good reason to believe a house was lately set on fire in northumberland county by a half consumed segar which a negro woman threw away to prevent her being detected by her master in the unhealthy and offensive practice of smoking in case of fire attend to the following directions to prevent or restrain its terrible consequences do not open the room or closet door where you suspect the fire to be until you have secured your family and your most valuable effects nor until you have collected a quantity of water to throw upon the fire the moment a fresh supply of air excites it into a flame where water cannot conveniently be had try to smother the fire by throwing two or three blankets over it a british sea captain once saved a king's ship by throwing himself with a spread blanket in his arms upon a fire which had broke out near the powder room he was pensioned for life for this wise and meritorious act in case it be impossible to escape by a stair case from a house on fire shut the door of your bed chamber and wait until help can be brought to secure your escape from a window if safety does not appear probable in this way wrap yourselfs up in a blanket hold your breath and rush thro the flames if water be at hand first wet the blanket to prevent fire descending from the roof or ascending from the first story form by means of blankets a kind of dam on each of the intermediate stories near their stair-cases that shall confine the water that is thrown upon the roof or into the windows it will effectually check the progress of the fire downwards or upwards in brick and stone houses to prevent fire spreading to adjoining houses cover them with wet blankets to extinguish fire in a chimney shut the door and windows of the room throw a quart or more of common salt into the fire hold or nail a wet blanket before the fire place if these means fail throw a wet blanket down the chimney from the roof of the house there is a method used in some countries of glazing chimnies when they are built by burning common salt in them which renders them so smooth that no soot can adhere to them chimnies so constructed can never take fire ladders are commonly used as the means of conveying persons from the windows of houses on fire would not a long and stiff pole with a rope fixed at its upper end be more portable and convenient for this purpose the famous mr john wesley when a child was taken out of a window in his father's house whilst it was in flames by one man standing upon the shoulders of another this practice may be used to rescue persons from the first story of a house on fire where other means cannot be had with sufficient convenience or expedition"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the american daily advertiser directions for preventing calamities by fire recommended to all house-keepers to be pasted up in their kitchens or other parts of their houses keep your chimnies and stove pipes clean by sweeping them at least once every month never remove hot ashes in a wooden bucket or a wooden vessel of any kind and look well to the ash hole after sweeping a hearth see that the hearth brush does not retain any particles of fire before you hang it up in its usual place oblige all your servants to go to bed before you every night and inspect all your fire places before you retire to rest for fear of accident let a bucket of water be left in your kitchen every night the writer of these directions once saved his house from being consumed by fire by this precaution do not permit a servant to carry a candle to his bed room if he sleeps in an unplastered garret cover up your fire carefully every night in ashes let the unburnt parts of the billets or chunks of wood be placed next to the hearth by which means no sparks will be emitted from the wood pour a little water upon the burning ends of the wood which are not completely covered by the ashes place before the fire a fender made of sheet iron this contrivance was well known in england many years ago by the name of a coverside it has lately received from a top being added to it the name of a hood remove papers and linen from near the fire when you leave it to a remote part of the room shut the doors of all the rooms in which you leave fire at night by thus excluding the supply of fresh air you will prevent a flame being kindled should a coal or spark fall upon the floor or upon any other combustible matter in the room the smoke that would issue from this smothered fire will find its way into every part of the house and by awaking the family may save it from destruction if sickness or any other cause should oblige you to leave a candle burning all night place it in such a situation as to be out of the reach of rats a house was once destroyed by a rat running away with a lighted candle for the sake of the tallow and conveying it into a hole filled with rags and other inflammable matters never read in bed by candle light especially if your bed be surrounded by curtains strictly forbid the use of segars in your family at all times but more especially after night may not the greater frequency of fires in the united states than in former years be ascribed in part to the more general use of segars by careless servants and children there is good reason to believe a house was lately set on fire in northumberland county by a half consumed segar which a negro woman suddenly threw away to prevent her being detected by her master in the unhealthy and offensive practice of smoking in case of fire attend to the following directions to prevent or restrain its terrible consequences do not open the room or closet door where you suspect the fire to be until you have secured your family and your most valuable effects nor until you have collected a quantity of water to throw upon the fire the moment a fresh supply of air excites it into a flame where water cannot conveniently be had try to smother the fire by throwing two or three blankets over it a british sea captain once saved a king's ship by throwing himself with a spread blanket in his arms upon a fire which had broken out near the powder room he was pensioned for life for this wise and meritorious act in case it be impossible to escape by a stair case from a house on fire shut the door of your bed-chamber wait until help can be brought to secure your escape from a window if safety does not appear probable in this way wrap yourselves up in a blanket hold your breath and rush thro the flames if water be at hand first wet the blanket to prevent fire descending from the roof or ascending from the first story form by means of blankets a kind of dam on each of the intermediate stories near the staircase that shall confine the water that is thrown upon the roof or into the windows it will effectually check the progress of the fire downwards or upwards in brick and stone houses to prevent fire spreading to adjoining houses cover them with wet blankets to extinguish fire in a chimney shut the door and windows of the room throw a quart or more of common salt into the fire hold or nail a wet blanket before the fire place if these means fail throw a wet blanket down the chimney from the roof of the house there is a method used in some countries of glazing chimnies when they are built by burning common salt in them which renders them so smooth that no foot can adhere to them chimnies so constructed can never take fire ladders are commonly used as the means of conveying persons from the windows of houses on fire would not a long and stiff pole with a rope fixed at its upper end be more portable and convenient for this purpose the famous mr john westly when a child was taken out of a window in his father's house whilst it was in flames by one man standing upon the shoulders of another this practice may be used to rescue persons from the first story of a house on fire where other means cannot be had with sufficient convenience or expedition"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3042, 3760], "b_span": [2051, 2768], "matched_words": 686, "similarity": 0.9560975609756097, "seeds": 125, "id": "M00194", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-03|1|4", "date": "1797-02-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020301/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to contend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one side long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ-church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debeny post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at newburyport by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at fredericktown do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1241, 1513], "b_span": [3074, 3347], "matched_words": 267, "similarity": 0.9798165137614679, "seeds": 53, "id": "M00195", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|1", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0229.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "upon me to acquaint you and our fellow-citizens at large that having arrived to a stage of life marked in holy writ and verified by constant experience as a time of labor and sorrow it is highly proper both upon my own account as well as that of the public to decline the future suffrages of my fellow-citizens for the office i have now the honor to sustain i have had this in contemplation near a twelve month past the infirmities of age render me an unfit person in my own opinion and very probably in the opinion of others to continue in this station and i mention it now that those of the electors who may probably be too warmly attached to me may not nullify their own votes by giving them for me i have always been convinced that many others might have been found to fill my place with greater advantage to the commonwealth than is now or ever has been in my power in the civil department during the times of war and of peace i have served her in various stations to the best of my ability and i hope with general approbation and i can say with truth that i have not enriched myself in her service my warmest thanks are justly due to my constituents for the confidence they have repeatedly placed in me when i shall be released from the burdens of my public station i shall not forget my country her welfare and happiness her peace and prosperity her liberty and independence will always have a great share in the best wishes of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-07|1|2", "date": "1797-02-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "upon me to acquaint you and our fellow citizens at large that having arrived to a stage of life marked in holy writ and verified by constant experience as a time of labor and sorrow it is highly proper both upon my own account as well as that of the public to decline the future suffrages of my fellow citizens for the office i have now the honor to sustain i have had this in contemplation near a twelve month past the infirmities of age render me an unfit person in my own opinion and very probably in the opinion of others to continue in this station and i mention it now that those of the electors who may probably be too warmly attached to me may not nullify their own votes by giving them for me i have always been convinced that many others might have been found to fill my place to greater advantage to the commonwealth than is now or ever has been in my power in the civil department during the times of war and of peace i have served her in various stations to the best of my ability and i hope with general approbation and i can say with truth that i have not enriched myself in her service my warmest thanks are justly due to my constituents for the confidence they have placed in me when i shall be released from the burthens of my public station i shall not forget my country her welfare and happiness her peace and prosperity her liberty and independence will always have a great share in the best wishes of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1744, 1810], "b_span": [274, 340], "matched_words": 65, "similarity": 0.9848484848484849, "seeds": 12, "id": "M00196", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|1", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0229.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to make a report to congress in march relative to a claim of the state of georgia to certain lands which never had been made to that house but to the senate only he said the land in question was of great extent and value and some measure ought to be taken on the subject he therefore proposed that a message should be sent to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-08|1|2", "date": "1797-02-08", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020801/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to make a report to congress in march relative to a claim of the state of georgia to certain lands which had never been made to that house but to the senate only he said the land in question was of great extent and value and some measure ought to be taken on the subject he therefore proposed that a message should be sent to the"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [572, 1689], "b_span": [508, 1621], "matched_words": 1082, "similarity": 0.9704035874439462, "seeds": 219, "id": "M00197", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|2", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0230.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "buonaparte commander in chief to the executive directory head-quarters at verona brumaire nov i have been so harassed with fatigue citizens directors that it has been impossible for me to make known all the military movements that have preceded the battle of arcole which has decided the fate of italy informed that field marshal alvinzy commanding the army of the emperor approached verona for the purpose of forming a junction with the divisions of his army in tyrol i slied off along the adige with the divisions of angereau and massena and in the night of the th and th threw a bridge of boats across at ronco where we passed that river i was in hopes of arriving in the morning at villa nova and by that means taking the enemy's park of artillery and baggage and attacking them in flank and rear the head-quarters of gen alvinzy were at caldero but the enemy who had heard of some movements had sent a regiment of croats and some regiments of hungarians into the village of arcole extremely strong by its position in the midst of marshes and canals this village stopped the advanced guard of the army during the whole day it was in vain that all the generals feeling the importance of the time precipitated themselves at its head to oblige our columns to pass the little bridge of arcole too much courage was dangerous they were almost all wounded generals verdier bon verne lafne were put out of combat angereau laying hold of a standard advanced to the extremity of the bridge where he remained for several minutes without producing any effect meanwhile it was necessary to pass that bridge or take a circuitous route of several leagues which would have made our whole operation miscarry i repaired myself to the spot i asked the soldiers if they still were the conquerors of lodi my presence produced an emotion among the troops which still determined me to risk the passage gen lafne already wounded twice with shot received a third and more dangerous wound general vignolle was also wounded we were obliged to renounce forcing the village in front and to wait till a column commanded by general guieux whom i had sent through albaredo had arrived he did not arrive till night took the village four pieces of cannon and made some hundreds of prisoners in the interval general massena attacked a division which the enemy made desile from their headquarters against our left discomfited and put it completely to the route it had been thought expedient to evacuate during night the village of arcole and we expected at day-break to be attacked by the whole army of the enemy who were found to have had time to file off with their baggage and parks of artillery and to advance to the rear to receive us at day-break the combat commenced every where with the greatest alertness massena who was on the left put the enemy to the route and pursued them to the gates of caldero general robert who was on the middle causeway with the th defeated the enemy with the bayonet and covered the field of battle with dead bodies i ordered the adjutant-general to advance along the adige with a half brigade to turn the whole left of the enemy but the country presented invincible obstacles it was in vain for that brave general to plunge himself up to the neck in water he could not effect a diversion of any consequence in the night between the th and th nov and i had bridges thrown over the canals and the marshes general angereau passed them with his division at six in the morning we were within light general massena on the left general robert in the centre and general angereau on the right the enemy attacked the centre vigorously which fell back i then drew the d from the left and placed it in ambuscade in the woods and the instant the enemy pressed the centre and was on the point of turning our right general gardanne at the head of the d sallied forth from his ambuscade took the enemy in flank and made horrible carnage the left of the enemy was supported by their superior number i ordered citizen hercule the officer of my guides to choose men of his company to advance along the adige to the distance of half a league to turn all the marshes which supported the enemy's left and to fall afterwards in full gallop into the enemy's rear and make several trumpets sound this manoeuvre was perfectly successful the hostile infantry gave way and general angereau took advantage of the moment but it still made resistance though it was retreating when a small column of between and men with four pieces of cannon whom i had made desile through porto lignago to take position in the rear of the enemy and to fall upon their backs during the combat finished by completely putting them to the route general massena who had returned to the centre marched straight to the village of arcole which he took and pursued the enemy to near the village of st bonifacio but night prevented our going farther the fruit of the battle of arcole is between and prisoners four stand of colours and pieces of cannon the enemy lost at least killed and had as many wounded besides the generals whom i mentioned generals robert and gardanne were wounded the adjutant general vandelin has been killed i had killed two of my aids-de-camp citizen elliot and muiron two officers of the greatest distinction though young still they promised to gain one day the highest military rank with glory our loss though inconsiderable was very severe because it included all the principal officers meanwhile gen vaucluse has been attacked and his important position at rivoli forced this has uncovered the blockade of mantua we sent the cavalry to vicenza where i had left general kilmaine with three thousand men at this moment i have rallied the division of vaucluse i forced it and it is at castelnovo angereau is at verona massena about villanova to-morrow i will attack the division which beat vaucluse i will pursue it into tyrol and then wait the surrender of mantua which cannot hold out a fortnight longer the artillery has covered itself with glory the generals and officers of the staff displayed an unexampled activity and bravery twelve or fifteen were killed it was really a deadly combat there is not one but what has his clothes pierced with bullets i will send you the colours taken from the enemy"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-10|1|3", "date": "1797-02-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "buonaparte commander in chief to the executive directory head quarters at verona brumaire nov i have been so harassed with fatigue citizens directors that it has been impossible for me to make known all the military movements that have preceded the battle of arcole which has decided the fate of italy informed that field marshal alvinzy commanding the army of the emperor approached verona for the purpose of forming a junction with the divisions of his army in tyrol i filed off along the adige with the divisions of angereau and massena and in the night of the th and th threw a bridge of boats across at ronco where we passed that river i was in hopes of arriving in the morning at villa nova and by that means taking the enemy's park of artillery and baggage and attacking them in flank and rear the head-quarters of general alvinzy were at caldero but the enemy who had heard of some movements had sent a regiment of croats and some regiments of hungarians into the village of arcole extremely strong by its position in the midst of marshes and canals this village stopped the advanced guard of the army during the whole day it was in vain that all the generals feeling the importance of the time precipitated themselves at its head to oblige our columns to pass the little bridge of arcole too much courage was dangerous they were almost all wounded generals verdier bon verne laine were put out of combat angereau laying hold of a standard advanced to the extremity of the bridge where he remained for several minutes without producing any effect meanwhile it was necessary to pass that bridge or raise a circuitous route of several leagues which would have made our whole operation miscarriage i repaired myself to the spot i asked the soldiers if they still were the conquerors of lodi my presence produced an emotion among the troops which still determined me to risk the passage general lasne already wounded twice with shot received a third and more dangerous wound general vignolle was also wounded we were obliged to renounce forcing the village in front and to wait till a column commanded by general guieux whom i had sent thro albaredo had arrived he did not arrive till night took the village four pieces of cannon and made some hundreds of prisoners in the interval general massena attacked a division which the enemy made desile from their head-quarters against our left discomfited and put it completely to the route it had been thought expedient to evacuate during night the village of arcole and we expected at day-break to be attacked by the whole army of the enemy who were found to have had time to file off with their baggage and parks of artillery and to advance to the rear to receive us at day-break the combat commenced every where with the greatest alertness massena who was on the left put the enemy to the route and pursued them to the gates of caldero general robert who was on the middle causeway with the th defeated the enemy with the bayonet and covered the field of battle with dead bodies i ordered the adjutant-general to advance along the adige with a half brigade to turn the whole left of the enemy but the country presented insurmountable obstacles it was in vain for the brave general to plunge himself up to the neck in water he could not effect a diversion of any consequence in the night between the th and th nov i had bridges thrown over the canals and the marshes general angereau passed them with his division at six in the morning we were within light general massena on the left general robert in the centre and general angereau on the right the enemy attacked the centre vigorously which fell back i then drew the d from the left and placed it in ambuscade in the woods and the instant the enemy pressed the centre and was on the point of turning our right general gardanne at the head of the d sallied forth from his ambuscade took the enemy in flank and made horrible carnage the left of the enemy was supported by the marshes and awed our right by their superior number i ordered citizen hercule the officer of my guides to choose men of his company to advance along the adige to the distance of half a league to turn all the marshes which supported the enemy's left and to fall afterwards into full gallop into the enemy's rear and make several trumpets sound this man uvre was perfectly successful the hostile infantry gave way and general angereau took advantage of the moment but it still made resistance though it was retreating when a small column of between and men with pieces of cannon whom i had made desile through porto lignago to take position in the rear of the enemy and to fall upon their backs during the combat finished by completely putting them to the route general massena who had returned to the centre marched straight to the village of arcole which he took and pursued the enemy to near the village of st bonifacio but night prevented our going farther the fruit of the battle of arcole is between and prisoners stand of colours and pieces of cannon the enemy lost at least killed and had as many wounded besides the generals whom i mentioned generals robert and gardanne were wounded the adjutant general vandelin has been killed i had killed of my aids de camp citizens elliot and muiron two officers of the greatest distinction though young still they promised to gain one day the highest military rank with glory our loss though inconsiderable was very severe because it included all the principal officers meanwhile gen vaubois has been attacked and his important position at rivoli forced this has uncovered the blockade of mantua we sent the cavalry to vicenza where i had left gen kilmaine with men at this moment i have rallied the division of vaubois i forced it and it is at castelnuovo angereau is at verona massena about villanova i will pursue it into tyrol and then wait the surrender of mantua which cannot hold out a fortnight longer the artillery has covered itself with glory the generals and officers of the staff displayed an unexampled activity and bravery twelve or fifteen were killed it was really a deadly combat there is not one but what has his clothes pierced with bullets i will send you the colours taken from the enemy"}, 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victories the divisionary gen commander of the state to gen baraguay d'hilliers commandant of lombardy head-quarters at verona nov th year at length my dear gen after the boldest manoeuvres the most obstinate conflicts and eight days spent without taking off our boots we have just defeated gen alvinzy and his army which we have pursued to vincenza five thousand prisoners three thousand men killed and wounded four flags and twelve guns are the fruit of these victories alvinzy is about to rally behind the brenta davidovich who is ignorant of what is become of alvinzy is on the right bank of the adige after having forced vaucluse's division and having advanced to the other side of rivoli we are fearful that he is retreating if he is still at this time in his positions to-morrow he will be ours with the six thousand men he commands vive l'armee d'italie mantua will soon be in the hands of the republicans never were actions fought with so much obstinacy we have had two generals mortally wounded and five others of whose recovery hopes are entertained among the killed we reckon two of the commander in chief's aids-de-camp and an adjutant-general i have not time to say any more we have still to fight there will be no repose until the enemy shall be destroyed signed alex berthier message from the executive directory to the council dated frimaire nov th year citizens legislators we wait impatiently for the official dispatches of the commander in chief buonaparte to communicate to you the decisive victory which has just been obtained under his command by the army of italy never was that brave army placed in so critical a position the enemy had made the greatest efforts they had brought from the interior of the states all that they had left of disposable forces these troops they had marched to their destination with the utmost speed and had contrived to form in italy a new army more considerable than the two former already exterminated before the succours sent from the interior of france to the commander in chief buonaparte could form a junction with the army of italy it required nothing less than the genius of that intrepid warrior the talents of the general officers and of the individuals who seconded them at the price of their blood and the zeal and constancy of all our brave brethren in arms to triumph over so many obstacles which the despair of our enemies had opposed to us the result of the bloody conflicts which were fought for eight successive days is the loss on the part of the enemy of twelve thousand men killed wounded and prisoners four flags and eighteen guns the present position of the armies promises new successes and the capture of mantua on which the fate of italy depends signed"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "paper of dec until we shall receive the reports of the commander in chief buonaparte the activity of the operations of the army of italy not having yet allowed him to give an account of the successes he has obtained we publish here a letter from general berthier commander of the general staff containing an analysis of his glorious victories the divisionary general commander of the state to general baraguay d'hilliers commandant of lombardy head-quarters at verona nov sixth year at length my dear general after the boldest manoeuvres the most obstinate conflicts and eight days spent without taking off our boots we have just defeated general alvinzy and his army which we have pursued to vincenza five thousand prisoners three thousand men killed and wounded four flags and twelve guns are the fruits of these victories alvinzy is about to rally behind the brenta davidovich who is ignorant of what is become of alvinzy is on the right bank of the adige after having forced vaucluse's division and having advanced to the other side of rivoli we are fearful that he is retreating if he is still at this time in his positions to-morrow he will be ours with the six thousand men he commands vive l'armee d'italie mantua will soon be in the hands of the republicans never were actions fought with so much obstinacy we have had two generals mortally wounded five others of whose recovery hopes are entertained among the killed we reckon two of the commander in chief's aids-de-camp and an adjutant-general i have not time to say any more we have still to fight there will be no repose until the enemy shall be destroyed signed alex berthier message from the executive directory to the councils dated frimaire nov fifth year citizens legislators we wait impatiently for the official dispatches of the commander in chief buonaparte to communicate to you the decisive victory which has just been obtained under his command by the army of italy never was that brave army placed in so critical a position the enemy had made the greatest efforts they had brought from the interior of the states all that they had left of disposable forces these troops they had marched to their destination with the utmost speed and had contrived to form in italy a new army more considerable than the two former already exterminated before the succors sent from the interior of france to the commander in chief buonaparte could form a junction with the army of italy it required nothing less than the genius of that intrepid warrior the talents of the general officers and of the individuals who seconded them at the price of their blood and the zeal and constancy of all our brave brethren in arms to triumph over so many obstacles which the despair of our enemies had opposed to us the result of the bloody conflicts which were fought for eight successive days is the loss on the part of the enemy of twelve thousand men killed wounded and prisoners four flags and eighteen guns the present position of the armies promises new successes and the capture of mantua on which the fate of italy depends signed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1694, 4212], "b_span": [1613, 4126], "matched_words": 2427, "similarity": 0.9648181276088252, "seeds": 458, "id": "M00199", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|2", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0230.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "berthier chief of the staff of the army of italy head-quarters at verona nov th fifth year the activity in which we have been for this fortnight past would not permit me to write to you as often as i could have wished but the commandant of lombardy to whom i sent a summary account of our movements must have transmitted you a copy of the same since our last affair at caldero which took place on the d nov and wherein after an obstinate combat the two armies remained in their positions gen alvinzy had effected his junction with a column from tyrol and had an army of upwards of men on the th nov the hostile army was in presence and preparing to give a pitched battle gen buonaparte apprised of the enemy's intentions immediately made manoeuvres to frustrate them in the night between the th and th november th and th he ordered the division of general vaucluse to guard the position of rivoli to keep in check the column of the enemy's right wing commanded by gen davidovich the castle and citadel of brescia verona the posts of peschiera and legnago were in a respectable state of defence the commander in chief stationed some corps of light troops and flying artillery to defend the passages of the adige in the same night he had a boat-bridge raised at ronco to pass the adige to fall unexpectedly upon general alvinzy's rear cut off his communication seize his magazines and his park of artillery deprive him of all means of subsistence and at last to attack him from the rear before day-break the divisions of massena and angereau had already crossed the adige and advanced on two roads which cross an impassable marsh of several miles the column of the left commanded by general massena was the first to fall in with some of the enemy's out-posts which it worsted that of the right commanded by general angereau having also repulsed several hostile posts was stopped at the village of arcole occupied by the austrians whose fire flanked the dyke on which it was necessary to pass to penetrate thither a canal which bordered this dyke on the side of the village prevented its being turned it was therefore necessary in order to become masters of it to pass through their fire and cross a small bridge defended by several embattled houses from which the enemy directed a terrible fire our troops pushed several times forward with charge steps to carry the bridge but not having in the first instance displayed the same boldness as they did at the bridge of lodi they were repulsed in their repeated attempts in vain had general angereau with a standard in his hand advanced at the head of the column to take arcole the commander in chief who was informed of the difficulties which the division of general angereau had to sustain gave orders to general guieux to march down the adige with a corps of men and to pass this river under cover of our light artillery at a ferry which was at the distance of two miles below ronco facing albaredo he had orders to march to the village of arcole to turn it but that was a long march the day was far gone and it was of the highest importance to capture arcole in order to get into the enemy's rear before they were able to learn our movement the commander in chief advanced with his whole staff at the head of the division of angereau he reminded our brothers in arms of their being the same men that had forced the bridge of lodi he seemed to perceive a sentiment of enthusiasm and was determined to profit by it he leaped off his horse seized a standard rushed forward at the head of the grenadiers and ran to the head of the bridge crying follow your general the column instantly moved on and we were at the distance of yards from the bridge when the terrible fire of the enemy assailed the column and made it fall back the very moment when the enemy were going to take flight it was at the same instant that generals vignolle and lafne were wounded and that muiron aid-de-camp to the commander in chief was killed the commander in chief and his staff were overwhelmed the commander in chief himself was thrown from his horse into a marsh from whence under the enemy's fire he extricated himself with difficulty he mounted again the column rallied and the enemy durst not come forth from their entrenchments night began when general guieux arrived courageously at the village of arcole and finally carried it but he retired in the night after having made many prisoners and carried off four pieces of cannon the enemy had time to be aware of our movement they had begun to send off all their baggage and magazines to vincenza and concentrated almost their whole force towards ronco to give battle and before day-break they occupied the village of arcole with considerable force on the th nov at day-break the enemy attacked us on all points the column of general massena after an obstinate conflict worsted the enemy took prisoners and carried off six pieces of cannon and four stand of colours the column of general angereau likewise repulsed the enemy but could not succeed in forcing the village of arcole which was again attacked several times you will judge of the obstinacy of the different attacks upon this village where seven generals were wounded the same evening the commander in chief himself marched to the canal on the right of the adige with a column who carried fascines with a view of establishing a passage which could not be done on account of the current then the adjutant general vial who was at the head of the column forced the canal up to his neck in water but he was obliged to retreat it was at that moment that elliot aid-de-camp to the commander in chief was killed the following night the commander in chief gave orders to throw a bridge over the canal and a new attack was combined for the th nov the division of general massena was to attack on the left of the causeway and that of general angereau for the third time the celebrated village of arcole while a third column was to cross the canal to turn that village part of the garrison of porto legnago with fifty horses and four pieces of artillery received orders to turn the enemy's left for the purpose of operating a diversion the attack began at day-break the fight was obstinate massena's column met with less obstacles but that of angereau was again repulsed at arcole and falling back in disorder to the bridge of ronco when the division of massena who had followed the movement made a retrograde motion towards the division of angereau and disposed itself to join it for the purpose of making a fresh attack upon the enemy who were for this time put to flight and who seeing themselves turned by the left were forced at arcole then the route was complete they abandoned all their positions and retreated to vicenza in the night on the th nov at day break part of the french army pursued the enemy to verenza took several barges laden with their pontoons picked up some prisoners and many wounded and the others arrived under the walls of verona during our success at ronco our left wing commanded at rivoli which place the enemy occupies at this very moment the right wing of the imperial army commanded by general davidovich will be attacked to-morrow by superior forces and must entirely fall into our power or if it evacuates the place it will be pursued to tyrol then the army of alvinzy separated and half destroyed must give us mantua in a few days in those different combats we took about prisoners of whom are officers killed or wounded a vast number of men took four stand of colours and eighteen pieces of cannon many caissons several barges laden with pontoons and a great quantity of scaling-ladders which the austrian army had procured with the design of taking verona by assault we had seven generals wounded and two of them severely viz lafne vignolle verdier gardanne bon robert and verne the aid-de-camps of the commander in chief muiron and elliot and the adjutant-general vardeling were killed signed alexander berthier th frimaire nov we did not expect that lord shelburne would find it necessary to send a messenger to his cabinet in order to give an answer to the demand of the directory respecting the objects of reciprocal compensation which he has to propose it should seem that the sending of another messenger which he has thought requisite is a diplomatic stratagem employed by the english minister to wait the issue of the great events which are now deciding the fate of italy before he hazards an answer which cannot but be highly important and almost decisive th frimaire dec we cannot pronounce with certainty that the fate of this great military movement is yet decided by the letter of berthier it appears that of the two austrian armies which have acted in concert one is advanced upon the right bank of the adige without encountering many obstacles or experiencing the smallest check and that the other has met with one which has forced it to retreat to vicenza but in this position gen alvinzy has again made a sensible progress it is probable that gen davidovich who has not retreated will at all events try the same movement that wurmsler did and that he will throw himself into mantua carrying in with him provisions this blockade will be without doubt one of the greatest events of the war the zeal of wurmsler will be equally considered as one of the greatest acts of fidelity which a subject has ever given to his king he has quitted the functions of a general to become the commandant of a place and he has given proofs of the utmost activity and of military resources in this new post army of the rhine moselle the general in chief to the executive directory head-quarters at schillikens frimaire nov citizens directors the garrison of kehl made a vigorous sortie to reconnoitre the line of circumvallation of the enemy general dufais was charged with the attack of the right general decaen was in the centre and general sice on the left the whole line of the enemy was forced without a shot being fired with infinite intrepidity on the part of our troops the enemy abandoned all their artillery which we instantly spiked could we have anticipated a success so complete and had had artillery horses ready we might have taken twenty pieces of cannon at least with the horses which we could spare from our own we could only bring off ten pieces we have made from six to seven hundred prisoners amongst whom are twenty officers including a colonel and a major such was the result of this rally as soon as it was thought that the enemy's corps de reserve was ready to attack us general dufais caused the troops to return to their entrenchments to attempt to maintain ourselves in those of the enemy was an operation which was not amongst our projects the battle was one of the most obstinate of the war and must have occasioned a considerable loss to the enemy they cannot deny that the advantage was entirely ours the th th and th demi brigades performed prodiges of valor it was impossible for me to ascertain all the details of the instances of individual courage which were displayed on the occasion i have promised to appoint provisionally to the rank of sub-lieutenant a serjeant of the th who gave proofs of uncommon courage the general officers who conducted the attack merit the highest eulogium general dufais had his horse killed under him and was slightly wounded general lacombe had his horse wounded in two places several officers equally distinguished themselves perion and quesard chiefs of brigade of the th and th were wounded messiro chief of battalion of the th was amongst the foremost in forcing the entrenchments the good conduct of the troops upon this occasion ought to persuade the enemy that if he is determined to attack kehl he will not carry it so easily as he may have been led to believe signed moreau private letters transmitted to the directory announce that general in chief moreau was slightly wounded in the head with a ball he has the modesty not to mention this circumstance as probably from a desire to avoid all appearance of ostentation one of his aids-de-camps had the lower part of his leg carried away in the midst of the preparations on the rhine there are several parties for the purpose of concluding an armistice the austrian general krav and the republican bernadotte have had a new conference on the suspension of arms which was first proposed by the french generals at the end of this conference general werneck who commands on the lower rhine dispatched a courier to the archduke charles and general bourdonville sent m lart the commissary at war to paris with secret instructions the austrians who were forty or fifty thousand men are now reduced to half that number gen lilmaine has not discontinued the siege of mantua and has repulsed during the same time several sorties of the besiegers who reckon so much upon the succours of the austrian arms that they lighted large fires as signs of rejoicing but it was soon necessary to extinguish them brussels nov the austrian corps commanded by gen neu has again advanced from its entrenched position before mentz and taken post on the banks of the selz the enemy have pushed their advanced posts even across that river whilst the french confined themselves to concentrate their force within the line which extends from bingen to kaiserslautern this movement of the austrians has brought on several very smart engagements between the light troops of both parties wherein the french and imperialists have alternately proved victorious in one of these affairs the republican general klein surprised the whole chain of the enemy's advanced posts put them completely to the route took a great number of men and horses and forced the austrians to recross the selz in the utmost disorder after this expedition the french resumed their former position from the lower rhine we learn that on the first of this month st of nov a very brisk action likewise took place on the banks of the sieg the republicans attacked the advanced posts of the austrians who defended themselves in so vigorous a manner that the former were obliged to fall back the army of the north encamped in the front of mulheim is"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "berthier chief of the staff of the army of italy head-quarters at verona nov th fifth year the activity in which we have been for this fortnight past would not permit me to write to you as often as i could have wished but the commandant of lombardy to whom i sent a summary account of our movements must have transmitted you a copy of the same since our last affair at caldoro which took place on the d november and wherein after an obstinate combat the two armies remained in their positions general alvinzy had effected his junction with a column from tyrol and had an army of upwards of men on the th november the hostile army was in presence and preparing to give a pitched battle general buonaparte apprised of the enemy's intentions immediately made manoeuvres to frustrate them in the night between the th and th november th and th he ordered the division of general vaucluse to guard the position of rivoli to keep in check the column of the enemy's right wing commanded by general davidovich the castle and citadel of brescia verona the posts of peschiera and legnago were in a respectable state of defence the commander in chief stationed some corps of light troops and flying artillery to defend the passages of the adige in the same night he had a boat-bridge raised at ronco to pass the adige to fall unexpectedly upon general alvinzy's rear cut off his communication seize his magazines and his park of artillery deprive him of all means of subsistence and at last to attack him from the rear before day-break the divisions of massena and angereau had already crossed the adige and advanced on two roads which cross an impassable marsh of several miles the column of the left commanded by general massena was the first to fall in with some of the enemy's out posts which it worsted that of the right commanded by general angereau having also repulsed several hostile posts was stopped at the village of arcole occupied by the austrians whose fire flanked the dyke on which it was necessary to pass to penetrate thither arcania which bordered this dyke on the side of the village prevented its being turned it was therefore necessary in order to become masters of it to pass through their fire and cross a small bridge defended by several embattled houses from which the enemy directed a terrible fire our troops pushed several times forwards with charge l'ep e to carry the bridge but not having in the first instance displayed the same boldness as they did at the bridge of lodi they were repulsed in their repeated attempts in vain had general angereau with a standard in his hand advanced at the head of the column to take arcole the commander in chief who was informed of the difficulties which the divisions of general angereau had to sustain gave orders to general guieux to march down the adige with a corps of men and to pass the river under cover of our light artillery at a ferry which was at the distance of two miles below ronco facing alberedo he had orders to march to the village of arcole to turn it but that was a long march the day was far gone and it was of the highest importance to capture arcole in order to get into the enemy's rear before they were able to learn our movement the commander in chief advanced with his whole staff at the head of the division of angereau he reminded our brothers in arms of their being the same men that had forced the bridge of lodi he seemed to perceive a sentiment of enthusiasm and was determined to profit by it he leaped off his horse seized a standard rushed forward at the head of the grenadiers and ran to the head of the bridge crying follow your general the column instantly moved on and we were at the distance of yards from the bridge when the terrible fire of the enemy assailed the column and made it fall back the very moment when the enemy were going to take flight it was at the same instant that generals vignolle and lasne were wounded and that muiron aid-de-camp to the commander in chief was killed the commander in chief and his staff were overwhelmed the commander in chief himself was thrown from his horse into a marsh from whence under the enemy's fire he extricated himself with difficulty he mounted again the column rallied and the enemy durst not come forth from their entrenchments night began when general guieux arrived courageously at the village of arcole and finally carried it but he retired in the night after having made many prisoners and carried off four pieces of cannon the enemy had time to be aware of our movement they had begun to send off all their baggage and magazines to vincenza and concentrated almost their whole force towards ronco to give battle and before day break they occupied the village of arcole with considerable force on the th nov at day break the enemy attacked us on all points the column of general massena after an obstinate conflict worsted the enemy took prisoners and carried off six pieces of cannon and four stand of colours the column of general angereau likewise repulsed the enemy but could not succeed in forcing the village of arcole which was again attacked several times you will judge of the obstinacy of the different attacks upon this village where seven generals were wounded the same evening the commander in chief himself marched to the canal on the right of the adige with a column who carried fascines with a view of establishing a passage which could not be done on account of the current then the adjutant general vial who was at the head of the column forced the canal up to his neck in water but he was obliged to repass it it was at that moment that elliot aid-de-camp to the commander in chief was killed the following night the commander in chief gave orders to throw a bridge over the canal and a new attack was combined for the th nov the division of general massena was to attack on the left of the causeway and that of general angereau for the third time the celebrated village of arcole while a third column was to cross the canal to turn that village part of the garrison of porto legnago with fifty horses and four pieces of artillery received orders to turn the enemy's left for the purpose of operating a diversion the attack began at day break the fight was obstinate massena's column met with less obstacles but that of angereau was again repulsed at arcole and falling back in disorder to the bridge of ronco when the division of massena who had followed the movement made a retrograde motion towards the division of angereau and disposed itself to join it for the purpose of making a fresh attack upon the enemy who were for this time put to flight and who seeing themselves turned by the left were forced at arcole then the route was complete they abandoned all their positions and retreated to vincenza in their night on the th nov at day break part of the french army pursued the enemy to vincenza took several barges laden with their pontoon stores picked up some prisoners and many wounded and the others arrived under the walls of verona during our success at ronco our left wing commanded at rivoli which place the enemy occupies at this very moment the right wing of the imperial army commanded by general davidovich will be attacked to-morrow by superior forces and must entirely fall into our power or if it evacuates the place it will be pursued to tyrol then the army of alvinzy separated and half destroyed must give us mantua in a few days in those different combats we took about prisoners of whom are officers killed or wounded a vast number of men took four stand of colours and eighteen pieces of cannon many caissons several barges laden with pontoons and a great quantity of scaling ladders which the austrian army had procured with the design of taking verona by assault we had several generals wounded and two of them severely viz lasne vignolle verdier gardanne bon robert and verne the aid de camp of the commander in chief muiron and elliot and the adjutant-general vardeling were killed signed alexander berthier th frimaire nov we did not expect that lord malmesbury would find it necessary to send a messenger to his cabinet in order to give an answer to the demand of the directory respecting the objects of reciprocal compensation which he has to propose it should seem that the sending of another messenger which he has thought requisite is a diplomatic stratagem employed by the english minister to wait the issue of the great events which are now deciding the fate of italy before he hazards an answer which cannot but be highly important and almost decisive remarks of the paris editor th frimaire dec we cannot pronounce with certainty that the fate of this great military movement is yet decided by the letter of berthier it appears that of the two austrian armies which have acted in concert one is advanced upon the right bank of the adige without encountering any obstacles or experiencing the smallest check and that the other has met with one which has forced it to retreat to vicenza but in this position general alvinzy has again made a sensible progress it is probable that general davidovich who has not retreated will at all events try the same movement that wurmler did and that he will throw himself into mantua carrying in with him provisions this blockade will be without doubt one of the greatest events of the war the zeal of wurmler will be equally considered as one of the greatest acts of fidelity which a subject has ever given to his king he has quitted the functions of a general to become the commandant of a place and he has given proofs of the utmost activity and of military resources in this new post army of the rhine and moselle the general in chief to the executive directory head-quarters at schillikop frimaire nov citizens directors the garrison of kehl made a vigorous sortie to reconnoitre the line of circumvallation of the enemy general delfaux was charged with the attack of the right general decaen was in the centre and general sice on the left the whole line of the enemy was forced without a shot being fired with infinite intrepidity on the part of our troops the enemy abandoned all we have anticipated a success so complete and had artillery horses ready we might have taken twenty pieces of cannon at least with the horses which we could spare from our own we could only bring off ten pieces we have made from six to seven hundred prisoners amongst whom are twenty officers including a colonel and a major such was the result of this sally as soon as it was thought that the enemy's corps of reserve was ready to attack us general delfaux caused the troops to return to their entrenchments to attempt to maintain ourselves in those of the enemy was an operation which was not amongst our projects the battle was one of the most obstinate of the war and must have occasioned a considerable loss of the enemy they cannot deny that the advantage was entirely ours the th h and th demi brigades performed prodigies of valor it was impossible for me to ascertain all the details of the instances of individual courage which were displayed on this occasion i have promised to appoint provisionally to the rank of sub lieutenant a sergeant of the th who gave proofs of uncommon courage the general officers who conducted the attack merit the highest eulogium general delfaux had his horse killed under him and was slightly wounded general lacombe had his horse wounded in two places several officers equally distinguished themselves perion and quesard chiefs of brigade of the th and th were wounded melisso chief of battalion of the th was amongst the foremost in forcing the entrenchments the good conduct of the troops upon this occasion ought to persuade the enemy that if he is determined to attack kehl he will not carry it so easily as he may have been led to believe signed moreau private letters transmitted to the directory announce that general in chief moreau was slightly wounded in the head with a ball he had the modesty not to mention this circumstance probably from a desire to avoid all appearance of ostentation one of our aids de camps had the lower part of his leg carried away in the midst of the preparations on the rhine there are several parleys for the purpose of concluding an armistice the austrian general kray and the republican bernadotte have had a new conference on the suspension of arms which was proposed by the 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river i was in hopes of arriving in the morning at villa nova and by that means taking the enemy's park of artillery and baggage and attacking them in flank and rear the head-quarters of gen alvinzy were at caldero but the enemy who had heard of some movements had sent a regiment of croats and some regiments of hungarians into the village of arcole extremely strong by its position in the midst of marshes and canals this village stopped the advanced guard of the army during the whole day it was in vain that all the generals feeling the importance of the time precipitated themselves at its head to oblige our columns to pass the little bridge of arcole too much courage was dangerous they were almost all wounded generals verdier bon verne lafne were put out of combat angereau laying hold of a standard advanced to the extremity of the bridge where he remained for several minutes without producing any effect meanwhile it was necessary to pass that bridge or take a circuitous route of several leagues which would have made our whole operation miscarry i repaired myself to the spot i asked the soldiers if they still were the conquerors of lodi my presence produced an emotion among the troops which still determined me to risk the passage gen lafne already wounded twice with shot received a third and more dangerous wound general vignolle was also wounded we were obliged to renounce forcing the village in front and to wait till a column commanded by general guieux whom i had sent through albaredo had arrived he did not arrive till night took the village four pieces of cannon and made some hundreds of prisoners in the interval general massena attacked a division which the enemy made desile from their headquarters against our left discomfited and put it completely to the route it had been thought expedient to evacuate during night the village of arcole and we expected at day-break to be attacked by the whole army of the enemy who were found to have had time to file off with their baggage and parks of artillery and to advance to the rear to receive us at day-break the combat commenced every where with the greatest alertness massena who was on the left put the enemy to the route and pursued them to the gates of caldero general robert who was on the middle causeway with the th defeated the enemy with the bayonet and covered the field of battle with dead bodies i ordered the adjutant-general to advance along the adige with a half brigade to turn the whole left of the enemy but the country presented invincible obstacles it was in vain for that brave general to plunge himself up to the neck in water he could not effect a diversion of any consequence in the night between the th and th nov and i had bridges thrown over the canals and the marshes general angereau passed them with his division at six in the morning we were within light general massena on the left general robert in the centre and general angereau on the right the enemy attacked the centre vigorously which fell back i then drew the d from the left and placed it in ambuscade in the woods and the instant the enemy pressed the centre and was on the point of turning our right general gardanne at the head of the d sallied forth from his ambuscade took the enemy in flank and made horrible carnage the left of the enemy was supported by their superior number i ordered citizen hercule the officer of my guides to choose men of his company to advance along the adige to the distance of half a league to turn all the marshes which supported the enemy's left and to fall afterwards in full gallop into the enemy's rear and make several trumpets sound this manoeuvre was perfectly successful the hostile infantry gave way and general angereau took advantage of the moment but it still made resistance though it was retreating when a small column of between and men with four pieces of cannon whom i had made desile through porto lignago to take position in the rear of the enemy and to fall upon their backs during the combat finished by completely putting them to the route general massena who had returned to the centre marched straight to the village of arcole which he took and pursued the enemy to near the village of st bonifacio but night prevented our going farther the fruit of the battle of arcole is between and prisoners four stand of colours and pieces of cannon the enemy lost at least killed and had as many wounded besides the generals whom i mentioned generals robert and gardanne were wounded the adjutant general vandelin has been killed i had killed two of my aids-de-camp citizen elliot and muiron two officers of the greatest distinction though young still they promised to gain one day the highest military rank with glory our loss though inconsiderable was very severe because it included all the principal officers meanwhile gen vaucluse has been attacked and his important position at rivoli forced this has uncovered the blockade of mantua we sent the cavalry to vicenza where i had left general kilmaine with three thousand men at this moment i have rallied the division of vaucluse i forced it and it is at castelnovo angereau is at verona massena about villanova to-morrow i will attack the division which beat vaucluse i will pursue it into tyrol and then wait the surrender of mantua which cannot hold out a fortnight longer the artillery has covered itself with glory the generals and officers of the staff displayed an unexampled activity and bravery twelve or fifteen were killed it was really a deadly combat there is not one but what has his clothes pierced with bullets i will send you the colours taken from the enemy signed"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-18|1|2", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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caldero but the enemy who had heard of some movements had sent a regiment of croats and some regiments of hungarians into the village of arcole extremely strong by its position in the midst of marshes and canals this village stopped the advanced guard of the army during the whole of the day it was in vain that all the generals feeling the importance of the time precipitated themselves at its head to oblige our columns to pass the little bridge of arcole too much courage was dangerous they were almost all wounded generals verdier bon verne lasne were put out of combat angereau laying hold of a standard advanced to the extremity of the bridge where he remained for several minutes without producing any effect meanwhile it was necessary to pass that bridge or take a circuitous route of several leagues which would have made our whole operation mis carry i repaired myself to the spot i asked the soldiers if they still were the conquerors of lodi my presence produced an emotion among the troops which still determined me to risk the passage general lasne already wounded twice with shot received a third and more dangerous wound general wignole was also wounded we were obliged to renounce forcing the village in front and to wait till a column commanded by general guieux whom i had sent thro albaredo had arrived he did not arrive till night took the village four pieces of cannon and made some hundreds of prisoners in the interval gen massena attacked a division which the enemy made desile from their headquarters against our left discomfited and put it completely to the route it had been thought expedient to evacuate during night the village of arcole and we expected at day break to be attacked by the whole army of the enemy who were found to have had time to file off with their baggage and parks of artillery and to advance to the rear to receive us at day break the combat commenced every where with the greatest alertness massena who was on the left put the enemy to the route and pursued them to the gates of calderp general robert who was on the middle causeway with the th defeated the enemy with the bayonet and covered the field of battle with dead bodies i ordered the adjutant general to advance along the adige with a half brigade to turn the whole left of the enemy but the country presented invincible obstacles it was in vain for that brave general to plunge himself up to the neck in water he could not effect a diversion of any consequence in the night between the th and th nov i had bridges thrown over the canals and marshes general angereau passed them with his division at six in the morning we were within sight general massena on the left general robert in the centre and general angereau on the right the enemy attacked the center vigorously which fell back i then drew the d from the left and placed it in ambuscade in the woods and the instant the enemy pressed the centre and was on the point of turning our right general gardanne at the head of the d sallied forth from his ambuscade took the enemy in flank and made horrible carnage the left of the enemy was supported by the marshes and awed our right by their superior number i ordered citizen hercule the officer of my guides to choose men of his company to advance along the adige to the distance of half a league to turn all the marshes which supported the enemy's left and to fall afterwards in full gallop into the enemy's rear and make several trumpets sound this man uvre was perfectly successful the hostile infantry gave way and general angereau took advantage of the moment but it still made resist-ance though it was retreating when a small column of between eight and nine thousand men with four pieces of cannon whom i had made desile through porto leguago to take position in the rear of the enemy and to fall upon their backs during the combat finished by completely putting them to the route general massena who had returned to the centre marched straight to the village of 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distinguished themselves perion and quesard chiefs of brigade of the th and th were wounded messiro chief of battalion of the th was amongst the foremost in forcing the entrenchments the good conduct of the troops upon this occasion ought to persuade the enemy that if he is determined to attack kehl he will not carry it so easily as he may have been led to believe"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-18|1|2", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031801/0767.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in chief to the executive directory head quarters at schilfiken d frimaire november citizen directors the garrison of kehl made a vigorous sortie to reconnoitre the line of circumvallation of the enemy general defaix was charged with the attack of the right general decaen in the centre and general sice on the left the whole line of the enemy was forced without a shot being fired with infinite intrepidity on the part of our troops the enemy abandoned all their artillery which was instantly spiked could we have anticipated a success so complete and had had artillery horses ready we might have taken twenty pieces at least with the horses which we could spare from our own we could only bring off ten pieces we have made from six to seven hundred prisoners amongst them are twenty officers including a colonel and a major such was the result of this sally as soon as it was thought the enemy's corps de reserve ready to attack us gen defaix caused the troops to return to their entrenchments to attempt to maintain ourselves in those of the enemy was an operation which was not amongst our projects the battle was one of the most obstinate of the war and must have occasioned a considerable loss to the enemy they cannot deny that the 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paris"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|3", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032201/0778.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the purpose of concluding an armistice on the rhine the austrian general kray and the republican bernadotte have had a new conference on the subject of a suspension of arms which was first proposed by the french generals at the end of this conference general worneck who commands on the lower rhine dispatched a courier to the archduke charles and general bourdonville sent mr luyr the commissary at war to paris"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1292, 2121], "b_span": [933, 1752], 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september mr benson arrived from new-york and met the other commissioners at st andrews near the mouths of the two rivers for which the parties contend as the boundary those rivers are four leagues apart at their mouths where they empty their waters into the bay of passamaquoddy near the bay of fundy but they diverge one to the west and the other to the north so that their heads or sources are at a great distance from each other on the th of october the commissioners took the oath as required by the treaty and appointed edward winslow esq of frederickton in the province of new-brunswick formerly of plymouth in massachusetts secretary to the board and the oath of fidelity was administered to him the board being thus formed the agent for the united states filed his memorial requesting that the easternmost of the two rivers called by the native indians the magaguadavie should be declared to be the river st croix truly meant and intended under that name as the boundary mentioned in the treaty of peace made in and proposing to offer evidence and arguments to support his memorial if the agent of his britannic majesty should deny that to be the river intended in the treaty of peace as the river st croix the agent for his said majesty being served with a copy of that memorial filed another on the behalf of his government therein stating that the western of the two rivers by the native indians called scoudiac was the st croix truly meant and intended under that name in the treaty of peace and requesting that the board would declare that to be the river so intended and assigned divers reasons and arguments in favor of his memorial the source of the river is very important in the business because a line is by the treaty to be drawn due north from the source of the river to the highlands as the line between the two nations two lines drawn due north from the sources of the two rivers above mentioned will be nearly about sixty miles from each other and extend from the sea nearly about one hundred and forty miles this distance of the two lines from each other is as they are severally stated by the agents in their several claims the british agent claims the most western of the scoudiac lakes which is near the river penobscot as the source of the river scoudiac and the agent for the states claims a place on the magaguadavie as the source of that river which is right or whether either is so is to be determined by the board the commissioners are obliged to declare which is the river truly intended as the st croix in the treaty and to determine the latitude and longitude of its mouth and source to this end surveys of both rivers became necessary and one surveyor from the united states and one from the british government were appointed to survey each river those artists returned from the business on the last of november having not then completed their work the commissioners after taking the testimony of some indians produced by the agent of the united states as witnesses and after determining on the mode of admitting evidence establishing the rate of wages of the artists and labourers employed adjourned to meet in boston on the second tuesday of august it is agreed and determined that the arguments shall be in writing filed by way of memorial before the board stating the evidence and that the secretary shall prepare and deliver one copy of the whole to the agent of each nation to be by him delivered to his government the argument on the part of the united states is directed to be forwarded to the agent of his britannic majesty by the first day of february that he may have time to prepare his reply by this mode of procedure the public will have on paper the proceedings of a judicial tribunal appointed to decide between two sovereign independent nations upon a cause of magnitude and importance why shall not all the nations on earth determine their disputes in this mode rather than to choke the rivers with the carcasses and stain the soil of continents with their slain the whole business has been proceeded upon with great ease candor and good"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-14|1|2", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "matter wherein the interest of this state is much concerned our readers may wish to know its true situation in the month of august the two original commissioners mr howells and mr barclay met at halifax in pursuance to the th article of the treaty of amity commerce and navigation with great britain the two commissioners on the th of that month appointed by choice not by lot the hon egbert benson esq one of the judges of the supreme judicial court of the state of new-york the third commissioner on the th september mr benson arrived from new-york and met the other commissioners at st andrews near the mouth of the two rivers for which the parties contend as the boundary those rivers are four leagues apart at their mouths where they empty their waters into the bay of passamaquoddy near the bay of fundy but they diverge one to the west and the other to the north so that their heads or sources are at a great distance from each other on the th of october the commissioners took the oath as required by the treaty and appointed edward winslow esq of fredericktown in the province of new-brunswick formerly of plymouth in massachusetts secretary to the board and the oath of fidelity was administered to him the board being thus formed the agent for the united states filed his memorial requesting that the easternmost of the two rivers called by the native indians the magaguadavic should be declared to be the river st croix truly meant and intended under that name as the boundary mentioned in the treaty of peace made in and proposing to offer evidence and arguments to support his memorial that to be the river intended in the treaty of peace as the river saint-croix the agent for his said majesty being served with a copy of that memorial filed another on the behalf of his government therein stating that the western of the two rivers by the native indians called scoudiac was the saint-croix truly meant and intended under that name in the treaty of peace and requested that the board would declare that to be the river so intended and assigned divers reasons and arguments in favor of his memorial the source of the river is very important in the business because a line is by the treaty to be drawn due north from the source of the river to the highlands as the line between the two nations two lines drawn due north from the source of the two rivers above mentioned will be nearly about sixty miles from each other and extend from the sea nearly one hundred and forty miles this distance of the two lines from each other is as they are severally stated by the agents in their several claims the british agent claims the most western of the scoudiac lakes which is near the river penobscot as the source of the river scoudiac and the agent for the states claims a place on the magaguadavic at the source of that river which is right or whether either is so is to be determined by the board the commissioners are obliged to declare which is the river truly intended as the st croix in the treaty and to determine the latitude and longitude of its mouth and source to this end surveys of both rivers became necessary and one surveyor from the united states and one from the british government were appointed to survey each river those artists returned from the business on the last of november having not then completed their work the commissioners after taking the testimony of some indians produced by the agent of the united states as witnesses and after determining on the mode of admitting evidence establishing the rate of wages of the artists and labourers employed adjourned to meet in boston on the second tuesday of august it is agreed and determined that the arguments shall be in writing filed by way of memorial before the board stating the evidence and that the secretary shall prepare and deliver one copy of the whole to the agent of each nation to be by him delivered to his government the argument on the part of the united states is directed to be forwarded to the agent of his britannic majesty by the first day of february that he may have time to prepare his reply by this mode of procedure the public will have on paper the proceedings of a judicial tribunal appointed to decide between two sovereign independent nations upon a cause of magnitude and importance why should not all the nations on the earth determine their disputes in this mode rather than to choke the rivers with the carcasses and stain the soil of continents with their blood the whole business has been proceeded upon with great ease candor and good"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [130, 297], "b_span": [44, 210], "matched_words": 159, "similarity": 0.954954954954955, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00204", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-04|1|3", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797020401/0231.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "been for some days past rumoured that an envoy extraordinary was to be sent to france to settle the differences which have occurred between the sister republic the late message of the president on french affairs proves however that rumour unfounded and the executive appears to rely with confidence for the accomplishment of that object on the exertions of our ordinary minister mr pinckney but will mr pinckney be received as our minister it is reasonable to be supposed that he will not he left this country before the minister of the french republic had by order of his government suspended his functions here he therefore cannot carry powers to negotiate an accommodation of that breach and it is not to be supposed that having suspended the function of their ordinary minister here they will receive ours the federal executive if they sincerely with an accommodation of grievances will then certainly be ultimately under the necessity of sending an envoy extraordinary or of transmitting to mr pinckney"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-11|1|3", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031101/0754.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "been for some days past rumored that an envoy extraordinary was to be sent to france to settle the differences which have occurred between the sister republics the late message of the president on french affairs proves however that rumor ungrounded and the executive appears to rely with confidence for the accomplishment of that object on the exertion of our ordinary minister mr pinckney but will mr pinckney be received as our minister it is reasonable to suppose that he will not he left this country before the minister of the french republic had by order of his government suspended his functions here he therefore cannot carry powers to negotiate an accommodation of that breach and it is not to be supposed that having suspended the functions of their ordinary minister here they will receive ours the federal executive if they sincerely with an accommodation of grievances will then certainly be ultimately under the necessity of sending an envoy extraordinary or of transmitting to mr pinckney"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3264, 3982], "b_span": [2051, 2768], "matched_words": 684, "similarity": 0.9533101045296167, "seeds": 122, "id": "M00205", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-04|1|4", "date": "1797-02-04", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020401/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering name unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of influence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppose them impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all difference in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one side long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debeny post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at newbury-port by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at fredericktown do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [177, 492], "b_span": [714, 1008], "matched_words": 229, "similarity": 0.7520525451559934, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00206", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-06|1|3", "date": "1797-02-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was presented after the armistice had been broken off paris th nov answer of the minister of the department of foreign affairs to the preceding note the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to declare to you in answer to your second note of yesterday that he has nothing to add to the answer which has been addressed to you he is further charged to ask of you whether on every official communication between you and him it will be necessary for you to dispatch a courier for the purpose of receiving special instructions ch lacroix letter addressed to the minister for the department of foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy of the british cabinet the minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty requests the minister for the department of foreign affairs to inform him whether he ought to consider the official note which he received from him last night as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered yesterday morning by order of his court to the minister of the department of foreign affairs he desires this explanation that he may not retard the departure of his courier to no purpose paris th november answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the preceding letter from lord malmesbury the undersigned minister for the department of foreign affairs declares to lord malmesbury plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty that he is to consider the official note presented to him yesterday as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered to him on the same day ch lacroix paris rd brumaire year th nov second letter from lord malmesbury to the minister for the department of foreign affairs lord malmesbury has just received the answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs wherein he declares that the official note transmitted to him yesterday is to be considered as the answer to that"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was presented after the armistice was broken malmesbury reply of the minister for foreign affairs to the preceding note the underlined in reply to your second note of yesterday is ordered by the executive directory to declare to you that he has nothing to add to the answer which has been addressed to you he is also instructed to ask you whether on each official communication which shall take place between you and him it will be necessary for you to send a courier to receive special instructions charles delacroix paris d brumaire th year letter addressed to the minister for foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy from the british cabinet the minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty requests the minister for foreign affairs to inform him whether he is to consider the official note which he received from him yesterday evening as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered yesterday morning to the minister for foreign affairs by order of his court he applies for this information that the departure of his courier may not be unnecessarily delayed malmesbury paris november answer of the minister for foreign affairs to the preceding letter from lord malmesbury the underlined minister for foreign affairs declares to lord malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty that he is to consider the official note sent to him yesterday as the answer to that which lord malmesbury had addressed to him on the same day charles delacroix d brumaire th year second letter from lord malmesbury to the minister for foreign affairs lord malmesbury has just received the answer of the minister for foreign affairs in which he declares that the official note which he sent to him yesterday is to be considered as the answer to that"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic 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respect to that restless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred near those of his family in st paul's grave-yard dr magaw yesterday afternoon delivered in st paul's church a most affecting discourse to a very crowded audience in reference to this most distressing event from job ch v lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein extract of a letter from new york february the packet is arrived which failed the th of december as yet no other news has transpired but"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "mr brown the printer of the philadelphia gazette in this city attained its full height on saturday morning by the death of mr brown himself of an inflammation of the lungs occasioned by the large quantity of smoke and mephitic air which he had inhaled before he was extricated from the fire this shocking extinction of a whole family furnishes matter for serious reflection which the moralists may pursue for the benefit of his species and which the giddy and dissipated ought to improve to their reformation we trust it will also operate on all ranks of people as a cautionary lesson to be careful in respect to that restless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred yesterday morning near those of his family in st paul's grave yard his funeral was very numerously and respectfully attended dr magaw agreeably to the notice he gave on performing the funeral rites upon the first melancholy occasion yesterday afternoon in st paul's church preached a most affecting discourse to a very crowded audience in reference to this singularly distressing event from job ch ver lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein extract of a letter from new-york dated feb the packet is arrived which failed the th of december as yet no other news has transpired but"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [58, 492], "b_span": [655, 1066], "matched_words": 310, "similarity": 0.7337278106508875, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00208", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-06|1|3", "date": "1797-02-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiation for a general peace the undersigned cannot be authorized to point out the objects of reciprocal restitution as to the proof of the pacific dispositions which his majesty the emperor and king testified towards the french government at the opening of the campaign the undersigned contents himself to repeat the following passage from the note of baron d'espelemann of the th of last june the warlike operations shall by no means prevent his imperial majesty from being constantly disposed to concur according to any form of negotiation which may be adopted by the belligerent powers in the discussion of such means as may be proper to put a period to the further effusion of human blood this note was presented after the armistice had been broken off paris th nov answer of the minister of the department of foreign affairs to the preceding note the undersigned is charged by the executive directory to declare to you in answer to your second note of yesterday that he has nothing to add to the answer which has been addressed to you he is further charged to ask of you whether on every official communication between you and him it will be necessary for you to dispatch a courier for the purpose of receiving special instructions ch lacroix letter addressed to the minister for the department of foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy of the british cabinet the minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty requests the minister for the department of foreign affairs to inform him whether he ought to consider the official note which he received from him last night as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered yesterday morning by order of his court to the minister of the department of foreign affairs he desires this explanation that he may not retard the departure of his courier to no purpose paris th november answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs to the preceding letter from lord malmesbury the undersigned minister for the department of foreign affairs declares to lord malmesbury plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty that he is to consider the official note presented to him yesterday as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered to him on the same day ch lacroix paris rd brumaire year th nov second letter from lord malmesbury to the minister for the department of foreign affairs lord malmesbury has just received the answer of the minister for the department of foreign affairs wherein he declares that the official note transmitted to him yesterday is to be considered as the answer to that"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0219.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiation for a general peace the undersigned could not be authorized to designate the objects of reciprocal compensation as to the proof of the pacific disposition given to the french government by his majesty the emperor and king at the opening of the campaign the undersigned contents himself with a repetition of the following words contained in the note of baron d'egleman on the th of june last the operations of the war will in no wise prevent his imperial majesty from being ever ready to concur agreeably to any form of negotiation which shall be adopted in concert with the belligerent powers in the discussion of proper means for putting a stop to the further effusion of human blood this note was presented after the armistice was broken malmsbury reply of the minister for foreign affairs to the preceding the undersigned in reply to your second note of yesterday is ordered by the executive directory to inform you that he has nothing to add to the answer which has been addressed to you he is instructed to ask you whether on every communication which shall take place between you and him it will be necessary for you to send a courier to receive special instructions charles delacroix paris d brumaire th year letter addressed to the minister for foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy from the british cabinet the minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty requests the minister for foreign affairs to inform him whether he is to consider the official note which he received from him yesterday evening as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered yesterday morning to the minister for foreign affairs by order of his court he applies for this information that the departure of his courier may not be unnecessarily delayed malmsbury paris nov answer of the minister for foreign affairs to the preceding letter from lord malmesbury the undersigned minister for foreign affairs declares to lord malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty that he is to consider the official note sent to him yesterday as the answer to that which lord malmesbury had addressed to him the same day charles delacroix d brumaire th year second letter from lord malmesbury to the minister for foreign affairs lord malmesbury has just received the answer of the minister for foreign affairs in which he declares that the official note which he sent to him yesterday is to be considered as the answer to that"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3361, 3517], "b_span": [1238, 1467], "matched_words": 142, "similarity": 0.7376623376623377, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00209", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-06|1|3", "date": "1797-02-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the th of december as yet no other news has transpired but that negotiations"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0219.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "mr brown the printer of the philadelphia gazette in this city attained its full height on saturday morning by the death of mr brown himself of an inflammation of the lungs occasioned by the large quantities of smoke and mephitic air which he had imbibed before he was extricated from the fire this knocking extinction of a whole family furnishes matter for serious reflection which the moralists may pursue for the benefit of his species and which the giddy and dissipated ought to improve to their reformation we trust it will also operate on all ranks of people as a cautionary lesson to be careful in respect to that resistless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred yesterday morning near those of his family in st paul's grave-yard his funeral was very numerously and respectfully attended dr magaw agreeable to the notice he gave on performing the funeral rites upon the first melancholy occasion yesterday afternoon in st paul's church preached a most affecting discourse to a very crowded audience in reference to this singularly distressing event from job ch v lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein extract of a letter from new york dated feb the packet is arrived which failed the th of december as yet no other news has transpired but that negotiations"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3361, 3465], "b_span": [313, 492], "matched_words": 91, "similarity": 0.6431095406360424, "seeds": 8, "id": "M00210", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-06|1|3", "date": "1797-02-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "mr brown the printer of the philadelphia gazette was heightened by the death of mr brown himself who expired on saturday morning this shocking extinction of a whole family furnishes matter for serious reflection to the moralist and which the giddy and dissipated ought to improve to their reformation we trust it will also operate as a cautionary lesson in respect to that restless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred near those of his family in st paul's grave-yard dr magaw yesterday afternoon delivered in st paul's church a most affecting discourse to a very crowded"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|3", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0243.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "mr brown the printer of the philadelphia gazette in this city attained its full height on saturday morning by the death of mr brown himself of an inflammation of the lungs occasioned by the large quantity of fumes and mephitic air which he had imbibed before he was extricated from the fire the shocking extinction of a whole family furnishes matter for serious reflection which the moralist may pursue for the benefit of his species and which the giddy and dissipated ought to improve to their reformation we trust it will also operate on all ranks of people as a cautionary lesson to be careful in respect to that restless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred yesterday morning near those of his family in st paul s grave yard his funeral was very numerously and respectfully attended dr magaw agreeably to the notice he gave on performing the funeral rites upon the first melancholy occasion yesterday afternoon in st paul s church preached a most affecting discourse to a very crowded"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3490, 4201], "b_span": [2058, 2768], "matched_words": 677, "similarity": 0.9528501055594651, "seeds": 123, "id": "M00211", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-06|1|4", "date": "1797-02-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020601/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying felios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one side long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ-church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debney post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at newburyport by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at baton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john meitz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [222, 297], "b_span": [329, 404], "matched_words": 74, "similarity": 0.9866666666666667, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00212", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-07|1|1", "date": "1797-02-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020701/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from an officer stationed at st tropez dated nov the troops which for some months past had lined the french coast opposite to these islands have marched from thence being as i am informed ordered to reinforce the armies on the rhine even the signal posts which previous to these encampments were established along the shore now appear abandoned so urgent have been the wants of the french government for men all the gun-boats have"}, "b": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the united states the warning no ii independent of the commands of honor the coelest calculations of interest forbid our becoming the instruments of the ambition of france by associating with her in the war the question is no longer the establishment of liberty on the basis of republican government this point the enemies of france have ceased to dispute the question now is whether she shall be aggrandized by new acquisitions and her enemies reduced by diminished territories to a degree which may render her the mistress of europe and consequently in a great measure of america this is truly the remaining subject of contention they who understood the real strength and resources of france before the present war knew that she was intrinsically the most powerful nation of europe the incidents of the war have displayed this fact in a manner which is the astonishment of the world if france can finally realize her present plan of aggrandizement she will attain to a degree of greatness and power which if not counteracted by internal disorder will tend to make her the terror and the scourge of nations the spirit of moderation in a state of overbearing power is a phenomenon which has not yet appeared and which no wise man will expect ever to see it is certain that a very different spirit has hitherto marked the career of the new republic and it is due to truth to add that the ardent impetuous and military genius of the french affords perhaps less prospect of such a spirit in them than in any other people twas therefore contrary to our true interest to assist in building up this colossus to the enormous size at which she aims twas a policy as short sighted as mean to seek safety in a subserviency to her views as the price of her clemency this at best would be but a temporary respite from the rod it indeed that can be called a respite which is of itself the sacrifice of a real to a nominal independence these reflections are not designed to rouse a spirit of hostility against france or to inculcate the idea that we ought of choice to participate in the war against her they are intended merely to fortify the motives of honor which forbid our stooping to be compelled either to submit without resistance to a virtual war on her part or to avert her blows by engaging in the war on her side when it was the opinion that france was defending the cause of liberty it was a decisive argument against embarking with her in the contest that it would expose us to hazards and evils infinitely disproportioned to the assistance we could render now that the question plainly is whether france shall give the law to mankind the addition of our opposition to her plan could have too little influence upon the event to justify our willingly encountering the certain dangers and mischiefs of the enterprise tis our true policy to remain at peace if we can to negotiate our subjects of complaint as long as they shall be at all negotiable to defer a resort to arms till a last effort of negotiation shall have demonstrated that there is no alternative but the surrender of our sovereignty or the defence of it that the only option is between infamy or war but if unhappily this period shall ever arrive it will impose a sacred and indispensable duty to meet the contest with firmness and relying on a just providence confidently to commit the issue to the god of battles while it is a consolation to know that our government on this as on other trying occasions will act with perfect prudence and will do every thing that honor permits to preserve peace yet it is not to be forgotten that there is a point at which forbearance must stop beyond which moderation were baseness where we must halt and make a stand for our rights or cease to pretend to any when the indiscriminate seizure of our vessels by british cruisers under the order of the sixth of november had brought our affairs with great britain to a crisis which led to the measure of sending a special envoy to that country to obtain relief and reparation it was well understood that the issue of that mission was to determine the question of peace or war between the two nations in like manner it is to be expected that our executive will make a solemn and final appeal to the justice and interest of france will insist in mild but explicit terms on the renunciation of the pretension to intercept the lawful commerce of neutrals with the enemies of france and the institution of some equitable mode of ascertaining and retributing the losses which the exercise of it has inflicted upon our merchants if the experiment shall fail there will be nothing left but to repel aggression and defend our commerce and independence the resolution to do this will then be imposed on the government by a painful but irresistible necessity and it were an outrage to the american name and character to doubt that the people of the united states will approve the resolution and will support it with a constancy worthy of the justice of their cause and of the glory they have heretofore deferred and acquired no let this never be doubted the servile minions of france those who have no sensibility to injury but when it comes from great britain who are unconscious of any rights to be protected against france who at a moment when the public safety more than ever demands a strict union between the people and their government traitorously labour to detach them from it and to turn against the government for pretended faults the resentment which the real oppressions of france ought to inspire these wretched men will discover in the end that they are as insignificant as they are unprincipled they will find that they have vainly flattered themselves with the co-operation of the great body of those men with whom the spirit of party has hitherto associated them in such an extremity the adventitious discriminations of party will be lost in the patriotism and pride of the american character good citizens of every political denomination will remember that they are americans that when their country is in danger the merit or demerit of particular measures is no longer a question that it is the duty of all to unite their efforts to guard the national rights to avert national humiliation and to withstand the imposition of a foreign yoke the true and genuine spirit of not the vile counterfeits of it which soothed and lulled our eyes and our ears will warm every truly american heart and light up in it a noble emulation to maintain inviolate the rights and unfulfilled the honor of the american nation it will be proved to the confusion of all false patriots that we did not break the fetters of one foreign tyranny to put on those of another it will be again proved to the world that we understood our rights and have the courage to defend them but there is still ground to hope that we shall not be driven to this disagreeable extremity the more deliberate calculations of france will probably rescue us from the present embarrassment if she perseveres in her plan she must inevitably add all the neutral powers to the number of her enemies how will this fulfil the purpose of destroying the commerce of great britain the commerce of those powers with france will then entirely cease and be turned more extensively into the channels of great britain protected by her navy with the co-operation of the maritime force of those powers the result will be the reverse of what is projected by the measure the commerce and revenue of britain will in all likelihood be augmented rather than diminished and her arms will receive an important reinforcement violent and unjust measures commonly defeat their own purpose the plan of starving france was of this description and operated against the views of its projectors the plan now adopted by france of cutting off the trade of neutrals with her enemies alike violent and unjust will no doubt end in similar disappointment let us hope that it will be abandoned and that ultimate rupture will be avoided but let us also contemplate the possibility of the contrary and prepare our minds seriously for the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-08|1|1", "date": "1797-04-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797040801/0265.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the united states the warning no ii independent of the commands of honor the coolest calculations of interest forbid our becoming the instruments of the ambition of france by associating with her in the war the question is no longer the establishment of liberty on the basis of republican government this point the enemies of france have ceased to dispute the question now is whether she shall be aggrandized by new acquisitions and her enemies reduced by dismemberments to a degree which may render her the mistress of europe and consequently in a great measure of america this is truly the remaining subject of contention they who understood the real strength and resources of france before the present war knew that she was intrinsically the most powerful nation of europe the incidents of the war have displayed this fact in a manner which is the astonishment of the world if france can finally realize her present plan of aggrandizement she will attain to a degree of greatness and power which if not counteracted by internal disorder will tend to make her the terror and the scourge of nations the spirit of moderation in a state of overbearing power is a phenomenon which has not yet appeared and which no wise man will expect ever to see it is certain that a very different spirit has hitherto marked the career of the new republic and it is due to truth to add that the ardent impetuous and military genius of the french affords perhaps less prospect of such a spirit in them than in any other people it were therefore contrary to our true interests to assist in building up this colossus to the enormous size at which she aims it were a policy as short sighted as mean to seek safety in a subserviency to her views as the price of her clemency this at best would be but a temporary respite from the rod if indeed that can be called a respite which is of itself the sacrifice of a real to a nominal independence these reflections are not designed to rouse a spirit of hostility against france or to inculcate the idea that we ought of choice to participate in the war against her they are intended merely to fortify the motives of honor which forbid our stooping to be compelled either to submit without resistance to a virtual war on her part or to avert her blows by engaging in the war on her side when it was the opinion that france was defending the cause of liberty it was a decisive argument against embarking with her in the contest that it would expose us to hazards and evils infinitely disproportionate to the assistance we could render now that the question plainly is whether france shall give the law to mankind the addition of our opposition to her plan could have but too little influence upon the event to justify our willingly encountering the certain dangers and mischiefs of the enterprise it is our true policy to remain at peace if we can to negotiate our complaints as long as they shall be at all negotiable to defer a resort to arms until a last effort of negotiation shall have demonstrated that there is no alternative but the surrender of our sovereignty or the defence of it that the only option is between infamy or war but if unhappily this period shall ever arrive it will impose a sacred and indispensable duty to meet the contest with firmness and relying on a just providence confidently to commit the issue to the god of battles while it is a consolation to know that our government on this as on other trying occasions will act with perfect prudence and will do every thing that honor permits to preserve peace yet it is not to be forgotten that there is a point at which forbearance must stop beyond which moderation were baseness where we must halt and make a stand for our rights or cease to pretend to any when the indiscriminate seizure of our vessels by british cruisers under the order of the th november had brought our affairs with great britain to a crisis which led to the measure of sending a special envoy to that country to obtain relief and reparation it was well understood that the issue of that mission was to determine the question of peace or war between the two nations in like manner it is to be expected that our executive will make a solemn and final appeal to the justice and interest of france will insist in mild but explicit terms on the renunciation of the pretension to intercept the lawful commerce of neutrals with the enemies of france and the institution of some equitable mode of ascertaining and retributing the losses which the exercise of it has inflicted upon our merchants if the experiment should fail there will be nothing left but to repel aggression and to defend our commerce and independence the resolution to do this will then be imposed on the government by a painful but irresistible necessity and it were an outrage to the american name and character to doubt that the people of the united states will approve the resolution and will support it with a constancy worthy of the justice of their cause and of the glory they have hitherto deserved and acquired no let this never be doubted the servile minions of france those who have no sensibility to injury but when it comes from great britain who are unconscious of any rights to be protected against france who at a moment when the public safety more than ever demands a strict union between the people and their government traitorously labor to detach them from it and to turn against the government for pretended faults the resentment which the real oppressions of france ought to inspire these wretched men will discover in the end that they are as insignificant as they are unprincipled they will find that they have vainly flattered themselves with the co-operation of the great body of those men with whom the spirit of party has hitherto associated them in such an extremity the adventitious discriminations of party will be lost in the patriotism and pride of the american character good citizens of every political denomination will remember that they are americans that when their country is in danger the merit or demerit of particular measures is no longer a question that it is the duty of all to unite their efforts to guard the national rights to avert national humiliation and to withstand the imposition of a foreign yoke the true and genuine spirit of not the vile counterfeits of it which so often disgust our eyes and our ears will warm every true american heart and light up in it a noble emulation to maintain inviolate the rights and unfulfilled the honor of the american nation it will be proved to the confusion of all false patriots that we did not break the fetters of one foreign tyranny to put on those of another it will be again proved to the world that we understand our rights and have the courage to defend them but there is still ground to hope that we shall not be driven to this disagreeable extremity the more deliberate calculations of france will probably rescue us from the present embarrassment if the perseveres in her plan she must inevitably add all the neutral powers to the number of her enemies how will this fulfil the purpose of destroying the commerce of great britain the commerce of those powers with france will then entirely cease and be turned more extensively into the channels of great britain protected by her navy with the co-operation of the maritime force of those powers the result will be the reverse of what is projected by the measure the commerce and revenue of britain will in all likelihood be augmented rather than diminished and her arms will receive no important reinforcement violent and unjust measures commonly defeat their own purpose the plan of starving france was of this description operated against the views of its projectors the plan now adopted by france of cutting off the trade of neutrals with her enemies alike violent and unjust will no doubt end in similar disappointments let us hope that it will be abandoned and that ultimate rupture will be avoided but let us also contemplate the possibility of the contrary and prepare our minds seriously for the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording 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& Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020801/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debeury post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at new-burypore by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": 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"sn83025881|1797-02-09|1|1", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020901/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "empire has addressed some very peremptory and severe letters to the circle of swabia respecting the armistice and the separate treaty of peace similar memorials have also been presented to the duke of wurtemberg and the margrave of baden the works which the austrians have erected near huningen expose that city to be converted into a heap of ruins the french still occupy the redoubts of the bridge and the batteries on the ilet letters from strasbourg of the th announce pichegru's departure to paris where he is expected to obtain the chief command of the sambre and meuse army november on saturday an express was received as the admiralty office from sir john borlase warren brought to falmouth by the sylph brig the dispatches from sir john state that he had looked into brek where were seventeen sail of the line with a prodigious number of transports and flat-bottomed boats ready for sea and he had learnt that troops were in readiness to embark this account of the authenticity and accuracy of which no doubt whatever can be entertained differs materially from other intelligence recently received about ten days ago an armament consisting of some gun boats small armed vessels and transports sailed from the road of havre having troops on board they had scarcely got out of the road when a gale of wind came on in which several of the boats were wrecked and all the men on board of them drowned the rest of this armament returned into the harbor of"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-23|1|2", "date": "1797-02-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797022301/0222.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "empire has addressed some very peremptory and severe letters to the circle of swabia respecting the armistice and the separate treaty of peace similar memorials have also been presented to the duke of w rttemberg and the margrave of baden the works which the austrians have erected near h nigen expose that city to be converted into a heap of ruins the french still occupy the redoubt of the bridge and the batteries on the island letters from strasburg of the th announce pichegru's departure to paris where he is expected to obtain the chief command of the sambre and meuse army nov on saturday an express was received at the admiralty office from sir john borlase warren brought to falmouth by the sylph brig the dispatches from sir john state that he had looked into brest where were seventeen fail of the line with a prodigious number of transport and flat-bottomed boats ready for sea and he had learnt that troops were in readiness to embark this account of the authenticity and accuracy of which no doubt whatever can be entertained differs most materially from other intelligence recently received about ten days ago an armament consisting of some gun boats small armed vessels and transports sailed from the road of havre having troops on board they had scarcely got out of the road when a gale of wind came on in which several of the boats were wrecked and all the men on board of them drowned the rest of this armament returned into the harbor of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3604, 3701], "b_span": [2067, 2163], "matched_words": 88, 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advanced guard has taken possession of trent which place as well as the strong position behind"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|2", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032201/0775.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dispatches of which the following are copies have been received from rob craufurd esq by the right honorable lord greenville his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs head quarters of his royal highness the arch-duke charles of austria offenburg november my lord i have the honor to inform your lordship that official accounts were this day received by the arch-duke from general davidovich stating his having beaten the corps that was opposed to him and taken prisoners his advanced guard has taken possession of trento which place as well as the strong position behind"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [377, 614], "b_span": [352, 598], "matched_words": 224, "similarity": 0.927536231884058, "seeds": 41, "id": "M00219", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-09|1|2", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020901/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "loss of the austrians on this occasion consists of killed wounded missing on the whole men and horses the enemy's was certainly considerable of them were taken prisoners and brought into mayence i am thus circumstantial in stating the particulars of this in fact unimportant affair because i observe that the official reports of the army of sambre and meuse i mean the late ones contain the most absurd exaggerations i should consider them perfectly undeserving of notice were it not that those who have no other means of judging of the event of the campaign than by comparing the accounts published by the contending armies would be led into the most erroneous conclusions if they gave each party credit for only an equal degree of fatigues in their relations in the enemy's official account of the affair of the st of last month near neuwied it is represented as having been a serious and general attack whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of destroying his bridge and spreading alarm on the left bank of the rhine both these objects were effected by a very insignificant force and there was not the smallest idea of making a serious assault on the tete-de-pont of neuwied the enemy states that besides an immense number of killed and drowned he actually took prisoners whereas i can assure your lordship from the most authentic information that the whole loss"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|3", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0235.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "loss of the austrians on this occasion says mr crauford was killed wounded and missing in all men and horses the enemy's loss was certainly considerable two hundred of them were made prisoners and sent into mayence i am he continues thus circumstantial in stating the particulars of this in fact unimportant affair because i observe that the official reports of the army of sambre and meuse i mean the late ones contain the most absurd exaggerations i should consider them perfectly undeserving of notice were it not that those who have no other means of judging of the events of the campaign than by comparing the accounts published by the contending armies would be led into the most erroneous conclusions if they give each party credit for only an equal degree of fairness in their relations in the enemy's official account of the affair of the st of last month near neufied it is represented as having been a serious and general attack whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of destroying his bridge and spreading alarm on the left bank of the rhine both these objects were effected by a very insignificant force and there was not the smallest idea of making a serious assault on the tete-de-point of neufied the enemy states that besides an immense number of killed and drowned he actually took one thousand prisoners whereas i can assure your lordship from the most authentic information that the whole loss"}, 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coasts if the live and dead stock of individuals residing near the sea coast was capable of being instantly removed and secured for the benefit of the proprietors i am commanded to recommend it to your lordship to exert your influence in causing to be made out as speedily as possible an account of the live and dead stock in such of the parishes in the county of sussex as are within ten or twelve miles of the sea with respect to the mode of making out the account required i take this opportunity of transmitting to your lordship the form in which it has been executed by the voluntary exertions of gentlemen of the county of dorset and shall beg to submit it for your lordship's consideration and adoption unless when it may be found necessary to deviate from it in consequence of local circumstances and situations with respect to the mode in which it is proposed to move such live and dead stock in case it should be necessary your lordship will communicate with the commander in chief of the district in which the county of sussex lies and will concert with him such previous measures for this purpose as may be judged requisite the meeting which i have desired your lordship to call on the subject of my circular letter of this day's date will afford you an opportunity of submitting this letter to the consideration of the deputy lieutenants and magistracy of the county of sussex and will consequently lead to the immediate adoption of such measures as shall be necessary to enable the return to be made which i am persuaded your lordship will be of opinion is so much to be wished for i am further to inform your lordship that the lords commissioners of the treasury have received his majesty's pleasure that they should take such previous measures as may be necessary for defraying any expenses which may arise in consequence of such possible removal of live and dead stock as i have supposed as well as of any particular losses which may eventually be occasioned thereby although this circumstance is such as must obviate every possible objection to the measure i am nevertheless confident that all those whom it may concern would exclusively of every personal consideration or motive join with the utmost alacrity in the execution of a measure which has for its object the general safety of the country i have the honor to be c portland"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-23|1|2", "date": "1797-02-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797022301/0222.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "november precaution against an invasion copy of a circular letter to the lieutenants of counties on the sea coast whitehall nov my lord as it would materially add to the difficulties which already oppose themselves to any attempts which it is possible the enemy may be induced to make upon our coasts if the live and dead stock of individuals residing near the sea coast was capable of being instantly removed and secured for the benefit of the proprietors i am commanded to recommend it to your lordship to exert your influence in causing to be made out as speedily as possible an account of the live and dead stock in such of the parishes in the county of sussex as are within ten or twelve miles of the sea with respect to the mode in making out the account required i take this opportunity of transmitting to your lordship the form in which it has been executed by the voluntary exertions of gentlemen of the county of dorset and shall beg to submit it for your lordship's consideration and adoption unless when it may be found necessary to deviate from it in consequence of local circumstances and situation with respect to the mode in which it is proposed to move such live and dead stock in case it should be necessary your lordship will communicate with the commander in chief of the district in which the county of sussex lies and will concert with him such previous measures for this purpose as may be judged requisite the meeting which i have desired your lordship to call on the subject of my circular letter of this day's date will afford you an opportunity of submitting this letter to the consideration of the deputy lieutenants and magistracy of the county of sussex and will consequently lead to the immediate adoption of such measures as shall be necessary to enable the return to be made which i am persuaded your lordship will be of opinion is so much to be wished for i am further to inform your lordship that the lords commissioners of the treasury have received his majesty's pleasure that they should take such previous measures as may be necessary for detraying any expences which may arise in consequence of such possible removal of live and dead stock as i have supposed as well as of any particular losses which may eventually be occasioned thereby although this circumstance is such as must obviate every possible objection to the measure i am nevertheless confident that all those whom it may concern would exclusively of every personal consideration or motive join with the utmost alacrity in the execution of a measure which has for its object the general safety of the country i have the honor to be c portland"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3112, 3968], "b_span": [666, 1459], "matched_words": 741, "similarity": 0.8987265009096422, "seeds": 105, "id": "M00221", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-09|1|2", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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continually by burning sulphur tarred rope yarns and washing the ship and ourselves with vinegar were the means of preventing its further progress adding to this no other person was allowed to have any intercourse with the infected persons but two who had been so fortunate as to survive after having experienced this shocking disorder viz benjamin lunt and peter page who willingly did every thing in their power for those unfortunate persons every thing belonging to the two deceased persons was immediately hove over-board after their decease except a few cloaths in a chest belonging to mr bayley which he had never touched after his leaving algiers the chest was ordered to be sent on shore two leagues below marcellles unopened and there burned we sincerely believe had we gone to any other port in the mediterranean we should not have been admitted to quarantine as a spanish brig from algiers who left it a few days before us who had lost three of her people arrived at marcellles after having been in three different ports in spain and not admitted to quarantine and the vessel ordered to be burned the captain preferring to try marcellles rather than lose his vessel proceeded there where they were received to perform a quarantine of days and we believe from the great expence they have been at in marcellles for the reception of vessels th'ir crews and merchandise from the levant and turkey their lazarettoes and precautions they take are preferable to any in the world we performed a quarantine of days during which time we all continued in good health stephen cathalan jun esq american consul at marcellles supplied us with comfortable necessaries and a suit of winter cloaths which we stood much in need of for our passage to the united states the late captains in behalf of themselves their officers and crews have much to lament that joseph donaldson jun esq agent from the united states did not effect a general redemption at the time of his making the peace as seven of their unfortunate number has died of the plague since the peace and several others of various disorders on the approach of that alarming evil the plague joel barlow esq american consul at algiers by his perseverance abilities and humanity for the distress'd brought about their general redemption which in all probability under god was the means of saving many of their lives as at that time the plague raged with such violence that from to died within the walls of the city daily they touched at gibraltar to fill up their water c the th november james simpson esq american agent for west barbary a gentleman of very great respectability informed them that our affairs in west barbary were in a very good way and that he was daily expecting a vessel to arrive from the united states with the presents for the emperor mr simpson had his furniture c packed up to proceed to barbary to the consulate for the united states at that regency the jupiter on the th december lat n long w boarded the hulk of a ship supposed to belong to the eastern part of the united states she was laden with large pine timber and plank her masts was all gone the main mast about feet above the deck her quarter deck blown up supposed to have been wrecked as much as six months she was about tons burthen could not discover any name upon her stern dec th lat s n long w spoke the ship eliza of and from boston moses barnard commander out days all well bound to china capt barnard very politely lent his boat with a present of live stock vegetables c which were very acceptable and offered us any supply of provision for which we return him our sincere thanks jan lat n long w spoke the brig hannah of haverhill from norfolk out days robert follandbee master all well bound to the west-indies jan spoke the bark neptune of and from new-york lat n long w bound to the west-indies jan spoke the schooner john of salem samuel cook master from charleston out days all well lat n long w bound to the west-indies"}, "b": {"key": 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circumstances it was unanimously agreed to proceed to marseilles as the wind was contrary for leghorn where they arrived the th july free from infection every precaution was taken to prevent its further devastation cleansing the ship continually by burning sulphur tarred rope yarns and washing the ship and company with vinegar which prevented its further progress no person was allowed to have any intercourse with the infected persons but two who had been so fortunate as to survive after having experienced the plague viz benjamin lunt and peter page who willingly did every thing in their power for those unfortunate persons every thing belonging to the two deceased persons was overboard after their decease except a few cloths in a chest belonging to mr e bayley which he had never touched after his leaving algiers the chest was sent on shore leagues below marseilles and burned had they gone to any other port in the mediterranean they would not have been admitted to quarantine as a spanish brig from algiers who left it a few days before them who had lost three of her people arrived at marseilles after having been in three different ports in spain had not been admitted the capt preferred marseilles proceeded thither where they were received to perform a quarantine of days and from the great expense they have been at in marseilles for the reception of vessels their crews and merchandise from the levant and barbary their lazarettoes and precautions they take are preferable to any in the world the american captives performed a quarantine of during which time all continued in good health stephen cathalan jr esq american consul at marseilles supplied them with comfortable necessaries and a suit of winter cloths the late captains in behalf of themselves their officers and crews have much to lament that joseph donaldson jun esq agent from the united states did not effect a general redemption at the time of his making the peace as seven of their unfortunate number died of the plague since the peace and several others of various disorders on the approach of that alarming evil the plague joel barlow esq american consul at algiers by his perseverance abilities and humanity for the distressed brought about their general redemption which in all probability under god was the means of saving many of their lives as at that time the plague raged with such violence that from to died within the walls of the city daily they touched at gibraltar to fill up their water c the th november james simpson esq american agent for west-barbary a gentleman of very great respectability informed them that affairs in west-barbary were in a very good way and that he was daily expecting a vessel to arrive from the united states with the presents for the emperor mr simpson had his furniture c packed up to proceed to barbary to the consulship for the united states at that regency the jupiter on the th december lat n long w boarded the hulk of a ship supposed to belong to the eastern part of the united states she was laden with large pine timber and plank her masts were all gone the main mast about feet above the deck her quarter deck blown up supposed to have been wrecked as much as six months she was about tons burthen could not discover any name upon her stern dec lat n long w spoke the ship eliza of and from boston moses barnard commander out days all well bound to china capt barnard very politely sent his boat with a present of live stock vegetables c which were very acceptable and offered us any supply of provision jan lat n long w spoke the brig hannah of haverhill from norfolk out days robert follandsee master all well bound to the west-indies jan spoke the bark neptune of and from new-york lat n long w bound to the west-indies jan spoke the schooner john of salem samuel cook master from charleston out days all well lat n long w bound to the west-indies"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying 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the nahe has been obliged to fall back and take a position behind the seltz this corps consisted merely of detachments from the garrison of mayence commanded by major-generals simpfachan and rosenburg the latter with the left wing was posted on the heights of biebelheim and planig to observe creutzenach the former with the right wing on the hill called the richelsberg to defend the passage of benig they had orders in case of being attacked by a superior force to retire nearer to mayence this position on the right bank of the lower nahe is well known from the operations of last year it is not to be maintained against an enemy of very superior force for creutzenach lies so entirely under the fire of the hills from the left bank of the river that the enemy is always master of that place as was sufficiently proved by the affair of the th of december on this side creutzenach the heights are so distant from the river that the enemy has every facility in extending himself in front on each flank of the town and a corps of very inferior force take post near enough to prevent this formation on the th generals simpfachan and rosenburg were attacked by two divisions of the army of sambre and meuse the action lasted several hours and the enemy notwithstanding so very great an inequality of numbers was repulsed with considerable loss early on the th the french renewed their attack and advanced in several columns from creutzenach to turn the left of the austrians but the latter by an exertion of much ability and steadiness maintained their position in the evening however the generals in conformity to the orders mentioned above determined on retiring behind the seltz and the retreat was executed with perfect order the loss of the austrians on this occasion consists of killed wounded missing on the whole men and horses the enemy's was certainly considerable of them were taken prisoners and brought into mayence i am thus circumstantial in stating the particulars of this in fact unimportant affair because i observe that the official reports of the army of sambre and meuse i mean the late ones contain the most absurd exaggerations i should consider them perfectly undeserving of notice were it not that those who have no other means of judging of the event of the campaign than by comparing the accounts published by the contending armies would be led into the most erroneous conclusions if they gave each party credit for only an equal degree of fatigues in their relations in the enemy's official account of the affair of the st of last month near neuwied it is represented as having been a serious and general attack whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of destroying his bridge and spreading alarm on the left bank of the rhine both these objects were effected by a very insignificant force and there was not the smallest idea of making a serious assault on the tete-de-pont of neuwied the enemy states that besides an immense number of killed and drowned he actually took prisoners whereas i can assure your lordship from the most authentic information that the whole loss of the austrians did not exceed men after general moreau's army had crossed the rhine two divisions of it were detached towards landau and one division of the army of sambre and meuse arrived about the same time in the neighborhood of kayserlautern general hotze was still at schweigenheim on the road from speyer to landau his corps was not of sufficient strength to have any other object than that of spreading alarm in lower alsace and it was evident that as soon as the rhine should again separate the main armies the enemy must immediately become masters of the vicinity of landau general hotze therefore on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|2", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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nearer to mayence this position on the right bank of the lower nahe is well known from the operations of last year it is not to be maintained against an enemy of very superior force for creutzenach lies so entirely under the hills from the left bank of the river that the enemy is always master of that place as was sufficiently proved by the affair of the th of december on this side creutzenach the heights are so distant from the river that the enemy has every facility in extending themselves in front on each flank of the town and a very inferior force take post near enough to prevent this formation on the th generals simpschaen and rosenberg were attacked by two divisions of the army of the sambre and meuse the action lasted several hours and the enemy notwithstanding so very great an inequality of numbers was repulsed with considerable loss early on the th the french renewed the attack and advanced in several columns from creutzenach to turn the left of the austrians but the latter by an exertion of much ability and steadiness maintained their position in the evening however the generals in conformity to the orders mentioned above determined on retiring behind the seltz and the retreat was executed with perfect order the loss of the austrians on this occasion consists of men killed wounded missing the whole men and horses the enemy's was certainly considerable of them were taken prisoners and brought into mayence i am thus circumstantial in stating the particulars of this in fact unimportant affair because i observe that the official reports of the army of the sambre meuse i mean the late ones contain the most absurd exaggerations i shall consider them perfectly undeserving of notice were it not that those that have no other means of judging of the event of the campaign than by comparing the accounts published by the contending armies would be led into the most erroneous conclusions if they give each party credit for only an equal degree of fairness in their relations in the enemy's official account of the affair of the st of last month nieuwied it is represented as having been a serious and general attack whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of destroying their bridge and spreading alarm on the left bank of the rhine both these objects were effected by a very insignificant force and there was not the smallest idea of making a serious assault on the tete-de-pont of nieuwied the enemy states that besides an immense number of killed and drowned they actually took one thousand prisoners whereas i can assure your lordship from the most authentic information that the whole loss of the austrians did not exceed men after general moreau's army had crossed the rhine two divisions were detached towards landau and one division of the army of the sambre and meuse arrived about the same time in the neighbourhood of kayserlautern general hotz was still at schweigenheim on the road from speyer to landau his corps was not of sufficient strength to have any other object than that of spreading alarm in lower alsace and it was evident that as soon as the rhine should again separate the main armies the enemy must immediately become masters of the vicinity of landau general hotze therefore on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [731, 836], "b_span": [7, 112], "matched_words": 102, "similarity": 0.9714285714285714, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00223", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-09|1|2", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020901/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "own retired towards the entrenched camp at mannheim without being in the smallest degree molested by the enemy he established the advanced posts of his left wing on the reebach from whence they ran along the pletz towards frankenthal on the th instant the french attacked general hotze's line their principal efforts were directed against the left wing and the fire of the artillery and small arms continued a great part of the day but the enemy was repulsed and general hotze still maintaining his posts in front of the entrenched camp extending from the reebach by the village of maubach to frankenthal i have"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|3", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032201/0778.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "own retired towards the entrenched camp at manheim without being in the smallest degree molested by the enemy he established the advanced posts of his left wing on the reebach from whence they ran along the pletz towards frankenthal on the th instant the french attacked general hotze's line the principal efforts were directed against the left wing and the fire of the artillery and small arms continued a great part of the day but the enemy was repulsed and general hotze still maintaining his posts in front of the entrenched camp extending from the rebach by the village of maubach to frankenthal i have"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1680, 1802], "b_span": [1725, 1848], "matched_words": 121, "similarity": 0.9877551020408163, "seeds": 26, "id": "M00224", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020901/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at o'clock the two houses assembled in the chamber of the house of representatives in pursuance of previous agreement to ascertain the result of the election of president and vice-president of the united states and it appearing by the report made by mr sedgwick from the tellers that john adams was elected president and thomas jefferson vice-president of the united states and mr adams having made the official declaration thereof as president of the senate added and may the sovereign of the universe the ordainer of civil government on earth for the preservation of liberty justice and peace among men enable both to discharge the duties of those offices conformably to the constitution of the united states with conscientious diligence punctuality and"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0219.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at o'clock the two houses assembled in the chamber of the house of representatives in pursuance of previous agreement to ascertain the result of the election of president and vice-president of the united states and it appearing by the report made by mr sedgwick from the tellers that john adams was elected president and thomas jefferson vice president of the united states and mr adams having made the official declaration thereof as president of the senate added and may the sovereign of the universe the ordainer of civil government on earth for the preservation of liberty justice and peace among men enable both to discharge the duties of those offices conformably to the constitution of the united states with conscientious diligence punctuality and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [881, 950], "b_span": [3254, 3328], "matched_words": 68, "similarity": 0.951048951048951, "seeds": 8, "id": "M00225", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797020901/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "three spanish prizes were brought in by british cruisers on board of one of which a large ship was bishops friars and two millions of dollars two american captains arrived at st thomas from the bite of leogane while capt p lay there who informed that upwards of american vessels were lying at the bite and at st pierres all captured by the french and many of them condemned"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|3", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0243.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "three spanish prizes were brought in by british cruisers on board of one of which a large ship was two bishops twenty-five friars and two million of dollars two american captains arrived at st thomas s from the bite of leogane while capt p lay there who informed that upwards of four hundred american 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month it is supposed to attack guadeloupe although the most profound secrecy is observed at head-quarters tranquillity is at length restored to the ill-fated islands of st vincents and grenada and the insurgents of st lucia are nearly reduced the charibs have all surrendered and are now in the island of baillifoa on the th ult six sail of the line with some frigates failed it is supposed to trinidad to cut out the spanish squadron consisting of five ships of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|3", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0235.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "capt crane arrived at marcus hook on the th inst arrived at fort royal sir r abercrombie gen hope c from england after a passage of days in the arethusa frigate and we learn that men may be expected in the course of this month it is supposed to attack guadaloupe although the most profound secrecy is observed at head quarters tranquility is at length restored to the ill fated islands of st vincents and grenada and the insurgents of st lucia are nearly reduced the charibs have all surrendered and are now on the island of barbuda on the th inst six sail of the line with some frigates failed it is supposed to trinidad to cut out the spanish squadron consisting of five ships of the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [586, 717], "b_span": [1749, 1879], "matched_words": 128, "similarity": 0.9808429118773946, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00227", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-09|1|3", "date": "1797-02-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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it will be"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|3", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0235.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a few days from europe we cannot pretend to be acquainted with secret operations of foreign governments nor have we any other authority for assuming what the matter in question really is than what arises from the analogy of facts known with the course and time of the present circumstances and the probability of the measures we surmise we understand that the information received comes circuitously from paris and we thence conclude that as the french government have already suspended their diplomatic connexion near the united states that they have also refused to receive mr pinckney upon these conjectures and which we offer only as such our readers will form their own opinion it may be reasonably supposed that if such an event has really taken place it will be"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1009, 1134], "b_span": [2058, 2184], "matched_words": 125, "similarity": 0.9960159362549801, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00228", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-10|1|1", "date": "1797-02-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1142, 1549], "b_span": [2312, 2768], "matched_words": 389, "similarity": 0.9015063731170336, "seeds": 62, "id": "M00229", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-10|1|1", "date": "1797-02-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debeny post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at newburyport by mr e bliss bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at balton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1673, 2453], "b_span": [1444, 2242], "matched_words": 743, "similarity": 0.9416983523447402, "seeds": 139, "id": "M00230", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-10|1|3", "date": "1797-02-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "notices from the lords of the admiralty are posted up in portsmouth portsea and gosport informing the inhabitants that all freshps guaboots c are completely equipped and inviting the people to learn the use of artillery and go on board these craft in case the french should attempt to invade this kingdom which according to this state paper appears to be a matter seriously intended events at the upper rhine morcau writes nov that the garrison of kehl had made a vigorous sortie the austrian he was forced without a shot all their artillery was spiked pieces were taken if such success had been expected arrangements would have been made for pursuing it further prisoners were made among whom was a col and a major the battle was the most obstinate of the war many germans must have been killed the french gen delax had his horse killed under him and was himself wounded gen lacombe's horse was wounded latest french accounts commissioner berthier writes to the commandant of lombardy and also to the executive directory under date of november at verona giving particulars of several bloody actions after november the occurrences previous to which day he had already written an account of at that period the austrian general alvinzy had effected a junction with a column from tyrol and had an army of men nov this army came in sight of the french and buonaparte prevented french general vaubois was wounded a bridge of boats was placed over the adige that troops might pass to fall on alvinzy's rear cut off his communications seize his magazines and his park of artillery and deprive him of subsistence french generals massena and angereau were sent across the adige massena first fell in with some of the enemy's out posts whom he worsted angereau also drove in several posts but was stopped at village arcole by the austrians whose fire flanked a dyke it was necessary to pass in vain did angereau endeavor to encourage his men by stepping to their head with a standard and trying to lead them on the fire was too intense buonaparte when informed of these difficulties ordered general guieux to assist them with men buonaparte went also himself he addressed the troops reminded them that they were the same men that had taken the bridge at lodi raised a spirit of enthusiasm to profit by it he leaped from his horse seized a standard remounted rushed forward and cried follow your general the column instantly advanced and were within thirty yards of the bridge when the terrible fire of the austrians made them fall back generals vignolle and lasne were wounded muiron aide-de-camp to general in chief was killed buonaparte was thrown from his horse into a marsh from whence he escaped with difficulty he mounted again the column rallied and the austrians kept within their entrenchments at night general guieux carried this village of arcole but retired with prisoners and four pieces of cannon the austrians in the night sent their valuables to vicenza drew their whole force towards ronco and again occupied arcole in force november the austrians commenced the attack massena worsted the enemy took prisoners cannon and standards angereau likewise repulsed the enemy but could not carry arcole seven generals were wounded before this village buonaparte endeavored to establish a passage across the canal but could not adjutant-general vial was up to his neck in the water in trying to ford the canal and at this time elliot another of the general in chiefs aids was killed nov a new attack was made by the french massena engaged on the left of the causeway angereau for the third time attempted arcole massena was successful but angereau was again repulsed and fell back in disorder to the bridge of ronco massena came to the assistance of angereau and then victory declared for the french the enemy were put to flight and quitting all their positions retreated to vicenza nov the french pursued the austrians to vicenza and took several barges laden with powder stores and picked up some prisoners during these events the french left wing was driven from rivoli by the right wing of the imperial army under davidovich but the next day the whole republican army was to attack him and were confident of either capturing his troops or obiging him to fly to tyrol the surrender of mantua was expected to follow immediately in all these actions the french took about prisoners officers included killed and wounded a vast number took standards pieces of cannon many caissons several barges and a great number of scaling ladders which the germans had"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|2", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0218.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "notices from the lords of the admiralty are posted up in portsmouth portsea and gosport informing the inhabitants that all fire ships gun-boats c are completely equipped and inviting the people to learn the use of artillery and go on board these craft in case the french should attempt to invade this kingdom which according to this state paper appears to be a matter seriously intended events at the upper rhine moreau writes nov that the garrison of kehl had made a vigorous sortie the austrians were forced without a shot all their artillery was spiked pieces were taken if such success had been expected arrangements would have been made for pursuing it farther prisoners were made among whom was a colonel and a major the battle was the most obstinate of the war many germans must have been killed the french general detaix had his horse killed under him and was himself wounded gen lacombe's horse was wounded latest french accounts commissioner besther writes to the commandant of lombardy and also to the executive directory under date of november at verona giving particulars of several bloody battles from nov the occurrences previous to which day he had already written an account of at that period the austrian general alvinzy had effected a junction with a column from tyrol and had an army of men nov this army came in sight of the french and proceeded to give a pitched battle which however buonaparte prevented french general vauoles was to act in conjunction with the right wing under general davids and a bridge of boats was placed over the adige that troops might pass to fall on alvinzy's rear cut off his communications seize his magazines and his park of artillery and deprive him of subsistence french generals massena and angereau were sent across the adige massena first tell in with some of the enemy's out posts whom he worsted angereau also drove in several posts but was stopped at village arcole by the austrians whose fire flanked a dyke it was necessary to pass in vain did angereau endeavour to encourage his men by stepping to their head with a standard and trying to lead them on the fire was too intense buonaparte when informed of these difficulties ordered general guieu to assist them with men buonaparte went also to himself he addressed the troops reminded them that they were the same men that had taken the bridge at lodi raised a spirit of enthusiasm to profit by it he leaped from his horse seized a standard remounted rushed forward and cried follow your general the column instantly advanced and were within thirty yards of the bridge when the terrible fire of the austrians made them fall back generals vignolle and laffre were wounded muiron aid-de-camp to general in chief was killed buonaparte was thrown from his horse into a marsh from whence he escaped with difficulty he mounted again the column rallied and the austrians kept within their intrenchment at night general guieu carried this village of arcole but retired with prisoners and four pieces of cannon the austrians in the night sent theirables to vicenza drew their whole force towards ronco and again occupied arcole in force nov the austrians commenced the attack massena worsted the enemy took prisoners cannon and standards angereau likewise repulsed the enemy but could not carry arcole seven generals were wounded before this village buonaparte endeavoured to establish a passage across the canal but could not adjutant general vial was up to his neck in water in trying to ford the canal and at this time elliott another of the general in chief's aids was killed nov a new attack was made by the french massena engaged on the left of the causeway angereau for the third time attempted arcole massena was successful but angereau was again repulsed and fell back in disorder to the bridge of ron massena came to the assistance of angereau and then victory declared for the french the enemy were put to flight and quitting all their positions retreated to vicenza nov the french purued the austrians to vicenza and took several barges laden with pontoon stores and picked up some prisoners during these events the french left wing was driven from rivoli by the right wing of the imperial army under davidovich but the next day the whole republican army was to attack him and were confident of either capturing his troops or obliging him to fly to tyrol the surrender of mantua was expected to follow immediately in all these actions the french took about prisoners officers included killed and wounded a great number took standards pieces of cannon many caissons several barges and a great number scaling ladders which the germans had"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [510, 1621], "b_span": [1164, 2292], "matched_words": 1066, "similarity": 0.9522108083966057, "seeds": 195, "id": "M00231", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-10|1|3", "date": "1797-02-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in chief to the executive directory head quarters at verona brumaire nov i have been so harassed with fatigue citizens directors that it has been impossible for me to make known all the military movements that have preceded the battle of arcole which has decided the fate of italy informed that field marshal alvinzy commanding the army of the emperor approached verona for the purpose of forming a junction with the divisions of his army in tyrol i filed off along the adige with the divisions of angereau and massena and in the night of the th and th threw a bridge of boats across at ronco where we passed that river i was in hopes of arriving in the morning at villa nova and by that means taking the enemy's park of artillery and baggage and attacking them in flank and rear the head-quarters of general alvinzy were at caldero but the enemy who had heard of some movements had sent a regiment of croats and some regiments of hungarians into the village of arcole extremely strong by its position in the midst of marshes and canals this village stopped the advanced guard of the army during the whole day it was in vain that all the generals feeling the importance of the time precipitated themselves at its head to oblige our columns to pass the little bridge of arcole too much courage was dangerous they were almost all wounded generals verdier bon verne laine were put out of combat angereau laying hold of a standard advanced to the extremity of the bridge where he remained for several minutes without producing any effect meanwhile it was necessary to pass that bridge or raise a circuitous route of several leagues which would have made our whole operation miscarriage i repaired myself to the spot i asked the soldiers if they still were the conquerors of lodi my presence produced an emotion among the troops which still determined me to risk the passage general lasne already wounded twice with shot received a third and more dangerous wound general vignolle was also wounded we were obliged to renounce forcing the village in front and to wait till a column commanded by general guieux whom i had sent thro albaredo had arrived he did not arrive till night took the village four pieces of cannon and made some hundreds of prisoners in the interval general massena attacked a division which the enemy made desile from their head-quarters against our left discomfited and put it completely to the route it had been thought expedient to evacuate during night the village of arcole and we expected at day-break to be attacked by the whole army of the enemy who were found to have had time to file off with their baggage and parks of artillery and to advance to the rear to receive us at day-break the combat commenced every where with the greatest alertness massena who was on the left put the enemy to the route and pursued them to the gates of caldero general robert who was on the middle causeway with the th defeated the enemy with the bayonet and covered the field of battle with dead bodies i ordered the adjutant-general to advance along the adige with a half brigade to turn the whole left of the enemy but the country presented insurmountable obstacles it was in vain for the brave general to plunge himself up to the neck in water he could not effect a diversion of any consequence in the night between the th and th nov i had bridges thrown over the canals and the marshes general angereau passed them with his division at six in the morning we were within light general massena on the left general robert in the centre and general angereau on the right the enemy attacked the centre vigorously which fell back i then drew the d from the left and placed it in ambuscade in the woods and the instant the enemy pressed the centre and was on the point of turning our right general gardanne at the head of the d sallied forth from his ambuscade took the enemy in flank and made horrible carnage the left of the enemy was supported by the marshes and awed our right by their superior number i ordered citizen hercule the officer of my guides to choose men of his company to advance along the adige to the distance of half a league to turn all the marshes which supported the enemy's left and to fall afterwards into full gallop into the enemy's rear and make several trumpets sound this man uvre was perfectly successful the hostile infantry gave way and general angereau took advantage of the moment but it still made resistance though it was retreating when a small column of between and men with pieces of cannon whom i had made desile through porto lignago to take position in the rear of the enemy and to fall upon their backs during the combat finished by completely putting them to the route general massena who had returned to the centre marched straight to the village of arcole which he took and pursued the enemy to near the village of st bonifacio but night prevented our going farther the fruit of the battle of arcole is between and prisoners stand of colours and pieces of cannon the enemy lost at least killed and had as many wounded besides the generals whom i mentioned generals robert and gardanne were wounded the adjutant general vandelin has been killed i had killed of my aids de camp citizens elliot and muiron two officers of the greatest distinction though young still they promised to gain one day the highest military rank with glory our loss though inconsiderable was very severe because it included all the principal officers meanwhile gen vaubois has been attacked and his important position at rivoli forced this has uncovered the blockade of mantua we sent the cavalry to vicenza where i had left gen kilmaine with men at this moment i have rallied the division of vaubois i forced it and it is at castelnuovo angereau is at verona massena about villanova i will pursue it into tyrol and then wait the surrender of mantua which cannot hold out a fortnight longer the artillery has covered itself with glory the generals and officers of the staff displayed an unexampled activity and bravery twelve or fifteen were killed it was really a deadly combat there is not one but what has his clothes pierced with bullets i will send you the colours taken from the enemy"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-18|1|2", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031801/0767.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in chief to the executive directory head quarters at verona th brumaire november i have been so harrassed with fatigue citizens directors that it has been impossible for me to make known all the military movements that have preceded the battle of arcole which has decided the fate of italy informed that field marshal alvinzy commanding the army of the emperor approached verona for the purpose of forming a junction with the divisions of his army in tyrol i filed off along the adige with the divisions of angereau and massena and in the night of the th and th threw a bridge of boats across at rouco where we passed that river i was in hopes of arriving in the morning at villa nova and by that means taking the enemy's park of artillery and baggage and attacking them in flank and rear the head quarters of general alvinzy were at caldero but the enemy who had heard of some movements had sent a regiment of croats and some regiments of hungarians into the village of arcole extremely strong by its position in the midst of marshes and canals this village stopped the advanced guard of the army during the whole of the day it was in vain that all the generals feeling the importance of the time precipitated themselves at its head to oblige our columns to pass the little bridge of arcole too much courage was dangerous they were almost all wounded generals verdier bon verne lasne were put out of combat angereau laying hold of a standard advanced to the extremity of the bridge where he remained for several minutes without producing any effect meanwhile it was necessary to pass that bridge or take a circuitous route of several leagues which would have made our whole operation mis carry i repaired myself to the spot i asked the soldiers if they still were the conquerors of lodi my presence produced an emotion among the troops which still determined me to risk the passage general lasne already wounded twice with shot received a third and more dangerous wound general wignole was also wounded we were obliged to renounce forcing the village in front and to wait till a column commanded by general guieux whom i had sent thro albaredo had arrived he did not arrive till night took the village four pieces of cannon and made some hundreds of prisoners in the interval gen massena attacked a division which the enemy made desile from their headquarters against our left discomfited and put it completely to the route it had been thought expedient to evacuate during night the village of arcole and we expected at day break to be attacked by the whole army of the enemy who were found to have had time to file off with their baggage and parks of artillery and to advance to the rear to receive us at day break the combat commenced every where with the greatest alertness massena who was on the left put the enemy to the route and pursued them to the gates of calderp general robert who was on the middle causeway with the th defeated the enemy with the bayonet and covered the field of battle with dead bodies i ordered the adjutant general to advance along the adige with a half brigade to turn the whole left of the enemy but the country presented invincible obstacles it was in vain for that brave general to plunge himself up to the neck in water he could not effect a diversion of any consequence in the night between the th and th nov i had bridges thrown over the canals and marshes general angereau passed them with his division at six in the morning we were within sight general massena on the left general robert in the centre and general angereau on the right the enemy attacked the center vigorously which fell back i then drew the d from the left and placed it in ambuscade in the woods and the instant the enemy pressed the centre and was on the point of turning our right general gardanne at the head of the d sallied forth from his ambuscade took the enemy in flank and made horrible carnage the left of the enemy was supported by the marshes and awed our right by their superior number i ordered citizen hercule the officer of my guides to choose men of his company to advance along the adige to the distance of half a league to turn all the marshes which supported the enemy's left and to fall afterwards in full gallop into the enemy's rear and make several trumpets sound this man uvre was perfectly successful the hostile infantry gave way and general angereau took advantage of the moment but it still made resist-ance though it was retreating when a small column of between eight and nine thousand men with four pieces of cannon whom i had made desile through porto leguago to take position in the rear of the enemy and to fall upon their backs during the combat finished by completely putting them to the route general massena who had returned to the centre marched straight to the village of arcole which he took and pursued the enemy too near the village of st bonifacio but night prevented our going farther the fruit of the battle of arcole is between four and five thousand prisoners four stand of colours and pieces of cannon the enemy lost at least four thousand killed and had as many wounded the adjutant general vandelin has been killed i had two of my aids de camps killed citizens elliot and muisson two officers of the greatest distinction tho young still they promised to gain one day the highest military rank with glory our loss though inconsiderable was very severe because it included all the principal officers meanwhile general vaugeois has been attacked and his important position at rivoli forced this has uncovered the blockade of mantua we sent the cavalry to vicenza where i had left general kalmaine with three thousand men at this moment i have rallied the division of vaugeois i forced it and it is at castlenovo angereau is at verona massena about villanova to-morrow i will attack the division which beat vaugeois i will pursue it into tyrol and then wait the surrender of mantua which cannot hold out a fortnight longer the artillery has covered itself with glory the generals and officers of the staff displayed an unexampled activity and bravery twelve or fifteen were killed it was really a deadly combat there is not one but what has his clothes pierced with bullets i will send you the colours taken from the enemy"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [107, 268], "b_span": [2818, 2984], "matched_words": 155, "similarity": 0.9480122324159022, "seeds": 25, "id": "M00232", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|1", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0233.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the committee of elections made a report viz that mr dana from connecticut was entitled to his seat and that they had proceeded to examine the complaints made against the undue election of mr varnum from the second middle district of massachusetts that no one of the petitioners or their agents had appeared this session to prosecute their complaints nor transmitted any evidence on the subject that the sitting member had produced evidence that the election in the town of dracutt the unfairness of which had been complained of was conducted with fairness and propriety and though there had been some irregularities committed in other places they were mostly owing to the misconduct of the petitioners the committee therefore report it as their opinion that joseph bradley varnum is duly elected and that any attempt to deprive him of his seat appeared to be more the effect of malice than of any real ground of complaint against the fairness of his"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-17|1|2", "date": "1797-02-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the committee of elections made a report viz that mr dana from connecticut was entitled to his seat and that they had pro ceeded to examine the complaints made against the undue election of mr varnum from the second middle district of massachusetts that no one of the petitioners or their agents had appeared this session to prosecute their complaints nor trans mitted any evidence on the subject that the sitting member had produced evidence that the election in the town of dracut the unfairness of which had been complained of was conducted with fair ness and propriety and though there had been some irregularities committed in other places they were mostly owing to the misconduct of the petiti oners the committee therefore report it as their opinion that joseph bradley varnum is duly elect ed and that any attempt to deprive him of his seat appeared to be more the effect of malice than of any real ground of complaint against the fairness of his"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [48, 791], "b_span": [1281, 2022], "matched_words": 731, "similarity": 0.9851752021563343, "seeds": 143, "id": "M00233", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0234.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sent you two notes from mr adet the minister of the french republic to the united states the former dated the th of october and the latter the th of november last and my answer to the first the latter note embracing numerous topics of complaint and going as far back as the year required a particular examination of all the transactions of our government from that time to the present the other indispensable duties of the office prevented my entering on this examination as early as i had expected and the current business has retarded the pursuit the result of this examination i am now by the direction of the president of the united states to communicate to you this history of our affairs you will find supported by documents many of which were delivered to you at your departure and the residue will be herewith transmitted the remarks and reasonings on facts you will duly appreciate and from the whole joined with your own observations you will be enabled it is believed to vindicate the united states and to demonstrate their impartiality as a neutral nation their fidelity in the observation of treaties and their friendship as an ally the discussion on which i am entering will involve much repetition for the general questions and particular cases grouped together in the minister's last note have been subjects of controversy and correspondence from may to this day some other points have indeed been contended for which the minister has now passed without notice why they are omitted i know not for in these cases the united states were as positively charged with violating treaties as in those which he has been pleased now to detail some of them it may be found proper to introduce to render less imperfect the view of our relations to france the complaints of the french minister against the united states have reference to three principal subjects st to the abandonment of their neutral rights to the injury of france in not maintaining the pretended principles of the modern law of nations that free ships make free goods and that timber and naval stores for the equipment and armament of vessels are not contraband of war d to violations of our treaties with france even in their letter d to the treaty of amity and commerce between the united states and great britain which he alleges deprives france of all the advantages stipulated in a previous treaty a fourth complaint is truly ingenious the fortune of war has constrained some of the belligerent powers from enemies to become her allies and if the alleged abandonment of the rule of the modern law of nations in its consequences works an injury to those allies from that moment france is also injured perhaps it will be in time to notice this last charge when the allies themselves complain if the answer to the first involving the same principle should not render such notice altogether unnecessary i shall now present to your view those facts and observations which will prove we conceive that the minister's complaints are without any just foundation under the first charge that we have not maintained as we ought to have done our neutral rights it is alleged st that the position that free ships make free goods is an established principle of the modern law of nations and that great britain by capturing french property on board our vessels has violated our neutral rights and that unless we compel great britain to respect those rights france will be justified in violating them not to remark on the singular reasoning that if one warring power commits an act of injustice towards a neutral and innocent nation another warring power may lawfully commit the like injustice we may ask what authority is adduced to show that the modern law of nations has established the principle that free ships make free goods vattel says positively that effects belonging to an enemy found on board a neutral ship are liable by the rights of war agreeably to this long established rule of the law of nations france herself in her marine laws has directed that the merchandise effects belonging to her enemies which shall be found on board neutral vessels shall be good prize by a former law indeed the neutral vessels themselves as well as the effects of her enemies on board were declared to be good prize"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-16|1|1", "date": "1797-03-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797031601/0229.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sent you two notes from mr adet the minister of the french republic to the united states the former dated the th of october and the other the th of november last and my answer to the first the latter note embracing numerous topics of complaint and going as far back as the year required a particular examination of all the transactions of our government from that time to the present the other indispensable duties of the office prevented my entering on this examination as early as i had expected and the current business has retarded the pursuit the result of this examination i am now by the direction of the president of the united states to communicate to you his history of our affairs you will find supported by documents many of which were delivered to you at your departure and the residue will be herewith transmitted the remarks and reasonings on facts you will duly appreciate and from the whole joined with your own observations you will be enabled it is believed to vindicate the united states and to demonstrate their impartiality as a neutral nation their fidelity in the observation of treaties and their friendship as an ally the discussion on which i am entering will involve much repetition for the general questions and particular cases grouped together in the minister's last note have been subjects of controversy and correspondence from may to this day some other points have indeed been contended for which the minister has now passed without notice why they are omitted i know not for in these cases the united states were as positively charged with violating treaties as in those which he has pleased now to detail some of them it may be found proper to introduce to render less imperfect the view of our relations to france the complaints of the french minister against the united states have reference to three principal subjects st to the abandonment of their neutral rights to the injury of france in not maintaining the pretended principles of the modern law of nations that free ships make free goods and that timber and naval stores for the equipment of vessels are not contraband of war d to violations of our treaties with france even in their letter d to the treaty of amity and commerce between the united states and great britain which he alleges deprives france of all the advantages stipulated in a previous treaty a fourth complaint is truly ingenious the fortune of war has constrained some of the belligerent powers from enemies to become her allies and if the alleged abandonment of the rules of the modern law of nations in its consequences works an injury to those allies from that moment france is also injured perhaps it will be in time to notice this last charge when the allies themselves complain if the answer to the first involving the same principle should not render such notice altogether unnecessary i shall now present to your view those facts and observations which will prove we conceive that the minister's complaints are without any just foundation under the first charge that we have not maintained as we ought to have done our neutral rights it is alleged st that the position that free ships make free goods is an established principle of the modern law of nations and that great britain by capturing french property on board our vessels has violated our neutral right and that unless we compel great britain to respect those rights france will be justified in violating them not to remark on the singular reasoning that if one warring power commit an act of injustice towards a neutral and innocent nation another warring power may lawfully commit the like injustice we may ask what authority is adduced to show that the modern law of nations has established the principle that free ships make free goods vattel says positively that effects belonging to an enemy found on board a neutral ship are seized by the rights of war agreeable to this long established rule of the law of nations france herself in her marine laws has directed that the merchandizes and effects belonging to her enemies which shall be found on board neutral vessels shall be good prizes by a former law indeed the neutral vessels themselves as well as the effects of her enemies on board were declared to be good prize"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [800, 1753], "b_span": [5, 959], "matched_words": 930, "similarity": 0.9753539590980598, "seeds": 178, "id": "M00234", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0234.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "france and spain and that elsewhere the goods of the enemy were alone subjected to confiscation and in the treaty of france with the city of hamburg in it was stipulated that all effects provisions and merchandise whatsoever belonging to her enemies and found on board the vessels of hamburg should be confiscated mr adet remarks that one of his predecessors in july applied on this subject to the government of the united states but was unsuccessful he must refer to mr genet's letter to mr jefferson dated july the subject was resumed in terms still more extraordinary in his letter of july th to which mr jefferson answered on the th declaring his belief that it cannot be doubted but that by the general law of nations the goods of friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free and the goods of enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize it is true that sundry nations deliberate of avoiding the inconveniences of having their vessels stopped at sea rancked carried into port and detained under pretence of having enemy goods on board have in many instances introduced by their special treaties another principle between them that enemy bottoms shall make enemy goods and friendly bottoms friendly goods but this is altogether the effect of particular treaty controlling in special cases the general principle of the law of nations and therefore taking effect between such nations only as have agreed to control it and it is plain that it was to avoid the inconveniences resulting from this general rule of the law of nations that france and the united states stipulated in the d article of their commercial treaty that free ships should give freedom to goods and that every thing should be deemed free which should be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects of either of the contracting parties although the whole lading or any part thereof should appertain to the enemies of either contraband goods being always excepted it is also plain that this stipulation was intended to operate indeed it was its sole object and otherwise could have no operation at all when one of the parties should be at war with a nation or nations with whom the other should be at peace france therefore has now no right to complain if the goods of her enemies find protection on board american ships or to pretend that in order to restore the balance of neutrality to its equilibrium she may seize on such goods the just equilibrium between her and the united states will be restored when we are at war and she at peace at which time the goods of our enemies will find protection on board the vessels of her citizens d it is alleged that we have abandoned the modern public law on contraband and by our treaty with great britain granted to that power exclusively the free carriage of articles for the equipment and armament of vessels here as in the former case the question recurs what is the law of nations on the point in dispute vattel defines contraband goods to be commodities particularly used in war such are arms military and naval stores timber horses and even provisions in certain junctures when there are hopes of reducing the enemy by famine in the treaty between france and denmark concluded on the d of august tar was declared contraband together with rosin sails hemp cordage masts and timber for ship building thus on this account says valin there would have been no cause for complaining of the conduct of the english if they had not infringed particular treaties for of right these things are now contraband and have been so since the beginning of this century which however was not the case formerly the modern public law on contraband mentioned by mr adet and his predecessor probably refers to the principles declared by the armed neutrality during the american war this transaction is too remarkable to be passed unnoticed during that war great britain and the other belligerent powers exercising the rights assured to them by the law of nations made prize of enemies property on board neutral vessels and of contraband goods belonging to neutrals eager as neutral nations must be to seize the opportunity which war presents of becoming the carriers for the belligerent nations where ships and mariners are wanted for military operations it was perfectly natural that the former should desire to establish as a rule that free ships should make free goods or in other words that neutral bottoms should protect the goods on board to whomsoever these belonged and it was equally natural for them to desire to diminish the list of contraband in respect to the latter it must have been particularly interesting to the three northern maritime powers from whose dominions chiefly the other maritime nations of europe received supplies of timber and naval stores to strike these from the list of contraband or by some means to exempt them from capture with these dispositions the empress of russia in february made public the principles on which she would maintain the commerce of her subjects it is necessary here to recite only two of them st that all the effects belonging to subjects of the nations at war should be free on board neutral vessels contraband goods excepted d that the articles of contraband should be regulated by the th and th articles of her treaty of commerce with great britain extending the regulations of those articles to all the belligerent powers to enforce the observance of these principles she gave orders for equipping a considerable part of"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-16|1|2", "date": "1797-03-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797031601/0230.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "france and spain and that elsewhere the goods of the enemy were alone subjected to confiscation and in the treaty of france with the city of hamburg in it was stipulated that all effects provisions and merchandise whatsoever belonging to her enemies and found on board the vessels of hamburg should be confiscated mr adet remarks that one of his predecessors in july applied on this subject to the government of the u s but was unsuccessful he must refer to mr genet's letter to mr jefferson dated july the subject was resumed in terms still more extraordinary in his letter of july to which mr jefferson answered on the th declaring his belief that it cannot be doubted but that by the general law of nations the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy shall be free and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize it is true that sundry nations desirous of avoiding the inconvenience of having their vessels stopped at sea ransacked carried into port and detained under pretence of having enemy's goods on board have in many instances introduced by their special treaties another principle between them that enemy bottoms should make enemy goods and friendly bottoms friendly goods but this is altogether the effect of particular treaty controlling in special cases the general principle of the law of nations and therefore taking effect between such nations only as have so agreed to control it and it is plain that it was to avoid the inconveniences resulting from this general rule of the law of nations that france and the united states stipulated in the d article of their commercial treaty that free ships should give freedom to goods and that every thing should be deemed free which should be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects of either of the contracting parties altho the whole lading or any part thereof should appertain to the enemies of either contraband goods being always excepted it is also plain that this stipulation was intended to operate indeed it was its sole object and otherwise could have no operation at all when one of the parties should be at war with a nation or nations with whom the other should be at peace france therefore has no right to complain if the goods of her enemies find protection on board american ships or to pretend that in order to restore the balance of neutrality to its equilibrium she may seize on such goods the just equilibrium between her and the united states will be restored when we are at war and she at peace at which time the goods of our enemies will find protection on board the vessels of her citizens d it is alleged that we have abandoned the modern public law on contraband and by our treaty with great britain granted to that power exclusively the free carriage of article for the equipment and armament of vessels here as in the former case the question recurs what is the law of nations on the point in dispute vattel defines contraband goods to be commodities particularly used in war such as arms military and naval stores timber horses and even provisions in certain junctures when there are hopes of reducing the enemy by famine in the treaty between france and denmark concluded on the d of august tar was declared contraband together with rosin sails hemp cordage masts and timber for shipbuilding thus on this account says vattel there would have been no cause for complaining of the conduct of the english if they had not infringed particular treaties for of right these things are now contraband and have been so since the beginning of this century which however was not the case formerly the modern public law on contraband mentioned by mr adet and his predecessors probably refers to the principle declared by the armed neutrality during the american war this transaction is too remarkable to be passed unnoticed during that war great britain and the other belligerent powers exercising the rights ascribed to them by the law of nations and made prize of enemies property on board neutral vessels and of contraband goods belonging to neutrals eager as neutral nations must be to seize the opportunity which war presents of becoming the carriers for the belligerent nations whose ships and mariners are wanted for military operations it was perfectly neutral that the former should desire to establish as rule that free ships should make free goods or in other words that neutral bottoms should protect the goods on board to whomsoever these belonged and it was equally neutral for them to desire to diminish the list of contraband in respect to the latter it must have been particularly interesting to the three northern maritime powers from whose dominions chiefly the other maritime nations of europe received supplies of timber and naval stores to strike these from the list of contraband or by some means to exempt them from capture with these dispositions the empress of russia in february made public the principles on which she would maintain the commerce of her subjects it is necessary here to recite only two of them st that all the effects belonging to subjects of the nations at war should be free on board neutral vessels contraband goods excepted d that the articles of contraband should be regulated by the th and th articles of her treaty of commerce with great britain extending the regulations of those articles to all the belligerent powers to enforce the observance of these principles she gave orders for equipping a considerable part of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1760, 3352], "b_span": [63, 1618], "matched_words": 1509, "similarity": 0.9590085795996187, "seeds": 270, "id": "M00235", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021101/0234.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "year denmark acceded to the principles of the armed neutrality and entered into a convention with russia for maintaining them assuming for her rule in determining what articles should be deemed contraband her treaty of commerce with great britain concluded the th of july in the third article of this treaty the description of contraband goods is in general terms any provisions of war as soldiers arms machines cannon ships or other things of necessary use in war but by a convention concluded at london on the th of july between great britain and denmark to explain the treaty of commerce of between the two powers the articles deemed contraband are particularly enumerated and among them we see timber for ship-building tar rosin copper in sheets sails hemp and cordage and generally whatever serves directly for the equipment of a vessel un wrought iron and fir-planks excepted it is remarkable that these are the very articles admitted as contraband in the th article of our treaty of commerce with great britain and for which admission mr adet declares all the commercial relations between france and the united states are entirely broken but it is further to be noticed that this convention between russia and denmark concluded in the midst of the american war for maintaining the principles of the armed neutrality and to which other european powers acceded is explicitly declared in the th article to have been concluded and agreed on for the time that war should last though it was to serve as a basis to future engagements which circumstances might render necessary on account of new naval wars in europe and with the latter view the king of sweden manifested the utmost solicitude lest the war should be closed without the intervention of the neutral powers he therefore was urgent that the empress with all the parties to the maritime convention should propose to the belligerent powers the establishing of a congress in which the different concerns both of the powers at war and of the neutral states should be examined and terminated and these concerns he afterwards mentions to be the pacification and the settling of a maritime code of laws objects truly important and meriting all the solicitude manifested on the occasion by the king but these steps of the king of sweden serve as additional proofs that the principles of the armed neutrality were not considered by the parties to the maritime convention as sanctioned by the existing law of nations for permanently to establish those assumed principles by introducing them into a maritime code was obviously the influential motive with the king for desiring a congress at which such a code might be settled with the assent of all the nations of europe but this project did not succeed no congress was formed the belligerent powers made peace at different periods and with that war ended the maritime convention this no nation has more reason to regret than our own as well because the principles in question respect some very valuable portions of our exports as because our disposition and our policy preferring us in peace such an extended liberty of commerce would prove highly advantageous to us as carriers for the powers at war we have seen then that the law of nations the marine laws of france her own treaties as well as those of other nations and even the system of the armed neutrality incontestably establish these principles that enemies goods on board neutral vessels are rightful subjects of capture and condemnation and that timber and other articles for the equipment and armament of ships of war are contraband and therefore that the admission of these principles in the treaty between the united states and great britain not being a grant to her of any right for in what sense could we be said to give what she before possessed furnishes no just ground of offence to france in what sense too can the united states be said to have refused to other nations a right which they and we voluntarily and mutually agreed to renounce or how are we chargeable with partiality in favor of england because we do not take arms to compel her also to renounce it but mr adet still relying on the idea that to compel great britain to renounce is to grant her a right seems to imagine that we shall attempt to obviate his complaints by saying that france having the right by her treaty of to enjoy all the advantages in commerce and navigation which the united states have granted to england is not injured by the stipulations of the treaty of with great britain relative to contraband of war as they become common to her but we shall say no such thing the d article to which he refers has no relation to this subject had we granted any particular favor to great britain or to any other nation in respect to commerce and navigation we readily admit that by this article france would be immediately entitled to the same but in regard to contraband of war we have granted nothing and therefore under that article france can claim nothing under the influence of present and temporary interests the very nature of the stipulations between france and the united states on the subject of free commerce and the limitation of contraband seems to be forgotten they took for the basis of their treaty the most perfect equality and reciprocity would they then conspire to their own hurt would they voluntarily and mutually stipulate for injuries or for advantages certainly the latter and both considered the agreement reciprocally advantageous which seemed to each in its turn the freedom of commerce provided by the rules that free ships should make free goods and that timber and naval stores should be excluded from the list of contraband connected with this subject is what concerns the article of provisions mr adet says that after having assured to the english the carriage of naval stores the federal government wished to assure to them that of meals in a word it desired to have commerce only with england thus it stipulates by the th article that the american vessels laden with grain may be seized under the frivolous pretext that it is extremely difficult to define the cases wherein provisions and other articles which are generally excepted could be classed in the list of contraband of war there are so many extraordinary assertions in mr adet's notes those in the above paragraph excite no surprise the federal government is constituted of citizens who have a common interest with their fellow-citizens of the u states that common interest has a peculiar relation to commerce on the freedom and extension of which the public revenue and the general prosperity of our country chiefly depend will it then be believed that the government wished this commerce to be restrained particularly the commerce in meals which compose the most valuable part of our exports especially will it be believed that the government desired that our citizens might have commerce only with england let the general sense of our fellow-citizens answer these charges let the great mass of our commercial brethren answer they whose enterprise traverses every sea and explores every region of the globe to extend their gainful trade citizens whose commercial adventures to france and her colonies have risen annually to many millions adventures by which many have hazarded their credit and their fortunes yet among all our citizens none have been more solicitous to form a commercial treaty with britain none more decided in oppressing that which has been made for the reasoning of our own government on this subject i beg leave to refer you to my letter of september th written by the president's direction to mr monroe therein it was attempted to show the necessity and our right of forming that treaty with great britain and i hope it will appear to you that the conclusion is there fairly drawn that even the th article as it respects provisions would operate favorably to france before the treaty with great britain her cruisers captured neutral vessels bound to france with provisions she asserted that in certain cases provisions were contraband of war consequently that she might lawfully capture and confiscate such provisions we opposed the principle and the practice britain insisted on her right in this dilemma it was agreed by the treaty that whenever provisions becoming contraband by the law of nations should be captured they should be paid for with a reasonable mercantile profit this stipulation without admitting the principle for securing the american merchants from loss in case of capture would certainly tend to promote rather than to discourage adventures in provisions to france but as this treaty has been the subject of serious complaint on the part of france it is important to inquire with what foundation the complaint is made i might pass over the unworthy insinuations of the minister that the treaty was entered into by us in order to assure advantage to the english and to furnish our own government with a reply to the claims of france and presumptuous motives for refusal to accede to them that the true object of the negotiations was incessantly disguised under specious pretexts and covered with the veil of dissimulation these insinuations have been indirectly addressed to the people of the united states they will gain no belief it may however be useful for you"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-23|1|1", "date": "1797-03-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797032301/0233.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "year denmark acceded to the principles of the armed neutrality and entered into a convention with russia for maintaining them assuming for her rule in determining what articles should be deemed contraband her treaty of commerce with great britain concluded the th july in the third article of this treaty the description of contraband goods is in general terms any provisions of war as soldiers arms machines cannon ships or other things of necessary use in war but by a convention concluded at london on the th of july between great britain and denmark to explain the treaty of commerce of between the two powers the articles deemed contraband are particularly enumerated and among them we see timber for ship building tar rosin copper in sheets sails hemp and cordage and generally whatever serves directly for the equipment of a vessel unwrought iron and fir-planks excepted it is remarkable that these are the very articles admitted as contraband in the th article of our treaty of commerce with great britain and for which admission mr adet declares all the commercial relations between france and the united states are entirely broken but it is further to be noticed that this convention between russia and denmark concluded in the midst of the american war for maintaining the principles of the armed neutrality and to which other european powers acceded is explicitly declared in the th article to be concluded and agreed on for the time that war should last though it was to serve as a basis to future engagements which circumstances might render necessary on account of new naval wars in europe and with the latter view the king of sweden manifested the utmost solicitude that the war should be closed without the intervention of the neutral powers he therefore was urgent that the empress with all the parties to the maritime convention should propose to the belligerent powers the establishment of a congress in which the different concerns both of the powers at war and of the neutral states should be examined and terminated and these concerns he afterwards mentions to be the pacification and the settling of a maritime code of laws objects truly important and meriting all the solicitude manifested on the occasion by the king but these steps of the king of sweden serve as additional proofs that the principles of the armed neutrality were not considered by the parties to the maritime convention as sanctioned by the existing law of nations for permanently to establish those assumed principles by introducing them into a maritime code was obviously the influential motive with the king for desiring a congress at which such a code might be settled with the assent of all the nations of europe but this project did not succeed no congress was formed the belligerent powers made peace at different periods and with that war ended the maritime convention this nation has more to regret than our own as well because the principles in question respect some very valuable portions of our exports as because our disposition and our policy preserving us in peace such an extended liberty of commerce would prove highly advantageous to us as carriers for the powers at war we have seen then that the law of nations the marine laws of france her own treaties as well as those of other nations and even the system of the armed neutrality incontestibly establish these principles that enemies goods on board neutral vessels are rightful subjects of capture and condemnation and that timber and other articles for the equipment and armament of ships are contraband of war and therefore that the admission of these principles in the treaty between the united states and great britain not being a grant to her of any right for in what sense could we be said to give what she before possessed furnishes no just grounds of offence to france in what sense too can the united states be said to have refused to other nations a right which they and we voluntarily and mutually agreed to renounce or how are we chargeable with partiality in favor of england because we do not take arms to compel her to renounce it but mr adet still resting on the idea that not to compel great britain to renounce is to grant her a right seems to imagine that we shall attempt to obviate his complaints by saying that france having the right by her treaty of to enjoy all the advantages in commerce and navigation which the united states have granted to england is not injured by the stipulations of the treaty of with great britain of war as they will become common to her but we shall say no such thing the d article to which he refers has no relation to this subject had we granted any particular favour to great britain or to any other nation with respect to commerce and navigation we readily admit that by the article france would be immediately entitled to the same but in regard to contraband of war we have granted nothing and therefore under that article france can claim nothing under the influence of present and temporary interests the very nature of the stipulations between france and the united states on the subject of free commerce and the limitation of contraband seems to be forgotten they took for the basis of their treaty the most perfect equality and reciprocity would they then conspire to their own hurt would they voluntarily and mutually stipulate for injuries or for advantages certainly the latter and both considered the agreement reciprocally advantageous which secured to each in its turn the freedom of commerce provided by the rules that free ships should make free goods and that timber and naval stores should be excluded from the list of contraband connected with this subject is what concerns the article of provisions mr adet says that after having assured to the english the carriage of naval stores the federal government ought to assure them that of meats in a word it desired to have commerce only with england thus it stipulates by the th article that the american vessels laden with grain may be under the frivolous pretext that it is extremely difficult to define the cases wherein provisions and other articles which are generally excepted should be classed in the list of contraband of war there are so many extraordinary assertions in mr adet's notes those in the above paragraph excite no surprise the federal government is constituted of citizens who have a common interest with their fellow citizens of the united states that common interest has a peculiar relation to commerce on the freedom and extension of which the public revenue and the general prosperity of our country chiefly depend will it then be believed that the government ought to have commerce only with england let the general sense of our fellow citizens answer these charges let the great mass of our commercial brethren answer they whose enterprise traverses every sea and explores every region of the globe to extend their gainful trade citizens whose commercial adventures to france and her colonies have risen annually to many millions adventures by which many have hazarded their credit and their fortunes yet among all our citizens none have been more solicitous to form a commercial treaty with britain none more decided in approving that which has been made for the reasoning of our government on this subject i beg leave to refer you to my letter of september written by the president's direction to mr monroe therein it was attempted to shew the necessity and our right of forming the treaty with great britain and i hope it will appear to you that the conclusion is there fairly drawn that even the th article as it respects provisions would operate favorably to france before the treaty with great britain her cruisers captured neutral vessels bound to france with provisions she asserted that in certain cases provisions were contraband of war consequently that she might lawfully capture and confiscate such provisions we opposed the principle and the practice britain insisted on her right in this dilemma it was agreed by the treaty that whenever provisions becoming contraband by the law of nations should be captured they should be paid for with a reasonable mercantile profit this stipulation without admitting the principle by securing the american merchant from loss in case of capture would certainly tend to promote rather than to discourage adventures in provisions to france but as this treaty has been the subject of serious complaint on the part of france it is important to enquire with what foundation the complaint is made i might pass over the unworthy insinuation of the minister that the treaty was entered into by us in order to assure advantages to the english and to furnish our own government with a pretext to the claims of france and peremptory motives for refusing to accede to them that the true object of that negotiation was necessarily disguised under specious pretexts and that it was with the view of dissimulation these insinuations have been discreetly addressed to the people of the united states they will gain no belief it may however be useful for you"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": 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thus be taught to vindicate our rights with firmness and to cultivate peace with sincerity and shall the pursuit of either of these objects be denied to us what were our complaints the most urgent regarded the spoliations on our commerce and the inexecution of the article of the treaty of peace respecting the posts with the latter was connected the indian war with which we had been harassed for so many years and with the former the injury or ruin of our merchants and the consequent extensive damage to agriculture these being the most prominent objects of the mission were of course most observable and most talked of and without them the mission probably would not at that time have been contemplated but had we no other complaints did not the impressment of our seamen like the spoliations on our commerce excite an universal complaint had we never manifested our uneasiness at great britain's avoiding a commercial treaty was it not even a subject of complaint and reproach was not the 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withal to each party the liberty of admitting at its pleasure other nations to a participation of the same advantages corresponding with this declaration in our treaty of amity and commerce with france is the declaration of the marquis de noailles her ambassador at the court of london on the th of march five weeks after the treaty was signed some passages in this declaration are so pertinent to the subject in discussion i shall quote them at length the undersigned ambassador of his most christian majesty has received express orders to make the following declaration to the court of london the united states of north america who are in full possession of independence as pronounced by them on the th of july having proposed to the king to consolidate by a formal convention the connection began to be established between the two nations the respective plenipotentiaries have signed a treaty of friendship and commerce designed to serve as a foundation for their mutual good correspondence his majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between france and great britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of london and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favor of the french nation and that the united states have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity why after all this do we hear from mr adet the complaint that the negotiations of the british treaty were secretly conducted in other words that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of government and commerce the united states did not lay open to the french minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for letting our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with great britain so far as candor and friendship required a communication was made to the french minister he was officially informed that mr jay was instructed not to weaken our engagements to france this instruction was obeyed mr jay having taken care to insert in the th article of the treaty this explicit stipulation that nothing in this treaty contained shall be construed or operate contrary to former and existing public treaties with other"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|1", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "declare as mr adet asserts that mr jay was sent to london only to obtain a redress of wrongs the president says that mr jay's mission would announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and that going immediately from the united states such an envoy would carry with him a full knowledge of the existing temper and sensibility of our country and thus be taught to vindicate our rights with firmness and to cultivate peace with sincerity and shall the pursuit of either of these objects be denied to us what were our complaints the most urgent regarded the spoliations on our commerce and the latter the inexecution of that part of the treaty of peace respecting the posts with the latter was connected the indian war with which we had been harassed for so many years and with the former the injury or ruin of our merchants and the consequent extensive damage to agriculture these being the most prominent objects of the mission were of course more observable and most talked of and without them the mission probably would not at that time have been contemplated but had we no other complaint did not the impressment of our seamen like the spoliations on our commerce excite an universal complaint had we never manifested our uneasiness at great britain's avoiding a commercial treaty was it not even a subject of complaint was not the inducing her to enter into such a treaty the object of divers measures agitated in congress had not a commercial treaty with great britain been earnestly sought for from the conclusion of the war to the time of mr jay's mission how also could mr jay after adjusting the primary objects of his mission better prove the sincerity of our pacific disposition and more effectually cultivate peace than by forming arrangements calculated to extend and protect our trade to promote good neighbourhood and a friendly and mutual beneficial intercourse by prescribing a previous demand for justice and satisfaction to hasty reprimands which generally lead to war and by agreeing to other regulations to prevent disputes or to adjust them when they should arise all these objects then and whatever else would be the means of cultivating peace were clearly comprehended in the president's message but mr adet says that mr jay's negotiation was involved from its origin in the shadow of mystery and to whom was our government bound to unveil it to france or to her minister mr adet should answer or not have complained and was it for this to make us a dependence on the french empire that our alliance was formed did we stipulate to submit the exercise of our sovereignty if it is not a contradiction in terms to the direction of the government of france let the treaty itself furnish the answer the effectual and direct end of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty sovereignty and independence absolute and unlimited of the said united states as well in matters of government as of commerce so likewise the treaty of amity and commerce in its preamble declares that his most christian majesty and the united states willing to fix the rules which ought to be followed relative to the 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foundation for their mutual good correspondence his majesty being determined to cultivate the good understanding subsisting between france and great britain by every means compatible with his dignity and the good of his subjects thinks it necessary to make this proceeding known to the court of london and to declare at the same time that the contracting parties have paid great attention not to stipulate any exclusive advantages in favour of the french nation and that the united states have reserved the liberty of treating with every nation whatever upon the same footing of equality and reciprocity why after all this do we hear from mr adet the complaint that the negotiations of the british treaty were secretly conducted in other words that in exercising their absolute and unlimited rights of government and commerce the united states did not lay open to the french minister or his government the instructions to our envoy for settling our own disputes and regulating our own commerce with great britain so far as candor and friendship required a communication was made to the french minister he was officially informed that mr jay was instructed not to weaken our engagements to france this instruction was obeyed mr jay having taken care to insert in the th article of the treaty this explicit stipulation that nothing in this treaty contained shall be construed or operate contrary to former and existing public treaties with other"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [352, 598], "b_span": [2531, 2769], "matched_words": 222, "similarity": 0.9173553719008265, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00237", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-11|1|3", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the affair of the st of last month near neufied it is represented as having been a serious and general attack whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of destroying his bridge and spreading alarm on the left bank of the rhine both these objects were effected by a very insignificant force and there was not the smallest idea of making a serious assault on the tete-de-point of neufied the enemy states that besides an immense number of killed and drowned he actually took one thousand prisoners whereas i can assure your lordship from the most authentic information that the whole loss"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|2", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032201/0775.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "loss of the austrians on this occasion consists of men killed wounded missing the whole men and horses the enemy's was certainly considerable of them were taken prisoners and brought into mayence i am thus circumstantial in stating the particulars of this in fact unimportant affair because i observe that the official reports of the army of the sambre meuse i mean the late ones contain the most absurd exaggerations i shall consider them perfectly undeserving of notice were it not that those that have no other means of judging of the event of the campaign than by comparing the accounts published by the contending armies would be led into the most erroneous conclusions if they give each party credit for only an equal degree of fairness in their relations in the enemy's official account of the affair of the st of last month nieuwied it is represented as having been a serious and general attack whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of destroying their bridge and spreading alarm on the left bank of the rhine both these objects were effected by a very insignificant force and there was not the smallest idea of making a serious assault on the tete-de-pont of nieuwied the enemy states that besides an immense number of killed and drowned they actually took one thousand prisoners whereas i can assure your lordship from the most authentic information that the whole loss"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3349, 3733], "b_span": [2296, 2685], "matched_words": 363, "similarity": 0.9391979301423027, "seeds": 62, "id": "M00238", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-11|1|2", "date": "1797-02-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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result of this sally as soon as it was thought that the enemy's corps of reserve was ready to attack us general delfaux caused the troops to return to their entrenchments to attempt to maintain ourselves in those of the enemy was an operation which was not amongst our projects the battle was one of the most obstinate of the war and must have occasioned a considerable loss of the enemy they cannot deny that the advantage was entirely ours the th h and th demi brigades performed prodigies of valor it was impossible for me to ascertain all the details of the instances of individual courage which were displayed on this occasion i have promised to appoint provisionally to the rank of sub lieutenant a sergeant of the th who gave proofs of uncommon courage the general officers who conducted the attack merit the highest eulogium general delfaux had his horse killed under him and was slightly wounded general lacombe had his horse wounded in two places several officers equally distinguished themselves perion and quesard chiefs of brigade of the th and th were wounded melisso chief of battalion of the th was amongst the foremost in forcing the entrenchments the good conduct of the troops upon this occasion ought to persuade the enemy that if he is determined to attack kehl he will not carry it so easily as he may have been led to believe"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-18|1|2", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031801/0767.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the rhine and moselle the general in chief to the executive directory head quarters at schilfiken d frimaire november citizen directors the garrison of kehl made a vigorous sortie to reconnoitre the line of circumvallation of the enemy general defaix was charged with the attack of the right general decaen in the centre and general sice on the left the whole line of the enemy was forced without a shot being fired with infinite intrepidity on the part of our troops the enemy abandoned all their artillery which was instantly spiked could we have anticipated a success so complete and had had artillery horses ready we might have taken twenty pieces at least with the horses which we could spare from our own we could only bring off ten pieces we have made from six to seven hundred prisoners amongst them are twenty officers including a colonel and a major such was the result of this sally as soon as it was thought the enemy's corps de reserve ready to attack us gen defaix caused the troops to return to their entrenchments to attempt to maintain ourselves in those of the enemy was an operation which was not amongst our projects the battle was one of the most obstinate of the war and must have occasioned a considerable loss to the enemy they cannot deny that the advantage was entirely ours the th and th and th demi brigades performed prodigies of valor it was impossible for me to ascertain all the details of the instances of individual courage which were displayed on this occasion i have promised to appoint provisionally to the rank of sublieutenant a sergeant of the th who gave proofs of uncommon courage the general officers who conducted the attack merit the highest eulogium general defaix had his horse killed under him and was slightly wounded general lacombe had his horse wounded in two places several officers equally distinguished themselves perion and quelard chiefs of brigade of the th and th were wounded messire chief of battalion of the th was amongst the foremost in forcing the entrenchments the good conduct of the troops upon this occasion ought to persuade the enemy that if he is determined to attack kehl he will not carry it so easily as he may have been led to believe"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", 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troops commanded by general alvinzy in person at arcola the commander in chief made his dispositions to attack the column commanded by general davidovich who had brought his advanced posts as far as calliano on the st brumaire the commander in chief gave orders to attack the enemy who repulsed from position to position effected his retreat with precipitation his rear guard was very ill treated and partly cut off upon the heights of rivoli of which we remain masters different detached corps pursued him all night above the corona and along the adige we have made in this day prisoners amongst whom is colonel count lherbach and taken pieces of cannon and caissons signed berthier buonaparte commanding the army of italy to citizen carnot member of the executive directory head-quarters at verona brumaire november th year the destinies of italy begin to brighten yet one victory to morrow of which i have little doubt and i hope before ten days are past to write to you from head quarters at 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precipitation his rear guard was very ill treated and partly cut off from the heights of rivoli of which we remain masters different detached corps pursued him all night above the corona and along the adige we have made in this day prisoners amongst whom is count lherback and taken pieces of cannon and caissons signed berthier buonaparte commanding the army of italy to citizen carnot member of the executive directory head quarters at verona brumaire nov th year the destinies of italy begin to brighten yet one victory to-morrow of which i have little doubt and i hope before ten days to write to you from head quarters at mantua never was a field of battle so much disputed as that of arcole i have scarcely any more generals their devotedness and courage are without example the general of brigade lasne came to the field of battle before he was cured of the wound which he received at govertolo he was wounded twice early in the battle at three in the afternoon he was stretched upon his bed and suffering when he learned that i was myself at the head of the column he threw himself from his bed mounted on horseback and came to find me being obliged to remain on horseback he received at the head of the bridge of arcole a blow which laid him senseless i assure you that all this was necessary to our conquering the enemy were numerous and exasperated the generals at their head of whom we killed several signed buonaparte strafsburgh nov the blood still runs in torrents on the banks of the rhine it is now midnight i finish my letter to the sound of cannon which are now firing at kehl with such force as to shake every window in strafsburgh the engagement has lasted since seven o'clock this evening it is the first time that we have had a night affair so violent as this appears to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2524, 2953], "b_span": [1795, 2223], 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of the negotiation and the adoption of which appeared to be the best means of accelerating the progress of a discussion so important to the happiness of so many nations the undersigned has in consequence received orders to renew the demand of a frank and precise answer on this object in order that his court may know with certainty whether the directory accept the said proposition whether they desire to make any change or modifications whatever in it or lastly whether they will propose any other principle that may promote the same end signed malmesbury paris nov answer of the minister for foreign affairs to lord malmesbury's note in answer to the note delivered yesterday nov old file by lord malmesbury the undersigned minister for foreign affairs is instructed by the executive directory to observe that the answers made on the th and d of last brumaire contained an acknowledgment of the principle of compensation and that in order to remove every pretext for farther discussion on that point the undersigned in the name of the executive directory now makes a formal and positive declaration of such acknowledgment in consequence lord malmesbury is again invited to give a speedy and categorical answer to the proposition made to him on the d of last brumaire and which was conceived in these terms the undersigned is instructed by the executive directory to invite you to point out with all possible expedition and expressly the objects of reciprocal compensation which you have to propose signed ch delacroix brumaire nov th year answer of lord malmesbury to the note of the minister of foreign affairs dated the th brumaire nov the undersigned minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty in answer to the note dated this morning and which has been transmitted to him on the part of the minister of foreign affairs hastens to assure him that he will not lose a moment in communicating it to his court from which he must still expect ulterior orders before he can explain himself with respect to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-15|1|2", "date": "1797-03-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031501/0759.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the court of london having been informed of what passed after the receipt of the last memorial delivered by their order to the minister for foreign affairs find that there is not any thing whatever to be added to the answer made by the underlined to the two questions which the directory thought proper to address to them they wait then and with the greatest interest for an explanation of the sentiments of the directory with regard to the principle proposed on their part as the basis of the negotiation and the adoption of which appeared to be the best means of accelerating the progress of a discussion so important to the happiness of so many nations the underlined has in consequence received orders to renew the demand of a frank and precise answer on this object in order that his court may know with certainty whether the directory accept the said proposition whether they desire to make any change or modifications whatever in it or lastly whether they will propose any other principle that may promote the same end signed malmesbury paris nov answer of the minister for foreign affairs to lord malmesbury's note in answer to the note delivered yesterday nov old style by lord malmesbury the underlined minister for foreign affairs is instructed by the executive directory to observe that the answers made on the th and nd of last brumaire contained an acknowledgement of the principle of compensation and that in order to remove every pretext for farther discussion on that point the underlined in the name of the executive directory now makes a formal and positive declaration of such acknowledgement in consequence lord malmesbury is again invited to give a speedy and categorical answer to the proposition made to him on the nd of last brumaire and which were conceived in these terms the underlined is instructed by the executive directory to invite you to point out with all possible expedition and expressly the objects of reciprocal compensation which you have to propose signed ch delacroix frimaire nov th year answer of lord malmesbury to the note of the minister of foreign affairs dated the th frimaire nov the underlined minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty in answer to the note dated this morning and which has been transmitted to him on the part of the minister of foreign affairs hastens to assure him that he will not lose a moment in communicating it to his court from which he must expect ulterior orders before he can explain himself with respect to the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [19, 738], "b_span": [2051, 2768], "matched_words": 686, "similarity": 0.9554317548746518, "seeds": 120, "id": "M00247", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-13|1|4", "date": "1797-02-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021301/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering them unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the countries in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to pretend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one side long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debeny post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at newburyport by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2913, 3040], "b_span": [1311, 1435], "matched_words": 117, "similarity": 0.9322709163346613, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00248", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the chairman of the committee of merchants of this city dated london th november there have been several cases heard by the lords of appeal since their meeting this term in all of which they have reversed the decrees of condemnation below in one the betty betterton with cost and damages in others with interest from the time of condemnation and the costs of appeal after deciding the last case that of the jane lil lbridge they formally gave notice to the proctors and agents that if in future they should bring any more such cases before them when they could not reasona bly expect the sentences of condemnation to be affirm ed they might depend on being adjudged to restore the american property with full costs"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|3", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0247.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the chairman of the committee of merchants of this city dated london th nov there have been several cases heard by the lords of appeal since their meeting this term in all of which they have reversed the decrees of condemnation below in one the betsey pateron with costs and damages in others with interest from the time of condemnation and the costs of appeal after deciding the last case that of the jane lillibridge they formally gave notice to the proctors and agents that if in future they should bring any more such cases before them when they could not reasonably expect the sentences of condemnation to be affirmed they might depend on being adjudged to restore the american property with full costs"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3050, 3189], "b_span": [8, 145], "matched_words": 132, "similarity": 0.9565217391304348, "seeds": 25, "id": "M00249", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "last a gang of thieves were discovered to be in the store of mr marsh in howard street notwithstanding the strictest search was made for them it seems they were so old in iniquity as to elude the vig ilance of their pursuers all except one about years old and not so great an adept at the business who was apprehended and made to inform of the rest they were four in number all french west india negroes and belonged to one man none of them appeared to be older than it is supposed they skulked in and concealed themselves in the evening and had they been able to have cleared themselves with their booty might have preferred that mode during the existence of patrols to firing and pillaging they had nearly broken open a desk before discovered this"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0250.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "last a gang of thieves were discovered to be in the store of mr marlin in howard-street notwithstanding the strictest search was made for them it seems they were so old in iniquity as to elude the vigilance of their pursuers all except one about years old and not so great an adept at the business who was apprehended and made to inform of the rest they were four in number all french west-india negroes and belonged to one man none of them appeared to be older than nineteen it is supposed they skulked in and concealed themselves in the evening and had they been able to have cleared themselves with their booty might have preferred that mode during the existence of patrols to firing and pillaging they had nearly broken open a desk before discovered this"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [84, 3174], "b_span": [1156, 4278], "matched_words": 2913, "similarity": 0.937862202189311, "seeds": 482, "id": "M00250", "a": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|1", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "connections with us in the court of france the actual organ of the nation had no regard to the interest of the united states but that their object was by seizing the occasion of dismembering the british empire to diminish the power of a formidable rival and that when after we had carried on a distressing war for seven years the great object for which we had contended independence was within our reach that court endeavored to postpone the acknowledgment of it by great britain and eventually to deprive us of its fairest fruits a just extent of territory the navigation of the mississippi and the fishery such being the motives and conduct of france what inspired our truly grateful sentiments towards that nation the sincere friendship of americans to frenchmen we are engaged in a common cause against great britain we received loans of money we were aided by troops and ships in attacking and conquering the enemy in the bosom of our country and this association in war produced acquaintance and personal friendships and experiencing these benefits we gave way to our feelings enquiring into the motives from which they were rendered but why are we so often reminded of gratitude is it really because of gratitude because compensation is exacted if compensation is the object the treaty of alliance has abolished that claim the contracting parties declared that being related to fulfil each on its own part the clauses and conditions of the present treaty of alliance according to its own particular circumstances there shall be no other form of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the war i am here naturally led to notice mr adet's charge already mentioned that we have not offered to france the succors which friendship might have given without compromising the government if mr adet had specified the kind of succors which might have been offered we could better judge the correctness of his assertion but is it true that we have rendered no succors to france read the following passages in the secretary of state's letter of the th of july to mr morris we recollect with gratification that in the course of a war by unceasing exertions we paid our year's arrearages and instalments of our debt to france which the inefficiency of our full government had failed to be an exacting that pressing on us to the entire fulfilment of our engagements we have rendered to mr genet the effect of the instalments of the present year to enable him to send for his fellow citizens in france threatened with ruin that in the first moment of theurrection which threatened the colony of st domingo we stepped forward to their relief with arms and money taking freely on ourselves the risk of an unauthorised aid when delay would have been a denial that we have given an exclusive admission to tell how the present made by france on her enemies in the present war though unanticipated in our treaty and unprovided in her own practice or in that of other nations as we believe to this detail i have to add that all the loans and supplies received from france in the american war amounting nearly to fifty-three millions of livres the united states under their late government had been enabled to pay not two millions and a half of livres that the present government after paying up the arrearages and instalments mentioned by mr jefferson has been continually anticipating the subsequent instalments until in the year the whole of our debt to france was discharged by anticipating the payments of eleven millions and a half livres no part of which would have become due until the d of september and then only one million and a half the residue at subsequent periods the last not until the year there remain yet various passages in mr adet's notes on which some observations are to be made in my letter of the th of november last in answer to mr d'adet's note of october th in which he communicated the decree of the executive directory of the d of july last declaring that the flag of the republic of france should treat the flag of neutrals in the same manner as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english i asked an explanation of the decree mentioning the circumstances which excited doubts there seemed to be sufficient cause for enquiry had the decree referred to the pass captures by the english our knowledge of them would have been some guide in forming our opinion of the threatened captures by the french but the operation of the decree was to depend on the future conduct of the english the french were to treat the flag of neutrals as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english as this could not be ascertained before hand we wished to know whether the restraints then exercised by the english government were considered as of a nature to justify a denial of those rights which were pledged to us by our treaty with france whether the orders had actually been given to capture the vessels of the united states and if given what were the precise terms of those orders mr adet in his reply says that i appear not to have understood either the decree of the directory or his note which accompanied it the meaning of the decree is certainly very obvious the manner of executing it was declared to depend on a contingency the future conduct of the english how were french citizens in the four quarters of the world to determine what was the conduct of the english at any given time if he could have furnished a copy of the orders actually given to french armed vessels under the decree we might have seen clearly what were the intentions of the directory if we are to take the practice of the french armed vessels and of some of the french tribunals as the true illustration of the decree mr adet's own explanation will be very defective he has specified only two cases the taking of english or other enemy's property on board american vessels and the seizure of all the goods classed as contraband in our treaty with great britain in the case of contraband goods the seizure of them is lawful only when they are destined to the ports of their enemies and the contraband goods only are liable to confiscation but the special agents of the directory in the west indies order the seizure of all vessels having an enemy's destination to a neutral port or when seized they confiscate not merely the contraband articles but all other goods and the vessel herself in which they are laden they also seize in their decrees of capture and condemnation that the american vessel has failed to take from a port in possession of the english we are not informed that the english take any neutral vessels for this cause we have heard of several american vessels being captured and condemned by the french merely because they had not a sea-letter when no doubt could have been entertained of the property being american yet it is conceded that the want of a sea-letter was never intended to exclude other proofs of property further ought we to have imagined that the executive directory intended to leave it to the discretion of every privateer and of every inferior tribunal to judge what at any time should be their decree was the actual treatment of american vessels from the united states ought we to have imagined that the decree was framed in such indefinite terms on purpose to give scope for arbitrary controuls and consequently for unlimited oppression ought we to have imagined what mr adet has himself declared to be the meaning of the decree that the french armed vessels were not content themselves with capturing american vessels having english property or contraband goods on board and seizing such property and goods condemned by their tribunals but if any english commanders were to practice exactions towards americans that frenchmen were to do the same ought we to have imagined that the directory intended the citizens of france should be encouraged to take revenge on their friends for the outrages of their enemies and what is to limit these vexations if one english commander in a hundred perversely and wantonly abuses his power is every french officer to become his rival in dishonour or if we are to suffer only measure for measure and surely the decree goes not beyond this who is to designate the every hundredth french officer who is to be the instrument of similar oppression but french armed vessels are to make all these captures in violation of the treaty and we are to suffer all these vexations in violation of reason and humanity while we endure them from the english without an efficacious opposition and what opposition will be deemed efficacious for all captures made by the british contrary to the law of nations we have agreeably to that law demanded satisfaction the british have engaged to make us satisfaction and commissioners are now sitting to liquidate those demands what opposition could have been a more efficacious what further opposition can be lawful in stead of further comments on this subject let me present to you some passages of mr adet's letter of the th of july in this letter he communicated to the secretary of state the decree of the committee of public safety of the d of january respecting the th article of the decree of the th of november the letter violated our treaty by subjecting the property of the enemies of france on board american vessels to capture and by adding to the list of articles contraband it was there repealed by the former mr adet seized this occasion to make the following declaration you will see sir said he in both the decrees the undiluted disposition and sincere desire of the french government religiously to observe the engagement it has contracted with its allies and its readiness to redress infractions which have never been placed but from the impulse of circumstances it is amidst her triumphs that the republic loves to give this striking mark of its fidelity victorious france knows no other concern than that of justice no other diplomatic language than that of truth to this end to this justice to this fidelity we may make our appeal from the file of mr adet's complaint of the british being suffered to arm in our ports it might be imagined the instances were numerous none were permitted the actual armaments were few and are as old as they were represented by mr genet to the secretary of state what answer asks mr adet did the government give to the representations of the minister of the french republic in this respect it said that these vessels if too suddenly that it was not able to cause them to be stopped the answer was given by the secretary of state in different words those from charleston and philadelphia have gone off before they were known to the government and the former indeed in the moments of the war and before preventive measures could be taken in to distant ports in the case of the trinity captain hale at baltimore the governor of maryland had given orders to examine the last and given off before the officer could get on board having cleared out three or four days before i have not observed that mr genet renewed his complaint with regard to any of these vessels whence i suppose he was satisfied with the answer as indeed he ought to have been the two english vessels that sailed from philadelphia cleared even the vigilance of the french coast both had departed many days before he had been informed of their departure this is stated by the consul himself in his report of the st of june to mr genet and yet the government is now charged by mr adet with violating the treaty because it did not stop them although the treaty of the united states had been required to be watched and to report all illegal armaments in our ports which was natural for the government to respect to give information from the french coast yet no doubts were entertained by their own government to be particularly vigilant in regard to all attempts at such violations by the enemies of the republic mr adet remarks that some inhabitants of the united states had aided in these illegal armaments of the enemies of france and asks what measures were taken against them was any search made to discover them to prosecute them never yet the very letter from mr genet to the secretary of state in which and its index to mr adet has been this subject of complaint suggests a different conclusion i learn with pleasure says mr genet by your letter of the d of this month june that the government of georgia have caused to be stopped a vessel armed in that state for the purpose of cruising against the french and that the persons interested in this vessel will be prosecuted i shall say but a few words on the subject of the letters of which mr adet complained that they remained unanswered the letter of sept th contained those repulsive insinuations which were recited in my letter of the th of nov why were these introduced by him if they were not to be applied an answer was drafted on the subject of his letter with animadversions on those insinuations but desiring to avoid irritation the answer was not sent it was deemed of less consequence seeing in my letter to mr monroe of the th of sept the representations and representations of the government on that and other subjects relating to france had been fully expressed to enable him to make immediate communications to the french government itself and it was hoped that the information given in that letter and in others written to him the preceding summer would have furnished materials and that these materials would have been timely used for such representations as would have satisfied the french government that the united states in forming the treaty with great britain had only exercised an indispensable right and neither by that treaty nor any other act had infringed a single article of our treaties with france th nov d year th brumaire d year state papers p june state papers p state papers p on the subject of the impressions of our seamen mentioned in mr adet's letters of march and april i shall only add that nothing was more notorious than that those impressions had excited universal resentment in the united states and been the subject of repeated remonstrances from our government to the british court thus in mr pinckney's note to lord grenville in august which was published here that year in the same collection of state papers with mr jefferson's letter of sept th which mr adet has quoted and on the th page next succeeding it we find the following under this head it may be observed that for want of arrangements being made for the security of american seamen in the ports of this country england they are subject to the various hardships mr pinckney has so frequently detailed to lord grenville and in the next page in his letter to mr jefferson mr pinckney says the protection afforded our seamen remains also on the same footing that the british government professes a willingness to secure to us all real american seamen when proved to be such but the proof they will not dispense with to remove as far as possible the embarrassments arising from this cause and more effectually to protect our seamen was the object of a bill pending in congress and the subject of public debate at the time i received mr adet's letters this bill was passed into a law all these facts demonstrated that the government did not assent but on the contrary that they resisted the impression of american seamen and this resistance has been continued consequently we cannot be charged on this ground with a violation of our neutrality among the former subjects of complaint not now renewed by mr adet is that against the government for permitting the purchase and exportation of horses by british agents in the course of the last winter and spring the correspondence on this subject is lengthy and yet the question lies within a very narrow compass perhaps no nation now better understands that neutral nations have a right to trade freely with nations at war either by carrying and selling to them all kinds of merchandise or permitting them to come and purchase the same commodities in the neutral territory in the latter case not refusing to one power at war what it permits another to purchase with this exception in respect to articles contraband that if the cruisers of one of the belligerent powers meet at sea with neutral vessels laden with such articles destined to the ports of their enemies the neutral vessel may be captured and the contraband goods will be lawful prize to the captor but the residue of their cargo and the vessel themselves are to be discharged but if there were any doubt on this point under the law of nations there can be none in relation to france and the united states because this matter is specially regulated by their treaty of commerce this treaty so far from restraining the trade of either party remaining neutral while the other is engaged in war provides regulations agreed to in which it should be continued the th and th articles authorize either party that is at war to stop the neutral merchant vessels of the other destined to the ports of an enemy upon just grounds of suspicion concerning the voyage or lading if on examination the ships papers it appears there are no contraband articles on board consigned for a port under the obedience of his enemies she may be carried into port and the contraband articles may by regular proceedings in the admiralty be confiscated saying always that the ship itself as any other goods found therein which by this"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|1", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0245.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "connections with us in the court of france the actual organ of the nation had no regard to the interest of the united states but that their object was by seizing the occasion of dismembering the british empire to diminish the power of a formidable rival and that when after we had carried on a distressing war for seven years the great object for which we had contended independence was within our reach that court endeavored to postpone the acknowledgment of it by great britain and eventually to deprive us of its fairest fruits a just extent of territory the navigation of the mississippi and the fishery such being the motives and conduct of france what inspired our truly grateful sentiments towards that nation the ardent affection the sincere friendship of americans to frenchmen we were engaged in a common cause against great britain we received loans of money we were aided by troops and ships in attacking and conquering the common enemy in the bosom of our country and this association in war produced acquaintances and personal friendships and experiencing these benefits we gave to our feelings without inquiring into the motives from which they were rendered but why are we so often reminded of the debt of gratitude it is really because more than gratitude because compensation is expected to cancel it if compensation is the object the treaty of alliance has abolished the claim the contracting parties declare that being resolved to fulfil each on its own part the clauses and conditions of the present treaty of alliance according to its own power and circumstances there shall be no after claim of compensation on one side or the other whatever may be the event of the war i am here naturally led to notice mr adet's charge already mentioned that we have not offered to france the succors which friendship might have given without compromising the government if mr adet had specified the kind of succors which might thus have been offered we could better judge of the correctness of his assertion but is it true that we have rendered no succors to france read the following passages in the secretary of state's letter of the th of august to mr morris we recollect with satisfaction that in the course of two years by unceasing exertions we paid up seven years arrears and instalments of our debt to france which the inefficacy of our first form of government had suffered to be accumulating that pressing on still to the entire fulfilment of our engagements we have facilitated to mr genet the effect of the instalments of the present year to enable him to send relief to his fellow-citizens in france threatened with famine that in the first moment of the insurrection which threatened the colony of st domingo we stepped forward to their relief with arms and money taking freely on ourselves the risk of an unauthorised aid when delay would have been denial that we have given the exclusive admission to fell here the prizes made by france on her enemies in the present war tho unspoliated in our treaties and unfound in her own practice or in that of other nations as we believe to this detail i have to add that of all the loans and supplies received from france in the american war amounting nearly to fifty-three millions of livres the united states under their late government had been enabled to pay not two million and a half of livres that the present government after paying up the arrears and instalments mentioned by mr jefferson has been continually anticipating the subsequent instalments until in the year the whole of our debt to france was discharged by anticipating the payment of eleven millions and a half of livres no part of which would have become due until the d of september and then only one million and a half the residue at subsequent periods the last not until the year there remain yet various passages in mr adet's notes on which some observations are to be made in my letter of the st november last in answer to mr adet's note of october th in which he communicated the decree of the executive directory of the d july last declaring that the flag of the republic of france should treat the flag of neutrals in the same manner as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english i asked an explanation of the decree mentioning the circumstances which excited doubts there seemed to be sufficient cause for inquiry had the decree referred to the past captures by the english our knowledge of them would have been some guide in forming our opinion of the threatened captures by the french but the operation of the decree was to depend on the future conduct of the english the french were to treat the flag of neutrals as these shall suffer it to be treated by the english as this could not be ascertained beforehand we wished to know whether the restraints then exercised by the british government were considered as of a nature to justify a denial of those rights which were pledged to us by our treaty with france whether the orders had actually been given to capture the vessels of the united states and if given what were the precise terms of those orders mr adet in his reply says that i appear not to have understood either the decree of the directory or his note which accompanied it the meaning of the decree is certainly not very obvious the manner of executing it was declared to depend on a contingency the future conduct of the english how were the french cruisers in the four quarters of the world to determine what was the conduct of the english at any given time if he could have furnished a copy of the orders actually given to french armed vessels under the decree we might have seen clearly what were the intentions of the directory if we are to take the practice of the french armed vessels and some of the french tribunals as the true illustration of the decree mr adet's own explanation will be very defective he has specified only two cases the taking of english or other enemy's property on board american vessels and the seizure of all the goods classed as contraband in our treaty with great britain in the case of contraband goods the seizure of them is lawful only when they are destined to the ports of their enemies and the contraband goods only are liable to confiscation but the special agents of the directory in the west-indies order the seizure of all vessels having on board contraband goods no matter whether destined to an enemy's or to a neutral or even to a french port and when seized they confiscate not merely the contraband articles but all other goods and the vessel herself in which they are laden they also assign in their decrees of confiscation another cause of capture and condemnation that the american vessel has failed to or from a port in possession of the english we are not informed that the english take any neutral vessels for this cause we have heard of several american vessels being captured and confiscated by the french merely because they had not a sea-letter when no doubt could have been entertained of the property being american yet it is conceived that the want of a sea-letter was never intended to exclude other proofs of property further ought we to have imagined that the executive directory intended to leave it to the discretion of every privateer and of every inferior tribunal to judge what at any time subsequent to their decree was the actual treatment received by american vessels from the british ought we to have imagined that the decree was formed in such indefinite terms on purpose to give scope for arbitrary constructions and consequently for unlimited oppression ought we to have imagined what mr adet has himself declared to be the meaning of the decree that the french armed vessels were not to content themselves with capturing american vessels having english property or contraband goods on board and getting such property and goods condemned by their tribunals but if any english commanders were to practise vexations towards americans that frenchmen were to do the same ought we to have imagined that the directory intended the citizens of france should be encouraged to take revenge on their friends for the outrages of their enemies and what is to limit these vexations if one english commander in a hundred perversely and wantonly abuses his power is every french officer to become his rival in dishonor or if we are to suffer only measure for measure and surely the decree goes not beyond this who is to designate the every hundredth french officer who is to be the instrument of similar oppression but french armed vessels are to make all these captures in violation of the treaty and we are to suffer all these vexations in violation of reason and humanity while we endure them from the english without any efficacious opposition and what opposition will be deemed efficacious for all captures made by the british contrary to the law of nations we have agreeably to that law demanded satisfaction the british have engaged to make us satisfaction and commissioners are now sitting to liquidate those demands what opposition could have been more efficacious what further opposition can be lawful instead of further comments on this subject let me present to you some passages in mr adet's letter of the th of july in this letter he communicated to the secretary of state the decree of the committee of public safety of the d of january repealing the th article of the decree of the th of november the latter violate our treaty by seizing the property of the enemies of france on board american vessels to capture and by adding to the list of articles contraband it was therefore repealed by the former mr adet seized this occasion to make the following declaration you will see sir said he in both the decrees the undisguised disposition and sincere desire of the french government religiously to observe the engagements it has contracted with its allies and its readiness to redress infractions which have never taken place but from the impulse of circumstances it is amidst her triumphs that the republic loves to give this striking mark of its fidelity victorious france knows no other concern than that of justice no other diplomatic language than that of truth to this truth to this justice to this fidelity we now make our appeal from the file of mr adet's complaint of the british being suffered to arm in our ports it might be imagined the instances were numerous none were permitted the actual armaments were few and are as old as the year and were represented by mr genet to the secretary of state what answer asks mr adet did the government give to the representations of the minister of the french republic in this respect it is said that these vessels failed too suddenly that it was not able to cause them to be stopped the answer was given by the secretary of state in different words those from charleston and philadelphia have gone off before it was known to the government and the former indeed in the first moments of the war and before preventive measures could be taken in so distant a port in the case of the trusty capt hale at baltimore the governor of maryland having been informed that she had been buying guns had given orders to examine the fact but the got off before the officer could get on board having cleared out three or four days before i have not observed that mr genet ever renewed his complaint with regard to any of these vessels whence i suppose he was satisfied with the answer as indeed he ought to have been the two english vessels that failed from philadelphia escaped even the vigilance of the french consul both had departed many days before he had been informed of them this is stated by the consul himself in his report of the st june to mr genet and yet the government is now charged by mr adet with violating the treaty because it did not stop them although the officers of the united states had been required to be watchful and to report all illegal armaments in our ports yet it was natural for the government to expect to derive information from the french consuls who doubtless were charged by their own government to be particularly vigilant in regard to all attempts at such armaments by the enemies of the republic mr adet remarks that some inhabitants of the united states had aided in these illegal armaments of the enemies of france and asks what measures were taken against them was any search made to discover them to protect them never yet the very letter from mr genet to the secretary of state in which and its inclosures mr adet has found this subject of complaint suggests a different conclusion i learn with pleasure says mr genet by your letter of the d of this month june that the government of georgia have caused to be stopped a vessel armed in that state for the purpose of cruising against the french and that the persons interested in this vessel will be prosecuted i shall say but a few words on the subject of the letters of which mr adet complained that they remained unanswered the first of sept th contained those reproachful insinuations which were recited in my letter of the st of nov last why were these introduced by him if they were not to be applied an answer was draughted on the subject of his letter with animadversions on those insinuations but desiring to avoid irritations the answer was not sent it was deemed of the less consequence seeing in my letter to mr monroe of the th of sept the sentiments and reasonings of the government on that and other subjects relating to france had been fully expressed to enable him to make immediate communications to the french government itself and it was hoped that the information given in that letter and in others written to him the preceding summer would have furnished materials and that these materials would have been timely used for such representations as would have satisfied the french government that the united states in forming the treaty with great britain and only exercised an indisputable right and neither by that treaty or any other act had infringed a single article of our treaties with france on the subject of the impresses of our seamen mentioned in mr adet's letters of march and april i shall only add that nothing was more notorious than that those impresses had excited universal resentment in the united states and been the subject of repeated remonstrance from our government to the british court thus in mr pinckney's note to lord grenville in august which was published here that year in the same collection of state papers with mr jefferson's letter of september th which mr adet thus quoted and on the th page next succeeding it we find the following under this head it may be observed that for want of arrangements being made for the security of american seamen in the ports of this country england they are subject to the various hardships mr pinckney has so frequently detailed to lord grenville and in the next page in his letter to mr jefferson mr pinckney says the protection afforded our seamen remains also on the same footing they the british government profess a willingness to secure to us all real american seamen when proved to be such but the proof they will not dispense with to remove as far as possible the embarrassments arising from this cause and more effectually to protect our seamen was the object of a bill pending in congress and the subject of public debate at the time i received mr adet's letters this bill was passed into a law all these acts demonstrated that the government did not affect but on the contrary that they resisted the impressment of american seamen and this resistance has been continued consequently we cannot be charged on this ground with a violation of our neutrality among the former subjects of complaint not now renewed by mr adet is that against the government for permitting the purchase and exportation of horses by british agents in the course of the last winter and spring the correspondence on this subject is lengthy and yet the question lies within a very narrow compass perhaps no rule is now better established than that neutral nations have a right to trade freely with nations at war either by carrying and selling to them all kinds of merchandize or permitting them to come and purchase the same commodities in the neutral territory in the latter case not refusing to one power at war what it permits another to purchase with this exception in respect to articles contraband that if the cruisers of one of the belligerent powers meet at sea with neutral vessels laden with such articles destined to the ports of their enemies the neutral vessels may be captured and the contraband goods will be lawful prize to the captors but the residue of their cargo and the vessels themselves are to be discharged but if there were any doubt on this point under the law of nations there can be none in relation to france and the united states because this matter is specially regulated by their treaty of commerce this treaty so far from restraining the trade of either party remaining neutral while the other is engaged in war provides regulations agreeably to which it should be conducted the th and th articles authorized either party that is at war to stop the neutral merchant vessels of the other destined to the ports of an enemy upon just grounds of suspicion concerning the voyage or the lading if on examining the ship's papers it appears there are any contraband goods on board consigned for a port under the obedience of his enemies they may be carried into port and the contraband articles may by regular proceedings in the admiralty be confiscated saving always as well the ship itself as any other goods found therein which by this"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3201, 3421], "b_span": [12, 232], "matched_words": 211, "similarity": 0.9590909090909091, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00251", "a": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|1", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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of our treaty with france were particularly brought into view as well as the rules of the law of nations mr adet however after some time renewed his claims and again kept the treaty out of sight an answer was given to these renewed claims and we heard no more of the subject until the french privateers in the west indies began to capture american vessels which had horses on board you"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "confiscated as lawful prize it further provides that if the master of the neutral ship shall be willing to deliver the contraband goods to the captor and the latter receives them then is the neutral ship to be forthwith discharged and allowed freely to prosecute her voyage the d article goes further if the neutral ship shall have on board the enemies of the other they are not to be taken out unless they are soldiers in actual service these articles are so explicit it may seem strange that a doubt should arise concerning them i presume no doubt did arise for mr adet overlooked these provisions of the treaty demanded that the government should stop the exportation of horses by the british upon the principle that it was a neutral duty required by the law of nations an answer was given to his demands in which the regulations of our treaty with france were particularly brought into view as well as the rules of the law of nations mr adet however after some time renewed his claims but again kept the treaty out of sight an answer was given to these renewed claims and we heard no more of the subject until the french privateers in the west-indies began to capture american vessels which had horses on board you"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [0, 3395], "b_span": [235, 3654], "matched_words": 3316, "similarity": 0.9732902847079542, "seeds": 658, "id": "M00252", "a": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|2", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0008.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the documents on this subject the copy of a decree of the citizens victor hughes and lebas the special agents of the executive directory in the windward islands condemning an american vessel and her entire cargo for having a small number of horses on board not bound to their enemy's but to a neutral port and the special agents ground their decree on the advice they received from mr adet under the date of th messidor being july d this vessel and cargo were thus condemned without the sight of a single paper belonging to her the master had them in his pocket and would have brought them home but for the recollection of the interpreter some hours after the sentence of condemnation had been passed these citizens exercised indeed a very brief authority the process in the case of a second american vessel which to complete her lading had taken on board nineteen horses but which was also bound to a neutral port was in this form the captain having come before one of the agents he with any previous examination or hearing addressing himself to the captain pronounced sentence in these words i have confiscated your vessel and cargo closing the sentence with an obnoxious language mr adet on the th of may last revived his predecessor's claim of right by treaty to sell their prizes in our ports this occasioned a correspondence on this subject which you will find among the documents collected on this occasion he contends himself however with considering it as a right granted not positively but by implication that is because the treaty forbids the enemies of france to sell their prizes in our ports therefore it grants to her a right of selling her prizes as if my friend's denial of a favor to my enemy was in fact a grant of the same favor to me the simple statement of the ground of the claim would seem sufficient to show that the treaty will not support it that sales of french prizes have been at all permitted was owing to the indulgence of the government this indulgence continued until it interfered with a new positive obligation an obligation precisely the same that france itself contracted eight years subsequent to her treaty with us and with the same power this obligation is found in the th article of our treaty and the th of the french treaty with great-britain thus france and the united states alike engaged to permit no enemy of great-britain to arm privateers in their ports or to sell their prizes there or in any manner to exchange them consequently had france remained at peace and we engaged in a war with great-britain our privateers would not be permitted to sell their prizes in french ports and by the maritime law of france prizes except they are taken from her enemies can stay in her ports no more than hours unless compelled by tempest to remain longer and the sales of such prizes are forbidden under severe penalties but notwithstanding the certainty of our right to forbid the sales of prizes in our ports and notwithstanding the express legal command of the chief justice of the united states holding a circuit court in south carolina in may last prohibiting the sale of a particular prize the british ship amity at charleston the french agents sold the prize vessel and the sale received the formal sanction of the french consul yet even this affair has been made a subject of complaint by mr adet because the collector of that port refused a clearance to the prize vessel thus sold in defiance of the authority of the united states and because he also delayed until in a new case he should get advice to permit the exportation of the cargo of the prize ship which on a survey had been reported to be irreparable indeed the french minister has discovered an aptitude to complain i may cite as instances his letters of the th of january and d of march the former because the colors of france which he had presented to the united states were not permanently fixed and displayed before congress the latter because some printers of almanacs or other periodical publications in the united states in arranging the names of the foreign ministers and agents resident amongst us had placed those of great-britain before those of france and spain mr adet desired my declaration in writing that the government of the united states has no concern in printing the works in which the agents of the french republic were registered after those of great-britain and that the work themselves might be suppressed i gave him an answer in writing with my consent to his publishing it in the newspapers agreeably to his request the answer states that in matters of this kind the government did not and could not interfere with regard to the colors i must observe that in what concerns our foreign relations the president being the sole representative of the people of the united states they were properly presented to him he received them with all possible respect and directed them to be deposited with our national archives that both might be preserved with equal care it remains to notice a summary of complaints exhibited by m de la croix the french minister for foreign affairs to mr monroe our minister at paris under the date of march th to which the latter returned an answer under the date of march th these were inclosed in mr monroe's letter of the d of may and received at the department of state on the th of july copies of both papers an extract of so much of his letter as relates to this subject are among the documents now collected st complaint the inexecution of treaties the courts of justice have taken and still take cognizance of prizes bro't by french privateers into the ports of the united states d english ships of war have been admitted into those ports even in cases prohibited by the th article of the treaty that is when they have made prizes on the french republic or its citizens and have also conducted thither their prizes d the consular convention has in two points become illusory st for want of giving to the consuls the means of having their decisions executed in all disputes between frenchmen of which the consuls have the exclusive cognizance d because the judges charged with issuing warrants for apprehending french mariners who desert require the original roll of the crew to be first produced th the arrest of the corvette le cassius and her captain second complaint the impunity of the outrage committed on the republic in the person of its minister the citizen fauchet by the english ship africa in concert with the vice-consul of that nation within the waters of the united states third complaint the treaty concluded in between the united states and great-britain excepting the second complaint relative to the attempt of the english ship africa to seize mr fauchet and his papers and the d article under the first complaint relative to the consular convention all the charges in this summary have been already examined and we think proved to be unfounded as to the consular convention many inconveniences would attend the giving to the consuls a jurisdiction to the extent contended for on the part of the french republic to be exercised by french consuls in the united states and consequently by american consuls in france the inconveniences are manifest so great as to require very explicit language in the convention of the two nations on this subject to authorize the conclusion that such an enlarged jurisdiction was intended it would be to erect in foreign countries complete courts of justice with effectual process to compel the appearance of parties and witnesses and to execute their decision and as the transactions in commerce and navigation could not in the nature of things be confined to the foreigners alone the citizens of the country must often be necessary witnesses to those transactions and of course rendered amenable to this foreign jurisdiction in their own country whereas the jurisdiction demanded is only of french consuls over french citizens in the united states and reciprocally of american consuls over their citizens of the united states in france from these considerations a presumption would arise that the jurisdiction contemplated in the consular convention was to be merely voluntary but at the same time exclusive of the court of the country an examination of the convention we believe will support this and no other construction the th article provides that all differences and suits between frenchmen in the united states and between citizens of the united states in france and particularly all disputes between seamen and their captains and between captains of different vessels of the same nation shall be determined by the respective consuls either by a reference to arbitrators or by a summary judgment and without costs no officer of the country civil or military shall interfere therein or take any part whatever in the matter this last clause alone would seem sufficient to repeal the claim we are considering sheriffs marshals and their deputies cannot aid in the execution of consular decisions because they are officers of the country expressly forbidden to take any part in the matter but was it meant that the laws should give consuls the power to appoint such executive officers of their own nation we find no such thing in the convention on the contrary in the case of deserters from vessels mentioned in the th article whom the consuls are authorized to cause to be arrested they are expressly directed to apply in writing to the courts judges and officers appointed to make the arrests meaning the courts judges and officers of the country where the consuls reside besides if power could be given to consuls to appoint officers to execute their decisions those officers must of course have their fees of compensation to be paid by one or other of the parties but the th article declares that the consular judgments shall be without costs to these observations i submit the deliberate opinions of two respectable lawyers mr harrison of new-york and mr bradford the attorney general of the united states i have considered the th article of the convention between his late most christian majesty and the united states of america and also the act of congress concerning consuls and vice-consuls as far as it prescribes the duty of marshals of the united states and it is my opinion that the marshals are not bound by law to execute any sentence of a french consul arising under the said article richard harrison attorney united states for the new-york district new-york th month i have considered the convention and act above referred to and i perfectly coincide in the opinion given by the attorney of the united states for the district of new-york w bradford philadelphia march the other complaint under this head is that the judges who are charged by an act of congress to issue warrants of arrest against deserters from french vessels have required the original ship's roll to prove that the men alleged to have deserted were a part of the crew in contempt of the th article which admits in the tribunals of both countries copies certified by the consul if we look at the th article of the consular treaty we shall see that the consuls who demand the arrests of deserters from vessels of their nation must prove by an exhibition of the registers of the vessels or ship's roll that those men were a part of the crew it is apparent that the original roll and not a copy is here referred to nor indeed is the contrary pretended but it is said that the th article admits certified consular copies as evidence in the courts of both nations but the th article appears to have no relation to the subject of the th it stipulates that the consuls respectively shall have the exclusive right of receiving in their chancery or on board of vessels the declarations and all other acts which the captains masters crews passengers and merchants of their nation may choose to make there even their testaments and disposals by last will and the copies of the said acts duly authenticated by the said consuls under the seal of their consulate shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would the ship's roll or shipping paper of a vessel's crew is not an act to be done before the consul but the evidence of a private agreement between the captain of a vessel and his crew and when he alleges that any of them have deserted the th article requires this original evidence of the fact to be produced to the judge on the ground on which he shall issue his warrant to arrest them and this is the construction put on this article by the judges and for ought i know without any diversity of opinion the difference alleged by mr fauchet is one of his letters to the secretary of state i have enquired into and find he was under a mistake and the mistake arose probably from this circumstance that when from the information of the consul there was danger that the deserter would wholly escape unless instantly apprehended the judge has issued his warrant to arrest and bring before him the alleged deserter but when brought that judge has not committed the man or delivered him to the consul unless the original roll was produced to prove him one of the ship's crew as to the outrage against mr fauchet by the africa man of war in attempting to seize him and his papers within the jurisdiction of the united states and capt home's insult on their authority i do not know what measures more effectual could have been taken by the executive than those which were adopted to obtain satisfaction after waiting a reasonable time for explanations on the part of capt home and of mr moore the english vice-consul and receiving none the president revoked the exequatur of the vice-consul and desired the governor of rhode-island where the africa had been lying to communicate to capt home the demand of the president that he should immediately remove from a station within the jurisdiction of the united states where he had violated their rights and further to make known to him that in forty eight hours after the requisition should be communicated to him all intercourse between the citizens of the united states and his ship should be forbidden it is very true that the exequatur of the british vice-consul was withdrawn expressly for his knowingly transmitting to the governor of rhode-island a most insulting letter from capt home because although he was on board the africa when the attempt was made against mr fauchet the president had no evidence of his co-operation the minister of the united states in london was directed to represent to that court the conduct of capt home and to demand his exemplary punishment it was not to be expected that he would be judged unheard and consequently much delay must have ensued from her station on the coast of north america the africa went to the west-indies seeing some time since by an article in the newspapers that the africa was returning to england our minister in london was reminded of this affair that the demand of satisfaction might be renewed although the subject of m de la croix's third and last complaint the british treaty has been already discussed allow me here to make a few remarks he says it will be easy to prove that the united states in this treaty have knowingly and evidently sacrificed their connections with the republic and the most essential and least contested prerogatives of neutrality the reverse of what the minister considers to say to prove we think has been demonstrated our legally binding connections with france we always considered as being formed by our treaties and we say with confidence that we have not knowingly violated these in a single article if individuals have at any time infringed them the government has been sincere and diligent in its endeavors to redress the wrong if the ties of affection of warm enthusiastic friendship have been weakened the cause is to be sought for not in the acts of the american government which have been constantly directed to the preservation of our peace with all nations these ties did not depend on treaties it was our friendship to france contracted during our revolution and our partiality for the cause of liberty and self government for which she engaged in her own that made us endure numerous injuries almost without complaining we were not willing to ascribe to the republic the outrages of her ministers against the laws the sovereignty and the dignity of the united states or the exceptional title of their communications even when for such flagrant aggressions often repeated we desired the repeal of one of their ministers it was done in the most soothing language and in the mean time lest the interests of the republic should suffer he was permitted to exercise his functions in all cases in which those interests could be affected when his successor arrived he officially requested that the offending minister might be apprehended that he might be sent to france but the government satisfied by his removal declines the measure some irritations were experienced from that successor what sensations have been produced by mr adet's notes your own feelings on the perusal will enable you to judge if he intended to excite the general indignation of our citizens he is not disappointed but it is presumed this was not the object after an exhibition of complaints in a stile so exceptional he could add but one more improper act that of publishing his notes in the newspapers he had scarcely transmitted them to the executive before he forwarded them to the printer for publication from the foregoing statement we trust it will appear that there has been no attempt by the government of the united states to violate our treaty or weaken our engagements with france that whatever resistance it has opposed to the measures of her agents the maintenance of the laws and sovereignty of the united states and the neutral obligations have rendered indispensable that it has never acquiesced in acts violating our rights or interfering with the advantages stipulated to france but on the contrary has opposed them by all the means in its power that it has withheld succours from france that were compatible with the duties of neutrality to grant that by their independent policy it has expressed provisions of the treaty with france the united states were at full liberty to enter into commercial treaties with any other nation and consequently with great-britain that no facts manifesting a partiality to that country have been and i add that none such can be produced of the propriety and justness of these conclusions you will endeavour to satisfy the french government and conscious of the rectitude of our own proceedings during the whole course of the present war we cannot but entertain the most sanguine expectations that they will be satisfied we even hope that this has been already accomplished and that you will be saved from the pain of renewing a discussion which the government has entered into with regret your mission and instructions prove its solicitude to have prevented this necessity and the sincerity of its present hopes that your endeavours agreeably to those instructions to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they are groundless to restore confidence so unfortunately and injuriously impaired to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of your own have been attended with success and as a consequence thereof we rely on the repeal of the decrees and orders which expose our commerce to indefinite injuries which militate with the obligations of treaties and our rights as a neutral nation i have the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|2", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the documents on this subject the copy of a decree of the citizens victor hughes and lebas the special agents of the executive directory in the windward islands condemning an american vessel and her entire cargo for having a small number of horses on board not bound to their enemy's but to a neutral port and the special agents ground their decree on the advice they received from mr adet under the date of the th messidor being july this vessel and cargo were thus condemned without the light of a single paper belonging to her the master had them in his pocket and would have brought them home but for the recollection of the interpreter some hours after the sentence of condemnation had been passed these citizens exercise indeed a very brief authority the process in the case of a second american vessel which to complete her lading had taken on board nineteen horses but which was also bound to a neutral port was in this form the captain having come before one of the agents he without any previous examination or hearing addressing himself to the captain pronounced sentence in these words i have confiscated your vessel and cargo closing the sentence with approving language mr adet on the th of may last revived his predecessor's claim of right by treaty to sell their prizes in our ports this occasioned the correspondence on this subject which you will find among the documents collected on this occasion he contends himself however with considering it as a right granted not positively but by implication that is because the treaty forbids the enemies of france to sell their prizes in our ports therefore it grants to her a right of selling her prizes as if my friend's denial of a favor to my enemy was in fact a grant of the same favor to me the simple statement of the ground of the claim would seem sufficient to show that the treaty will not support it that sales of french prizes have been at all permitted has been owing to the indulgence of the government this indulgence was continued until it interfered with a new positive obligation an obligation precisely the same that france herself contracted eight years subsequent to her treaty with us and with the same power this obligation is found in the th article of our treaty and the th of the french treaty with great britain thus france and the united states alike engaged to permit no enemy of great britain to arm privateers in their ports or to sell their prizes there or in any manner to exchange them consequently had france remained at peace and we engaged in a war with great britain our privateers would not be permitted to sell their prizes in french ports and by the maritime law of france prizes except they are taken from her enemies can stay in her ports no more than hours unless compelled by tempest to remain longer and the sales of such prizes are forbidden under severe penalties but notwithstanding the certainty of our right to forbid the sales of prizes in our ports and notwithstanding the express legal command of the chief justice of the united states holding a circuit court in south carolina in may last prohibiting the sale of a particular prize the british ship amity at charleston the french agent sold the prize vessel and the sale received the formal sanction of the french consul yet even this affair has been made a subject of complaint by mr adet because the collector of that port refused a clearance to the prize vessel thus sold in defiance of the authority of the united states and because he also delayed until in a new case he should get advice to permit the exportation of the cargo of the prize ship which on a survey had been reported to be irreparable indeed the french minister has discovered an aptitude to complain i may cite as instances his letters of the th of january and the d march the former because the colors of france which he had presented to the united states were not permanently fixed and displayed before congress the latter because some printers of almanacs or other periodical publications in the united states in arranging the names of the foreign ministers and agents resident amongst us had placed those of great britain before those of france and spain mr adet desired my declaration in writing that the government of the united states had no concern in printing the works in which the agents of the french republic were registered after those of great britain and that the works themselves might be suppressed i gave him an answer in writing with my consent to his publishing it in the newspapers agreeably to his request the answer states that in matters of this kind the government did not and could not interfere with regard to the colors i must observe that in what concerns our foreign relations the president being the sole representative of the people of the united states they were properly presented to him he received them with all possible respect and directed them to be deposited with our national archives that both might be preserved with equal care it remains to notice a summary of complaints exhibited by m de la croix the french minister for foreign affairs to mr monroe our minister at paris under the date of march th to which the latter returned an answer under the date of march th these were inclosed in mr monroe's letter of the d of may and received at the department of state on the th of july copies of both papers and an extract of so much of his letter as relates to this subject are among the documents now collected first complaint the inexecution of treaties st the courts of justice have taken and still take cognizance of prizes brought by french privateers into the ports of the united states d english ships of war have been admitted into those ports even in cases prohibited by the th article of the treaty that is when they have made prizes on the french republic or its citizens and have also conducted thither their prizes d the consular convention has in two points become illusory st for want of giving to the consuls the means of having their decisions executed in all disputes between frenchmen of which the consuls have the exclusive cognizance and because the judges charged with issuing warrants for apprehending french mariners who desert require the original roll of the crew to be first produced th the arrest of the corvette le cassius and her captain second complaint the impunity of the outrage committed on the republic in the person of its minister the citizen fauchet by the english ship africa in concert with the vice consul of that nation within the waters of the united states third complaint the treaty concluded in nov between the u states and great britain excepting the second complaint relative to the attempt of the english ship africa to seize mr fauchet and his papers and the d article under the first complaint relative to the consular convention all the charges in this summary have been already examined and we think proper to be unfounded as to the consular convention many inconveniences would attend the giving to the consuls a jurisdiction to the extent contended for on the part of the french republic to be exercised by french consuls in the united states and consequently by american consuls in france the inconveniences are manifestly so great as to require very explicit language in the convention of the two nations on this subject to authorize the conclusion that such an enlarged jurisdiction was intended it would be to erect in foreign countries complete courts of justice with effectual process to compel the appearance of parties and witnesses and to execute their decisions and as the transactions in commerce and navigation could not in the nature of things be confined to the foreigners alone the citizens of the country must often be necessary witnesses to those transactions and of course rendered amenable to this foreign jurisdiction in their own country whereas the jurisdiction demanded is only of french consuls over french citizens in the united states and reciprocally of american consuls over the citizens of the united states in france from these considerations a presumption would arise that the jurisdiction contemplated in the consular convention was to be merely voluntary but at the same time exclusive of the courts of the country an examination of the convention we believe will support this and no other construction the th article provides that all differences and suits between frenchmen in the united states and between citizens of the united states in france and particularly all disputes between seamen and their captains and between captains of different vessels of their nation shall be determined by the respective consuls either by a reference to arbitrators or by a summary judgment and without costs no officer of the country civil or military shall interfere therein or take any part whatever in the matter this last clause alone would seem sufficient to repel the claim we are considering sheriffs marshals and their deputies cannot aid in the execution of consular decisions because they are officers of the country expressly forbidden to take any part in the matter but was it meant that the laws should give consuls the power to appoint such executive officers of their own nation we find no such thing in the convention on the contrary in the case of deserters from vessels mentioned in the th article whom the consuls are authorized to cause to be arrested they are expressly directed to apply in writing to the courts judges and officers competent to make the arrests meaning the courts judges and officers of the country where the consuls reside besides if power could be given to consuls to appoint officers to execute their decisions these officers must of course have their fees of compensation to be paid by one or other of the parties but the th article declares that the consular judgments shall be without costs to these observations i subjoin the deliberate opinions of two respectable lawyers mr harrison of new-york and mr bradford the late attorney general of the united states i have considered the th article of the convention between his late most christian majesty and the united states of america and also the act of congress concerning consuls and vice-consuls as far as it prescribes the duty of marshals of the united states and it is my opinion that the marshals are not bound by law to execute any sentence of a french consul arising under the said article richard harrison attorney united states for the n york district new-york th march i have considered the convention and act above referred to and i perfectly coincide in the opinion given by the attorney of the united states for the district of new-york wm bradford philadelphia th march the other complaint under this head is that the judges who are charged by an act of congress to issue warrants of arrest against deserters from french vessels have required the original ship's roll to prove that the men alleged to have deserted were a part of the crew in contempt of the th article which admits in the tribunals of both countries copies certified by the consul if we look at the th article of the consular treaty we shall see that the consuls who demand the arrests of deserters from vessels of their nation must prove by an exhibition of the registers of the vessels or ship's roll that those men were a part of the crew it is apparent that the original roll and not a copy is here referred to nor indeed is the contrary pretended but it is said that the th article admits certified consular copies as evidence in the courts of both nations but the th article appears to have no relation to the subject of the th it stipulates that the consuls respectively shall have the exclusive right of receiving in their chancery or on board of vessels the declarations and all other acts which the captains masters crews passengers and merchants of their nation may choose to make there even their testaments and their dispositions by last will and the copies of the said acts duly authenticated by the said consuls under the seal of their consulate shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would the ship's roll or shipping paper of a vessel's crew is not an act to be done before the consul but the evidence of a private agreement between the captain of a vessel and his crew and when he alleges that any of them have deserted the th article requires this original evidence of the fact to be produced to the judge as the ground on which he shall issue his warrant to arrest them and this is the construction put on this article by the judges and for ought i know without any diversity of opinion the difference alleged by mr fauchet in one of his letters to the secretary of state i have enquired into and find he was under a mistake and the mistake arose probably from this circumstance that when from the information of the consul there was danger that the deserter would wholly escape unless instantly apprehended the judge has issued his warrant to arrest and bring before him the alleged deserter but when brought that judge has not committed the man or delivered him to the consul unless the original roll was produced to prove him one of the ship's crew as to the outrage against mr fauchet by the africa man of war in attempting to seize him and his papers within the jurisdiction of the united states and capt home's insult on their authority i do not know what measures more efficacious could have been taken by the executive than those which were adopted to obtain satisfaction after waiting a reasonable time for explanations on the part of captain home and of mr moore the english vice consul and receiving none the president revoked the exequatur of the vice consul and desired the governor of rhode island where the africa had been lying to communicate to capt home the demand of the president that he should immediately remove from a station within the jurisdiction of the united states where he had violated their rights and further to make known to him that in forty-eight hours after the requisition should be communicated to him all intercourse between the citizens of the united states and his ship should be forbidden it is very true that the exequatur of the british vice consul was withdrawn expressly for his knowingly transmitting to the governor of rhode island a most insulting letter from capt home because altho he was on board the africa when the attempt was made against mr fauchet the president had no evidence of his co-operation the minister of the united states in london was directed to represent to that court the conduct of capt home and to demand his exemplary punishment it was not to be expected that he would be judged unheard and consequently much delay must have ensued from her station on the coast of north america the africa went to the west indies seeing sometime since by an article in the newspapers that the africa was returning to england our minister in london was reminded of this affair that the demand of satisfaction might be renewed although the subject of m de la croix's third and last complaint the british treaty has been already discussed allow me here to make a few remarks he says it will be easy to prove that the united states in this treaty have knowingly and evidently sacrificed their connections with the republic and the most essential and least contested prerogatives of neutrality the reverse of what the minister confiders so easy to prove we think has been demonstrated our legally binding connections with france we always considered as being formed by our treaties and we say with confidence that we have not knowingly violated these in a single article if individuals have at any time infringed them the government has been sincere and diligent in its endeavors to redress the wrong if the ties of affection of warm enthusiastic friendship have been weakened the cause is to be sought for not in the acts of the american government which have been constantly directed to the preservation of our peace with all nations these ties did not depend on treaties it was our friendship to france contracted during our revolution and our partiality for the cause of liberty and self government for which she engaged her own that made us endure numerous injuries almost without complaining we were not willing to ascribe to the republic the outrages of her ministers against the laws the sovereignty and the dignity of the u states or the exceptional file of their communications even when for such flagrant aggressions often repeated we desired the recall of one of her ministers it was done in the most soothing language and in the meantime left the interest of the republic should suffer he was permitted to exercise his functions in all cases in which those interests could be affected when his successor arrived he officially requested that the offending minister might be apprehended that he might be sent to france but the government satisfied by his removal declined the measure some irritations were experienced from that successor what sensations have been produced by mr adet's notes your own feelings on the perusal will enable you to judge if he intended to excite the general indignation of our citizens he is not disappointed but it is presumed this was not the object after an exhibition of complaints in a file so exceptional he could add but one more improper act that of publishing his notes in the newspapers he had scarcely transmitted them to the executive before he forwarded them to the printer for publication from the foregoing statement we trust it will appear that there has been no attempt in the government of the united states to violate our treaty or weaken our engagements with france that whatever resistance it has opposed to the measures of her agents the maintenance of the laws and sovereignty of the united states and their neutral obligations have rendered indispensable that it has never acquiesced in any acts violating our rights or interfering with the advantages stipulated to france but on the contrary has opposed them by all the means in its power that it has withheld no succors from france that were compatible with the duties of neutrality to grant that as well by their independent political rights as by the express provisions of the commercial treaty with france the united states were at full liberty to enter into commercial treaties with any other nation and consequently with great britain that no facts manifesting a partiality to that country have been and i add that none such can be produced of the propriety and justness of these conclusions you will endeavor to satisfy the french government and conscious of the rectitude of our own proceedings during the whole course of the present war we cannot but entertain the most sanguine expectations that they will be satisfied we even hope that this has been already accomplished and that you will be saved from the pain of renewing a discussion which the government has entered upon with regret your mission and instructions prove its solicitude to have prevented this necessity and the sincerity of its present hopes that your endeavors agreeably to those instructions to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they are groundless to restore confidence so unfortunately and injuriously impaired to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of your own have been attended with success and as a consequence thereof we rely on the repeal of the decrees and orders which expose our commerce to indefinite injuries which militate with the obligations of treaties and our rights as a neutral nation i have the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [15, 321], "b_span": [214, 521], "matched_words": 299, "similarity": 0.9755301794453507, "seeds": 56, "id": "M00253", "a": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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completely changed that different states holding of the empire had made a separate peace to avoid the total ruin with which their countries were threatened that others had embraced neutrality for the protection of their subjects and that the prosperity these states enjoyed proved that they had attained a salutary object that the affairs of the empire had assumed quite another aspect and that the relations of his britannic majesty in his quality of elector and prince of the empire were well known to be inconsistent with the imperial demands that he cannot of course consent to the granting of new roman months for the continuation of this unhappy war still less can he contribute directly since the negotiations commenced at paris from which it is expected a happy issue for the tranquility of europe and which are known to his imperial majesty oblige his britannic majesty to avoid every proceeding that might give an unfavourable colour to"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": 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and that he was not at present in circumstances which permitted him to answer the demand which was made that since the periods when the last roman months were granted the system of the war had completely changed that different states holding of the empire had made a separate peace to avoid the total ruin with which their countries were threatened that others had embraced neutrality for the protection of their subjects and that the prosperity these states enjoyed proved that they had attained a salutary object that the affairs of the empire have assumed quite another aspect and that the relations of his britannic majesty in his quality of elector and prince of the empire were well known to be inconsistent with the imperial demands that he cannot of course consent to the granting of new roman months for the continuation of this unhappy war still far less can he contribute directly since the negotiations commenced at paris from which it is expected a happy issue for the tranquility of europe and which are known to his imperial majesty oblige his britannic majesty to avoid every proceeding that might give an unfavourable colour to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [463, 1024], "b_span": [526, 1082], "matched_words": 539, "similarity": 0.9650850492390332, "seeds": 102, "id": "M00254", "a": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-02-14|1|3", "date": "1797-02-14", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-02-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797021401/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lord malmesbury's embassy note addressed by lord malmesbury to the minister for foreign affairs the underlined does not hesitate a moment to answer the two questions which you have been instructed by the executive directory to put to him the memorial presented this morning by the underlined proposes in express terms on the part of his majesty the king of great-britain to compensate france by proportionable restitutions for the arrangements to which she will be called upon to consent in order to satisfy the just pretensions of the king's allies and to preserve the political balance of europe before the formal acceptance of this principle or the announcement on the part of the executive directory of any other principle whatever which may equally serve as the basis of a negotiation for a general peace the underlined could not be authorized to designate the objects of reciprocal compensation as to the proof of the pacific disposition given to the french government by his majesty the emperor and king at the opening of the campaign the underlined contents himself with a repetition of the following words contained in the note of baron d'espelemann on the th of june last the operations of the war will in no wise prevent his imperial majesty from being ever ready to concur agreeably to any form of negotiation which shall be adopted in concert with the belligerent powers in the discussion of proper means for putting a stop to the farther effusion of human blood this note was presented after the armistice was broken malmesbury reply of the minister for foreign affairs to the preceding note the underlined in reply to your second note of yesterday is ordered by the executive directory to declare to you that he has nothing to add to the answer which has been addressed to you he is also instructed to ask you whether on each official communication which shall take place between you and him it will be necessary for you to send a courier to receive special instructions charles delacroix paris d brumaire th year letter addressed to the minister for foreign affairs by lord malmesbury envoy from the british cabinet the minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty requests the minister for foreign affairs to inform him whether he is to consider the official note which he received from him yesterday evening as the answer to that which lord malmesbury delivered yesterday morning to the minister for foreign affairs by order of his court he applies for this information that the departure of his courier may not be unnecessarily delayed malmesbury paris november answer of the minister for foreign affairs to the preceding letter from lord malmesbury the underlined minister for foreign affairs declares to lord malmesbury minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty that he is to consider the official note sent to him yesterday as the answer to that which lord malmesbury had addressed to him on the same day charles delacroix d brumaire th year second letter from lord malmesbury to the minister for foreign affairs lord malmesbury has just received the answer of the minister for foreign affairs in which he declares that the official note which he 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annoy the operations of the archduke against kehl letters from strasburg announce that the bridge of kehl has been destroyed which makes it more likely that the place will fall into the hands of the austrians a letter from newried states that the archduke has refused an armistice requested by moreau the english have quitted the isle of elba but have left a convoy there it is said they are about to return thither in considerable force the breft fleet still remains in the road it has thousand troops on board nothing further has transpired respecting the negotiations for peace in the interim the directory send"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-18|1|2", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031801/0767.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an american vessel which was taken and carried into portsmouth a few days ago by the audacious man of war on examination it appears to have stands of arms instead at first stated and above twenty-five pieces of artillery mostly brass among which latter are some of the park artillery lost by the duke of york before dunkirk december this day we received the french journals to the th inst the following are the leading particulars louret in his paper of the th says a letter from milan announces that the flag of distress is flying on the ramparts of mantua he adds that news which appears to be more certain is that kleber with men has passed the rhine at oppenheim to annoy the operations of the archduke against kehl letters from strasburg announce that the bridge of kehl has been destroyed which makes it more likely that the place will fall into the hands of the austrians a letter from nieuweid states that the archduke has refused an armistice requested by moreau the english have quitted the isle of elba but have left a convoy there it is thought they are about to return thither in considerable force the brest fleet still remains in the road it has troops on board nothing further has transpired respecting the negotiations for peace in the interim the directory send"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2567, 2727], "b_span": [1902, 2059], "matched_words": 152, "similarity": 0.9589905362776026, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00263", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-15|1|3", "date": "1797-02-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "bute arrived in town on wednesday evening from the continent and yesterday he had an interview with the secretary of state for the foreign department accounts have been received in town from the mediterranean by the audacious of guns capt gould which state that the spanish fleet having put to sea had met with a violent gale of wind in which la trinidad had run down a large frigate and that the fleet had been dispersed five sail had put into minorca and three into carthagena dismantled and the rest of the fleet remained unaccounted for december mr ellis we understand set off this morning on his return to paris he carries with him it is said the instructions to lord malmesbury respecting the terms of compensation to be proposed to the executive directory these instructions were finally settled at a cabinet council held on saturday admiral vandeput has taken two spanish ships from the havannah richly laden one of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|2", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032201/0775.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "bute arrived in town on wednesday evening from the continent and yesterday he had an interview with the secretary of state for the foreign department accounts have been received in town from the mediterranean by the andacious of guns capt gould which states that the spanish fleet having put to sea had met with a violent gale of wind in which la trinidad had run down a large frigate and that the fleet had been dispersed five sail had put into minorca and three into carthagena dismasted and the rest of the fleet remained unaccounted for december mr ellis we understand set off this morning for paris he carries with him it is said the instructions to lord malmebury respecting the terms of compensation to be proposed to the executive directory these instructions were finally settled at a cabinet council held on saturday admiral vandeput has taken two spanish ships from the havannah richly laden one of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2354, 3072], "b_span": [2051, 2768], "matched_words": 683, "similarity": 0.9519163763066202, "seeds": 121, "id": "M00264", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-15|1|4", "date": "1797-02-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021501/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the countries in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of infatuation to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty in virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to pretend that their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task people have heard one fiddle long enough they shall now hear the other conditions porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march n b a subscription book is now open at my shop opposite christ-church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white bookseller at salem by mr debeny post-master at new-haven by mr beers bookseller at newburyport by mr e blunt bookseller at new-york by mr s campbell bookseller at baltimore by mr g hill bookseller at chester-town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neal at frederick-town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virg by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|1", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "daily advertiser methinks i hear the reader exclaim what have we not gazettes enough already yes and far too many but those that we have are in general conducted in such a manner that their great number instead of rendering mine unnecessary is the only cause that calls for its establishment the gazettes in this country have done it more real injury than all its open enemies ever did or can do they mislead the people at home and misrepresent them abroad it was these vehicles of sedition and discord that encouraged the colonies in the west to rebel it was they that gave rise to the depredations of britain by exciting the people to such acts of violence against that nation as left her no room to doubt that we were determined on war and it was they when an accommodation had been happily effected that stirred up an opposition to it such as has seldom been witnessed and which was overcome by mere chance these gazettes it was that by misrepresenting the dispositions of the people encouraged the french to proceed from one degree of insolence to another till at last their minister braves the president in his chair and a bullying commander comes and tells us that his only business is to seize our vessels in violation of a treaty by virtue of which alone he claims a right to enter our ports and it is these gazettes that now have the impudence to defend what their falsehood and malice have produced i shall be told that the people are to blame that they are not obliged to read these abominable publications but they do read them and thousands who read them read nothing else to suppress them is impossible they will vomit forth their poison it is a privilege of their natures that no law can abridge and therefore the only mode left is to counteract its effects this must be done too in their own way books or periodical publications in the form of books may be of some service but are by no means a match for their flying folios a falsehood that remains uncontradicted for a month begins to be looked upon as a truth and when the detection at last makes its appearance it is often as useless as that of the doctor who finds his patient expired the only method of opposition then is to meet them on their own ground to set foot to foot to dispute every inch and every hair's breadth fight them at their own weapons and return them two blows for one a gazette of this stamp is what i have long wished to see but i have wished and expected it in vain indignation at the supineness of others has at last got the better of all diffidence in my own capacity and has determined me to encounter the task conditions i porcupine's gazette shall be of the usual size and the subscription eight dollars a year to be paid at the expiration of each half year ii advertisements will be inserted at half the usual price which will always be required in ready money iii the censor containing those pieces from the gazette that may appear worth preserving in a more portable form with such amplifications and amendments as time may give rise to shall be published monthly and each subscriber shall be entitled to a copy delivered with his paper at the end of the month iv if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained the first number of the gazette shall appear on or before the th of march next n b a subscription-book is now open at my shop opposite christ church whither gentlemen in the country who wish to subscribe are requested to send their names subscriptions are taken at boston by mr james white book-seller at salem by mr debey post-master at new haven by mr beers book-seller at newbury port by mr e blunt book-seller at new york by mr s champbell book-seller at baltimore by mr g hill book-seller at chester town maryland by mr james arthur post-master at easton do by mr greenbury neale at frederick town do by messrs isaac and john mentz at richmond virginia by messrs pritchard and davidson at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [127, 1063], "b_span": [581, 1551], "matched_words": 891, "similarity": 0.9349422875131165, "seeds": 140, "id": "M00265", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "states february on request the vice president of the united states being excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the center of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-operated though in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it difficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquility of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a passive subject of public discussions deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dearest interests since a majority of their electors tho a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or forfeited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affection which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator present and to every citizen who has ever been a senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favor invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in perfect and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the arduous questions difficult conjunctures dangerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often and so deeply impressed all our minds and interwoven the strongest feelings of the heart i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my opinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found in that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and independence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of information eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immediate representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be supported by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the people at large and on no other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-23|1|3", "date": "1797-02-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797022301/0223.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "states february on request the vice president of the united states being excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imi tated the example of a character with which i had co-operated though in less conspicuous and im portant stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a num ber of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it dif ficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respect ful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a pas sive subject of public discussions deeply penetrated with gratitude to my coun trymen in general for their long continued kind ness to me and for that steady and affecting con fidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dear est interests since a majority of their electors tho a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and dif fidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief conso lation of my life is too precious and sacred a dep osit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or for feited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emoti ons of gratitude and affection which a long expe rience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every sena tor present and to every citizen who has ever been a senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favor invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation un der the constitution of the united states in perfect and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one and jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misun derstanding with any member of the senate in all the arduous questions difficult conjectures dan gerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often and so deeply impressed all our minds and interest ed the strongest feelings of the heart i have expe rienced a uniform powerful and respect from ev ery quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally di vided and my opinion has been demanded accord ing to the constitution i have constantly found in that majority of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and indepen dence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of informa tion eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any sen ator in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their next elections which there is no reason to dis trust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to de fend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as to the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment ir regularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immedia te representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly meas ured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be sup ported by the senate as well as by the house of re presentatives and the people at large and on other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [139, 1073], "b_span": [74, 993], "matched_words": 906, "similarity": 0.9778737182946573, "seeds": 178, "id": "M00266", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the center of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-operated though in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it difficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquility of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a passive subject of public discussions deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dearest interests since a majority of their electors tho a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or forfeited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affection which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator present and to every citizen who has ever been a senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favor invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in perfect and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the arduous questions difficult conjunctures dangerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often and so deeply impressed all our minds and interwoven the strongest feelings of the heart i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my opinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found in that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and independence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of information eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immediate representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be supported by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the people at large and on no other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail myself of your leave of absence for the remainder of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|1", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "excused from further attendance in senate during the session he addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-operated tho in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it difficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a passive subject of public discussion deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dearer interests since a majority of their electors though a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or disunited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affection which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator present and to every senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favorably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in peace and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the abstruse questions difficult conjunctures dangerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often so deeply impressed all our minds i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my opinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found in that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and independence of judgment which they afforded for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of information eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprize in the executive on one hand or the more immediate representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be supported by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the people at large and on no other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail myself of your leave of absence for the remainder of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1213, 1587], "b_span": [1178, 1556], "matched_words": 349, "similarity": 0.9281914893617021, "seeds": 53, "id": "M00267", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "one o'clock in the morning of jan the brig polly perez chesborough master bound into this port ran on a reef at the s w end of block-island the boat being pulled out filled and broke her fast at day-break they were discovered by the islanders who repaired to the beach but having no boat were under the necessity of remaining some time idle spectators of a looking scene expecting no relief from shore and believing to remain on board would be certain death as the vessel had filled and began to separate the captain determined to endeavor to swim to the beach distant but about ten rods he threw himself into the sea and was soon after followed by the mate and a mr john fullerton of kennebec who was a passenger the captain and mate reached the beach and were drawn on shore much bruised and to appearance lifeless but mr fullerton sunk and his body could not be found the humane inhabitants here the captain and mate in their arms to a neighboring house and by proper treatment restored them to life in the mean time others were busied in drawing a boat across the island which in getting off twice filled in the breakers but by a third exertion two noble-spirited men voiced along-shore when they found john gould of lyme a mariner frozen to death and dreadful to relate a few moments preceding a surge parking the quarter-deck a negro man fell into the opening as deep as his middle and a succeeding wave washed the space so far that they were unable to extricate him and he was left in that agonizing situation to perish the remainder of the crew three negroes were landed in safety soon after the vessel went rapidly to pieces the brig was owned by messrs elisha hinman and samuel hurlbut of this city and been with a cargo of salt to the southern and not meeting a market was returning home insurance was made by the owners to wilmington when it ceased owing to not having intelligence from the captain the loss therefore falls heavily upon two enterprising and useful citizens capt hinman insured in this city and the underwriters have very generously"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New 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fullerton of kennebec who was a passenger the captain and mate reached the shore and were drawn on shore much bruised and to appearance lifeless but mr fullerton sunk and his body could not be found the humane inhabitants bore the captain and mate in their arms to a neighboring house and by proper treatment restored them to life in the mean time others were busied in drawing a boat across the island which in getting off twice filled in the breakers but by a third exertion two noble spirited men rowed along side when they found john gould of lyme a mariner had frozen to death and dreadful to relate a few moments preceding a surge parting the quarter deck a negro man fell into the opening deep to his middle and the succeeding wave closed the space so far that they were unable to extricate him and he was left in that agonizing situation to perish the remainder of the crew three negroes were landed in safety soon after the vessel went wholly to pieces the brig was owned by messrs eliza hinman and samuel hurlburt of this city had been with a cargo of salt to the southward and not meeting a market was returning home insurance was made by the owners to wilmington when it ceased owing to not having intelligence from the capt the loss therefore falls heavy upon two enterprising and useful citizens capt hinman insured in this city and the underwriters have very generously"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3203, 3453], "b_span": [732, 981], "matched_words": 242, "similarity": 0.969939879759519, "seeds": 48, "id": "M00268", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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actions and it was therefore wished that the person appointed for this important purpose might repair as speedily as possible to paris it was decreed that the commission for foreign affairs should answer this letter and at the same time make known to mr noel that the persons nominated and authorized for this purpose were citizens lefevron pasquier and meyeur who are already at paris upon the above it is obvious to remark that whatever may be thought of the sentiments contained in the official correspondence between lord malmesbury and charles de la croix it is really the opinion of the directory that peace will probably ensue from the present"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-22|1|3", "date": "1797-03-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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actions and it was therefore wished that the person appointed for this important purpose might repair as speedily as possible to paris it was decreed that the commission for foreign affairs should answer the letter and at the same time make known to mr noel that the persons nominated and authorised for this purpose were citizens lestevenon patteer and meyear who are already at paris upon the above it is obvious to remark that whatever may be thought of the sentiments contained in the official correspondence between lord malmesbury and charles de la croix it is really the opinion of the directory that peace will probably ensue from the present"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [139, 1069], "b_span": [1345, 2298], "matched_words": 858, "similarity": 0.911311736590547, "seeds": 122, "id": "M00269", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the center of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-operated though in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it difficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquility of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a passive subject of public discussions deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dearest interests since a majority of their electors tho a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or forfeited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affection which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator present and to every citizen who has ever been a senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favor invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in perfect and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the arduous questions difficult conjunctures dangerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often and so deeply impressed all our minds and interwoven the strongest feelings of the heart i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my opinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found in that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and independence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of information eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immediate representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be supported by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the people at large and on no other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail myself of your leave of absence"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032501/0783.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most emi nent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had ex hibited any clear indications of ano ther in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberati on in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-ope rated though in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a le vel as to render it difficult to con jecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the gene ral deliberation and a passive subject of public discussion deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions eu trusted me the care of their dearer interests since a majority of their electors though a very small one have declared in my favour and since in a republican government the ma jority though ever so small must of ne cessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just res ponsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or disunited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affec tion which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator pre sent and to every senator of the uni ted states my thanks for the candor and favour invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in the government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in perfect uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the abstruse questions difficult conjectures dan gerous emergencies and animated de bates upon the great interest of our country which have to often so deep ly impressed all our minds and i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less im portance than difficulty have produ ced a difference of sentiment differ ences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and proba bly the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my o pinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found on that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been ob liged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberati on and independence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring wit ness of a succession of information elo quence patriotism and independence which as they would have done ho nor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no coun cil more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be ne cessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more repre hensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immediate re presentatives of the people on the o ther these considerations will all con spire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniform ly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be support ed by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the pe ople at large and on no other conditi ons ought any support at all to be ex pected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the vir tues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail myself of your leave of absence"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3579, 3676], "b_span": [1074, 1172], "matched_words": 92, "similarity": 0.9435897435897436, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00270", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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645], "matched_words": 287, "similarity": 0.8940809968847352, "seeds": 48, "id": "M00271", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "last arrival from paris we are given to understand that the future progress of the negotiation cannot be made so public as the previous steps have been it is said that lord malmesbury intimated to m de la croix that he had assurance of being authorized to propose specific terms of concession but that his britannic majesty did not think that the object of the negotiation was likely to be promoted by the habit of publishing the official communications on both sides thereby exciting the passions of the public on the topics in discussion before they were maturely weighed it was his desire therefore to suggest the prudence of abstaining from this practice so now in this diplomacy and to recommend that the specific terms of concession on both sides should be concealed until the propositions had undergone at least a fair and unbiassed discussion the answer of the directory to the foregoing suggestion is stated to have been to the following effect that they had chosen the concourse of public discussion that all the world might be made parties to the negotiation and judge between the two governments but it was the desire and taste of the english court to prefer a close deliberation they could have no objections it appears from the account by this channel that tranquility is at length restored to the countries that were some time since declared to be out of the king's peace the winter in the sister kingdom has set in with very unusual rigor the whig club in ireland after a mature inquiry into the state of the representation of the people in parliament have resolved that they are of opinion that for the purpose of giving to the people their due and constitutional share in the legislature a reform in parliament is indispensably necessary and that the emancipation of the roman catholicks should make a fundamental and essential part of the same and that they consider those measures as likely to establish public satisfaction and tranquility and promote an union in support of king and"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0799.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "last arrival from paris we are given to understand that the future progress of the negotiation cannot be made so public as the previous steps have been it is said that lord malmesbury intimated to m de la croix that he had assurance of being authorised to propose specific terms of concession but that his britannic majesty did not think that the object of the negotiation was likely to be promoted by the habit of publishing the official communication on both sides thereby exciting the passions of the public on the topics of discussion before they were maturely weighed it was his desire therefore to suggest the prudence of abstaining from this practice so new in diplomacy and to recommend the specific terms of concession on both sides should be concealed until the propositions had undergone at least a fair and uninfluenced discussion the answer of the directory to the foregoing suggestion is stated to have been to the following effect that they had chosen the course of public discussion that all the world might be made parties to the negotiation and judge between the two governments but if it was the desire and taste of the english court to prefer a close deliberation they could have no objections the whig club of ireland after a mature enquiry into the representation of the people in parliament have resolved that they are of opinion that for the purpose of giving the people their due and constitutional share in the legislature a reform in parliament is indispensably necessary and that the emancipation of the roman catholics should make a fundamental and essential part of the same and that they consider those measures as likely to establish public satisfaction and tranquility and promote an union in support of king and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1230, 1423], "b_span": [305, 501], "matched_words": 183, "similarity": 0.9408740359897172, "seeds": 32, "id": "M00272", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0219.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "catastrophe which has lately overwhelmed the family of mr brown the printer of the philadelphia gazette in this city attained its full height on saturday morning by the death of mr brown himself of an inflammation of the lungs occasioned by the large quantities of smoke and mephitic air which he had imbibed before he was extricated from the fire this knocking extinction of a whole family furnishes matter for serious reflection which the moralists may pursue for the benefit of his species and which the giddy and dissipated ought to improve to their reformation we trust it will also operate on all ranks of people as a cautionary lesson to be careful in respect to that resistless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred yesterday morning near those of his family in st paul's grave-yard his funeral was very numerously and respectfully attended dr magaw agreeable to the notice he gave on performing the funeral rites upon the first melancholy occasion yesterday afternoon in st paul's church preached a most affecting discourse to a very crowded audience in reference to this singularly distressing event from"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|3", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0243.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "catastrophe which has lately overwhelmed the family of mr brown the printer of the philadelphia gazette in this city attained its full height on saturday morning by the death of mr brown himself of an inflammation of the lungs occasioned by the large quantity of fumes and mephitic air which he had imbibed before he was extricated from the fire the shocking extinction of a whole family furnishes matter for serious reflection which the moralist may pursue for the benefit of his species and which the giddy and dissipated ought to improve to their reformation we trust it will also operate on all ranks of people as a cautionary lesson to be careful in respect to that restless element which has occasioned this direful calamity the remains of mr brown were interred yesterday morning near those of his family in st paul s grave yard his funeral was very numerously and respectfully attended dr magaw agreeably to the notice he gave on performing the funeral rites upon the first melancholy occasion yesterday afternoon in st paul s church preached a most affecting discourse to a very crowded audience in reference to this singularly distressing event from"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [180, 516], "b_span": [6, 337], "matched_words": 318, "similarity": 0.9535232383808095, "seeds": 49, "id": "M00273", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-02-16|1|3", "date": "1797-02-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-02-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797021601/0219.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of hanover to the diet of ratibon on the subject of the imperial recript of the th of oct the minister of hanover has declared to m de hugel the imperial commissioner that his imperial majesty has directly required his majesty the king of great britain and the elector of hanover to furnish new proof of his marked attention to the germanic constitution by giving a great example and acting efficaciously in concert with the diet of ratibon not only that he may be rated for a sufficient quantity of roman months but by paying all that remains due of his quota it was declared at the same time that it was necessary the number of roman months should exceed a hundred his britannic majesty has replied to his imperial majesty that he should not nor was he able to anticipate the resolutions of his co-ettates and that he was not at present in circumstances which permitted him to answer the demand which was made that since the periods when the last roman months were granted the system of the war had completely changed that different states holding of the empire had made a separate peace to avoid the total ruin with which their countries were threatened that others had embraced neutrality for the protection of their subjects and that the prosperity these states enjoyed proved that they had attained a salutary object that the affairs of the empire have assumed quite another aspect and that the relations of his britannic majesty in his quality of elector and prince of the empire were well known to be inconsistent with the imperial demands that he cannot of course consent to the granting of new roman months for the continuation of this unhappy war still far less can he contribute directly since the negotiations commenced at paris from which it is expected a happy issue for the tranquility of europe and which are known to his imperial majesty oblige his britannic majesty to avoid every proceeding that might"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0799.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of hanover to the diet of ratisbon on the subject of the imperial rescript of the th of october the minister of hanover has declared to m de hangel the imperial commissioner that his imperial majesty has directly required his majesty the king of great britain and elector of hanover to furnish a new proof of his marked attachment to the germanic constitution by giving a great example and acting efficaciously in concert with the diet of ratisbon not only that he may be rated for a sufficient quantity of roman months but by paying up all that remains due of his quota it was declared at the same time that it was necessary the number of roman months should exceed a hundred his britannic majesty has replied to his imperial majesty that he would not nor was he able to anticipate the resolutions of his co-estates and that he was not at present in circumstances which permitted him to answer the demand which was made that since the period when the last roman months were granted the system of the war had completely changed that different states holding of the empire had made a separate peace to avoid the total ruin with which their countries were threatened that others had embraced neutrality for the protection of their subjects and the prosperity these states enjoyed proved that they attained of a salutary object that the affairs of the empire have assumed quite another aspect and that the relations of his britannic majesty in his quality of elector and prince of the empire were well known to be inconsistent with the imperial demands that he cannot of course consent to the granting of new roman months for the continuation of this unhappy war still far less can he contribute directly since the negotiations commenced at paris from which is expected a happy issue for that tranquility of europe and which are known to his imperial majesty to avoid every proceeding that might"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3114, 3230], "b_span": [2206, 2321], "matched_words": 113, "similarity": 0.9783549783549783, "seeds": 22, "id": "M00274", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-17|1|3", "date": "1797-02-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797021701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the day time the girl having killed him with an axe went to the door and called on her mistress from a neighbouring house and said her master wanted to speak to her mrs g immediately repaired to the bed side of her husband and was about to uncover him when the girl struck her with the axe and killed her also the girl is now in lumberton jail and her trial was to come on the d inst it is supposed the girl's reason for committing this horrid deed was owing to her master having made a will some time ago in which he desired this girl to be free after the death of himself"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-29|1|2", "date": "1797-03-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032901/0791.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the day time the girl having killed him with an axe went to the door and called on her mistress from a neighboring house and said her master wanted to speak to her mrs g immediately repaired to the bed side of her husband and was about to uncover him when the girl struck her with the axe and killed her also the girl is in lumberton jail and her trial was to come on the d inst it is supposed the girl's reason for committing this horrid deed was owing to her master's having made a will some time ago in which he desired this girl to be free after the death of himself"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2980, 4157], "b_span": [52, 1229], "matched_words": 1157, "similarity": 0.9830076465590484, "seeds": 240, "id": "M00275", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|1", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore desists on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these cases from authentic documents case of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new-york with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clashing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress for bidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he lays in the most convincing manner that the vengeance a vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to communicate to the secretary of state and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of october d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of gen laveaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|1", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore defers on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these cases from authentic documents case of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at newyork with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las austrias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses is the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clashing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate council in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcileable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from newyork and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of newyork in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeur la vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnature and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to communicate to the secretary of state and to request him to order the attorney of newyork district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of oct d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of gen lavaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the u s in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprize they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [91, 1505], "b_span": [1027, 2436], "matched_words": 1379, "similarity": 0.9769748494509387, "seeds": 265, "id": "M00276", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|1", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "government gave a further proof of its candor and friendship by communicating to the french minister the treaty itself prior to its ratification in order to enable him to make such observations thereon as he might judge proper these observations you will see in mr adet's letter to the secretary of state of june th and the refutation of his objections in the secretary's answer dated the th of july following with these facts in view facts of which the chief are drawn from our treaties with france and from her own acts and laws what opinion is to be formed of mr adet's declaration that the executive directory regards the treaty of commerce concluded with great britain as a violation of the treaty made with france in and equivalent to a treaty of alliance with great britain i will now advert to the charge that far from offering the french the succours which friendship might have given without compromising it the american government in this respect violated the letter of treaties as far as i can discover the latter part of this charge is rested wholly on the th article of the commercial treaty which therefore it will be necessary to examine the stipulations are mutual but the examination will be simplified by considering their application to france alone the th article then declares st that the ships of war and privateers of france may freely carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies into the ports of the united states without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges d that such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the united states d that the officers of the united states shall not make any examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but th that they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions th that on the contrary no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the united states to such as shall have made prize of the subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stress of weather or the danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out and retire from thence as soon as possible it will also be convenient here to notice the stipulations contained in the d article these are st that foreign privateers not belonging to french subjects or citizens having commissions from any other prince or state in enmity with france shall not fit their ships in the ports of the united states d nor sell their prizes nor in any other manner exchange their ships merchandise or any other lading d nor purchase victuals except such as shall be necessary for their going to the nearest port of the prince or state from which they have commissions the cases that have occurred in the course of the present war in relation to our treaty with france particularly the th and d articles just mentioned have led to numerous discussions in which several points have been deliberately settled either by legislative or executive acts or by judicial decisions the first important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the president of the united states this was issued on the d of april at the next meeting of congress on the d of december the president laid this proclamation before both houses the senate in their address in answer to the president's speech thus expresses their opinion of the proclamation we deem it a measure well timed and wise manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation and calculation to promote it the address of the house of representatives was unanimously agreed to we read in it this paragraph the united states having taken no part in the war which had embraced in europe the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important duties of the magistrate charged with the faithful execution of the laws we accordingly witness with approbation and pleasure the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing by your proclamation admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties and promoting by a declaration of the existing legal state of things an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation yet this is the instrument thus approved by congress and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations which mr adet has ventured to call an insidious proclamation of neutrality the next executive act noticed by mr adet is the letter of the th of august written by the president's command by the secretary of the treasury to the collectors of the customs and accompanied by the rules which the president had adopted for preventing all armaments in favor of any of the belligerent powers these rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations the letter from the secretary of the treasury is explanatory of these rules and among other instructions particularly points the collectors to the th and d articles of our treaty with france left by inattention or misconception of them the might be injured and her enemies benefited the letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions with vigilance care activity and impartiality because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions and proportionally to commit the good faith and peace of the country how could such rules with such reasons to enforce them not escape censure they were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality and consequently were to prevent frenchmen continuing those aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality which had been commenced under mr genet's orders and which were calculated to involve us in a war with britain spain and holland for at that time there were all combined against france frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty except that they were not forbidden to sell their lawful prizes in our ports and our own citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of france as well as those of other powers the third offensive act was the president's submitting to congress these measures and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code giving competent jurisdiction to the courts and providing adequate penalties to prevent or punish violations of the laws of nations the next complaint respects the act of congress passed on the th of june for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states being those to which their attention had been called by the president's speech mr adet asks what was its result and gives himself the following answer in consequence of this law the greater part of the french privateers have been arrested as well as their prizes not upon formal depositions nor upon established testimony not upon a necessary body of proofs but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the french republic frequently upon that of sailors of the enemy-powers sometimes according to the orders of the governors but often upon the demand of the district attorneys who assert upon principles avowed by the government that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them without complaint or regular information to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above-mentioned and when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice of the government for the vexations experienced by the privateers in contempt of the th article of the treaty they have never been able to obtain satisfaction judging only by these declarations of mr adet a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts to harass and do injustice to frenchmen engaged in privateering but our own citizens place a different estimate on this impeachment of their president their senators and representatives in congress their judges and other public officers and an examination of the cases cited by mr adet to support his assertions will"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|1", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "government gave a further proof of its candor and friendship by communicating to the french minister the treaty itself prior to its ratification in order to enable him to make such observations thereon as he might judge proper these observations you will see in mr adet's letter to the secretary of state of june th and the refutation of his objections in the secretary's answer dated the th july following with these facts in view facts of which the chief are drawn from our treaties with france and from her own acts and laws what opinion is to be formed of mr adet's declaration that the executive directory regards the treaty of commerce concluded with great britain as a violation of the treaty made with france in and equivalent to a treaty of alliance with great britain i will now advert to the charges that far from offering to the french the succours which friendship might have given without compromising it the american government in this respect violated the letter of treaties as far as i can discover the latter part of this charge is rested wholly on the th article of the commercial treaty which therefore it will be necessary to examine the stipulations are mutual but the examination will be simplified by considering their application to france alone the th article then declares st that the ships of war and privateers of france may freely carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies into the ports of the united states without being obliged to pay any fees to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges that such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the united states that the officers of the united states shall not make an examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but that they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions that on the contrary no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the united states to such as shall be made prize of the subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stresses of weather or danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out and retire from them as soon as possible it will also be convenient here to notice the stipulations contained in the d article these are that foreign privateers not belonging to french subjects or citizens having commissions from any other prince or state in enmity with france shall not fit their ships in the ports of the united states nor sell their prizes nor in any other manner exchange their ships merchandizes or any other lading nor purchase victuals except such as shall be necessary for their going to the nearest port of the prince or state from which they have commissions the cases that have occurred in the course of the present war in relation to our treaty with france particularly the th and d article just mentioned have led to numerous discussions in which several of the points have been deliberately settled either by legislative or executive acts or by judicial decisions the first important executive act was the proclamation of neutrality by the president of the united states this was issued on the d of april at the next meeting of congress on the d of december the president laid this proclamation before both houses the senate in their address in answer to the president's speech thus express their opinion of the proclamation we deem it a measure well timed and wise manifesting a watchful solicitude for the welfare of the nation and calculated to promote it the address of the house of representatives was unanimously agreed to we read in it this paragraph the united states having taken no part in the war which had embraced in europe the powers with whom they have the most extensive relations the maintenance of peace was justly to be regarded as one of the most important objects of the magistrate chartered with the faithful execution of the laws we accordingly with approbation and pleasure the vigilance with which you have guarded against an interruption of that blessing by your proclamation admonishing our citizens of the consequences of illicit or hostile acts towards the belligerent parties and promoting by a ratification of the existing legal state of things an easier admission of our right to the immunities belonging to our situation yet this is the instrument thus approved by congress and whose only object was to caution our citizens to avoid certain acts which would violate the laws of nations which mr adet has ventured to call an insidious proclamation of neutrality the next executive act notified by mr adet is the letter of the th of august written by the president's command by the secretary of the treasury to the collectors of the customs and accompanied by the rules which the president had adopted for preventing all armaments in favour of any of the belligerent powers these rules were considered as just and necessary deductions from the laws of neutrality established and received among nations the letter from the secretary of the treasury is explanatory of these rules and among other instructions particularly points the collectors to the th and d articles of our treaty with france left by inattention or misconception of them the might be injured and her enemies benefited the letter concludes with enjoining the collectors to execute those instructions with vigilance care activity and impartiality because omissions would tend to expose the government to injurious imputations and suspicions and proportionally to commit the good faith and peace of the country how could such rules with such reasons to enforce them not escape censure they were framed and required to be executed with strict impartiality and consequently were to prevent frenchmen from continuing those aggressions on our sovereignty and neutrality which had been commenced under mr genet's orders and which were calculated to involve us in a war with britain spain and holland for at this time there were all combined against france frenchmen were to have no other preferences than those secured to them by treaty except that they were not forbidden to tell their lawful prizes in our ports and our citizens were to be restrained from committing hostilities under the banners of france as well as those of other powers the third offensive act was the president's submitting to congress these measures and suggesting the expediency of extending our legal code giving competent jurisdiction to the courts and providing adequate penalties to prevent and punish violations of the laws of nations the next complaint respects the act of congress passed on the th of june for the punishment of certain crimes against the united states being those to which their attention had been called by the president's speech mr adet asks what was its result and gives himself the following answer in consequence of this law the greater part of the french privateers have been arrested as well as their prizes not upon formal depositions not upon established testimony not upon a necessary body of proofs but upon the simple information of the consul of one of the powers at war with the french republic frequently upon that of sailor's of the enemy powers sometimes according to the orders of the governors but often upon the demand of the district attorneys who assert upon principles avowed by the government that their conviction was sufficient to authorize them without complaint or regular information to cause the privateers to be prosecuted in virtue of the law above mentioned and when the ministers of the republic have asked for justice to the government for the vexations experienced by the privateers in contempt of the th article of the treaty they have never been able to obtain satisfaction judging only of these declarations of mr adet a stranger would imagine there had been a combination of the general and state governments and of our courts to harass and do injustice to frenchmen engaged in privateering but our own citizens place a different estimate on this imputation of their president their senators and representatives in congress their judges and other public officers and an examination of the cases cited by mr adet to support his assertions will"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1515, 3060], "b_span": [700, 2234], "matched_words": 1500, "similarity": 0.974342318934719, "seeds": 290, "id": "M00277", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|1", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and her prize the perseverance on the th august mr fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the sans pareil had been illegally armed in the united states the answer of september d from the secretary of state which mr adet censures as indicative of delay assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of rhode-island where the prize was carried to report the circumstances of the case without delay on the th of september the secretary informed mr fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored on the th of october mr fauchet renewed his complaint for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court the secretary of state answered on the d with information that ought to have satisfied mr fauchet for admitting that agreeably to the law of the th of june the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the united states or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports the right of doing which mr fauchet did not contest they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the sans pareil the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed the circular letter written on this occasion to the governor of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits d case glat and gibbs by the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the united states in this case you will see that the court did not as stated by mr adet determine that the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or to neutrals the question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo the former the property of a swede and the latter belonging partly to some swedes and partly to a citizen of the united states the opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the united states and after solemn argument the court decided that the district court of maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeable to law and right i will add only one more remark that the th article the letter of which we are charged with violating in suffering our courts to take cognizance of french prizes expressly refers to the ships and goods taken from their enemies and it is the examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes which the article forbids but no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals unless on clear evidence or reasonable presumption that the captures were made in circumstances which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty and territorial rights d case the french privateer l'ami de la pointe a petre captain william talbot and her dutch prize the vrouw christian magdalena to the information contained in the papers collected in this case i have to add that this cause was finally decided in the supreme court in august term the court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of talbot's case notwithstanding his french commission and his taking an oath of allegiance to the french republic he continued to be a citizen of the united states but the cause as i am informed did not appear to have turned on this point talbot had associated with one ballard commanding an armed vessel called the ami de la liberte which had been fitted out in the united states and had no commission talbot and ballard cruised together as consorts and in fact it was ballard's vessel that took the prize talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture ballard was afterwards tried before circuit court for piracy the court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence that talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the united states to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors ballard and talbot were both citizens of virginia the attempt of the latter to become a french citizen was considered to be fraudulent being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission under color of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the united states were at peace an observation ought not to be omitted here that although the captors talbot and others had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort a right which alike exercised by the subjects of powers who were enemies to france has formed a principal subject of mr fauchet's and mr adet's continued complaints th under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions mr adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the french captors viz one of la nuestra senora del carmen at rhode-island and the other of la princesse des austrias at new-york yet says he the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured when they have declared the prizes illegal how far the facts will warrant this last assertion i am not possessed of documents to determine i presume it is to be understood in a general sense only and to admit of exceptions and in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it the captures here referred to were made either within our jurisdictional line or by illegal privateers being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the united states of these material facts the captors could not be ignorant consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts and of course were justly condemned in costs and damages in the case of the prizes of the privateer the citizen of marseilles damages were claimed by the captors but denied for those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal and although the sentence of that court was reversed in the circuit court yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony on the part of the captors this last decision was affirmed in the supreme court yet without damages inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal the same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer gen laveaux with this addition that one of the judges dissented from the opinion of the court being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered american property the privateer la parisienne had been re-gistered as an american coasting vessel under the name of the hawk during the embargo in the spring of she slipped out of charleston and went to port de paix where she was sold to one blochos a frenchman who armed her and provided her with a commission having afterwards arrived at charleston she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal predicament of a coaster the district court condemned her but on the application of blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value the judge permitted him to take her in a state of warlike equipment shortly afterwards she put to sea and captured two valuable british prizes the brigantines c sar and favorite on their arrival the one at charleston the other at savannah suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer the decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors but without damages the supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages all the other cases of captures by french privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last august term in some of them the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages in others the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them when demanded you know it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case hence when a party is drawn before a court without good cause and vexatiously damages are always given but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy th mr adet having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore desists on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-06|1|1", "date": "1797-04-06", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797040601/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and her prize the perseverance on the th august mr fauchet complained that the prize had been seized on the pretext that the sans pareil had been illegally armed in the united states the answer of september d from the secretary of state which mr adet censures as indicative of delay assured him that the secretary had urged the governor of rhode island where the prize was carried to report the circumstances of the case without delay on the th of september the secretary informed mr fauchet that the governor had decided that the prize should be restored on the th of october mr fauchet renewed his complaint for on the suit of the claimant the prize had again been arrested by process from the district court the secretary of state answered on the d with information that ought to have satisfied mr fauchet for admitting that agreeably to the law of the th june the courts had authority and were bound in duty to take cognizance of captures made within the jurisdiction of the united states or by privateers illegally fitted in their ports the right of doing which mr fauchet did not contest they could not refuse it in the case of the prize of the sans pareil the guard against vexatious prosecutions being the judgment for costs and damages to which an unjust prosecutor is exposed the circular letter written on this occasion to the governors of the states manifests the solicitude of our government to prevent vexatious suits d case glas and gibbs by the copy of the proceedings in the supreme court of the united states in this case you will see that the court did not as stated by mr adet determine that the tribunals could decide whether a prize belonged to enemies or neutrals the question before the court was of the cognizance of a captured vessel and cargo the former the property of a swede and the latter belonging partly to some swedes and partly to a citizen of the united states the opinion therefore pronounced by the supreme court applied to the case in which one of the claimants was a citizen of the united states and after solemn arguments the court decided that the district court of maryland had jurisdiction and should accordingly proceed to determine upon this case agreeable to law and right i will add only one more remark that the th article the letter of which we are charged with violating in suffering our courts to take cognizance of french prizes expressly refers to the ships and goods taken from their enemies and it is the examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes which the article forbids but no examination of such prizes has been attempted by our government or tribunals unless on clear evidence or reasonable presumption that the captures were made in circumstances which amounted to a violation of our sovereignty and territorial rights d case the french privateer l'ami de la pointe capt william talbot and her dutch prize vrouw christiana magdalena to the information contained in the papers collected in this case i have to add that this cause was finally decided in the supreme court in august term the court were unanimously of opinion that in the particular circumstances of talbot's case notwithstanding his french commission and his taking an oath of allegiance to the french republic he continued to be a citizen of the united states but the cause as i am informed did not appear to have turned on this point talbot had associated with one ballard commanding an armed vessel called ami de la liberte which had been fitted out in the united states and had no commission talbot and ballard cruised together as corsairs and in fact it was ballard's vessel that took the prize talbot not coming up till an hour after the capture ballard was afterwards tried before the circuit court for piracy the court were of opinion from the tenor of the evidence that talbot's vessel was owned by citizens of the united states to whom the prize money would eventually find its way in case of restitution to the captors ballard and talbot were both citizens of virginia the attempt of the latter to become a french citizen was considered to be fraudulent being made for the sole purpose of obtaining a commission under colour of which he might plunder the subjects of nations with whom the united states were at peace an observation ought not to be omitted here that although the captors talbot and others had been defeated both in the district and circuit courts yet they carried the cause up to the supreme court thus using the legal right of appealing to the court in the last resort and not like the enemies of france has formed a principal subject of mr fauchet's and mr adet's continued complaints th under the head of complaints for vexatious prosecutions mr adet mentions only two cases in which damages and interest were allowed to the french captors viz one of le neuftra senora del carmen at rhode island and the other of la principessa des asturias at new-york yes says he the tribunals have always allowed damages to the captured when they had declared the prizes illegal how far the facts will warrant this last assertion i am not possessed of documents to determine i presume it is to be understood in a general sense only and to admit of exceptions and in this sense there will be no difficulty in admitting the truth of the assertion and accounting for it the captures here referred to were made either without our jurisdictional line or by illegal privateers being such as were equipped in whole or in part in the ports of the united states of these material facts the captors could not be ignorant consequently they could have no apology for defending their unjust claims in our courts and of course were justly condemned in costs and damages in the case of the prizes of the privateer the citizen of meefilles damages were claimed by the captors but denied for those prizes had been considered in the district court to be illegal and although the sentence of that court was reversed in the circuit court yet it was upon the introduction of new testimony on the part of the captors this last decision was affirmed in the supreme court yet without damages inasmuch as the testimony was considered to be so ambiguous as to justify the appeal the same remarks apply to the prizes of the privateer general louvaux with this addition that one of the judges dissented from the opinion of the court being firmly of opinion that this privateer was covered american property the privateer la parisienne had been registered as an american coasting vessel under the name of the hawk during the embargo in the spring of she slipped out of charleston and went to port de paix where she was sold to one blochos a frenchman who armed her and provided her with a commission having afterwards arrived at charleston she was recognized and prosecuted for a breach of the revenue laws in having gone to a foreign port whilst she was in the legal predicament of a coasting vessel the district court condemned her but on the application of blochos to have her restored on paying the appraised value the judge permitted him to take her in a state of warlike equipment shortly afterwards she put to sea and captured two valuable british prizes the brigantines cesar and favorite on their arrival the one at charleston the other at savannah suits were commenced to obtain their restitution as having been captured by an illegal privateer the decrees of the courts were in favor of the captors but without damages the supreme court disapproved of the restitution of the privateer without dismantling her and considered the mistake committed in this respect a sufficient reason to cover the party prosecuting from the payment of damages all the other cases of capture by french privateers which have been brought up to the supreme court were decided at last august term in some of them the circumstances would not have warranted an award of damages in others the counsel for the captors omitted to ask for them when demanded you know it is in the discretion of the court to grant or refuse them this discretion being regulated by all the circumstances of each case hence when a party is drawn before a court without good cause and vexatiously damages are always given but are denied when there appears a reasonable cause of controversy th mr adet having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassus for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore discants on them at some length but with so many abberations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3065, 3819], "b_span": [1495, 2248], "matched_words": 737, "similarity": 0.9781021897810219, "seeds": 146, "id": "M00278", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|1", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new-york with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clashing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress for bidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate counsel in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcilable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he lays in the most convincing manner that the vengeance a vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|1", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0245.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new york with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clothing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon enquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with this official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate council in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there were causes in which more contradiction and irreconcileable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other cases gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance sailed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informant was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed noble the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeance la vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3825, 4157], "b_span": [0, 331], "matched_words": 324, "similarity": 0.9773755656108597, "seeds": 65, "id": "M00279", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|1", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of october d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of gen laveaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|2", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of oct st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of oct d that he received them that the bill of tale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of general livaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses h case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guener by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [352, 493], "b_span": [3446, 3597], 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subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stress of weather or the danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out and retire from thence as soon as"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-30|1|2", "date": "1797-05-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797053001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the officers of the admiralty or any other judges nor shall prizes be arrested or seized when they come and enter the port of each party nor shall the searchers or o ther officers of those places search the same or make examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their com missions which the commanders of such ships shall be obliged to shew on the con trary no shelter or refuge shall be given in their ports to such as shall have made prizes of the subjects people or property of ei ther of the parties but if such shall come in being forced by stress of weather or the dangers of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out and return from thence as soon as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3, 658], "b_span": [1234, 1887], "matched_words": 639, "similarity": 0.9770642201834863, "seeds": 123, "id": "M00281", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her sailing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the capt to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session capt davis counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belonging exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties and for the damages le cassius has sustained here the affair rests in his letter of the d of june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|1", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william linnsey belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her failing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session capt davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceedings within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this cause and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the u s had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in oct term the cause was bro't to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the of oct last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th nov intimating that the united states were answerable in this case for a violation of treaties and for the damages the cassius has sustained here the affair rests in his letter of the d june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [666, 1076], "b_span": [3, 459], "matched_words": 400, "similarity": 0.9237875288683602, "seeds": 72, "id": "M00282", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against le cassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate controul and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case of which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of november acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of sept a very formidable complaint in the affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of new-york of the d nov you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite she having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been bro't under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|2", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against lecassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate control and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of nov acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of sept a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of newyork of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite she having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been bro't under the cognizance of the courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentations of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdiction line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1077, 1865], "b_span": [413, 1202], "matched_words": 773, "similarity": 0.9803424223208624, "seeds": 150, "id": "M00283", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be bro't under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will shew this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for altho the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quitting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated august th from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and bro't in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the mode of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in thro stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to an asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|2", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdiction line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbut of which i have already given some details which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quitting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated aug from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all letter june state papers p their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in through stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in aug was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to any asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic 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yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then altho the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to erect a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in jan louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may st the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgment finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace it is the part of wisdom to reject all deliberations even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequences of hasty decisions d it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instruction to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candour and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their character needs no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equality impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondences with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will show how lovely they can complain of the proceedings in our courts and at the same time how little justice th it eluded the amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when colonel humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorised to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculais at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculais in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were it the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|1", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience and d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the st part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence that goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may st the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgement finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than to risk the consequences of hasty decisions it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this approbation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whosoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candor and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe that they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondencies with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will show how loudly they can complain of the proceedings in our courts and at the same time with how little justice th it eluded the amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is truly in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when col humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to offer a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dy but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculeis at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister of foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculeis in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were then armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude it from the right of redressing the wrong were it the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3, 613], "b_span": [336, 946], "matched_words": 601, "similarity": 0.9852459016393442, "seeds": 123, "id": "M00285", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her sailing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the capt to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session capt davis counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belonging exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|2", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her when failing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session captain davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with an intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that his opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider on it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [638, 3140], "b_span": [64, 2562], "matched_words": 2435, "similarity": 0.974, "seeds": 457, "id": "M00286", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite of new-york and intimated an idea that the executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against le cassius to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate controul and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case of which mr adet contrary to his assertion in his note of november acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of sept a very formidable complaint in the affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of new-york of the d nov you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite she having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been bro't under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be bro't under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will shew this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for altho the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quitting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated august th from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and bro't in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the mode of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in thro stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to an asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their prizes on the th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience and d in the time they choose to continue and tho the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the effect of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then altho the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to erect a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in jan louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may st the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgment finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace it is the part of wisdom to reject all deliberations even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequences of hasty decisions d it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instruction to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candour and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their character needs no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equality impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondences with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|1", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042001/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of june which you will find among the papers respecting the cassius mr adet mentioned the affair of the favorite at new-york and intimated an idea that the executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against the le cassus to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate control and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertions in his note of november th acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the of september a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was issued for visitting and pillaging her that the was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of new-york of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the supposed articles on board the favorite the having been totally dashed her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of putting down the national flag and hoisting another in place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been brought under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or of augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your court or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favour of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quiting the contradictory declaration of the french minister and referring you to the letter dated august from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here st the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence to one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize of french men have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in by stresses of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stresses of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to any asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their prizes on the th of september the secretary of state thus expressed to the british minister the determination of the executive the public ships of war of both nations french and english enjoy a perfect equality in our ports st in cases of urgent necessity d in cases of comfort and convenience and d in the time they choose to continue and though the admission of prizes and privateers of france is exclusive yet it is the act of treaty c in support of our construction of the treaty it has been observed that the first part of the th article relates to french ships of war and privateers entering our ports with their prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french minister were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some other of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states d it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such adequate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may th the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgement made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequence of hasty decisions d it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candour and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned the french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to the courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondencies with the french ministers formerly published jointly to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3164, 3901], "b_span": [725, 1442], "matched_words": 703, "similarity": 0.9669876203576341, "seeds": 136, "id": "M00287", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|2", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0238.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a little time from europe probably never arrived at least it was never communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when colonel humphreys went from hence in clothed with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorised to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculais at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculais in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were it the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|1", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a letter from europe probably never arrived at least it never was communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when col humphreys went from hence in charged with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a peace with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favourable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the bey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavouring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculeis at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated the th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculeis in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that the french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our vessels in our rivers and harbours and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": 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mr frothingham and myself were kept on board the privateer until the morning meanwhile they plundered us of beef pork bread potatoes spare rigging canvass blocks c she mounted fies we found two six pound shot on deck and took musket balls out of the mizen mast several holes through the mizen and one through the crossjack yard taffrail rail shot away it is impossible to tell the whole damage until the ship is discharged they took your son mr watson jacobs hendrick and lewy on board the privateer and sent on board a prize master and sailors to take the ship into cape francois on the th we had the good fortune to see admiral duckworth's squadron which frighted them so they took my yawl and left the ship and told me to keep close to the wind expecting the ships would not fetch the cape which they did not but as soon as the boat left me i up helm set the light sails although almost under the guns of the fort i bore down to the fleet who brought me in here i have noted a protest but shall not have it extended until we arrive at jamaica where i expect to go with the first convoy i don't think they can recover salvage for bringing me in as the ship was not in the hands of the french although every one tells me they can but i shall get advice from your correspondent at jamaica before i pay it yours c tobias ham n b they threatened to stab the mate who tried to stop them from robbing the vessel and told the sailors that they would kill me if i told the commandant about their firing upon the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-20|1|3", "date": "1797-02-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the ship commerce of this town to his owners dated cape-nichola-mole jan sir i am very sorry to inform you of our sad misfortune on the th of last month in lat n long w we were captured by a french privateer name unknown at seven in the evening after hailing fired two broadsides and forty muskets which wounded your son mr watson backless and joseph but no ways dangerous mr frothingham and myself were kept on board the privateer until the morning mean while they plundered us of beef pork bread potatoes spare riggings canvas blocks c she mounted guns we found two six pound shot on deck and took musket balls out of the mizen mast several holes through the mizen and one through the cross jack yard taffrail rail shot away it is impossible to tell the whole damage until the ship is discharged they took your son mr watson jacobs henry and lewy on board the privateer and sent on board a prize master and sailors to take the ship into cape-francois on the th we had the good fortune to see admiral duckworth's squadron which frighted them so they took my yawl and left the ship and told me to keep close to the wind expecting the ships would not fetch the cape which they did not but as soon as the boat left me i up helm set the light sails although almost under the guns of the fort i bore down to the fleet who brought me in here i have noted a proffess but shall not have it extended until we arrive at jamaica where i expect to go with the first convoy i don't think they can recover salvage for bringing me in as the ship was not in the hands of the french although every one tells me they can but i shall get advice from your correspondent at jamaica before i pay it yours c tobias ham n b they threatened to stab the mate who tried to stop them from robbing the vessel and told the sailors that they would kill me if i told the commandant about their firing upon the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1257, 1478], 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moment of contrition that his proceedings were improper and that a day of retribution he expected would come he remarked that american vessels with certificates from the french consuls should be respected but what was to be certified was not mentioned capt williams an american was master of a privateer out of guadalupe on receiving his commission he declared he would exert himself to the utmost against the open enemies of france but that it never should be said of him that he troubled the vessels of neutrals and above all of his own country on his cruise instances occurred of his meeting with american vessels bound to british ports whom he treated well and furnished with many necessaries they were in need of at length he captured a british ship with a cargo valued at which he got safely"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-22|1|3", "date": "1797-02-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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american was master of a privateer out of guadaloupe on receiving his commission he declared he would exert himself to the utmost against the open enemies of france but that it never should be said of him that he troubled the vessels of neutrals and above all of his own country on his cruise instances occurred of his meeting with american vessels bound to british ports whom he treated well and furnished with many necessaries they were in need of at length he captured a british ship with a cargo valued at which he got safely"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1596, 1716], "b_span": [1996, 2117], "matched_words": 114, "similarity": 0.946058091286307, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00290", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|3", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022201/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "alden days from liverpool about or days since fell in with capt cutter in a sch'r from st thomas's for portland had lost both her masts c c captain alden supplied him with spars for masts and with provisions dec long lat spoke captain zach swaine from new-york for greenock and took from on board her the captain spencer and supercargo of schooner polly of baltimore who after being out days from demerara for baltimore experienced a very severe gale which carried away her masts c c when left she had five feet water in hold capt spencer had been two days on the wreck before capt swaine fell in with him the crew of the polly proceeded on to greenock"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], 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had one of the english ministry in regard"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-22|1|3", "date": "1797-02-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022201/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "days later than received by capt choate they do not contradict any part of the preceding but the complexion of the london prints have more the cast of continued hostilities than an expectation of approaching peace the immediate filling up of a voluntary loan of eighteen millions sterling in a few hours may give the appearance we suggest and may possibly alter the disposition if it had one of the english ministry in regard"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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with the dreary despotism of former times they never will resign the rights which they have gained"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-01|1|3", "date": "1797-03-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797030101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "italian republic of modena bologna ferrara c has already adopted the french calendar and several other forms of that country italy so long subject to the yoke of civil and ecclesiastical tyranny will ere long be emancipated from the condition of debasement and servitude the tree of liberty it seems has been planted at modena under whose shade a regenerated people will rejoice in their deliverance contrasting their present situation with the dreary despotism of former times they will never resign the rights which they have gained"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [88, 254], "b_span": [2373, 2540], "matched_words": 160, "similarity": 0.960960960960961, "seeds": 29, "id": "M00293", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-18|1|3", "date": "1797-02-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797021801/0239.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "federal gazette were yesterday favored with a number of hamburg papers to the th november brought by the anthony mangan the following from an early perusal appear to be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and of the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strasbourg as that place would be demolished that the head quarters of the archduke charles were at offenburg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-15|1|2", "date": "1797-03-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797031501/0759.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "federal gazette were yesterday favored with a number of hamburg papers to the th november brought by the anthony mangin the following from a hasty perusal appear to be the most prominent articles that the imperialists were making the most vigorous preparations to bombard huningen and to demolish all the fortifications at that place that the austrians had approached so near to kehl with their batteries as not only to fire into the town but also into the fortifications of the bridge and on the bridge itself and that the inhabitants of kehl had received orders to remove with their effects to strafsburgh as that place would be demolished that the head quarters of the arch duke charles were at offenburg that it was reported a cessation of arms was about to take place between the imperialists and french on the rhine that during the armistice a treaty of peace would be set on foot and that a number of couriers were going backwards and forwards between"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2268, 3503], "b_span": [65, 1301], "matched_words": 1226, "similarity": 0.9923108053419668, "seeds": 263, "id": "M00294", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-21|1|2", "date": "1797-02-21", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "paris accounts inform us that france has lately exercised towards genoa an act of atrocious oppression which is an additional and a striking indication of the domineering and predatory spirit by which she is governed this little republic whose territory scarcely extends beyond the walls of her metropolis has been compelled it seems to ransom herself from the talons of france by a contribution of nearly a million of dollars a large sum for her contracted resources for this boon the french government engages on its part to renounce all claims upon genoa to forget what has passed during the present war and to forbear any future demands it would appear from this that france to colour the odious exaction besides the pretence of misconduct towards her in the present war has not disdained to resort to the stale and pitiful device of reviving some antiquated claim upon the country itself in vain did the signal hazards encountered by genoa to preserve her neutrality in defiance of the host of enemies originally leagued against france in vain did the character and title of republican plead for a more generous treatment the attractions of plunder predominated the spirit of rapine callous to the touch of justice blind to the evidence of truth deaf to the voice of entreaty had marked out and devoted the victim there was no alternative but to compound or perish if it be even supposed though this has never appeared that at some period of the war genoa may be chargeable with acts of questionable propriety in relation to france it is manifest that it ought to be attributed to the necessity of a situation which must have obliged her to temporize a very small and feeble state in the midst of so many great conflicting powers parts of her territories occupied by armies which she was unable to oppose it were a miracle indeed if her conduct in every particular will bear the test of rigorous scrutiny but if at any time the pressure of circumstances may have occasioned some slight deviation there is nevertheless full evidence of a constant solicitude on the part of genoa to maintain to the utmost of her ability a sincere neutrality it is impossible to forget the glorious stand which she at one time made against the imperious efforts of great-britain to force her from her neutral position the magnanimous and exemplary fortitude which she displayed on that occasion excited in this country universal admiration and must have made a deep impression tis only to recollect that instance to be satisfied that the treatment which she has just experienced from france merits the indignant execration of mankind unfortunate genoa how little didst thou imagine that thou wert destined so soon to be compelled to purchase thy safety from the crushing weight of that hand which ought to have been the first to rise in thy defence how fruitful at the same time of instruction to us is this painful example the most infatuated partisans of france cannot but see in an unequivocal proof of the rapacious and vindictive policy which dictates her measures all men must see in it that the flagrant injuries which we are now suffering from her proceed from a general plan of domination and plunder from a disposition to prostrate nations at her feet to trample upon their necks to ravish from them whatever her avidity or convenience may think fit to dedicate to her own use the last intelligence from france seems to dispel the doubt whether the depredations in the west-indies may not have resulted from misapprehension or abuse of the orders of the french government it is now understood to be a fact that the cruisers of france every where are authorised to capture and bring in all vessels bound to the ports of her enemies this plan is pregnant with the worst evils which are to be dreaded from the declared and unqualified hostility of any foreign power if france after being properly called upon to renounce it shall persevere in the measure there cannot be a question but that open war will be preferable to such a state by whatever name treachery or pusillanimity may attempt to disguise it tis in fact war war of the worst kind war on one side if we can be induced to submit to it longer than is necessary to ascertain that it cannot be averted by negotiation we are undone as a people whether our determination shall be to lock up our trade by embargoes or to permit our commerce to continue to float an unprotected prey to french cruisers our degradation and ruin will be equally complete the destruction of our navigation and commerce the annihilation of our mercantile capital the dispersion and loss of our seamen obliged to emigrate for subsistence the extinction of our revenue the fall of public credit the stagnation of every species of industry the general impoverishment of our citizens these will be minor evils in the dreadful catalogue some years of security and exertion might repair them but the humiliation of the american mind would be a lasting and a mortal disease in our social habit mental debasement is the greatest misfortune that can befall a people the most pernicious of conquests which a state can experience is a conquest over that just and elevated sense of its own rights which inspires a due sensibility to insult and injury over that virtuous and generous pride of character which prefers any peril or sacrifice to a final submission to oppression and which regards national ignominy as the greatest of national calamities the records of history contain numerous proofs of this truth but an appeal to them is unnecessary holland and italy present to our immediate observation examples as decisive as they are deplorable the former within the last ten years has undergone two revolutions by the intervention of foreign powers without even a serious struggle mutilated of precious portions of its territory at home by pretended benefactors but real disposers its dominions abroad slide into the possession of its enemies rather as derelicts than as the acquisitions of victory its fleets surrender without a blow important only by the spoils which it offers no less to its friends than to its enemies every symptom in its affairs is portentous of national annihilation with regard to italy tis sufficient to say that she is debased enough not even to dare to take part in a contest on which at this moment her destiny is suspended moderation in every nation is a virtue in weak or young nations it is often wise to take every chance by patience and address to divert hostility and in this view to hold parley with insult and injury but to capitulate with oppression or rather to surrender to it at discretion is in any nation that has any power of resistance at all times as foolish as it is contemptible the honor of a nation is its life deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide there is treason in the sentiment avowed in the language of some and betrayed by the conduct of others that we ought to bear any thing from france rather than go to war with her the nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-15|1|1", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797041501/0269.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "paris accounts inform us that france has lately exercised towards genoa an act of atrocious oppression which is an additional and a striking indication of the domineering and predatory spirit by which she is governed this little republic whose territory scarcely extends beyond the walls of her metropolis has been compelled it seems to ransom herself from the talons of france by a contribution of nearly a million of dols a large sum for her contracted resources for this boon the french government engages on its part to renounce all claims upon genoa to forget what has passed during the present war and to forbear any future demands it would appear from this that france to colour the odious exaction besides the pretence of misconduct towards her in the present war has not disdained to resort to the stale and pitiful device of reviving some antiquated claim upon the country itself in vain did the signal hazards encountered by genoa to preserve her neutrality in defiance of the host of enemies originally leagued against france in vain did the character and title of republic plead for a more generous treatment the attractions of plunder predominated the spirit of rapine callous to the touch of justice blind to the evidence of truth deaf to the voice of entreaty had marked out and devoted the victim there was no alternative but to compound or perish if it be even supposed though this has never appeared that at some period of the war genoa may be chargeable with acts of questionable propriety in relation to france it is manifest that it ought to be attributed to the necessity of a situation which must have obliged her to temporize a very small and feeble state in the midst of so many great conflicting powers parts of her territories occupied by armies which she was unable to oppose it were a miracle indeed if her conduct in every particular will bear the test of rigorous scrutiny but if at any time the pressure of circumstances may have occasioned some slight deviation there is nevertheless full evidence of a constant solicitude on the part of genoa to maintain to the utmost of her ability a sincere neutrality it is impossible to forget the glorious stand which she at one time made against the imperious efforts of great britain to force her from her neutral position the magnanimous and exemplary fortitude which she displayed on that occasion excited in this country universal admiration and must have made a deep impression tis only to recollect that instance to be satisfied that the treatment which she has just experienced from france merits the indignant execration of mankind unfortunate genoa how little didst thou imagine that thou wert destined so soon to be compelled to purchase thy safety from the crushing weight of that hand which ought to have been the first to rise in thy defence how fruitful at the same time of instruction to us is this painful example the most infatuated partisans of france cannot but see in it an unequivocal proof of the rapacious and vindictive policy which dictates her measures all men must see in it that the flagrant injuries which we are now suffering from her proceed from a general plan of domination and plunder from a disposition to prostrate nations at her feet to trample upon their necks to ravish from them whatever her cupidity or convenience may think fit to dedicate to her own use the last intelligence from france seems to dispel the doubt whether the depredations in the west-indies may not have resulted from misapprehension or abuse of the orders of the french government it is now understood to be a fact that the cruisers of france every where are authorised to capture and bring in all vessels bound to the ports of her enemies this plan is pregnant with the worst evils which are to be dreaded from the declared and unqualified hostility of any foreign power if france after being properly called upon to renounce it shall persevere in the measure there cannot be a question but that open war will be preferable to such a state by whatever name treachery or pusillanimity may attempt to disguise it tis in fact war war of the worst kind war on one side if we can be induced to submit to it longer than is necessary to ascertain that it cannot be averted by negotiation we are undone as a people whether our determination shall be to lock up our trade by embargoes or to permit our commerce to continue to float as unprotected prey to french cruisers our degradation and ruin will be equally complete the destruction of our navigation and commerce the annihilation of our mercantile capital the dispersion and loss of our seamen obliged to emigrate for subsistence the extinction of our revenue the fall of public credit the stagnation of every species of industry the general impoverishment of our citizens these will be minor evils in the dreadful catalogue some years of security and exertion might repair them but the humiliation of the american mind would be a lasting and a mortal disease in our social habit mental debasement is the greatest misfortune that can befall a people the most pernicious of conquests which a state can experience is a conquest over that just and elevated sense of its own rights which inspires a due sensibility to insult and injury over that virtuous and generous pride of character which prefers any peril or sacrifice to a final submission to oppression and which regards national ignominy as the greatest of national calamities the records of history contain numerous proofs of this truth but an appeal to them is unnecessary holland and italy present to our immediate observation examples as decisive as they are deplorable the former within the last ten years has undergone two revolutions by the intervention of foreign powers without even a serious struggle mutilated of precious portions of its territory at home by pretended benefactors but real despoilers its dominions abroad slide into the possession of its enemies rather as derelicts than as the acquisitions of victory its fleets surrender without a blow important only by the spoils which it offers no less to its friends than to its enemies every symptom in its affairs is portentous of national annihilation with regard to italy tis sufficient to say that she is debased enough not even to dare to take part in a contest on which at this moment her destiny is suspended moderation in every nation is a virtue in weak or young nations it is often wise to take every chance by patience and address to divert hostility and in this view to hold parley with insult and injury but to capitulate with opposition or rather to surrender 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constitution when many petitions were presented of which were from amsterdam requesting that in the formation of the seven provinces into a republic there might be unity and indivisibility to support which principles they would expend their lives and fortunes the reported plan did not express the principle of unity and indivisibility a debate therefore ensued after the petitions were read in which there was much warmth whether they would proceed to debate it as the basis of their constitution or have a new report brought in finally november on the appeal nominal it was decided to proceed on the present"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-29|1|2", "date": "1797-03-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032901/0791.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the texel on the th of december it was said that the empress of all the russians the great catharine was dead no expectation of peace it was feared that the negotiation at paris would fall through france having shut the british out of almost all the european ports it was expected that they would extend this object also to the ports of hamburg and bremen several passengers came in the three friends captain s spoke nothing to impede his passage the owners of the three friends favoured us with papers to dec which contain some important articles of which the following is a hasty abstract a vienna account of nov says the austrians had been beaten in italy with great loss but that another campaign was fixed croats had been engaged and it was expected an army of would be embodied early as the emperor would never suffer any republics to be established in italy under the protection of the french little was said at vienna on the subject of peace at the first bombardment of kehl about the th nov the austrians lost killed and that it was supposed if the austrians held out six weeks of besieging austrians one quarter at least would be killed no later accounts appeared on this subject in the national convention at the hague nov debate was had on the subject of the new constitution when many petitions were presented of which were from amsterdam requesting that in the formation of the seven provinces into a republic there might be unity and inviolability to support which principles they would expend their lives and fortunes the reported plan did not express the principles of unity and indivisibility a debate therefore ensued after the petitions were read in which there was much warmth whether they would proceed to debate it as the basis of their constitution or have a new report brought in finally nov on the appeal nominal it was decided to proceed on the present"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article 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performance of a duty their relation to the government of their country imposes should they fail to express their regard for your person and their respect for your character in answer to the address you presented to them on your leaving a station which you have so long and so honorably filled as their president the motives you have been pleased to disclose which induced you not to withdraw from the public service at a time when your experience talents and virtues were peculiarly desirable are as honorable for yourself as from our confidence in you sir we trust the result will be beneficial to our beloved country when you retired from your dignified seat in this house and took your leave of the members of the senate we felt all those emotions of gratitude and affection which our knowledge and experience of your abilities and undeviating impartiality ought to inspire and we should with painful reluctance endure the separation but for the consoling reflection that the same qualities which have rendered you useful as the president of this branch of the legislature will enable you to be still more so in the exalted station to which you have been called from you sir in whom your country have for a long period placed a steady confidence which has never been betrayed or forfeited and to whom they have on so many occasions entrusted the care of their dearest interests which have never been abused from you who holding the second situation under the constitution of the united states have lived in uninterrupted harmony with him who has held the first from you we receive with much satisfaction the declaration which you are pleased to make of the opinion you entertain of the character of the present senators and of that of those citizens who have been heretofore senators this declaration were other motives wanting would afford them an incentive to a virtuous perseverance in that line of conduct which has been honored with your approbation in your future course we entertain no doubt that your official conduct will be measured by the constitution and directed to the public good you have therefore a right to entertain a confident reliance that you will be supported as well by the people at large as by their constituted authorities we cordially reciprocate the wishes which you express for our honor health and happiness we join with yours our fervent prayers for the continuation of the virtues and liberties of our fellow citizens and for the public prosperity and peace and for you we implore the best reward of virtuous deeds the grateful approbation of your constituents and"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|1", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the address of the vice-president of the united states on his retiring from the senate was yesterday agreed to as follows sir the senate of the united states would be unjust to their own feelings and deficient in the performance of a duty their relation to the government of their country imposes should they fail to express their regard for your person and their respect for your character in answer to the address you presented to them on your leaving a station which you have so long and so honorably filled as their president the motives you have been pleased to disclose which induced you not to withdraw from the public service at a time when your experience talents and virtues were peculiarly desirable are as honorable for yourself as from our confidence in you sir we trust the result will be beneficial to our beloved country when you retired from your dignified seat in this house and took your leave of the members of the senate we felt all those emotions of gratitude and affection which our knowledge and experience of your abilities and undeviating impartiality ought to inspire and we should with painful reluctance endure the separation but for the consoling reflection that the same qualities which have rendered you useful as the president of this branch of the legislature will enable you to be still more so in the exalted station to which you have been called from you sir in whom your country have for a long period placed a steady confidence which have never been betrayed or forfeited and to whom they have on so many occasions entrusted the care of their dearest interests which have never been abused from you who holding the second situation under the constitution of the united states have lived in uninterrupted harmony with him who has held the first from you we receive with much satisfaction the declaration which you are pleased to make of the opinion you entertain of the character of the present senators and of that of those citizens who have been heretofore senators this declaration were other motives wanting would afford them an incentive to a virtuous perseverance in that line of conduct which has been honored with your approbation in your future course we entertain no doubt that your official conduct will be measured by the constitution and directed to the public good you have therefore a right to entertain a confident reliance that you will be supported as well by the people at large as by their constituted authorities we cordially reciprocate the wishes which you express for our honor health and happiness we join with yours our fervent prayers for the continuation of the virtues and liberties of our fellow citizens for the public prosperity and peace and for you we implore the best reward of virtuous deeds the grateful approbation of your constituents and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": 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capt maffey from port de paix to cape francois was boarded by the above capt perkins who permitted her to pass notwithstanding the property on board was french as there were six or eight american captains on board going to the cape for"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [523, 994], "b_span": [2307, 2789], "matched_words": 449, "similarity": 0.9422875131164743, "seeds": 74, "id": "M00300", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-23|1|3", "date": "1797-02-23", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the address of the vice president of the united states on his retiring from the senate was yesterday agreed to as follows sir the senate of the united states would be unjust to their own feelings and deficient in the performance of a duty their relation to the government of their country imposes should they fail to express their regard for your person and their respect for your character in answer to the address you presented to them on your leaving a station which you have so long and so honorably filled as their president the motives you have been pleased to disclose which induced you not to withdraw from the public service at a time when your experience talents and virtues were peculiarly desirable are as honorable for yourself as from our confidence in you sir we trust the result will be beneficial to our beloved country when you retired from your dignified seat in this house and took your leave of the members of the senate we felt all those emotions of gratitude and affection which our knowledge and experience of your abilities and undeviating impartiality ought to inspire and we should with painful reluctance endure the separation but for the consoling reflection that the same qualities which have rendered you useful as the president of this branch of the legislature will enable you to be still more so in the exalted station to which you have been called from you sir in whom your country have for a long period placed a steady confidence which has never been betrayed or forfeited and to whom they have on so many occasions entrusted the care of their dearest interests which have never been abused from you who holding the second situation under the constitution of the united states have lived in uninterrupted harmony with him who has held the first from you we receive with much satisfaction the declaration which you are pleased to make of the opinion you entertain of the character of the present senators and of that of those citizens who have been heretofore senators this declaration were other motives wanting would afford them an incentive to a virtuous perseverance in that line of conduct which has been honored with your approbation in your future course we entertain no doubt that your official conduct will be measured by the constitution and directed to the public good you have therefore a right to entertain a confident reliance that you will be supported as well by the people at large as by their constituted authorities we cordially reciprocate the wishes which you express for our honor health and happiness we join with yours our fervent prayers for the continuation of the virtues and liberties of our fellow citizens and for the public prosperity and peace and for you"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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country when you retired from your digni fied seat in this house and took your leave of the members of the senate we felt all those emotions of gratitude and affection which our knowledge and experience of your abilities and undeclining impartiality ought to in spire and we should with painful reluctance endure the separation but for the consoling reflection that the same qualities which have rendered you useful as the president of this branch of the legislature will enable you to be still more so in the exalted station to which you have been cal led from you sir in whom your coun try have for a long period placed a steady confidence which has never been betrayed or forfeited to whom they have on so many occasions entrusted the care of their dearest interests which have never been abused from you who holding the second si tuation under the constitution of the united states have lived in uninter rupted harmony with him who has held the first from you we receive with much satisfaction the declaration which you are pleased to make of the opinion you entertain of the characters of the present senators and of that of those citizens who have been heretofore se nators this declaration were other motives wanting would afford them an incentive to a virtuous perseve rance in that line of conduct which has been honored with your approbation in your future course we entertain no doubt that your official conduct will be measured by the constitution and directed to the public good you have therefore a right to entertain a confident reliance that you will be supported as well by the people at large as by their constituted authori ties we cordially reciprocate the wit nesses which you express for our honor health and happiness we join with yours our fervent prayers for the continuation of the virtues and liber ties of our fellow citizens for the public prosperity and peace and for you"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; 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the following are the leading particulars louvre in his paper of the th says a letter from milan announces that the flag of distress is flying on the ramparts of mantua he adds that news which appears to be more certain is that kleber with men has passed the rhine at oppenheim to annoy the operations of the arch duke against kehl letters from strasburg announce that the bridge of kehl has been destroyed which makes it more likely that the place will fall into the hands of the austrians a letter from neuwied states that the archduke has refused an armistice requested by moreau the brest fleet still remains in the road it has thousand troops on board nothing further has transpired respecting the negotiations for peace in the interim the directory send"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-18|1|2", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imi tated the example of a character with which i had co-operated though in less conspicuous and im portant stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a num ber of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it dif ficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respect ful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a pas sive subject of public discussions deeply penetrated with gratitude to my coun trymen in general for their long continued kind ness to me and for that steady and affecting con fidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dear est interests since a majority of their electors tho a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and dif fidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief conso lation of my life is too precious and sacred a dep osit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or for feited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emoti ons of gratitude and affection which a long expe rience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every sena tor present and to every citizen who has ever been a senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favor invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation un der the constitution of the united states in perfect and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one and jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misun derstanding with any member of the senate in all the arduous questions difficult conjectures dan gerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often and so deeply impressed all our minds and interest ed the strongest feelings of the heart i have expe rienced a uniform powerful and respect from ev ery quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally di vided and my opinion has been demanded accord ing to the constitution i have constantly found in that majority of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and indepen dence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of informa tion eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any sen ator in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their next elections which there is no reason to dis trust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to de fend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as to the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment ir regularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immedia te representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly meas ured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be sup ported by the senate as well as by the house of re presentatives and the people at large and on other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|1", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "excused from further attendance in senate during the session he addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-operated tho in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it difficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a passive subject of public discussion deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dearer interests since a majority of their electors though a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or disunited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affection which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator present and to every senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favorably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in peace and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the abstruse questions difficult conjunctures dangerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often so deeply impressed all our minds i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my opinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found in that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and independence of judgment which they afforded for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of information eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprize in the executive on one hand or the more immediate representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be supported by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the people at large and on no other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording 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fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imi tated the example of a character with which i had co-operated though in less conspicuous and im portant stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a num ber of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it dif ficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respect ful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a pas sive subject of public discussions deeply penetrated with gratitude to my coun trymen in general for their long continued kind ness to me and for that steady and affecting con fidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dear est interests since a majority of their electors tho a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and dif fidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief conso lation of my life is too precious and sacred a dep osit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or for feited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emoti ons of gratitude and affection which a long expe rience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every sena tor present and to every citizen who has ever been a senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favor invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation un der the constitution of the united states in perfect and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one and jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misun derstanding with any member of the senate in all the arduous questions difficult conjectures dan gerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often and so deeply impressed all our minds and interest ed the strongest feelings of the heart i have expe rienced a uniform powerful and respect from ev ery quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally di vided and my opinion has been demanded accord ing to the constitution i have constantly found in that majority of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and indepen dence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of informa tion eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any sen ator in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their next elections which there is no reason to dis trust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to de fend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as to the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment ir regularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immedia te representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly meas ured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be sup ported by the senate as well as by the house of re presentatives and the people at large and on other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032501/0783.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most emi nent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had ex hibited any clear indications of ano ther in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberati on in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-ope rated though in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a le vel as to render it difficult to con jecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the gene ral deliberation and a passive subject of public discussion deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions eu trusted me the care of their dearer interests since a majority of their electors though a very small one have declared in my favour and since in a republican government the ma jority though ever so small must of ne cessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just res ponsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or disunited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affec tion which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator pre sent and to every senator of the uni ted states my thanks for the candor and favour invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in the government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in perfect uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the abstruse questions difficult conjectures dan gerous emergencies and animated de bates upon the great interest of our country which have to often so deep ly impressed all our minds and i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less im portance than difficulty have produ ced a difference of sentiment differ ences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and proba bly the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my o pinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found on that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been ob liged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberati on and independence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring wit ness of a succession of information elo quence patriotism and independence which as they would have done ho nor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no coun cil more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be ne cessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more repre hensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immediate re presentatives of the people on the o ther these considerations will all con spire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniform ly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be support ed by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the pe ople at large and on no other conditi ons ought any support at all to be ex pected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the vir tues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1130, 1282], "b_span": [1449, 1599], "matched_words": 146, "similarity": 0.9668874172185431, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00306", 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tendency to soften asperities and conciliate animosities wherever such may unhappily exist an effect at all times to be desired and in the present situation of our country ardently to be promoted by all good"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|1", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "states to the address of the senate feb d an address so respectful and affectionate as this from gentlemen of such experience and established character in public affairs high stations in the government of their country and great consideration in their several states as the senators of the united states will do me great honor and afford me a firm support wherever it shall be known both at home and abroad their generous approbation of my conduct in general and liberal testimony to the undeviating impartiality of it in my peculiar relation to their body a character which in every scene and employment of life i should with above all others to cultivate and merit has a tendency to soften asperities and conciliate animosities whenever such may unhappily exist an affect at all times to be desired and in the present situation of our country ardently to be promoted by all good"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1361, 1741], "b_span": [361, 739], "matched_words": 372, "similarity": 0.9815303430079155, "seeds": 74, "id": "M00308", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-24|1|3", "date": "1797-02-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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her most illustrious citizen would indeed be inconsolable did not the review of his wise firm and virtuous administration as chief magistrate present a series of conduct which it will be the pride and happiness of his successors to emulate and attain with this consolatory reflection we naturally associate the proud sentiment that in the instance of your dignified retirement from office our country will exhibit to the world the rare and interesting spectacle that official station and authority are not requisite to obtain and to continue the utmost distinction among mankind or to command the highest degree of their admiration and applause to that gracious providence whose goodness has heretofore preferred you a prime agent of human happiness we prefer our fervent supplications for your present and future felicity signed by order and on behalf of the society thomas mifflin february d president's answer to the members of the pennsylvania society of the cincinnati and the members of the other state societies of the cincinnati at present in philadelphia gentlemen your congratulations and the expressions of your attachment and approbation of my public services are received with gratitude and reciprocated with sincerity endeared to me by every consideration of public and private worth i shall carry into that retirement which you are pleased to mention in terms so flattering an invariable affection and esteem towards the faithful comrades of my military career and my best prayers will be offered for their present and future happiness g"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0250.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "society of the cincinnati and of the members belonging to other state societies of the cincinnati at present in philadelphia to george washington president of the united states sir upon this auspicious day and in contemplation of an approaching public event the most affecting which can ever occur to us either as men as citizens or as your former fellow soldiers we desire to congratulate and address you as men we offer to you the homage of a pure and heartfelt affection as citizens we express to you the gratitude which results from a just sense of the highest obligations and as fellow soldiers we declare the respectful and inviolable attachment which we feel to a beloved and venerated chief the moment in which america is to lose the public services of her most illustrious citizen would indeed be inconsonable did not the review of his wife firm and virtuous administration as chief magistrate present a series of conduct which it will be the pride and happiness of his successors to emulate and sustain with this consolatory reflection we naturally associate the proud sentiment that in the instance of your dignified retirement from office our country will exhibit to the world the rare and interesting spectacle that official station and authority are not required to obtain and to continue the utmost distinction among mankind or to command the highest degree of their admiration and applause to that gracious providence whose goodness has heretofore preferred you a prime agent of human happiness we prefer our fervent supplications for your present and future felicity signed by order and on behalf of the society tho mifflin february president's answer to the members of the pennsylvania society of the cincinnati and the members of the other state societies of the cincinnati at present in philadelphia gentlemen your congratulations and the expressions of your attachment and approbation of my public services are received with gratitude and reciprocated with sincerity endeared to me by every consideration of public and private worth i shall carry into that retirement which you are pleased to mention in terms so flattering an inviolable affection and esteem towards the faithful comrades of my military career and my best prayers will be offered for their present and future happiness g"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1753, 2014], "b_span": [911, 1171], "matched_words": 255, "similarity": 0.9788867562380038, "seeds": 50, "id": "M00309", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-24|1|3", "date": "1797-02-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "are sorry to inform the public that disturbances of a very serious nature prevail in the upper cherokee occasioned by the murder of three cherokee indians viz the red bird will a lame man and another whose name we could not learn these indians were hunting on the lands assigned to them by the united states and were visited by four white men the red bird received them in a most cordial and friendly manner offered them a share of his provisions and a shelter in his camp till they could build one for themselves as the whites informed them they were come out for the purpose of hunting in return of this kindness these barbarians murdered them in cold blood upon the receipt of this news in the nation the indians burnt the houses of their deceased brethren and flew to arms young watts swore he would take instant satisfaction but by the interpolation and influence of captain richard sparks the commandant of the federal troops in this state who fortunately happened to be at tellico when the news arrived and by the aid of some presents the cherokees were for that time pacified and they declare that they will wait patiently and see if the federal government will afford them any relief in our next we hope to give a more circumstantial account of this transaction together with the names of the perpetrators which is likely once more to involve the frontiers in the horrors of an indian war we could not learn the exact time the murder was"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0250.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "are sorry to inform the public that disturbances of a very serious nature prevailed in the upper cherokee occasioned by the murder of three cherokee indians viz the red bird will a lame man and another whose name we could not learn these indians were hunting on the lands assigned them by the united states and were visited by four white men the red bird received them in the most cordial and friendly manner offered them a share of his provisions and a shelter in his camp till they could build one for themselves as the whites informed them they were come out for the purpose of hunting in return for this kindness these barbarians murdered them in cold blood upon the receipt of this news in the nation the indians burnt the houses of their deceased brethren and flew to arms young watts swore he would take instant satisfaction but by the interposition and influence of capt richard sparks the commandant of the federal troops in this state who fortunately happened to be at tellico when the news arrived and by the aid of some presents the cherokees were for that time pacified and they declare that they will wait patiently and see if the federal government will afford them any relief in our next we hope to give a more circumstantial account of this transaction together with the names of the perpetrators which is likely once more to involve the frontiers in the horrors of an indian war we could not learn the exact time the murder was"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2135, 2273], "b_span": [536, 675], "matched_words": 133, "similarity": 0.9602888086642599, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00310", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-24|1|3", "date": "1797-02-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from mr carlton editor of the salem gazette dated at salem yesterday by arrival at this port from the cape of good hope we have certain information that tippoo saib has embodied a large army in lodi and has declared war against england he has received among his troops officers sent out by the french directory and has already commenced such alarming movements as made it necessary to dispatch two packets to england with advices of the event on their stopping at the cape of good hope on their way and communicating this disagreeable intelligence all the troops that could be spared about were immediately embarked to reinforce the british who were in the utmost danger of suffering by these sudden hostilities they were commanded by gen craig who is succeeded as governor of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-29|1|2", "date": "1797-03-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2886, 3087], "b_span": [675, 876], "matched_words": 196, "similarity": 0.9751243781094527, "seeds": 34, "id": "M00311", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-24|1|3", "date": "1797-02-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "nov it appears that the diet at presburg have granted to the emperor the following supplies for the prosecuting of the war hungarians exclusive of those requisite to complete the regiments already in the field oxen horses bushels of grain do oats and in case the numbers at present granted are not sufficient to obtain an honorable peace a general raising en masse will be determined on the austrian official account of the battles in italy nearly agree with the french but the former represent the loss on each side as nearly equal among the prisoners taken by davidovich at rivoli were two french generals florella and valette a new convention between the french republic and genoa excludes the english from the genoese ports during the war and the vessels of the latter are prohibited to carry provisions to the british genoa is to protect her own forts and harbours but in case of necessity she is to be aided by french troops if genoa shall be involved in a war with england france will undertake to protect her trade and navigation and will assist her with ships of war and intercede for her in negotiations for peace genoa pays to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the latter are prohibited to carry provisions to the british genoa is to protect her own forts and harbors but in case of necessity she is to be aided by french troops if genoa shall be involved in war with england france will undertake to protect her trade and navigation and will assist her with ships of war and intercede for her in negotiations for peace genoa pays to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [96, 292], "b_span": [2061, 2257], "matched_words": 195, "similarity": 0.9948979591836735, "seeds": 44, "id": "M00312", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraints on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|1", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraints on the malignant passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [301, 2841], "b_span": [2, 2546], "matched_words": 2471, "similarity": 0.9720692368214005, "seeds": 468, "id": "M00313", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has authorized at the practice for that mr ader must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradicts it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr ader means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long-suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly inquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and g britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she would have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her ally but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would never have agreed notwithstanding the faith of treaties it gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her flag pillaged her citizens came also to brave the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favorable opportunity against the french this like most of mr ader's charges is but the renewal of the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigates terpsichore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the theis and hussar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raisin are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbors thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr ader about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charged no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the capt of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been interest in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'esperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th january a few days after my arrival there by capt ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr ader has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west-indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of guadeloupe martinique and delirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice admiral commanding in the west-indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessel attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british preferred to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent to such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in handbills and newspapers th it eluded all the advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce upon a more favorable footing to both nations it excused itself on the most frivolous pretexts whilst it anticipated great britain by soliciting a treaty in which prostituting its neutrality it sacrificed france to her enemies or rather looking upon her as obliterated from the map of the world it forgot the services she had rendered it and threw aside the duty of gratitude as if ingratitude were a governmental duty of the advances referred to the first were made by mr genet these you will see in the printed correspondence between him and mr jefferson mr genet's letter is dated the d of may in which he informed the government that he was authorized to propose a treaty on a liberal and fraternal basis mr jefferson's letter to mr morris our minister at paris dated the d of august assigns the reason for postponing the negotiation the senate says he being then in recess and not to meet again till the fall i apprised mr genet that the participation in matters of treaty given by the constitution to that branch of the government would of course delay any definitive answer to his friendly proposition as he was sensible of this circumstance the matter has been understood to lie over till the meeting of the senate congress were not to meet until december consequently there was no necessity for precipitating the business but with the best dispositions to form new commercial arrangements mutually more beneficial than those of the treaty of the unwarrantable conduct of mr genet from the moment he landed at charleston until the date of his letter on the subject of the negotiation was sufficient to excite caution in the american government he had there violated the sovereignty of the united states by authorizing the fitting and arming of vessels in that port enlisting men citizens and foreigners and giving them commissions to cruise and commit hostilities on nations at peace with us and with whom we had extensive commercial connections these privateers were taking and bringing prizes into our ports and the consuls of france were assuming to hold courts of admiralty on them to try condemn and authorize their sale as legal prize nevertheless the government really desirous of forming a new and more advantageous commercial treaty with france instructed the minister of the united states at paris to manifest the same to the executive of france and to suggest for this purpose that the powers of mr genet be renewed to his successor it is true that in his letter dated the th of september mr genet had renewed the proposition of negotiating a commercial treaty but how was it possible for the government to undertake a negotiation with that minister after the correspondence which had taken place between the executive and him a correspondence on his"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|2", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own condna or the omission of their consul or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has connived at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradicted it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensitive either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she should have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the u s would never have agreed th notwithstanding the faith of treaties it gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her th pillaged her citizens came also to draw the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favorable opportunity against the french this like most others of mr adet's charges is but the renewal of the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigate terpsichore and her prize la montague and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the thetis and husar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raison are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coasts and enter our harbors thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the valiant remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british frigate argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been injected in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the course of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the u states it is as follows the french ship of war l'esperance was bro't into lynn haven bay on the th of jan a few days after my arrival there by capt ball who had captured her fifteen leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst at lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate th it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the u s that it did not contend in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and actually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the sec of state represents this matter differently the british consul gen at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the island of guadeloupe marigalante and desidera were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's gen and v ad commanding in the west indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operating existence until months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british prescribed to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the u states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in hand-bills and newspapers th it eluded all the advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce upon a more favorable footing to both nations it excused itself on the most frivolous pretexts whilst it anticipated great britain by soliciting a treaty in which prostituting its neutrality it sacrificed france to her enemies or rather looking upon her as obliterated from the map of the world it forgot the services she had rendered it threw aside the duty of gratitude as if ingratitude were a governmental duty of the advances referred to the first were made by mr genet these you will see in the printed correspondence between him mr jefferson mr genet's letter is dated the d of may in which he informed the government that he was authorized to propose a treaty on a liberal and fraternal basis mr jefferson's letter to mr morris our minister at paris dated the d of aug assigns the reason for postponing the negotiation the senate says he being then in recess and not to meet again until the fall i apprised mr genet that the participation in matters of treaty given by the constitution to that branch of our government would of course delay any definitive answer to his friendly proposition as he was sensible of this circumstance the matter has been understood to lie over until the meeting of the senate congress were not to meet until dec consequently there was no necessity of precipitating the business but with the best dispositions to form new commercial arrangements mutually more beneficial than those of the treaty of the unwarrantable conduct of mr genet from the moment he landed at charleston until the date of his letter on the subject of the negotiation was sufficient to excite caution in the american government he had there violated the sovereignty of the u states by authorizing the fitting and arming of vessels in that port enlisting men citizens and foreigners and giving them commissions to cruise and commit hostilities on nations at peace with us and with whom we had extensive commercial connections these privateers were taking and bringing prizes into our ports and the consuls of france were assuming to hold courts of admiralty on them to try condemn and authorize their sale as legal prize nevertheless the government really desirous of forming a new and more advantageous commercial treaty with france instructed the minister of the united states at paris to manifest the same to the executive of france and to suggest for this purpose that the powers of mr genet be renewed to his successor it is true that in his letter dated the th sept mr genet had renewed the proposition of negotiating a commercial treaty but how was it possible for the government to undertake a negotiation with that minister after the correspondence which had taken place between the executive and him a correspondence on his"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2852, 3198], "b_span": [1, 348], "matched_words": 337, "similarity": 0.9725829725829725, "seeds": 61, "id": "M00314", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "proper to do and to countenance in opposition to the laws of the land after the government had instructed our minister at paris to desire mr genet's recall and to declare to the government of france the necessity of their having a representative here disposed to respect the laws and authority of the country and to do the best for their interest which these would permit and when it was only an anxious regard for those interests and a desire that they might not suffer which induced the executive in the mean time to receive his communications in writing and to admit the continuance of his functions so long as they should be restrained within the limits of the law as therefore announced to him or should be of the tenor usually observed towards independent nations by the representative of a friendly power residing with them under such circumstances what answer could the executive return to mr genet more proper and more marked with attention to france than that his letter would be considered with all the respect and interest which its object necessarily required it is probable that the powers to negotiate a commercial treaty were not renewed to mr genet's successor certainly they were not communicated to our government we now come to the fresh overtures of a commercial negotiation made by mr ader the first notices of them are found in memoranda of facts dated the th and th of june and subscribed by the secretary of state by these it appears that on the th of june mr ader arrived at philadelphia on the th mr fauchet introduced him to the secretary of state on the th mr ader informed the secretary that he should the next day send him some act of the french government relative to commerce but it was not sent on the d of june mr ader was reminded of the promised communication he said it was copying and gave reason to suppose that he should forward it on that day but on that day nothing was received"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|3", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "proper to do and to countenance in opposition to the laws of the land after the government had instructed our minister at paris to desire mr genet's recall and to declare to the government of france the necessity of their having a representative here disposed to respect the laws and authority of the country and to do the best for their interest which these would permit and when it was only an anxious regard for those interests and a desire that they might not suffer which induced the executive in the mean time to receive his communications in writing and to admit the continuance of his functions so long as they should be restrained within the limits of the law as therefore announced to him or should be of the tenor usually observed towards independent nations by the representative of a friendly power refusing with them under such circumstances what answer could the executive return to mr genet more proper and more marked with attention to france than that his letter would be considered with all the respect and interest which its object necessarily required it is probable that the powers to negotiate a commercial treaty were not renewed to mr genet's success for certainly they were not communicated to our government we now come to the fresh overtures of a commercial negotiation made by mr adet the first notice of them are found in memoranda of facts dated the th and th of june and subscribed by the sec of state by these it appears that on the th of june mr adet arrived at philadelphia on the th mr fauchet introduced him to the sec of state on the th mr adet informed the secretary that he should the next day send him some act of the french government relative to commerce but it was not sent on the d of june mr adet was reminded of the promised communication he said it was copying and gave reason to suppose that he should forward it on that day but on that day nothing was received"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3207, 4258], "b_span": [25, 1089], "matched_words": 1012, "similarity": 0.9569739952718677, "seeds": 183, "id": "M00315", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "interview with the secretary of state he observed that he brought with him the commercial decrees which mr genet had formerly propounded to our government and was instructed to negotiate a treaty of commerce upon their basis he was asked whether he had any documents to communicate he replied that he would send them that day he said he had to communicate some inquiries respecting the late treaty between the united states and great britain he observed that it was understood that the united states had disabled themselves from entering into a new commercial treaty upon a liberal scale with france the secretary answered that he had determined before he came to ask the permission of the president to communicate to him a copy of the treaty and then he might say in what part he supposed that any impropriety with respect to france existed the president having afterwards assented the secretary on the same day delivered to mr ader a printed copy of the treaty on which he promised to communicate his remarks these remarks dated june th and the secretary's answer dated july th refusing the objections they contained i have already noticed the subsequent proceedings will show either that those objections did not make any strong impressions on mr ader's mind or that the secretary's answer had removed them on the th june mr ader communicated a part of his instructions relative to a new commercial treaty and a new consular convention to be entered into between france and the united states the instructions imported that he was only to prepare with the american government the means and arrangements of these treaties and then to communicate them to the committee of public safety the object of the new treaty was declared to be to found the commercial relations of the two republics upon stipulations more reciprocally advantageous and more clearly worded than that of and the object of the consular convention to secure the execution of the commercial treaty the secretary of state answered on the st of july expressing the readiness of the government to open the proposed negotiation and requested a communication of the dates of the decrees to which mr ader's instruction referred on the th of july mr ader replied to the secretary of state that he neither knew or possessed any other decree relative to the new negotiation to be opened between france and the united states than that of the th of february communicated to us by citizen genet this letter of the th was received the th accompanied by a note of the latter date apologizing for the delay on account of sickness on the th the secretary of state had written to him pressing him on the subject of the new negotiation on the th of july the secretary of state again wrote to mr ader and after informing him that as he was not clothed with any very formal authority upon this subject the president of the united states had thought proper to place him the secretary of state upon the same and no other footing the secretary proposed that the negotiation should be conducted in writing unless when either the one or the other should think it expedient to have an interview on any particular difficulty and then assuring mr ader that no unnecessary procrastination should be found in the secretary of state further proposed that mr ader should take st the parts of the treaty which he wished to be abolished d those parts which he wished to be corrected and d any additions which seemed to him desirable but expressed the readiness of the secretary to adopt any other better mode of conducting the negotiation if such occurred to mr ader on the th of july mr ader mentioning his sickness which for fifteen days had obliged him to abstain from business replied on the subject of the negotiation in these words in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the dispensing of the new treaty and new consular convention from this detail it must i conceive be no easy task to find any facts by which mr ader's charge can be supported what he affects to call frivolous pretexts are substantial reasons and in respect to his own advances to treat the conduct of our government manifests an eagerness to enter on the negotiation certainly you will discover in it no disposition to elude or to procrastinate you will be pleased to observe sir that the letter from the secretary of state to mr ader explaining the manner in which they should proceed in the negotiation is dated the th of july and that mr ader's answer agreeing shortly to meet the secretary in order to take the necessary measures for commencing the business is dated the th of july yet in his note of november th after having charged the government of the united states with eluding all advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce and excusing itself on the most frivolous pretexts after acknowledging that the president had authorized the secretary of state to negotiate and that the latter had explained the manner of proceeding he asks but at what time when the ratification of the treaty concluded between lord grenville and mr jay no longer permitted the undersigned to pursue that negotiation i am sorry sir in this place to call your attention to dates the british treaty was not ratified until the th of august that is about a month after the plan of negotiating with mr ader had been proposed to him by the secretary of state and twenty-five days after he had agreed to proceed in it and if that ratification finally induced him to abandon the idea of negotiating a new treaty between france and the united states it did not instantly produce this determination he doubtless perceived that his own objections to the british treaty were obviated by the answer from the secretary of state and when he acknowledged the receipt of it he had given up the right of judging of the treaty whether it was good or bad i shall says he in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|1", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0013.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "interview with the secretary of state he observed that he brought with him the commercial decrees which mr genet had formerly propounded to our government and was instructed to negotiate a treaty of commerce upon their basis he asked whether he had any documents to communicate he replied that he would send them that day he said he had to communicate some inquietudes respecting the late treaty between the united states and great britain he observed that it was understood that the united states had disabled themselves from entering into a new commercial treaty upon a liberal scale with france the secretary answered that he had determined before he came to ask the permission of the president to communicate to him a copy of the treaty then he might say in what part he supposed that any impropriety with respect to france existed the president having afterwards assented the secretary on the same day delivered to mr adet a printed copy of the treaty on which he promised to communicate his remarks these remarks dated june the secretary's answer dated july refuting the objections they contained i have already noticed the subsequent proceedings will show either that those objections did not make any strong impressions on mr adet's mind or that the secretary's answer had removed them on the th june mr adet communicated a part of his instructions relative to a new commercial treaty a new consular convention to be entered into between france and the united states the instructions imported that he was only to prepare with the american government the means and arrangements of these treaties and then to communicate them to the committee of public safety the object of the new treaty was declared to be to found the commercial relations of the two republics upon stipulations more reciprocally advantageous and more clearly worded than that of and the object of the consular convention to secure the execution of the commercial treaty the secretary of state answered on the st of july expressing the readiness of the government to open the proposed negotiation and requested a communication of the dates of the decrees to which mr adet's instruction referred on the th of july mr adet replied to the secretary of state that he neither knew nor possessed any other decree relative to the new negotiation to be opened between france and the united states than that of the th of february communicated to us by citizen genet this letter of the th was received the th accompanied by a note of the latter date apologizing for the delay on account of sickness on the th the secretary of state had written to him pressing him on the subject of the new negotiation on the th of july the se mr adet has since corrected this date the decree intended being dated feb this is already published with the state papers of that year page cretary of state again wrote to mr adet and after informing him that as he was not clothed with any very formal authority upon this subject the president of the united states had thought proper to place him the secretary of state upon the same and no other footing the secretary proposed that the negotiation should be conducted in writing unless when either thought it expedient to have an interview on any particular difficulty and then assuring mr adet that no unnecessary protraction should be found in the secretary of state further proposed that mr adet should state the parts of the treaty which he wished to be abolished and those parts which he wished to be corrected and d any additions which seemed to him desirable but expressed the readiness of the secretary to adopt any other better mode of conducting the negotiation if such occurred to mr adet on the th of july mr adet mentioning his sickness which for fifteen days had obliged him to abstain from business replied on the subject of the negotiation in these words in a few days i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention from this detail it must i conceive be no easy task to find any facts by which mr adet's charge can be supported what he affects to call frivolous pretexts are substantial reasons and in respect to his own advances to treat the conduct of our own government manifests an eagerness to enter on the negotiation certainly you will discover in it no disposition to elude or to procrastinate you will be pleased to observe sir that the letter from the secretary of state to mr adet explaining the manner in which they should proceed in the negotiation is dated the th of july and that mr adet's answer agreeing shortly to meet the secretary in order to take the necessary measures for commencing the business is dated the th of july yet in his note of nov th after having charged the government of the united states with eluding all advances made by the republic for renewing the treaties of commerce and excusing itself on the most frivolous pretexts after acknowledging that the president had authorized the secretary of state to negotiate and that the latter had explained the manner of proceeding he asks but at what time when the ratification of the treaty concluded between lord grenville and mr jay no longer permitted he undersigned to pursue that negotiation i am sorry sir in this place to call your attention to dates the british treaty was not ratified until the th of august that is about a month after the plan of negotiating with mr adet had been proposed to him by the secretary of state and days after he had agreed to proceed in it and if that ratification finally induced him to abandon the idea of negotiating a new treaty between france and the united states it did not instantly produce this determination he doubtless perceived that his own objections to the british treaty were obviated by the answer from the secretary of state and when he acknowledged the receipt of it he had given up the right of judging of the treaty whether it was good or bad i shall says he in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [96, 1011], "b_span": [1449, 2361], "matched_words": 888, "similarity": 0.9720853858784894, "seeds": 177, "id": "M00316", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraints on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay to the injured party if as mr ader asserts damages have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has authorized at the practice for that mr ader must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradicts it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr ader means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long-suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly inquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and g britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she would have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her ally but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would never have agreed notwithstanding the faith of treaties it gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her flag pillaged her citizens came also to brave the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favorable opportunity against the french this like"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|1", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by the french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing the vessels when brought within our jurisdiction it is possible indeed that in some cases the agents or public agents of nations whose property was taken by the french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraint on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the courts compel the malicious prosecutor to pay the injured party if as mr adet asserts damages have in two cases only been granted by the courts to french privateers even when the decisions have been in their favor it has arisen from their own conduct or the omission of their counsel or from accidental circumstances which in the opinion of the courts furnished reasonable presumptions against them of having violated the laws either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by infracting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government had connived at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradict it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go farther we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honour or our interest if we have manifested much long suffering we have not been singular neutral nations commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war the would have demanded of us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would never have agreed th notwithstanding the faith of treaties it gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her flag pillaged her citizens came also to brave the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favourable opportunity against the french this like"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1021, 2345], "b_span": [4, 1323], "matched_words": 1272, "similarity": 0.9625425652667423, "seeds": 238, "id": "M00317", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|1", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797022501/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigates terpsichore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the theis and hussar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raisin are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbors thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr ader about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charged no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the capt of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been interest in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'esperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th january a few days after my arrival there by capt ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr ader has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west-indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of guadeloupe martinique and delirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice admiral commanding in the west-indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessel attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british preferred to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent to such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|2", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0254.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigate terpsicore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'eperance the thetis and halsar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la ration are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsicore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arguments to give instant effect to the stipulations of the th article of the treaty of forbidding any asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executive were earnestly pressed to take the necessary steps for a prompt execution in future of this stipulation but why should the french minister complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps or and twenty days when against her express requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbours thence on favourable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carnagole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'eperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstances as improper in the capture but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion to soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'eperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been inserted in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'eperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th of january a few days after my arrival there by captain ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and the argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'eperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and their citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectively prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west-indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of gaudaloupe marigalente and desirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice admiral commanding in the west-indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great-britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british prescribed to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british should be so untruthful and issued orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [176, 311], "b_span": [659, 795], "matched_words": 126, "similarity": 0.9298892988929889, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00318", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-02-25|1|2", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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i shall have the honor of seeing you and of taking the necessary measures in order to commence the business relative to the digesting of the new treaty and new consular convention the british treaty then did not obstruct the negotiation the principles of which might have been agreed on and the articles drawn into form to be submitted to the respective governments for that was all the respective negotiators were authorized to do will the ministers of the french republic never cease to reproach us with ingratitude if indeed france wrought as well as guaranteed the independence of the united states as mr adet asserts at a time when she might as the price of that very independence have granted them less liberal conditions our obligations are greater than we have hitherto imagined but it is time that these claims to our gratitude were investigated and their extent ascertained we have citizens yet alive who were actors and witnesses of the declaration of our independence and of the efforts to maintain it with their effects prior to our treaty with france but laying no stress on our recollections or consciousness we will resort to the testimony of france herself france by her minister the marquis de noailles having in the declaration of the th of march which i have already quoted announced to the court of london the treaty of friendship and commerce she had formed with the united states and that to maintain the commerce of his subjects with them which was the object of that treaty his most christian majesty had taken eventual measures in concert with the united states of north america that court published a justificative memorial to vindicate to the world the war she had determined to wage against france in the observations of the court of france on this british memorial we find the following declarations on the part of france while the ambassador of england put the king's patience to the strongest proofs and while the court of london was constantly repeating denials of justice to his majesty's subjects at the same time that the british officers continued to desolate them on the sea an event came to pass in america which essentially changed the face of things in that quarter of the world this event was the defeat of the army under general burgoyne the news of this unexpected disaster which arrived in europe in nov astonished the british ministers and must have the more sensibly affected them as it overthrew the plan they had laid for the reduction of the colonies the observations then suggest that this great event induced in the british cabinet the idea of conciliation with america and of a coalition against the crown of france in revenge for the supposed aid rendered by her to the united states and to gratify their most dear and constant will that of humbling france it was natural for the british ministry unable to judge her colonies to seek to be reconciled to them and to engage them to espouse her resentment they might so much the more flatter themselves that they should succeed herein as the proceedings of france with regard to american privateers and especially the dislike the king had at all times manifested to any engagement with the congress must have given disgust and dissatisfaction to their deputies and induce them notwithstanding their well known aversion to seek even in england the safety of their country when they failed to find it in france the king well informed of the plan of the court of london and of the preparations which were the consequence of it perceived that no more time was to be lost if he would prevent the designs of his enemies his majesty determined therefore to take into consideration at length the overtures of the congress the commissioners from the u states proposed to the king a treaty of amity and commerce and an alliance offensive and defensive by which his majesty should engage not only to acknowledge simply and purely the independence of the united states but also to guarantee and defend it by force of arms the king ordered an answer to be given that he could indeed look upon the independence of the united states as existing but that it did not belong to him to acknowledge it because he had not any right to judge of it neither could he guarantee it as he did not intend to enter into a war for its support his majesty in consequence refused an offensive alliance and confined himself to the treaty of amity and commerce but as it was more than probable that the court of london had formed a design of attacking france his majesty thought he ought to enter into an alliance with the united states eventual and purely defensive the stipulations contained in this second treaty are in substance that if france should be attacked by the court of london before the cessation of hostilities between that court and its colonies then the king and the united states should mutually assist each other against the common enemy that the king should guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the united states and that he should not lay down his arms till it should be acknowledged by great britain thus it is manifest that the united states were to be left still to fight their own battles unless great britain should choose to increase the number of her enemies by attacking france in which case it would be as truly the interest of france as of the united states to make a common cause this last treaty remained secret because it was not in force at the time of concluding it but that of commerce was notified at the court of london march th the first words of the notification are these the united states of north america who are in full possession of independence c the whole paragraph has been already quoted"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|1", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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published a justificative memorial to vindicate to the world the war she had determined to wage against france in the observations of the court of france on this british memorial we find the following declaration on the part of france while the ambassador of england put the king's patience to the strongest proofs and while the court of london was constantly repeating denials of justice to his majesty's subjects at the same time that the british officers continued to desolate them on the sea an event came to pass in america which essentially changed the face of things in that quarter of the world this event was the defeat of the army under general burgoyne the news of this unexpected disaster which arrived in europe in november astonished the british ministers and must have the more sensibly affected them as it overbroke the plan they had laid for the reduction of the colonies the observations then suggest that this great event induced in the british cabinet the idea of conciliation with america and of a coalition against the crown of france in revenge for the supposed aid ren obs p dered by her to the united states and to gratify their most dear and constant wish that of humbling france it was natural for the british ministry unable to subdue her colonies to seek to be reconciled to them and to engage them to espouse her resentment they might so much the more flatter themselves that they should succeed herein as the proceedings of france with regard to american privateers and especially the dislike the king had at all times manifested to any engagement with the congress must have given disgust and dissatisfaction to their deputies and induce them notwithstanding their well known aversion to seek even in england the safety of their country when they failed to find it in france the king well informed of the plan of the court of london and of the preparations which were the consequence of it perceived that no more time was to be lost if he would prevent the designs of his enemies his majesty determined therefore to take into consideration at length the overtures of the congress the commissioners from the united states proposed to the king a treaty of commerce and an alliance offensive defensive by which his majesty should engage not only to acknowledge simply and purely the independence of the united states but also to guarantee and defend it by force of arms the king ordered an answer to be given that he could indeed look upon the independence of the united states as existing but that it did not belong to him to acknowledge it because he had not any right to judge of it neither could he guarantee it as he did not intend to enter into a war for its support his majesty in consequence refused an offensive alliance and confined himself to the treaty of amity and commerce but as it was more than probable that the court of london had formed a design of attacking france his majesty thought he ought to enter into an alliance with the united states eventual and purely defensive the stipulations contained in this second treaty are in substance that if france should be attacked by the court of london before the cessation of hostilities between that court and its colonies then the king and the united states should mutually assist each other against the common enemy that the king should guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the united states and that he should not lay down his arms till it should be acknowledged by great britain thus it is manifest that the united states were to be left still to fight their own battles unless great britain should choose to increase the number of her enemies by attacking france in which case it would be as truly the interest of france as of the united states to make it a common cause this last treaty remained secret because it was not in force at the time of concluding it but that of commerce was notified at the court of london march th the first words of the notification are these the united 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the th july induced the court of london to give way to her resentment she displayed her power to chastise the americans and to reduce them by conquest but what has been the fruit of their efforts have they not served to demonstrate to america to all europe and to the court of london herself her importance and the impossibility of her ever hereafter bringing the americans again under her yoke that she had given this demonstration to america is evident by the manner in which congress received the conciliatory bills hastily sent from the court of london to america and communicated by lord gen howe congress were then uninformed of the treaties which their commissioners had lately concluded at paris yet confident in the strength and spirit of their country and of the inability of britain to subdue it they refused unanimously to reject these overtures for peace and conciliation and to hold no conference or treaty with any commissioners on the part of great britain unless as a preliminary they withdrew their fleets and armies or in positive terms acknowledged the independence of these states again it is sufficient for the justification of his majesty that the colonies which form a nation considerable as well for the number of their inhabitants as for the extent of their dominion have established their independence not only by a solemn declaration but also in fact and that they have supported it against the efforts of their mother country such was in effect the situation of the united states when the king began to negotiate with them his majesty had full liberty of considering them as independent or as the subject of britain he chose the first part because his safety the interests of his people invariable policy and above all the secret projects of the court of london imperiously laid him under the necessity the secret projects here referred to were those of reconciliation on terms which might satisfy the united states and produce a reunion and coalition for the purpose of falling upon france to avoid the risk of this combined attack to avoid greater danger in future by preventing the possibility of uniting again the great portions of the british empire separated in fact and thus essentially to diminish its power were the avowed inducements with the court of france to consider the united states as independent having stated these things they ask if there is a sovereign who in the same situation with his majesty would not have imitated his example again he the king of france had the right to consider independent the confederate inhabitants of this immense continent who presented themselves to him with this character especially after their antient sovereign had demonstrated by efforts as continual as painful the impossibility of bringing them back to obedience to complete the justification of his majesty nothing remains but to examine whether what are called reasons of state could have determined his majesty to connect himself with the americans to treat this question with all the clearness of which it is susceptible the political interest of france must be viewed under two different relations the first respects the other powers of europe the second respects great britain in treating with the americans after they became independent the king exercised the right inherent in his sovereignty with no other view than to put an end to the predominant power which england abused in every quarter of the globe the observations then suggest that by this conduct the king has essentially watched over the interest of all the sovereigns of europe by contributing to restrain a power which has always carried to excess the abuse of her resources the court of london having charged the king of france with ambition and the project of demolishing the power of england by his engagements with the americans the observations declare nothing more will be discovered in them his engagements with the united states on the most accurate scrutiny than a diminution of this power a diminution which england has herself provoked by a conduct the most unjust and most irregular and which the tranquility and happiness of europe have for a long time required the most vigilant and consummate prudence could not devile adequate precautions against the enterprises of such a power so that the only means of being secured from it was to seize the opportunity of diminishing it it may then be truly said that on examination of the conduct of the king it was not only just and lawful but even necessary as well for the individual interest of france as for that of all europe i will trouble you with but one more extract from the justificatory observations of the court of france to deceive the other nations with regard to the real motives which have directed the conduct of the king the british ministry maintain that he entered into treaty with the americans not because he feared the secret views of great-britain but because he fore saw that the americans defeated discouraged without support and without resources were about to return to their mother country and that there was not a moment to be lost in reanimating and confirming them in their opposition it was without doubt for the sake of this assertion that the british ministry have thought it beneath the dignity of their sovereign to search for the period at which france formed connections with the united states it might with greater truth be said that this research did not coincide with their plan of defense the king is willing to spare the british ministry a task so disagreeable and embarrassing by observing for them that the conversations which led to the treaties of the th of february were considerably posterior to the capitulation of gen burgoyne now it is notorious that this event elevated the courage and the hopes of the americans as much as it dejected the british nation and principally the court of london if then the king has listened to the propositions of congress after this period so disastrous to the british it has not been and could not have been for any other reason but because he thought with the united states that their independence was thenceforward irrecoverable in these extracts from the observations of the court of france we see an open avowal of her motives for entering into treaties with the united states during our revolution but do such motives afford any strong claims to our gratitude she rejoiced at the prospect of a final separation of the thirteen colonies from great britain she saw them erected by their solemn declaration into independent states but during near three years of our contest she continued waiting for some fortunate event that should ensure stability and ultimate success to our enterprise this event took place in the capture of a whole british army then the king listened to the propositions of congress because he thought with the united states that their independence was irrecoverable he then treated with the americans with no other view than to put an end to the predominant power which england exercised in every quarter of the globe a diminution of this power says the king the tranquility and happiness of europe have for a long time required the only means of being secured from it was to seize the opportunity of diminishing it and he did seize it because his safety the interest of his people invariable policy and above all the secret projects of the court of london imperiously laid him under the necessity after these repeated declarations on the part of france that her only view in contracting engagements with the united states was to diminish the british power and thereby promote the safety and interest of her own people and the tranquility of europe very unexpected indeed are the modern claims of boundless and perpetual gratitude nevertheless animated as we always have been with sincere desires to maintain those useful and friendly connections with france which had their foundation in our revolution we should have remained silent on those claims had not the frequency and manner in which they have been urged compelled their discussion we are not now disposed to question the importance of the aid we actually derived from france in the war of our revolution nor to retract the grateful acknowledgments that all america has from that time offered to that nation we were in the habit of expressing our gratitude to her for the benefits which we received although they resulted from her exertions to advance her own interest and secure her own safety but if those benefits had been rendered from pure benevolence from disinterested good will to us and we had been remiss in acknowledging them it is the part of generosity of magnanimity constantly to upbraid the receivers of their favors with ingratitude do not such reproaches cancel the obligations but if for favors apparently generous substantial returns are demanded the supposed liberal act degenerates and becomes a mercenary bargain if such only are the motives for our gratitude towards france at the commencement of her political and commercial connections with us in the midst of our war with great britain what more can we discover at the conclusion of that war let us examine in with the assistance of a french army by land and a powerful fleet by sea a second british army was captured this event made even the british government despair of bringing the united states again under her subjection the ministry was changed and the parliament passed an act to authorize the king to make peace in the summer of an agent on the part of great britain repaired to paris to negotiate with the commissioners of the united states for some time dr franklin and mr jay were alone at paris the commission to mr oswald the british negotiator authorized him to treat and conclude a peace or truce with any commissioner or commissioners named or to be named by the colonies or plantations of new-hampshire c naming the thirteen or with any of them separately with parts of them or with any persons whatsoever mr jay was not satisfied with this commission to mr oswald the independence of the thirteen states was no where intimated agreeable to their instructions from congress to take advice of the court of france the commissioners communicated mr oswald's commission to the prime minister the count de vergennes the count expressed his opinion that the commission was sufficient that it was such an one as we might have expected it would be that an acknowledgment of our independence instead of preceding must in the natural course of things be the effect of the treaty this opinion the count continued from time to time to repeat in short it was evident the count did not wish to see our independence acknowledged by britain until they had made all their uses of us mr jay still continued unmoved he conferred with mr oswald and urged in the strongest terms the great impropriety and consequently the utter impossibility of our ever treating with great britain on any other than an equal footing and told him plainly that he mr jay would have no concern in any negotiation in which we were not"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|2", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0014.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "further expressed that the king being determined to protect effectually the lawful commerce of his subjects and to maintain the dignity of his flag his majesty has in consequence taken eventual measures in concert with the united states of northamerica the court of london chose to consider this notification as a declaration of war of which they accuse the king as being the author and represent him as the violator of laws divine human c c the act however which has drawn upon the king such odious imputations has for its foundation two incontestible truths the first that at the period of the th of february the americans had the public possession of their independence the second that the king had the right to look upon the independence as existing without being obliged to examine the legality of it and that no law forbade him to form connections with the americans the observations then reciting that the fruitless attempts of the colonies to obtain redress from their mother country in the mode of supplication had induced them to league together to maintain their privileges sword in hand and soon after to publish the solemn act whereby they declared themselves independent say this act which is of the th of july induced the court of london to give way to her resentment she displayed her power to chastise the americans and to reduce them by conquest but what has been the fruit of their efforts have they not served to demonstrate to america to all europe and to the court of london herself her importance and the impossibility of her ever hereafter bringing the americans again under her yoke that she had given this demonstration to america is evident by the manner in which congress received the conciliatory bills hastily sent from the court of london to america and communicated by lord and general howe congress were then uninformed of the treaties which their commissioners had lately concluded at paris yet confident in the strength and spirit of their country and of the inability of britain to subdue it they resolved unanimously to reject these overtures for peace and conciliation and to hold no conference or treaty with any commissioners on the part of greatbritain unless as a preliminary they withdrew their fleets and armies or in positive terms acknowledged the independence of these states again it is sufficient for the justification of his majesty that the colonies which form a nation considerable as well for the number of their inhabitants as for the extent of their dominion have established their independence not only by a solemn declaration but also in fact and that they have supported it against the efforts of their mother country such was in effect the situation of the u states when the king began to negotiate with them his majesty had full liberty of considering them as independent or as the subjects of britain he chose the first part because his safety the interest of his people invariable policy and above all the secret projects of the court of london imperiously laid him under the necessity the secret projects here referred to were those of reconciliation on terms which might satisfy the united states and produce a reunion and coalition for the purpose of falling upon france to avoid the risk of this combined attack to avoid greater danger in future by preventing the possibility of uniting again the great portions of the british empire separated in fact and thus essentially to diminish its power were the avowed inducements with the court of france to consider the united states as independent obs p journals of congress april obs p having stated these things they ask if there is a sovereign who in the same situation with his majesty would not have imitated his example again he the king of fra had the right to consider as independent the confederate inhabitants of an immense continent who presented themselves to him with this character especially after their ancient sovereign had demonstrated by efforts as continual as painful the impossibility of bringing them back to obedience to complete the justification of his majesty nothing remains but to examine whether what are called reasons of state could have determined his majesty to connect himself with the americans to treat this question with all the clearness of which it is susceptible the political interest of france must be viewed under two different relations the first respects the other powers of europe the second respects greatbritain in treating with the americans after they became independent the king exercised the right inherent in his sovereignty with no other view than to put an end to the predominant power with england abused in every quarter of the globe the observations then suggest that by this conduct the king has essentially watched over the interest of all the sovereigns of europe by contributing to restrain a power which has always carried to excess the abuse of her resources the court of london having charged the king of france with ambition and the project of demolishing the power of england by his engagements with the americans the observations declare that nothing more will be discovered in them his engagements with the u states on the most accurate scrutiny than a diminution of this power a diminution which england has herself provoked by a conduct the most unjust and most irregular and which the tranquility and happiness of europe have for a long time required the most vigilant and consummate prudence could not devise adequate precautions against the enterprizes of such a power so that the only means of being secured from it was to seize the opportunity of diminishing it it may then be truly said that on examination of the conduct of the king it was not only just and lawful but even necessary as well for the individual interest of france as for that of all europe i will trouble you with but one more extract from the justificatory observations of the court of france to deceive the other nations with regard to the real motives which have directed the conduct of the king the british ministry maintain that he entered into treaty with the americans not because he feared the secret views of greatbritain but because he foresaw that the americans defeated discouraged without support and without resources were about to return to their mother country and that there was not a moment to be lost in reanimating and confirming them in their opposition it was without doubt for the sake of this assertion that the british ministry have thought it beneath the dignity of their sovereign to search for the period at which france formed connections with the u states it might with greater truth be said that this research did not coincide with their plan of defence the king is willing to spare the british ministry a task so disagreeable and embarrassing by observing for them that the obs p obs p obs p obs p obs p obs p obs p obs p conversations which led to the treaties of the th of feb were considerably posterior to the capitulation of gen burgoyne now it is notorious that this event elevated the courage and the hopes of the americans as much as it dejected the british nation and principally the court of london if then the king has listened to the propositions of congress after this period so disastrous to the british it has not been and could not have been for any other reason but because he thought with the united states that their independence was thenceforward irrevocable in these extracts from the observations of the court of france we see an open avowal of her motives for entering into treaties with the united states during our revolution but do such motives afford any strong claims to our gratitude she rejoiced at the prospect of a final separation of the thirteen colonies from greatbritain she saw them erected by their solemn declaration into independent states but during near three years of our contest she continued waiting for some fortunate event that should ensure stability and ultimate success to our enterprize this event took place in the capture of a whole british army then the king listened to the propositions of congress because he thought with the united states that their independence was irrevocable he then treated with the americans with no other view than to put an end to the predominant power which england exercised in every quarter of the globe a diminution of this power says the king the tranquility and happiness of europe have for a long time required the only means of being secured from it was to seize the opportunity of diminishing it and he did seize it because his safety the interest of his people invariable policy and above all the secret projects of the court of london imperiously laid him under the necessity after these repeated declarations on the part of france that her only view in contracting engagements with the united states was to diminish the british power and thereby promote the safety and interest of her own people and the tranquility of europe very unexpected indeed are the modern claims of boundless and perpetual gratitude nevertheless animated as we always have been with sincere desires to maintain those useful and friendly connections with france which had their foundation in our revolution we should have remained silent on these claims had not the frequency and manner in which they have been urged compelled their discussion we are not now disposed to question the importance of the aid we actually derived from france in the war of our revolution nor to retract the grateful acknowledgments that all america has from that time offered to that nation we were in the habit of expressing our gratitude to her for the benefits which we received although they resulted from her exertions to advance her own interest and secure her own safety but if those benefits had been rendered from pure benevolence from disinterested good will to us and we had been remiss in acknowledging them is it the part of generosity of magnanimity constantly to upbraid the receivers of their favors with ingratitude do not such reproaches cancel the obligation but if for favors apparently generous substantial returns are demanded the supposed liberal act degenerates and becomes a mercenary bargain if such only are the motives for our gratitude towards france at the commencement of her political and commercial connections with us in the midst of our war with greatbritain what 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"negotiations with the english government seem to take rather a more favorable turn to-day the directory have acknowledged the principle of compensation besides their last reply does not bear those marks of harshness and severity which characterized their former notes this is one advantage which we owe to the publication of the correspondence the opinion of the public was decidedly pronounced against the rude forms they had adopted in their negotiations and our negotiator has therefore deemed it prudent to change those forms december gen vaubois has been suspended by buonaparte he did not execute his orders and thus caused part of his plan to fail the russian forces under gen su bow according to letters from poland have been defeated in an engagement with the persians the former were compelled to retreat with the loss of men gen pichegru is at length going as ambassador to sweden to compliment the new king on his accession if we are to trust to the letters from italy mantua must be at 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sterling have been sold at guadalupe a court of vice-admiralty was this day held before the worthy robert thomson judge of the said court for the trial of the ship grand turk captured by his majesty's ship vengeance capt russell the trial was not over when this paper"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2584, 2765], "b_span": [1890, 2071], "matched_words": 171, "similarity": 0.9447513812154696, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00331", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-25|1|3", "date": "1797-02-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "minister of the king at petersburg he has brought the important news of the death of the empress of russia the princess appearing in perfect health after rising very early in the morning of the th nov had entered her cabinet she was there surprised with an apoplectic attack every remedy was applied but without effect she expired towards evening the grand duke her son was not at the moment in peterburgh at his arrival there he was received with great demonstrations of attachment on the part of the people and was proclaimed emperor immediately after the death of his mother the letter goes on to state after mentioning that catherine ii was born may and consequently that she was in the th year of her age that her only son and successor paul petrovitz was born oct and has at present two sons and three daughters by a second marriage with marie fedorovna princess of wurtemberg stuttgart and that the new emperor has confirm in his post at the head of the department for foreign affairs the vice chancellor count"}, 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after mentioning that catharine ii was born may and consequently that she was in the th year of her age that her only son and successor paul petrovitz was born october and has at present two sons and three daughters by a second marriage with marie fedorowna princess of wertenberg stuguard and that the new emperor has confirmed in his posts at the head of the department for foreign affairs the vice chancellor count"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4337, 4558], "b_span": [942, 1159], "matched_words": 208, "similarity": 0.9497716894977168, "seeds": 33, "id": "M00332", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|2", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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two fires since yesterday general davidovich was to begin his march with the remainder of his force indeed we hear this instant that he has removed his headquarters from ala to peri and that our troops push forwards on all sides against the french posted behind rivoli it is believed that tomorrow they will be attacked an undertaking which may be expected to succeed provided general alvinzy on his part should advance towards verona"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "his army a movement which put the enemy's corps in danger of being cut off it is moreover at present believed to be ascertained that the french troops which had advanced by the mountains on the side of peri to take our forces by flank do not exceed men thus the retreat of gen davidovich dictated by prudence has given rise to other dispositions which announce the march of our forces again towards peri the commander after having reunited his forces in the environs of ala has pushed forward several battalions and squadrons which have driven the enemy's detachments from the points where they still made their appearance he detached at the same time a corps of men composed in part of riflemen to post themselves above valle fredda in order to cut off the french and put them if possible between two fires since yesterday gen davidovich was to begin his march with the remainder of his force indeed we hear this instant that he had removed his head quarters from ala to peri and that our troops push forward on all sides against the french posted behind rivoli it is believed that tomorrow they will be attacked an undertaking which may be expected to succeed provided gen alvinzy on his part should advance towards verona"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4559, 4663], "b_span": [691, 794], "matched_words": 97, "similarity": 0.9371980676328503, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00333", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|2", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from vicenza of nov the successes obtained in this dreadful war on our frontier have proved but momentary general davidovich a victor in the affair of rivoli the th of the month is obliged quickly to retreat with the loss of part of his rear-guard the news is received here that in consequence of this disadvantageous conflict which took place on the st he was obliged to fall back on the side of ala on the frontiers of tyrol nevertheless general alvinzy being informed of the victory of rivoli advanced towards verona he proceeded near to caldiero when he heard of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from vicenza of november the successes obtained in this dreadful war on our frontier have proved but momentary gen davidovich a victor in the affair of rivoli the th of the month is obliged quickly to retreat with the loss of his rear guard the news is received here that in consequence of the disadvantageous conflict which took place on the st he was obliged to fall back on the side of ala on the frontiers of tyrol nevertheless gen alvinzy being informed of the victory of rivoli advanced towards verona he proceeded near to caldiero when he heard of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4051, 4653], "b_span": [6, 608], "matched_words": 574, "similarity": 0.9534883720930233, "seeds": 102, "id": "M00334", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|2", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from trent of the th november it was after having advanced in consequence of the success at rivoli and establishing his headquarters near castelnuovo in the expectation of being able to effect without loss of time his junction with general alvinzy that lieutenant field marshal davidovich was informed that the latter alvinzy after having had the worst of it at the end of a combat of three successive days had judged it necessary to fall back towards montebelluna as by this movement the passes which lead from the veronese to tirol were laid open a french corps issued on the st of this month from the mountains in the neighbourhood of peri threatening to turn the flank and hold in check the forces of general davidovich which were then beyond campana in consequence this general brought fit to make a retrograde movement and after finding off the artillery and reserve of military stores he caused his troops immediately to retreat the battalions d'elbach and latterman which protected the retreat have suffered a good deal from the fire which the french kept up from the heights the bridge which had been established before dolez was abandoned and yesterday morning the french set fire to it but they have not remained in the position they were taking before daylight yesterday they quitted all their positions as well at peri as at offemigo and st andre and also those of foffo st anne broconio c the troops which had occupied them fell back on the side towards verona this sudden retreat is attributed to a new movement that general alvinzy informed of the advantage obtained by the forces and davidovich has again made in advance with his army a movement which put the enemy's corps in danger of being cut off it is moreover at present believed to be ascertained that the french troops which had advanced by the mountains on the side of peri to take our forces in flank do not exceed three thousand men thus the retreat of general davidovich dictated by prudence has given rise to other dispositions which announce the march of our forces again towards peri the commander after having reunited his forces in the environs of ala has pushed forward several battalions and squadrons which have driven the enemy's detachments from the points where they till made their appearance he detached at the same time a corps of one thousand men composed in part of riflemen to post themselves above valle fredda in order to cut off the french and to put them if possible between two fires since yesterday general davidovich was to begin his march with the remainder of his force indeed we hear this instant that he has removed his headquarters from ala to peri and that our troops push forwards on all sides against the french posted behind rivoli it is believed that tomorrow they will be attacked an undertaking which may be expected to succeed provided general alvinzy on his part should advance towards verona extract of a letter from vicenza of nov the successes obtained in this dreadful war on our frontier have proved but momentary general davidovich a victor in the affair of rivoli the th of the month is obliged quickly to retreat with the loss of part of his rear-guard the news is received here that in consequence of this disadvantageous conflict which took place on the st he was obliged to fall back on the side of ala on the frontiers of tyrol nevertheless general alvinzy being informed of the victory of rivoli advanced towards"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-05|1|2", "date": "1797-04-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040501/0806.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from trent of the th november it was after having advanced in consequence of the success at rivoli and establishing his head quarters near calliano in the expectation of being able to effect without loss of time his junction with general alvinzy that lieutenant field marshal davidovich was informed that the latter alvinzy after having had the worst of it at the end of a combat of three successive days had judged it necessary to fall back towards montebello as by this movement the passes which lead from the veronese to tyrol were laid open a french corps issued on the st of his month from the mountains in the neighbourhood of peri threatening to turn the flank and hold in check the forces of general davidovich which were then beyond campana in consequence this general thought fit to make a retrograde movement and after sending off the artillery and reserve of military stores he caused his troops immediately to retreat the battalions d'ehrbach and latterman which protected the retreat have suffered a good deal from the fire which the french kept up from the heights the bridge which had been established before dolce was abandoned and yesterday morning the french set fire to it but they had not remained in the position they were taking before day-light yesterday they quitted all their positions as well at peri as at ollenigo and st andre and also those of tollo st anne brennero c the troops which had occupied them fell back on the side towards verona this sudden retreat is attributed to a new movement that general alvinzy informed of the advantage obtained by the forces under davidovich has again made an advance with his army a movement which put the enemy's corps in danger of being cut off it is moreover at present believed to be ascertained that the french troops which had advanced by the mountains on the side of peri to take our forces in flank do not exceed men thus the retreat of general davidovich dictated by prudence has given rise to other dispositions which announce the march of our forces again towards peri the commander after having re-united his forces in the environs of ala has pushed forward several battalions and squadrons which have driven the enemy's detachments from the points where they still made their appearance he detached at the same time a corps of one thousand men composed in part of riflemen to post themselves above valle-freda in order to cut off the french and to put them if possible between two fires since yesterday general davidovich was to begin his march with the remainder of his force indeed we hear this instant that he has removed his head quarters from ala to peri and that our troops push forward on all sides against the french posted behind rivoli it is believed that to-morrow they will be attacked an undertaking which may be expected to succeed provided general alvinzy on his part should advance towards verona extract of a letter from vicenza of november the successes obtained in this dreadful war on our frontier have proved but momentary general davidovich a victor in the affair of rivoli the th of this month is obliged quickly to retreat with the loss of part of his rear guard the news is received here that in consequence of this disadvantageous conflict which took place on the st he was obliged to fall back on the side of ala on the frontiers of tyrol nevertheless general alvinzy being informed of the victory of rivoli advanced towards"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [66, 1128], "b_span": [540, 1611], "matched_words": 1034, "similarity": 0.9695264885138303, "seeds": 202, "id": "M00335", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|2", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the rod which stings us with unprovoked lashes what logic what magic can render innocent or venial in france that which was so criminal and odious in great-britain the pretext we know of france is that we have permitted great-britain to treat us in the same manner and that she acts on the principle of a just retaliation and her deluded or debauched adherents are mean or prostitute enough to re-echo the excuse let us grant for argument's sake all that can be pretended on this subject namely that through want of energy in our administration or from the opinion which it entertained of the situation of the country there has been too much patience under the oppressions of great-britain is this really a justification to france is a defect of vigour in the government of one country or an under estimate of its means for repelling injury a sufficient cause for another government in vain in profession of friendship to imitate towards it the aggressions which it has suffered from an oppressor what in private life would be said of the man who calling himself the friend of another because the last had too passively allowed a third the enemy of both to wrest from him a portion of his property should deduce from this a pretext to strip him of the remainder has language epithets too severe for such a character is not the guilt of unjust violence in a case like this aggravated by that of hypocrisy and perfidy but this is not our only reply the truth is and a truth we may boldly proclaim that we never did tolerate the aggressions of great-britain that we have steadily resisted them and resisted with success in the respectable attitude of an armed negotiation seconded by the self-denying and very influential measure of an embargo we sent to demand a revocation of the orders under which we suffered and retribution for the losses which we had sustained the orders were revoked and the retribution has been stipulated and the stipulation is in a course of honorable and liberal execution the redress of ancient grievances on the ground of a reciprocity demanded by every principle of rectitude has been superadded to that of more recent ones our flag at this moment proudly waves on the ramparts which had been so long detained from us and indian butcheries along the whole extent of our vast frontier have been terminated more than this the redress obtained from great-britain was a principal cause of the happy accommodation of our dispute with spain the recognition of our right to navigate the mississippi and of the establishment of a southern boundary equal to our most sanguine wishes these are the fruits and immense fruits they are of a vigorous though temperate resistance to the aggressions of great-britain tis therefore in every sense false that our government has permitted great-britain to do as france is now doing except here and there the accidental irregularity of the commander of a particular ship there is not one clear right which the laws of nations entitle us to claim that is not now respected by great-britain and to a degree unusual in the history of the treatment of neutral nations by great belligerent powers it follows that the suggestion on which france bottoms her ill-treatment of us is a frivolous and a colourless pretext tis to confound all just ideas to consider a temporary forbearance as a permission or acquiescence to pretend to retaliate upon an injured party the injury which it has endured from another to pretend above all to retaliate that injury after it has passed has ceased and has been redressed we are bound then to conclude that our real crime in the eye of france is that we had the temerity to think and to act for ourselves and did not plunge headlong into war with great-britain that the principal streams of our commerce from the natural relations of demand and supply flow through the channels of her commerce and that the booty which it offers to rapacity exceeds the organized means of protection but a country containing five millions of people the second in the number of its seamen that prime sinew of maritime force with a varied industry and an export of sixty millions understanding its rights not deficient in spirit to vindicate them if compelled against its will to exert its strength and resources will under the guidance of faithful and patriotic counsels be at no loss to convince its despoilers that there is as much folly as wickedness in such a calculation this reflection ought at once to console and to animate us though the remembrance of former friendship and a spirit of virtuous moderation will induce us still to wish that there may be some error in appearances that the views of france are not as violent and as hostile as they seem to be that an amicable explanation may yet dispel the impending clouds and brighten the political horizon with a happy reconciliation americus this consequence was foreseen and foretold and the prediction is confirmed by that part of the declaration of war of spain against great-britain which makes it a charge against the latter that in the treaty with the united states she had no respect or consideration for the known rights of spain and in the sudden disappearance after that treaty of the objects which had so long impeded our negotiations"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-15|1|1", "date": "1797-05-15", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797051501/0081.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it to france or what consolation to us that she our boasted friend and benefactress treats us only not worse than a power which is stigmatised as an envious rival and an implacable foe the conduct of great britain appealed to in justification of france was admitted by all to be inexcusable the gallic factions thought it so extreme as to call for immediate reprisals the real patriots differed from them only in thinking that an armed negotiation to end in reprisals if unattended with success was preferable to immediate hostility how dare the men who at that period were the clamorous champions of our national dignity how dare they i ask now to stand forth the preachers not of moderation for in the propriety of this all unite but of tame submission of a servility abject enough to love and cherish the hand which despoils us to kiss the rod which stings us with unprovoked lashes what logic what magic can render innocent or venal in france that which was so criminal and odious in great-britain the pretext we know of france is that we have permitted great britain to treat us in the same manner and that she acts on the principle of a just retaliation and her deluded or debauched adherents are mean or prostitute enough to re-echo the excuse let us grant for argument sake all that can be pretended on this subject namely that through want of energy in our administration or from the opinion which is entertained of the situation of the country there has been too much patience under the aggressions of great britain is this really a justification to france is a defect of vigour in the government of one country or an under estimate of its means for repelling injury a sufficient cause for another government lavish in professions of friendship to imitate towards it the aggressions which it has suffered from an oppressor what in private life would be said of the man who calling himself the friend of another because the last had too passively allowed a third the enemy of both to wrest from him a portion of his property should deduce from this a pretext to strip him of the remainder has language epithets too severe for such a character is not the guilt of unjust violence in a case like this aggravated by that of hypocrisy and perfidy but this is not our only reply the truth is and a truth we may boldly proclaim that we never did tolerate the aggressions of great-britain that we have steadily resisted them and resisted with success in the respectable attitude of an armed negotiation seconded by the self-denying and very influential measure of an embargo we sent to demand a revocation of the orders under which we suffered and retribution for the losses which we had sustained the orders were revoked and the retribution has been stipulated and the stipulation is in a course of honorable and liberal execution the redress of ancient grievances on the ground of a reciprocity demanded by every principle of rectitude has been superadded to that of more recent ones our flag at this moment proudly waves on the ramparts which had been so long detained from us and indian butcheries along the whole extent of our vast frontier have been terminated more than this the redress obtained from great-britain was a principal cause of the happy accommodation of our dispute with spain of the recognition of our right to navigate the mississippi and of the establishment of a southern boundary equal to our most sanguine wishes these are the fruits and immense fruits they are of a vigorous though temperate resistance to the aggressions of great britain tis therefore in every sense false that our government has permitted great britain to do as france is now doing except here and there the accidental irregularity of the commander or commanders of a particular ship there is not one clear right which the laws of nations entitle us to claim that is not now respected by great britain and to a degree unusual in the history of the treatment of neutral nations by great belligerent powers it follows that the suggestion on which france bottoms her ill treatment of us is a frivolous and a colourless pretext tis to confound all just ideas to consider a temporary forbearance as a permission or acquiescence to pretend to retaliate upon an injured party the injury which it has endured from another to pretend above all to retaliate that injury after it has passed has been redressed we are bound then to conclude that our real crime in the eye of france is that we had the temerity to think and act for ourselves and did not plunge headlong into war with great britain that the principal streams of our commerce from the natural relations of demand and supply flow through the channels of her commerce and that the booty which it offers to rapacity exceeds the organised means of protection but a country containing five millions of people the second in the number of its seamen that prime finew of maritime force with a varied industry and an export of sixty millions understanding its rights not deficient in spirit to vindicate them if compelled against its will to exert its strength and resources will under the guidance of faithful and patriotic councils be at no loss to conceive its despoilers that there is as much folly as wickedness in such a calculation this reflection ought at once to console and to animate us though the remembrance of former friendship and a spirit of virtuous moderation will induce us still to wish that there may be some error in appearances that the views of france are not as violent and as hostile as they seem to be that an amicable explanation may yet dispel the impending clouds and brighten the political horizon with a happy reconciliation americus this consequence was foreseen and foretold and the prediction was confirmed by that part of the declaration of war of spain against great britain which makes it a charge against the latter that in the treaty with the united states for she had no respect or consideration for the known rights of spain and in the sudden disappearance after that treaty of the obstacles which had so long impeded our negotiations"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [584, 1068], "b_span": [651, 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they keep up a brisk fire on the austrian batteries they communicate by a flying bridge with huningue extract from the national gazette of france basle november the austrians having damaged the bridge of huningue so as to render it impassable great hopes were entertained by the prince of furstenberg he summoned gen abatucci to deliver up in the space of a quarter of an hour the head of the bridge all the intrenchments all the batteries and all the cannon which were on the right of the rhine here is the answer which was given whatever may be the idea you have formed of the critical position in which you suppose i find myself i have the honor to assure you that i am ready at any instant to convince you of your error this also will inform you that i am as little disposed to accept the shameful capitulation you have proposed the country of baden continues to be ill-treated by the austrians the house of the baron de reitzenstein has been plundered and destroyed by them this is the same baron de reitzenstein who concluded a peace for his prince and is still at paris december yesterday at o'clock a second austrian flag of truce proposed the surrender of the fort of huningue or at least its evacuation on a promise that it should be restored at the opening of the campaign in the same state in which it was surrendered gen abatucci answered that to obtain the fort it was necessary to take it when the flag had returned with this answer the artillery of both armies commenced a most terrible fire which is still heard at past in the evening they assaulted the first fort which is separated from the other by an arm of the rhine all the french garrison immediately retired into the rear fort the artillery then ceased to play on both sides and in its place a fire of musketry was sustained which continued an hour after midnight never was there a more murderous conflict those of the austrians who were not driven from the fort perished there the austrians lost ten times more than the french the dead exceed two thousand abatucci received four wounds two with a sabre one bullet and a stroke with a cannon ball in his shoulder at this instant the cannon are again heard a courier direct from"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-09|1|3", "date": "1797-03-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797030901/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "austrians made an attack on the bridge at huningue and isle du rhin the action lasted till o'clock in the morning with the greatest obstinacy the imperial troops attempted with the greatest bravery to storm the intrenchments three several times but obstacles innumerable rendered all their efforts ineffectual col gesler was killed at the commencement of the action it is expected a new attack will be made this night the french continue to hold the isle from which they keep up a brisk fire on the austrian batteries they communicate by a flying bridge with huningue extra from the national gazette of france bagle november the austrians having damag'd the bridge of huningue so as to render it impassible great hopes were entertained by the prince of fursenberg he summoned gen abatucci to deliver up in the space of a quarter of an hour the head of the bridge all the entrenchments all the batteries and all the cannon which were on the right of the rhine here is the answer which was given whatever may be the idea you have formed of the critical position in which you suppose i find myself i have the honor to assure you that i am ready at any instant to convince you of your error this also will inform you that i am as little disposed to accept the shameful capitulation you have proposed the country of baden continues to be ill treated by the austrians the house of the baron de reizenstein has been plundered and destroyed by them this is the same baron de reizenstein who concluded a peace for his prince and is still at paris december yesterday at o'clock a second austrian flag of truce proposed the surrender of the fort of huningue or at least its evacuation on a promise that it should be restored at the opening of the campaign in the same state in which it was surrendered general abatucci answered that to obtain the fort it was necessary to take it when the flag had returned with this answer the artillery of both armies commenced a most terrible fire which is still heard at half past nine in the evening they assaulted the first fort which is separated from the other by an arm of the rhine all the french garrison immediately retired into the rear fort the artillery then ceased to play on both sides and in its place a fire of musquetry was sustained which continued an hour after midnight never was there a more murderous conflict none of the austrians who were not driven from the fort perished there the austrians lost ten times more than the french the dead exceed two thousand abatucci received four wounds two with a fabre one bullet and a stroke with a cannon ball in his shoulder at this instant the cannon are again heard a courier direct from"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [684, 1477], "b_span": [25, 825], "matched_words": 764, "similarity": 0.9591964846202135, "seeds": 136, "id": "M00337", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|3", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from the national gazette of france basle november the austrians having damaged the bridge of huningue so as to render it impassable great hopes were entertained by the prince of furstenberg he summoned gen abatucci to deliver up in the space of a quarter of an hour the head of the bridge all the intrenchments all the batteries and all the cannon which were on the right of the rhine here is the answer which was given whatever may be the idea you have formed of the critical position in which you suppose i find myself i have the honor to assure you that i am ready at any instant to convince you of your error this also will inform you that i am as little disposed to accept the shameful capitulation you have proposed the country of baden continues to be ill-treated by the austrians the house of the baron de reitzenstein has been plundered and destroyed by them this is the same baron de reitzenstein who concluded a peace for his prince and is still at paris december yesterday at o'clock a second austrian flag of truce proposed the surrender of the fort of huningue or at least its evacuation on a promise that it should be restored at the opening of the campaign in the same state in which it was surrendered gen abatucci answered that to obtain the fort it was necessary to take it when the flag had returned with this answer the artillery of both armies commenced a most terrible fire which is still heard at past in the evening they assaulted the first fort which is separated from the other by an arm of the rhine all the french garrison immediately retired into the rear fort the artillery then ceased to play on both sides and in its place a fire of musketry was sustained which continued an hour after midnight never was there a more murderous conflict those of the austrians who were not driven from the fort perished there the austrians lost ten times more than the french the dead exceed two thousand abatucci received four wounds two with a sabre one bullet and a stroke with a cannon ball in his shoulder at this instant the cannon are again heard a courier direct from vienna passed this yesterday he is bound to paris letter from general buonaparte to the executive directory verona th frimaire th november i have informed you citizen directors by my last letter that general vaubois had been obliged to abandon the post of rivoli and that the enemy had already arrived at castel-nuovo i improved the route of the enemy at arcole by causing the division of general massena immediately to repass the adige who effected a junction at villa franca with general vaubois and united they marched to castel-nuovo the st frimaire november whilst the division of general angereau ascended the heights of st anne to cut the valley of adige to dolce and by this means to cut off the retreat of the enemy general joubert commanding the advanced guard of the division of massena and vaubois united attacked the enemy upon the heights of campari after a slight action we overtook and surrounded a corps of the enemy's rear guard and made prisoners among which is the colonel of the regiment d'erbach a body of or men attempting to save themselves were drowned in the adige we did not content ourselves with retaking rivoli and corona we pursued the enemy to preseano angereau in the mean time had engaged a body of the enemy in the heights of st anne and dispersed it he made prisoners was arrived at dolce burnt two equipages of pontoons on laqueta and took some baggage general wurmsfer made a sally from mantua yesterday at o'clock a m the cannonade lasted the whole day general kilmaine made him return as usual with greater speed than he came out with the loss of prisoners an howitzer and two pieces of cannon wurmsfer commanded this sally in person this is the third time general kilmaine writes me that wurmsfer has attempted a sortie and always with as little success wurmsfer is successful only in the journals which the enemies of the republic fabricate at paris buonaparte general buonaparte to citoyenne muiron muiron died at my side immediately at the battle of arcole you have lost a husband who was dear i have lost a friend to whom i had long been attached but the country has lost more than we by losing an officer equally distinguished by his talents as by his singular courage if i can render any service to you or your children i request you to repose entire confidence in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|3", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0251.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from the national gazette of france basle nov the austrians having damaged the bridge of huningue so as to render it impassable great hopes were entertained by the prince of furstenberg he summoned gen abatucci to deliver up in the space of a quarter of an hour the head of the bridge all the intrenchments all the batteries and all the cannon which were on the right of the rhine here is the answer which was given whatever may be the idea you have formed of the critical position in which you suppose i find myself i have the honor to assure you that i am ready at any instant to convince you of your error this also will inform you that i am as little disposed to accept the shameful capitulation you have proposed the country of baden continues to be ill-treated by the austrians the house of the baron de reizenstein has been plundered and destroyed by them this is the same baron de reizenstein who concluded a peace for his prince and is still at paris december yesterday at o'clock a second austrian flag of truce proposed the surrender of the fort of huningue or at least its evacuation on a promise that it should be restored at the opening of the campaign in the same state in which it was surrendered gen abatucci answered that to obtain the fort it was necessary to take it when the flag had returned with this answer the artillery of both armies commenced a most terrible fire which is still heard at half past nine in the evening they assaulted the first fort which is separated from the other by an army of the rhine all the french garrison immediately retired into the rear fort the artillery then ceased to play on both sides and in its place a fire of musketry was sustained which continued an hour after midnight never was there a more murderous conflict those of the austrians who were not driven from the fort perished there the austrians lost ten times more than the french the dead exceed two thousand abatucci received wounds two with a sabre one bullet and a stroke with a cannon ball in his shoulder at this instant the cannon are again heard a courier direct from vienna passed this yesterday he is bound to paris official letters army of italy letter from gen buonaparte to the executive directory verona th frimaire th nov i have informed you citizen directors by my last letter that general vaubois had been obliged to abandon the post of rivoli and that the enemy had already arrived at castel-novo i improved the rout of the enemy at arcola by causing the division of general massena immediately to repass the adige who effected a junction at villa franca with gen vaubois and united they marched to castel-novo the st frimaire november whilst the division of gen angeureau ascended the heights of st anne to cut the valley of adige to dolce and by this means to cut off the retreat of the enemy gen joubert commanding the advanced guard of the divisions of massena and vaubois united attacked the enemy upon the heights of camera after a slight action we overtook and surrounded a corps of the enemy's rear guard and made prisoners among which is the colonel of the regiment d'erbach a body of or men attempting to save themselves were drowned in the adige we did not content ourselves with retaking rivoli and corona we pursued the enemy to breabano angeureau in the mean time had engaged a body of the enemy in the heights of st anne and dispersed it he made prisoners was arrived at dolce burnt two equipages of pantoons on laqueta and took some baggage gen wurmfur made a sally from mantua yesterday at o'clock a m the cannonade lasted the whole day gen kilmaine made him return as usual with greater speed than he came out with the loss of prisoners an howitzer and two pieces of cannon wurmfur commanded this sally in person this is the third time gen kilmaine writes me that wurmfur has attempted a sortie and always with as little success wurmfur is successful only in the journals which the enemies of the republic fabricate at paris signed buonaparte gen buonaparte to citoyenne muiron muiron died at my side immediately at the battle of arcola you have lost a husband who was dear i have lost a friend to whom i had long been attached but the country has lost more than we by losing an officer equally distinguished by his talents as by his singular courage if i can render any service to you or your children i request you to repose entire confidence in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [6, 90], "b_span": [803, 887], "matched_words": 81, "similarity": 0.9642857142857143, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00338", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|3", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "fell back to vicenza on his way as far in the rear as bassano in order to secure his baggage and to concert fresh operations in the alternative of these fruitless efforts to effect the junction of the two imperial armies it is uncertain what will be the final result in respect to mantua the blockade of which was prematurely stated to be raised and where marshal wurmsfer appears to be in want of sufficient force to co-operate effectually with the armies which came"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "fell back to vicenza on his way as far in the rear as bassano in order to secure his baggage and to concert fresh operations in the alternative of these fruitless efforts to effect the junction of the two imperial armies it is uncertain what will be the final event with respect to mantua the blockade of which was prematurely stated to be raised and where marshal wurmser appears to be in want of sufficient force to co-operate effectually with the armies which came"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2519, 2788], "b_span": [362, 628], "matched_words": 256, "similarity": 0.9570093457943926, "seeds": 49, "id": "M00339", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|3", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th and th of this month th nov to st dec the enemy attempted to carry by assault the tete-du-pont of huningen about o'clock at night three columns advanced upon the front and the fall of the half-moon precipitated themselves upon it forced the gates and escalated the work which our troops were obliged to abandon and retreated to a horn work which the enemy forthwith attempted the general abatucci who defended the gate of this work rendered their efforts abortive and perceiving that the fire which he made from the horn work upon the half moon was not sufficient to drive the enemy thence who attempted on the contrary to establish himself there that brave general determined upon a sortie in order to expel them thence which was executed with a courage above all eulogy our brave soldiers charged the enemy with an intrepidity of which there are few examples and at length succeeded in dislodging them from all the works which they left covered with the dead the pursuit would have been still more murderous had it not been for the wound received by the general abatucci it is severe but hopes are entertained that it will not be dangerous the chief of brigade vigne has likewise been wounded in this bloody affair we have made one hundred prisoners of the enemy but their loss in killed and wounded amounts to or men his right column has violated the swiss territory our ambassador has made his remonstrances on this subject the general ferino who gives the account of these events passes the highest eulogiums on the bravery"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th and th of this month th nov to st of dec the enemy attempted to carry by assault the tete-du-pont of huningue about o'clock at night three columns advanced upon the front and the salient of the half-moon precipitated themselves upon it forced the gates and escaladed the work which our troops were obliged to abandon and retreated to a horn work which the enemy forthwith attempted the gen abatucci who defended the gate of this work rendered their efforts abortive and perceiving that the fire which he made from the horn work upon the half-moon was not sufficient to drive the enemy thence who attempted on the contrary to establish himself there that brave general determined upon a fortie in order to expel them thence which was executed with a courage above all eulogy our brave soldiers charged the enemy with an intrepidity of which there are few examples and at length succeeded in dislodging them from all the works which they left covered with the dead the pursuit would have been still more murderous had it not been for the wound received by gen abatucci it is severe but hopes are entertained that it will not be dangerous the chief of brigade vigne has likewise been wounded in this bloody affair we have made prisoners of the enemy but their loss in killed and wounded amount to or men his right column has violated the swiss territory our ambassador has made his remonstrances on this subject the gen ferino who gives the account of these events passes the highest eulogiums on the bravery"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [6, 220], "b_span": [627, 841], "matched_words": 208, "similarity": 0.9719626168224299, "seeds": 43, "id": "M00340", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-02-27|1|3", "date": "1797-02-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-02-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797022701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "fell back to vicenza on his way as far in the rear as bassano in order to secure his baggage and to concert fresh operations in the alternative of these fruitless efforts to effect the junction of the two imperial armies it is uncertain what will be the final result in respect to mantua the blockade of which was prematurely stated to be raised and where marshal wurmsfer appears to be in want of sufficient force to co-operate effectually with the armies which came to relieve him letter from general buonaparte to general clark verona november your nephew elliot was slain in the field of battle at arcole this young man had become well acquainted with arms he often marched at the head of the columns he would have been hereafter a valuable officer he died with glory facing the enemy and did not suffer one instant who would not envy such a death who is there that contemplating the changes of life would not claim the privilege of quitting the world in such a manner among us has not an hundred times lamented that he had not thus got out of the reach of calumny of envy and of all the hateful passions which seem almost exclusively to direct the conduct of mankind"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-05|1|2", "date": "1797-04-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040501/0806.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "fell back to vicenza on his way as far in the rear as bassano in order to secure his baggage and to concert fresh operations in the alternative of these fruitless efforts to effect the junction of the two imperial armies it is uncertain what will be the final event in respect to mantua the blockade of which was prematurely stated to be raised and where marshal wurmsler appears to be in want of sufficient force to cooperate effectually with the armies which came to relieve him letter from general buonaparte to general clark your nephew elliot was slain in the field of battle at arcole this young man had become well acquainted with arms he often marched at the head of the columns he would have been hereafter a valuable officer he died with glory facing the enemy and did not suffer one instant who would not envy such a death who is there that contemplating the changes of life would not claim the privilege of quitting this worthless world in such a manner who among us has not an hundred times lamented that he had not thus got out of the reach of calumny of envy and of all the hateful passions which seem almost exclusively to direct the conduct of mankind"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [52, 132], "b_span": [2154, 2234], "matched_words": 77, "similarity": 0.9625, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00341", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|1", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassius for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore defers on them at some length but with so many aberrations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-06|1|1", "date": "1797-04-06", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797040601/0241.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having briefly noticed several cases by name seems to reserve those of the vengeance and cassus for a full display of unwarrantable conduct in the government and courts of the united states and therefore discants on them at some length but with so many abberations from the facts with so many erroneous ideas concerning our jurisprudence and so many injurious insinuations respecting our courts and their officers it will be necessary that you should learn the true history of these"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [137, 891], "b_span": [1495, 2248], "matched_words": 737, "similarity": 0.9781021897810219, "seeds": 151, "id": "M00342", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|1", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at newyork with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las austrias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses is the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clashing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon inquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with his official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate council in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there never were causes in which more contradictory and irreconcileable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other causes gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance failed from newyork and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informer was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed while the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district court of newyork in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeur la vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnature and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|1", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0245.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the french privateer la vengeance for the full history of this privateer and her prize i must refer you to the documents in the case the principal facts are these about the latter end of june or beginning of july the privateer la vengeance arrived at new york with a valuable spanish prize called the princesa de las asturias don diego pintado the owner commenced a suit for his vessel on the ground that she had been taken by an illegal privateer the suit was instituted by mr troup not wantonly but upon information which was afterwards verified by the oaths of several witnesses in the progress of the cause these witnesses were contradicted by the witnesses produced on behalf of the captors for whom a decree was finally given the clothing evidence preponderating in the judge's opinion in favor of the captors but he expressly declared that there was probable cause for the seizure after this suit for the prize had been commenced the spanish consul complained to mr harrison the district attorney in his official capacity of a violation of law on the part of the privateer la vengeance in consequence of which a spanish subject had been injured mr harrison upon enquiry found at least a probability that the complaint respecting the privateer was true this probability arose from what he considered as affording the certainty of material proof and therefore in conformity with this official duty commenced a prosecution on the act of congress forbidding the arming of privateers in our ports the decision of this and of the prize cause depended on the same evidence the decision being in favor of the captors mr harrison acquiesced in it as it respected the privateer and he united with his associate council in the prize cause in advising the like submission in that case but the spanish consul deemed it his duty to pursue the claim to the court in the last resort this can warrant no complaint for mr harrison remarks that perhaps there were causes in which more contradiction and irreconcileable evidence was offered and in which the minds of the auditors were more divided as to the real state of facts the second public suit against the privateer was for exporting arms and ammunition from the united states when such exportation was prohibited by law the evidence which appeared in the other cases gave rise to this prosecution and upon the trial the judge condemned the privateer an appeal from this sentence was interposed by the french consul the appeal was heard in the circuit court and upon new evidence the sentence of the district court was reversed mr adet complains that while one suit was pending for the prize and another against the privateer the district attorney should exhibit a second information against the privateer on which she was arrested anew for having exported arms in violation of a law of the united states which was in force when the vengeance sailed from new-york and that this information was filed on the simple declaration of mr giles the marshal of the court who as informant was to share part of the confiscation as mr harrison remarks it was in favor of the privateer that this second information was filed noble the first was pending because it saved time had he postponed the latter until the first had been decided there might have been some foundation for a charge of unnecessary delay mr harrison's state of the case shews that this second information was not made on the declaration of the marshal but on the evidence that appeared on the examination of the first mr adet having been pleased to censure the conduct of the attorney clerk and marshal of the district of new-york in justice to them i have added to the other documents in this case the letters of mr harrison and mr troup they will answer the double purpose of justifying them and of vindicating our government and tribunals mr adet particularly notices the papers he had received from st domingo proving as he says in the most convincing manner that the vengeance la vengeance had arrived at port de paix without any armament or equipment whatever and that she had been sold armed and equipped wholly and commissioned as a privateer on the territory of the republic these documents were certificates of the general the ordonnateur and of the greater part of the principal officers of st domingo c he hastened to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [897, 1843], "b_span": [0, 946], "matched_words": 921, "similarity": 0.9735729386892178, "seeds": 181, "id": "M00343", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|1", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and to request him to order the attorney of newyork district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of october st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of oct d that he received them that the bill of sale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of gen lavaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses th case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer you to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the u s in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprize they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guenet by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen of the united states there took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william linnsey belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her after her failing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session capt davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceedings within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this cause and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that this opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the u s had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in oct term the cause was bro't to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider of it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the of oct last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th nov intimating that the united states were answerable in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|2", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and to request him to order the attorney of new-york district to stay the proceedings instituted in the name of the government there was nothing done with them and mr harrison continued his prosecution it will appear by my letter of oct st to mr harrison that these papers were sent to him and by his answer of oct d that he received them that the bill of tale one of the papers was produced to the court in behalf of the claimant of the privateer but that the certificate of general livaux could not be considered as evidence in the cause and if it had been admissible the claimant would be very cautious of producing it on account of its differing from the witnesses h case of the privateer le cassius for the full history of this case i must also refer to the documents and here only present you with a concise statement the cassius under the name of les jumeaux was fitted and armed for a vessel of war in the port of philadelphia in violation of a law of the united states in december having escaped from the port to descend the river orders were given to the militia of the state of delaware to intercept her the attempt was made and failed the crew of les jumeaux which was unexpectedly found to be very numerous resisted the officers who went on board manned their cannon and brought them to bear on the cutter in which the militia about in number were embarked their force being inadequate to the enterprise they retired with an intention to return the next day with a reinforcement they did so but les jumeaux had failed and gone to sea the agent mr guener by whom les jumeaux had been fitted out was tried in the circuit court at philadelphia convicted of the offence and received sentence of fine and imprisonment les jumeaux proceeded to st domingo samuel b davis a citizen of the united states there took the command of her with a commission from the french government davis probably failed from philadelphia in les jumeaux for the purpose of finally taking the command of her her name was now changed to le cassius and on a cruise she took a schooner called the william lindsay belonging to messrs yard and ketland of philadelphia mr ketland having purchased an interest in her when failing the schooner and her cargo were condemned as prize at st domingo in august capt davis commanding le cassius came with her to philadelphia she was immediately known mr yard with a view of obtaining an indemnification for the loss of the schooner and her cargo libelled le cassius in the district court and caused the captain to be arrested soon after the supreme court being in session captain davis's counsel applied for and obtained a prohibition to the district court to stop its proceedings by which the suits both against him and le cassius were defeated the prohibition was granted on this principle that the trial of prizes taken without the jurisdiction of the united states and carried to places within the jurisdiction of france for adjudication by french vessels and all questions incidental to it belong exclusively to the french tribunals and consequently that its vessels of war and their officers are not liable to the process of our courts predicated upon such capture and subsequent proceeding within the jurisdiction of the french government messrs yard and ketland having failed to obtain an indemnification in this mode procured new proofs on the information of mr ketland to be issued from the circuit court by which le cassius was attached as a vessel armed and equipped as a ship of war in the port of philadelphia with an intent to cruise and commit hostilities against nations with whom the united states were at peace in violation of the act of congress prohibiting such armaments mr adet complained that the process was taken out of the circuit court because as he alleged it had no jurisdiction and that it would be attended with delay that court sitting but twice a year whereas the district court in which it was said the prosecution if at all permitted should have been commenced was always open i consulted gentlemen of legal knowledge on the point of jurisdiction in this case and they were decided in their opinion that the circuit court had jurisdiction and exclusively of the district court you will see also in mr rawle's statement of this case that his opinion was adopted and supported by two gentlemen of eminence at the bar you will further see in that statement that the government of the united states had no part in originating this prosecution and that the district attorney in behalf of the united states took measures at each term of the circuit court to prepare the cause for trial and on a plea calculated to defeat the prosecution at length in october term the cause was brought to a hearing in the course of the argument the question of jurisdiction presented itself the court adjourned till the next day to consider on it and on the following morning dismissed the suit as soon as i had received notice of this event on the th of october last i wrote to mr adet informing him that le cassius remained in the custody of the marshal but ready to be delivered to his order to this no answer was returned but he mentions the matter in the notes subjoined to his note of the th november intimating that the united states were answerable in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1625, 1734], "b_span": [243, 356], "matched_words": 106, "similarity": 0.954954954954955, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00344", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|2", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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in his note of nov acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the d of sept a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was used for visiting and pillaging her that she was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of newyork of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the suspected articles on board the favorite she having been totally dismantled her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of pulling down the national flag and hoisting another in its place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been bro't under the cognizance of the courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them as in those which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentations of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdiction line of the united states or of armament or augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to you a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your courts or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbut of which i have already given some details which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles also already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favor of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quitting the contradictory declarations of the french ministers and referring you to the letter dated aug from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here that the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all letter june state papers p their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence in one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize on frenchmen have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in through stress of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in aug was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stress of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to any asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|1", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042001/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "executive might in like manner cause the prosecution against the le cassus to cease but the proceedings in the case of the favorite were wholly in the hands of the executive officers who were under the president's immediate control and to whom on evidence satisfactory to the executive orders were given to discontinue the process in this affair of the favorite we are fortunate in finding one case in which mr adet contrary to his assertions in his note of november th acknowledges that justice was done by our government you will observe in mr fauchet's letter of the of september a very formidable complaint in this affair of the favorite that it was pretended that a privateer fitted for a cruise had deposited arms on board her and that this pretext was issued for visitting and pillaging her that the was a ship of war of the republic then serving as a store ship until she could be repaired that the sovereignty of france was violated and her flag insulted yet by the letter of john lamb esq collector of the port of new-york of the d of november you will see that at the time the seizure was made of the supposed articles on board the favorite the having been totally dashed her crew sent on board other ships of war and her sails rigging and other materials sold at public auction she was considered as a hulk otherwise the event would not have taken place the collector further declares that the charge of putting down the national flag and hoisting another in place was groundless these are all the cases expressly mentioned by mr adet in which french privateers and their prizes have been brought under the cognizance of our courts of justice and all therefore to which an answer can be directed had he cited the other cases which he says would fill a volume we have no doubt that there would be found in them which have been mentioned abundant reason to justify the government and the tribunals mr adet's complaints are not confined to imputations of injustice experienced by french privateers and their prizes from our courts st he protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which the american tribunals have taken cognizance of the validity of prizes made by french ships of war or privateers under pretext of original armament or augmentation of armament in the united states or of capture within their line of jurisdiction but his predecessor mr fauchet after saying that our admiralty courts interfered in prize causes on the ground of seizure within the jurisdictional line of the united states or of armament or of augmentation of armament of the capturing vessels in their ports immediately adds on this subject sir you request me to specify to a circumstance in which a prize was arrested which did not come under that denomination and you take the trouble to establish that they have a right to interfere in every case that can be brought under those heads in the first place sir i never have at least to my recollection contested the right of your court or of the government to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention but i complain of the facility with which prizes have been thrown into those two classes which do not belong to them he then says that he could cite a great number of affairs to which he alludes but contents himself with mentioning only two the first is the case of talbot of which i have already given some details and which with the documents referred to will show this to have been an unfortunate instance to support his complaint the other is that of the prizes of the citizen of marseilles already mentioned and which will not justify a complaint for although the final decision was in favour of the privateer yet the sentence of the district court was not reversed in the circuit court but upon the introduction of new testimony and the supreme court allowed no damages because the testimony was so ambiguous as to justify the appeal but quiting the contradictory declaration of the french minister and referring you to the letter dated august from the secretary of state to our minister at paris which has been published for the reasoning of our government on this subject and the demonstration of their right and duty as a neutral power to prohibit any of the belligerent powers arming their vessels in our ports consequently to restore to their proper owners prizes taken and brought in by vessels so unlawfully armed or when taken within our line of jurisdiction i will only add here st the principles of the rules on this subject first adopted by the president on the most mature deliberation received afterwards the sanction of congress by their act of the th of june and of the judges in all their judicial proceedings in the prize causes in question if then the th article of the french treaty has been violated the executive the legislature and the judges of the federal courts have all deliberately concurred in the violation this no american citizen will be inclined to believe and we might suppose that the consideration of such concurrence to one opinion would any where produce a pause and some diffidence in pronouncing it erroneous neither the rules adopted by the president nor the act of congress have made a new law respecting such prizes they have only directed the modes of proceeding to fulfil our neutral duties agreeably to the universal law of nations the judges have applied this law but not without due attention to the obligations of our treaties which they regard as supreme laws of the land mr adet protests against the violation of the th article of the treaty in contempt of which english vessels which had made prize of french men have been admitted into the ports of the united states the construction of this part of the th article for which mr adet after his predecessor mr fauchet contends is this that if a national ship of war of the enemies of france has at any time and in any part of the globe made prize of a french vessel such ship of war is to be allowed no shelter or refuge in our ports unless she is driven in by stresses of weather and then she is to be made to depart as soon as possible on the contrary the construction adopted by the executive of the united states and expressed in the rules before mentioned which had been transmitted to the collectors in august was this that privateers only of the enemies of france were absolutely excluded from our ports except as before when compelled to enter through stresses of weather pursuant to the d article of the treaty while the national ships of war of any other nation were entitled to any asylum in our ports excepting those which should have made prize of the people or property of france coming in with their"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [679, 811], "b_span": [28, 158], "matched_words": 123, "similarity": 0.9389312977099237, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00346", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|3", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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disciplined men into the field his soldier's sepoys are equal to any europeans in that country who are soon after their arrival enervated by the climate he is dreaded by the english and is their mortal and declared enemy he is a prince of known courage address and very powerful his avowed plan is to drive the usurpers as he justly calls the english from the indian territory altogether and he has been once near affecting it and may do it again his supply of french officers is a most valuable acquisition and what he most needed they were undoubtedly sent by the exec directory of france indeed this business was always a favorite contemplation of that government but which the revolution for a time prevented"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-29|1|2", "date": "1797-03-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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indeed this business was always a favorite contemplation of that government but which the revolution for a time prevented"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [181, 485], "b_span": [920, 1213], "matched_words": 278, "similarity": 0.931323283082077, "seeds": 45, "id": "M00348", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-02-28|1|3", "date": "1797-02-28", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-02-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797022801/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the command of the garrison at that place lord macarney was expected daily gen craig had received an appointment in india and was to go on there immediately after lord macartney's arrival this 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the garrison at that place lord macartney was expected daily gen craig had received an appointment in india and was to go on there immediately after the arrival of lord macartney this circumstance is joyous to the inhabitants of the cape and auspicious to the americans who may arrive there gen craig treated them with ineffable contempt whenever they solicited the least indulgence when they entered his apartment he assumed the air and dignity of a nabob strutted like a conceited player as soon as their prayers were made known damned the american flag and invoked the vengeance of heaven on their cursed heads this redoubtable general was an officer in america during the war and was compelled to be present at york-town when cornwallis resigned his sword to the illustrious washington scotchmen have good memories and the old general's will end only with his life the inhabitants anticipated with pleasure the arrival of lord macartney who is a complete gentleman the very reverse of craig and under whose government they had no doubt of renewing their former trade and intercourse with the americans the late admiral lucas whose heroism cannot now be sullied was treated with every indignity by the inhabitants at cape-town for his dastardly conduct in delivering up the fleet under his command to the english at a time when he might have immortalized his fame and revived the ancient glory of the batavian flag it is asserted that like the dutch governor of the cape he was charmed by english gold finches and like another arnold basely betrayed his country the english are only in possession of cape-town and false and saldanha bay and the country inhabitants refuse to give up and are in respectable"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2211, 2367], "b_span": [249, 405], "matched_words": 153, "similarity": 0.9807692307692307, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00349", "a": {"key": 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people it would also wholly defeat the purpose of raising revenue from the tax messrs parker and macon urged similar objections to this bill mr dayton the speaker who originally introduced this amendment into the bill repeated his arguments in favor of allowing licences to be taken out for two weeks"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-09|1|3", "date": "1797-03-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797030901/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the amendments of the senate to the bill for making regulations with respect to the duty on spirits distilled within the united states they proposed to do away the licences for two weeks and to provide only for monthly licences to bear date on the first day of every calander month mr harison hoped these amendments would not be agreed to it was well known that in the southern parts of the union there was a small distillery in almost every farm but if these amendments were adopted it would have the effect to destroy them and the law would become particularly odious to the people it would also wholly defeat the purpose of raising revenue from the tax messrs parker and macon urged similar objections to this bill mr dymon the speaker who originally introduced this amendment into the bill repeated his arguments in favor of allowing licences to be taken out for two weeks"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3020, 3739], "b_span": [100, 850], "matched_words": 696, "similarity": 0.9475833900612661, "seeds": 116, "id": "M00350", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-03|1|2", "date": "1797-03-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797030301/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state in pursuance of the order of the house of representatives of the th may on the memorial and petition of sundry citizens of the united states residing in the city of philadelphia relative to the losses they have sustained by the capture of their property by french armed vessels on the high seas or in consequence of the forced or voluntary sales of their provisions and merchandise to the officers of the colonial administrations of the french republic having examined the same together with accounts of similar losses sustained by american citizens from the french in the european seas or in the ports of france which in the details were necessarily connected with the former respectfully reports that since the commencement of the present war various and continual complaints have been made by citizens of the united states to the department of state and to the ministers of the united states in france of injuries done to their commerce under the authority of the french republic these injuries were spoilations and maltreatment of their vessels at sea by french ships of war and privateers d a distressing and long continued embargo laid upon their vessels at bourdeaux in the years and d the non-payment of bills and other evidences of debts due drawn by the colonial administrations in the west-indies th the seizure or forced sales of the cargoes of their vessels and appropriating them to public use without paying for them or paying inadequately or delaying payment for a length of time th the non-performance of contracts made by the agents for the government supplies th the condemnation of their vessels and cargoes under such of the marine ordinances of france as are incompatible with the treaties subsisting between the two countries and th the captures sanctioned by a decree of the national convention of the th may a which in violation of the treaty of amity and commerce declared enemy's goods on board of their vessels lawful prizes and directed the french ships of war and privateers to bring into port neutral vessels laden with provisions and bound to an enemy's port it may be proper to remark here that this decree of the convention directed the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy's ports preceded by one month the order of the british government for capturing all vessels loaded with corn flour or meal bound to any port in france such was the nature of the claims of the citizens of the united states upon the french republic previous to the departure of mr monroe as minister plenipotentiary to france in the summer of and since his residence there to him were entrusted the documents which had been collected to substantiate particular complaints and he was instructed to press the french government to ascertain and pay what might be found justly due from time to time as additional cases rose they were transmitted to him with a like view in september of that year he assigned to his secretary mr skipwith with the provisional appointment of consul at paris the charge of stating the cases and placing them in the proper train of settlement reserving to himself the duty of fixing general principles with the government and patronizing and superintending his proceedings in conformity with the direction of the minister mr skipwith shortly afterwards made a general report on the injuries and difficulties and vexations to which the commerce of the united states was subjected by the regulations and restraints of the french government or by the abuses practised by its agents to which he added a number of particular cases a copy of the whole was annexed to the report marked b this report was laid before the french government and added to the various presentations of mr monroe and his predecessor produced a decree of the joint committee of public safety finance commerce and supplies dated th nov a copy of which was annexed marked c this decree apparently calculated to remedy many of the evils complained of afforded but a very partial in respect to compensations a comparatively small relief while it continued in force the principles of the decree of the th may which rendered liable to seizure and confiscation the goods of enemies found on"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|1", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0257.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state in pursuance of an order of the house of representatives of the th of may one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six on the memorial and petition of sundry citizens of the united states residing in the city of philadelphia relative to the losses they had sustained by the capture of their property by french armed vessels on the high seas or in consequence of the forced or voluntary sales of their provisions and merchandise to the officers of the colonial administrations of the french republic having examined the same together with accounts of similar losses sustained by american citizens from the french in the european seas or in the ports of france which in the details were necessarily connected with the former respectfully reports that since the commencement of the present war various and continual complaints have been made by citizens of the united states to the department of state and to the ministers of the united states in france of injuries done to their commerce under the authority of the french republic and by its agents these injuries were st spoliations and maltreatment of their vessels at sea by french ships of war and privateers d a distressing and long continued embargo laid upon their vessels at bourdeaux in the years and d the non-payment of bills and other evidences of debts due drawn by the colonial administrations in the west-indies th the seizure or forced sales of the cargoes of their vessels and the appropriating of them to public use without paying for them or paying inadequately or delaying payment for a great length of time th the non-performance of contracts made by the agents of the government for supplies th the condemnation of their vessels and cargoes under such of the marine ordinances of france as are incompatible with the treaties subsisting between the two countries and th the captures sanctioned by a decree of the national convention of the th may hereto annexed marked a which in violation of the treaty of amity and commerce declared enemy's goods on board of their vessels lawful prize and directed the french ships of war and privateers to bring into port neutral vessels laden with provisions and bound to an enemy's port it may be proper to remark here that this decree of the convention directing the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy ports preceded by one month the order of the british government for capturing all vessels loaded with corn flour or meal bound to any port in france or any port occupied by the armies of france such was the general nature of the claims of the citizens of the united states upon the french republic previous to the departure of mr monroe as minister plenipotentiary to france in the summer of and since his residence there to him were entrusted the documents which had been collected to substantiate particular complaints and he was instructed to press the french government to ascertain and pay what might be found justly due from time to time as additional cases rose they were transmitted to him with the like view in september of that year he assigned to his secretary mr skipwith with the provisional appointment of consul for paris the charge of stating the cases and placing them in the proper train of settlement referring to himself the duty of fixing general principles with the government and of patronizing and superintending his proceedings in conformity with the direction of the minister mr skipwith shortly afterwards made a general report on the injuries and difficulties and vexations to which the commerce of the united states was subjected by the regulations and restraints of the french government or by the abuses practised by its agents to which he added a number of particular cases a copy of the whole marked b is hereto annexed this report was laid before the french government and added to the various representations of mr monroe and his predecessor it produced a decree of the joint committees of public safety finance commerce and supplies dated the th november a copy of which marked c is annexed this decree apparently calculated to remedy many of the evils complained of afforded but a very partial in respect to compensation a comparatively small relief while it continued in force the principle of the decree of the ninth of may which rendered liable to seizure and confiscation the goods of enemies found on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3004, 3739], "b_span": [1221, 1966], "matched_words": 721, "similarity": 0.9743243243243244, "seeds": 131, "id": "M00351", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-03|1|2", "date": "1797-03-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797030301/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was presented to the house of representatives on tuesday last with an extensive appendix the secretary of state in pursuance of the order of the house of representatives of the th may on the memorial and petition of sundry citizens of the united states residing in the city of philadelphia relative to the losses they have sustained by the capture of their property by french armed vessels on the high seas or in consequence of the forced or voluntary sales of their provisions and merchandise to the officers of the colonial administrations of the french republic having examined the same together with accounts of similar losses sustained by american citizens from the french in the european seas or in the ports of france which in the details were necessarily connected with the former respectfully reports that since the commencement of the present war various and continual complaints have been made by citizens of the united states to the department of state and to the ministers of the united states in france of injuries done to their commerce under the authority of the french republic these injuries were spoilations and maltreatment of their vessels at sea by french ships of war and privateers d a distressing and long continued embargo laid upon their vessels at bourdeaux in the years and d the non-payment of bills and other evidences of debts due drawn by the colonial administrations in the west-indies th the seizure or forced sales of the cargoes of their vessels and appropriating them to public use without paying for them or paying inadequately or delaying payment for a length of time th the non-performance of contracts made by the agents for the government supplies th the condemnation of their vessels and cargoes under such of the marine ordinances of france as are incompatible with the treaties subsisting between the two countries and th the captures sanctioned by a decree of the national convention of the th may a which in violation of the treaty of amity and commerce declared enemy's goods on board of their vessels lawful prizes and directed the french ships of war and privateers to bring into port neutral vessels laden with provisions and bound to an enemy's port it may be proper to remark here that this decree of the convention directed the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy's ports preceded by one month the order of the british government for capturing all vessels loaded with corn flour or meal bound to any port in france such was the nature of the claims of the citizens of the united states upon the french republic previous to the departure of mr monroe as minister plenipotentiary to france in the summer of and since his residence there to him were entrusted the documents which had been collected to substantiate particular complaints and he was instructed to press the french government to ascertain and pay what might be found justly due from time to time as additional cases rose they were transmitted to him with a like view in september of that year he assigned to his secretary mr skipwith with the provisional appointment of consul at paris the charge of stating the cases and placing them in the proper train of settlement reserving to himself the duty of fixing general principles with the government and patronizing and superintending his proceedings in conformity with the direction of the minister mr skipwith shortly afterwards made a general report on the injuries and difficulties and vexations to which the commerce of the united states was subjected by the regulations and restraints of the french government or by the abuses practised by its agents to which he added a number of particular cases a copy of the whole was annexed to the report marked b this report was laid before the french government and added to the various presentations of mr monroe and his predecessor produced a decree of the joint committee of public safety finance commerce and supplies dated th nov a copy of which was annexed marked c this decree apparently calculated to remedy many of the evils complained of afforded but a very partial in respect to compensations a comparatively small relief while it continued in force the principles of the decree of the th may which rendered liable to seizure and confiscation the goods of enemies found on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0799.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was presented to the house of representatives on tuesday last with an extensive appendix report the secretary of state in pursuance of an order of the house of representatives of the th of may on the memorial and petition of sundry citizens of the united states residing in the city of philadelphia relative to the losses they have sustained by the capture of their property by french armed vessels on the high seas or in consequence of the forced or voluntary sales of their provisions and merchandise to the officers of the colonial administrations of the french republic having examined the same together with accounts of similar losses sustained by american citizens from the french in the european seas or in the ports of france which in the detail were necessarily connected with the former respectfully reports that since the commencement of the present war various and continual complaints have been made by citizens of the united states to the department of state and to the ministers of the united states in france of injuries done to their commerce under the authority of the french republic and by its agents these injuries were st spoliations and maltreatment of their vessels at sea by french ships of war and privateers d a distressing and long continued embargo laid upon their vessels at bourdeaux in the year and d the non-payment of bills and other evidences of debts due drawn by the colonial administration in the west indies th the seizure or forced sales of the cargoes of other vessels and appropriating them to public use without paying for them or paying inadequately or delaying payment for a length of time th the non-performance of contracts made by the agents for the government supplies th the condemnation of their vessels and cargoes under such of the marine ordinances of france as are incompatible with the treaties subsisting between the two countries and th the captors sanctioned by a decree of the national convention of the th may a which in violation of the treaty of amity and commerce declared enemy's goods on board of their vessels lawful prizes and directed the french ships of war and privateers to bring into port neutral vessels laden with provisions and bound to an enemy's port it may be proper to remark here that this decree of the convention directed the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy's ports preceded by one month the order of the british government for capturing all vessels loaded with corn flour or meal bound to any port in france such was the nature of the claims of the citizens of the united states upon the french republic previous to the departure of mr monroe as minister plenipotentiary to france in the summer of and since his residence there to him were entrusted the documents which had been collected to substantiate particular complaints and he was instructed to press the french government to ascertain and pay what might be found justly due from time to time as additional cases rose they were transmitted to him with a like view in september of that year he assigned to his secretary mr skipwith with the provisional appointment of consul at paris the charge of stating the cases and placing them in a proper train of settlement referring to himself the duty of fixing general principles with the government and patronizing and superintending his proceedings in conformity with the direction of the minister mr skipwith shortly afterwards made a general report of the injuries and difficulties and vexations to which the commerce of the united states was subjected by the regulations and restraints of the french government or by the abuses practised by its agents to which he added a number of particular cases a copy of the whole was then annexed to the report marked b this report was laid before the french government and added to the various representations of mr monroe and his predecessor it produced a decree of the joint committees of public safety finance commerce and supplies dated th november a copy of which was annexed marked c this decree apparently calculated to remedy many of the evils complained of afforded but a very partial in respect to compensations a comparatively small relief while it continued in force the principles of the decree of the th may which rendered liable to seizure and confiscation the goods of enemies found on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1260, 1354], "b_span": [3, 97], "matched_words": 93, "similarity": 0.9893617021276596, "seeds": 22, "id": "M00352", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-03|1|3", "date": "1797-03-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797030301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "this day the illustrious washington closes his political career every friend to his country will on the occasion adopt the energetic language of inspiration and say well done thou good and faithful servant as up the hill of life time led him on fame blew her trump and hope illum'd the day from the bright summit half the vict'ry won a splendid course of glory stop'd the way now all his labors past the best reward a country sav'd united shout his praise in vernon's groves the blest retreat's prepar'd where conscious virtue gilds"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-09|1|3", "date": "1797-03-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797030901/0227.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "this day the illustrious washington closes his political career every friend to his country will on the occasion adopt the energetic language of inspiration and say well done thou good and faithful servant as up the hill of life time led him on fame blew her trump and hope illum'd the day from the bright summit half the vict'ry won a splendid course of glory stop'd the way now all his labors past the best reward a country sav'd united thout his praise in vernon's groves the blest retreat's prepar'd where conscious virtue gilds"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [0, 1228], "b_span": [853, 2109], "matched_words": 1183, "similarity": 0.9524959742351047, "seeds": 209, "id": "M00353", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-03|1|3", "date": "1797-03-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797030301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "american vessels had been declared exempt from that part of the decree of the th may which authorised the seizing of vessels going to an enemy's port with provisions by the decree of the national convention of the th july on the appearance of the decree of the th of may the american minister at paris remonstrated against it as a violation of the treaty of commerce between france and the united states in consequence thereof the convention by a decree of the rd of the same month declared that the vessels of the united states are not comprehended in the regulation of the th of may m le brun the minister for foreign affairs on the th of may communicated this second decree to our minister accompanying it with these words you will find a new confirmation of the principles from which the french people will never depart with regard to their good friends and allies the people of the united states of america yet two days only had elapsed before those principles were departed from on the th of may the convention repealed their decree of the rd the owners of a french privateer that had captured a very rich american ship the laurens found means to effect the repeal to enable them to keep hold of their prize they had even the apparent hardness to say before hand that the decree of the rd would be repealed the american minister again complained so on the st of july the convention passed a fourth decree again declaring that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the ninth of may conformably to the sixteenth it should be called the twenty-third article of the treaty concluded the th of february the new minister for foreign affairs m desforges accompanies this new decree of july st with the following expression i am very happy in being able to give you this new proof of the fraternal sentiments of the french people for their allies and of their determination to maintain to the utmost of their power the treaties subsisting between the two republics yet this decree proved as unstable as the former on the th of july it was repealed the next decree on this subject was that of the joint committee of the th of november already mentioned then followed the decree of the committee of public safety of the th of january nivose d year repealing the th article in the decree of the th november preceding and in effect the articles in the original decree of the th of may by which the treaty with the united states had been infringed it is not necessary for the secretary to add that the decree of the th january has been repealed by the decree of the executive directory of the d of july under colour of which are committed the shocking depredations on the commerce of the united states which are daily exhibited in the newspapers the agents of the executive directory to the leeward islands lebanon sonthonax and raimond on the th of november passed a decree marked c c for capturing all american vessels bound to or from british ports the secretary presumes this is not an arbitrary unauthorized act of their own but that it is conformable to the intentions of the executive directory the privateers of the french republic in europe having captured some american vessels on the same pretence and the consul of the republic at cadiz having explicitly avowed his determination to condemn american vessels on that ground pleading the decree of the directory for his authority the secretary has already intimated that the decree of the th november was not followed by the extensively good effects expected from it by a communication from mr skipwith of the th of last september the latest communication from him in answer to the secretary's request for information it appears that the claims for detention of american vessels by the embargo at bourdeaux remained undetermined no funds having been appropriated for the payment of them and that none of the bills drawn by the colonial administration in the west indies had been paid to him the treasury having tendered payment in assignats at their nominal value and afterwards in another species of paper called mandats which had suffered a great depreciation even before they were put into circulation both of which modes of payment were refused to be accepted the progress made by mr skipwith in the adjustment of other claims so far as known to the secretary will appear in the annexed statement d copies of which were transmitted ten months ago to the officers of the principal collectors of the customs from the department of state for the information of our mercantile citizens that nothing might be left undone which could be accomplished by the executive the attention of gen pinckney the present minister of the united states to france was particularly directed to the subject of these claims but the interval which has elapsed since his departure has not admitted of any interesting communication from him on this business in connection with other spoliations by french armed vessels the secretary intended to mention those committed under a decree dated the first of august issued by victor hugues and lebas the special agents of the executive directory to the windward islands declaring all vessels loaded with contraband articles of any kind liable to seizure and confiscation with their entire cargoes without making any discrimination in favour of those which might be bound to neutral or even to french ports this decree has been enforced against the american trade without any regard to the established forms of legal proceedings as will appear from the annexed deposition e of josiah hemphill master of the brigantine patty of weatherfield a copy of the decree marked f is also annexed the secretary has received a printed copy of another decree of the same special agents to the windward islands dated the th pluviose th year answering to february st authorising the capture of all neutral vessels destined to any of the windward or leeward islands in america which have been delivered up to the english and occupied or defended by emigrants naming martinique st lucie tobago demarara berbice and essequibo and to leeward port-au-prince st marc l'archaye and jeremie declaring such vessels and their cargoes to be good prize as well as all vessels cleared out vaguely for the west indies a copy of this last decree will be added to this report as soon as it shall be translated all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering department of state feb the appendix a copy of a decree of the national convention th may b a letter and report of mr skipwith american consul on vessels captured c extract from french decrees of th nov cc extract from the resolves of the french commission at the leeward islands of th nov d a list of claims of which were settled with the french republic and the remainder pending a second list of claims on vessels detained by embargo at bourdeaux these dated th nov and signed by mr skipwith e an affidavit of the commander of the brigantine patty f a placard of victor hugues ordering the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|1", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0257.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "american vessels had been declared exempt from that part of the decree of the ninth of may which authorised the seizing of vessels going to an enemy's port with provisions by the decree of the national convention of the th of july on the appearance of the decree of the ninth of may the american minister at paris remonstrated against it as a violation of the treaty of commerce between france and the united states in consequence hereof the convention by a decree of the twenty-third of the same month declared that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the ninth of may m c le brun the minister for foreign affairs on the twenty-sixth of may communicated this second decree to our minister accompanying it with these words you will there find a new confirmation of the principles from which the french people will never depart with regard to their good friends and allies the united states of america yet two days only had elapsed before those principles were departed from on the twenty-eighth of may the convention repealed their decree of the twenty-third the owners of a french privateer that had captured a very rich american ship the laurens found means to effect the repeal to enable them to keep hold on their prize they had even the apparent hardness to say before-hand that the decree of the twenty-third would be repealed the american minister again complained so on the first of july the convention passed a fourth decree again declaring that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the ninth of may conformably to the sixteenth it should be the twenty-third article of the treaty concluded the sixth of february one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight the new minister for foreign affairs m c desforges accompanies this new decree of july st with the following expression i am very happy in being able to give you this new proof of the fraternal sentiments of the french people for their allies and of their determination to maintain to the utmost of their power the treaties subsisting between the two republics yet this decree proved as unstable as the former on the twenty-seventh of july it was repealed the next decree on this subject was that of the joint committees of the th of november already mentioned then followed the decree of the committee of public safety of the th of january th nivole d year repealing the th article in the decree of the th of november preceding and in effect the articles in the original decree of the th of may by which the treaty with the united states had been infringed it is not necessary for the secretary to add that the decree of the th of january has been repealed by the decree of the executive directory of the d of july under colour of which are committed the shocking depredations on the commerce of the united states which are daily exhibited in the news-papers the agents of the executive directory to the leeward islands leblanc santhonax and raimond on the th of november passed a decree marked c c for capturing all american vessels bound to or from british ports the secretary presumes this is not an arbitrary unauthorized act of their own but that it is conformable to the intentions of the executive directory the privateers of the french republic in europe having captured some american vessels on the same pretence and the consul of the republic at cadiz having explicitly avowed his determination to condemn american vessels on that ground pleading the decree of the directory for his authority the secretary has already intimated that the decree of the th of november was not followed by the extensively good effects expected from it by a communication from mr skipwith of the th of last september the latest communication from him in answer to the secretary's request for information it appears that the claims for detention of american vessels by the embargo at bourdeaux remained undetermined no funds having been appropriated by the legislature for payment of them and that none of the bills drawn by the colonial administrations in the west-indies had been paid to him the treasury having tendered payment in assignats at their nominal value and afterwards in another species of paper called mandats which had suffered a great depreciation even before they were put into circulation both which modes of payment were refused to be accepted the progress made by mr skipwith in the adjustment of other claims so far as known to the secretary will appear in the annexed printed statement marked d copies of which were transmitted ten months ago to the offices of the principal collectors of the customs from the department of state for the information of our mercantile citizens that nothing might be left undone which could be accomplished by the executive the attention of general pinckney the present minister of united states to france was particularly directed to the subject of these claims but the interval which has elapsed since his departure has not admitted of any interesting communication from him on this business in connection with other spoliations by french armed vessels the secretary intended to mention those committed under a decree dated the first of august one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six issued by victor hugues and lebas the special agents of the executive directory to the windward islands declaring all vessels loaded with contraband articles of any kind liable to seizure and confiscation with their entire cargoes without making any discrimination in favour of those which might be bound to neutral or even to french ports this decree has been enforced against the american trade without any regard to the established forms of legal proceedings as will appear from the annexed deposition marked e of josiah hempstead master of the brigantine patty of wethersfield a copy of the decree marked f is also annexed the secretary has received a printed copy of another decree of the same special agents to the windward islands dated the th of pluviose fifth year answering to february the first one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven authorising the capture of all neutral vessels destined to any of the windward or leeward islands in america which have been delivered up to the english and occupied or defended by emigrants naming martinique st lucia tobago demerara berbice and essequibo and to the leeward port-au-prince st marc l'archaye and jeremie declaring such vessels and their cargoes to be good prize as well as all vessels cleared out vaguely for the west-indies a copy of this last decree will be added to this report as soon as it shall be translated all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering department of state feb the appendix a copy of a decree of the national convention th may b a letter and report of mr skipwith american consul on vessels captured c extract from french decrees of th november cc extract from the resolves of the french commissioner at leeward islands of th nov d a list of claims of which were settled with the french republic and the remainder pending a second list of claims on vessels detained by embargo at bourdeaux these dated th nov and signed by mr skipwith e an affidavit of the commander of the brigantine patty f a placard of victor hugues ordering the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [0, 412], "b_span": [1969, 2432], "matched_words": 394, "similarity": 0.9005714285714286, "seeds": 64, "id": "M00354", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-03|1|3", "date": "1797-03-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797030301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "american vessels had been declared exempt from that part of the decree of the th may which authorised the seizing of vessels going to an enemy's port with provisions by the decree of the national convention of the th july on the appearance of the decree of the th of may the american minister at paris remonstrated against it as a violation of the treaty of commerce between france and the united states in consequence thereof the convention by a decree of the rd of the same month declared that the vessels of the united states are not comprehended in the regulation of the th of may m le brun the minister for foreign affairs on the th of may communicated this second decree to our minister accompanying it with these words you will find a new confirmation of the principles from which the french people will never depart with regard to their good friends and allies the people of the united states of america yet two days only had elapsed before those principles were departed from on the th of may the convention repealed their decree of the rd the owners of a french privateer that had captured a very rich american ship the laurens found means to effect the repeal to enable them to keep hold of their prize they had even the apparent hardness to say before hand that the decree of the rd would be repealed the american minister again complained so on the st of july the convention passed a fourth decree again declaring that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the ninth of may conformably to the sixteenth it should be called the twenty-third article of the treaty concluded the th of february the new minister for foreign affairs m desforges accompanies this new decree of july st with the following expression i am very happy in being able to give you this new proof of the fraternal sentiments of the french people for their allies and of their determination to maintain to the utmost of their power the treaties subsisting between the two republics yet this decree proved as unstable as the former on the th of july it was repealed the next decree on this subject was that of the joint committee of the th of november already mentioned then followed the decree of the committee of public safety of the th of january"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0799.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "american vessels had been declared exempt from that part of the decree of the th may which authorised the seizing of vessels going to an enemy's port with provisions by the decree of the national convention of the th july on the appearance of the decree of the th may the american minister at paris remonstrated against it as a violation of the treaty of commerce between france and the united states in consequence thereof the convention by a decree of the d of the same month declare that the vessels of the united states are not comprehended in the regulation of the th of may m le brun the minister for foreign affairs on the th of may communicated this second decree to our minister accompanying it with these words you will there find a new confirmation of principles from which the french people will never depart with regard to their good friends and allies the people of the united states of america yet two days only had elapsed before those principles were departed from on the th of may the convention repealed their decree of the d the owners of the french privateer that had captured a very rich american ship the laurens found means to effect a repeal to enable them to keep hold of their prize they had even the apparent hardness to say beforehand that the decree of the d would be repealed the american minister again complained so on the st of july the convention passed a fourth decree again declaring that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the th may conformably to the th it should be called the d article of the treaty concluded the th of february the new minister for foreign affairs m des forges accompanies this new decree of july st with the following expression i am very happy in being able to give you this new proof of the fraternal sentiments of the french people for their allies and of their determination to maintain to the utmost of their power the treaties subsisting between the two republics yet this decree proved as unfaithful as the former on the th july it was repealed the next decree on this subject was that of the joint committee of the th november already mentioned then followed the decree of the committee of public safety of the th january nivose d year repealing the th article in the decree of the th november preceding and in effect the articles in the original decree of the th may by which the treaty with the united states had been infringed it is not necessary for the secretary to add that the decree of the th of january"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], 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july under colour of which are committed the shocking depredations on the commerce of the united states which are daily exhibited in the newspapers the agents of the executive directory to the leeward islands lebanon sonthonax and raimond on the th of november passed a decree marked c c for capturing all american vessels bound to or from british ports the secretary presumes this is not an arbitrary unauthorized act of their own but that it is conformable to the intentions of the executive directory the privateers of the french republic in europe having captured some american vessels on the same pretence and the consul of the republic at cadiz having explicitly avowed his determination to condemn american vessels on that ground pleading the decree of the directory for his authority the secretary has already intimated that the decree of the th november was not followed by the extensively good effects expected from it by a communication from mr skipwith of the th of last september the latest communication from him in answer to the secretary's request for information it appears that the claims for detention of american vessels by the embargo at bourdeaux remained undetermined no funds having been appropriated for the payment of them and that none of the bills drawn by the colonial administration in the west indies had been paid to him the treasury having tendered payment in assignats at their nominal value and afterwards in another species of paper called mandats which had suffered a great depreciation even before they were put into circulation both of which modes of payment were refused to be accepted the progress made by mr skipwith in the adjustment of other claims so far as"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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directory the privateers of the french republic in europe having captured some american vessels on the same pretence and the consul of the republic at cadiz having explicitly avowed his determination to condemn american vessels on that ground pleading the decree of the directory for his authority the secretary has already intimated that the decree of the th november was not followed by the extensively good effects expected from it by a communication from mr skipwith of the th of last september the latest communication from him in answer to the secretary's request for information it appears that claims for detention of american vessels by the embargo at bourdeaux remained undetermined no funds having been appropriated by the legislature for the payment of them and that none of the bills drawn by the colonial administration in the west-indies had been paid to him the treasury having tendered payment in assignats at their nominal value and afterwards in an other species of paper called 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principal collectors of the customs from the department of state for the information of our mercantile citizens that nothing might be left undone which could be accomplished by the executive the attention of gen pinckney the present minister of the united states to france was particularly directed to the subject of these claims but the interval which has elapsed since his departure has not admitted of any interesting communication from him on this business in connection with other spoliations by french armed vessels the secretary intended to mention those committed under a decree dated the first of august issued by victor hugues and lebas the special agents of the executive directory to the windward islands declaring all vessels loaded with contraband articles of any kind liable to seizure and confiscation with their entire cargoes without making any discrimination in favour of those which might be bound to neutral or even to french ports this decree has been enforced against the american trade without any regard to the established forms of legal proceedings as will appear from the annexed deposition e of josiah hemphill master of the brigantine patty of weatherfield a copy of the decree marked f is also annexed the secretary has received a printed copy of another decree of the same special agents to the windward islands dated the th pluviose th year answering to february st authorising the capture of all neutral vessels destined to any of the windward or leeward islands in america which have been delivered up to the english and occupied or defended by emigrants naming martinique st lucie tobago demarara berbice and essequibo and to leeward port-au-prince st marc l'archaye and jeremie declaring such vessels and their cargoes to be good prize as well as all vessels cleared out vaguely for the west indies a copy of this last decree will be added to this report as soon as it shall be translated all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering department of state feb the appendix a copy of a decree of the national convention th may b a letter and report of mr skipwith american consul on vessels captured c extract from french decrees of th nov cc extract from the resolves of the french commission at the leeward islands of th nov d a list of claims of which were settled with the french republic and the remainder pending a second list of claims on vessels detained by embargo at bourdeaux these dated th nov and signed by mr skipwith e an affidavit of the commander of the brigantine patty f"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|3", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0802.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "copies of which were transmitted to months ago to the officers of the principal collectors of the customs from the department of state for the information of our mercantile citizens that nothing might be left undone which could be accomplished by the executive the attention of general pinckney the present minister of the united states to france was particularly directed to the subject of these claims but the interval which has elapsed since his departure has not admitted of any interesting communication from him on this business in connection with other stipulations by french armed vessels the secretary intended to mention those committed under a decree dated the st of august issued by victor hughes and lebas the special agents of the executive directory to the windward islands declaring all vessels loaded with contraband articles of any kind liable to seizure and confiscation with their entire cargoes without making any discrimination in favour of those which might be bound to neutral or even to french ports this decree has been in force against the american trade without any regard to the established forms of legal proceedings as will appear from the annexed deposition e of josiah hempstead master of the brigantine patty of weathersfield a copy of the decree marked f is also annexed the secretary has received a printed copy of another decree of the same special agents to the windward islands dated the th pluvoise th year answering to february st authorising the capture of all neutral vessels destined to any of the windward or leeward islands in america which have been delivered up to the english and occupied or defended by emigrants naming martinique st lucie tobago demarara berbice and essequibo and to leeward port au prince st marc l'archaye and jeremie declaring such vessels and their cargoes to be good prize as well as all vessels cleared out vaguely for the west indies a copy of this last decree will be added to this report as soon as it shall be translated all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering department of state febr the appendix a copy of a decree of the national convention th may b a letter and report of mr skipwith american consul on vessels captured c extract from french decrees of th nov cc extract from the resolves of the french commission at leeward islands of nov d a list of claims of which were settled with the french republic and the remainder pending e a second list of claims on vessels detained by embargo at bourdeaux these dated th nov and signed by mr skipwith f an affidavit of the commander of the brigantine patty f"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [8, 618], "b_span": [1166, 1775], "matched_words": 593, "similarity": 0.9729286300246104, "seeds": 107, "id": "M00357", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|3", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0247.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "just arrived from guadaloupe we have received the following important arret in the original french and translate it without delay liberty equality arret the special agents of the executive directory in the west-indies considering that the ports of the windward and leeward as well as those of demarara essequibo and berbice delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants are in a state of permanent siege and ought not to enjoy the same advantages as the ports of the different english colonies possessed by that power before the war and by other title considering it to be contrary to every principle to treat a horde of rebels without country without government or a flag with the same regard which civilized nations observe among themselves during war considering that by authentic acts in our possession it is proved that divers places of the colonies delivered to the english by the french and dutch rebels belong not to the british government more than to la vendee in which the english ministry had also their mercenary troops regiments in their pay wearing the same uniform as the troops of the king of england considering that by virtue of the second article of the treaty of alliance concluded at paris feb th between the united states and france the former power engages to defend the possessions in america in case of war and the government and commerce of the united states have strongly abused the forbearance of the french republic in turning to her detriment the favors which had been accorded to them of entering and trading in all the ports of the french colonies by permitting for a longer time neutral vessels to carry provisions of war and of subsistence to men evidently in a state of rebellion we should be the means of prolonging civil war calamities and the crimes which proceed therefrom orders as follows art i the ships of the republic and french privateers are authorized to take and conduct into the ports of the republic neutral vessels destined for the windward and leeward islands of america delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants the ports are martinique st lucie tobago demarara berbice essequibo and at the leeward port-au-prince st marks archives and jeremie art ii every armed vessel having a commission from either of these ports shall be reputed a pirate and the crews adjudged and punished as such art iii the vessels and cargoes described in the first and second articles are declared good prize and shall be sold for the benefit of the captors art iv every vessel taken which shall be cleared out to the west-indies generally is comprehended in the first and second article art v the order of last nivose th in pursuance of the decree of the executive directory of the th messidor th year shall be executed till further orders in every particular not contravening this ordinance adet's this order shall be printed transcribed into the register of the criminal tribunal and of commerce sent to all the ports of the french colonies read published and posted up wherever it may be necessary it shall be notified officially to the neutral governments of st croix st thomas and st bartholomews enjoining on the criminal tribunal and of commerce in guadaloupe their delegates in the different french colonies and other where on the admiral commandant on the west-india station and on the administration strictly to execute this arrest each in his respective department done at basse terre guadaloupe the th pluviose d of february th year of the french republic one and indivisible signed victor hughes"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|3", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "just arrived from guadaloupe we have received the following important arret in the original french and we translate it without delay equality liberty arret the special agents of the executive directory in the westindies considering that the ports of the islands at the windward and leeward as well as those of demarara essequibo and berbice delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants are in a state of permanent siege and ought not to enjoy the same advantages as the ports of the different english colonies possessed by that power before the war and by other title considering it to be contrary to every principle to treat a horde of rebels without country without government or a flag with the same regard which civilized nations observe among themselves during war considering that by authentic acts in our possession it is proved that divers places of the colonies delivered to the english by the french and dutch rebels belong not to the british government more than la vendee in which the english ministry had also their mercenary troops regiments in their pay wearing the same uniform as the troops of the king of england considering that by virtue of the second article of the treaty of alliance concluded at paris feb th between the united states and france the former power engages to defend the possessions in america in case of war and the government and commerce of the united states have strangely abused the forbearance of the french republic in turning to her detriment the favors which had been accorded to them of entering and trading in all the ports of the french colonies by permitting for a longer time neutral vessels to carry provisions of war and of subsistence to men evidently in a state of rebellion we should be the means of prolonging civil war the calamities and the crimes which proceed therefrom order as follows art i the ships of the republic and french privateers are authorized to take and conduct into the ports of the republic neutral vessels destined for the windward and leeward islands of america delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants the ports are martinique st lucia tobago demarara berbice essequibo and at the leeward port-au-prince st marks l'archayes and jeremie art ii every armed vessel having a commission from either of these ports shall be reputed a pirate and the crews adjudged and punished as such art iii the vessels and cargoes described in the first and second articles are declared good prize and shall be sold for the benefit of the captors art iv every vessel taken which shall be cleared out to the westindies generally is comprehended in the first and second article art v the order of last nivole th in pursuance of the decree of the executive directory of the th messidor th year shall be executed till further orders in every particular not contravening this ordinance adet's this order shall be printed transcribed into the register of the criminal tribunal and of commerce sent to all the ports of the french colonies read published and posted up wherever it may be necessary it shall be notified officially to the neutral governments of st croix st thomas and st bartholomews enjoining on the criminal tribunal and of commerce in guadaloupe their delegates in the different french colonies and other where on the admiral commandant on the westindia station and on the administration strictly to execute this arrest each in his respective department done at basse-terre guadaloupe d feb th year of the french republic one and indivisible signed victor hughes"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [753, 1117], "b_span": [737, 1070], "matched_words": 322, "similarity": 0.9239598278335724, "seeds": 63, "id": "M00358", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|3", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0247.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the texel on the th dec by captain s we are informed that on the th nov the prohibition of the importation of west india produce from england was again taken off rice was to s and thought falling it was said that the empress of all the russians the great catharine was dead no expectations of peace it was feared that the negotiation at paris would fall through france having shut the british out of almost all the european ports it was expected that they would extend this object also to the ports of hamburg and bremen several passengers came in the three friends capt s spoke nothing to impede his passage the owners of the three friends favored us with papers to dec which contain some important articles of which the following is a hasty abstract a viennese account of nov says the austrians had been beaten in italy with great loss but that another campaign was fixed croats had been engaged and it was expected an army of would be embodied early as the emperor would never suffer any republics to be established in italy under the protection of the french little was said at vienna on the subject of peace at the first bombardment of kehl about the th nov the austrians lost killed and that it was supposed if the french held out weeks of besieging austrians one quarter at least would be killed no later account appears on this subject in the national convention at the hague nov debate was had on the subject of the new constitution when many petitions were presented of which were from amsterdam requesting that in the formation of the seven provinces into a republic there might be unity and indivisibility to support which principles they would expend their lives and fortunes the reported plan did not express the principle of unity and indivisibility a debate therefore ensued after the petitions were read in which there was much warmth whether they would proceed to debate it as the basis of their constitution or have a new report brought in finally nov on the appeal nominal it was decided to proceed on the present"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-29|1|2", "date": "1797-03-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032901/0791.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the texel on the th of december it was said that the empress of all the russians the great catharine was dead no expectation of peace it was feared that the negotiation at paris would fall through france having shut the british out of almost all the european ports it was expected that they would extend this object also to the ports of hamburg and bremen several passengers came in the three friends captain s spoke nothing to impede his passage the owners of the three friends favoured us with papers to dec which contain some important articles of which the following is a hasty abstract a vienna account of nov says the austrians had been beaten in italy with great loss but that another campaign was fixed croats had been engaged and it was expected an army of would be embodied early as the emperor would never suffer any republics to be established in italy under the protection of the french little was said at vienna on the subject of peace at the first bombardment of kehl about the th nov the austrians lost killed and that it was supposed if the austrians held out six weeks of besieging austrians one quarter at least would be killed no later accounts appeared on this subject in the national convention at the hague nov debate was had on the subject of the new constitution when many petitions were presented of which were from amsterdam requesting that in the formation of the seven provinces into a republic there might be unity and inviolability to support which principles they would expend their lives and fortunes the reported plan did not express the principles of unity and indivisibility a debate therefore ensued after the petitions were read in which there was much warmth whether they would proceed to debate it as the basis of their constitution or have a new report brought in finally nov on the appeal nominal it was decided to proceed on the present"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1126, 1291], "b_span": [1181, 1346], "matched_words": 157, "similarity": 0.9515151515151515, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00359", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-04|1|3", "date": "1797-03-04", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797030401/0247.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lacroix is interesting to many nations but peculiarly to these united states both french and english journals are full of satirical observations and conjectures on the subject with those who take into view the various intervening circumstances the result is anticipated very differently from that anticipated by careless observations and politicians of the moment on the one hand when the negotiation commenced pitt was in dread of an invasion his financial funds was not matured and he had a sombre prospect but he was assured that the preparations of the austrians guaranteed the expulsion of buonaparte out of italy on the other an apparent wish for peace but in the midst of the negotiation behold buonaparte defeats the austrian plan of raising the siege of mantua c and pitt gets his subscription loan through thus when we find both parties enabled to carry on another campaign and our opinion of the ambition of pitt is such that we give up all hopes of peace this"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-29|1|2", "date": "1797-03-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032901/0791.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lacroix is interesting to many nations but peculiarly to these united states both french and english journals are full of satirical observations and conjectures on the subject with those who take in view the various intervening circumstances the result is anticipated by careless observers and politicians of the moment on the one hand when the negotiation commenced pitt was in dread of an invasion his financial plan to support his sinking funds was not matured and he had a sombre prospect but he was assured that the preparations of the austrians guaranteed the expulsion of buonaparte out of italy on the other an apparent wish for peace but in the midst of the negotiation behold buonaparte defeats the austrian plan of raising the siege of mantua c and pitt gets his subscription loan through thus then we find both parties enabled to carry on another campaign and our opinion of the ambition of pitt is such that we give up all hopes of peace this"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [36, 618], "b_span": [878, 1457], 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with the same regard which civilized nations observe among themselves during war considering that by authentic acts in our possession it is proved that divers places of the colonies delivered to the english by the french and dutch rebels belong not to the british government more than to la vendee in which the english ministry had also their mercenary troops regiments in their pay wearing the same uniform as the troops of the king of england considering that by virtue of the second article of the treaty of alliance concluded at paris feb th between the united states and france the former power engages to defend the possessions in america in case of war and the government and commerce of the united states have strongly abused the forbearance of the french republic in turning to her detriment the favors which had been accorded to them of entering and trading in all the ports of the french colonies by permitting for a longer time neutral vessels to carry provisions of war and of subsistence to men evidently in a state of rebellion we should be the means of prolonging civil war calamities and the crimes which proceed therefrom orders as follows art i the ships of the republic and french privateers are authorized to take and conduct into the ports of the republic neutral vessels destined for the windward and leeward islands of america delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants the ports are martinique st lucie tobago demarara berbice essequibo and at the leeward port-au-prince st marks archives and jeremie art ii every armed vessel having a commission from either of these ports shall be reputed a pirate and the crews adjudged and punished as such art iii the vessels and cargoes described in the first and second articles are declared good prize and shall be sold for the benefit of the captors art iv every vessel taken which shall be cleared out to the west-indies generally is comprehended in the first and second article art v the order of last nivose th in pursuance of the decree of the executive directory of the th messidor th year shall be executed till further orders in every particular not contravening this ordinance adet's this order shall be printed transcribed into the register of the criminal tribunal and of commerce sent to all the ports of the french colonies read published and posted up wherever it may be necessary it shall be notified officially to the neutral governments of st croix st thomas and st bartholomews enjoining on the criminal tribunal and of commerce in guadaloupe their delegates in the different french colonies and other where on the admiral commandant on the west-india station and on the administration strictly to execute this arrest each in his respective department done at basse terre guadaloupe the th pluviose d of february th year of the french republic one and indivisible signed victor hughes"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-05|1|2", "date": "1797-04-05", "paper": "The Kentucky 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of the colonies delivered to the english by the french dutch rebels belong not to the british government more that la vendee in which the english minister had also their mercenary troops regiments in their pay wearing the same uniform as the troops of the king of england considering that by virtue of the second article of the treaty of alliance concluded at paris february th between the united states and france the former power engages to defend the possessions in america in case of war and the government and commerce of the united states have strangely abused the forbearance of the french republic in turning to her detriment the favours which had been accorded to them of entering trading in all ports of the french colonies by permitting for a longer time neutral vessels to carry provisions of war and of subsistence to men evidently in a state of rebellion we should be the means of prolonging civil war the calamities and the crimes which proceed therefrom order as follows article i the ships of the republic and french privateers are authorised to take and conduct into the ports of the republic neutral vessels destined for the windward and leeward islands of america delivered up to the english occupied and detested by the emigrants these ports are martinique st lucia tobago demarara berbice essequibo and at the leeward port au prince st marks l'archayes and jeremie article ii every armed vessel having a commission from either of those ports shall be reputed a pirate and the crews adjudged and punished as such art iii the vessels and cargoes described in the first and second articles are declared good prize and shall be sold for the benefit of the captors art iv every vessel taken which shall be cleared out to the west-indies generally is comprehended in the first and second article art v the order of last nivose th in pursuance of the decree of the executive directory of the th messidor th year shall be executed till further orders in every particular not contravening this ordinance this order shall be printed transcribed in to the register of the criminal tribunal and of commerce sent to french colonies read published and posted up wherever it may be necessary it shall be notified officially to the neutral governments of st croix st thomas and st bartholomews enjoining on the criminal tribunal and of commerce in guadalupe their delegates in the different french colonies and other where on the admiral commandant on the west-india station and on the chief of the administration strictly to execute this arrest each in his respective department done at basse terre guadalupe the th pluviote th year of the french republic one and indivisible signed victor hughes"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [19, 1292], "b_span": [1291, 2562], "matched_words": 1253, "similarity": 0.985062893081761, "seeds": 251, "id": "M00361", "a": {"key": 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prizes the d contrasts the situation of the enemies of france by forbidding such as shall have made prize of the french intimating from this connection of the two clauses that those forbidden are those which bring their prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french ministers were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence that goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some others of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states st it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such accurate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may st the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgement finally made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than to risk the consequences of hasty decisions it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this approbation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whosoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to any of them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candor and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned to its courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe that they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondencies with the french ministers formerly published joined to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|1", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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prizes with them to these observations i will add that if the literal construction contended for by the french minister were admitted then although the public ships of war which had made prize of french people or property would be excluded from our ports yet the prizes of such public ships might be received and they might be sold too for the prohibition in the d article of the treaty applies only to privateers and their prizes while the government of the united states judged that the th article was intended to exclude the prizes made on the french by public ships of war as well as those made by privateers and gave directions accordingly to have them excluded further if it had been intended to exclude from our ports the public ships of war of the enemies of france coming without any prize then they would doubtless have been comprehended in one provision with the privateers in the d article for privateers are thereby excluded whether they came with or without prizes but public ships of war are not comprehended or at all referred to in the d article whence the conclusion is fair that it was not intended to forbid them coming alone and consequently that the exclusion provided in the th article applies to them only when they would come into our ports with their prizes this last clause of the same article being in its form opposed to the first clause which admits the entrance of french ships with their prizes besides if a public ship of war of the enemies of france comes into our ports without any prize how is it to be known whether she has or has not made prize of the people or property of the french who is to create a tribunal to investigate and pronounce on the fact but if she comes with a prize the case presents no difficulty she brings with her the evidence which goes to the exclusion of her and her prize i must now advert to some other of mr adet's charges against the government of the united states d it the government of the united states put in question whether it should execute the treaties or receive the agents of the rebel and proscribed princes and is there any thing in this unjustifiable or extraordinary was it easy for a nation distant as ours to obtain promptly such adequate information as would enable it duly to estimate the varying condition of france in the constitution formed by the constituent assembly was accepted by louis the th it was notified to the united states in march congress desired the president to communicate to the king of the french their congratulation on the occasion in august the king was suspended in september royalty was abolished and in january louis the th tried and condemned by the convention suffered death was it easy to keep pace with the rapid succession of such revolutionary events and was it unlawful for our government under such circumstances even to deliberate i do not find that information of the death of the king was received from our minister at paris until may th the news however had previously arrived in such manner as to attract the attention of government for in april the president had determined to receive a minister from the french republic and it is remarkable that this was before he knew that a minister had arrived in the united states this promptitude in deciding a leading question does not bear any strong marks of hesitation and was there no merit in this ready determination to acknowledge the french republic had it been before acknowledged by any power on the globe how long did france hesitate to acknowledge the republic of the united states a year and a half and under what circumstances was the acknowledgement made after the capture of a whole british army appeared to have established our independence but of this more hereafter in matters of importance and what could be more important than the decision of a neutral and allied nation on questions perhaps involving war or peace is it the part of wisdom to reject all deliberation even on points which do not obviously present difficulties will not prudence dictate to him who is to decide great national questions rather to deliberate long than risk the consequence of hasty decisions d it made an insidious proclamation of neutrality i have already remarked that this proclamation received the pointed approbation of congress and i might truly add of the great body of the citizens of the united states and what was the general object of this proclamation to preserve us in a state of peace and have not the ministers of france declared that their government did not desire us to enter into the war and how was peace to be preserved by an impartial neutrality and was it not then the duty of the chief executive to proclaim this to our citizens and to inform them what acts would be deemed departures from their neutral duties this was done by the proclamation it declared it to be the duty interest and disposition of the united states to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers it warned the citizens to avoid all acts which might contravene that disposition it declared that whoever of the citizens should render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations by committing or abetting hostilities against any of those powers or by carrying to them articles deemed contraband of war would not receive the protection of the united states against such punishment and forfeiture and that the president had given instructions to the proper officers to prosecute all persons who should violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war or any of them to what in all this can the epithet insidious be applied on the contrary is not the whole transaction stamped with candour and good faith d by its chicaneries it abandoned the french privateers to its courts of justice abandoned them to the courts of justice sir you know many of the judges personally and all of them by reputation and that their characters need no vindication from such an insinuation they are judges with whose administration of justice our own citizens are satisfied and we believe they may challenge the world to furnish a proof that they have not administered justice with equal impartiality to foreigners i will only add here one remark that the correspondencies with the french ministers formerly published jointly to those now furnished you with the other documents accompanying them will"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1317, 2249], "b_span": [725, 1636], "matched_words": 889, "similarity": 0.9647314161692893, "seeds": 171, "id": "M00362", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|1", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a treaty with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favorable moment to offer a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there forty-eight hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the dy but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavoring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculeis at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated th of august last from the french minister of foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculeis in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our own vessels in our rivers and harbors and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were then armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude it from the right of redressing the wrong were it the vessel of another nation are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic agents the same reasoning will apply to captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing of their prizes when brought within our jurisdiction it is very possible indeed that in some cases the irritated subjects or public agents of nations whose property was taken by french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraints on the malignant passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|1", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0253.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "amicable mediation of the republic for breaking the chains of its citizens at algiers we did not entertain any doubt of the friendly disposition of the french republic to aid us in this business but what was really done we have never known you will find herewith mr fauchet's letter of june th and the answer of the secretary of state on the th to which mr adet refers the information on the subject which mr fauchet expected in a letter from europe probably never arrived at least it never was communicated to our government there is surely in the secretary's answer no evidence that our government were unwilling to accept the mediation of the republic on the contrary we have relied upon it to aid our negotiations with the barbary powers accordingly when col humphreys went from hence in charged with powers for negotiating peace with those states he was particularly instructed to solicit the mediation of the french republic and for that purpose only he went from lisbon to paris where through our minister the committee of public safety manifested their disposition to contribute to the success of his mission but col humphreys was at the same time authorized to depute joseph donaldson esq who had been appointed consul of the united states for tunis and tripoli and who went with col humphreys from america to negotiate immediately a peace with algiers for in a country where a negotiation depended on so many contingencies it was of the last importance to be ready to seize the favourable moment to effect a peace whenever it should offer such a moment presented on mr donaldson's arrival at algiers he had not been there hours before the treaty was concluded it is also a fact that it was effected without the aid of the french consul at that place however with respect to mr donaldson's negotiation we are well informed that his not conferring with the consul of france was not his fault and if he had done it that it would have injured his cause neither the republic nor her consul enjoying any credit with the bey but we are at the same time informed that the cause of this was transitory and ought not to hinder us from endeavouring to engage her interest for other places and in that place for future occasions agreeably to this idea the agent of the united states applied to the french consul herculeis at algiers the last spring to recommend a suitable person to negotiate a treaty with tunis the person recommended was employed and we have been informed had in part succeeded and was expected to complete a treaty of peace this information was communicated to our minister at paris in a letter dated the th of august last from the french minister for foreign affairs accompanied by an extract of a letter from the consul herculeis in all these transactions far from discovering a trace of evidence to support mr adet's charge the reverse is manifestly proved th notwithstanding treaty stipulations it allowed to be arrested vessels of the state while we admit the fact that the french vessels have been arrested we deny that the arrests have infringed any treaty stipulations the details in this letter and the documents referred to appear to us entirely to exculpate the government and if neither the executive nor our tribunals could in any case take cognizance of captures which the french privateers called prizes then they might take our vessels in our rivers and harbours and our citizens be without redress but it is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace to punish acts in breach of it and to restore property taken by force within its limits were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own from the wharves of philadelphia and to choose to call it a prize would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the united states the right of redressing is still the same and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul or on negotiation with diplomatic agents the same reasoning will apply to captures made by illegal privateers that is by such as were armed and equipped in the ports of the united states for it being by the law of nations the right of our government and as a neutral power its duty to prevent such armaments it must also be its right and duty by all means in its power to restrain the acts of such armaments done in violation of its rights and in defiance of its authority and such were the armaments made by the french people in the ports of the united states and the most effectual means of defeating their unlawful practices was the seizing the vessels when brought within our jurisdiction it is possible indeed that in some cases the agents or public agents of nations whose property was taken by the french privateers might commence vexatious prosecutions but this is no more than happens frequently among our own citizens and in every nation in the world and the only restraint on the vindictive passions of men in such cases which the policy of free governments has imposed are the damages which the"}, "profiles": 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either by illegally arming in our ports or making the captures within our jurisdiction if on the other hand they have in the event of contrary decisions been always condemned to pay damages we may venture to say it was because they were always in the wrong for no one will find sufficient ground to impeach the discernment or integrity of our courts th it suffered england by insulting its neutrality to interrupt its commerce with france that our commerce has been interrupted by the armed vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we certainly shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government has connived at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradicted it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we may appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go further we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensitive either to our honor or our interest if we have manifested much long suffering we have not been singular neutral nations very commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war she should have demanded from us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the u s would never have agreed th notwithstanding the faith of treaties it gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her th pillaged her citizens came also to draw the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favorable opportunity against the french this like"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|1", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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vessels of england and sometimes with circumstances of insult we shall not attempt to deny the universal resentment and indignation excited by those injuries were admissions of the fact but that the government had connived at the practice for that mr adet must have intended to insinuate by the word suffered all its acts most forcibly contradict it was because of those aggressions that preparations for war were commenced and to demand satisfaction for them was the leading object of mr jay's mission to london satisfaction was demanded and the arrangements agreed on for rendering it are now in execution at london but if by suffered mr adet means that we did not arm that is make war on england to obtain the indemnification when humanity reason and the law of nations prescribe the mode of previous peaceable demand to these very principles we appeal for our justification and if it is necessary to go farther we say that as an independent nation we must be left to determine in what manner we can most beneficially obviate an evil and when it is most proper for us to repel an injury to deny us this right of judgment is to deny our independence we have not been insensible either to our honour or our interest if we have manifested much long suffering we have not been singular neutral nations commonly endure many temporary evils because these appear light when compared with the calamities of war and they look forward as we have done to a period when returning justice may redress their wrongs this period we trust will arrive in regard to those we are now suffering from the french republic if a nation not bound to us by treaty and between whom and ourselves actual circumstances and many recollections tended to excite peculiar passions engaged to render us justice shall we expect less of an avowed friend we may here properly enquire what could have been the understanding of the parties on this point when the treaty of was made between france and the united states she knew that notwithstanding the extent of our country and its rapid increase in population many years must elapse before we could form a powerful navy to protect our commerce she knew the conduct of maritime powers in all their wars particularly she was acquainted with the maxims and measures of england towards the commerce of neutral nations in all her wars with france and if knowing these things france then expected that in all subsequent wars we should compel the maritime powers in general and great britain in particular to admit our commerce to perfect freedom then instead of a treaty of commerce containing regulations for conducting it when france should be at war the would have demanded of us a stipulation that in every future war in which she should be engaged with any other maritime power we also should engage in it as her associate but this is a condition which france was too just to demand and to which the united states would never have agreed th notwithstanding the faith of treaties it gave an asylum to these same english who after having insulted her flag pillaged her citizens came also to brave the american people in their ports and to take a station whence to cruise on a favourable opportunity against the french this like"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [725, 2057], "b_span": [4, 1327], "matched_words": 1261, "similarity": 0.9499058380414312, "seeds": 223, "id": "M00364", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|2", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigate terpsichore and her prize la montague and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'esperance the thetis and husar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la raison are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsichore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arrangements to give instant effect to the stipulation of the th article of the treaty of forbidding an asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executives were earnestly pressed to take the necessary order for a prompt execution in future of this part of the treaty but why should the french ministers complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps twenty or five and twenty days when against the earnest requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coasts and enter our harbors thence on favorable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carmagnole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the valiant remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'esperance by the british frigate argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven bay what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstance as improper in the captors but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion so soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'esperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been injected in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the course of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the u states it is as follows the french ship of war l'esperance was bro't into lynn haven bay on the th of jan a few days after my arrival there by capt ball who had captured her fifteen leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'esperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst at lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate th it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and its citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the u s that it did not contend in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and actually prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the sec of state represents this matter differently the british consul gen at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the island of guadeloupe marigalante and desidera were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's gen and v ad commanding in the west indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great britain had no operating existence until months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british prescribed to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british commanders proclaimed untruths and issued arbitrary orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the u states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|2", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0254.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the complaints of his predecessor mr fauchet and the vindication of the government will appear in the answers and communications from the secretary of state to that minister in the years and the cases particularly noticed were those of the british frigate terpsicore and her prize la montagne and of the british ship argonaut and her prize l'eperance the thetis and halsar british frigates with their french prizes la prevoyance and la ration are also mentioned but without any facts or circumstances as subjects of inquiry which of course is precluded that of the terpsicore and her prize appears to have been the first case of the kind in which the executive of the united states and those of the particular states were called to interfere and therefore it will not be thought extraordinary if the executive of virginia was unprepared with arguments to give instant effect to the stipulations of the th article of the treaty of forbidding any asylum to the armed vessels of the enemies of france and their prizes what delay took place seems to have been the result of accident certainly not of design and by letters from this department the executive were earnestly pressed to take the necessary steps for a prompt execution in future of this stipulation but why should the french minister complain with such energy that a british ship of war with her prize remained in one of our ports during perhaps or and twenty days when against her express requests and orders of the executive the french privateers armed in our ports in violation of the laws long continued to keep on our coast and enter our harbours thence on favourable opportunities to cruise against their enemies the columbia or carnagole continued such her unlawful acts for more than a year after all the zealous remonstrances of mr fauchet now renewed by mr adet about the capture of the french corvette l'eperance by the british ship argonaut who went with her prize into lynn haven what were the facts the governor of virginia went personally to the french consul at norfolk for information concerning this declared violation of the treaty but received none which appeared to justify the uneasiness occasioned by that event he charging no circumstances as improper in the capture but rather seemed to consider the introduction of the prisoners made on that occasion to soon into a place where the exchange would be effected as an alleviation of the misfortune of losing the vessel the captain of the french corvette himself was desired to give evidence in the case he promised but failed to appear he was called upon a second time to give information but discovered an unwillingness to do it observing that he had given the consul a circumstantial account of the transaction on his arrival the governor having heard that a respectable pilot by the name of butler was acquainted with the circumstances of this affair he directed his deposition to be taken it was taken and imported that admiral murray himself purchased the prize l'eperance and manned and fitted her in lynn haven bay for a cruise but butler's deposition was afterwards taken on the part of the british in which he contradicted all the material facts recited in the former deposition for which he accounted by saying that he could neither write nor read and that there had been inserted in his first deposition what he had never said under these circumstances it was desirable to obtain further information this was furnished by the british minister in the extract of a letter from admiral murray which bears every mark of candor and humanity and of respect for the united states it is as follows the french sloop of war l'eperance was brought into lynn haven bay on the th of january a few days after my arrival there by captain ball who had captured her leagues from the shore the weather being very tempestuous a lieutenant with a sufficient number of men only to navigate her not being half the complement the french had in her were sent on board from the resolution and the argonaut and so soon as the weather permitted those ships to supply her with water and provisions i sent her to sea that i might give no umbrage to the american states an additional reason for bringing l'eperance into lynn haven bay was out of humanity to the french prisoners whom having had a long voyage i sent to norfolk as soon as prudence would permit otherwise they must have been kept prisoners on board the whole winter and sent to halifax in the spring nor was she equipped or armed then in any manner whatever nor did the lieutenant receive any commission for her whilst in lynn haven bay and when at sea only an acting order to command her which is customary and absolutely necessary in all captures otherwise if retaken by the enemy he might be considered as a pirate it might be said that it applauded their the english audacity all submission to their will it allowed the french colonies to be declared in a state of blockade and their citizens interdicted the right of trading to them if among the multitude of such complaints as mr adet has exhibited any one could excite surprise this charge is calculated to produce it here a formal charge is made against the government of the united states that it did not control in another independent nation the right of judging of its own affairs that it did not forbid and effectively prevent the officers of a foreign power the british admirals and commanders in the west-indies declaring certain french colonies to be in a state of blockade but the official legalization of a proclamation had been posted up under our eyes prohibiting our commerce with the french colonies and suspending to us alone the law of nations the answer to mr fauchet from the secretary of state represents this matter differently the british consul general at philadelphia by a publication on the th of april gave notice that he had received official communications that the islands of gaudaloupe marigalente and desirade were by proclamation issued by his britannic majesty's general and vice admiral commanding in the west-indies declared to be in an actual state of blockade and that neutral not singly american vessels were thereby prohibited from attempting to enter any ports or places in those islands with supplies of any kind under the penalty of being dealt with conformably to existing treaties and as warranted by the established laws of nations and while existing treaties our treaty with great-britain had no operative existence till six months after the consul's advertisement and the laws of nations were avowed to be the rules by which the property of neutrals was in this case to be adjudged had they reason to complain if any neutral vessels attempted to enter any of those ports which were not in reality in a state of blockade and yet were captured could they be condemned certainly not by the rules which the british prescribed to themselves treaties and the laws of nations but if the british should be so untruthful and issued orders for capturing neutral vessels and their cruisers and courts of admiralty executed them arbitrarily could the american government prevent them we could demand of the british government satisfaction for injuries to our own citizens consequent on such orders and if any such were sustained the arrangements for making reparation are now in execution but admitting that any ports in the french colonies were in fact blockaded who should notify it to neutral nations accustomed to trade with those ports certainly the officers of that power whose fleets and armies formed the blockade and in the united states no mode of giving universal notice could be so effectual as a publication in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1180, 1775], "b_span": [860, 1457], "matched_words": 562, "similarity": 0.9429530201342282, "seeds": 88, "id": "M00365", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-07|1|3", "date": "1797-03-07", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797030701/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "french and we translate it without delay equality liberty arret the special agents of the executive directory in the westindies considering that the ports of the islands at the windward and leeward as well as those of demarara essequibo and berbice delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants are in a state of permanent siege and ought not to enjoy the same advantages as the ports of the different english colonies possessed by that power before the war and by other title considering it to be contrary to every principle to treat a horde of rebels without country without government or a flag with the same regard which civilized nations observe among themselves during war considering that by authentic acts in our possession it is proved that divers places of the colonies delivered to the english by the french and dutch rebels belong not to the british government more than la vendee in which the english ministry had also their mercenary troops regiments in their pay wearing the same uniform as the troops of the king of england considering that by virtue of the second article of the treaty of alliance concluded at paris feb th between the united states and france the former power engages to defend the possessions in america in case of war and the government and commerce of the united states have strangely abused the forbearance of the french republic in turning to her detriment the favors which had been accorded to them of entering and trading in all the ports of the french colonies by permitting for a longer time neutral vessels to carry provisions of war and of subsistence to men evidently in a state of rebellion we should be the means of prolonging civil war the calamities and the crimes which proceed therefrom order as follows art i the ships of the republic and french privateers are authorized to take and conduct into the ports of the republic neutral vessels destined for the windward and leeward islands of america delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants the ports are martinique st lucia tobago demarara berbice essequibo and at the leeward port-au-prince st marks l'archayes and jeremie art ii every armed vessel having a commission from either of these ports shall be reputed a pirate and the crews adjudged and punished as such art iii the vessels and cargoes described in the first and second articles are declared good prize and shall be sold for the benefit of the captors art iv every vessel taken which shall be cleared out to the westindies generally is comprehended in the first and second article art v the order of last nivole th in pursuance of the decree of the executive directory of the th messidor th year shall be executed till further orders in every particular not contravening this ordinance adet's this order shall be printed transcribed into the register of the criminal tribunal and of commerce sent to all the ports of the french colonies read published and posted up wherever it may be necessary it shall be notified officially to the neutral governments of st croix st thomas and st bartholomews enjoining on the criminal tribunal and of commerce in guadaloupe their delegates in the different french colonies and other where on the admiral commandant on the westindia station and on the administration strictly to execute this arrest each in his respective department done at basse-terre guadaloupe d feb th year of the french republic one and indivisible signed victor hughes"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-05|1|2", "date": "1797-04-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040501/0806.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "french and we translate it for the minerva without delay equality arret liberty the special agents of the executive directory in the west-indies considering that the ports of the islands at the windward and leeward as well as those of demarara essequibo and berbice delivered up to the english occupied and defended by the emigrants are in a state of permanent siege and ought not to enjoy the same advantages as the ports of the different english colonies possessed by that power before the war and by other title considering that it is contrary to every principle to treat a horde of rebels without country without government or a flag with the same regard which civilized nations observe among themselves during war considering that by authentic acts in our possession it is proved that divers places of the colonies delivered to the english by the french dutch rebels belong not to the british government more that la vendee in which the english minister had also their mercenary troops regiments in their pay wearing the same uniform as the troops of the king of england considering that by virtue of the second article of the treaty of alliance concluded at paris february th between the united states and france the former power engages to defend the possessions in america in case of war and the government and commerce of the united states have strangely abused the forbearance of the french republic in turning to her detriment the favours which had been accorded to them of entering trading in all ports of the french colonies by permitting for a longer time neutral vessels to carry provisions of war and of subsistence to men evidently in a state of rebellion we should be the means of prolonging civil war the calamities and the crimes which proceed therefrom order as follows article i the ships of the republic and french privateers are authorised to take and conduct into the ports of the republic neutral vessels destined for the windward and leeward islands of america delivered up to the english occupied and detested by the emigrants these ports are martinique st lucia tobago demarara berbice essequibo and at the leeward port au prince st marks l'archayes and jeremie article ii every armed vessel having a commission from either of those ports shall be reputed a pirate and the crews adjudged and punished as such art iii the vessels and cargoes described in the first and second articles are declared good prize and shall be sold for the benefit of the captors art iv every vessel taken which shall be cleared out to the west-indies generally is comprehended in the first and second article art v the order of last nivose th in pursuance of the decree of the executive directory of the th messidor th year shall be executed till further orders in every particular not contravening this ordinance this order shall be printed transcribed in to the register of the criminal tribunal and of commerce sent to french colonies read published and posted up wherever it may be necessary it shall be notified officially to the neutral governments of st croix st thomas and st bartholomews enjoining on the criminal tribunal and of commerce in guadalupe their delegates in the different french colonies and other where on the admiral commandant on the west-india station and on the chief of the administration strictly to execute this arrest each in his respective department done at basse terre guadalupe the th pluviote th year of the french republic one and indivisible signed victor hughes"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", 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afford me firm support wherever it shall be known both at home and abroad their generous approbation of my conduct in general and liberal testimony to the undeviating impartiality of it in my peculiar relation to their body a character which in every scene and employment of life i should with above all others to cultivate and merit has a tendency to soften asperities and conciliate animosities wherever such may unhappily exist an effect at all times to be desired and in the present situation of our country ardently to be promoted by all good citizens i pray the senate to accept my"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|1", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "states to the address of the senate feb d an address so respectful and affectionate as this from gentlemen of such experience and established character in public affairs high stations in the government of their country and great consideration in their several states as the senators of the united states will do me great honor and afford me a firm support wherever it shall be known both at home and abroad their generous approbation of my conduct in general and liberal testimony to the undeviating impartiality of it in my peculiar relation to their body a character which in every scene and employment of life i should with above all others to cultivate and merit has a tendency to soften asperities and conciliate animosities whenever such may unhappily exist an affect at all times to be desired and in the present situation of our country ardently to be promoted by all good citizens i pray the senate to accept my"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording 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is the answer which was given whatever may be the idea you have formed of the critical position in which you suppose i find myself i have the honor to assure you that i am ready at any instant to convince you of your error this also will inform you that i am as little disposed to accept the shameful capitulation you have proposed the country of baden continues to be ill treated by the austrians the house of the baron de reizenstein has been plundered and destroyed by them this is the same baron de reizenstein who concluded a peace for his prince and is still at paris december yesterday at o'clock a second austrian flag of truce proposed the surrender of the fort of huningue or at least its evacuation on a promise that it should be restored at the opening of the campaign in the same state in which it was surrendered general abatucci answered that to obtain the fort it was necessary to take it when the flag had returned with this answer the artillery of both armies commenced a most terrible fire which is still heard at half past nine in the evening they assaulted the first fort which is separated from the other by an arm of the rhine all the french garrison immediately retired into the rear fort the artillery then ceased to play on both sides and in its place a fire of musquetry was sustained which continued an hour after midnight never was there a more murderous conflict none of the austrians who were not driven from the fort perished there the austrians lost ten times more than the french the dead exceed two thousand abatucci received four wounds two with a fabre one bullet and a stroke with a cannon ball in his shoulder at this instant the cannon are again heard a courier direct from"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|3", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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plundered and destroyed by them this is the same baron de reizenstein who concluded a peace for his prince and is still at paris december yesterday at o'clock a second austrian flag of truce proposed the surrender of the fort of huningue or at least its evacuation on a promise that it should be restored at the opening of the campaign in the same state in which it was surrendered gen abatucci answered that to obtain the fort it was necessary to take it when the flag had returned with this answer the artillery of both armies commenced a most terrible fire which is still heard at half past nine in the evening they assaulted the first fort which is separated from the other by an army of the rhine all the french garrison immediately retired into the rear fort the artillery then ceased to play on both sides and in its place a fire of musketry was sustained which continued an hour after midnight never was there a more murderous conflict those of the austrians who were not driven from the fort perished there the austrians lost ten times more than the french the dead exceed two thousand abatucci received wounds two with a sabre one bullet and a stroke with a cannon ball in his shoulder at this instant the cannon are again heard a courier direct from"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [58, 1467], "b_span": [1328, 2789], "matched_words": 1329, "similarity": 0.9261324041811847, "seeds": 203, "id": "M00368", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|1", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0249.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "senate of the united states feb on request of the vice-president of the united states being excused from further attendance in senate during the session he addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most eminent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had exhibited any clear indications of another in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberation in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-operated tho in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a level as to render it difficult to conjecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the general deliberation and a passive subject of public discussion deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions entrusted to me the care of their dearer interests since a majority of their electors though a very small one have declared in my favor and since in a republican government the majority though ever so small must of necessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just responsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or disunited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affection which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator present and to every senator of the united states my thanks for the candor and favorably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in a government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in peace and uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the abstruse questions difficult conjunctures dangerous emergencies and animated debates upon the great interests of our country which have so often so deeply impressed all our minds i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less importance than difficulty have produced a difference of sentiment and differences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and probably the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my opinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found in that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been obliged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberation and independence of judgment which they afforded for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring witness of a succession of information eloquence patriotism and independence which as they would have done honor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no council more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be necessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more reprehensible enterprize in the executive on one hand or the more immediate representatives of the people on the other these considerations will all conspire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniformly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be supported by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the people at large and on no other conditions ought any support at all to be expected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the virtues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail myself of your leave of absence for the remainder of the session february the answer to the address of the vice-president of the united states on his retiring from the senate was yesterday agreed to as follows sir the senate of the united states would be unjust to their own feelings and deficient in the performance of a duty their relation to the government of their country imposes should they fail to express their regard for your person and their respect for your character in answer to the address you presented to them on your leaving a station which you have so long and so honorably filled as their president the motives you have been pleased to disclose which induced you not to withdraw from the public service at a time when your experience talents and virtues were peculiarly desirable are as honorable for yourself as from our confidence in you sir we trust the result will be beneficial to our beloved country when you retired from your dignified seat in this house and took your leave of the members of the senate we felt all those emotions of gratitude and affection which our knowledge and experience of your abilities and undeviating impartiality ought to inspire and we should with painful reluctance endure the separation but for the consoling reflection that the same qualities which have rendered you useful as the president of this branch of the legislature will enable you to be still more so in the exalted station to which you have been called from you sir in whom your country have for a long period placed a steady confidence which have never been betrayed or forfeited and to whom they have on so many occasions entrusted the care of their dearest interests which have never been abused from you who holding the second situation under the constitution of the united states have lived in uninterrupted harmony with him who has held the first from you we receive with much satisfaction the declaration which you are pleased to make of the opinion you entertain of the character of the present senators and of that of those citizens who have been heretofore senators this declaration were other motives wanting would afford them an incentive to a virtuous perseverance in that line of conduct which has been honored with your approbation in your future course we entertain no doubt that your official conduct will be measured by the constitution and directed to the public good you have therefore a right to entertain a confident reliance that you will be supported as well by the people at large as by their constituted authorities we cordially reciprocate the wishes which you express for our honor health and happiness we join with yours our fervent prayers for the continuation of the virtues and liberties of our fellow citizens for the public prosperity and peace and for you"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797032501/0783.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "senate of the united states fe bruary on request the vice president of the united states being excused from further attendance in senate during the session addressed them as follows gentlemen of the senate if in the general apprehension of an intention to retire in that most emi nent citizen to whom all eyes had been directed and all hearts attracted as the centre of our union for so long a period the public opinion had ex hibited any clear indications of ano ther in whom our fellow citizens could have generally united as soon as i read that excellent address which announced the necessity of deliberati on in the choice of a president i should have imitated the example of a character with which i had co-ope rated though in less conspicuous and important stations and maintained an uninterrupted friendship for two and twenty years but as a number of characters appeared to stand in the general estimation so nearly on a le vel as to render it difficult to con jecture on which the majority would fall considering the relation in which i stood to the people of america i thought it most respectful to them and most conducive to the tranquillity of the public mind to resign myself with others a silent spectator of the gene ral deliberation and a passive subject of public discussion deeply penetrated with gratitude to my countrymen in general for their long continued kindness to me and for that steady and affecting confidence with which those who have most intimately known me from early life have on so many great occasions eu trusted me the care of their dearer interests since a majority of their electors though a very small one have declared in my favour and since in a republican government the ma jority though ever so small must of ne cessity decide i have determined at every hazard of a high but just res ponsibility though with much anxiety and diffidence once more to engage in their service their confidence which has been the chief consolation of my life is too precious and sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly as it has been founded only on the qualities of the heart it never has been it never can be deceived betrayed or disunited by me it is with reluctance and with all those emotions of gratitude and affec tion which a long experience of your goodness ought to inspire that i now retire from my seat in this house and take my leave of the members of the senate i ought not to declare for the last time your adjournment before i have presented to every senator pre sent and to every senator of the uni ted states my thanks for the candor and favour invariably received from them all it is a recollection of which nothing can ever deprive me and it will be a source of comfort to me through the remainder of my life that as on the one hand in the government constituted like ours i have for eight years held the second situation under the constitution of the united states in perfect uninterrupted harmony with the first without envy in one or jealousy in the other so on the other hand i have never had the smallest misunderstanding with any member of the senate in all the abstruse questions difficult conjectures dan gerous emergencies and animated de bates upon the great interest of our country which have to often so deep ly impressed all our minds and i have experienced a uniform politeness and respect from every quarter of the house when questions of no less im portance than difficulty have produ ced a difference of sentiment differ ences of opinion will always be found in free assemblies of men and proba bly the greatest diversities upon the greatest questions when the senators have been equally divided and my o pinion has been demanded according to the constitution i have constantly found on that moiety of the senators from whose judgment i have been ob liged to dissent a disposition to allow me the same freedom of deliberati on and independence of judgment which they asserted for themselves within these walls for a course of years i have been an admiring wit ness of a succession of information elo quence patriotism and independence which as they would have done ho nor to any senate in any age afford a consolatory hope if the legislatures of the states are equally careful in their future selections which there is no reason to distrust that no coun cil more permanent than this as a branch of the legislature will be ne cessary to defend the rights liberties and properties of the people and to protect the constitution of the united states as well as the constitutions and rights of the individual states against errors of judgment irregularities of the passions or other encroachments of human infirmity or more repre hensible enterprise in the executive on one hand or the more immediate re presentatives of the people on the o ther these considerations will all con spire to animate me in my future course with a confident reliance that as far as my conduct shall be uniform ly measured by the constitution of the united states and faithfully directed to the public good i shall be support ed by the senate as well as by the house of representatives and the pe ople at large and on no other conditi ons ought any support at all to be ex pected or desired with cordial wishes for your honor health and happiness and fervent prayers for a continuation of the vir tues liberties prosperity and peace of our beloved country i avail myself of your leave of absence for the re mainder of the session the answer to the address of the vice-president of the united states on his retiring from the senate was on tuesday agreed to as follows sir the senate of the united states would be unjust to their own feelings and deficient in the performance of a duty their relation to the government of their country imposes would they fail to express their regard for your person and their respect for your cha racter in answer to the address you presented to them on your leaving a station which you have so long and so honorably filled as their president the motive you have been pleased to disclose which induced you not to withdraw from the public service at a time when your experience talents and virtues were peculiarly desirable are as honorable for yourself as from our confidence in you sir we trust the result will be beneficial to our be loved country when you retired from your digni fied seat in this house and took your leave of the members of the senate we felt all those emotions of gratitude and affection which our knowledge and experience of your abilities and undeclining impartiality ought to in spire and we should with painful reluctance endure the separation but for the consoling reflection that the same qualities which have rendered you useful as the president of this branch of the legislature will enable you to be still more so in the exalted station to which you have been cal led from you sir in whom your coun try have for a long period placed a steady confidence which has never been betrayed or forfeited to whom they have on so many occasions entrusted the care of their dearest interests which have never been abused from you who holding the second si tuation under the constitution of the united states have lived in uninter rupted harmony with him who has held the first from you we receive with much satisfaction the declaration which you are pleased to make of the opinion you entertain of the characters of the present senators and of that of those citizens who have been heretofore se nators this declaration were other motives wanting would afford them an incentive to a virtuous perseve rance in that line of conduct which has been honored with your approbation in your future course we entertain no doubt that your official conduct will be measured by the constitution and directed to the public good you have therefore a right to entertain a confident reliance that you will be supported as well by the people at large as by their constituted authori ties we cordially reciprocate the wit nesses which you express for our honor health and happiness we join with yours our fervent prayers for the continuation of the virtues and liber ties of our fellow citizens for the public prosperity and peace and for you"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1854, 1999], "b_span": [1184, 1298], "matched_words": 110, "similarity": 0.8494208494208494, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00369", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|2", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0250.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "march european accounts by the arrival at n york from amsterdam are as respects continental information a day or two later than we had before the prospects of peace were unpromising no recent actions had occurred with the armies a fleet of russian men of war were expected in england the death of the empress of russia was reported by some credited by others not it was also reported that frederick of prussia was preparing to join in the war discontents prevailed in holland the french troops were almost entirely withdrawn from that republic a letter from amsterdam dec mentions the death of catherine of russia and remarks that there are many conjectures as to the effect this will have on the affairs of europe it adds that the french continue successful in italy and that expectations of a sudden peace are by no means"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "march european accounts by the arrival at newyork from amsterdam are the prospects of peace were unpromising no recent actions had occurred with the armies a fleet of russian men of war was expected in england it was reported that frederick of prussia was preparing to join in the war discontents prevailed in holland the french troops were mostly withdrawn from that republic a letter from amsterdam dec mentions the death of catherine of russia and remarks that there are many conjectures as to the effect it will have on the affairs of europe it adds that the french continue successful in italy and that expectations of a sudden peace are by no means"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1293, 1427], "b_span": [1584, 1717], "matched_words": 131, "similarity": 0.9812734082397003, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00370", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-11|1|3", "date": "1797-03-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031101/0251.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "we have seen letters from houses of the highest respectability in rotterdam under the dates of dec th and jan informing that lord malmesbury had left paris and that the prospect of peace had vanished the above letters were received by capt giles who arrived at marblehead on friday last in days from rotterdam various reports emanated from this arrival one was that malmesbury was ordered to quit paris in hours and another that the american envoy was also ordered to retire in the same period this latter is certainly unfounded for the friendly reception of mr pinckney at paris may be inferred from the silence of the rotterdam letters on the subject had he been refused the merchants trading to america would have deemed the event highly interesting and would have noticed it"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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fall back on the side of ala on the frontiers of tyrol nevertheless gen alvinzy being informed of the victory of rivoli advanced towards verona he proceeded near to caldiero when he heard of the retreat of gen davidovich then he in turn fell back to vicenza on his way as far in the rear as bassano in order to secure his baggage and to concert fresh operations in the alternative of these fruitless efforts to effect the junction of the two imperial armies it is uncertain what will be the final event with respect to mantua the blockade of which was prematurely stated to be raised and where marshal wurmser appears to be in want of sufficient force to co-operate effectually with the armies which came"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-05|1|2", "date": "1797-04-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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two imperial armies it is uncertain what will be the final event in respect to mantua the blockade of which was prematurely stated to be raised and where marshal wurmsler appears to be in want of sufficient force to cooperate effectually with the armies which came"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [932, 1159], "b_span": [283, 512], "matched_words": 218, "similarity": 0.956140350877193, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00372", "a": {"key": "sn83025527|1797-03-14|1|3", "date": "1797-03-14", "paper": "Russel & Davis' Republican gazetteer", "lccn": "sn83025527", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025527/1797-03-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025527/00541315809/1797031401/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the forces under davidovich has again made an advance with his army a movement which put the enemy's corps in danger of being cut off it is moreover at present believed to be ascertained that the french troops which had advanced by the mountains on the side of peri to take our forces by flank do not exceed men thus the retreat of gen davidovich dictated by prudence has given rise to other dispositions which announce the march of our forces again towards peri the commander after having reunited his forces in the environs of ala has pushed forward several battalions and squadrons which have driven the enemy's detachments from the points where they still made their appearance he detached at the same time a corps of men composed in part of riflemen to post themselves above valle fredda in order to cut off the french and put them if possible between two fires since yesterday gen davidovich was to begin his march with the remainder of his force indeed we hear this instant that he had removed his head quarters from ala to peri and that our troops push forward on all sides against the french posted behind rivoli it is believed that tomorrow they will be attacked an undertaking which may be expected to succeed provided gen alvinzy on his part should advance towards verona"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-05|1|2", "date": "1797-04-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040501/0806.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the forces under davidovich has again made an advance with his army a movement which put the enemy's corps in danger of being cut off it is moreover at present believed to be ascertained that the french troops which had advanced by the mountains on the side of peri to take our forces in flank do not exceed men thus the retreat of general davidovich dictated by prudence has given rise to other dispositions which announce the march of our forces again towards peri the commander after having re-united his forces in the environs of ala has pushed forward several battalions and squadrons which have driven the enemy's detachments from the points where they still made their appearance he detached at the same time a corps of one thousand men composed in part of riflemen to post themselves above valle-freda in order to cut off the french and to put them if possible between two fires since yesterday general davidovich was to begin his march with the remainder of his force indeed we hear this instant that he has removed his head quarters from ala to peri and that our troops push forward on all sides against the french posted behind rivoli it is believed that to-morrow they will be attacked an undertaking which may be expected to succeed provided general alvinzy on his part should advance towards verona"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": 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expected in london from thence the french directory it is generally supposed do not want peace knowing well that as soon as the armies return to france its power will be of short duration they have published an arret suspending all intercourse with america the above is confirmed by capt b berry arrived here from st bartholomews in days he says that a philadelphia built ship capt b bridge had arrived there on the th of february from bordeaux in days which brought an account of lord malmesbury's being ordered to leave france and that mr pinckney would not be received by the french directory as ambassador from this country in consequence of which he had returned to bordeaux where he was waiting to get a passage home captain boye positively asserts that previous to his failing accounts were received at the custom-house of liverpool of sail of french vessels men of war and transports having a number of troops on board destined for a descent on ireland being through gusts of weather blown into bantry bay most of them distressed some of the people went on shore were made prisoners and sent to dublin from the situation of the place the whole must inevitably be captured they intended to have effected a landing at londonderry in the north of ireland"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0258.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from a gentleman in greenock scotland to his correspondent here dated the th december received by the peggy capt pool which place she left the d of january all prospects of peace are blown over for the present our ambassador lord malmesbury having been ordered to leave paris about three days ago and was daily expected in london from thence the french directory it is general ly supposed do not want peace knowing well that as soon as the armies returned to france its power would be of short du ration they have published an arrest sus pending all intercourse with america the baltimore editor adds the above is confirmed by captain bumberry arrived here from st bartho lomews in days he says that a phi ladelphia built ship capt bambridge had arrived there on the th of february from bourdeaux days which brought an account of lord malmesbury's being ordered to leave france and that mr pinckney would not be received by the french directory as ambassador from this country in consequence of which he was returned to bourdeaux where he was waiting to get a passage home capt boyd positively asserts that pre vious to his sailing accounts were receiv ed at the custom house of liverpool of sail of french vessels men of war and transports having a number of troops on board destined for a descent on ireland being through stress of weather blown into bantry bay most of them dismasted some of the people went on shore were made prisoners and went to dublin from the situation of the place the whole must inevitably be captured they intended to have effected a landing at londonderry in the north of ireland"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1352, 1441], "b_span": [1752, 1842], "matched_words": 82, "similarity": 0.9162011173184358, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00374", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-16|1|3", "date": "1797-03-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797031601/0231.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sally arrived yesterday from st bartholomews we have the following intelligence that previous to his failing from that port the ship hope cambridge of philadelphia had arrived there in days from bordeaux the captain of which informed that mr pinckney had been refused by the french directory as minister from the u s and that the conditions on which he was permitted to reside at paris were such only as were granted to other foreigners also that the breck fleet had failed we give the above literally as received"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-12|1|3", "date": "1797-04-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041201/0822.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sally arrived yesterday from st bartholomews we have the following article that previous to his sailing from that port the ship hope banbridge of philadelphia had arrived there in days from bourdeaux the captain of which informed that mr pinckney had been refused by the french directory as minister from the united states and that the conditions on which he was permitted to reside at paris were such only as were usually granted to other foreigners also that the brett fleet had failed we give the above literally as received"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1534, 1795], "b_span": [1380, 1638], "matched_words": 241, "similarity": 0.928709055876686, "seeds": 34, "id": "M00375", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-16|1|3", "date": "1797-03-16", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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ambassador from this country in consequence of which he had returned to bordeaux where he was waiting to get a passage home captain boye positively asserts that previous to his failing accounts were received at the custom-house of liverpool of sail of french vessels men of war and transports having a number of troops on board destined for a descent on ireland being through gusts of weather blown into bantry bay most of them distressed some of the people went on shore were made prisoners and sent to dublin from the situation of the place the whole must inevitably be captured they intended to have effected a landing at londonderry in the north of ireland"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-12|1|3", "date": "1797-04-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041201/0822.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in hampton roads from liverpool which place she left the d of january all prospects of peace are blown over for the present our ambassador lord malmesbury having been ordered to leave paris about days ago and was daily expected in london from thence the french directory it is generally supposed do not want peace knowing well that as soon as the armies return to france its power would be of short duration they have published an arrest suspending all intercourse with america the above is confirmed by captain bunberry arrived here from st bartholomews in days he says that a philadelphia built ship capt cambridge had arrived there on the th of february from bourdeaux days which brought an account of lord malmesbury's being ordered to leave france and that mr pinckney would not be received by the french directory as ambassador from this country in consequence of which he was returned to bourdeaux where he was waiting to go a passage home capt boyd positively asserts that previous to his sailing accounts were received at the custom house of liverpool of sail of french vessels men of war and transports having a number of troops on board destined for a descent on ireland being thro stress of weather blown into bantry bay most of them dismasted some of the people went on shore were made prisoners and sent to dublin from the situation of the place the whole must inevitably be captured they intended to have effected a landing at londonderry in the north of ireland"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [13, 467], "b_span": [689, 1141], "matched_words": 441, "similarity": 0.9735099337748344, "seeds": 86, "id": "M00376", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-18|1|3", "date": "1797-03-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797031801/0255.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "thomas jefferson was sworn in as vice-president of the united states and president of the senate on which he addressed the senate as follows vice president's speech gentlemen of the senate entering on the duties of the office to which i am called i feel it incumbent on me to apologize to this honorable house for the insufficient manner in which i fear they may be discharged at an earlier period of my life and through some considerable portion of it i have been a member of legislative bodies and not altogether unattentive to the forms of their proceedings but much time has elapsed since that other duties have occupied my mind in a great degree it has lost its familiarity with this subject i fear that the house will have but too frequent occasion to perceive the truth of this acknowledgement if a diligent attention however will enable me to fulfil the functions now assigned me i may promise that diligence and attention shall be sedulously employed for one portion of my duty i shall engage with more confidence because it will depend on my will and not on my capacity the rules which are to govern the proceedings of this house so far as they shall depend on me for their application shall be applied with the most rigorous and inflexible impartiality regarding neither persons their views or principles and seeing only the abstract proposition subject to my decision if in forming that opinion i concur with some and differ from others as must of necessity happen i shall rely on the liberality and candor of those from whom i differ to believe that i do it on pure motives i might here proceed and with the greatest truth to declare my zealous attachment to the constitution of the united states that i consider the union of these states as the first of blessings and as the first of duties the preservation of that constitution which secures it but i suppose these declarations not pertinent to the occasion of entering into an office whose primary business is merely to preside over the forms of this house no one more sincerely prays that no accident may call me to the higher and more important functions which the constitution eventually devolves on this office these have been justly confided to the eminent character which has preceded me here whose talents and integrity have been known and revered by me through a long course of years have been the foundation of a cordial and uninterrupted friendship between us and i devoutly pray he may be long preserved for the government the happiness and prosperity of our common country soon after the senate removed to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-12|1|3", "date": "1797-04-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041201/0822.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "thomas jefferson was sworn in as vice president of the united states and president of the senate he addressed them in the following extem-pore speech gentlemen of the senate entering on the duties of the office to which i am called i feel it incumbent on me to apologize to this honorable house for the insufficient manner in which i fear they may be discharged at an early period of my life and through some considerable portion of it i have been a member of legislative bodies and not altogether inattentive to the forms of their proceedings but much time has elapsed since that other duties have occupied my mind in a great degree it has lost its familiarity with this subject i fear that the house will have but too frequent occasion to perceive the truth of this acknowledgement if a diligent attention however will enable me to fulfil the functions now assigned me i may promise that diligence and attention shall be sedulously employed for one portion of my duty i shall engage with more confidence because it will depend on my will and not on my capacity the rules which are to govern the proceedings of this house so far as they depend on me for their application shall be applied with the most rigorous and inexorable impartiality regarding neither persons their views or principles and seeing only the abstract proposition subject to my decision if in forming that opinion i concur with some and differ from others as must of necessity happen i shall rely on the liberality and candor of those from whom i differ to believe that i do it on pure motives i might here proceed and with the greatest truth to declare my zealous attachment to the constitution of the united states that i consider the union of these states as the first of blessings and as the first of duties the preservation of that constitution which secures it but i suppose these declarations not pertinent to the occasion of entering into an office whose primary business is merely to preside over the forms of this house and no one more sincerely prays that no accident may call me to the higher and more important functions which the constitution eventually devolves on this office these have been justly confided to the eminent character which has preceded me here whose talents and integrity have been known and revered by me through a long course of years have been the foundation of a cordial and uninter-rupted friendship between us and i devoutly pray he may be long preserved for the government the happiness and prosperity of our common country soon after the senate removed to the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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over the parts of this extensive country relying however on the purity of their intentions the justice of their cause and the integrity and intelligence of the people under an overruling providence which had so signally protected this country from the first the representatives of this nation then consisting of little more than half the present number not only broke the chains which were forging and the rod of iron which was lifted up but frankly cut asunder the ties which had bound them and launched into an ocean of uncertainty the zeal and ardour of the people during the revolutionary war supplying the place of government commanded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of society the confederation which was early felt to be necessary was prepared from the models of the batavian and helvetic confederacies the only examples which remain with any detail and precision in history and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever considered but reflecting on the striking difference in so many particulars between this country and those where a courier may go from the seat of government to the frontier in a single day it was then certainly foreseen by some who assisted in congress at the formation of it that it could not be durable negligence of its regulations inattention to its recommendation if not disobedience to its authority not only in individuals but in states soon appeared with their melancholy consequences universal languor jealousies and rivalries of states decline of navigation and commerce discouragement of necessary manufacturers universal fall in the value of lands and their produce contempt of public and private faith loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations and at length in discontent animosities combinations partial conventions and insurrection threatening some great national calamity in this dangerous crisis the people of america were not abandoned by their usual good sense presence of mind resolution or integrity measures were pursued to concert a plan to form a more perfect union establish justice ensure domestic tranquility provide for the common defence promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty the public disquisitions discussions and deliberations issued in the present happy constitution of government employed in the service of my country abroad during the whole course of these transactions i first saw the constitution of the united states in a foreign country irritated by no literary altercation animated by no public debate heated by no party animosity i read it with great satisfaction as a result of good heads prompted by good hearts as an experiment better adapted to the genius character situation and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested in its general principles and great outlines it was conformable to such a system of government as i had ever most esteemed and in some states my own native state in particular had contributed to establish claiming a right of suffrage in common with my fellow-citizens in the adoption or rejection of a constitution which was to rule me and my posterity as well as them and theirs i did not hesitate to express my approbation of it on all occasions in public and in private it was not then nor has been since any objection to it in my mind that the executive and senate were not more permanent nor have i entertained a thought of promoting any alteration in it but such as the people themselves in the course of their experience should see and feel to be necessary or expedient and by their representatives in congress and the state legislatures according to the constitution itself adopt and ordain returning to the bosom of my country after a painful separation from it for ten years i had the honor to be elected to a station under the new order of things and i have repeatedly laid myself under the most serious obligations to support the constitution the operation of it has equalled the most sanguine expectations of its friends and from an habitual attention to it satisfaction in its administration and delight in its effects upon the peace order prosperity and happiness of the nation i have acquired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it what other form of government indeed can so well deserve our esteem and love there may be little solidity in an ancient idea that congregations of men into cities and nations are the most pleasing objects in the sight of superior intelligences but this is very certain that to a benevolent and human mind there can be no spectacle presented by any nation more pleasing more noble majestic or august than an assembly like that which has been so often seen in this and the other chamber of congress of a government in which the executive authority as well as that of all the branches of the legislature are exercised by citizens selected at regular periods by their neighbours to make and execute laws for the general good can any thing essential any thing more than mere ornament and decoration be added to this by robes and diamonds can authority be more amiable or respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people for it is the people only that are represented it is their power and majesty that is reflected and only for their good in every legitimate government under whatever form it may appear the existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people and what object or consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind if national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs not from power or riches grandeur or glory but from conviction of national innocence information and benevolence in the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if any thing partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free fair virtuous and independent elections if an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption the government may be the choice of a party for its own ends not of the nation for the national good if that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces by fraud or violence by terror intrigue or venality the government may not be the choice of the american people but of foreign nations it may be foreign nations who govern us and not we the people who govern ourselves and candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over lot or chance such is the amiable and interesting system of government and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed which the people of america have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wife and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who by a long course of great actions regulated by prudence justice temperance and fortitude conducting a people inspired with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to independence and peace to increasing wealth and unexampled prosperity has merited the gratitude of his fellow-citizens commanded the highest praises of foreign nations and secured immortal glory with posterity in that retirement which is his voluntary choice may he long live to enjoy the delicious recollection of his services the gratitude of mankind the happy fruits of them to himself and the world which are daily increasing and that splendid prospect of the future fortunes of his country which is opening from year to year his name may be still a rampart and the knowledge that he lives a bulwark against all open or secret enemies of his country's peace this example has been recommended to the imitation of his successors by both houses of congress and by the voice of the legislatures and the people throughout this nation on this subject it might become me better to be silent or to speak with diffidence but as something may be expected the occasion i hope will be admitted as an apology if i venture to say that if a preference upon principles of a free republican government formed upon long and serious reflection after a diligent and impartial enquiry after truth if an attachment to the constitution of the united states and a conscientious determination to support it until it shall be altered by the judgments and wishes of the people expressed in the mode prescribed in it if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual states and a constant caution and delicacy towards the state governments if an equal and impartial regard to the rights interests honour and happiness of all the states in the union without preference or regard to a northern or southern a eastern or western position their various political opinions on non-essential points or their personal attachment to it a love of science and letters and a will to patronize every national effort to encourage schools colleges universities academies and every institution for propagating knowledge virtue and religion among all classes of the people not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes and of society in all its forms but as the means of preserving our constitution from its natural enemies the spirit of sophistry the spirit of party the spirit of intrigue the profligacy of corruption and the pestilence of foreign influence which is the angel of destruction to elective governments if a love of equal laws of justice and humanity in the interior administration if an inclination to improve agriculture commerce and manufactures for necessity convenience and defence if a spirit of equity and humanity towards the aboriginal nations of america and a disposition to ameliorate their conditions by inclining them to be more friendly to us and our citizens to be more friendly to them if an inflexible determination to maintain peace and inviolable faith with all nations and that system of neutrality and impartiality among the belligerent powers of europe which has been adopted by this government and solemnly sanctioned by both houses of congress and applauded by the legislatures of the states and the public opinion until it shall be otherwise ordained by congress if a personal esteem for the french nation formed in a residence of seven years chiefly among them and a sincere desire to preserve the friendship which has been so much for the honour and interest of both nations if while the conscious honour and integrity of the people of america and the internal sentiment of their own power and energies must be preserved an earnest endeavour to investigate every just cause and remove every colourable pretence of complaint of an intention to pursue by amicable negotiation a reparation for the injuries that have been committed on the commerce of our fellow-citizens by whatever nation and if success cannot be obtained to lay the facts before the legislature that they may consider what further measures the honour and interest of the government and its constituents demand if a resolution to do justice as far as may depend upon me at all times and to all nations and maintain peace friendship and benevolence with all the world if an unshaken confidence in the honor spirit and resources of the american people on which i have so often hazarded my all and never have been deceived if elevated ideas of the high destinies of this country and of my own duties towards it founded on a knowledge of the moral principles and intellectual improvements of the people deeply engraved on my mind in early life and not obscured but exalted by experience and age and with humble reverence i feel it to be my duty to add if a veneration for the religion of the people who profess and call themselves christians and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for christianity among the best recommendations for the public service can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes it shall be my strenuous endeavor that this sagacious inquisition of the two houses shall not be without effect with this great example before me with the sense and spirit the faith and honor the duty and interest of the same american people pledged to support the constitution of the united states i entertain no doubt of its continuance in all its energy and my mind is prepared without hesitation to lay myself under the most solemn obligations to support it to the utmost of my power and may that being who is supreme over all the patron of order the fountain of justice and the protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty continue his blessing upon this nation and its government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-15|1|2", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041501/0827.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was first perceived in early times that no middle course for america remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and total independence of its claims men of reflection were less apprehensive of danger from the formidable power of fleets and armies they must determine to resist than from those contests and dissensions which would certainly arise concerning the forms of government to be instituted over the whole and over the parts of this extensive country relying however on the purity of their intentions the justice of their cause and the integrity and intelligence of the people under an over-ruling providence which had so signally protected this country from the first the representatives of this nation little more than half its present numbers not only broke to pieces the chains which were forging and the rod of iron that was lifted up but frankly cut asunder the ties which had bound them and launched into an ocean of uncertainty the zeal and ardour of the people during the revolutionary war supplying the place of government commanded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of society the confederation which was early felt to be necessary was prepared from the models of the batavian and helvetic confederacies the only examples which remain with any detail and precision in history and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever considered but reflecting on the striking difference in so many particulars between this country and those where a courier may go from the seat of government to the frontier in a single day it was then certainly foreseen by some who assisted in congress at the formation of it that it could not be durable negligence of its regulations inattention to its recommendation if not disobedience to its authority not only in individuals but in states soon appeared with their melancholy consequences universal languor jealousies and rivalry of states decline of navigation and commerce discouragement of necessary manufactures universal fall in the value of lands and their produce contempt of public and private faith loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations and at length in discords and animosities combinations partial conventions and insurrection threatening some great national calamity in this dangerous crisis the people of america were not abandoned by their usual good sense presence of mind resolution and integrity measures were pursued to concert a plan to form a more perfect union establish justice ensure domestic tranquility provide for the common defence promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty the public disquisitions discussions and deliberations issued in the present happy constitution of government employed in the service of my country abroad during the whole course of these transactions i first saw the constitution of the united states in a foreign country irritated by no literary altercation animated by no public debates heated by no party animosity i read it with great satisfaction as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts as an experiment better adapted to the genius character situation and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested in its general principles and great outlines it was conformable to such a system of government as i had ever most esteemed and in some states my own native state in particular had contributed to establish claiming a right of suffrage in common with my fellow citizens in the adoption or rejection of a constitution which was to rule me and my posterity as well as them and theirs i did not hesitate to express my approbation of it on all occasions in public in private it was not then nor has been since any objection to it in my mind that the executive and senate were not more permanent nor have i ever entertained a thought of promoting any alteration in it but such as the people themselves in the course of their experience should see or feel to be necessary or expedient and by their representatives in congress and the state legislatures according to the constitution itself adopt or ordain returning to the bosom of my country after a painful separation from it for ten years i had the honor to be elected to a station under the new order of things and i have repeatedly laid myself under the most serious obligations to support the constitution the operation of it has equalled the most sanguine expectations of its friends and from an habitual attention to it satisfaction in its administration and delight in its effects upon the peace order prosperity and happiness of the nation i have acquired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it what other form of government indeed can so well deserve our esteem and love there may be little solidity in an ancient idea that congregations of men into cities and nations are the most pleasing objects in the sight of superior intelligences but this is very certain that to a benevolent human mind there can be no spectacle presented by any nation more pleasing more noble majestic or august than an assembly like that which has so often been seen in this and the other chamber of congress of a government in which the executive authority as well as that of all the branches of the legislature are exercised by citizens selected at regular periods by their neighbours to make and execute laws for their general good can anything essential any thing more than mere ornament and decoration be added to this by robes and diamonds can authority be more amiable or respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people for it is the people only that are represented it is their power and majesty that is reflected and only for their good in every legitimate government under whatever form it may appear the existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people and what object or consideration more pleasing than national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs not from power or riches grandeur or glory but from conviction of national innocence information and benevolence in the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if any thing partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free fair virtuous and independent elections if an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption the government may be the choice of a party for its own ends not of the nation for the national good if that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces by fraud or violence by terror intrigue or venality the government may not be the choice of the american people but of foreign nations it may be foreign nations who govern us and not we the people who govern ourselves and candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over lot or chance such is the amiable and interesting system of government and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed which the people of america have exhibited to the administration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who by a long course of great actions regulated by prudence justice temperance and fortitude conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to independence and peace to increasing wealth and unexampled prosperity has merited the gratitude of his fellow citizens commanded the highest praises of foreign nations and secured immortal glory with posterity in that retirement which is his voluntary choice may he long live to enjoy the delicious recollection of his services the gratitude of mankind the happy fruits of them to himself and the world which are daily increasing and that splendid prospect of the future fortunes of his country which is opening from year to year his name may be still a rampart and the knowledge that he lives a bulwark against all open or secret enemies of his country's peace this example has been recommended to the imitation of his successors by both houses of congress and by the voice of the legislatures and the people throughout the nation on this subject it might become me better to be silent or to speak with diffidence but as something may be expected the occasion i hope will be admitted as an apology if i venture to say that if a preference upon principle of a free republican government formed upon long and serious reflection after a diligent and impartial enquiry after truth if an attachment to the constitution of the united states a conscientious determination to support it until it shall be altered by the judgments and wishes of the people expressed in the mode prescribed in it if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual states and a constant caution and delicacy towards the state governments if an equal and impartial regard to the rights interests honour and happiness of all the states in the union without preference or regard to a northern or southern an eastern or western position their various political opinions on unessential points or their personal attachments if a love of virtuous men of all parties and denominations if a love of science and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools colleges universities academies and every institution for propagating knowledge virtue and religion among all classes of the people not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes and of society in all its forms but as the only means of preserving our constitution from its natural enemies the spirit of sophistry the spirit of party the spirit of intrigue the profligacy of corruption and the pettiness of foreign influence which is the angel of destruction to elective governments if a love of equal laws of justice and humanity in the interior administration if an inclination to improve agriculture commerce and manufactures for necessity convenience and defence if a spirit of equity and humanity towards the aboriginal nations of america and a disposition to meliorate their condition by inclining them to be more friendly to us and our citizens to be more friendly to them if an inflexible determination to maintain peace and inviolable faith with all nations and that system of neutrality and impartiality among belligerent powers of europe which has been adopted by this government and so solemnly sanctioned by both houses of congress and applauded by the legislatures of the states and the public opinion until it shall be otherwise ordained by congress if a personal esteem for the french nation formed in a residence of seven years chiefly among them and a sincere desire to preserve the friendship which has been so much for the honour and interest of both nations if while the conscious honour and integrity of the people of america and the internal sentiments of their own power and energies must be preserved an earnest endeavour to investigate every just cause and remove every colourable pretence of complaint if an intention to pursue by amicable negotiation a reparation for the injuries that have been committed on the commerce of our fellow-citizens by whatever nation and if success cannot be obtained to lay the facts before the legislature that they may consider what further measures the honour and interest of the government and its constituents demand if a resolution to do justice as far as may depend upon me at all times and to all nations and maintain peace friendship and benevolence with all the world if an unshaken confidence in the honour spirit and resources of the american people on which i have so often hazarded my all and never been deceived if elevated ideas of the high destinies of this country and of my own duties towards it founded on a knowledge of the moral principles and intellectual improvements of the people deeply engraved on my mind in early life and not obscured but exalted by experience and age and with humble reverence i feel it to be my duty to add if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves christians and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for christianity among the best recommendations for the public service can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes it shall be my strenuous endeavour that this sagacious injunction of the two houses shall not be without effect with this great example before me with the sense and spirit the faith and honour the duty and interest of the same american people pledged to support the constitution of the united states i entertain no doubt of its continuance in all its energy and my mind is prepared without hesitation to lay myself under the most solemn obligations to support it to the utmost of my power and may that being who is supreme over all the patron of order the fountain of justice and the protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty continue his blessing upon this nation and its government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [141, 281], "b_span": [318, 458], "matched_words": 133, "similarity": 0.95, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00378", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-23|1|3", "date": "1797-03-23", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797032301/0235.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "one of his majesty's messengers arrived in town with dispatches from lord malmesbury at paris mr brooks left that city on wednesday we are sorry to state that the negotiation has failed and lord malmesbury has been ordered to quit the territories of the republic in hours he is expected in town in a day or two another hamburg mail was delivered this morning by the accounts contained in it from italy it does not appear that there has been any further action between the imperialists and french in that quarter but that the archduke joseph was waiting for considerable reinforcements on their way from hungary accounts from utrecht of the th inst state that the french have evacuated the important posts of the bridge of newwied and have retired to the opposite banks of the rhine in consequence of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-22|1|2", "date": "1797-04-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797042201/0843.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "one of his majesty's messengers arrived in town with despatches from lord malmesbury at paris mr brooks left the city on wednesday we are sorry to state that the negotiation has failed and lord malmesbury has been ordered to quit the territories of the republic in hours he is expected in town in a day or two another hamburg mail was delivered this morning by the accounts contained in it from italy it does not appear that there has been any further actions between the imperialists and the french in that quarter but that the archduke joseph was waiting for considerable reinforcements on their way from hungary accounts from utrecht of the th state that the french have evacuated the important pass of the bridge of nieuweid and have retired to the opposite side of the rhine in consequence of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [100, 1274], "b_span": [1238, 2432], "matched_words": 1082, "similarity": 0.9138513513513513, "seeds": 168, "id": "M00379", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|1", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0257.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state in pursuance of an order of the house of representatives of the th of may one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six on the memorial and petition of sundry citizens of the united states residing in the city of philadelphia relative to the losses they had sustained by the capture of their property by french armed vessels on the high seas or in consequence of the forced or voluntary sales of their provisions and merchandise to the officers of the colonial administrations of the french republic having examined the same together with accounts of similar losses sustained by american citizens from the french in the european seas or in the ports of france which in the details were necessarily connected with the former respectfully reports that since the commencement of the present war various and continual complaints have been made by citizens of the united states to the department of state and to the ministers of the united states in france of injuries done to their commerce under the authority of the french republic and by its agents these injuries were st spoliations and maltreatment of their vessels at sea by french ships of war and privateers d a distressing and long continued embargo laid upon their vessels at bourdeaux in the years and d the non-payment of bills and other evidences of debts due drawn by the colonial administrations in the west-indies th the seizure or forced sales of the cargoes of their vessels and the appropriating of them to public use without paying for them or paying inadequately or delaying payment for a great length of time th the non-performance of contracts made by the agents of the government for supplies th the condemnation of their vessels and cargoes under such of the marine ordinances of france as are incompatible with the treaties subsisting between the two countries and th the captures sanctioned by a decree of the national convention of the th may hereto annexed marked a which in violation of the treaty of amity and commerce declared enemy's goods on board of their vessels lawful prize and directed the french ships of war and privateers to bring into port neutral vessels laden with provisions and bound to an enemy's port it may be proper to remark here that this decree of the convention directing the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy ports preceded by one month the order of the british government for capturing all vessels loaded with corn flour or meal bound to any port in france or any port occupied by the armies of france such was the general nature of the claims of the citizens of the united states upon the french republic previous to the departure of mr monroe as minister plenipotentiary to france in the summer of and since his residence there to him were entrusted the documents which had been collected to substantiate particular complaints and he was instructed to press the french government to ascertain and pay what might be found justly due from time to time as additional cases rose they were transmitted to him with the like view in september of that year he assigned to his secretary mr skipwith with the provisional appointment of consul for paris the charge of stating the cases and placing them in the proper train of settlement referring to himself the duty of fixing general principles with the government and of patronizing and superintending his proceedings in conformity with the direction of the minister mr skipwith shortly afterwards made a general report on the injuries and difficulties and vexations to which the commerce of the united states was subjected by the regulations and restraints of the french government or by the abuses practised by its agents to which he added a number of particular cases a copy of the whole marked b is hereto annexed this report was laid before the french government and added to the various representations of mr monroe and his predecessor it produced a decree of the joint committees of public safety finance commerce and supplies dated the th november a copy of which marked c is annexed this decree apparently calculated to remedy many of the evils complained of afforded but a very partial in respect to compensation a comparatively small relief while it continued in force the principle of the decree of the ninth of may which rendered liable to seizure and confiscation the goods of enemies found on board neutral vessels american vessels had been declared exempt from that part of the decree of the ninth of may which authorised the seizing of vessels going to an enemy's port with provisions by the decree of the national convention of the th of july on the appearance of the decree of the ninth of may the american minister at paris remonstrated against it as a violation of the treaty of commerce between france and the united states in consequence hereof the convention by a decree of the twenty-third of the same month declared that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the ninth of may m c le brun the minister for foreign affairs on the twenty-sixth of may communicated this second decree to our minister accompanying it with these words you will there find a new confirmation of the principles from which the french people will never depart with regard to their good friends and allies the united states of america yet two days only had elapsed before those principles were departed from on the twenty-eighth of may the convention repealed their decree of the twenty-third the owners of a french privateer that had captured a very rich american ship the laurens found means to effect the repeal to enable them to keep hold on their prize they had even the apparent hardness to say before-hand that the decree of the twenty-third would be repealed the american minister again complained so on the first of july the convention passed a fourth decree again declaring that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the ninth of may conformably to the sixteenth it should be the twenty-third article of the treaty concluded the sixth of february one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight the new minister for foreign affairs m c desforges accompanies this new decree of july st with the following expression i am very happy in being able to give you this new proof of the fraternal sentiments of the french people for their allies and of their determination to maintain to the utmost of their power the treaties subsisting between the two republics yet this decree proved as unstable as the former on the twenty-seventh of july it was repealed the next decree on this subject was that of the joint committees of the th of november already mentioned then followed the decree of the committee of public safety of the th of january"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|2", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0799.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state in pursuance of an order of the house of representatives of the th of may on the memorial and petition of sundry citizens of the united states residing in the city of philadelphia relative to the losses they have sustained by the capture of their property by french armed vessels on the high seas or in consequence of the forced or voluntary sales of their provisions and merchandise to the officers of the colonial administrations of the french republic having examined the same together with accounts of similar losses sustained by american citizens from the french in the european seas or in the ports of france which in the detail were necessarily connected with the former respectfully reports that since the commencement of the present war various and continual complaints have been made by citizens of the united states to the department of state and to the ministers of the united states in france of injuries done to their commerce under the authority of the french republic and by its agents these injuries were st spoliations and maltreatment of their vessels at sea by french ships of war and privateers d a distressing and long continued embargo laid upon their vessels at bourdeaux in the year and d the non-payment of bills and other evidences of debts due drawn by the colonial administration in the west indies th the seizure or forced sales of the cargoes of other vessels and appropriating them to public use without paying for them or paying inadequately or delaying payment for a length of time th the non-performance of contracts made by the agents for the government supplies th the condemnation of their vessels and cargoes under such of the marine ordinances of france as are incompatible with the treaties subsisting between the two countries and th the captors sanctioned by a decree of the national convention of the th may a which in violation of the treaty of amity and commerce declared enemy's goods on board of their vessels lawful prizes and directed the french ships of war and privateers to bring into port neutral vessels laden with provisions and bound to an enemy's port it may be proper to remark here that this decree of the convention directed the capture of neutral vessels laden with provisions and destined for enemy's ports preceded by one month the order of the british government for capturing all vessels loaded with corn flour or meal bound to any port in france such was the nature of the claims of the citizens of the united states upon the french republic previous to the departure of mr monroe as minister plenipotentiary to france in the summer of and since his residence there to him were entrusted the documents which had been collected to substantiate particular complaints and he was instructed to press the french government to ascertain and pay what might be found justly due from time to time as additional cases rose they were transmitted to him with a like view in september of that year he assigned to his secretary mr skipwith with the provisional appointment of consul at paris the charge of stating the cases and placing them in a proper train of settlement referring to himself the duty of fixing general principles with the government and patronizing and superintending his proceedings in conformity with the direction of the minister mr skipwith shortly afterwards made a general report of the injuries and difficulties and vexations to which the commerce of the united states was subjected by the regulations and restraints of the french government or by the abuses practised by its agents to which he added a number of particular cases a copy of the whole was then annexed to the report marked b this report was laid before the french government and added to the various representations of mr monroe and his predecessor it produced a decree of the joint committees of public safety finance commerce and supplies dated th november a copy of which was annexed marked c this decree apparently calculated to remedy many of the evils complained of afforded but a very partial in respect to compensations a comparatively small relief while it continued in force the principles of the decree of the th may which rendered liable to seizure and confiscation the goods of enemies found on board neutral vessels american vessels had been declared exempt from that part of the decree of the th may which authorised the seizing of vessels going to an enemy's port with provisions by the decree of the national convention of the th july on the appearance of the decree of the th may the american minister at paris remonstrated against it as a violation of the treaty of commerce between france and the united states in consequence thereof the convention by a decree of the d of the same month declare that the vessels of the united states are not comprehended in the regulation of the th of may m le brun the minister for foreign affairs on the th of may communicated this second decree to our minister accompanying it with these words you will there find a new confirmation of principles from which the french people will never depart with regard to their good friends and allies the people of the united states of america yet two days only had elapsed before those principles were departed from on the th of may the convention repealed their decree of the d the owners of the french privateer that had captured a very rich american ship the laurens found means to effect a repeal to enable them to keep hold of their prize they had even the apparent hardness to say beforehand that the decree of the d would be repealed the american minister again complained so on the st of july the convention passed a fourth decree again declaring that the vessels of the united states are not comprised in the regulations of the decree of the th may conformably to the th it should be called the d article of the treaty concluded the th of february the new minister for foreign affairs m des forges accompanies this new decree of july st with the following expression i am very happy in being able to give you this new proof of the fraternal sentiments of the french people for their allies and of their determination to maintain to the utmost of their power the treaties subsisting between the two republics yet this decree proved as unfaithful as the former on the th july it was repealed the 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committed the shocking depredations on the commerce of the united states which are daily exhibited in the newspapers the agents of the executive directory to the leeward islands leblanc santhonax and raiman on the th of november passed a decree marked c c for capturing all american vessels bound to or from british ports the secretary presumes this is not an arbitrary unauthorised act of their own but that it is conformable to the intentions of the executive directory the privateers of the french republic in europe having captured some american vessels on the same pretence and the consul of the republic at cadiz having explicitly avowed his determination to condemn american vessels on that ground pleading the decree of the directory for his authority the secretary has already intimated that the decree of the th november was not followed by the extensively good effects expected from it by a communication from mr skipwith of the th of last september the latest communication from him in answer to the secretary's request for information it appears that claims for detention of american vessels by the embargo at bourdeaux remained undetermined no funds having been appropriated by the legislature for the payment of them and that none of the bills drawn by the colonial administration in the west-indies had been paid to him the treasury having tendered payment in assignats at their nominal value and afterwards in an other species of paper called mandats which had suffered a great depreciation even before they were put into circulation both which modes of payment were refused to be accepted the progress made by mr skipwith in the adjustment of other claims so far as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1646, 2102], "b_span": [9, 454], "matched_words": 421, "similarity": 0.9345172031076582, "seeds": 70, "id": "M00381", "a": {"key": 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to mention those committed under a decree dated the first of august one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six issued by victor hugues and lebas the special agents of the executive directory to the windward islands declaring all vessels loaded with contraband articles of any kind liable to seizure and confiscation with their entire cargoes without making any discrimination in favour of those which might be bound to neutral or even to french ports this decree has been enforced against the american trade without any regard to the established forms of legal proceedings as will appear from the annexed deposition marked e of josiah hempstead master of the brigantine patty of wethersfield a copy of the decree marked f is also annexed the secretary has received a printed copy of another decree of the same special agents to the windward islands dated the th of pluviose fifth year answering to february the first one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven authorising the capture of all neutral vessels destined to any of the windward or leeward islands in america which have been delivered up to the english and occupied or defended by emigrants naming martinique st lucia tobago demerara berbice and essequibo and to the leeward port-au-prince st marc l'archaye and jeremie declaring such vessels and their cargoes to be good prize as well as all vessels cleared out vaguely for the west-indies a copy of this last decree will be added to this report as soon as it shall be translated all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering department of state feb the appendix a copy of a decree of the national convention th may b a letter and report of mr skipwith american consul on vessels captured c extract from french decrees of th november cc extract from the resolves of the french commissioner at leeward islands of th nov d a list of claims of which were settled with the french republic and the remainder pending a second list of claims on vessels detained by embargo at bourdeaux these dated th nov and signed by mr skipwith e an affidavit of the commander of the brigantine patty f"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-01|1|3", "date": "1797-04-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797040101/0802.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "copies of which were transmitted to months ago to the officers of the principal collectors of the customs from the department of state for the information of our mercantile citizens that nothing might be left undone which could be accomplished by the executive the attention of general pinckney the present minister of the united states to france was particularly directed to the subject of these claims but the interval which has elapsed since his departure has not admitted of any interesting communication from him on this business in connection with other stipulations by french armed vessels the secretary intended to mention those committed under a decree dated the st of august issued by victor hughes and lebas the special agents of the executive directory to the windward islands declaring all vessels loaded with contraband articles of any kind liable to seizure and confiscation with their entire cargoes without making any discrimination in favour of those which might be bound to neutral or even to french ports this decree has been in force against the american trade without any regard to the established forms of legal proceedings as will appear from the annexed deposition e of josiah hempstead master of the brigantine patty of weathersfield a copy of the decree marked f is also annexed the secretary has received a printed copy of another decree of the same special agents to the windward islands dated the th pluvoise th year answering to february st authorising the capture of all neutral vessels destined to any of the windward or leeward islands in america which have been delivered up to the english and occupied or defended by emigrants naming martinique st lucie tobago demarara berbice and essequibo and to leeward port au prince st marc l'archaye and jeremie declaring such vessels and their cargoes to be good prize as well as all vessels cleared out vaguely for the west indies a copy of this last decree will be added to this report as soon as it shall be translated all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering department of state febr the appendix a copy of a decree of the national convention th may b a letter and report of mr skipwith american consul on vessels captured c extract from french decrees of th nov cc extract from the resolves of the french commission at leeward islands of nov d a list of claims of which were settled with the french republic and the remainder pending e a second list of claims on vessels detained by embargo at bourdeaux these dated th nov and signed by mr skipwith f an affidavit of the commander of the brigantine patty f"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2489, 2752], "b_span": [1387, 1638], "matched_words": 238, "similarity": 0.9260700389105059, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00382", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0258.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "she left the d of january all prospects of peace are blown over for the present our ambassador lord malmesbury having been ordered to leave paris about three days ago and was daily expected in london from thence the french directory it is general ly supposed do not want peace knowing well that as soon as the armies returned to france its power would be of short du ration they have published an arrest sus pending all intercourse with america the baltimore editor adds the above is confirmed by captain bumberry arrived here from st bartho lomews in days he says that a phi ladelphia built ship capt bambridge had arrived there on the th of february from bourdeaux days which brought an account of lord malmesbury's being ordered to leave france and that mr pinckney would not be received by the french directory as ambassador from this country in consequence of which he was returned to bourdeaux where he was waiting to get a passage home capt boyd positively asserts that pre vious to his sailing accounts were receiv ed at the custom house of liverpool of sail of french vessels men of war and transports having a number of troops on board destined for a descent on ireland being through stress of weather blown into bantry bay most of them dismasted some of the people went on shore were made prisoners and went to dublin from the situation of the place the whole must inevitably be captured they intended to have effected a landing at londonderry in the north of ireland"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-12|1|3", "date": "1797-04-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041201/0822.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "she left the d of january all prospects of peace are blown over for the present our ambassador lord malmesbury having been ordered to leave paris about days ago and was daily expected in london from thence the french directory it is generally supposed do not want peace knowing well that as soon as the armies return to france its power would be of short duration they have published an arrest suspending all intercourse with america the above is confirmed by captain bunberry arrived here from st bartholomews in days he says that a philadelphia built ship capt cambridge had arrived there on the th of february from bourdeaux days which brought an account of lord malmesbury's being ordered to leave france and that mr pinckney would not be received by the french directory as ambassador from this country in consequence of which he was returned to bourdeaux where he was waiting to go a passage home capt boyd positively asserts that previous to his sailing accounts were received at the custom house of liverpool of sail of french vessels men of war and transports having a number of troops on board destined for a descent on ireland being thro stress of weather blown into bantry bay most of them dismasted some of the people went on shore were made prisoners and sent to dublin from the situation of the place the whole must inevitably be captured they intended to have effected a landing at londonderry in the north of ireland"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3162, 3624], "b_span": [211, 666], "matched_words": 416, "similarity": 0.9073064340239912, "seeds": 57, "id": "M00383", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0258.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lord malmesbury had quitted paris it has since been reported that letters were re ceived in cadiz from paris of the th december which said that affairs seemed to be more embroiled than ever the views of peace had vanished as lord malmesbury had quitted paris and mr pinckney the american ambassador had been refused an audience a decree having passed the french government that all intercourse with the united states should subside until satisfaction is obtain ed for the repeated insults which have been shewn by them to france the chief of which is alledged to be the treaty with great britain communication the news of mr pinckney's being dis missed by the directory is confirmed what an awful crisis does this make in the affairs of this country yet awful as it is it was foreseen and predicted by the republicans the moment the infamous treaty with great britain was ratified they were certain france would never tolerate such an explicit departure from our neutrali ty open violation of our most sacred en gagements with her solemn as is the as pect of our affairs they are precisely where a wicked administration have long wished to see them if war with france was not a favourite object with the presi dent's ministry why was jay the greatest enemy france ever had and who had just libelled the french minister sent to great-britain why was a treaty made by which america sacrificed every thing but its hostility to that republic why was government on all occasions so par tial to the british why were tories every where promoted to office why was morris so long kept in france why was munroe re-called why was king an englishman at heart and a bitter ene my to france sent to the court of st james why was mr jefferson oppo sed in short why was a thousand things done which could have had no other ob ject than to embroil us with that nation americans reflect it is time to ex press to the federal government in re spectful but firm language your senti ments on the alarming state of your public affairs let the president know there is nothing you wish for so much as peace and friendship with france nothing you deprecate so much as war with that re public or an alliance offensive and defen sive with great-britain if the british treaty must be the price of the peace and friendship in god's name let it go it was founded in iniquity it was carried by art and corruption and there is no way of healing our wounded honor or repairing our violated faith but in rescinding the articles of that execrable contract which have given just umbrage to our"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-12|1|3", "date": "1797-04-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041201/0822.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lord malmesbury had quitted paris it has since been reported that letters were received in cadiz from paris of the th december which said that affairs seemed to be-fore seemed to be more embroiled than ever the views of peace had vanished as lord malmesbury had quitted paris and mr pinckney the american ambassador had been refused an audience a decree having passed the french government that all intercourse with the united states should cease until satisfaction is obtained for the repeated insults which have been shewn by them to france the chief of which is alleged to be the treaty with great britain the news of mr pinckney's being dismissed by the directory is confirmed what an awful crisis does this make in the affairs of this country yes awful as it is it was foreseen and predicted by the republicans the moment the infamous treaty with great britain was ratified they were certain france would never tolerate such an explicit departure from our neutrality and open violation of our most sacred engagements with her solemn as is the aspect of affairs they are precisely where a wicked administration have long wished to see them if war with france was not a favorite object with the president's ministry why was jay the greatest enemy france ever had and who had just libelled the french ministry sent to great britain why was a treaty made by which america sacrificed every thing but its hostility to the republic why was government on all occasions so partial to the british why were tories every where promoted to office why was pickering's long letter published why was morris so long kept in france why was munroe recalled why was king an englishman at heart and a bitter enemy to france sent to the court of st james why was mr jefferson opposed in short why was a thousand things done which could have no other object than to embroil us with that nation americans reflect it is time to express to the federal government in respectful but firm language your sentiments on the alarming state of your public affairs let the president know there is nothing you wish for so much as peace and friendship with france nothing you deprecate so much as war with the republic or an alliance offensive and defensive with great britain if the british treaty must be the price of this peace and friendship in god's name let it go it was founded in iniquity it was carried by art and corruption and there is no way of healing our wounded honor or repairing our violated faith but in rescinding the articles of that execrable contract which have given just umbrage to our"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3647, 3714], "b_span": [1763, 1830], "matched_words": 62, "similarity": 0.9253731343283582, "seeds": 8, "id": "M00384", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-03-25|1|2", "date": "1797-03-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-03-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797032501/0258.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that previous to his sailing from port the ship hope bambridge of philadel phia had arrived there in days from bourdeaux the capt of which informed that mr pinckney had been refused by the french directory as minister from the united states and that the condition on which he was permitted to reside at paris were such only as were usually granted to other foreigners also that"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-12|1|3", "date": "1797-04-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041201/0822.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that previous to his sailing from that port the ship hope banbridge of philadelphia had arrived there in days from bourdeaux the captain of which informed that mr pinckney had been refused by the french directory as minister from the united states and that the conditions on which he was permitted to reside at paris were such only as were usually granted to other foreigners also that"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1288, 1417], "b_span": [3446, 3590], "matched_words": 100, "similarity": 0.7326007326007326, "seeds": 9, "id": "M00385", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|1", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0237.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the officers of the admiralty or any other judges that such prizes are not to be arrested or seized when they enter the ports of the united states that the officers of the united states shall not make an examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but that they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their commissions that on the contrary no shelter or refuge shall be given in the ports of the united states to such as shall be made prize of the subjects people or property of france but if such shall come in being forced by stresses of weather or danger of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-30|1|2", "date": "1797-05-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797053001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the officers of the admiralty or any other judges nor shall prizes be arrested or seized when they come and enter the port of each party nor shall the searchers or o ther officers of those places search the same or make examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes but they may hoist sail at any time and depart and carry their prizes to the places expressed in their com missions which the commanders of such ships shall be obliged to shew on the con trary no shelter or refuge shall be given in their ports to such as shall have made prizes of the subjects people or property of ei ther of the parties but if such shall come in being forced by stress of weather or the dangers of the sea all proper means shall be vigorously used that they go out"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1330, 1767], "b_span": [2629, 3070], "matched_words": 426, "similarity": 0.9703872437357631, "seeds": 90, "id": "M00386", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|3", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0239.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter dated paris january without assigning any reason but that they have certain grievances to complain of the directory have refused to receive general pinckney and have done every thing but give him an official order to quit the territories of the republic this however he waits to receive in some more unequivocal manner than they have as yet been pleased to signify it the minister for foreign affairs de la croix refuses to have any communication in writing with him under pretence that it would be an act of acknowledgment of general pinckney as minister and has not answered but verbally a letter which the latter wrote to him some time since desiring to know what was the will of the directory as to his staying as he had not received the card of residence which was promised him without which he was liable to be arrested by every corps de garde the minister however sent a verbal message to him by his secretary that he must consider himself in the light of any common foreigner to whom a card had been refused and must agreeably to the laws of the country quit it without delay this general pinckney refused to do as they had already possessed themselves of the knowledge that he was no common stranger nor arrived in their territories in a private capacity but as a public character and as such not subject to the local regulations of france but protected and guarded by the laws of nations which he claimed in his favor as long as he remained if however it was their will that he should depart that he would obey them without reluctance but requested something more official than verbal communication several interviews have been had with mr delacroix in the last one some days ago a long conversation took place he expressed great surprise at general pinckney's still being here and it became necessary to tell him that here he must remain unless he would give him some order under his hand to justify himself to his own government for quitting a spot to which it had sent him this he refused with some warmth it was given more than as a hint that the minister of the police should do his duty however he is still unmolested though not without apprehensions i hope that every american will feel how necessary it is to convince not only this government but every foreign power how great is their mistake if they calculate upon any influence which they may possess in our country to the prejudice of either our"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-08|1|2", "date": "1797-04-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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he had been promised him without which he was liable to be arrested by every corps de garde the minister however sent a verbal message to him by his secretary that he must consider himself in the light of any common foreigner to whom a card had been refused and must agreeably to the laws of the country quit it without delay this gen pinckney refused to do as they had already possessed themselves of the knowledge that he was no common stranger nor arrived in their territories in a private capacity but as a public character and as such not subject to the local regulations of france but protected and guarded by the laws of nations which he claimed in his favour as long as he remained if however it was their will that he should depart that he would obey them without reluctance but requested something more official than verbal communication several interviews have been had with mr de la croix in the last one some few days ago a long conversation took place he expressed great surprise at gen pinckney's being still here and it became necessary to tell him that here he must remain unless he would give him some order under his hand to justify himself to his own government for quitting a spot to which it had sent him this he refused with some warmth it was giving more than a hint that the minister of the police should do his duty however he is still unmolested though not without apprehensions i hope that every american will feel how necessary it is to convince not only this government but every foreign power how great is their mistake if they calculate upon any influence which they may possess in our country to the prejudice of either our"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2012, 2238], "b_span": [1585, 1785], "matched_words": 169, "similarity": 0.7934272300469484, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00387", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-03-30|1|3", "date": "1797-03-30", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-03-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797033001/0239.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the intelligence brought by the late arrivals the most important relates to the french expedition against ireland by comparing the various accounts it appears that the french failed from brest with a view of invading ireland their force consisted of about sail including transports of which were of the line and about men on board they failed in three divisions under the command of de galle bouvet and neilly the land troops under the orders of gen hoche they had scarcely left the port when bad weather dispersed them chief part of the fleet however rendezvoused at bantry bay but the frigate la fraternite on board of which were the commanders of the fleet and land forces not joining the fleet after some delay they left the bay without molestation except from the winds and by the best and latest accounts reached brest in divisions without material loss the fraternite was one of the vessels to return the expedition appears to have caused great alarm in ireland and england had not the elements conspired against the french little doubt can be entertained but they would have been successful the expedition appears to have been planned on a large scale the toulon fleet which came round to l'orient and the armament at dunkirk were probably to co-operate the french appear still to have an expedition to ireland"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-19|1|2", "date": "1797-04-19", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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and by the best and latest accounts reached brest in divisions without material loss the expedition appears to have been planned on a large scale the toulon fleet which came round to l'orient and the armament at dunkirk were probably to co-operate notwithstanding the above failure the french appear still to have an expedition to ireland"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3409, 3821], "b_span": [366, 777], "matched_words": 403, "similarity": 0.9793438639125152, "seeds": 76, "id": "M00388", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-31|1|2", "date": "1797-03-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797033101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "london february an express from dover brought us last night the most important papers which have arrived for many weeks from paris they bring an account of a brilliant series of victories we must refer to the short account of buonaparte himself and the more extended details of general berthier for the particulars of these important actions the substance of them is that buonaparte has destroyed the fifth austrian army in italy five times has the emperor renewed this devoted army in the last instance every effort of determined magnanimity and almost of exhausted despair was exerted to make a vigorous movement for the deliverance of mantua he brought all his frontiers he called forth and animated the chivalrous spirit of hungary the youth of vienna were roused by blandishments of the court as well as their natural loyalty to enter into volunteer battalions and hasten the expeditions the recruits were mounted in voitures and dispatched by post in short the salvation of mantua was considered as the last stake of the emperor and the king and for this every thing was to be hazarded for this the propositions of general clarke were rejected every offer of an armistice was refused and we have seen from the late german journals that they looked with perfect confidence to the success of their operations what a lesson to sovereigns and to nations is the result of all this energy what a dreadful responsibility must the cabinet incur which trusting to its own speculations flatters its ears against the voice of peace our readers will not be content with the mere outline of these victories we therefore publish the official details but the short total of the transactions are that general alvinzy with from to fresh troops the flower of austria attacked in different points the french army in italy and battles were fought on the d th th th and th novise the th th th th and th of january in all of which the austrians were routed and the french took prisoners among whom were general officers colonels majors and a great number of inferior officers they killed and wounded men they took sixty pieces of cannon and about stand of colours among which are the standards of the volunteers of vienna embroidered by the hands of the empress and the whole of the effect of oxen grain and other provisions destined for the relief of mantua taken within cannon shot of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-15|1|3", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797041501/0830.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "london february an express from dover brought us last night the most important papers which have arrived for many weeks from paris they bring an account of a brilliant series of victories we must refer to the short account of buonaparte himself and the more extended details of general berthier for the particulars of these important actions the substance of them is that buonaparte has destroyed the fifth austrian army in italy five times has the emperor renewed this devoted army in the last instance every effort of determined magnanimity and almost of exhausted despair was exerted to make vigorous movement for the deliverance of mantua he stripped all his frontiers he called forth and animated the chivalrous spirit of hungary the youth of vienna were roused by blandishments of the court as well as their natural loyalty to enter into volunteer battalions and to hasten the expeditions the recruits were mounted in voitures and dispatched by post in short the salvation of mantua was considered as the last stake of the emperor and king and for this every thing was to be hazarded for this the propositions of gen clarke were rejected every offer of an armistice was refused and we have seen from the late german journals that they looked with perfect confidence to the success of their mighty preparations what a lesson to sovereigns and to nations is the result of all this energy what a dreadful responsibility must the cabinet incur which trusting to its own speculations shuts its ears against the voice of peace our readers will not be content with the mere outline of these victories we therefore publish the official details but the short total of the transactions are that general alvinzy with from to fresh troops the flower of austria attacked in different points the french army in italy and battles were fought on the d th th th and th nivose the th th th th and th of january in all of which the austrians were routed and the french took prisoners among whom were general officers colonels majors and a great number of inferior officers they killed and wounded men they took pieces of cannon and about stand of colours among which are the standards of the volunteers of vienna embroidered by the hands of the empress and the whole of the escort of oxen grain and other provisions destined for the relief of mantua taken within cannon shot of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3414, 3680], "b_span": [1701, 1969], "matched_words": 257, "similarity": 0.9625468164794008, "seeds": 45, "id": "M00389", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-31|1|2", "date": "1797-03-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797033101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dover brought us last night the most important papers which have arrived for many weeks from paris they bring an account of a brilliant series of victories we must refer to the short account of buonaparte himself and the more extended details of general berthier for the particulars of these important actions the substance of them is that buonaparte has destroyed the fifth austrian army in italy five times has the emperor renewed this devoted army in the last instance every effort of determined magnanimity and almost of exhausted despair was exerted to make a vigorous movement for the deliverance of mantua he brought all his frontiers he called forth and animated the chivalrous spirit of hungary the youth of vienna were roused by blandishments of the court as well as their natural loyalty to enter into volunteer battalions and hasten the expeditions the recruits were mounted in voitures and dispatched by post in short the salvation of mantua was considered as the last stake of the emperor and the king and for this every thing was to be hazarded for this the propositions of general clarke were rejected every offer of an armistice was refused and we have seen from the late german journals that they looked with perfect confidence to the success of their operations what a lesson to sovereigns and to nations is the result of all this energy what a dreadful responsibility must the cabinet incur which trusting to its own speculations flatters its ears against the voice of peace our readers will not be content with the mere outline of these"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-15|1|2", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797041501/0270.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dover brought us last night the most important papers which have arrived for many weeks from paris they bring an account of a brilliant series of victories we must refer to the short account given by buonaparte himself and the more extended details of gen berthier for the particulars of those important actions the substance of them is that buonaparte has destroyed the fifth austrian army in italy five times has the emperor renewed this devoted army in the last instance every effort of determined magnanimity and almost of exhausted despair was exerted to make a vigorous movement for the deliverance of mantua he stripped all his frontiers he called forth and animated the chivalrous spirit of hungary the youth of vienna were routed by blandishments of the court as well as their natural loyalty to enter into volunteer battalions and to hasten the expeditions the recruits were mounted in voitures and dispatched by post in short the salvation of mantua was considered as the last stake of the emperor and king and for this every thing was to be hazarded for this the propositions of gen clarke were rejected every offer of an armistice was refused and we have seen from the late german journals that they looked with perfect confidence to the success of their mighty preparations what a lesson to sovereigns and to nations is the result of all this energy what a dreadful responsibility must the cabinet incur which trusting to its own speculations shuts its ears against the voice of peace our readers will not be content with the mere outline of these"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3827, 4169], "b_span": [1981, 2323], "matched_words": 333, "similarity": 0.9736842105263158, "seeds": 68, "id": "M00390", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-31|1|2", "date": "1797-03-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797033101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "which the generals have given of this most memorable victory and which in our mind is rendered still more interesting by the manner in which it has been received in paris and by the use which the directory have made of it in the council of ancients upon reading the message from the directory the following speech was delivered by citizen dumas citizens representatives before we are informed of the details of this last victory before we are acquainted with the manner in which the foresight of the valiant buonaparte contrived to involve the imperial generals in the double snare which they had prepared for him before fame has presented us with the record of the memorable deeds of arms which distinguished this illustrious day and decided the fate of italy let us hasten to publish our gratitude to this brave this invincible army mantua must sooner or later fall into our hands after this decisive battle the court of vienna which appears very recently to have rejected new overtures for negotiation in the hopes by raising the blockade of mantua of changing the respective situations of the contracting powers and diminishing the value of our conquests may flatter itself with preserving for a few days longer the bulk of the austrian possessions it is of little consequence to us now the message of the directory leaves doubt that the new army destined to save mantua at all hazards is entirely destroyed and we are able to assure the nation and to congratulate ourselves that at last this pledge of peace the possession of the emperor in italy is now in our hands and we have it in our power to prove its value by proving the most useful the most glorious competition unable to the extent of our wishes to distribute rewards let us at least present to our defenders that of which they are most zealous the expression of the national gratitude let us here thank general buonaparte and the army of italy not only because they have vanquished and"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-15|1|2", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797041501/0270.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "which the generals have given of this most memorable victory and which in our minds is rendered still more interesting by the manner in which it has been received in paris and by the use which the directory have made of it in the council of ancients upon reading the messages from the directory the following speech was delivered by citizen dumas citizens representatives before we are informed of the details of this last victory before we are acquainted with the manner in which the foresight of the valiant buonaparte contrived to involve the impartial generals in the double snare which they had prepared for him before fame has presented us with the record of the memorable deeds of arms which distinguished this illustrious day and decided the fate of italy let us hasten to publish our gratitude to this brave this invincible army mantua must sooner or later fall into our hands after this decisive battle the court of vienna which appears very recently to have rejected new overtures for negotiation in the hopes by raising the blockade of mantua of changing the respective situations of the contracting powers and diminishing the value of our conquests may flatter itself with preserving for a few days longer this bulwark of the austrian possessions it is of little consequence to us now the message of the directory leaves no doubt the new army destined to save mantua at all hazards is entirely destroyed and we are able to assure the nation and to congratulate ourselves that at last this pledge of peace the possession of the emperor in italy is now in our hands and we have it in our power to prove its value in proposing the most useful the most glorious compensation unable to the extent of our wishes to distribute rewards let us at least present to our defenders that of which they are most zealous the expression of the national gratitude let us here thank general buonaparte and the army of italy not only because they have vanquished and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2614, 2842], "b_span": [1453, 1728], "matched_words": 159, "similarity": 0.6322067594433399, "seeds": 6, "id": "M00391", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-31|1|3", "date": "1797-03-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797033101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "under the walls of st george's nivose th year of the republic art i the honours of war granted and all troops prisoners of war ii the officers shall retain their swords their effects and their equipage and the soldiers their knapsacks iii the general officer and other inferior officers may repair to their homes if the general in chief consents to give them permission i engage my word of honour to inform the general in chief that i engaged for this article iv information shall be communicated to marshal count de wurmser of the present capitulation v the sick and wounded shall be taken care of with all those sentiments of humanity inseparable from republicans head-quarters at verona th nivose th jan i certify that in the different battles which have taken place since the th nivose to the th of the same month the list of austrians taken prisoners of war who have passed in review amount already to more than twenty thousand among whom are seven hundred cavalry and that fresh prisoners arrive every moment that the enemy have left us forty-four pieces of cannon with their carriages all the baggage of the column of general provera and all the standards of his corps part of which were broken by the enemy i certify that in pursuance to the orders of the general in chief"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-06|1|3", "date": "1797-04-06", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797040601/0243.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "under the walls of st giorgio the th nivose january th year of the republic art i the honors of war are granted and the whole corps to be prisoners of war art ii the officers shall keep their swords effects and field equipment and the soldiers their knapsacks art iii the general officers as well as other officers may go home if the general in chief should consent to it i give my word of honor to inform the general in chief that i have promised this article art iv field marshal wurmser shall be acquainted with the present capitulation art v the sick and wounded shall be taken care of with all the sentiments of humanity which are inseparable from republicans done before st giorgio under mantua at o'clock at noon the th nivose jan th year of the french republic agrees with the original signed alx berthier general of division and chief of the staff of the army head quarters at verona th nivose january th year i do hereby certify that in the different battles which have taken place from the th to the th inst the number of the austrian prisoners of war who have passed in review amounts already to upwards of men of whom are cavalry and that still more are hourly arriving that the enemy have left in our hands pieces of cannon together with their caissons all the baggage belonging to the column of general provera and all the stands of colours of this corps some of which have been broken by the enemy i do further certify that by command of the general in chief"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [216, 825], "b_span": [567, 1181], "matched_words": 554, "similarity": 0.9059689288634505, "seeds": 87, "id": "M00392", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-31|1|3", "date": "1797-03-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-03-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797033101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "quitted roverbella when i was informed that the enemy had appeared at verona massena had made his dispositions which were extremely successful we took prisoners and three pieces of cannon gen brune had seven shots through his clothes without receiving the slightest wound such is the advantage of being fortunate men we have had only ten men killed and a hundred wounded signed buonaparte extract of a letter from general in chief buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters at roverbella th nivose jan there have occurred since the d operations of such great importance and which have been accompanied with so many actions that it is impossible for me before to-morrow to present you with a detail of particulars i shall now barely enumerate them upon the th nivose the enemy attacked the division of general massena before verona which produced the battle of st michael where they were completely beaten we took prisoners and three pieces of cannon the same day they attacked the head of our line at montebaldo and produced the battle of corona when they were repulsed with the loss of an hundred and ten prisoners upon the d at midnight the division of the enemy's army which had taken post at bevilacqua ever since the th when they compelled the advanced guard of the division of gen angereau to fall back hastily threw a bridge over the adige a league from porto legnago opposite anguiani upon the th in the morning the enemy caused a very strong column to desile by montagnana and caprino and thus compelled the division of general joubert to evacuate corona and concentrate themselves at rivoli i had foreseen this movement i repaired thither at night and the battle of rivoli ensued which we gained upon the th and th after an obstinate resistance at which place we made prisoners took several stand of colours and pieces of cannon general alvizi almost alone with great difficulty escaped upon the th general joubert endeavoured to throw them into confusion before they had entirely effected their passage he did not succeed in his object but he made prisoners upon the th general angereau attacked the enemy at anguiani which produced the second battle of anguiani he made prisoners took pieces of cannon and burnt all their bridges over the adige but the enemy taking advantage of the night fled over the adige towards mantua they had already advanced within a league of the adige they attacked st george's a suburb of verona but were repulsed with the loss of prisoners i arrived in the night with reinforcements which produced the battle of la favorita and i now write to you on the field of battle the fruits of this battle are prisoners a number of standards cannon all the baggage of the army a regiment of hussars and a considerable quantity of provisions and oxen which the enemy attempted to introduce into mantua wurmser tried to make a sortie to attack the left wing of our army but he met with the usual reception and he was obliged to return bekold them in three or four days the fifth army of the emperor entirely destroyed we have taken prisoners among which are a lieutenant general two generals men killed or wounded sixty pieces of cannon and about stand of colours all the battalions of the vienna volunteers have been taken prisoners their colours are embroidered by the hands of the empress the army of general alvinczi was near men a part of which had come off from the interior of austria this account is returned to head-quarters i will transmit you a"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-08|1|3", "date": "1797-04-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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verona which produced the battle of st michael where they were completely beaten we took prisoners and three pieces of cannon the same day they attacked the head of our line at montebaldo and produced the battle of corona when they were repulsed with the loss of an hundred and ten prisoners upon the rd at midnight the division of the enemy's army which had taken post at bevilacqua ever since the th when they compelled the advanced guard of the division of gen angereau to fall back hastily threw a bridge over the adige a league from porto legnago opposite anguieri upon the th in the morning the enemy caused a very strong column to defile by montagna and caprino and thus compelled the division of gen joubert to evacuate corona and concentrate themselves at rivoli i had foreseen this movement i repaired thither at night and the battle of rivoli ensued which we gained upon the th and th after an obstinate resistance at which place we made prisoners took several stands of colours and pieces of cannon general alvinzi almost alone with great difficulty escaped upon the th gen guyeux attacked the enemy at anguieri to attempt to throw them into confusion before they had entirely effected their passage he did not succeed in his object but he made prisoners upon the th gen angereau attacked the enemy at anguieri which produced the second battle of anguieri he made prisoners took pieces of cannon and burnt all their bridges over the adige but the enemy taking advantage of the night fled straight towards mantua they had already advanced within cannon shot of this place they attacked st george's a suburb which we had carefully intrenched and they were unable to carry it i arrived in the night with reinforcements which conducted the battle of la favouite and i now write to you on the field of battle the fruits of this battle are prisoners a number of standards cannon all the baggage of the army a regiment of hussars and a considerable convoy of provisions and oxen which the enemy attempted to introduce into mantua wurmser tried to make a sortie to attack the left wing of our army but he met with the usual reception and he was obliged to return behold then in three or four days the fifth army of the emperor entirely destroyed we have taken prisoners among which are a lieutenant-general two generals men killed and wounded pieces of cannon and about stands of colours all the battalions of vienna volunteers have been taken prisoners their colours are embroidered by the hands of the empress the army of gen alvinzi was near men a part of which had come off from the interior of austria the moment i return to head-quarters i will transmit you a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [7, 200], "b_span": [2333, 2526], "matched_words": 189, "similarity": 0.9792746113989638, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00393", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-03-31|1|3", "date": 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prove that we know how to offer to europe that peace which it expects that honorable peace which our success secures that just and equitable balance which will be accepted let us in fine tell what compensation will be sufficient to secure our liberty since we are victorious by it and for it i move that the message be printed and distributed six copies to each member adopted this would be very important of itself though it would serve to show that a part of the assembly at least were not infatuated by the triumph to the forgetfulness of the most sacred duty of every rational friend of man but that which gives this wife humane and political speech real interest is that we find it adopted by the directory and published in the official department of their own journal and the rumour is that they have sent a new envoy with offers of peace to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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should be well on their guard against the desperate attempts of the british faction to tie our fate to the sinking fortunes of the mother country a systematic line of conduct has been pursued to effect this the case of the french has been misrepresented to mislead the american mind they have been irritated by every means in the power of the faction by neglect insult injury and now that the effects of this base and impolitic conduct are recoiling on us it is attempted to rouse the people to a rupture that an opportunity may be had to throw the country"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-26|1|2", "date": "1797-04-26", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797042601/0851.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "united states should be well on their guard against the desperate attempts of the british faction to tie our fate to the sinking fortunes of the mother country a systematic line of conduct has been pursued to effect this the cause of the french has been misrepresented to mislead the american mind they have been irritated by every means in the power of the faction by neglect insult injury and now that the effects of this base and impolitic conduct are recoiling on us it is attempted to rouse the people to a rupture that an opportunity may be had to throw the country"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3589, 3864], "b_span": [88, 363], "matched_words": 274, "similarity": 0.9963636363636363, "seeds": 57, "id": "M00398", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-08|1|2", "date": "1797-04-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-08/ed-1/", 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of their liberty will never forget what they owe to france they will weigh in their wisdom the magnanimous good will of the french people with the cares of certain perfidious persons who meditate to bring them back to their former slavery assure sir the good american people that like them we adore liberty that they shall always have our esteem and that they will find in the french people that republican generosity which knows how to grant peace as it knows how to make its sovereignty respected as for you mr minister plenipotentiary you have contended for principles you have known the true interests of your country depart with our regret we give up in you a representative to america and we keep the remembrance of a citizen whose personal qualities do honor"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-04-15|1|3", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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liberty will never forget what they owe to france they will weigh in their wisdom the magnanimous good will of the french people with the cares of certain perfidious persons who meditate to bring them back to their former slavery assure sir the good american people that like them we adore liberty that they shall always have our esteem and that they will find in the french people that republican generosity which knows how to grant peace as it knows how to make its sovereignty respected as for you mr minister plenipotentiary you have contended for principles you have known the true interests of your country depart with our regret we give up in you a representative to america and we keep the remembrance of a citizen whose personal qualities do honor"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3343, 3549], "b_span": [1977, 2183], "matched_words": 202, "similarity": 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receive no other protection than that which every other private citizen of america or any other neutral nation was entitled to and this he might enjoy so long as he chose to make the republican territory the place of his residence upon this answer mr pinckney intimated his intention of quitting france and of going ing to reside at amsterdam until he should know the pleasure of his government as"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050301/0867.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the french papers we learn that mr pinckney the american minister applied to the directory for a special protection to this request he received for answer that being considered as a simple individual he could receive no other protection than that which every other private citizen of america or any other of the neutral nations was entitled to and this he might enjoy so long as he chose to make the republican territory the place of his residence upon this answer mr pinckney intimated his intention of quitting france and of going to reside in amsterdam until he should know the pleasure of his government as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1858, 2095], "b_span": [1183, 1415], "matched_words": 222, "similarity": 0.9466950959488273, "seeds": 42, "id": "M00406", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|2", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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of the different districts are furnished with ample instructions how they are to act sir hector monroe commanding a district in scotland has received orders to repair to his command without delay in consequence of circular letters sent by the duke of portland to different towns in scotland desiring to know how many forces could be accommodated in each town a great alarm of danger has spread through that country and the letters from thence are as full of apprehensions as if the french were actually"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050301/0867.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brought with him the plan of the intended invasion the particulars of the plan were even stated and these were said to be that a landing was to be attempted in ireland in two different places while a descent should be endeavoured in the south and north of england and in scotland this is indeed a grand design on the part of the french full of glorious enterprize but we have no doubt whatever of the attempt being made hopeless as it must appear in its consequences with the utmost force the french can bring against us either by sea or land we are happy to find that the most vigilant and vigorous preparations are making by government to resist the meditated invasion of the french plans are now forming for encampments on the sea coast and meanwhile should any hostile attempts be made the commanders of the different districts are furnished with ample instructions how they are to act sir hector munroe commanding a district in scotland has received orders to repair to his command without delay in consequence of circular letters sent by the duke of portland to different towns in scotland desiring to know how many forces could be accommodated in each town a great alarm of danger has spread through that country and the letters from thence are as full of apprehension as if the french were actually"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2281, 2495], "b_span": [1701, 1915], "matched_words": 201, "similarity": 0.9392523364485982, "seeds": 32, "id": "M00407", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-13|1|2", "date": "1797-04-13", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797041301/0246.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "france in italy to be so unprecedented in valour and fortune as in the course of six months to have made prisoners the finest and best equipped of the emperor's troops taken pieces of cannon independent of arms ammunition provisions and wealth to an immense amount the pope by his non-compliance with the armistice concluded the ed messidor by buonaparte the fame was considered in consequence by the government of france of no effect captain wyle failed in company with the ship federal george capt coleman of boston bound to spain and cleopatra of philadelphia capt smith bound to lisbon which left bordeaux in great hurry under great apprehensions of an embargo with himself the vessels were arming rapidly under a supposed apprehension of a rupture with the united states mr pinckney our late ambassador had been summoned by the directory to quit the republic that he went on receipt thereof for holland that the american character was treated in paris with personal detestation previous to the failing of the chesapeake capt wyle was solicited for the passage of mr monroe who was to have left paris about five days after his departure for bordeaux but the critical and very pressing situation of affairs between the american and french governments would admit of no"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050301/0867.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "france in italy to be so unprecedented in valour and fortune as in the course of six months to have made prisoners the finest and best equipped of the emperor's troops taken pieces of cannon independent of arms ammunition provisions wealth to an immense amount the pope by his non compliance with the armistice concluded the d messidor by buonaparte the same was considered in consequence by the government of france of no effect capt wise sailed in company with the ship federal george captain coleman of boston bound to spain and cleopatra of philadelphia capt smith bound to lisbon which left bourdeaux in great hurry under great apprehensions of an embargo with himself the vessels were arming rapidly under a supposed apprehension of a rupture with the united states mr pinckney our late ambassador had been summoned by the directory to quit the republic that he went on receipt thereof for holland that the american character was treated in paris with personal disrespect previous to the sailing of the chesapeake capt wise was solicited for the passage of mr monroe who was to have left paris about five days after his departure for bourdeaux but the critical and very pressing situation of affairs between the american and french governments would admit of no"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [371, 637], 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magnanimity and almost of exhausted despair was exerted to make vigorous movement for the deliverance of mantua he stripped all his frontiers he called forth and animated the chivalrous spirit of hungary the youth of vienna were roused by blandishments of the court as well as their natural loyalty to enter into volunteer battalions and to hasten the expeditions the recruits were mounted in voitures and dispatched by post in short the salvation of mantua was considered as the last stake of the emperor and king and for this every thing was to be hazarded for this the propositions of gen clarke were rejected every offer of an armistice was refused and we have seen from the late german journals that they looked with perfect confidence to the success of their mighty preparations what a lesson to sovereigns and to nations is the result of all this energy what a dreadful responsibility must the cabinet incur which trusting to its own speculations shuts its ears against the voice of peace our readers will not be content with the mere outline of these"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-15|1|2", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797041501/0270.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dover brought us last night the most important papers which have arrived for many weeks from paris they bring an account of a brilliant series of victories we must refer to the short account given by buonaparte himself and the more extended details of gen berthier for the particulars of those important actions the substance of them is that buonaparte has destroyed the fifth austrian army in italy five times has the emperor renewed this devoted army in the last instance every effort of determined magnanimity and almost of exhausted despair was exerted to make a vigorous movement for the deliverance of mantua he stripped all his frontiers he called forth and animated the chivalrous spirit of hungary the youth of vienna were routed by blandishments of the court as well as their natural loyalty to enter into volunteer battalions and to hasten the expeditions the recruits were mounted in voitures and dispatched by post in short the salvation of mantua was considered as the last stake of the emperor and king and for this every thing was to be hazarded for this the propositions of gen clarke were rejected every offer of an armistice was refused and we have seen from the late german journals that they looked with perfect confidence to the success of their mighty preparations what a lesson to sovereigns and to nations is the result of all this energy what a dreadful responsibility must the cabinet incur which trusting to its own speculations shuts its ears against the voice of peace our readers will not be content with the mere outline of these"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3263, 3327], "b_span": [797, 862], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.9922480620155039, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00409", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-15|1|1", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797041501/0269.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the new-hampshire medical society are hereby notified that their annual meeting will be held at the house of benjamin lamson in exeter on wednesday the th of may next at o'clock a m as there is some business of consequence to be transacted and several communications to be read before the society it is 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duty to make refpefting the un usual demands for pecie that have been made upon the metropulis in consequence of ill-founded or exaggerated alarms in different parts of the country it appears that unlefsfome measure is immediately taken there may be reason to apprehend wang of a fufficient upply of cath to an wer the exigencies of the public service t it is the unanimous opinion of the boayd thatit is indifpenfibly neceflary for thie public service that the direflors of the bank of england thould forbear issuing any cath in payment until the sense of par liament can be taken on that fubje t fi the praper theafures adopred thereup for gaintaining the means of circulation and upporting the public and commercial credit o o-th iingdom at this important conjunflurc and it is ordered thata copy of this minute be transmitted to the dirc tors of the bank of england and they are bereby required on the grounds of the exigesce of the case to conform thereto"}, "b": {"key": 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until the sense of parliament can be taken on the subject and the proper measures adopted thereupon for maintaining the means of circulation and supporting the public and commercial credit of the kingdom at this important conjuncture and it is ordered that a copy of this minute be transmitted to the directors of the bank of england and they are hereby required on the ground of the exigency of the case to conform thereto"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [928, 1126], "b_span": [834, 1020], "matched_words": 153, "similarity": 0.796875, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00415", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-15|1|3", "date": "1797-04-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the with of british troops to shew an enemy whose numbers are i ngzrior my major will deliver this letter and thall expe your determination by o'clock by your officer whom i have furnifhed with an escort that will condu him to me without molestation i am c cawdor to the officer commanding"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|3", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042001/0251.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "any military operations as they would tend only to bloodshed and pillage the officers of the whole corps have therefore intimated their desire of entering into a negotiation upon principles of humanity for a surrender if you are influenced by similar considerations you may signify the same by bearer and in the mean time hostilities shall cease salute and respect tate chief de brigade to the officer commanding his britannic majesty's troops fishguard february sir the superiority of the force under my command which is hourly increasing must prevent my treating upon any terms short of your surrendering your whole force prisoners of war i enter fully into your wish of preventing an unnecessary effusion of blood which your speedy surrender can alone prevent and which will entitle you to that consideration it is ever the wish of british troops to shew an enemy whose number are inferior my major will deliver you this letter and i shall expect your determination by o'clock by your officer whom i have furnished with an escort that will conduct him to me without molestation cawdor to the officer commanding"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1439, 1735], "b_span": 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force i could colle to the place i soon gained positive intelligence they had disembarked about men but no canoon upon the ni g ht s setting in a french officer whom found to be the second in command came in with a letter a copy of which i have the honor to inclofe to your grace together with my an wer in consequence oi which they determined to urrender themselves priso ners of war and accordingly laid down their arms this day at o clock i cannot at this moment inform your grace of the exalt number of prisoners bat i believe it to be their whole force it is my intention to march them this night to haverfordweft where shall make the be distribution in my power the fri gates corvette and lugger got under weigh yesterday evening and were this morning entirely out of fight the fatigue we have experienced will i trust excuse me to your grace for not giving a more particular detail but my anxicty to do justice to the officers and men had the honor to command will in duce me to attend your 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there may be reason to apprehend wang of a fufficient upply of cath to an wer the exigencies of the public service t it is the unanimous opinion of the boayd thatit is indifpenfibly neceflary for thie public service that the direflors of the bank of england thould forbear issuing any cath in payment until the sense of par liament can be taken on that fubje t fi the praper theafures adopred thereup for gaintaining the means of circulation and upporting the public and commercial credit o o-th iingdom at this important conjunflurc and it is ordered thata copy of this minute be transmitted to the dirc tors of the bank of england and they are bereby required on the grounds of the exigesce of the case to conform thereto"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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a copy of this minute be transmitted to the directors of the bank of england and they are hereby required on the ground of the exigency of the case to conform thereto"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2416, 2487], "b_span": [703, 774], "matched_words": 71, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00418", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|2", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042001/0250.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "we have this day the most important communications to lay before our readers by an especial recommendation of government no more specie will be issued in payment from the bank of england in contemplation of this vast measure an express was yesterday morning sent to windsor and soon after his majesty arrived in town and attended a privy council held at buckingham house which sat three hours and afterwards adjourned to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050301/0867.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "we have this day the most important communications to lay before our readers by an especial recommendation of government no more specie will be issued in payment from the bank of england in contemplation of this vast measure an express was yesterday morning sent to windsor and soon after his majesty arrived in town and attended a privy council 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cornwallis chancellor of the exche'r signed w fawkner upon the representation of the chancellor of the exchequer stating that from the result of the information which he has received and of the enquiries which it has been his duty to make respecting the effect of the unusual demands for specie that have been made upon the metropolis in consequence of ill-founded or exaggerated alarms in different parts of the country it appears that unless some measure is immediately taken there may be reason to apprehend a want of a sufficient supply of cash to answer the exigencies of the public service it is the unanimous opinion of the board that it is indispensably necessary for the public service that the directors of the bank of england should forbear issuing any cash in payment until the sense of parliament can be taken on the subject and the proper measures adopted thereupon for maintaining the means of circulation and supporting the public and commercial credit of the kingdom at this important conjuncture and it is ordered that a copy of this minute be transmitted to the directors of the bank of england and they are hereby required on the ground of the exigency of the case to conform thereto until the sense of parliament can be taken as aforesaid signed w fawkner at a meeting of the principal bankers merchants c held at the mansion-house at which the general sense appears to be similar to that which governed the commercial interest during the rebellion of to take the bank notes in all payments and by every exertion to promote the circulation of them the security of government will probably be united to that of bank notes by the way of indorsement for the purpose of preserving their"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the public service it is the unanimous opinion of the board that it is indispensably necessary for the public service that the directors of the bank of england should forbear issuing any cash in payment until the sense of parliament can be taken on that subject and the proper measures adopted thereupon for maintaining the means of circulation and supporting the public and commercial credit of the kingdom at this important conjuncture and it is ordered that a copy of this minute be transmitted to the directors of the bank of england and they are hereby required on the ground of the exigency of the case to conform thereto until the sense of parliament can be taken as aforesaid signed w fawkner at a meeting the principal bankers merchants c held at the mansion house at which the general sense appears to be similar to that which governed the commercial interest during the rebellion of to take the bank notes in all payments and by every exertion to promote the circulation of them the 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without delay they have also instructed the minister at war to call on the remainder of the first requisition to take the field and to treat the delinquents with the utmost severity of the law no decision had yet been had on the fate of the late conspirators and agents of louis xviii pa is was under this date in a state of tranquility bread cost only sols the th part of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1557, 1719], "b_span": [2467, 2630], "matched_words": 160, "similarity": 0.9846153846153847, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00421", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-20|1|3", "date": "1797-04-20", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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measures taken by the parliament on the business of the bank will be highly interesting and will be received probably in a few days the insurances from london to america after the th february will be twelve guineas per cent the ship hare from london to this port with a valuable cargo is taken and carried into france and the cargo will be no doubt condemned on account of the insurance being made in london we communicate this as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [512, 753], "b_span": [1791, 2032], "matched_words": 226, "similarity": 0.9377593360995851, "seeds": 40, "id": "M00422", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-22|1|1", "date": "1797-04-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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penetrating further into italy states in a letter dated from head-quarters at maccata on the th ult that he hoped to be that evening at foligno miles from rome of the treasure of loretto the value of which was estimated at three millions of livres tournois only one million had fallen into his possession in a subsequent letter dated from ancona on the th the same general mentions that the french troops had got possession of umbria the country of beragia and the small province of canorino gen colli according to a letter from rome on the th ult was employing every means to check the progress of the enemy and had even embodied a part of the felons in order to augment his army a brussels paper of the th ult contains a letter from vienna dated on the th ult mentioning that the pope was expected in that capital and that he was to take up his abode in the palace of his nuncio there the levy of recruits was vigorously pursued and vienna alone was to furnish at his own expence men an ordinance 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loreto the value of which was estimated at three millions of livres tournois only about one million had fallen into his possession in a subsequent letter dated from ancona on the th the same general mentions that the french troops had gotten possession of umbria the country of perugia and the small province of candia gen colli according to letters from rome of the th inst was employing every means to check the progress of the enemy and had even embodied a part of the poles in order to augment his army"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-06|1|2", "date": "1797-05-06", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050601/0875.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "states in a letter dated from head quarters at macerata on the th ult that he hoped to be that 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"vienna dated on the th ult mentioning that the pope was expected in that capital and that he was to take up his abode in the palace of his nuncio there the levy of recruits was vigorously pursued and vienna alone was to furnish at its own expense men an ordinance for levying the hungarians in a mass was to be published in a few days all were in arms in upper and"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2554, 2618], "b_span": [797, 862], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.9922480620155039, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00425", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-22|1|1", "date": "1797-04-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797042201/0273.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the new-hampshire medical society are hereby notified that their annual meeting will be held at the house of benjamin lamson in exeter on wednesday the th of may next at o'clock a m as there is some business of consequence to be transacted and several communications to be read before the society it is requested a general attendance will be given by order of"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-15|1|4", "date": "1797-05-15", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797051501/0084.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the new-hampshire medical society are hereby notified that their annual meeting will be held at the house of benjamin lamson in exeter on wednesday the th of may next at ten o'clock a m as there is some business of consequence to be transacted and several communications to be read before the society it is requested a general attendance will be given by order of"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [937, 1353], "b_span": [1924, 2384], "matched_words": 401, "similarity": 0.9155251141552512, "seeds": 69, "id": "M00426", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-22|1|3", "date": "1797-04-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797042201/0275.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the situation of affairs in europe becomes more and more critical every new arrival adds to our anxiety to learn the next news so rapidly does the interest increase as the political drama hastens to its denouement the curtain seems now to be rising for the last act france having completely humbled her continental enemies appears in good earnest to be turning her efforts towards proud britain three hundred french transports according to the accounts by the orlando made their appearance off beachy head on the th feb and then disappeared we conjecture that this must have been the grand fleet going up the channel to form a junction with the fleet at dunkirk and in the scheldt thence to strike a blow at the heart of their enemies in their very metropolis it must be observed that the eastern coast of britain is most open to an attack from the french it does not contain a single harbor in which the english fleet can lay in wait for their enemies or find refuge in case of disaster but the open road of deal which would give no protection to them except against the elements it offers various points at which a landing could be easily effected and it is opposite and near to the french and dutch coasts which abound with secure harbors the british fleet which we suppose made part of the sail seen off beachy head is said to consist of sail of the line the british force in the german ocean is about sail and their grand channel fleet as it is called consisted of ships of the line this channel fleet failed on the d of march from st helens but even if it was to form a junction with the north sea fleet in the way of which there are many obstacles still the french would be an overmatch even without their dunkirk and flushing reinforcements the landing of men in wales on the th february most probably was intended to spread an alarm in a direction opposite to the points of real attack it had produced more effect than they could possibly have hoped from it it has given a mortal stab to the credit of the bank and of consequence cuts off the monied resources of the government the shock will be severely felt by the commerce of the country and the confusion which the event must occasion will greatly facilitate any operations which the french may undertake"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|2", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050301/0867.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the situation of affairs in europe becomes more and more critical every new arrival adds to our anxiety to learn the next news so rapidly does the interest increase as the political drama hastens to its denouement the curtain seems now to be rising for the last act france having completely humbled her continental enemies appears in good earnest to be turning her efforts towards proud britain the intelligence which we this day communicate opens a new field for conjecture the politician will have in all probability full time to indulge in it as we cannot reasonably expect soon any arrival in a passage short enough to bring further intelligence three hundred french transports according to the accounts by the orlando made their appearance off beachy head on the th february and then disappeared we conjecture that this must have been the grand brest fleet going up the channel to form a junction with the fleets at dunkirk bremen and in the scheldt thence to strike a blow at the heart of their enemies in their very metropolis it must be observed that the eastern coast of britain is most open to an attack from the french it does not contain a single harbor in which the english fleet can lie in wait for their enemies or find refuge in case of disaster but the open road of deal which would give no protection to them except against the elements it offers various points at which a landing could be easily effected and it is opposite and near to the french and dutch coasts which abound with secure harbors the brest fleet which we suppose made part of the sail seen off beachy head is said to consist of sail of the line the british force in the german ocean is about ten sail and their grand channel fleet as it is called consists of ships of the line this fleet sailed on the d of march from st helen's but even if it were to form a junction with the northern sea fleet in the way of which there are many obstacles still the french would be an over match even without their dunkirk and flushing reinforcements the landing of men in wales on the th of february most probably was to spread an alarm in a direction opposite the points of real attack it has produced more effect than they could possibly have hoped from it it has given a mortal stab to the credit of the bank and of consequence cuts off the monied resources of government the shock will be severely felt by the commerce of the country and the confusion which the event must occasion will greatly facilitate any operations which the french may undertake"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1557, 1643], "b_span": [624, 718], "matched_words": 81, "similarity": 0.9, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00427", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|2", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-04-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797042701/0254.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "important intelligence we received just as this paper was putting to press glenmore off the texel march by the seagull bearing home capt doff's dispatches i inform you as an article of news that the dutch fleet has this day left the texel there are tail now in our fight standing to the northward in the texel we saw ready for sea some days back of which were of the line and i fear will escape our fleet we follow this fleet alone for some time"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-29|1|1", "date": "1797-04-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-04-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797042901/0277.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "important intelligence we received just as this paper was putting to press glenmore off the texel the d of march half-past one p m by the seagull bearing home captain duff's despatches i inform you as an article of news that the dutch fleet has this day left the texel there are sail now in our sight standing to the northward in the texel we saw ready for sea some days back of which were of the line and i much fear will escape our fleet we follow this fleet alone 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great britain in perpetual alarm some actual attempt may be made the better to attain the objects of the french which are to augment by all possible means the expenditure of the british nation and hasten the ruin of her public credit at the same time by harassing the coast draw the inhabitants from their occupations thus lessening the productions of agriculture and manufactures the state of the bank of england may have been known in holland and served to hasten the sailing of a fleet at this moment as a favourable crisis to spread terror in great britain these"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [892, 1102], "b_span": [516, 777], "matched_words": 203, "similarity": 0.861995753715499, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00435", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-04-27|1|3", "date": "1797-04-27", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": 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aforesaid the proprietor or possessor of any such still or stills as are above mentioned shall and may after the first day of july ensuing be charged with and shall pay the following duties to wit for a licence for the employment of each and every such still for and during the term of two weeks six cents"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-03|1|3", "date": "1797-05-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797050301/0870.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the option and alternative aforesaid the proprietor of any such still or stills as are above mentioned shall and may after the first day of july ensuing be charged with and shall pay the following duties to wit for a license for the employment of each and every such still for and during the term of 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inspection section and be it further enacted that every distiller as aforesaid who shall commence any distillation prior to obtaining a licence therefor shall pay a duty equal to that demandable in consequence of a licence for six months and no new licence shall be granted for any still until all duties which have accrued thereon shall have been paid and discharged section and be it further enacted that the several provisions and clauses of the acts heretofore passed and remaining in force for laying securing and collecting duties on spirits distilled within the united states and on stills for regulating the exportation of such spirits and for making an allowance to the exporters of the same by way of drawback shall extend to and remain in full force with respect to the several provisions and clauses of this act subject only to the alterations hereby made jonathan dayton speaker of the house of representatives william bingham president of the senate pro tempore approved"}, "b": {"key": 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thereon shall have been paid and discharged sect and be it further enacted that the several provisions and clauses of the acts heretofore passed and remaining in force for laying securing and collecting duties on spirits distilled within the united states and on stills for regulating the exportation of such spirits and for making an allowance to the exporters of the same by way of draw back shall extend to and remain in full force with respect to the several provisions and clauses of this act subject only to the alterations hereby made jonathan dayton speaker of the house of representatives william bingham president of the senate pro tempore approved"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1502, 1627], "b_span": [1918, 2118], "matched_words": 123, "similarity": 0.7569230769230769, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00439", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-04-29|1|2", "date": "1797-04-29", 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of his appointment the french republic through their minister here reiterated their complaints of the conduct of the united states and to shew their sense of the insulting silence held by our executive on the score of the grievances the minister had complained of ordering him to suspend his functions here mr pinckney had set sail of course without any special powers relative to this critical state of affairs it was in consequence natural to suppose and it was predicted that he would not be received it was not in reason to be expected that having suspended the functions of their ordinary minister they would receive ours mr pinckney arrived at paris and the french government refused to acknowledge him he desired to receive his dismissal in writing the french answered that they could not dismiss him as they had never received him he then demanded a protection as a minister this they refused as they could not acknowledge him in that capacity they told him that by applying to the minister 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it was predicted that he would not be received it was not in reason to be expected that having suspended their ordinary minister they would receive ours mr pinckney arrived at paris and the french government refused to acknowledge him he desired to receive his dismissal in writing the french answered that they would not dismiss him as they had never received him he then demanded a protection as a minister this they refused as they could not acknowledge him in that capacity they told him that by applying to the minister of police he could obtain a protection as any other foreigner this he refused to do probably with warmth under the impression that his country was slighted and he was then informed that if he would not conform to the police regulations he must abide by the consequences mr pinckney then of his own accord left paris for amsterdam we have not a doubt but that an envoy extraordinary would remove every difficulty and restore the wounded harmony between the sister republics in 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different actions we have had with his troops you will find annexed the copy of a letter which the holy father has written to me and of my answer buonaparte pope pius vi to general buonaparte dear son health and apostolic benediction desiring to terminate amicably our differences with the french republic by the retreat of the troops which you command we send and depute to you as our plenipotentiaries two ecclesiastics the cardinal matty who is perfectly known to you and m caleppi and two seculars the duke don lewis braschi our nephew and the marquis camillas massini who are invested with our full powers to concert with you promise and subscribe such conditions as we hope will be just and reasonable obliging ourselves under our faith and word to approve and ratify them in special form in order that they may be valid inviolable in all future time assured"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries 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contribute to your personal safety i entreat your holiness to guard against the persons who are sold to the courts the enemies of france or who suffer themselves to be guided exclusively by the passions of hatred which the loss of territory constantly engenders all europe knows the pacific inclination and the conciliatory virtue of your holiness the french republic i hope will be one of the truest friends of rome i send my aid-de-camp chief of brigade to express to your holiness the perfect esteem and veneration which i have for your person and to entreat you to confide in the desire which i have to give you on every occasion proofs of the respect and veneration with which i have the honor to be your most obedient servant"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1094, 1257], "b_span": [4, 167], "matched_words": 163, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 35, "id": "M00447", "a": 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government were put in possession of the fact by the last messenger that arrived from sweden the very important intelligence that another naval armed neutrality is forming in the north of which russia is to be the head and to furnish the largest quota of ships from the same source we are also informed that under the mediation of prussia a commercial treaty is negotiating between russia and the french republic and that the partial admission of french commodities into the russian ports is to be looked upon as a preliminary measure which is to be followed by greater"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1899, 1973], "b_span": [1139, 1216], "matched_words": 70, "similarity": 0.9271523178807947, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00448", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-02|1|1", "date": "1797-05-02", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", 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exchequer moved for an open loan of at per cent for years this was opposed by the speaker and several other members on the ground that it would cramp the means of commercial credit a member mr bagwell of tipperary said rather than adopt such a measure he would give up a fourth of his income to government for five years and he would begin by paying immediately and at michaelmas and he thought every man of property in the kingdom should come forward with liberality on the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [829, 1080], "b_span": [930, 1181], "matched_words": 251, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 53, "id": "M00451", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-09|1|2", "date": "1797-05-09", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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joined those who have uniformly opposed the war in parliament we ardently hope however that it may not only reduce the expenditure under which we groan and restore the blessings of peace for which we pant but that it may drive an incapable minister from the post which he has too long held yet surely the people must now see that if they were true to themselves it would not be necessary for this set of men or that to unite for the purpose of rescuing the country from perdition because it would be impossible for any minister to dare to adopt such systems and schemes as would bring the country into difficulty danger and"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-24|1|2", "date": "1797-05-24", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797052401/0915.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "members of parliament has been formed for the purpose of effecting a diminution of the national expenditure and the attainment of a speedy peace three meetings have already been held the first on wednesday the third yesterday morning several resolutions have been entered into of which the following are the principal st resolved that in the present critical state of the country every possible measure be taken to promote a more economical expenditure of public money d that every effort be made to an immediate restoration of peace the number of members who compose this association amounts already to thirty-five they are principally country gentlemen we applaud the motives upon which this association is stated to have been formed though we must be permitted to express some surprise that the members of it have not openly joined those who have uniformly opposed the war in parliament we ardently hope however that it may not only reduce the expenditure under which we groan and restore the blessings of peace for which we pant but that it may drive an incapable minister from the post which he has too long held yet surely the people must now see that if they were true to themselves it would not be necessary for this set of men or that to unite for the purpose of rescuing the country from perdition because it would be impossible for any minister to dare to adopt such systems and schemes as would bring the country into difficulty danger and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [0, 134], "b_span": [1468, 1602], "matched_words": 132, "similarity": 0.9850746268656716, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00452", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-09|1|2", "date": "1797-05-09", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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moved for an open loan for l at six per cent for five years this was opposed by the speaker and several other members on the ground that it would cramp the means of commercial credit a member mr bagwell of tipperary said rather than adopt such a measure he would give up a fourth of his income to government for five years and he would begin by paying l immediately and l at michaelmas and he thought every man of property in the kingdom should come forward with liberality on the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|2", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797052901/0086.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "house of commons sir john s hamilton proposed a land tax of s in the pound in lieu of the new tax on salt this proposal was to be taken up on tuesday sir john parnell chancellor to the exchequer moved for an open loan for l at six per cent for five years this was opposed by the speaker and several other members on the ground that it would cramp the means of commercial credit a member mr bagwell of tipperary said rather than adopt such measure he would give up a fourth of his income to government for five years and he would begin by paying l immediately and l at michaelmas and he thought every man of property in the kingdom should come forward with liberality on the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [227, 321], "b_span": [411, 508], "matched_words": 92, "similarity": 0.9633507853403142, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00454", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-13|1|2", "date": "1797-05-13", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the enemy that merchandise belonging to the enemy shall be declared good and lawful prizes and be confiscated to the profit of the captors that in all cases neutral ships shall be released the moment that the merchandise seized is discharged that the freight of it shall be paid at the rate which shall have been stipulated by the consigners and that a just indemnity shall be granted on account of their detention by the tribunals competent to decide upon the validity of prizes that these tribunals shall be directed besides to send three days after the decision a double inventory of the merchandise to the minister of marine and another to the minister for foreign affairs that the present law applicable to all the captures that have been made since the declaration of war shall cease to have effect as soon as the enemy shall have declared non-seizable altho destined for the ports of the republic the merchandise laden on board neutral ships which shall belong to the government or to french citizens having seen the law of the th of july which directs the foregoing law to be fully executed having also seen the th article of the law of the th nivose d year which enjoins all the agents of the republic to respect and observe in all their dispositions the treaties which unite france to the neutral powers of the continent and to the united states of america considering that this last law is not derogatory to the law of the th of may resolves as follows art i the commissaries of the executive directory with the civil tribunals of the department shall take care that in the contests upon the validity of maritime prizes no decision shall be founded upon the th article of the law of the th nivose without the minister of justice having been previously consulted conformably to the d article of the law of the th floreal th year relative to the treaties in virtue of which neutral persons pretend to withdraw themselves by means of the first of these laws from the execution of that of the th of march the minister of justice shall examine whether the treaties still subsist or whether they have been modified since the conclusion of them there shall be furnished to them by the minister for foreign affairs all the documents of which they shall stand in need and reference shall be made to the executive directory as is prescribed by the law of the th floreal th year the directory remind all french citizens that the treaty concluded on the th of feb between france and the united states has been on the terms of the second article modified of full right by that which has been concluded at london on the th nov between the united states of america and england in consequence after the article th of the treaty of london of the th of nov all merchandise of the enemy's or merchandise not sufficiently ascertained to be neutral conveyed under american flags shall be confiscated but the ships on board of which such merchandise shall be found shall be released and given to the proprietor the commissaries of the directory are enjoined to accelerate by all means in their power the decision of the contests which shall arise either upon the validity of the captures of the cargoes or upon freights and insurances according to the th article of the treaty of london dated the th nov relative to articles declared contraband by the th article of the treaty dated feb are added the following ship timber oakum pitch and rosin copper for sheathing vessels sails hemp and cordage and every thing which serves directly or indirectly to the arming and equipping of vessels excepting bar-iron and fir in planks these articles shall be confiscated as often as they shall be destined or attempted to be carried to the enemy according to the st article of the treaty of london of the above date every american who shall hold a commission from the enemies of france as well as every seaman of that nation composing the crew of the ships and vessels shall by this fact alone be declared piratical and treated as such without suffering the party to establish that the act was the consequence of threats or violence in pursuance of the law of the th of feb the regulations of the st of oct and of the th of july respecting the manner of vessels and neutral merchandise shall be complied with according to their form and tenor every american ship shall therefore be deemed a lawful prize which shall not have on board a bill of lading in due form according to the plan annexed to the treaty of the th of feb the execution of which is enjoined by the th and th articles of that treaty the commissioners of the executive directory are required to carry into effect the penalties that attach on all clandestine attempts that may be made by american or vessels belonging to any other nation to pass as neutral on board the vessel where the fraud is attempted to be practised in the manner that these penalties have been repeatedly carried into effect during the present war the penalty shall attach where the blanks in the consignments and invoices are not filled up though signed and sealed where the papers are in the form of letters containing fictitious signatures where are double passports or policies specifying different destinations where consignment is made to two or more factors and where there are different receipts or papers of any kind which consign the whole or part of the same goods to different owners or different destinations by this article provisions of the treaty of the th frimaire last relative to freight and insurance are repealed as far as they apply to insurance the present treaty shall be published in the bulletin of the laws the ministers of marine and of the colonies of justice and for foreign affairs are charged with the execution of it in their respective departments signed"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-10|1|2", "date": "1797-06-10", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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of the captors that in all cases neutral ships shall be released the moment that the merchandise seized is discharged that the freight of it shall be paid at the rate which shall have been stipulated by the consignors and that a just indemnity shall be granted on account of their detention by the tribunals competent to decide on the validity of prizes that these tribunals shall be directed besides to send three days after the decision a double inventory of the merchandise to the minister of marine and another to the minister of foreign affairs that the present law applicable to all the captures that have been made since the declaration of war shall cease to have effect as soon as the enemy shall have declared non-seizable also destined for the ports of the republic the merchandise laden on board neutral ships which shall belong to the government or to french citizens having seen the law of the th july which directs the foregoing law to be fully executed having also seen the th article of the law of the th nivose d year which enjoins all the agents of the republic to respect and observe in all their dispositions the treaties which unite france to the neutral powers on the continent and to the united states of america considering that this last law is not derogatory to the law of the th may resolves as follows art the commissaries of the executive directory with the civil tribunals of the department shall take care that in the contests upon the validity of maritime prizes no decision shall be founded upon the th article of the law of the th nivose without the minister of justice having been previously consulted conformably to the th article of the th floreal th year relative to the treaties in virtue of which neutral persons pretend to withdraw themselves by means of the first of these laws from the execution of the th march the minister of justice shall examine whether the treaties still subsist or whether they have been modified since the conclusion of them there shall be furnished to them by the minister of foreign affairs all the documents of which they shall stand in need and reference shall be made to the executive directory as it is prescribed by the law of the th floreal th year the directory remind all french citizens that the treaty concluded on the th february between france and the united states has been of the terms of the second article modified of full right by that which has been concluded at london on the th of november between the united states of america and england in consequence after article th of the treaty of london of the th november all merchandise of the enemy not sufficiently ascertained to be neutral conveyed under american flags shall be confiscated but the ship on board of which such merchandise shall be found shall be released and given to the proprietor the commissaries of the directory are enjoined to accelerate by all means in their power the decision of the contests which shall arise either upon the validity of 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regulations of the st of october and of the th of july respecting the manner of vessels and neutral merchandise shall be complied with according to their form and end every american ship shall therefore be deemed a lawful prize which shall not have on board a bill of lading in due form according to the plan annexed to the treaty of the th of february the execution of which is enjoined by the th and th articles of that treaty the commissaries of the executive directory are required to carry into effect the penalties that attach on all clandestine attempts that may be made by american or vessels belonging to any other nation to pass as neutral on board the vessel where the fraud is attempted to be practised in the manner that these penalties have been repeatedly carried into effect during the present war the penalty shall attach where the blanks of the consignments and invoices are not filled up though signed and sealed where the papers are in the form of letters containing fictitious 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french have egress bro't intelligence that a french privateer had reached that place in a very shattered condition having had a very severe engagement with an american armed vessel and that many of the privateer's men were killed capt stafford who arrived yesterday spoke with the british brig swallow the commander of which acquainted him that an american vessel belonging to philadelphia with carriage guns had beaten off a french privateer and arrived safe in a"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-17|1|3", "date": "1797-05-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797051701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "st johns some port or island to which the french have ingress brought intelligence that a french privateer had reached that place in a very shattered condition having had a very severe engagement with an american armed vessel and that many of the privateersmen were killed capt stafford who arrived yesterday spoke with the british brig swallow the commander of which acquainted him that an american vessel belonging to philadelphia with carriage guns had beaten off a french privateer and arrived safe in a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [547, 717], "b_span": [1559, 1748], "matched_words": 116, "similarity": 0.6462395543175488, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00460", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-16|1|3", "date": "1797-05-16", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the inhabitants of that island were under fearful apprehensions of a visit from victor hugues the don quixote of the west indies should the british force pass guadalupe to attack any of the leeward possessions of the french mr russell i read with astonishment the translation of a letter said to have been written by mr jefferson to a person in europe and after what mr jefferson has lately said in his inauguration speech i must suspect it to be a forgery were it not in any other country but this its treasonable sentiments would bring the head of the writer to the block an american on the th april an english fleet of between and sail went through sail"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1213, 1748], "b_span": [584, 1120], "matched_words": 523, "similarity": 0.976657329598506, "seeds": 105, "id": "M00461", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-16|1|3", "date": "1797-05-16", "paper": "The New 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to have been landed in india as the basis of that hope and of that confidence but on this head we write with caution for although the plans of the directory have proved abortive the views to which they had given birth are yet existing explanatory of the above we lay before our readers the following outline of the th article of the instructions given by the directory to brunelle and his associate art our intentions have long since been known to the the blacks to obtain liberty must first prove that they are worthy to enjoy it you will select of the most athletic the youngest and the bravest of the slaves to whom you will promise plunder as the incentive and liberty as the reward of their valor the rich possessions of the english in india will be no more to the blacks you will add a body of people of color and so many frenchmen as the island can spare transports will not be wanting the voyage is short and a few days will land you on the shore of india we have only to add that the commissioners declared their determination of arming and embarking the slaves for india and that the violence offered to their persons by the colonial assembly was the consequence of that declaration how the commissioners were to have acted should the islands have been found in the possession of the english the following article will shew translation from the french of the th article of the instructions given by the executive directory to their agents brunelle and baus if by chance which we however do not think and which we regard even as impossible the islands of france bourbon should be on your arrival in possession of the english you will nevertheless make your descent at any place which you may find proper on one of those islands you then are to proclaim the liberty of the blacks and after this being done you will raise an insurrection by their means and having formed yourselves a rampart of their bodies you are to cut their throats without distinction of the conquerors and conquered who after reading this bloody scheme of fraternization can hesitate to credit the authenticity of hoche's proclamation extract of a letter from richmond dated april last night a second attempt was made to rob the treasury of this state the villains have removed the iron grating from one of the windows but were stopped from further"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|2", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797052901/0086.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "out done people may exert their ingenuity in attempts to depict the character of the revolutionists of france their labours will be wholly in vain for after exhausting the sombre without success we resort to their own conduct and actions by their deeds ye shall know them from the madras courier madras nov the views of the executive directory in sending the commissioners to the isle of france were of an extensive nature nor were their exertions to have been confined to the islands alone they were to have reached to this country the tranquility of the english possessions was to have been disturbed by the revival of hope and confidence in the bottom of native despotism caffres were to have been landed in india as the basis of that hope and of that confidence but on this head we write with caution for altho the plans of the directory have proved abortive the views to which they had given birth are yet existing explanatory of the above we lay before our readers the following outline of the th article of the instructions given by the directory to brunelle and his associate art our intentions have long since been known to the the blacks to obtain liberty must first prove that they are worthy to enjoy it you will select of the most athletic the youngest and the bravest of the slaves to whom you will promise plunder as the incentive and liberty as the reward of their valor the rich possessions of the english in india will be no more to the blacks you will add a body of colour and so many frenchmen as the island can spare transports will not be wanting the voyage will be short and a few days will land you on the shore of india we have only to add that the commissioners declared their determination of arming and embarking the slaves for india and that the violence offered to their persons by the colonial assembly was the consequence of that declaration how the commissioners were to have acted should the islands have been found in the possession of the english the following articles will shew translation from the french of the th article of the instructions given by the executive directory to their agents brunelle and baus if by chance which we however do not think and which we regard even as impossible the islands 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boat on board and the vessel's papers this was refused in consequence of which the privateer fired two broadsides into her the american sailors enraged at the conduct of the privateer fired two broadsides in return which killed the capt lieutenant doctor and men the privateer then dropped her sails and struck her colors but the americans refused to take possession of her observing however an american prize brig to windward she stood for her retook her and brought her into antigua she was from norfolk bound to antigua with a cargo of corn and flour the french privateer went into st bartholomews where she got a new captain and proceeded again to sea she has since captured a new haven brig from martinique bound home"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-03|1|2", "date": "1797-06-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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american prize brig to the windward she hoed for her retook her and bro't her into antigua she was from norfolk bound to antigua with a cargo of corn and flour the french privateer went into st bartholomews where she got a new captain and proceeded again to sea she has since captured a newhaven brig from martinique bound home"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [14, 228], "b_span": [421, 593], "matched_words": 166, "similarity": 0.8601036269430051, "seeds": 30, "id": "M00465", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-16|1|3", "date": "1797-05-16", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797051601/0289.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "which was due arrived this morning letters from vienna of the th ult mention that reinforcements were marching both to the army of italy and the rhine the emperor of russia is determined to support the constitution of the germanic empire several skirmishes had taken place between the advanced posts of the armies which had in general terminated favorably to the austrians irish insurrection quelled dispatches from lord camden l l of ireland to the duke of portland contain the agreeable information that the insurrection in the northern part of that kingdom had been entirely quelled the bittern of guns captain lavie has taken a lima ship in the west-indies worth sterling and sent her into martinique march old dollars frac per ounce april per consols frac frac the hamburg mail mentions no new alliance between prussia and france interesting english affairs british parliament h of lords march lord oxford in a maiden speech moved an address to h m for peace with france the distress of the country was his inducement the duke of norfolk declared ministers had lost all public confidence earl guilford supported the address it was opposed by lords grenville barrington moreton spencer carlisle and coventry principally on the idea that the french directory did not wish for peace the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-10|1|3", "date": "1797-06-10", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061001/0958.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "which was due arrived this morning letters from vienna of the th ult mention that the reinforcements were marching both to the army of italy on the rhine the emperor of russia is determined to support the constitution of the germanic empire several skirmishes had taken place between the advanced posts of the armies which had in general terminated favorably to the austrians irish insurrection quelled dispatches from lord camden l l of ireland to the duke of portland contain the agreeable information that the insurrection in the northern parts of that kingdom had been entirely quelled interesting english affairs british parliament house of lords march lord oxford in a maiden speech moved an address to his majesty for peace with france the distress of the country was his inducement the duke of norfolk declared ministers had lost all public confidence earl guilford supported the address it was opposed by lords grenville barrington moreton spencer carlisle and coventry principally on the idea that the french directory did not wish for peace the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [584, 712], "b_span": [442, 573], "matched_words": 123, "similarity": 0.9498069498069498, "seeds": 21, "id": "M00466", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-17|1|2", "date": "1797-05-17", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797051701/0899.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "house of commons sir john s hamilton proposed a land tax of one shilling in the pound in lieu of the new tax on salt this proposal was to be taken up on tuesday sir john parnell chancellor of the exchequer moved for an open loan of at per cent for years this was opposed by the speaker and several other members on the ground that it would cramp the means of commercial credit a member mr bagwell of tipperary said rather than adopt such a measure he would give up a fourth of his income to government for five years and he would begin by paying immediately and at michaelmas and he thought every man of property in the kingdom should come forward with liberality on the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|2", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797052901/0086.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "house of commons sir john s hamilton proposed a land tax of s in the pound in lieu of the new tax on salt this proposal was to be taken up on tuesday sir john parnell chancellor to the exchequer moved for an open loan for l at six per cent for five years this was opposed by the speaker and several other members on the ground that it would cramp the means of commercial credit a member mr bagwell of tipperary said rather than adopt such measure he would give up a fourth of his income to government for five years and he would begin by paying l immediately and l at michaelmas and he thought every man of property in the kingdom should come forward with liberality on the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1561, 1688], "b_span": [1468, 1594], "matched_words": 120, "similarity": 0.9486166007905138, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00467", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-17|1|2", "date": "1797-05-17", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797051701/0899.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dublin march the consternation which prevails from the late shock sustained by the public credit is indescribable all confidence in paper is gone and business is at a complete stand for a considerable time on thursday last the commissioners of the revenue refused to accept of the notes of the bank of ireland from such merchants as tendered them to payment of the duties on their entries the effects of this refusal may be easily conceived it operated like an electric shock and threw the metropolis into confusion fortunately the prohibition was taken off in the course of the day and the bank of ireland notes were allowed currency at the custom house as a circulating medium guinea notes have been adopted by the bank of ireland"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|2", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797052901/0086.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dublin march the consternation which prevails from the late shock sustained by the public is indescribable all confidence in paper is gone and business is at a complete stand for a considerable time on thursday last the commissioners of the revenue refused to accept of notes of the bank of ireland from such merchants as tendered them in payment of the duties on their entries the effects of this refusal may easily be conceived it operated like an electric shock and threw the whole metropolis into confusion fortunately this prohibition was taken off in the course of the day and the bank of ireland notes were allowed as currency at the customhouse as a circulating medium guinea notes have been adopted by the bank of ireland"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1790, 1926], "b_span": [1128, 1261], "matched_words": 132, "similarity": 0.9814126394052045, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00468", "a": 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of the senate being placed on the right hand of the chair and the speaker of the house on the left after sitting a moment he rose and delivered the following speech see"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-10|1|2", "date": "1797-06-10", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061001/0955.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "being near twelve o'clock the speaker observed that it had been usual on similar occasions to the present to send a message to the senate to inform them that the house is now ready to attend them in receiving the communication of the president agreeably to his appointment such a message was agreed to and sent accordingly soon after the members of the senate entered and took the seats assigned them and a little after twelve the 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"normalized_excerpt": "the editor of the philadelphia gazette dated may a gentleman who arrived here last sunday from st croix states that previous to his embarkation for this city accounts had been received there that the valuable island of st juan de puerto rico was a few days before taken from the spaniards by the british army and navy from martinique under the command of lieutenant general sir ralph abercrombie and rear admiral henry hervey the principal fortification made a short resistance and cost the besiegers but a few men this valuable island is situated between hispaniola and st christopher's is miles long and miles broad the centre of the contraband trade carried on by the british and french with the spaniards and is extremely fertile producing the same kinds of fruits with"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-07|1|3", "date": "1797-06-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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"profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [928, 1018], "b_span": [831, 927], "matched_words": 88, "similarity": 0.946236559139785, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00470", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-17|1|3", "date": "1797-05-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797051701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in days from hamburg informs that news was received at hamburg a few days previous to his leaving there that the misunderstanding between the united states and france was amicably settled and that mr pinckney was certainly received and acknowledged and that orders which he saw and read were issued by the directory to capture no more american vessels unless they had two sets of papers and were carrying on a contraband trade that in consequence of the above insurance had fallen from to only per cent on american vessels"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-10|1|3", "date": "1797-06-10", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061001/0958.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in days from hamburg informs that news was received at that place a few days previous to his leaving it that the misunderstanding between the united states and france was amicably settled and that mr pinckney was certainly received and acknowledged and that orders which he saw and read were issued by the directory to capture no more american vessels unless they had two sets of papers and were carrying on a contraband trade that in consequence of the above insurance had fallen from twenty-five to only four and a half per cent on american vessels"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2188, 2441], "b_span": [642, 895], "matched_words": 251, "similarity": 0.9920948616600791, "seeds": 49, "id": "M00471", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-18|1|3", "date": "1797-05-18", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797051801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the internal affairs of the state continue prosperous and happy the unprovoked aggressions made under the authority of the french nation on our external commerce by which we are affected in common with the other of the united states have occasioned such an extensive destruction of property and diminution of the national revenue that the losses resulting therefrom will admit of no early calculation should these depredations continue the reduction of our exports and of the prices of our productions and the check which will be given to enterprise and industry will be injuries which will be very sensibly felt there are however evils of still greater magnitude which this conduct is probably intended to produce but which it will be more in the power of our country to prevent we may trust that no sacrifices will be thought too dear to be made rather than resign our national character and our absolute independence as the obtaining of redress for national injuries and providing for our general security are subjects which fall under the cognizance of our national government no other duties are therefore incumbent on us relative thereto but as members of the union to carry into effect such measures as the national administration shall prescribe it may however be expedient to attend to such equipments of the military force of the state as may place it in a condition to act most extensively when legally required and to provide such necessary means for our local defence as the national government may"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-30|1|1", "date": "1797-05-30", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797053001/0295.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the internal affairs of the state continue prosperous and happy the unprovoked aggressions made under the authority of the french nation on our external commerce by which we are affected in common with the other of the united states have occasioned such an extensive destruction of property and diminution of the national revenue that the losses resulting therefrom will admit of no easy calculation should these depredations continue the reduction of our exports and of the prices of our productions and the check which will be given to enterprise and industry will be injuries which will be very sensibly felt there are however evils of still greater magnitude which this conduct is probably intended to produce but which it will be more in the power of our country to prevent we may trust that no sacrifices will be thought too dear to be made rather than resign our national character and our absolute independence as the obtaining of redress for national injuries and providing for our general security are subjects which fall under the cognizance of our national government no other duties are therefore incumbent on us relative thereto but as members of the union to carry into effect such measures as the national administration shall prescribe it may however be expedient to attend to such equipments of the military force of the state as may place it in a condition to act most effectively when legally required and to provide such necessary means for our local defence as the national government may"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2698, 3084], "b_span": [900, 1286], "matched_words": 385, "similarity": 0.9974093264248705, "seeds": 85, "id": "M00472", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-18|1|3", "date": "1797-05-18", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797051801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be happy if there be ground to believe that better reflections will restrain the pursuits of the nation by whose conduct we more especially suffer but when a nation shall assume the power to limit and direct the commerce of every neutral nation on which they can make an impression and manifest their first hostile designs by acts of general plunder not only in violation of the laws of nature and nations but of treaties and a professed friendship it will be difficult to ascertain any known principles by which their conduct will be regulated or the limits they will impose on their ambition it cannot be doubted but the agents and partisans of the french nation have long endeavored to involve this country in the calamities of war and finding that our national administration could neither be influenced nor controlled they have sedulously attempted to alienate the confidence and affections of the people from it to effect this purpose they have assailed the character of the late supreme executive of our nation a character precious to america and which will be revered as long as moral excellence shall be known and respected by mankind this nation has also refused with circumstances of indignity to give audience to a minister lately sent to them from this country charged with the most friendly embassy although we may be assured that the united states will wish to maintain the neutral ground which they have wisely assumed and will deprecate the calamities of a war yet under such an accumulation of untoward circumstances has it not become our duty to prepare for a serious state of things should matters be brought to the last necessity we cannot doubt but the genius of america that genius which the almighty inspired to vindicate our liberties and assert our independence will exert itself with the most active energy and will convince the world that america determined to be free will never dispute about the qualifications of a master we are happy in our confidence in the wisdom and rectitude of the person to whom the national executive power is at present committed his wisdom and stability has been often manifested upon most important and trying occasions in support of the liberties the honor and independence of our country and we have the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-30|1|1", "date": "1797-05-30", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797053001/0295.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be happy if there be ground to believe that better reflections will restrain the pursuits of the nation by whose conduct we more especially suffer but when a nation shall assume the power to limit and direct the commerce of every neutral nation on which they can make an impression and manifest their first hostile designs by acts of general plunder not only in violation of the laws of nature and nations but of treaties and a professed friendship it will be difficult to ascertain any known principles by which their conduct will be regulated or the limits they will impose on their ambition it cannot be doubted but the agents and partisans of the french nation have long endeavored to involve this country in the calamities of war and finding that our national administration could neither be influenced nor controlled they have sedulously attempted to alienate the confidence and affections of the people from it to effect this purpose they have assailed the character of the late supreme executive of our nation a character precious to america and which will be revered as long as moral excellence shall be known and respected by mankind this nation has also refused with circumstances of indignity to give audience to a minister lately sent to them from this country charged with the most friendly embassy although we may be assured that the united states will wish to maintain the neutral ground which they have wisely assumed and will deprecate the calamities of a war yet under such an accumulation of untoward circumstances has it not become our duty to prepare for a serious state of things should matters be brought to the last necessity we cannot doubt but the genius of america that genius which the almighty inspired to vindicate our liberties and assert our independence will exert itself with the most active energy and will convince the world that america determined to be free will never dispute about the qualifications of a master we are happy in our confidence in the wisdom and rectitude of the person to whom the national executive power is at present committed his wisdom and stability have been often manifested upon most important and trying occasions in support of the liberties the honor and independence of our country and we have the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", 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widely extended the most flagitious corruption we most deeply deplore that your majesty's ministers abandoning the principles they once possessed have endeavored to prevent the remonstrances of your people attacking the very vitals of our constitution and depriving your subjects of liberties which their ancestors with so much energy claimed demanded and insisted on as their undoubted right and inheritance and which it is our duty to transmit to posterity pure and inviolate and for the defence and preservation of which your majesty's royal house was chosen and placed upon the throne of these realms we therefore most humbly beseech your majesty to dismiss forever from your majesty's presence and councils those advisers both public and secret of the measures we lament not doubting that by a change of councils such measures may be adopted as will speedily procure the inestimable blessings of peace and produce such a system of economy as shall restore the public credit and the happiness of your people but should your majesty any longer confide in such advisers we are firmly convinced that they will completely undermine that basis of national prosperity and happiness the reciprocal confidence of a sovereign and a free people and inevitably destroy the boasted privileges the internal peace and the numerous blessings that britons have heretofore enjoyed the sheriffs of london attended yesterday at st james's and waited for above two hours to have an interview with the king to know when the address and petition for turning out his ministers as carried in the common hall should be brought up when the duke of portland delivered a verbal message that his majesty had always received addresses from the city of london in their corporate body and not by representatives upon which the gentlemen retired without going into the presence"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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all the shipping at new-orleans that a large body of french troops are on the island of cuba supposed to be destined for the mississippi that mr ellicott has pitched his markee within about yards of the garrison at natchez at which place the american standard was hoisted that the governor had ordered it to be taken down which orders were not attended to in consequence of which a piece of artillery is levelled at the markee every evening that mr ellicott has forwarded dispatches to the executive of the united states by a mr knox in whose company the gentleman who gives this information travelled from natchez that the governor of natchez sent men to way lay them and intercept the dispatches but having previous information thereof they avoided them by travelling through the woods that a war is likely to take place between the creek and chickasaw indians the former having lately stole a number of horses from the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic 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delacroix c he remarks that it is not surprising that the french republic have refused to receive him since they have dismissed no less than sixteen foreign ministers and since they have been led to believe by a late emigrant that the united states was of no greater consequence to them than the republics of genoa or geneva he also mentions that it seemed to be the opinion in france that much depended upon the election of the president as one of the candidates was considered as a friend of england and the other as devoted to france the people of france he observes have been greatly deceived with respect to the united states by misrepresentations being led to believe that the people and government have different views but adds he any attempt to divide the people from the government ought to be to the people of the united states the signal for rallying gen pinckney's several times mentions mr monroe in this letter with great respect and says that before his arrival the directory had been very cool towards him but since that time they had renewed their civilities to him a report of major-general mounthorpe to general pinckney dated dec on the subject of american vessels brought prizes into the ports of france extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris january in which he mentions the distressed situation of american citizens arriving in the ports of france who were immediately thrown into prison and could not be released until an order was got from the american minister counter-signed by the french minister of foreign affairs and no minister being acknowledged there at present no relief could be afforded he however applied to m delacroix on their behalf by means of his secretary major rutledge and got them attended to through the minister of general police gen pinckney gives a further account of conversations which passed between his secretary and m delacroix on the subject of quitting paris in which he told him he must do so or be 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the capture of several american vessels he also speaks of the disagreeableness of his situation and was of opinion that the new third of the french councils would determine whether this country and france were to remain at peace or go to war though the former was desirable he wished the measures of our government to be firm speech of barras president of the directory on mr monroe's recall the decree of the executive directory of march relative to the seizing of american vessels extract of a letter from john quincy adams esq minister resident of the united states to the batavian republic to the secretary of state dated at the hague nov giving an account of the disposition of the people of that country towards this which he states to be friendly and this he attributes to its being their interest to be so this country he remarks is the only quarter from which they receive regular payments he adds however that they have no will in opposition to the french government extract of a letter from the committee of foreign relations of the batavian republic to the above minister dated sept making it appear very desirable that the united states should join them in their common cause against great britain reminding him of the many services which they had rendered to this country extract of a letter from john quincy adams in answer to the above wherein he says he shall not omit to forward their letter to his government extract of a letter from john quincy adams to the secretary of state dated hague feb representing the french republic as paying as little attention to other neutral powers as to the united states he alludes to their conduct towards hamburg bremen copenhagen c extract of a letter from rufus king esq to the secretary of state dated london march to the same effect a letter from the minister of spain resident in philadelphia to the secretary of state dated may complaining of the injudicious operation of the british treaty against spain in three respects viz as it destroys the doctrine of free ships making free goods as it makes certain articles contraband of war which in former treaties were not considered so and as it gives to great britain a right to navigate the mississippi which that minister insists belonged not to us to give as it belonged wholly to spain before it gave the right to the united states by the late treaty to navigate that river he concludes his letter with saying that the king of spain is desirous of harmony between the two countries and relies upon the equality of his complaints for satisfaction a letter from the secretary of state to the spanish minister in answer to the above in which he acknowledges that the treaty lately concluded between the two countries had proved satisfactory to the united states as it put an end to a dispute which had existed for many years respecting the navigation of the mississippi and also as it afforded satisfaction to our mercantile citizens for the capture of our ships and cargoes all these 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to the french which they then gave them france acquiesced because the law it was her interest and having troops in batavia it was generally known they could do what they pleased with that country the gen adds with detestation that there are american citizens who fit out privateers to cruise against the trade of this country extract of a letter from major gen mountflorence to general pinckney dated paris february mentioning the capture of a vessel from boston and another from baltimore by an american citizen on board a privateer adding that american citizens of this class are continually wishing for more rigorous laws against american commerce extract of a letter from the same to the same dated paris feb giving an account of two more american vessels being brought into l'orient by the same man and another vessel taken by a french privateer extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam march mentioning the capture of several american vessels he also speaks of the disagreeableness of his situation and was of opinion that the new third of the french councils would determine whether this country france were to remain at peace or go to war though the former was desirable he wished the measures of our government to be firm speech of barras president of the french directory on mr munroe's recall the decree of the executive directory of march relative to the seizing of american vessels extract of a letter from john quincy adams esq minister resident of the united states near the batavian republic to the secretary of state dated at the hague nov giving an account of the disposition of the people of that country towards this which he states to be friendly and this he attributes to its being their interest to be so this country he remarks is the only quarter from which they receive regular payments he adds however that they have no will in opposition to the french government extract of a letter from the committee of foreign relations of the batavian republic to the above minister dated sept making it appear very desirable that the united states should join them in their common cause against great britain reminding him of the many services which they had rendered to this country extract of a letter from john quincy adams in answer to the above wherein he says he shall not omit to forward their letter to his government extract of a letter from john quincy adams to the secretary of state dated hague feb representing the french republic as paying as little attention to other neutral powers as to the united states he alludes to their conduct towards hamburg bremen copenhagen c extract of a letter from rufus king esq to the secretary of state dated london march to the same effect a letter from the minister of spain resident in philadelphia to the secretary of state dated may complaining of the injurious operation of the british treaty against spain in three respects viz as it destroys the doctrine of free ships making free 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french republic have refused to receive him since they have dismissed no less than sixteen foreign ministers and since they have been led to believe by a late emigrant that the united states was of no greater consequence to them than the republics of genoa or geneva he also mentions that it seemed to be the opinion in france that much depended upon the election of the president as one of the candidates was considered as a friend of england and the other as devoted to france the people of france he observes have been greatly deceived with respect to the united states by misrepresentations being led to believe that the people and government have different views but adds he any attempt to divide the people from the government ought to be to the people of the united states the signal for rallying gen pinckney's several times mentions mr monroe in this letter with great respect and says that before his arrival the directory had been very cool towards him but since that time they had renewed 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which they then gave them france acquiesced because the law it was for her interest and having troops in batavia it was generally known they could do what they pleased with that country the general adds with derision that there are american citizens who sit out privateers to cruise against the trade of this country extract of a letter from major-general mounthorpe to gen pinckney dated paris feb mentioning the capture of a vessel from boston and another from baltimore by an american citizen on board a privateer adding that american citizens of this class are continually wishing for more rigorous laws against american commerce extract of a letter from the same to the same dated paris feb giving an account of two more american vessels being brought into l'orient by the same man and of another vessel taken by a french privateer extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam march mentioning the capture of several american vessels he also speaks of the disagreeableness of his situation and was of opinion that the new third of the french councils would determine whether this country and france were to remain at peace or go to war though the former was desirable he wished the measures of our government to be firm speech of barras president of the directory on mr monroe's recall the decree of the executive directory of march relative to the seizing of american vessels extract of a letter from john quincy adams esq minister resident of the united states to the batavian republic to the secretary of state dated at the hague nov giving an account of the disposition of the people of that country towards this which he states to be friendly and this he attributes to its being their interest to be so this country he remarks is the only quarter from which they receive regular payments he adds however that they have no will in opposition to the french government extract of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-14|1|2", "date": "1797-06-14", 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to the seizing of american vessels extract of a letter from john quincy adams esq minister resident of the united states near the batavian republic to the secretary of state dated at the hague nov giving an account of the disposition of the people of that country towards this which he states to be friendly and this he attributes to its being their interest to be so this country he remarks is the only one from which they receive regular payments he adds however that they have no will in opposition to the french government extract of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1160, 1912], "b_span": [55, 830], "matched_words": 695, "similarity": 0.9102815979043877, "seeds": 105, "id": "M00485", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-20|1|3", "date": "1797-05-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": 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certain articles contraband of war which in former treaties were not considered so and as it gives to great britain a right to navigate the mississippi which that minister insists belonged not to us to give as it belonged wholly to spain before it gave the right to the united states by the late treaty to navigate that river he concludes his letter with saying that the king of spain is desirous of harmony between the two countries and relies upon the equality of his complaints for satisfaction a letter from the secretary of state to the spanish minister in answer to the above in which he acknowledges that the treaty lately concluded between the two countries had proved satisfactory to the united states as it put an end to a dispute which had existed for many years respecting the navigation of the mississippi and also as it afforded satisfaction to our mercantile citizens for the capture of our ships and cargoes all these he allows were acts of substantial justice but all the other stipulations were wholly voluntary and perfectly reciprocal with respect to the three articles of complaint respecting the british treaty he justified the stipulations as being just and consistent and such as this country had a right to enter into a letter from general pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris february stating that the day after the arrival of the news of the french general buonaparte's successes in italy he received a letter from m delacroix directing him to leave paris gen pinckney concludes this letter with observing that the french seemed to speak of this country as if it were indebted to them for independence and not to any exertions of our own our treaty with great britain is execrated they will us to have no connection with that country they wish to destroy the trade of great britain and they look upon us as her best customer the whole of these documents having been read on motion they were committed to the committee of the whole on the state of the union and copies ordered to be printed mr venable from the committee appointed to prepare an answer to the speech of the president reported one pretty much an echo of the speech which was twice read and committed to a committee of the whole on the speaker enquiring for what day it should be made mr w smith mentioned tomorrow mr nicholas monday mr giles said the answer could not be printed before to-morrow as it was perhaps the most important answer which ever was returned to a speech since the commencement of the present government and therefore ought to be well considered he thought monday as early as it ought to be taken up mr livingston said there was another reason for delay in the reading of the answer it appeared to him to go to an approbation of all the measures of the executive in relation to foreign nations if so it was of the utmost consequence that the papers which had just been read should also be laid before them previous to its discussion as they could not form an opinion on that subject until they had an opportunity of perusing these papers the question was carried for monday mr new presented the petition of robert rutherford complaining of the undue election of gen morgan for the district which he formerly represented and praying for redress in the premises referred to the committee of elections mr w smith moved that as the consideration of the answer to the president's speech was made the order for monday that when the house adjourned it might adjourn to that day agreed"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-14|1|3", "date": "1797-06-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061401/0966.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "john quincy adams in answer to the above wherein he says he shall not fail to forward their letter to his government extract of a letter from john quincy adams to the secretary of state dated hague feb re presenting the french republic as pay ing as little attention to other neutral powers as to the united states he alludes to their conduct towards ham burgh bremen copenhagen c extract of a letter from rufus king esq to the secretary of state dated london march to the same effect a letter from the minister of spain resident in philadelphia to the secretary of state dated may complaining of the injudicious oper ation of the british treaty against spain in three respects viz as it destroys the doctrine of free ships making free goods as it makes certain articles contraband of war which in former treaties were not considered so and as it gives to great britain a right to navigate the mississippi which that mi nister insists belonged to us to give as it belonged wholly to spain before it gave the right to the united states by the late treaty to navigate that river he concludes the letter with saying that the king of spain is dis posous of harmony between the two countries and relies upon the equity of his complaints for satisfaction a letter from the secretary of state to the spanish minister in answer to the above in which he acknow ledges that the treaty lately conclud ed between the two countries had proved satisfactory to the u states as it put an end to a dispute which had existed for many years respecting the navigation of the mississippi and also as it afforded satisfaction to our mer cantile citizens for the capture of their ships and cargoes all these he allow ed were acts of substantial justice but all the other stipulations were wholly voluntary and perfectly reciprocated with respect to the three articles of complaint respecting the british treaty he justified the stipulations as be ing just and consistent and such as this country had a right to enter into a letter from general pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris feb stating that the day after the arrival of the news of buonaparte's successes in italy he received a letter from m delacroix directing him to leave paris gen pinckney concludes this letter with observing that the french seemed to speak of this coun try as if it were indebted to them for independence and not to any exerti ons of our own our treaty with g britain is execrated they wish us to have no connection with that country they wish to destroy the trade of g britain and they look upon us as her best customer the whole of these documents hav ing been read on motion they were committed to the committee of the whole on the state of the union and copies ordered to be printed mr venable from the committee to whom it was referred to prepare an answer to the speech of the presi dent reported one pretty much an echo of the speech which was twice read and committed to a committee of the whole mr w smith mentioned to mor row mr nicholas monday mr giles said the answer could not be printed before to-morrow as it 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only refused to receive the petition on the throne as that was an honor to which the common council was alone entitled and that he will readily receive the petition of the livery at the levee as friends to his majesty we hope this is true we with his majesty would grant the prayer of the petition but for his own sake we hope he will receive it"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|2", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0292.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "country in its present calamities that it is with much satisfaction we hear of any circumstance likely to alleviate the indignation because as friends of the constitution we wish his majesty to be beloved and respected it is now said by persons about the court that the king only refused to receive the petition on the throne as that was an honor to which the common council was alone entitled and that he will readily receive the petition of the livery at the levee as friends to his majesty we hope this is true we wish his majesty would grant the prayer of the petition but for his own sake we hope he will receive it"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [802, 908], "b_span": [928, 1034], "matched_words": 106, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 21, "id": "M00488", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-22|1|3", "date": "1797-05-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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privateer ordered the boy to kindle it in the caboose said they were going to burn the vessel and ordered the crew to put their things on board the boat and convey them to the privateer one of the privateermen then carried a fire brand to mast head another took one into the cabin while a third conveyed one into the steerage but on capt m's declaring that he had no money and refusing to quit his vessel they desisted and permitted him to proceed our allies the french are a very polite nation on sunday arrived at salem capt ropes in a barque from calcutta on her passage in the w india latitudes was brought to by a french privateer and commanded on board with his papers when men from the republican vessel were sent to the barque capt ropes discovering that the privateer had but few men on board having been weakened by manning other prizes and they intended to capture his vessel he hailed her and commanded the mate and crew to confine the privateermen who were on board and use a few carriage guns they had on board to keep the privateer off after a few ineffectual attempts to reduce the american the frenchman at length came to terms agreeing to put capt r in possession of his vessel if he would insure the return of the privateermen this was readily consented to and capt r got on board and pursued the remainder of his"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|3", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0293.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "columbus b mason master days from st vincent's left there no american vessels sailed in company with sloop clarissa barkley of wethersfield conn parted with her in lat in lat long capt m was boarded by a french privateer who detained him six hours and 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the barque capt r discovering that the privateer had but few men on board having been weakened by manning other prizes and that they intended to capture his vessel he hailed her and commanded the mate and crew to confine the privateersmen who were on board and use a few carriage guns they had on board to keep the privateer off after a few ineffectual attempts to reduce the american the frenchman at length came to terms agreeing to put capt r in possession of his vessel if he would insure the return of the four privateersmen this was readily consented to and capt r got on board his barque and pursued the remainder of his"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2942, 3011], "b_span": [510, 579], "matched_words": 66, "similarity": 0.9565217391304348, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00490", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-22|1|3", "date": "1797-05-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United 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two unhappy men lost were james atkins and james jones belonging to cape ann capt keefe feels the highest emotions of regret at the unhappy event and sincerely condoles with the families which have met"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-30|1|1", "date": "1797-05-30", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797053001/0295.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the ship fortitude from martinique has entered a protest before mr justice barrett that on the th inst he fell in with a fishing boat in the bay which he hailed and requested the skipper to exchange a fish for some pork which he consented to previous to hailing capt k told the man at helm to keep up near the boat but to be careful not to run her down the people in the boat seeing the ship come near them called to put the helm up which the man at helm mistook for capt k s orders complying therewith unhappily ran the boat down every effort was used to save the men the ship was hove too the boat hoisted out immediately and rowed to windward where the men were supposed to be but two of them were unfortunately lost and one only saved the names of the two unhappy men lost were james atkins and james jones belonging to cape-ann capt keefe feels the liveliest emotions of regret at the unhappy event and sincerely condoles with the families which have met"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1009, 1187], "b_span": [1382, 1559], "matched_words": 171, "similarity": 0.9633802816901409, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00492", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-22|1|3", "date": "1797-05-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": 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of this expedition cannot be explained satisfactorily but i believe it was occasioned by defective intelligence respecting the strength of the fortifications and a want of troops as they took with them scarcely men the english lost men killed and wounded and as many more by desertion the spaniards had men killed in the different engagements this business has been badly conducted on the part of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-30|1|3", "date": "1797-05-30", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797053001/0297.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a letter from st croix dated may an expedition of some magnitude was formed against porto-rico about a fortnight ago by the british admiral general of martinique they carried with them several ships of the line some frigates and a great many transports and small vessels after having effected a landing at cangrejos erected batteries within gun shot of the bridge and bombarded the outworks in the neighborhood of st christopher's so effectually as to demolish the formidable batteries they suddenly relinquished the enterprise and embarked last sunday morning after leaving behind their artillery ammunition provisions baggage c c this retreat was sudden and unexpected and has disappointed many the failure of this expedition cannot be explained satisfactorily but i believe it was occasioned by defective intelligence respecting the strength of the fortifications and a want of troops as they took with them scarcely men the english lost men killed and wounded and as many more by desertion the spaniards had men killed in the different engagements this business has been badly conducted on the part of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; 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the new republic of lombardy the city of vicenza containing souls has also shown an inclination to adopt the same measure the papal towns of ravenna gubbio and the duchy of gubbio are likewise desirous of being united to the cispadane republic and their central assembly has abolished the torture"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [573, 655], "b_span": [241, 323], "matched_words": 82, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00494", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|2", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0292.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sheriffs of london attended yesterday at st james's and 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as carried in the common hall should be brought up when the duke of portland delivered a verbal message that his majesty had always received addresses from the city of london in their corporate body and not by representatives upon which the gentlemen retired without going into the presence"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1473, 1577], "b_span": [468, 574], "matched_words": 91, "similarity": 0.8666666666666667, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00495", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|2", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0292.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an unexpected and important change has taken place within the venetian territory three of the principal towns of that state verona brescia and bergamo the former of which contains the second and the last inhabitants as likewise the town of crema have thrown themselves under the french protection and solicited to be annexed to the new republic of lombardy the city of vicenza containing inhabitants has also shown an inclination to adopt the same measure the papal towns of ravenna gubbio and the duchy of gubbio are likewise desirous to be included in the cispadane republic and their general assembly has abolished the torture"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-28|1|3", "date": "1797-06-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an unexpected and important change has taken place in the venetian territory three of the principal towns of that republic verona brescia and bergamo the former of which contains the second and the last inhabitants together with the town of crema have thrown themselves on the protection of the french and solicited to be annexed to the new republic of lombardy the city of vicenza containing souls has also shown an inclination to adopt the same measure the papal towns of ravenna guibbio and the duchy of guibbio are likewise desirous of being united to the cispadane republic and their central assembly has abolished the torture"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [119, 3155], "b_span": [87, 3115], "matched_words": 2961, "similarity": 0.9765831134564644, "seeds": 581, "id": "M00496", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|3", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0293.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "representatives the personal inconveniences to the members of the senate and of the house of representatives in leaving their families and private affairs at this season of the year are so obvious that i the more regret the extraordinary occasion which has rendered the convention of congress indispensable it would have afforded me the highest satisfaction to have been able to congratulate you on a restoration of peace to the nations of europe whose animosities have endangered our tranquility but we have still abundant cause of gratitude to the supreme dispenser of national blessings for general health and promising seasons for domestic and social happiness for the rapid progress and ample acquisitions of industry through extensive territories for civil political and religious liberty while other states are desolated with foreign war or convulsed with intestine divisions the united states present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws generally satisfied with the possession of their rights neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice and the preservation of liberty increasing daily in their attachment to a system of government in proportion to their experience of its utility yielding a ready and general obedience to laws flowing from the reason and relying on the only solid foundation the affections of the people it is with extreme regret that i shall be obliged to turn your thoughts to other circumstances which admonish us that some of these felicities may not be lasting but if the tide of our prosperity is full and a reflux commencing a vigilant circumspection becomes us that we may meet our reverses with fortitude and extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power in giving to congress information of the state of the union and recommending to their consideration such measures as appear to me to be expedient or necessary according to my constitutional duty the causes and the object of the present extraordinary session will be explained after the president of the united states received information that the french government had expressed serious discontent at some proceedings of the government of these states said to affect the interests of france he thought it expedient to send to that country a new minister fully instructed to enter on such amicable discussions and to give such candid explanations as might happily remove the discontent and suspicions of the french government and vindicate the conduct of the united states for this purpose he selected from among his fellow citizens a character whose integrity talents experience and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation the direct object of his mission was expressed in his letter of credence to the french republic being to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations and to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicion and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his own a minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics the first step of the french government corresponded with that expectation a few days before his arrival at paris the french minister of foreign relations informed the american minister then resident at paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave and by his successor preparatory to his reception these formalities they observed and on the th of dec presented officially to the minister of foreign relations the one a copy of his letters of recall the other a copy of his letters of credence these were laid before the executive directory two days afterwards the minister of foreign relations informed the recalled american minister that the executive directory had determined not to receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic had a right to expect from it the american minister immediately endeavored to ascertain whether by refusing to receive him it was intended that he should retire from the territories of the french republic and verbal answers were given that such was the intention of the directory for his own justification he desired a written answer but obtained none until towards the last of january when receiving notice in writing to quit the territories of the republic he proceeded to amsterdam where he proposed to wait for instructions from this government during his residence at paris cards of hospitality were refused him and he was threatened with being subjected to the jurisdiction of the minister of police but with becoming firmness he insisted on the protection of the law of nations due to him as the known minister of a foreign power you will derive further information from his dispatches which will be laid before you as it is often necessary that nations should treat for the mutual advantage of their affairs and especially to accommodate and terminate differences and as they can treat only by ministers the right of embassy is well known and established by the law and usage of nations the refusal on the part of france to receive our minister is then the denial of a right but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without disputation and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state with this conduct of the french government it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the united states on his taking leave of the executive directory the speech of the president discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister because more dangerous to our independence and union and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the united states it evinces a disposition to separate the people of the united states from the government to persuade them that they have different affections principles and interests from those of their fellow-citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince france and the world that we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence and regardless of national honor character and interest i should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them but they have passed on the great theatre of the world in the face of all europe and america and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised and will not soon be forgotten they have inflicted a wound in the american breast it is my sincere desire however that it may be healed it is my desire and in this i presume i concur with you and our constituents to preserve peace and friendship with all nations and believing that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from france and every other nation the diplomatic intercourse between the united states and france being at present suspended the government has no means of obtaining official information from that country nevertheless there is reason to believe that the executive directory passed a decree on the d of march last contravening in part the treaty of amity and commerce of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight injurious to our lawful commerce and endangering the lives of our citizens a copy of this decree will be laid before you while we are endeavouring to adjust all our differences with france by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your consideration effectual measures of defence the commerce of the united states has become an interesting object of attention whether we consider it in relation to the wealth and finances or the strength and resources of the nation with a sea coast of near two thousand miles in extent opening a wide field for fisheries navigation and commerce a great portion of our citizens naturally apply their industry and enterprise to these objects any serious and permanent injury to commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders to prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection the naval establishment must occur to every man who considers the injuries committed on our commerce the insults offered to our citizens and the description of the vessels by which these abuses have been practised as the sufferings of our mercantile and seafaring citizens cannot be ascribed to the omission of duties demandable considering the neutral situation of our country they are to be attributed to the hope of impunity arising from a supposed inability on our part to afford protection to resist the consequences of such impressions on the minds of foreign nations and to guard against the degradation and servility which they must finally stamp on the american character is an important duty of government a naval power next to the militia is the natural defence of the united states the experience of the last war would be sufficient to shew that a moderate naval force such as would be easily within the present abilities of the union would have been sufficient to have baffled many formidable transportation of troops from one state to another which were then practised our sea coasts from their great extent are more easily annoyed more easily defended by a naval force than any other with all the materials our country abounds in skill our naval architects and navigators are equal to any and commanders and seamen will not be wanting but although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defence appears to be requisite i am sensible it cannot be formed so speedily and extensive as the present crisis demands hitherto i have thought proper to prevent the sailing of armed vessels except on voyages to the east-indies where general usage and the danger from pirates appeared to render the permission proper yet the restriction has originated solely from a wish to prevent collisions with the powers at war contravening the act of congress of june one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four and not from any doubt entertained by me of the policy and propriety of permitting our vessels to employ means of defence while engaged in a lawful foreign commerce it remains for congress to prescribe such regulations as will enable our seafaring citizens to defend themselves against violations of the law of nations and at the same time restrain them from committing acts of hostility against the powers at war in addition to this voluntary provision of defence by individual citizens it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates and provide other vessels of inferior force to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed the greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partially equipped in the united states although an effectual remedy may be attended with difficulty yet i have thought it my duty to present the subject generally to your consideration if a mode can be devised by the wisdom of congress to prevent the resources of the united states from being converted into the means of annoying our trade a great evil will be prevented with the same view i think it proper to mention that some of our citizens resident abroad have fitted out privateers and others have voluntarily taken the command or entered on board of them and committed depredations on the commerce of the united states such unnatural and iniquitous practices can be restrained only by severe punishments but besides a protection of our commerce on the seas i think it highly necessary to protect it at home when it is collected in our most important ports the distance of the united states from europe and the well known promptitude ardor and courage of the people in defence of their country happily diminish the probability of invasion nevertheless to guard against sudden and predatory incursions the situation of some of our principal sea ports demands your consideration and as our country is vulnerable in other interests besides those of its commerce you will seriously deliberate whether the means of general defence ought not to be increased by an addition to the regular artillery and cavalry and by arrangements for forming a provisional army with the same view and as a measure which even in time of universal peace ought not to be neglected i recommend to your consideration a revision of the laws for organizing arming and disciplining the militia to render that natural and safe defence of the country effectual altho it is very true that we ought not to involve ourselves in the political system of europe but to keep ourselves always distinct and separate from it if we can yet to effect this separation easily punctual and continual information of the current chain of events and of the political projects in contemplation is no less necessary than if we were directly concerned in them it is necessary in order to the discovery of the efforts made to draw us into the vortex in season to make preparations against them however we may consider ourselves the maritime and commercial powers of the world will consider the united states of america as forming a weight in that balance of power in europe which never can be forgotten or neglected it would not only be against our interest but it would be doing wrong to one half of europe at least if we should voluntarily throw ourselves into either scale it is a natural policy for a nation that studies to be neutral to consult with other nations engaged in the same studies and pursuits at the same time that measures might be pursued with this view our treaties with prussia and sweden one of which is expired and the other expiring might be renewed gentlemen of the house of representatives it is particularly your province to consider the state of the public finances and to adopt such measures respecting them as exigencies shall be found to require the preservation of public credit the regular extinguishment of the public debt and a provision of funds to defray any extraordinary expenses will of course call for your serious attention although the imposition of new burthens cannot be in itself agreeable yet there is no ground to doubt that the american people will expect from you such measures as their actual engagements their present security and future interests demand gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives the present situation of our country imposes an obligation on all the departments of government to adopt an explicit and decided conduct in my situation an exposition of the principles by which my administration will be governed ought not to be omitted it is impossible to conceal from ourselves or the world what has been before observed that endeavours have been employed to foster and establish a division between the government and the people of the united states to investigate the causes which have encouraged this attempt is not necessary but to repeal by decided and united councils insinuations so derogatory to the honor and aggressions so dangerous to the constitution union and even independence of the nation is an indispensable duty it must not be permitted to be doubted whether the people of the united states will support the government established by their voluntary consent and appointed by their free choice or whether by surrendering themselves to the direction of foreign and domestic faction in opposition to their own government they will forfeit the honorable station they have hitherto maintained for myself having never been indifferent to what concerned the interests of my country devoted the best part of my life to obtain and support its independence and constantly witnessed the patriotism fidelity and perseverance of my fellow-citizens on the most trying occasions it is not for me to hesitate or abandon a cause in which my heart has been so long engaged convinced that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and that they have been fairly executed nothing will ever be done by me to impair the national engagement to innovate upon principles which have been so deliberately and uprightly established or to surrender in any manner the rights of the government to enable me to maintain this declaration i rely with entire confidence under god on the firm and enlightened support of the national legislature and upon the virtue and patriotism"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|3", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797052901/0087.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "representatives the personal inconveniences to the members of the senate and of the house of representatives in leaving their families and private affairs at this season of the year are so obvious that i the more regret the extraordinary occasion which has rendered the convention of congress indispensable it would have afforded me the highest satisfaction to have been able to congratulate you on a restoration of peace to the nations of europe whose animosities have endangered our tranquillity but we have still abundant cause of gratitude to the supreme dispenser of national blessings for general health and promising seasons for domestic and social happiness for the rapid progress and ample acquisitions of industry through extensive territories for civil political and religious liberty while other states are desolated with foreign war or convulsed with intestine divisions the united states present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws general satisfaction of their rights neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice and the preservation of liberty increasing daily in their attachment to a system of government in proportion to their experience of its utility yielding a ready and general obedience to laws flowing from the reason and resting on the only solid foundation the affections of the people it is with extreme regret that i shall be obliged to torn your thoughts to other circumstances which admonish us that some of these felicities may not be lasting but if the tide of our prosperity is full and a reflux commencing a vigilant circumspection becomes us that we may meet our reverses with fortitude and extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power in giving to congress information of the state of the union and recommending to their consideration such measures as appear to me to be expedient or necessary according to my constitutional duty the causes and the objects of the present extraordinary session will be explained after the president of the united states received information that the french government had expressed serious discontents at some proceedings of the u states said to affect the interests of france he thought it expedient to send to that country a new minister fully instructed to enter on such amicable discussions and to give such candid explanations as might happily remove discontents and suspicions of the french government and vindicate the conduct of the united states for this purpose he selected from among his fellow citizens a character whose integrity talents experience and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation the direct object of his mission was expressed in his letter of credence to the french republic being to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations and to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicions and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interest of both countries and the real sentiments of his own a minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics the first step of the french government corresponded with that expectation a few days before his arrival at paris the french minister of foreign relations informed the american minister then resident at paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave and by his successor preparatory to his reception the formalities they observed and on the ninth of december presented officially to the minister of foreign relations the one a copy of his letters of recall the other a copy of his letters of credence these were laid before the executive directory two days afterwards the minister of foreign relations informed the recalled american minister that the executive directory had determined not to receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic had a right to expect from it the american minister immediately endeavored to ascertain whether by refusing to receive him it was intended that he should retire from the territories of the french republic and verbal answers were given that such was the intention of the directory for his own justification he desired a written answer but obtained none until towards the last of january when receiving notice in writing to quit the territories of the republic he proceeded to amsterdam where he proposed to wait for instruction from this government during his residence at paris cards of hospitality were refused him and he was threatened with being subjected to the jurisdiction of the minister of police but with becoming firmness he insisted on the protection of the law of nations due to him as the known minister of a foreign power you will derive further information from his dispatches which will be laid before you as it is often necessary that nations should treat for the mutual advantage of their affairs and especially to accommodate and terminate differences and as they can treat only by ministers the right of embassy is well known and established by the law and usage of nations the refusal on the part of france to receive and hear our minister is then the denial of a right but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without discussion and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state with this conduct of the french government it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the u states on his taking leave of the executive directory the speech of the president discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister because more dangerous to our independence and union and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the united states it evidences a disposition to separate the people of the united states from the government to persuade them that they have different affections principles and interests from those of their fellow citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince france and the world that we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority fitted to be miserable instruments of foreign influence and disregards of national honor character and interest i should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them but they have passed on the great theatre of the world in the face of all europe and america and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised and will not soon be forgotten they have inflicted a wound in the american breast it is my sincere desire however that it may be healed it is my sincere desire and in this i presume i concur with you and with our constituents to preserve peace and friendship with all nations and believing that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from france and every other nation the diplomatic intercourse between the united states and france being at present suspended the government has no means of obtaining official information from that country nevertheless there is reason to believe that the executive directory passed a decree on the second of march last contravening in part the treaty of amity commerce of injurious to our lawful commerce and endangering the lives of our citizens a copy of this decree will be laid before you while we are endeavoring to adjust all our differences with france by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your consideration effectual measures of defence the commerce of the united states has become an interesting object of attention whether we consider it in relation to the wealth and finances or the strength and resources of the nation with a sea coast of near two thousand miles in extent opening a wide field for fisheries navigation and commerce a great portion of our citizens naturally apply their industry and enterprise to those objects any serious and permanent injury to our commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders to prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection the naval establishment must occur to every man who considers the injuries committed on our commerce and the insults offered to our citizens and the desolation of the vessels by which these abuses have been practised as the sufferings of our mercantile and seafaring citizens cannot be ascribed to the omission of duties demandable considering the neutral situation of our country they are to be attributed to the hope of impunity arising from a supposed inability on our part to afford protection to resist the consequences of such impressions on the minds of foreign nations and to guard against the degradation and servility which they must finally stamp on the american character is an important duty of government a naval power next to the militia is the natural defence of the united states the experience of the last war would be sufficient to show that a moderate naval force such as would be easily within the present abilities of the union would have been sufficient to have protected many formidable transportations of troops from one state to another which were then practised our sea coasts from their great extent are more easily annoyed and more easily defended by a naval force than any other with all the materials our country abounds in skill our naval architects and navigators are equal to any and commanders and seamen will not be wanting but although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defence appears to be requisite i am sensible it cannot be formed to speedily and extensively as the present crisis demands hitherto i have thought proper to prevent the sailing of armed vessels except to the east-indies where general usage and the danger from pirates appeared to render the permission proper yet the restriction has originated solely from a wish to prevent collusions with the powers at war contravening the act of congress of june one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and not from any doubt entertained by me of the policy and propriety of permitting our vessels to employ means of defence while engaged in a lawful foreign commerce it remains for congress to prescribe such regulations as will enable our seafaring citizens to defend themselves against violations of the law of nations and at the same time refrain them from committing acts of hostility against the powers at war in addition to this voluntary provision for defence by individual citizens it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates and provide other vessels of inferior force to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed the greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partly equipped in the united states although an effectual remedy may be attended with difficulty yet i have thought it my duty to present the subject generally to your consideration if a mode can be devised by the wisdom of congress to prevent the resources of the united states from being converted into the means of arming our trade a great evil will be prevented with the same view i think it proper to mention that some of our citizens resident abroad have fitted out privateers and others have voluntarily taken the command or entered on board of them and committed spoilsations on the commerce of the united states such unnatural and iniquitous practices can be restrained only by severe punishments but besides a protection of our commerce on the seas i think it highly necessary to protect it at home where it is collected in our most important ports the distance of the united states from europe and the well known promptitude ardour and courage of the people in defence of their country happily diminish the probability of invasion nevertheless to guard against sudden and predatory incursions the situation of some of our principal seaports demands your consideration and as our country is vulnerable in other interests besides those of its commerce you will seriously deliberate whether the means of general defence ought not to be increased by an addition to the regular artillery and cavalry and by arrangements for forming a provisional army with the same view and as a measure which even in the time of universal peace ought not to be neglected i recommend to your consideration a revision of the laws for organizing arming and disciplining the militia to render that natural and safe defence of the country efficacious although it is very true that we ought not to involve ourselves in the political system of europe but to keep ourselves always distinct and separate from it if we can yet to effect this separation early punctual and continual information of the current chain of events and of the political projects in contemplation is no less necessary than if we were directly concerned in them it is necessary in order to the discovery of the efforts made to draw us into the vortex in season to make preparations against them however we may consider ourselves the maritime and commercial powers of the world will consider the united states of america as forming a weight in that balance of power in europe which never can be forgotten or neglected it would not only be against our interest but it would be a doing wrong to one half of europe at least if we should voluntarily throw ourselves into either scale it is a natural policy for a nation that studies to be neutral to consult with other nations engaged in the same studies and pursuits at the same time that measures might be pursued with this view our treaties with prussia and sweden one of which is expired and the other near expiring might be renewed gentlemen of the house of representatives it is particularly your province to consider the state of public finances and to adopt such measures respecting them as exigencies shall be found to require the preservation of public credit the regular extinction of the public debt and a provision of funds to defray any extraordinary expenses will of course call for your serious attention although the impositions of new burdens cannot be in itself agreeable yet there is no ground to doubt that the american people will expect from you such measures as their actual engagements their present security and future interests demand gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives the present situation of our country imposes an obligation on all the departments of government to adopt an explicit and decided conduct in my situation an exposition of the principles by which my administration will be governed ought not to be omitted it is impossible to conceal from ourselves or the world what has been before observed that endeavours have been employed to foster and establish a division between the government and people of the united states to investigate the causes which have encouraged this attempt is not necessary but to repeat by decided and united councils insinuations so derogatory to the honor and agitations so dangerous to the constitution union and even independence of the nation is an indispensable duty it must not be permitted to be doubted whether the people of the united states will support the government established by their voluntary consent and appointed by them free choice or whether by surrendering themselves to the direction of foreign and domestic factions in opposition to their own government they will forfeit the honourable station they have hitherto maintained for myself having never been indifferent to what concerned the interests of my country devoted the best part of my life to obtain and support its independence and constantly witnessed the patriotism fidelity and perseverance of my fellow-citizens on the most trying occasions it is not for me to hesitate or abandon a cause in which my heart has been so long engaged convinced that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and that they have been fairly executed nothing will ever be done by me to impair the national engagements to innovate upon principles which have been deliberately and rightly established or to surrender in any manner the rights of the government to enable me to maintain this declaration i rely under god with entire confidence on the firm and enlightened support of the national legislature and upon the virtue and patriotism"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1400, 1496], "b_span": [63, 157], "matched_words": 91, "similarity": 0.9578947368421052, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00497", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|3", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0293.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|3", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797060501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interest and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and there can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing to compensate them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [119, 2820], "b_span": [41, 2736], "matched_words": 2670, "similarity": 0.9896219421793921, "seeds": 560, "id": "M00498", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-05-23|1|3", "date": "1797-05-23", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-05-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797052301/0293.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "representatives the personal inconveniences to the members of the senate and of the house of representatives in leaving their families and private affairs at this season of the year are so obvious that i the more regret the extraordinary occasion which has rendered the convention of congress indispensable it would have afforded me the highest satisfaction to have been able to congratulate you on a restoration of peace to the nations of europe whose animosities have endangered our tranquility but we have still abundant cause of gratitude to the supreme dispenser of national blessings for general health and promising seasons for domestic and social happiness for the rapid progress and ample acquisitions of industry through extensive territories for civil political and religious liberty while other states are desolated with foreign war or convulsed with intestine divisions the united states present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws generally satisfied with the possession of their rights neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice and the preservation of liberty increasing daily in their attachment to a system of government in proportion to their experience of its utility yielding a ready and general obedience to laws flowing from the reason and relying on the only solid foundation the affections of the people it is with extreme regret that i shall be obliged to turn your thoughts to other circumstances which admonish us that some of these felicities may not be lasting but if the tide of our prosperity is full and a reflux commencing a vigilant circumspection becomes us that we may meet our reverses with fortitude and extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power in giving to congress information of the state of the union and recommending to their consideration such measures as appear to me to be expedient or necessary according to my constitutional duty the causes and the object of the present extraordinary session will be explained after the president of the united states received information that the french government had expressed serious discontent at some proceedings of the government of these states said to affect the interests of france he thought it expedient to send to that country a new minister fully instructed to enter on such amicable discussions and to give such candid explanations as might happily remove the discontent and suspicions of the french government and vindicate the conduct of the united states for this purpose he selected from among his fellow citizens a character whose integrity talents experience and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation the direct object of his mission was expressed in his letter of credence to the french republic being to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations and to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicion and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his own a minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics the first step of the french government corresponded with that expectation a few days before his arrival at paris the french minister of foreign relations informed the american minister then resident at paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave and by his successor preparatory to his reception these formalities they observed and on the th of dec presented officially to the minister of foreign relations the one a copy of his letters of recall the other a copy of his letters of credence these were laid before the executive directory two days afterwards the minister of foreign relations informed the recalled american minister that the executive directory had determined not to receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic had a right to expect from it the american minister immediately endeavored to ascertain whether by refusing to receive him it was intended that he should retire from the territories of the french republic and verbal answers were given that such was the intention of the directory for his own justification he desired a written answer but obtained none until towards the last of january when receiving notice in writing to quit the territories of the republic he proceeded to amsterdam where he proposed to wait for instructions from this government during his residence at paris cards of hospitality were refused him and he was threatened with being subjected to the jurisdiction of the minister of police but with becoming firmness he insisted on the protection of the law of nations due to him as the known minister of a foreign power you will derive further information from his dispatches which will be laid before you as it is often necessary that nations should treat for the mutual advantage of their affairs and especially to accommodate and terminate differences and as they can treat only by ministers the right of embassy is well known and established by the law and usage of nations the refusal on the part of france to receive our minister is then the denial of a right but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without disputation and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state with this conduct of the french government it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the united states on his taking leave of the executive directory the speech of the president discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister because more dangerous to our independence and union and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the united states it evinces a disposition to separate the people of the united states from the government to persuade them that they have different affections principles and interests from those of their fellow-citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince france and the world that we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence and regardless of national honor character and interest i should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them but they have passed on the great theatre of the world in the face of all europe and america and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised and will not soon be forgotten they have inflicted a wound in the american breast it is my sincere desire however that it may be healed it is my desire and in this i presume i concur with you and our constituents to preserve peace and friendship with all nations and believing that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from france and every other nation the diplomatic intercourse between the united states and france being at present suspended the government has no means of obtaining official information from that country nevertheless there is reason to believe that the executive directory passed a decree on the d of march last contravening in part the treaty of amity and commerce of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight injurious to our lawful commerce and endangering the lives of our citizens a copy of this decree will be laid before you while we are endeavouring to adjust all our differences with france by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your consideration effectual measures of defence the commerce of the united states has become an interesting object of attention whether we consider it in relation to the wealth and finances or the strength and resources of the nation with a sea coast of near two thousand miles in extent opening a wide field for fisheries navigation and commerce a great portion of our citizens naturally apply their industry and enterprise to these objects any serious and permanent injury to commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders to prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection the naval establishment must occur to every man who considers the injuries committed on our commerce the insults offered to our citizens and the description of the vessels by which these abuses have been practised as the sufferings of our mercantile and seafaring citizens cannot be ascribed to the omission of duties demandable considering the neutral situation of our country they are to be attributed to the hope of impunity arising from a supposed inability on our part to afford protection to resist the consequences of such impressions on the minds of foreign nations and to guard against the degradation and servility which they must finally stamp on the american character is an important duty of government a naval power next to the militia is the natural defence of the united states the experience of the last war would be sufficient to shew that a moderate naval force such as would be easily within the present abilities of the union would have been sufficient to have baffled many formidable transportation of troops from one state to another which were then practised our sea coasts from their great extent are more easily annoyed more easily defended by a naval force than any other with all the materials our country abounds in skill our naval architects and navigators are equal to any and commanders and seamen will not be wanting but although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defence appears to be requisite i am sensible it cannot be formed so speedily and extensive as the present crisis demands hitherto i have thought proper to prevent the sailing of armed vessels except on voyages to the east-indies where general usage and the danger from pirates appeared to render the permission proper yet the restriction has originated solely from a wish to prevent collisions with the powers at war contravening the act of congress of june one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four and not from any doubt entertained by me of the policy and propriety of permitting our vessels to employ means of defence while engaged in a lawful foreign commerce it remains for congress to prescribe such regulations as will enable our seafaring citizens to defend themselves against violations of the law of nations and at the same time restrain them from committing acts of hostility against the powers at war in addition to this voluntary provision of defence by individual citizens it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates and provide other vessels of inferior force to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed the greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partially equipped in the united states although an effectual remedy may be attended with difficulty yet i have thought it my duty to present the subject generally to your consideration if a mode can be devised by the wisdom of congress to prevent the resources of the united states from being converted into the means of annoying our trade a great evil will be prevented with the same view i think it proper to mention that some of our citizens resident abroad have fitted out privateers and others have voluntarily taken the command or entered on board of them and committed depredations on the commerce of the united states such unnatural and iniquitous practices can be restrained only by severe punishments but besides a protection of our commerce on the seas i think it highly necessary to protect it at home when it is collected in our most important ports the distance of the united states from europe and the well known promptitude ardor and courage of the people in defence of their country happily diminish the probability of invasion nevertheless to guard against sudden and predatory incursions the situation of some of our principal sea ports demands your consideration and as our country is vulnerable in other interests besides those of its commerce you will seriously deliberate whether the means of general defence ought not to be increased by an addition to the regular artillery and cavalry and by arrangements for forming a provisional army with the same view and as a measure which even in time of universal peace ought not to be neglected i recommend to your consideration a revision of the laws for organizing arming and disciplining the militia to render that natural and safe defence of the country effectual altho it is very true that we ought not to involve ourselves in the political system of europe but to keep ourselves always distinct and separate from it if we can yet to effect this separation easily punctual and continual information of the current chain of events and of the political projects in contemplation is no less necessary than if we were directly concerned in them it is necessary in order to the discovery of the efforts made to draw us into the vortex in season to make preparations against them however we may consider ourselves the maritime and commercial powers of the world will consider the united states of america as forming a weight in that balance of power in europe which never can be forgotten or neglected it would not only be against our interest but it would be doing wrong to one half of europe at least if we should voluntarily throw ourselves into either scale it is a natural policy for a nation that studies to be neutral to consult with other nations engaged in the same studies and pursuits at the same time that measures might be pursued with this view our treaties with prussia and sweden one of which is expired and the other expiring might be renewed gentlemen of the house of representatives it is particularly your province to consider the state of the public finances and to adopt such measures respecting them as exigencies shall be found to require the preservation of public credit the regular extinguishment of the public debt and a provision of funds to defray any extraordinary expenses will of course call for your serious attention although the imposition of new burthens cannot be in itself agreeable yet there is no ground to doubt that the american people will expect from you such measures as their actual engagements their present security and future interests demand gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives the present situation of our country imposes an obligation on all the departments of government to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-07|1|2", "date": "1797-06-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797060701/0947.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "representatives the personal inconveniences to the members of the senate of the house of representatives in leaving their families private affairs at this season of the year are so obvious that i the more regret the extraordinary occasion which has rendered the convention of congress indispensable it would have afforded me the highest satisfaction to have been able to congratulate you on a restoration of peace to the nations of europe whose animosities have endangered our tranquility but we have still abundant cause of gratitude to the supreme dispenser of national blessings for general health and promising seasons for domestic and social happiness for the rapid progress and ample acquisitions of industry through extensive territories for civil political and religious liberty while other states are desolated with foreign war or convulsed with intestine divisions the united states present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws generally satisfied with the possession of their rights neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice and the preservation of liberty increasing daily in their attachment to a system of government in proportion to their experience of its utility yielding a ready and general obedience to laws flowing from the reason and resting on the only solid foundation the affections of the people it is with extreme regret that i shall be obliged to turn your thoughts to other circumstances which admonish us that some of these felicities may not be lasting but if the tide of our prosperity is full and a reflux commencing a vigilant circumspection becomes us that we may meet our reverses with fortitude and extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power in giving to congress information of the state of the union and recommending to their consideration such measures as appear to me to be necessary or expedient according to any constitutional duty the causes and the object of the present extraordinary session will be explained after the president of the united states received information that the french government had expressed serious discontent at some proceedings of the government of these states said to affect the interests of france he thought it expedient to send to that country a new minister fully instructed to enter on such amicable discussions and to give such candid explanations as might happily remove the discontent and suspicions of the french government and vindicate the conduct of the united states for this purpose he selected from among his fellow-citizens a character whose integrity talents experience and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation the direct object of his mission was expressed in his letter of credence to the french republic being to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations and to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicions and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his own a minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics the first step of the french government corresponded with that expectation a few days before his arrival at paris the french minister of foreign relations informed the american minister then resident at paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave and by his successor preparatory to his reception these formalities they observed and on the th of december presented officially to the minister of foreign relations the one a copy of his letters of recall the other a copy of his letters of credence these were laid before the executive directory two days afterwards the minister of foreign relations informed the recalled american minister that the executive directory had determined not to receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic had a right to expect from it the american minister immediately endeavored to ascertain whether by refusing to receive him it was intended that he should retire from the territories of the french republic and verbal answers were given that such was the intention of the directory for his own justification he desired a written answer but obtained none until towards the last of january when receiving notice in writing to quit the territories of the republic he proceeded to amsterdam where he proposed to wait for instruction from this government during his residence at paris cards of hospitality were refused him and he was threatened with being subjected to the jurisdiction of the minister of the police but with becoming firmness he insisted on the protection of the law of nations due to him as the known minister of a foreign power you will derive further information from his dispatches which will be laid before you as it is often necessary that nations should treat for the mutual advantage of their affairs and especially to accommodate and terminate differences and as they can treat only by ministers the right of embassy is well known and established by the law and usage of nations the refusal on the part of france to receive our minister is then the denial of a right but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without discussion and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state with this conduct of the french government it would be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the united states on his taking leave of the executive directory the speech of the president discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister because more dangerous to our independence and union and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the united states it evinces a disposition to separate the people of the united states from the government to persuade them that they have different affections principles and interests from those of their fellow citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince france and the world that we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence and regardless of national honor character and interest i should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them but they have passed on the great theatre of the world in the face of all europe and america and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised and will not soon be forgotten they have inflicted a wound in the american breast it is my sincere desire however that it may be healed it is my desire and in this i presume i concur with you and our constituents to preserve peace and friendship with all nations and believing that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we will be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from france and every other nation the diplomatic intercourse between the united states and france being at present suspended the government has no means of obtaining official information from that country nevertheless there is reason to believe that the executive directory passed a decree on the d of march last contravening in part the treaty of amity and commerce of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight injurious to our lawful commerce and endangering the lives of our citizens a copy of this decree will be laid before you while we are endeavouring to adjust all our differences with france by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your consideration effectual measures of defence the commerce of the united states has become an interesting object of attention whether we consider it in relation to the wealth and finances or the strength and resources of the nation with a sea-coast of near two thousand miles in extent opening a wide field for fisheries navigation and commerce a great portion of our citizens naturally apply their industry and enterprise to these objects any serious and permanent injury to commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders to prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection the naval establishment must occur to every man who considers the injuries committed on our commerce the insults offered to our citizens the description of the vessels by which these abuses have been practised as the sufferings of our mercantile seafaring citizens cannot be ascribed to the omission of duties demandable considering the neutral situation of our country they are to be attributed to the hope of impunity arising from a supposed inability on our part to afford protection to resist the consequences of such impressions on the minds of foreign nations and to guard against the degradation and servility which they must finally stamp on the american character is an important duty of government a naval power next to the militia is the natural defence of the united states the experience of the last war would be sufficient to shew that a moderate naval force such as would be easily within the present abilities of the union would have been sufficient to have baffled many formidable transportation of troops from one state to another which were then practised our sea coasts from their great extent are more easily annoyed and more easily defended by a naval force than any other with all the materials our country abounds in skill our naval architects and navigators are equal to any and commanders and seamen will not be wanting but although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defence appears to be requisite i am sensible it cannot be formed so speedily and extensively as the present crisis demands hitherto i have thought proper to prevent the sailing of armed vessels except to the east-indies where general usage and the danger from pirates appeared to render the permission proper yet the restriction has originated solely from a wish to prevent collisions with the powers at war contravening the act of congress of june one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four and not from any doubt entertained by me of the policy and propriety of permitting our vessels to employ means of defence while engaged in a lawful foreign commerce it remains for congress to prescribe such regulations as will enable our seafaring citizens to defend themselves against violations of the law of nations at the same time restrain them from committing acts of hostility against the powers at war in addition to this voluntary provision for defence by individual citizens it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates and provide other vessels of inferior force to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed the greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partially equipped in the united states although an effectual remedy may be attended with difficulty yet i have thought it my duty to present the subject generally to your consideration if a mode can be devised by the wisdom of congress to prevent the resources of the united states from being converted into the means of annoying our trade a great evil will be prevented with the same view i think it proper to mention that some of our citizens resident abroad have fitted out privateers and others have voluntarily taken the command or entered on board of them and committed depredations on the commerce of the united states such unnatural and iniquitous practices can be restrained only by severe punishments but besides a protection of our commerce on the seas i think it highly necessary to protect it at home where it is collected in our most important ports the distance of the united states from europe and the well known promptitude ardor and courage of the people in defence of their country happily diminish the probability of invasion nevertheless to guard against sudden and predatory incursions the situation of some of our principal sea ports demands your consideration and as our country is vulnerable in other interests besides those of its commerce you will seriously deliberate whether the means of general defence ought not to be increased by an addition to the regular artillery and cavalry and by arrangements for forming a provisional army with the same view and as a measure which even in time of universal peace ought not to be neglected i recommend to your consideration a revision of the laws for organizing arming and disciplining the militia to render that natural and safe defence of the country efficacious although it is very true that we ought not to involve ourselves in the political system of europe but to keep ourselves always distinct and separate from it if we can yet to effect this separation early punctual and continual information of the current chain of events and of the political projects in contemplation is no less necessary than if we were directly concerned in them it is necessary in order to the discovery of the efforts made to draw us into the vortex in season to make preparations against them however we may consider ourselves the maritime and commercial powers of the world will consider the united states of america as forming a weight in that balance of power in europe which never can be forgotten or neglected it would not only be against our interest but it would be doing wrong to one half of europe at least if we should voluntarily throw ourselves into either scale it is a natural policy for a nation that it is to be neutral to consult with other nations engaged in the same studies and pursuits at the same time that measures might be pursued with this view our treaties with prussia and sweden one of which is expired and the other near expiring might be renewed gentlemen of the house of representatives it is particularly your province to consider the state of the public finances and to adopt such measures respecting them as exigencies shall be found to require the preservation of public credit the regular extinguishment of the public debt and a provision of funds to defray any extraordinary expenses will of course call for your serious attention although the imposition of new burthens cannot be in itself agreeable yet there is no ground to doubt that the american people will expect from you such measures as their actual engagements their present security and future interests demand gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives the present situation of our country imposes an obligation 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states to investigate the causes which have encouraged this attempt is not necessary but to repeal by decided and united councils insinuations so derogatory to the honor and aggressions so dangerous to the constitution union and even independence of the nation is an indispensable duty it must not be permitted to be doubted whether the people of the united states will support the government established by their voluntary consent and appointed by their free choice or whether by surrendering themselves to the direction of foreign and domestic faction in opposition to their own government they will forfeit the honorable station they have hitherto maintained for myself having never been indifferent to what concerned the interests of my country devoted the best part of my life to obtain and support its independence and constantly witnessed the patriotism fidelity and perseverance of my fellow-citizens on the most trying occasions it is not for me to hesitate or abandon a cause in which my heart has been so long engaged convinced that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and that they have been fairly executed nothing will ever be done by me to impair the national engagement to innovate upon principles which have been so deliberately and uprightly established or to surrender in any manner the rights of the government to enable me to maintain this declaration i rely with entire confidence under god on the firm and enlightened support of the national legislature and upon the virtue and patriotism"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-07|1|3", "date": "1797-06-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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factions in opposition to their own government they will forfeit the honorable station they have hitherto maintained for myself having never been indifferent to what concerned the interests of my country devoted the best part of my life to obtain and support its independence and constantly witnessed the patriotism fidelity and perseverance of my fellow citizens on the most trying occasions it is not for me to hesitate or abandon a cause in which my heart has been so long engaged convinced that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and that they have been fairly executed nothing will ever be done by me to impair the national engagements to innovate upon principles which have been so deliberately and uprightly established or to surrender in any manner the rights of the government to enable me to maintain this declaration i rely 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unfavorable impressions banish suspicion and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-12|1|4", "date": "1797-06-12", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061201/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in his letter of credence had been to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicions and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and the people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which has been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1479, 1638], "b_span": [1906, 2066], "matched_words": 152, "similarity": 0.9529780564263323, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00501", "a": {"key": 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penetrate into his purposes upon his arrival at vera cruz he was desirous of proceeding over land to the northward in order to obtain a passage from thence to the united states and then it was that for the first time he was restrained from pursuing his route according to his inclinations and obliged to embark on"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|2", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797052901/0086.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "arrival and detention at the havannah lately excited some curiosity has failed for spain on board of a frigate it appears that soon after he landed on the western coast of america from new holland that he was received with the greatest courtesy and attention by the spanish settlers and that he was accompanied through the whole of his journey by several persons who appeared uncommonly attentive to provide him with accommodation and necessaries and it was not until his arrival at vera cruz that he discovered in those who had been thus attentive persons employed by the administration to watch his conduct scrupulously and penetrate into his purposes upon his arrival at vera cruz he was desirous of proceeding over land to the northward in order to obtain a passage to the united states and then it was that for the first time he was restrained from pursuing his course according to his inclinations and obliged to embark on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1866, 1940], "b_span": [1693, 1768], "matched_words": 73, "similarity": 0.9798657718120806, "seeds": 12, "id": "M00502", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-05-24|1|2", "date": "1797-05-24", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-05-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797052401/0915.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "de viar as consul general from his most catholic majesty to the united states we understand that don joseph ignacio de viar is appointed commissioner on the part of his most catholic majesty to settle the claims of the merchants of the united states for the detention and confiscation of their vessels in spanish ports during the late war between the kingdom of spain and republic of france the american commissioner to act in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|2", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797052501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the difference mr nicholas said betwixt the address reported and the proposition he had brought forward was this the former approved all the measures of the executive and the latter recommended an enquiry relative to the operation of the british treaty it was this question upon which the committee would decide and it was of importance he said that they should weigh the cause of difference betwixt us and the french republic and not decide that we are right without examination because if after being brought to hostility we are obliged to retract it would show our former folly and wantonness mr n said he would enquire into the rights of france as they respected three principal subjects which were particular causes of complaint between the two countries these were the right of our vessels carrying english goods the article respecting contraband goods and that respecting the carrying of provisions he knew no better way to determine how far we could support those articles of the british treaty than by extracting the arguments of our own ministerial characters in support of these measures with respect to the question of free ships making free goods his impressions were very different from those of the secretary of state he said with respect to the regulation of free ships making free goods it is not changing a right under the law of nations that had never been pretended to be a right and that our having agreed to it in one instance and not in another was no just cause of complaint by the french government he advocates this transaction in his letter to mr adet last winter mr n said he knew not what was the origin of the law of nations upon the subject he knew not how it came into existence it had never been settled by any convention of nations perhaps however the point now under consideration came as near to a fixed principal as any other of what are called the laws of nations ever did as only one nation in europe could be expected from the general understanding of it mr pickering he thought seemed not to have given full force to this circumstance but seemed to have weakened the evidence he referred to what mr pickering had said upon the subject it was mr p's idea that the stipulation of free ships making free goods was a mere temporary provision that it was not an article in the law of nations but a new principle introduced by the contracting parties in order to prove this was not the case mr nicholas referred to the provisions entered into by the armed neutrality of the north of europe to a treaty betwixt france and spain to a note from the court of denmark and to the declaration of the united states themselves on the subject in his mind therefore mr n said it became in some degree certain that this stipulation was an article of the law of nations and that an abandonment of it as a neutral power was an abandonment of neutral ground but said he let us consider the circumstances under which this treaty was made let us see whether it is the law of nations or not it was the intention of the parties to make the law of nations as free as in their power and if we chose to abandon the principal of free ships making free goods shall we call upon france to do the same this did not appear to be consistent with justice justice seemed to require an opposite course if we could not maintain this stipulation with all the world we are bound to allow france the same privileges which we allow to any other nation it was not for the interest of this country to insist upon the fulfilment of bad treaties to do which would be a greater loss than benefit in the treaty with great britain we had denied the right that free ships make free goods it was indeed wholly given up but we agree that it should be suspended during the present war he thought this wrong and asked if any country who granted a privilege to one nation which they refused to another could pretend to any firmness in their proceedings he thought they could not with respect to contraband articles he had little to say it was asserted that the articles stipulated in the british treaty as contraband were made so by the law of nations where the doctrine was found he could not say it had been quoted from vattel this authority might be correct but he never found any two writers on this subject agree as to this article in a late publication on the law of nations marian's he found it directly asserted that naval stores were not contraband but he said if the contrary were the law of nations they were bound to extend the same privilege to france which they gave to england they could not have one rule for the one nation and a different one for the other the th article of the british treaty respecting the carrying of provisions always struck him as a very important one it had heretofore been contended that this article did not go to any provisions except such as were carrying to besieged or blockaded places but he believed the british had constantly made it a pretence for seizing provisions going to france indeed if he was not mistaken the british minister had publicly declared in the house of commons that the provisions on board the vessels intended for the quiberon expedition has been supplied from what had been captured in american vessels mr n contended that this was the opinion of the executive of this country as published in all the public papers and of course known to the government of france in the letter of mr jefferson to mr pinckney in he declares that there is only one case in which provisions are contraband and shews the necessity of a neutral nation observing the same rules towards all the powers at war but in the present case the right was ceded during the present war it was an unfortunate circumstance against the neutrality of this country to find a doctrine so differently applied at different times it was a strong proof of the progress of the passions it might be considered as a fraudulent thing in one instance to give up a right for a compensation to ourselves but mr pickering in his observations upon this circumstance says that this stipulation is really a beneficial thing to france as it encourages mercantile adventures let this mr n denied and said that if it encouraged adventure it would also increase the facility of captures in considering the tendency of the amendment which he had proposed he had not spoken of the possible operations of agreeing to the answer as reported especially when carried by a small majority of that house and contrary to the wishes of a great part of the people of the united states if the measure were carried by two three five or ten votes did gentlemen expect that this would answer their purpose however the people may have the virtue to go with the decision of government he believed in a measure thus carried they would obey unwillingly yet how was this division in opinion to be avoided he did not believe the conduct of the executive of our government had always been equal to the different powers at war and therefore could not say so indeed he could not conceal his sentiments upon the business they had frequently been expressed and were he now to hold a different language he might be justly branded with infamy let something then said mr n be brought forward which does not trace in the face the established opinions of many members of that house but perhaps it may be thought of little consequence what are the opinions of those members but he believed the people at large were not less divided in their opinions than the members in that house and a measure so carried he conceived was not calculated to intimidate an enemy he knew his constituents would go into the war if directed to do so but they would exercise the power which the constitution has placed in them of displacing from their seats the men who had involved them into such difficulties he knew that if a war was to take place that the discontent of the people would increase every day he knew they would abandon the delicacy and nicety of feeling which was now urged he knew it was his duty to take as moderate ground as was consistent because he knew the public opinion though now irritated above it would come down to it if it were of consequence that the people should enter unanimously into any hostile measure which eventually might be found necessary though he hoped and trusted it would not he thought that unanimity might be secured by agreeing to the proposition which he had moved in making concessions to england it was not considered as disgraceful what was now wished was that england and france might be put upon the same footing with respect to this country to do this was the only way in which unanimity could be obtained and it appeared to him that there could be no serious objection to it it may be said and probably will that this proposition interferes with the business of the executive and that we ought not to dictate to him with respect to the proper steps to be taken he was so well accustomed to the business of the house that he knew gentlemen would entrench themselves under the pretended restrictions of the constitution in this respect but it was his opinion that the measure which he proposed was strictly constitutional the president was to negotiate but it was the duty of the legislature to deliberate on the proper measures to be taken government he said could never be carried on unless the executive and legislature were influenced by the same spirit the president might go on forever to negotiate if he did it contrary to the views of the other branches of government without coming to any conclusion it was absolutely necessary therefore that such a power should exist and it was not possible that any danger should arise from it and if a proposition of this kind was not agreed to they had no evidence to suppose very conciliatory steps would be taken they had reason indeed to suppose the contrary he was afraid he might be charged with going into irritating circumstances but he did not expect from the persons with whom the president might be supposed to advise that very moderate steps should be taken it was not to be supposed that they would abandon the opinions they had so strenuously maintained he thought therefore it was the business of that house to say that in their opinion it is proper that such and such steps should be taken mr nicholas concluded with observing that he had gone over the subject he feared not without being considered tedious by the committee but he felt himself greatly interested in the present decision he believed any additional irritation in their measures would place peace out of our reach he believed therefore it was their business to avoid it he believed it would be for the honor and the happiness of the country to do so"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-21|1|2", "date": "1797-06-21", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062101/0979.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the difference mr nicholas said betwixt the address reported and the proposition he had brought forward was this the former approved all the measures of the executive and the latter recommend an enquiry relative to the operation of the british treaty it was this question upon which the committee would decide and it was of importance he said that they should weigh the causes of difference betwixt us and the french republic and not decide that we are right without examination because if after being brought to hostility we are obliged to retract it would shew our former folly and wantonness mr n said he would enquire into the rights of france as they respected three principal subjects which were more particularly causes of complaint between the two countries these were the right of our vessels carrying english goods the article respecting contraband goods and that respecting the carrying of provisions he knew no better way to know how far we could support these articles of the british treaty than by extracting the arguments of our own ministerial characters in support of these measures with respect to the question of free ships making free goods his impressions were very different from those of the secretary of state he says with respect to the regulation of free ships making free goods it is not changing a right under the law of nations that it had never been pretended to be a right and that our having agreed to it in one instance and not in another was no just cause of complaint by the french government he advocates this transaction in his letter to mr adet last winter mr n said he knew not what was the origin of the law of nations upon this subject he knew not how it came into existence it had never been settled by any convention of nations perhaps however the point now under consideration came as near to a fixed principle as any other of what are called the laws of nations ever did as only one nation in europe could be excepted from the general understanding of it mr pickering he thought seemed not to have given full force to this circumstance but seemed to have weakened the evidence he referred to what mr pickering had said upon the subject it was mr n's idea that the stipulation of free ships making free goods was a mere temporary provision that it was not an article in the law of nations but a new principle introduced by the contracting parties in order to prove this was not the case mr nicholas referred to the provisions entered into by the armed neutrality of the north of europe to a treaty betwixt france and spain to a note from the court of denmark and to the declaration of the united states themselves on the subject in his mind therefore mr n said it became in some degree certain that this stipulation was an article of the law of nations and that an abandonment of it as a neutral power was an abandonment of neutral ground but said he let us consider the circumstances under which this treaty was made let us see whether it is the law of nations or not it was the intention of the parties to make the law of nations as free as in their power and if we choose to abandon the principles free ships making free goods shall we call upon france to do the same this did not appear to be consistent with justice justice seemed to require an opposite course if we could not maintain this stipulation with all the world we are bound to allow france the same privilege which we allow to any other nation it was not for the interest of this country to insist upon the fulfilment of hard treaties to do which would be a greater loss than benefit in the treaty with great britain we had denied the right that free ships make free goods it was not indeed wholly given up but we agree that it shall be suspended during the present war he thought this wrong and asked if any country who granted a privilege to one nation which they refused to another could pretend to any firmness in their proceedings he thought they could not with respect to contraband articles he had little to say it was asserted that the articles stipulated in the british treaty as contraband were made so by the law of nations where the doctrine was found he could not say it had been quoted from vattel this authority might be correct but he never found any two writers on this subject agree as to his article in a late publication on the law of nations martin's he found it directly asserted that naval stores were not contraband but he said if the contrary were the law of nations they were bound to extend the same privilege to france which they gave to england they could not have one rule for the one nation and different one for the other the th article of the british treaty respecting the carrying of provisions always struck him as a very important one it had heretofore been contended that this article did not go to any provisions except such as were carrying to besieged or blockaded places but he believed the british had constantly made it a pretence for seizing provisions going to france indeed if he was not mistaken the british minister had publicly declared in the house of commons that the provisions on board the vessels intended for the quiberon expedition had been supplied from what had been captured in american vessels mr n contended that this was the opinion of the executive of the country as published in all the public papers and of course known to the government of france in the letter of mr jefferson to mr pinckney in he declared that there is only one case in which provisions are contraband and shews the necessity of a neutral nation observing the same rules towards all the powers at war but in the present case the right was ceded during the present war it was an unfortunate circumstance against the neutrality of this country to find a doctrine so differently applied at different times it was a strong proof of the progress of the nations it might be considered as a fraudulent thing in one instance to give us a right for a compensation to ourselves but mr pickering in his observations upon this circumstance says that this stipulation is really a beneficial thing to france as it encourages mercantile adventures but this mr n denied and said that if it encouraged adventure it would also increase the facility of captures in considering the tendency of the amendment which he had proposed he had not spoken of the possible operation of agreeing to the answer as reported especially when carried by a small majority of that house and contrary to the wishes of a great part of the people of the united states if the measure was carried by two three five or ten votes did gentlemen expect this would answer their purpose however the people may have the virtue to go with the decision of the government he believed in a measure thus carried they would obey unwillingly yet how was this division in opinion to be avoided he did not believe the conduct of the executive of our government had always been equal to the different powers at war and therefore could not say so indeed he could not conceal his sentiments upon the business they had frequently been expressed and were he now to hold a different language he might justly be branded with infamy let something then said mr n be brought forward which does not stare in the face of established opinions of many members of the house but perhaps it may be thought of little consequence what are the opinions of those members but he believed that the people at large were not less divided in their opinions than the members of that house and a measure so carried he conceived was not calculated to intimidate an enemy he knew his constituents would go into the war if directed to do so but they would exercise the power which the constitution has placed them in of displacing from their seats the men who had involved them into such difficulty he knew that if a war was to take place that the discontents of the people would increase every day he knew they would abandon the delicacy and nicety of feeling which was now urged he knew it was his duty to take as moderate ground as was consistent because he knew the public opinion though irritated above it would come down to it if it were of consequence that the people should enter unanimously into any hostile measure which eventually might be found necessary though he hoped and trusted it would not be thought that unanimity might be secured by agreeing to the proposition which he had moved in making concessions to england it was not considered as disgraceful what was now wished was that england and france might be put upon the same footing with respect to this country to do this was the only way in which unanimity could be obtained and it appeared to him there could be no serious objection to it it may be said and probably will that this proposition interferes with the business of the executive and that we ought not to dictate to him with respect to the proper steps to be taken he was so well accustomed to the business of the house that he knew gentlemen would entrench themselves under the pretended restrictions of the constitution in this respect but it was his opinion that the measure which he proposed was strictly constitutional the president was to negotiate but it was the duty of the legislature to deliberate on the proper measures to be taken government he said could never be carried on except the executive and legislature were influenced by the same spirit the president might go on forever to negotiate if he did it contrary to the views of the other branches of government without coming to any conclusion it was absolutely necessary therefore that such a power should exist and it was not possible that danger should arise from it and if a proposition of this kind was agreed to they had no evidence to suppose very conciliatory steps would be taken they had reason indeed to suppose the contrary mr n said he was afraid he might be charged with going into irritating circumstances but he did not expect from the persons with whom the president might be supposed to advise that very moderate steps should be taken it was not to be suppose that they would abandon the opinion they had so strenuously maintained he thought therefore it was the business of that house to say that in their opinion it is proper that such or such steps should be taken mr nicholas concluded with observing that he had gone over the subject he feared not without being considered tedious by the committee but felt himself greatly interested in the present decision he believed any additional irritation in their measures would place peace from our reach he believed therefore it was their business to avoid it he believed it would be for the honor and the happiness of the country to do so"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4252, 5312], "b_span": [27, 1087], "matched_words": 1044, "similarity": 0.9849056603773585, "seeds": 225, "id": "M00504", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-25|1|2", "date": "1797-05-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797052501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman last up had taken a wide range of argument he must excuse him if he confined himself in reply to those parts of his observations only which appeared to him essentially to relate to the subject under consideration he believed the question was whether they should alter the report in the manner proposed that is whether they should strike out words which expressed the sensibility of this house at the unprovoked insults offered by the french republic to our government and country or adopt the gentleman's amendment which he read if they agreed to this amendment they must necessarily expect from the french republic fresh insults and aggression for it seemed to admit that hitherto no insult had been intended the amendment might be divided mr s said into two parts the first went to vindicate the french from any intentional insults towards this country it even held out an idea that the executive ought to offer some concessions to france and even designated the kind of concession he should therefore without taking notice of what the gentleman had said about the political parties of this country or what he had said respecting himself personally confine his observations to the points in question the first point was whether the conduct of france was justifiable in refusing our minister and sending him from the republic in the manner they had done he thought the committee had abundant materials before them completely to refute the first proposition and he was surprised knowing that these documents were in the hands of every member that the gentleman from virginia could expect to impress their minds with the idea that no indignity whatever had been offered by the french government to this country in that transaction mr smith said that it appeared most clearly that the french directory intended to treat this government with marked indignity for the gentleman from virginia suggested an opinion that their refusal to receive mr pinckney was owing altogether to his not being invested with extraordinary powers this was evidently not the case as the directory had been well informed as to the character in which mr pinckney came before they received his letters of credence as appears by the letters of m de la croix to mr monroe filing mr pinckney his successor and by other documents communicated by the president which he read there was no doubt then with respect to the directory being well acquainted with the character in which mr pinckney went to france viz as minister plenipotentiary or ordinary minister but after keeping him in suspense near two months on the day after the news arrived of buonaparte's successes in italy he was ordered by a peremptory mandate in writing to leave the french republic this mandate was accompanied by a circumstance which was certainly intended to convey an insult it was addressed to him as an anglo-american a term it is true they sometimes use to distinguish the inhabitants of the united states from those of the west-india islands but in his opinion here evidently designed as a term of reproach as he believed no other similar instance could be mentioned upon this circumstance however they laid no stress the other indignities which our minister had received were too great to require any weight to be given to this circumstance but says the gentleman from virginia after the directory had seen his letters of credence and discovered that he had no power to make concessions they refused to acknowledge him what would he have required his letters of credence to have said were they not faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were grounded to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injudiciously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his own what more than this could have been said in letters of credence but adds the gentleman his instructions did not authorize him to make any concession or to satisfy their complaints with respect to existing treaties how does he know this will the gentleman undertake to say that his instructions did not give him this power it certainly would not have been proper to have stated in his letters of credence what he was authorized to concede or to exhibit to the french government his instructions until it was known what they were disposed to do we had complaints to make as well as they they had committed depredations on our commerce to a great amount was it right then to say instantly on his arrival i am come to offer you all these concessions without knowing what they were disposed to offer in return will the gentleman undertake to say it would have been right to have communicated his private instructions to the directory even before he was received if we were a colony of france indeed it might have been expected that he would have laid not only his instructions but proffered himself at the feet of the directory but independent as we are he trusted no gentleman would say this was proper in any man much less was it to be expected from mr pinckney what were his private instructions was unknown a thousand conjectures might be formed respecting them but they were vague and uncertain this being the state of the transaction he thought it clearly established that mr pinckney was not refused because he bore the character of minister plenipotentiary without extraordinary powers the question then was why was he sent away we all said mr smith remember the complaints of mr adet against our government it was not necessary to go into a minute recapitulation of them it sufficed to say that they fell under the following heads st complaints of violations of our commercial treaty with france d of the treaty we had made with great britain d of the proceedings of our federal courts and th of the act of congress of june which act this house after it had heard his complaints had re-enacted without opposition the last session now what does mr de la croix say on the arrival of mr pinckney he did not condescend to say it to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-24|1|2", "date": "1797-06-24", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062401/0987.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman last up had taken a wide range of argument he must excuse him if he confined himself in reply to those parts of his observations only which appeared to him essentially to relate to the subject under consideration he believed the question was whether they should alter the report in the manner proposed that is whether they should strike out words which expressed the sensibility of this house at the unprovoked insults offered by the french republic to our government and country or adopt the gentleman's amendment which he read if they agreed to this amendment they must necessarily expect from the french republic fresh insults and aggressions for it seemed to admit that hitherto no insult had been intended the amendment might be divided mr s said into two parts the first went to indicate the french from any intentional insults towards this country it even held out an idea that the executive ought to offer some conciliatory overtures even designated the kind of concession he should therefore without taking notice of what the gentleman had said about the political parties of this country of what he had said respecting himself personally confine his observations to the points of question the first point was whether the conduct of france was justifiable in rejecting our minister and sending him from the republic in the manner they had done he thought the committee had abundant materials before them completely to refute the first proposition and he was surprised knowing that these documents were in the hands of every member that the gentleman from virginia could expect to impress their minds with the idea that no indignity whatever had been offered by the french government to this country in that transaction mr smith said that it appeared most clearly that the french directory intended to treat this government with marked indignity for though the gentleman from virginia suggested an opinion that their refusal to receive mr pinckney was owing altogether to his not being invested with extraordinary powers this was evidently not the case as the directory had been well informed as to the character in which mr pinckney came before they received his letters of credence as appears by the letters of m de la croix to mr monroe stating mr pinckney his successor and by other documents communicated by the president which he read there was no doubt then with respect to the directory being well acquainted with the character in which mr pinckney went to france viz as minister plenipotentiary or ordinary minister but after keeping him in suspense near two months on the day after the news arrived of buonaparte's successes in italy he was ordered by a peremptory mandate in writing to leave the french republic this mandate was accompanied by a circumstance which was certainly intended to convey an insult it was addressed to him as an anglo-american a term it is true they sometimes used to distinguish the inhabitants of the united states from those of the west-india islands but in his opinion here evidently designed as a term of reproach as he believed no other similar instance could be mentioned upon this circumstance however he laid no stress the other indignities which our minister had received were too great to require any weight to be given to this circumstance but says the gentleman from virginia after the directory had seen his letters of credence and discovered that he had no power to make concessions they refuse to acknowledge him what would he have required his letters of credence to have said were they not faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were grounded to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his own what more than this could have been said in letters of credence but adds the gentleman his instructions did not authorize him to make any concession or to satisfy their complaints with respect to existing treaties how does he know this will the gentleman undertake to say that his instructions did not give him this power it certainly would not have been proper to have stated in his letters of credence what he was authorized to concede or to exhibit to the french government his instructions until it was known what they were disposed to do we had complaints to make as well as they they had committed spoliations on our commerce to a great amount was it right then to say instantly on his arrival i am come to offer you all these concessions without knowing what they were disposed to offer in return will the gentleman undertake to say it would have been right to have communicated his private instructions to the directory even before he was received if we were a colony of france indeed it might have been expected that he would have laid not only his instructions but prostrated himself at the feet of the directory but independent as we are he trusted no gentleman would say this was proper in any man much less was it to be expected from mr pinckney what were his private instructions was unknown a thousand conjectures might be formed respecting them but they were vague and uncertain this being the state of the transaction he thought it clearly established that mr pinckney was not refused because he bore the character of minister plenipotentiary without extraordinary powers the question then was why was he sent away we all said mr smith remember the complaints of mr adet against our government it was not necessary to go into a minute recapitulation of them it sufficed to say that they fell under the following heads st complaints of violations of our commercial treaty with france d of the treaty we had made with great britain d of the proceedings of our federal courts and th of the act of congress of june which act this house after it had heard his complaints had re-enacted without opposition the last session now what does mr de la croix say on the arrival of mr pinckney he did not condescend to say it to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4563, 4646], "b_span": [847, 936], "matched_words": 72, "similarity": 0.8372093023255814, "seeds": 7, "id": "M00505", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-25|1|3", "date": "1797-05-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797052501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of new london a gentleman who came in this vessel has favored us with a regular file of the post boy of the armies and general bulletin a paris paper as late as the th of march from these papers we give translations of several important articles they follow capt manawaring says all apprehensions of a war between france and america had subsided some time before he failed this change of opinion was supposed to be in consequence of news from america of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-14|1|3", "date": "1797-06-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061401/0966.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of new london a gentleman who came in this vessel has favored us with a reg ular file of the port of the armies and general bulletin a paris paper as late as the th of march from these papers we give a translation of several important articles they fol low capt manwarring says all appre hensions of a war between france and america had subsided some time be fore he sailed this change of opi nion was supposed to be in conse quence of news from america of"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5024, 5294], "b_span": [950, 1269], "matched_words": 241, "similarity": 0.8183361629881154, "seeds": 29, "id": "M00506", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-25|1|3", "date": "1797-05-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797052501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in several public papers that gen buonaparte has obtained a signal victory over the archduke charles austrians were killed and taken on the field of battle this news has been received from kellerman who learnt it by a courier from buonaparte not wishing to doubt the authenticity of this news we only remark that it is surprising the directory has not received any intelligence respecting it the official journals make no mention of this important victory we are assured that a conference for peace has taken place at turin between gen clark and the marquis de lucchesini the friends of humanity must wish success to this negotiation march the news of the victory obtained by the french army in italy over the archduke charles has not yet been received by the directory as we mentioned in our last but by the venetian ambassador at paris the directory anxiously wait for official details march in a letter from gen buonaparte dated march head quarters at valdobbiato he mentions having on the th of march taken from the austrian army pieces of cannon general several officers and from to men adjutant-general kellerman had received several strokes of the sword in charging at the head of the cavalry with his usual courage march thomas paine left this city the st instant on his return to america his departure will be no great loss to france altho several enthusiasts say they admire his writing tho they do not understand it his last publication was against our constitution to show that it was not democratic enough the choice of electors is terminated the primary assemblies"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-14|1|3", "date": "1797-06-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061401/0966.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in several public papers that general buonaparte has obtained a signal victory over the archduke charles austrians were killed and taken on the field of battle this news has been received from keller man who learnt it by a courier from buonaparte not wishing to doubt the authenticity of this news we only re mark that it is surprising the direct ory have not received any intelligence respecting it the official journals make no mention of this important victory we are assured that a conference for peace has taken place at turin between general clarke and the mar quis de luchefini the friends of hu manity must with success to this nego tiation letters from bayonne mention that the english have taken nine spanish vessels richly laden three of which were brought into gibraltar and six into lisbon one of the vessels was from manila with a valuable cargo of muslins the news of the victory obtained by the french army in italy over the arch duke charles has not yet been received by the directory as we men tioned in our last but by the venetian ambassador at paris the directory anxiously wait for official details march in a letter from gen buonaparte dated march head-quarters at val datone mentions having on the th of march taken from the austrian ar my pieces of cannon general se veral officers and from to men adjutant-general kellerman had re ceived several strokes of a sword in charging at the head of the cavalry with his usual courage march thomas paine left this city the first inst on his return to america his departure will be no great loss to france although several enthusiasts say they admire his writing though they do not understand it his last publication was against our constitu tion to show that it was not democra tic enough the choice of electors is terminated the primary assemblies"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2, 952], "b_span": [1094, 2043], "matched_words": 933, "similarity": 0.9826224328593997, "seeds": 189, "id": "M00507", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-25|1|3", "date": "1797-05-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-05-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797052501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "too much respect he did not say it to the minister of the american government but to the recalled minister mr monroe to whom mr de la croix writes a letter declaring that the directory will not acknowledge nor receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of the grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic has a right to expect from it now what mr s asked were the grievances contained in mr adet's note and to which the directory here refer they were very numerous but they chiefly fell under the four heads he had mentioned according then to this declaration of the french government what were we to do we must said he annul the british treaty repeal the law of june which was last session very unanimously re-enacted and we must by some proceeding or other which he supposed even the ingenuity of the gentleman from virginia would find it difficult to point out annul the decrees of the courts of the united states yet though all this must be done before the directory would condescend to receive our minister the gentleman did not believe any indignity whatever had been intended against this government and he must not express ourselves as if we thought we felt there had been any it was at the best a mere matter of etiquette on the part of france it was meant to convey no insult no indignity our government had given offence by failure of etiquette and therefore to heal the breach we must send an envoy extraordinary to make the necessary concessions and all will go well with respect to the gentleman's second proposition if it was proper to be discussed at all it would have been more properly discussed in a committee of the whole on the state of the union after proper notice and being printed if the house cannot confide in the executive that he will take the proper measures to heal the wound if the house were convinced that the executive were not disposed to do this it might be their duty to apply to him but the president in his speech had explicitly said that it was his most sincere desire to restore harmony and that notwithstanding the indignities offered to our minister and our government he did not think the honor and dignity of our government required farther advances towards negotiation after so candid and free a declaration he was surprised to hear his disposition in this respect thus called in question for his part mr s said he had not the least hesitation to believe that the executive would go all lengths consistent with the honor and dignity of the country to restore harmony between the two republics because he was satisfied he had the interest of the country at heart and he trusted that no gentleman not even the gentleman from virginia himself would doubt this it had been argued that this country had not acted a proper part with respect to france in order to show this the member had adverted to three specific grounds of complaint arising out of the british treaty the gentleman from virginia had confined the complaints of the french government to three articles of the british treaty though if the committee referred to the letter of mr de la croix it would be found that they did not confine them within so narrow a compass they complained first of the inexecution of treaties there are several points of complaint relative to that head d complaints against the decrees of our federal courts d against the law of june and th against the treaty with great britain yet the gentleman confines himself altogether to the latter and really he did not expect at this time of day after the subject had been so fully discussed and determined and the objections refuted over and over again that any gentleman would have endeavored to revive and prove their complaints on this head well founded the three articles were st that free ships did not make free goods d the contraband article d the provision article the stipulation with respect to neutral vessels not making neutral goods in the british treaty was not contrary to the law of nations it only provided that the law of nations was to be carried into effect in the manner most convenient for the united states but this doctrine he said was now new thing it had been acknowledged most explicitly by mr jefferson secretary of state in july and was so declared to the minister of france yet no objection was made to it until the british treaty was ratified though long previous thereto french property was captured on board our vessels mr jefferson writing on this subject to the french minister said if you have no shadow of complaint the thing was so perfectly clear and well understood by the law of nations this happened so long ago as july or august but two years afterwards when the british treaty was promulgated the whole country was thrown into a flame by admitting this very same doctrine france herself had always acted under this law of nations when not restrained by treaty in valin's ordinances of france this clearly appears the armed neutrality was confined to the then existing war russia herself the creator of the armed neutrality entered into a compact with england in expressly contravening its principles the principle was then not established by our treaty with england but such being the acknowledged law of nations it was merely stipulated that it should be exercised in the manner the least injurious"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-24|1|2", "date": "1797-06-24", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062401/0987.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "too much respect he did not say it to the minister of the american government but to the recalled minister mr monroe to whom mr de la croix wrote a letter declaring that the directory will not acknowledge nor receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of the grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic has a right to expect from it now what mr s asked were the grievances contained in mr adet's note and to which the directory here refer they were very numerous but they chiefly fell under the four heads he had mentioned according then to this declaration of the french government what were we to do we must said he annul the british treaty repeal the law of june which was last session very unanimously re-enacted and we must by some proceeding or other which he supposed even the ingenuity of the gentleman from virginia would find it difficult to point out annul the decrees of the courts of the united states yet though all this must be done before the directory would condescend to receive our minister the gentleman did not believe any indignity whatever had been intended against this government and we must not express ourselves as if we thought or felt there had been any it was at the best a mere matter of etiquette on the part of france it was meant to convey no insult no indignity our government had given offence by a failure of etiquette and therefore to heal the breach we must send an envoy extraordinary to make the necessary concessions and all will go well with respect to the gentleman's second proposition if it was proper to be discussed at all it would have been more properly discussed in a committee of the whole on the state of the union after proper notice and being printed if the house cannot confide in the executive that he will take the proper measures to heal the wound if the house were convinced that the executive were not disposed to do this it might be then their duty to apply to him but the president in his speech had explicitly said that it was his most sincere desire to restore harmony and that notwithstanding the indignities offered to our minister and our government he did not think the honour and dignity of the country forbade further advances towards negotiation after so candid and free a declaration he was surprised to hear his disposition in this respect thus called in question for his part mr s said he had not the least hesitation to believe that the executive would go all lengths consistent with the honour and dignity of the country to restore harmony between the two republics because he was satisfied he had the interest of the country at heart and he trusted that no gentleman not even the gentleman from virginia himself would doubt this it had been argued that this country had not acted a proper part with respect to france in order to shew this the member had adverted to three specific grounds of complaint arising out of the british treaty the gentleman from virginia had confined the complaints of the french government to three articles of the british treaty though if the committee referred to the letter of mr de la croix it would be found that they did not confine them within so narrow a compass they complain first to the inexecution of treaties there are several points of complaint relative to that head d complaints against the decrees of our federal courts d against the law of june and th against the treaty with great britain yet the gentleman confines himself altogether to the latter and really he did not expect at this time of day after the subject had been so fully discussed and determined and the objections refuted over and over again that any gentleman would have endeavoured to revive and prove their complaints on this head well founded the three articles were st that free ships did not make free goods d the contraband article d the provision article the stipulation with respect to neutral vessels not making neutral goods in the british treaty was not contrary to the law of nations it only provided that the law of nations was to be carried into effect in the manner most convenient for the united states but this doctrine he said was no new thing it had been acknowledged most explicitly by mr jefferson secretary of state in july and was so declared to the minister of france yet no objection was made to it until the british treaty was ratified though long previous thereto french property was captured on board our vessels mr jefferson writing on this subject to the french minister said you have no shadow of complaint the thing was so perfectly clear well understood by the law of nations this happened so long ago as july or august but two years afterwards when the british treaty was promulgated the whole country was thrown into a flame by admitting this very same doctrine france herself always acted under this law of nations when not restrained by treaty in valin's ordinances of france this clearly appears the armed neutrality was confined to the then existing war russia herself the creator of the armed neutrality entered into a compact with england in expressly contravening its principles the principle was then not established by our treaty 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mentioned in the british treaty are by the law of nations contraband articles they will find that in all the treaties with denmark and sweden great britain had made the same stipulations indeed the gentleman had acknowledged that it was so stated by some writers on the law of nations but he wished to derogate from the authority of those writers in the same way as mr genet had called them worm-eaten folios and musty apocrypha a very respectable work in france how then can the gentleman with truth say we have deviated from the law of nations the last point which the gentleman took notice of was the provision article there was no doubt that this government would never allow provisions to be contraband except when going to a besieged or blockaded port that he made this declaration yet it was not candid to acknowledge that this was stated by vattel to be the law of nations he read an extract from vattel when this was stated by lord grenville to mr pinckney their minister in london mr pinckney acknowledged it to be so stated in vattel but very ingeniously argued that france could not be considered as in the situation mentioned in vattel since provisions were cheaper there than they were in england and therefore the case did not apply when our envoy went to london both parties were tenacious on this ground our minister was unwilling to agree to this construction of the law of nations but the british minister insisted upon it and if there had not been some compromise the negotiation must have been broken off and a war probably ensued the result was therefore that without admitting it to be the law of nations it was agreed that where provisions were contraband by the law of nations they should be paid for but not confiscated as the law of nations admitting that construction would have authorized therefore some advantage was secured to france for if great britain had confiscated our vessels going to france with provisions it would certainly have dampened the ardor of our citizens employed in that commerce but under this regulation our merchants were certain of being paid for their cargoes whether they arrived in france or were carried into england these were the three grounds of objection which the gentleman from virginia had stated as grounds of complaint by the french against the british treaty before he went further he would observe that admitting which he did not admit that there had been solid grounds of objection against the british treaty before it was ratified yet they ought now to be closed it had received a full discussion at the time it had been carried into effect was become the law of the land and was generally approved of by the country why then endeavor to stir up the feelings of the public against it by alleging it to be the just cause of complaint if the committee wanted any proof of the approbation which that instrument had received he thought it might be gathered from the general approbation which had been given of the administration of the late president on his retirement from office in doing which the people had doubtless taken into view the whole of his conduct nor did he think the people had shown any hostility to the treaty in their late election of members to that house indeed he believed that the approbation which the treaty received increased in proportion as the subject came to be understood admitting further that the treaty had changed the existing state of things between great britain and france by having granted commercial favors to great britain by the d article of our treaty with france the same favors would immediately attach to france so that she could have no reason to complain on that ground indeed france had herself now modified the treaty betwixt that country and this and had taken to herself what she deemed to be the favors granted to great britain mr s read the decree on this subject of d march last mr smith said he believed he had examined all the observations of the gentleman from virginia relative to the treaty which were essential to the subject under consideration he did not wish to go much farther on the present occasion because he agreed with him that it was proper they should keep themselves as cool and calm as the nature of the case would admit but he thought whilst so much deference was paid to the feelings of france some respect ought to be paid to the feelings of america he hoped the people of america would always retain a proper respect and consideration for their national character and however earnestly he wished that the differences subsisting between the two countries might be amicably settled yet he trusted that our national dignity would never be at so low an ebb as to submit to the insults and indignities of any nation whatever in saying this he expressed his hearty wish to keep the door of negotiation with france unclosed but at the same time he strongly recommended to take every necessary step to place us in a situation to defend ourselves provided she should still persist in her haughty demeanour he trusted they would convince the french and every other nation that they were determined to preserve the right of self-government and that they were able to frustrate every attempt which should be made to influence our councils that such attempts had been made he knew some gentlemen would deny but to him it was evident that all the ministers of france who had resided in this country had endeavoured to obtain an undue influence over our affairs it was now become a serious question whether we were to make concessions to france of the most humiliating nature and thereby provoke future aggressions or act a firm and determined part in expressing our indignation at their insults and resolving to resist them if they were persisted in he did not wish unnecessarily he said to excite indignation but it was necessary on this occasion to take particular notice of the insulting speech of president barras in reply to mr monroe's valedictory a speech evidently calculated to separate the american people from their government after the directory knew that mr monroe was no longer the minister of this country after he had presented his letters of recall and mr pinckney had presented his letters of credence after the minister of foreign affairs de la croix had said that they considered america as having no minister in france the president of the directory delivered the insulting speech above alluded to in which he tells our late minister at a public audience in the presence of several foreign ministers to go home and tell his government that his country owes its liberty to france we have never denied said mr s that we received great services from france but was it not degrading to this country that their late minister should be thus addressed this address was through-out couched in terms studiously marked with indignities to this country and an attempt to separate the people from the government notwithstanding all this the gentleman from virginia is wonderfully afraid of using language which might irritate france mr s wished france had not given just cause of irritation but those who had read the correspondence which had been laid before them for a few years past must have seen reiterated insults to this country it was sufficient to call to their recollection the many indelicate and offensive expressions used by the various french ministers in their diplomatic letters indeed were they inclined to aggravate the aggressions we had received he might display a whole volume of genet's abuse he should however satisfy himself by presenting some elegant extracts from the letters of citizen adet mr s here quoted a number of offensive epithets and expressions such as disguised under a cloak of neutrality the veil of dissimulation tyrannical and homicidal rage insidious proclamation of neutrality the chimaera of its courts presenting a poisoned shaft to cut the throat of its ally all submission to the will of england prostituting its neutrality c c mr s said as he knew indecent and harsh language always recoiled upon those who used it he did not wish to adopt it but at the same time it was due to ourselves to express our feelings with a proper degree of strength and spirit he was not in the habit of quoting any thing from mr genet but there was one expression of his which he thought contained good advice all this accommodation and humility all this condescension attains no end after the gentleman from virginia had dwelt sufficiently upon the danger of irritating the french he had emphatically called upon us to recollect our weakness it might have been as well if he had left that to have been discovered from another quarter he hoped he had sufficient confidence in the means of defence which we possessed if driven to the last resort and he believed that if there was any one more certain way of provoking war than another it was that of proclaiming our own weakness he hoped such a language would now be spoken as would make known to the french government that the government and people of this country were one and that they would repel any attempt to gain an influence over our councils and government the gentleman had said that there did not appear to be any design of this kind and had endeavored to do away what was stated as the opinion in france in general pinckney's letter he did not mean to rest this altogether upon the reports of an emigrant whom general pinckney mentions as having represented this country divided and of no greater consequence than genoa or geneva but he took the whole information into view he read the extract relative to this subject it was evident mr s said from this information from france that an opinion had been industriously circulated there that the government and people of this country were divided that the executive was corrupt and did not pursue the interests of the people and that they might by perseverance overturn the administration and introduce a new order of things was not such an opinion as this he asked calculated to induce france to believe that she might make her own terms with us it was well known what the french wished and it was time to declare it plainly his opinion was that she designed to ruin the commerce of great-britain through us this was evident they talked of the british treaty but they suffered it to lie dormant for near twelve months without complaining about it why were they silent till within a few weeks before the election of our president why did they commit spoiliations upon our commerce long before the british treaty was ever dreamt of their first decree directing spoiliations of our property and the capture of our provision ships was on the th of may a month before the provision order of great-britain which was dated june and why have they from that time to this been committing spoiliations on our commerce the british treaty was published in paris in august a year after in july they determine to treat us in the same way that we suffer other nations to treat us and this decree was not made known to our government till the october following a few weeks before the election of president but this was not all the french had pursued similar measures towards all the other neutral powers sweden in consequence had no minister in their country and was on the eve of a rupture the intention of the french evidently was to compel all the neutral powers to destroy the commerce of great britain but he trusted this country had more spirit than to suffer herself to be thus forced to give up her commerce with great britain he trusted they would spurn any such idea mr s hoped the observations which he had made would not be construed into a wish to see the united states and france involved in a war he had no objection to such measures being taken for preserving peace betwixt the two countries as should be consistent with national honor it was a delicate thing for them to fuggle what the executive ought to do it was out of their province to direct him the executive had various considerations to take into view we had injuries to complain of against france for the spoiliations committed upon our commerce if the executive conceive we have a right to redress that subject will of course constitute a part of our envoy's instructions would it then be proper said he for this house to interfere with the executive to obtrude its opinion and say you must give up this point we take upon us without any authority by the constitution to give carte blanche to france without any indemnification or redress the gentleman says it is the object of the amendment on the table to recommend to the executive to remove any inequalities in the treaties that was alone sufficient to vote it out there had been no period since the revolution which had so powerfully called on americans for that fortitude and wisdom which they knew so well how to display on great and solemn emergencies it was not his intention to offend any one by stating the question in such strong terms but he was persuaded that when the present situation of our affairs with respect to france was well understood it would be found that to acquiesce in her present demands was virtually and essentially to surrender our self government and independence the independence of a nation he observed might be destroyed in various modes whether a preponderating influence was obtained in her councils by seduction intrigue or terror or by a direct and open invasion of her territories and consequent subjugation was immaterial indeed it would be safer for us if a foreign power were at once to attempt our subjugation by invasion for in that case there could be but one opinion among americans about a vigorous resistance but the slow approaches to our subjection by the subtle artifices of intrigue and deception were seldom discerned by the community at large until their pestilential effects had taken such deep root as to be with difficulty extricated was it saying too much to assert that dictating to our government fomenting an insurrection in our bosom influencing the most important election demanding a violation of our engagements the repeal of our laws the annulling the decrees of our courts of justice were not merely interferences with our government but in fact attempts to usurp it the complaints of france respecting the british treaty were the pretext but not the real cause of her aggressions it was idle to wink out of sight the real causes she wished as she had before stated to destroy the commerce of england and the united states were to be the instrument in accomplishing it the united states were to be coerced into such measures as would effect this great scheme the same policy was pursued towards the hanse towns and denmark had they made a british treaty were they answerable for the sins of ours the review he had taken of the ground of controversy as to our treaty with england must have removed every impression unfavourable to our government and evinced the unceasing efforts of france to acquire an improper ascendancy over our councils and direct them to the purposes of her own aggrandizement whether or no our government ought on principles of amity and conciliation to quash our treaties between england and france was a question of an executive nature and was not properly before the house an offer of such equalization would undoubtedly depend on the disposition of france to make proper and suitable equivalents the gentleman from virginia had cautioned the committee against alarming the pride of france but exclaimed mr s his america no pride is her sensibility so debased by prejudice or benumbed by terror as to be thrown out of view on this occasion i trust i trust that american pride still maintains an important influence over our deliberations and detests as i am to see it yield all that is due to the influence of policy god forbid that it should ever be supplanted by an interested and servile tameness he thought it became the dignity of the house to support the executive in firm and manly language he was persuaded that a decided conduct would be the most likely to discourage aggression and repetition of insult he recommended not a menacing but a firm"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-28|1|2", "date": "1797-06-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062801/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "next article of complaint was with respect to contraband goods if gentleman will consult the law of nations they will find that the articles mentioned in the british treaty are by the law of nations contraband articles they will find that in all the treaties with denmark and sweden great britain had made the same stipulation indeed the gentleman had acknowledged that it was so stated by some writers on the law of nations but he wished to derogate from the authority of those writers in the same way as mr genet in his correspondence with mr jefferson had called them worm eaten folios and musty aphorisms to vattel might be added valin's ordinances a very respectable work in france how then can the gentleman with truth say we have deviated from the law of nations the last point which the gentleman took notice of was the provision article there was no doubt that the government would never allow provisions to be deemed contraband except when going to a besieged or blockaded port though he made this declaration yet it was candid to acknowledge that this was stated by vattel to be the law of nations he read an extract from vattel when this was stated by lord grenville to mr pinckney our then minister in london mr pinckney acknowledged it to be so stated in vattel but very ingeniously argued that france could not be considered in the situation mentioned in vattel since provisions was cheaper there than in england and therefore the case did not apply when our envoy was sent to london both parties were tenacious on this ground our minister was unwilling to agree to this construction of the law of nations but the british minister insisted upon it and if there had not been some compromise the negotiation must have been broken off and a war probably ensued the result was therefore that without admitting it to be the law of nations it was agreed that where provisions were contraband by the law of nations they should be paid for but not confiscated as the law of nations admitting that construction would have authorized therefore some advantage was secured to france for if great britain had confiscated our vessels going to france with provisions it would certainly have damped the ardor of our citizens employed in that commerce but under this regulation our merchants were certain of being paid for their cargoes whether they arrived in france or were carried into england these were the grounds of objection which the gentleman from virginia had stated as grounds of complaint by the french against the british treaty before he went further he would observe that admitting which he did not admit that there had been solid grounds of objection against the british treaty before it was ratified yet they ought now to be closed it had received a full discussion at the time it had been carried into effect was become the law of the land and was generally approved of by the country why then endeavor to stir up the feelings of the public against it by alleging it to be just cause of complaint if the committee wanted any proof of the approbation which that instrument had received he thought it might be gathered from the general approbation which had been given of the administration of the late president on his retirement from office in doing which the people had doubtless taken into view the whole of his conduct nor did he think the people had shown any hostility to the treaty in the late election of members to that house indeed he believed that the approbation which the treaty received increased in proportion as the subject came to be understood admitting further that the treaty had changed the existing state of things between g britain france by having granted commercial favors to great britain by the d article of our treaty with france the same favors would immediately attach to france so that she could have no reason to complain on that ground indeed france had herself new modified the treaty betwixt that country and this and had taken to herself what she deemed to be the favors granted to great britain mr s read the decree on this subject of d march last mr smith said he believed he had examined all the observations of the gentleman from virginia relative to the treaty which were essential to the subject under consideration he did not wish to go much farther on the present occasion because he agreed with him that it was proper they should keep themselves as cool and calm as the nature of the case would admit but he thought whilst so much deference was paid to the feelings of france some respect ought to be paid to the feelings of america he hoped the people of america would always retain a proper respect and consideration for their national character and however earnestly he wished that the differences subsisting between the two countries might be amicably settled yet he trusted that our national dignity would never be at so low an ebb as to submit to the insults and indignities of any nation whatever in saying this he expressed his hearty wish to keep the door of negotiation with france unclosed but at the same time he strongly recommended to take every necessary step to place us in a situation to defend ourselves provided she should still persist in her haughty demeanor he trusted they would convince the french and every other nation that they were determined to preserve the right of self government and that they were able to frustrate every attempt which should be made to influence our councils that such attempts had been made he knew some gentlemen would deny but to him it was evident that all the ministers of france who had resided in this country had endeavored to obtain an undue influence over our affairs it was now become a serious question whether we were to make concessions to france of the most humiliating nature and thereby provoke future aggression or act a firm and determined part in expressing our indignation at their insults and resolving to resist them if they were persisted in he did not wish unnecessarily he said to excite indignation but it was necessary on this occasion to take particular notice of the insulting speech of president barras in reply to mr monroe's valedictory a speech evidently calculated to separate the american people from their government after the directory knew that mr monroe was no longer the minister of this country after he had presented his letters of recall and mr pinckney had presented his letters of credence after the minister of foreign affairs de la c-oix had said that they considered america as having no minister in france the president of the directory delivered the insulting speech above alluded to in which he tells our late minister at a public audience in the presence of several foreign ministers to go home and tell his government that his country owed its liberty to france we have never denied said mr s that we received great services from france but was it not degrading to this country that their late minister should be thus addressed the address was thro out couched in terms studiously marked with indignities to this country and an attempt to separate the people from the government notwithstanding all this the gentleman from virginia is wonderfully afraid of using language which might irritate france mr s wished france had not given just cause of irritation but those who had read the correspondence which had been laid before them for a few years past must have seen reiterated insults to this country it was sufficient to call to their recollection the many indelicate and offensive expressions used by the various french ministers in their diplomatic letters indeed were he inclined to aggravate the aggressions we had received he might display a whole volume of genet's abuse he should however satisfy himself by presenting some elegant extracts from the letters of citizen adet mr s here quoted a number of offensive epithets and expressions such as disguised under a cloak of neutrality the vest of dissimulation tyrannical and homicidal rage insidious proclamation of neutrality the chicanery of its courts presenting a poignard to cut the throat of its ally all submission to the will of england prostituting its neutrality c c mr s said as he knew indecent and harsh language always recoiled upon those who used it he did not wish to adopt it but at the same time it was due to ourselves to express our feelings with a proper degree of strength and spirit he was not in the habit of quoting any thing from m genet but there was one expression of his which he thought contained good advice all this accommodation and humility all this condescension attains no end after the gentleman from virginia had dwelt sufficiently upon the danger of irritating the french he had emphatically called upon us to recollect our weakness it might have been as well if he had left that to have been discovered from another quarter he hoped we had sufficient confidence in the means of defence which we possessed if driven to the last resort and he believed if there was any one more certain way of provoking war than another it was that of proclaiming our own weakness he hoped such a language would now be spoken as would make known to the french government that the government and people of this country were one and that they would repel any attempt to gain an influence over our councils and government the gentleman had said that there did not appear to be any design of this kind and had endeavored to do away what was stated as the opinion in france in general pinckney's letter he did not mean to rest this altogether upon the reports of an emigrant whom general pinckney mentions as having represented this country divided and of no greater consequence than genoa or geneva but he took the whole information into view he read the extract relative to this subject it was evident mr s said from this information from france that an opinion had been industriously circulated there that the government and people of this country were divided that the executive was corrupt and did not pursue the interests of the people and that they might by perseverance overturn the administration and introduce a new order of things was not such an opinion as this he asked calculated to induce france to believe that she might make her own terms with us it was well known what the french wished and it was time to declare it plainly his opinion was that they designed to ruin the commerce of great britain through us this was evident they talk of the british treaty but they suffered it to lie dormant for near twelve months without complaining about it why were they silent till within a few weeks before the election of our president why did they commit spoliations upon our commerce long before the british treaty was ever dreamt of their first decree directing spoliations of our property and the capture of our provision ships was on the th of may a month before the provision order of great britain which was dated june and why have they from that time to this been committing spoliations on our commerce the british treaty was published in paris in august a year after in july they determine to treat us in the same way that we suffer other nations to treat us and this decree was not made known to our government till the october following a few weeks before the election of president but this was not all the french had pursued similar measures towards all the other neutral powers sweden in consequence had no minister in their country and was on the eve of a rupture the intention of the french evidently was to compel all the neutral powers to destroy the commerce of great britain but he trusted this country had more spirit than to suffer herself to be thus forced to give up her commerce with great britain he trusted they would spurn any such idea mr s hoped the observations which he had made would not be construed into a wish to see the united states and france involved in a war he had no objection to such a measure's being taken for preserving peace betwixt the two countries as should be consistent with national honor it was a delicate thing for them to suggest what the executive ought to do it was out of their province to direct him the executive had various considerations to take into view we had injuries to complain of against france for the spoliations committed upon our commerce if the executive conceive we have a right to redress that subject will of course constitute a part of our envoy's instructions would it then be proper said he for this house to interfere with the executive to obtrude its opinion and say you must give up this point we take upon us without any authority from the constitution to give carte blanche to france without any indemnification or redress the gentleman says it is the object of the amendment on the table to recommend to the executive to remove any inequalities in the treaties that was alone sufficient to vote it out there had been no period since the revolution which had so powerfully called on americans for that fortitude and wisdom which they knew so well how to display on great and solemn emergencies it was not his intention to offend any one by stating the question in such strong terms but he was persuaded that when the present situation of our affairs with respect to france was well understood it would be found that to acquiesce in her present demands was virtually and essentially to surrender our self government and independence the independence of a nation he observed might be destroyed in various modes whether a preponderating influence was obtained in her councils by seduction intrigue or terror or by a direct and open invasion of her territories and consequent subjugation was immaterial indeed it would be safer for us if a foreign power were at once to attempt our subjugation by invasion for in that case there could be but one opinion among americans about a vigorous resistance but the slow approaches to our subjection but the subtle artifices of intrigue and deception were seldom discerned by the community at large until their pestilential effects had taken such deep root as to be with difficulty extirpated was it saying too much to assert that dictating to our government fomenting an insurrection in our bosom influencing the most important election demanding a violation of our engagements the repeal of our laws annulling the decrees of our courts of justice were not merely interferences with our government but in fact attempts to usurp it the complaints of france respecting the british treaty were the pretext but not the real cause of her aggressions it was idle to wink out of sight the real causes she wished as he had before stated to destroy the commerce of england and the united states were to be the instrument of accomplishing it the united states were to be coerced into such measures as would effect this great scheme the same policy was pursued towards the hanse towns and denmark had they made a british treaty were they answerable for the sins of ours the review he had taken of the ground of controversy as to our treaty with england must have removed every impression unfavorable to our government and evinced the unceasing efforts of france to acquire an improper ascendancy over our councils and direct them to the purposes of her own aggrandizement whether or no our government ought on principles of unity and conciliation to equalize our treaties between england and france was a question of an executive nature and was not properly before the house an offer of such equalization would undoubtedly depend on the disposition of france to make proper and suitable equivalents the gentleman from virginia had cautioned the committee against alarming the pride of france but exclaimed mr s has america no pride is her sensibility so debased by prejudice or benumbed by terror as to be thrown out of view on this occasion i trust not i trust that american pride still maintains an important influence over our deliberations and as glorious as i am to see it yield all that is due to the influence of policy god forbid that it should ever be supplanted by an interested and servile tameness i thought it became the dignity of the house to support the executive in firm and manly language he was persuaded that a 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insults and humiliation mr s said he valued unanimity as much as other gentlemen he was sensible that it would be peculiarly important at this juncture it would engage the confidence of the people and fortify the negotiation it would convince the world that however we might differ upon speculative points of administration there was but one sentiment respecting our self government it would extinguish the hopes of those who attempted to keep alive a faction in the country it would crush the expectations of those who wished to substitute a foreign influence to the constituted authorities of the nation but it might still be purchased by too dear a sacrifice and he would rather have only a bare majority for the report of the committee than an unanimous vote for the amendment so much did he reprobate its principles he thought it of more importance that there should be an unanimity between all the departments of the government than an unanimity in the house at the expense of its separating from the other branches of the government but if the amendment was agreed to it must produce a separation from the president and senate and confirm the opinion fostered in france of a division existing between the government and people much therefore as he cherished unanimity he could not purchase it on this occasion by agreeing to a proposition of so dangerous a tendency mr smith concluded with requesting the committee seriously to ponder on the consequence of agreeing to the amendment it spoke the same feeble language as the address of the last session the same timid reluctance to express our sense of injury the same reliance on negotiation alone if this was all that the gentlemen on the other side proposed doing at this extraordinary session the calling of congress would prove the most humiliating the most calamitous measure that had ever been adopted better indeed had the members remained at their homes and there in secret silence mourned over the dishonor of their country and smothered their resentments than be collected in mass from all parts of the union to be thus publicly exhibited as fellow witnesses of their own shame and the indignities offered their country without the power or even the courage to resent them but he could not believe it possible that the committee should pursue a course so pregnant with humiliation and he confidently persuaded himself that as his country had always displayed its justice so would all parts of the house unite on this occasion to convince the world that her fortitude and firmness were equal"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-28|1|3", "date": "1797-06-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "undaunted attitude this would convince the world we were not to be threatened out of our rights where as a timid supplicating posture could not fail to invite fresh insults and humiliation mr s said he valued unanimity as much as other gentlemen he was sensible that it would be peculiarly important at this juncture it would engage the confidence of the people and fortify the negotiation it would convince the world that however we might differ upon speculative points of administration there was but one sentiment respecting our self government it would extinguish the hopes of those who attempted to keep alive a faction in the country it would crush the expectations of those who wished to substitute a foreign influence to the constituted authorities of the nation but it might still be purchased by two dear sacrifices and he would rather have a bare majority for the report of the committee than an unanimous vote for the amendment so much did he reprobate its principles he thought it of more importance that there should be an unanimity between all the departments of government than an unanimity in the house at the expence of its separating from the other branches of the government but if the amendment was agreed to it must produce a separation from the president and senate and confirm the opinions fostered in france of a division existing between the government and people much therefore as he cherished unanimity he could not purchase it on this occasion by agreeing to a proposition of so dangerous a tendency mr smith concluded with requesting the committee seriously to ponder on the consequence of agreeing to the amendment it spoke the same feeble language as the address of the last session the same timid reluctance to express our sense of injury the same reliance on negotiation alone if this was all that the gentlemen on the other side proposed doing at this extraordinary session the calling of congress would prove the most humiliating the most calamitous measure that had ever been adopted better indeed had the members remained at their homes and there in secret silence mourned over the dishonor of their country and smothered their resentments than be collected in a mass from all parts of the union to be thus publicly exhibited as fellow witnesses of their own shame and the indignities offered their country without the power or even the courage to resent them but he could not believe it possible that the committee would pursue a course so pregnant with humiliation and he confidently pursued himself that as this country had always displayed its justice so would all parts of the house unite on this occasion to convince the world that her fortitude and firmness were equal"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2177, 2311], "b_span": [1243, 1377], "matched_words": 119, "similarity": 0.8880597014925373, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00510", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-05-29|1|3", 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republic have given a sum of lire as a present towards the support of the parents of those who have died and those who have been wounded in the armies of the republic and other poor persons at paris puyfaye who has been arrested at laval in mayenne had a variety of important papers in his possession which have all been secured and will develop the assassinating plots of the most inveterate enemies of the republic advices from constantinople say that the frequent conferences which take place between the polish general oonsky aubert dubayet and the chief dragoman of the porte have given much alarm to the austrian ambassador as they seem to countenance a report concerning the destination of those military preparations and movements carrying forward on the frontiers of wallachia and hungary agreeable to one of the articles of the treaty between the republic and naples the latter is to furnish grain and provisions to the amount of eight millions and to deliver the same free of all duties or expense when and wherever they shall be required by the agents of the republic the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-03|1|2", "date": "1797-06-03", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797060301/0939.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is supposed that they relate to a treaty offensive and defensive concluded between tippoo and the mahrattas the deputies from the new italian republic have given a sum of livres as a present to the support of the parents of those who have died and those who have been wounded in the armies of the republic and other poor persons at paris puyfaye who has been arrested at laval in mayenne had a variety of important papers in his possession which have been secured and develop the assassinating plots of the most inveterate enemies of the republic advices from constantinople say that the frequent conferences which take place between polish general ujonfky aubert dubayet and the chief dragoman of the porte have given much alarm to the austrian ambassador as they seem to countenance a report concerning the destination of those military preparations and movements carrying forward on the frontiers of wallachia and hungary agreeable to one of the articles of the treaty between the republic and naples the latter is to furnish grain and provisions to the amount of eight millions and to deliver the same free of all duties or expence when and wherever they shall be required by the agents of the republic the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2539, 2615], "b_span": [917, 993], "matched_words": 73, "similarity": 0.9605263157894737, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00512", "a": {"key": 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whose animosities have endangered our tranquillity but we have still abundant cause of gratitude to the supreme dispenser of national blessings for general health and promising seasons for domestic and social happiness for the rapid progress and ample acquisitions of industry through extensive territories for civil political and religious liberty while other states are desolated with foreign war or convulsed with intestine divisions the united states present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws general satisfaction of their rights neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice and the preservation of liberty increasing daily in their attachment to a system of government in proportion to their experience of its utility yielding a ready and general obedience to laws flowing from the reason and resting on the only solid foundation the affections of the people it is with extreme regret that i shall be obliged to torn your thoughts to other circumstances which admonish us that some of these felicities may not be lasting but if the tide of our prosperity is full and a reflux commencing a vigilant circumspection becomes us that we may meet our reverses with fortitude and extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power in giving to congress information of the state of the union and recommending to their consideration such measures as appear to me to be expedient or necessary according to my constitutional duty the causes and the objects of the present extraordinary session will be explained after the president of the united states received information that the french government had expressed serious discontents at some proceedings of the u states said to affect the interests of france he thought it expedient to send to that country a new minister fully instructed to enter on such amicable discussions and to give such candid explanations as might happily remove discontents and suspicions of the french government and vindicate the conduct of the united states for this purpose he selected from among his fellow citizens a character whose integrity talents experience and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation the direct object of his mission was expressed in his letter of credence to the french republic being to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations and to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicions and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by shewing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interest of both countries and the real sentiments of his own a minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics the first step of the french government corresponded with that expectation a few days before his arrival at paris the french minister of foreign relations informed the american minister then resident at paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave and by his successor preparatory to his reception the formalities they observed and on the ninth of december presented officially to the minister of foreign relations the one a copy of his letters of recall the other a copy of his letters of credence these were laid before the executive directory two days afterwards the minister of foreign relations informed the recalled american minister that the executive directory had determined not to receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic had a right to expect from it the american minister immediately endeavored to ascertain whether by refusing to receive him it was intended that he should retire from the territories of the french republic and verbal answers were given that such was the intention of the directory for his own justification he desired a written answer but obtained none until towards the last of january when receiving notice in writing to quit the territories of the republic he proceeded to amsterdam where he proposed to wait for instruction from this government during his residence at paris cards of hospitality were refused him and he was threatened with being subjected to the jurisdiction of the minister of police but with becoming firmness he insisted on the protection of the law of nations due to him as the known minister of a foreign power you will derive further information from his dispatches which will be laid before you as it is often necessary that nations should treat for the mutual advantage of their affairs and especially to accommodate and terminate differences and as they can treat only by ministers the right of embassy is well known and established by the law and usage of nations the refusal on the part of france to receive and hear our minister is then the denial of a right but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without discussion and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state with this conduct of the french government it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the u states on his taking leave of the executive directory the speech of the president discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister because more dangerous to our independence and union and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the united states it evidences a disposition to separate the people of the united states from the government to persuade them that they have different affections principles and interests from those of their fellow citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince france and the world that we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority fitted to be miserable instruments of foreign influence and disregards of national honor character and interest i should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them but they have passed on the great theatre of the world in the face of all europe and america and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised and will not soon be forgotten they have inflicted a wound in the american breast it is my sincere desire however that it may be healed it is my sincere desire and in this i presume i concur with you and with our constituents to preserve peace and friendship with all nations and believing that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from france and every other nation the diplomatic intercourse between the united states and france being at present suspended the government has no means of obtaining official information from that country nevertheless there is reason to believe that the executive directory passed a decree on the second of march last contravening in part the treaty of amity commerce of injurious to our lawful commerce and endangering the lives of our citizens a copy of this decree will be laid before you while we are endeavoring to adjust all our differences with france by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your consideration effectual measures of defence the commerce of the united states has become an interesting object of attention whether we consider it in relation to the wealth and finances or the strength and resources of the nation with a sea coast of near two thousand miles in extent opening a wide field for fisheries navigation and commerce a great portion of our citizens naturally apply their industry and enterprise to those objects any serious and permanent injury to our commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders to prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection the naval establishment must occur to every man who considers the injuries committed on our commerce and the insults offered to our citizens and the desolation of the vessels by which these abuses have been practised as the sufferings of our mercantile and seafaring citizens cannot be ascribed to the omission of duties demandable considering the neutral situation of our country they are to be attributed to the hope of impunity arising from a supposed inability on our part to afford protection to resist the consequences of such impressions on the minds of foreign nations and to guard against the degradation and servility which they must finally stamp on the american character is an important duty of government a naval power next to the militia is the natural defence of the united states the experience of the last war would be sufficient to show that a moderate naval force such as would be easily within the present abilities of the union would have been sufficient to have protected many formidable transportations of troops from one state to another which were then practised our sea coasts from their great extent are more easily annoyed and more easily defended by a naval force than any other with all the materials our country abounds in skill our naval architects and navigators are equal to any and commanders and seamen will not be wanting but although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defence appears to be requisite i am sensible it cannot be formed to speedily and extensively as the present crisis demands hitherto i have thought proper to prevent the sailing of armed vessels except to the east-indies where general usage and the danger from pirates appeared to render the permission proper yet the restriction has originated solely from a wish to prevent collusions with the powers at war contravening the act of congress of june one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and not from any doubt entertained by me of the policy and propriety of permitting our vessels to employ means of defence while engaged in a lawful foreign commerce it remains for congress to prescribe such regulations as will enable our seafaring citizens to defend themselves against violations of the law of nations and at the same time refrain them from committing acts of hostility against the powers at war in addition to this voluntary provision for defence by individual citizens it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates and provide other vessels of inferior force to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed the greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partly equipped in the united states although an effectual remedy may be attended with difficulty yet i have thought it my duty to present the subject generally to your consideration if a mode can be devised by the wisdom of congress to prevent the resources of the united states from being converted into the means of arming our trade a great evil will be prevented with the same view i think it proper to mention that some of our citizens resident abroad have fitted out privateers and others have voluntarily taken the command or entered on board of them and committed spoilsations on the commerce of the united states such unnatural and iniquitous practices can be restrained only by severe punishments but besides a protection of our commerce on the seas i think it highly necessary to protect it at home where it is collected in our most important ports the distance of the united states from europe and the well known promptitude ardour and courage of the people in defence of their country happily diminish the probability of invasion nevertheless to guard against sudden and predatory incursions the situation of some of our principal seaports demands your consideration and as our country is vulnerable in other interests besides those of its commerce you will seriously deliberate whether the means of general defence ought not to be increased by an addition to the regular artillery and cavalry and by arrangements for forming a provisional army with the same view and as a measure which even in the time of universal peace ought not to be neglected i recommend to your consideration a revision of the laws for organizing arming and disciplining the militia to render that natural and safe defence of the country efficacious although it is very true that we ought not to involve ourselves in the political system of europe but to keep ourselves always distinct and separate from it if we can yet to effect this separation early punctual and continual information of the current chain of events and of the political projects in contemplation is no less necessary than if we were directly concerned in them it is necessary in order to the discovery of the efforts made to draw us into the vortex in season to make preparations against them however we may consider ourselves the maritime and commercial powers of the world will consider the united states of america as forming a weight in that balance of power in europe which never can be forgotten or neglected it would not only be against our interest but it would be a doing wrong to one half of europe at least if we should voluntarily throw ourselves into either scale it is a natural policy for a nation that studies to be neutral to consult with other nations engaged in the same studies and pursuits at the same time that measures might be pursued with this view our treaties with prussia and sweden one of which is expired and the other near expiring might be renewed gentlemen of the house of representatives it is particularly your province to consider the state of public finances and to adopt such measures respecting them as exigencies shall be found to require the preservation of public credit the regular extinction of the public debt and a provision of funds to defray any extraordinary expenses will of course call for your serious attention although the impositions of new burdens cannot be in itself agreeable yet there is no ground to doubt that the american people will expect from you such measures as their actual engagements their present security and future interests demand gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives the present situation of our country imposes an obligation on all the departments of government to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-07|1|2", "date": "1797-06-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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war or convulsed with intestine divisions the united states present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws generally satisfied with the possession of their rights neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice and the preservation of liberty increasing daily in their attachment to a system of government in proportion to their experience of its utility yielding a ready and general obedience to laws flowing from the reason and resting on the only solid foundation the affections of the people it is with extreme regret that i shall be obliged to turn your thoughts to other circumstances which admonish us that some of these felicities may not be lasting but if the tide of our prosperity is full and a reflux commencing a vigilant circumspection becomes us that we may meet our reverses with fortitude and extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power in giving to congress information of the state of the union and recommending to their consideration such measures as appear to me to be necessary or expedient according to any constitutional duty the causes and the object of the present extraordinary session will be explained after the president of the united states received information that the french government had expressed serious discontent at some proceedings of the government of these states said to affect the interests of france he thought it expedient to send to that country a new minister fully instructed to enter on such amicable discussions and to give such candid explanations as might happily remove the discontent and suspicions of the french government and vindicate the conduct of the united states for this purpose he selected from among his fellow-citizens a character whose integrity talents experience and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation the direct object of his mission was expressed in his letter of credence to the french republic being to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations and to efface unfavorable impressions banish suspicions and restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union and his instructions were to the same effect faithfully to represent the disposition of the government and people of the united states their disposition being one to remove jealousies and obviate complaints by showing that they were groundless to restore that mutual confidence which had been so unfortunately and injuriously impaired and to explain the relative interests of both countries and the real sentiments of his own a minister thus specially commissioned it was expected would have proved the instrument of restoring mutual confidence between the two republics the first step of the french government corresponded with that expectation a few days before his arrival at paris the french minister of foreign relations informed the american minister then resident at paris of the formalities to be observed by himself in taking leave and by his successor preparatory to his reception these formalities they observed and on the th of december presented officially to the minister of foreign relations the one a copy of his letters of recall the other a copy of his letters of credence these were laid before the executive directory two days afterwards the minister of foreign relations informed the recalled american minister that the executive directory had determined not to receive another minister plenipotentiary from the united states until after the redress of grievances demanded of the american government and which the french republic had a right to expect from it the american minister immediately endeavored to ascertain whether by refusing to receive him it was intended that he should retire from the territories of the french republic and verbal answers were given that such was the intention of the directory for his own justification he desired a written answer but obtained none until towards the last of january when receiving notice in writing to quit the territories of the republic he proceeded to amsterdam where he proposed to wait for instruction from this government during his residence at paris cards of hospitality were refused him and he was threatened with being subjected to the jurisdiction of the minister of the police but with becoming firmness he insisted on the protection of the law of nations due to him as the known minister of a foreign power you will derive further information from his dispatches which will be laid before you as it is often necessary that nations should treat for the mutual advantage of their affairs and especially to accommodate and terminate differences and as they can treat only by ministers the right of embassy is well known and established by the law and usage of nations the refusal on the part of france to receive our minister is then the denial of a right but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without discussion and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends nor as a sovereign state with this conduct of the french government it would be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the united states on his taking leave of the executive directory the speech of the president discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister because more dangerous to our independence and union and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the united states it evinces a disposition to separate the people of the united states from the government to persuade them that they have different affections principles and interests from those of their fellow citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince france and the world that we are not a degraded people humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence and regardless of national honor character and interest i should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them but they have passed on the great theatre of the world in the face of all europe and america and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised and will not soon be forgotten they have inflicted a wound in the american breast it is my sincere desire however that it may be healed it is my desire and in this i presume i concur with you and our constituents to preserve peace and friendship with all nations and believing that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we will be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from france and every other nation the diplomatic intercourse between the united states and france being at present suspended the government has no means of obtaining official information from that country nevertheless there is reason to believe that the executive directory passed a decree on the d of march last contravening in part the treaty of amity and commerce of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight injurious to our lawful commerce and endangering the lives of our citizens a copy of this decree will be laid before you while we are endeavouring to adjust all our differences with france by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs render it my indispensable duty to recommend to your consideration effectual measures of defence the commerce of the united states has become an interesting object of attention whether we consider it in relation to the wealth and finances or the strength and resources of the nation with a sea-coast of near two thousand miles in extent opening a wide field for fisheries navigation and commerce a great portion of our citizens naturally apply their industry and enterprise to these objects any serious and permanent injury to commerce would not fail to produce the most embarrassing disorders to prevent it from being undermined and destroyed it is essential that it receive an adequate protection the naval establishment must occur to every man who considers the injuries committed on our commerce the insults offered to our citizens the description of the vessels by which these abuses have been practised as the sufferings of our mercantile seafaring citizens cannot be ascribed to the omission of duties demandable considering the neutral situation of our country they are to be attributed to the hope of impunity arising from a supposed inability on our part to afford protection to resist the consequences of such impressions on the minds of foreign nations and to guard against the degradation and servility which they must finally stamp on the american character is an important duty of government a naval power next to the militia is the natural defence of the united states the experience of the last war would be sufficient to shew that a moderate naval force such as would be easily within the present abilities of the union would have been sufficient to have baffled many formidable transportation of troops from one state to another which were then practised our sea coasts from their great extent are more easily annoyed and more easily defended by a naval force than any other with all the materials our country abounds in skill our naval architects and navigators are equal to any and commanders and seamen will not be wanting but although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defence appears to be requisite i am sensible it cannot be formed so speedily and extensively as the present crisis demands hitherto i have thought proper to prevent the sailing of armed vessels except to the east-indies where general usage and the danger from pirates appeared to render the permission proper yet the restriction has originated solely from a wish to prevent collisions with the powers at war contravening the act of congress of june one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four and not from any doubt entertained by me of the policy and propriety of permitting our vessels to employ means of defence while engaged in a lawful foreign commerce it remains for congress to prescribe such regulations as will enable our seafaring citizens to defend themselves against violations of the law of nations at the same time restrain them from committing acts of hostility against the powers at war in addition to this voluntary provision for defence by individual citizens it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates and provide other vessels of inferior force to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed the greater part of the cruisers whose depredations have been most injurious have been built and some of them partially equipped in the united states although an effectual remedy may be attended with difficulty yet i have thought it my duty to present the subject generally to your consideration if a mode can be devised by the wisdom of congress to prevent the resources of the united states from being converted into the means of annoying our trade a great evil will be prevented with the same view i think it proper to mention that some of our citizens resident abroad have fitted out privateers and others have voluntarily taken the command or entered on board of them and committed depredations on the commerce of the united states such unnatural and iniquitous practices can be restrained only by severe punishments but besides a protection of our commerce on the seas i think it highly necessary to protect it at home where it is collected in our most important ports the distance of the united states from europe and the well known promptitude ardor and courage of the people in defence of their country happily diminish the probability of invasion nevertheless to guard against sudden and predatory incursions the situation of some of our principal sea ports demands your consideration and as our country is vulnerable in other interests besides those of its commerce you will seriously deliberate whether the means of general defence ought not to be increased by an addition to the regular artillery and cavalry and by arrangements for forming a provisional army with the same view and as a measure which even in time of universal peace ought not to be neglected i recommend to your consideration a revision of the laws for organizing arming and disciplining the militia to render that natural and safe defence of the country efficacious although it is very true that we ought not to involve ourselves in the political system of europe but to keep ourselves always distinct and separate from it if we can yet to effect this separation early punctual and continual information of the current chain of events and of the political projects in contemplation is no less necessary than if we were directly concerned in them it is necessary in order to the discovery of the efforts made to draw us into the vortex in season to make preparations against them however we may consider ourselves the maritime and commercial powers of the world will consider the united states of america as forming a weight in that balance of power in europe which never can be forgotten or neglected it would not only be against our interest but it would be doing wrong to one half of europe at least if we should voluntarily throw ourselves into either scale it is a natural policy for a nation that it is to be neutral to consult with other nations engaged in the same studies and pursuits at the same time that measures might be pursued with this view our treaties with prussia and sweden one of which is expired and the other near expiring might be renewed gentlemen of the house of representatives it is particularly your province to consider the state of the public finances and to adopt such measures respecting them as exigencies shall be found to require the preservation of public credit the regular extinguishment of the public debt and a provision of funds to defray any extraordinary expenses will of course call for your serious attention although the imposition of new burthens cannot be in itself agreeable yet there is no ground to doubt that the american people will expect from you such measures as their actual engagements their present security and future interests demand gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives the present situation of our country imposes an obligation on all the departments of government to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2795, 3121], "b_span": [6, 334], "matched_words": 319, "similarity": 0.9755351681957186, "seeds": 58, "id": "M00515", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-05-29|1|3", "date": "1797-05-29", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-05-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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factions in opposition to their own government they will forfeit the honourable station they have hitherto maintained for myself having never been indifferent to what concerned the interests of my country devoted the best part of my life to obtain and support its independence and constantly witnessed the patriotism fidelity and perseverance of my fellow-citizens on the most trying occasions it is not for me to hesitate or abandon a cause in which my heart has been so long engaged convinced that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and that they have been fairly executed nothing will ever be done by me to impair the national engagements to innovate upon principles which have been deliberately and rightly established or to surrender in any manner the rights of the government to enable me to maintain this declaration i rely under god with entire confidence on the firm and enlightened support of the national legislature and upon the virtue and patriotism of my fellow citizens john adams"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-07|1|3", "date": "1797-06-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797060701/0950.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "principles by which my administration will be governed ought not to be omitted it is impossible to conceal from ourselves or the world what has been before observed that endeavors have been employed to foster and establish a division between the government and people of the united states to investigate the causes which have encouraged this attempt is not necessary but to repel by decided and united councils insinuations so derogatory to 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to be the opinion in france that much depended upon the election of the president as one of the candidates was considered as a friend of england and the other as devoted to france the people of france he observes have been greatly deceived with respect to the united states by misrepresentations being led to believe that the people and government have different views but adds he any attempt to divide the people from the government ought to be to the people of the united states the signal for rallying gen pinckney several times mentions mr munroe in his letter with great respect and says that before his arrival the directory had been very cool towards him but since that time they had renewed their civilities to him is a report of major-general mountflorence to gen pinckney dated dec on subject of american vessels brought prizes into the ports of france extract of a letter from gen pinckney to sec'y of state dated paris jan in which he mentions the distressed situation of american citizens arriving in the ports of france who were immediately thrown into prison and could not be released until an order was got from the american minister countersigned by the french minister of foreign affairs and no minister being acknowledged there at present no relief could be afforded he however applied to m delacroix on their behalf by means of the secretary major rutledge and got them attended to thro the minister of general police gen pinckney gives a further account of conversation which passed between his secretary and delacroix on the subject of his quitting paris in which he told him he must do so or be liable to the operation of the police laws but refused to commit his orders in writing he mentions barras answer to munroe's address as a curious production but says it was not particularly calculated as an answer to what was said by mr munroe as he had it prepared before he was acquainted with what would be said by mr munroe extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam feb informing him that having had official notice to quit the french republic he had gone to amsterdam extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam march in which he observes that before he left paris it was rumoured that the dutch were determined to treat american vessels in the same manner as the french had done he now believes that the french wished them to do so as he had lately received intelligence that the dutch had objected to do this alleging that it would be a great injury to them as they should then lose their trade with this country and if so they would be deprived of furnishing that support to the french which they then gave them france acquiesced because the law it was her interest and having troops in batavia it was generally known they could do what they pleased with that country the gen adds with detestation that there are american citizens who fit out privateers to cruise against the trade of this country extract of a letter from major gen mountflorence to general pinckney dated paris february mentioning the capture of a vessel from boston and another from baltimore by an american citizen on board a privateer adding that american citizens of this class are continually wishing for more rigorous laws against american commerce extract of a letter from the same to the same dated paris feb giving an account of two more american vessels being brought into l'orient by the same man and another vessel taken by a french privateer extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam march mentioning the capture of several american vessels he also speaks of the disagreeableness of his situation and was of opinion that the new third of the french councils would determine whether this country france were to remain at peace or go to war though the former was desirable he wished the measures of our government to be firm speech of barras president of the french directory on mr munroe's recall the decree of the executive directory of march relative to the seizing of american vessels extract of a letter from john quincy adams esq minister resident of the united states near the batavian republic to the secretary of state dated at the hague nov giving an account of the disposition of the people of that country towards this which he states to be friendly and this he attributes to its being their interest to be so this country he remarks is the only quarter from which they receive regular payments he adds however that they have no will in opposition to the french government extract of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-14|1|2", "date": "1797-06-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061401/0963.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "house that he had received a communication from the department of state containing sundry documents referred to by the president in his speech to both houses numbered from to he proceeded to read no viz a letter from general pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris dec giving an account of his arrival at bourdeaux of his journey from thence to paris in which from the badness of the roads he broke three wheels of his carriage of the ill treatment he received from m delacroix c he remarks that it is not surprising that the french republic have refused to receive him since they have dismissed no less than thirteen foreign ministers and since they have been led to believe by a late emigrant that the united states was of no greater consequence to them than the republics of genoa or geneva he also mentions that it seemed to be the opinion in france that much depended upon the election of the president as one of the candidates was considered as a friend of england and the other as devoted to france the people of france he observes have been greatly deceived with respect to the united states by misrepresentation being led to believe that the people and government have different views but adds he any attempt to divide the people from the government ought to be to the people of the united states the signal for rallying gen pinckney several times mentions mr munroe in this letter with great respect and says that before his arrival the directory had been very cool towards him but since that time they have renewed their civilities to him is a report of maj gen mountflorenc to general pinckney dated december on the subject of american vessels brought prizes into the ports of france extract of a letter from general pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris jan in which he mentions the distressed situation of american citizens arriving in the ports of france who were immediately thrown into prison and could not be released until an order was got from the american minister countersigned by the french minister of affairs and no minister being acknowledged there at present no relief could be afforded he however applied to m delacroix on their behalf by means of the secretary major rutledge and got them attended to through the minister of general police gen pinckney gives a further account of conversations which passed between his secretary and m delacroix on the subject of his quitting paris in which he told him he must do so or be liable to the operation of the police laws but refused to commit his orders to writing he mentions barras's answer to munroe's address as a curious production but says it was not particularly calculated as an answer to what was said by mr munroe as he had it prepared and was unacquainted with what would be said by mr munroe extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam feb informing him that having had official notice to quit the french republic he had gone to amsterdam extract of a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam march in which he observes that before he left paris it was rumoured that the dutch were determined to treat american vessels in the same manner as the french had done he now believes that the french wished them to do so as he had lately received intelligence that the dutch had objected to do this alledging that it would be a great injury to them as they should then lose their trade with this country and if so they would be deprived of furnishing that support to the french which they then gave them france acquiesced because she saw it was her interest and having troops in batavia it was generally known they could do what they pleased with that country the general adds with detestation that there are american citizens who sit out privateers to cruise against the trade of this country extract of a letter from major general mountflorenc to gen pinckney dated paris february mentioning the capture of a vessel from boston and another from baltimore by an american citizen on board a privateer adding that american citizens of this class are continually wishing for more rigorous laws against american commerce extract of a letter from the same to the same dated paris february giving an account of two more american vessels being brought into l'orient by the same man and of another vessel taken by a french privateer extract of a letter from general pinckney to the secretary of state dated amsterdam march mentioning the capture of several american vessels he also speaks of the disagreeableness of his situation and was of opinion that the new third of the french councils would determine whether this country and france were to remain at peace or go to war though the former was desirable he wished the measures of our government to be firm speech of barras president of the french directory on mr munroe's recall the decree of the executive directory of march relative to the seizing of american 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contraband of war which in former treaties were not considered so and as it gives to great-britain a right to navigate the mississippi which that minister insists belongs not to us to give as it belonged wholly to spain before it gave the right to the united states by the late treaty to navigate that river he concludes his letter with saying that the king of spain is desirous of harmony between the two countries and relies upon the equity of his complaints for satisfaction a letter from the secretary of state to the spanish minister in answer to the above in which he acknowledges that the treaty lately concluded between the two countries had proved satisfactory to the united states as it put an end to a dispute which had existed for many years respecting the navigation of the mississippi and also as it afforded satisfaction to our mercantile citizens for the capture of their ships and cargoes all these he allowed were acts of substantial justice but all the other stipulations were wholly voluntary and perfectly reciprocal with respect to the three articles of complaint respecting the british treaty he justified the stipulations as being just and consistent and such as this country had a right to enter into a letter from gen pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris feb stating that the day after the arrival of the news of buonaparte's successes in italy he received a letter from m delacroix directing him to leave paris gen pinckney concluded this letter with observing that the french seemed to speak of this country as if it were indebted to them for independence and not to any exertions of our own our treaty with great-britain is execrated they wish us to have no connection with that country they wish to destroy the trade of great-britain and they look upon us as her best customer the whole of these documents have been read on motion they were committed to the committee of the whole on the state of the union and copies ordered to be printed"}, "b": {"key": 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of the british treaty against spain in three respects viz as it destroys the doctrine of free ships making free goods as it makes certain articles contraband of war which in former treaties were not considered so and as it gives to great britain a right to navigate the mississippi which that mi nister insists belonged to us to give as it belonged wholly to spain before it gave the right to the united states by the late treaty to navigate that river he concludes the letter with saying that the king of spain is dis posous of harmony between the two countries and relies upon the equity of his complaints for satisfaction a letter from the secretary of state to the spanish minister in answer to the above in which he acknow ledges that the treaty lately conclud ed between the two countries had proved satisfactory to the u states as it put an end to a dispute which had existed for many years respecting the navigation of the mississippi and also as it afforded satisfaction to our mer cantile citizens for the capture of their ships and cargoes all these he allow ed were acts of substantial justice but all the other stipulations were wholly voluntary and perfectly reciprocated with respect to the three articles of complaint respecting the british treaty he justified the stipulations as be ing just and consistent and such as this country had a right to enter into a letter from general pinckney to the secretary of state dated paris feb stating that the day after the arrival of the news of buonaparte's successes in italy he received a letter from m delacroix directing him to leave paris gen pinckney concludes this letter with observing that the french seemed to speak of this coun try as if it were indebted to them for independence and not to any exerti ons of our own our treaty with g britain is execrated they wish us to have no connection with that country they wish to destroy the trade of g britain and they look upon us as her best customer the whole of these documents hav 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to the late minister of the united states such sentiments serve to discover the imperfect knowledge which france possesses of the real opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability happy would it have been if the transactions disclosed in your communication had never taken place or that they could have been concealed sensibly however as we feel the wound which has been inflicted we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|3", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", 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republic tending to endanger a situation so desirable and interesting to our country upon this occasion we feel it our duty to express in the most explicit manner the sensations which the present crisis has excited and to assure you of our zealous co-operation in those measures which may appear necessary to our security or peace although it is in the earnest of our hearts that peace may be maintained with the french republic and with all the world yet we never will surrender those rights which belong to us as a nation and whilst we view with satisfaction the wisdom dignity and moderation which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempts to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered to our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our continent they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of the opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability sensibly as we feel the wound which has been inflicted by the transactions disclosed in your communications yet we think with you 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that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honor and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|3", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797060501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any untoward event which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honour and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [39, 819], 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attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability happy would it have been if the transactions disclosed in your communication had never taken place or that they could have been concealed sensibly however as we feel the wound which has been inflicted we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace and we are happy to learn that fresh attempts at negotiation will be commenced nor can we too strongly express our sincere desires that an accommodation may take place on terms compatible with the rights interest and honor of our nation fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any unfavorable events which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honor and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-17|1|2", "date": "1797-06-17", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797061701/0971.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the united states sir the interesting detail of those events which have rendered the convention of congress at this time indispensable communicated in your speech to both houses has excited in us the strongest emotions whilst we regret the occasion we cannot omit to testify our approbation of the measure and to pledge ourselves that no considerations of private inconvenience shall prevent on our part 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which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempts to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our constituents they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate in expressing our indignation at the sentiments disclosed by the president of the executive directory of france in his speech to the late minister of the united states such sentiments serve to discover the imperfect knowledge which france possesses of real opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow citizens will convince the world of its impracticability happy would it have been if the transactions disclosed in your communication had never taken place or that they could have been concealed sensibly however as we feel the wound which has been inflicted we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace and we are happy to learn that fresh attempts at negotiation will be commenced nor can we too strongly express our sincere desires that an accommodation may take place on terms compatible with the rights interest and honor of our nation fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall 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"vienna march the information received from italy is by no means favorable the french have attacked the austrian lines in venetian friul which brought on a bloody contest in which a number of men were lost on both sides the austrians were obliged to leave their advantageous position after the french had been four times repulsed but returned with fresh troops which compelled the imperialists to retire behind the river lizonza the french then entering udine threatened palma nuova and even trieste two austrian generals are made prisoners and two squadrons of hussars nearly cut in pieces nothing could equal the courage of the austrians in general except that of the archduke himself who was exposed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1086, 1242], "b_span": [10, 232], "matched_words": 149, "similarity": 0.7883597883597884, "seeds": 25, "id": "M00526", "a": {"key": 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the period of opening the campaign approaches from the districts of the lahn and sieg we learn that the austrians are receiving many reinforcements and that they have established some magazines between those two rivers cologne march on the th instant a long conference took place at neuwied between"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-21|1|3", "date": "1797-06-21", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062101/0982.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the archduke's being attacked on the same day on which he intended to have attacked the enemy was given rise to a number of speculations bozen march it does not appear to be the enemy's object to penetrate to innsbruck but to take the route from brixen to salzburg a plan by which a junction may be formed between their tyrolean army and that which is acting against the archduke in tirol we are much alarmed for tyrol because since the arrival of the french the imperial troops in that quarter are cut off from any communication with the archduke's grand army in the country of gortz the whole of the french is estimated at men buonaparte has the flower of the french army mulheim march fear and uneasiness begin to pervade the minds of the people in proportion as the period of opening the campaign approaches for some time past the number of frenchmen was not very considerable both here and in our environs but yesterday a great number of them arrived again the wupper is strong lined with troops from the districts of lahn and sieg we learn that the austrians are receiving reinforcement and that they have established some magazines between those two rivers cologne march on the th instant a long conference took place at neuwied between"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic 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fall back and immediately after the grenadiers of the d and th demi-brigades in close columns forced the bridge beating the enemy notwithstanding their entrenchments and chevaux de frise pursuing them to ponteba taking prisoners all belonging to the regiments lately brought from the rhine all the magazines which the enemy possessed on this side became our property the rangers of the th regiment with sword in hand rushed forward into the enemy's entrenchments and have consequently new claims to the esteem of the army signed buonaparte buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters goritz d germinal d march citizen directors we entered yesterday into goritz the enemy's army have effected their retreat with much precipitation that it has left in our hands four hospitals containing sick and all the magazines of provisions and warlike ammunition of which i will give you an account by the next courier the division of gen bernadotte went yesterday to camiza its advanced guard and the rear-guard of the enemy have had a rencontre at camiza the th regiment of chas seurs charged the enemy with so much impetuosity that they made hussars prisoners with their horses gen massena pursued the enemy to la ponteba buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters goritz th germinal th march citizen directors you will find subjoined an account of the articles we have found in goritz i will send to you by the next courier an account of those we have found in trieste we are masters of the celebrated mines of idria we have there found substances prepared for two millions we are placing it in the wagons and if this operation succeeds without any accident it will be very useful to our finances buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters goritz d germinal march citizen directors gen guieu with his division went on the second to cividale at caporetto he there encountered the enemy entrenched at pufere attacked them and took from them two pieces of cannon and prisoners and pursued them into the defiles of caporetto in the austrian chinee and left the field of battle covered with austrians gen massena with his divisions is at tarvis i have therefore reason to hope that the men whom gen guieu has pushed before him will fall into the hands of the division of massena the general of division dugua entered trieste last night buonaparte gen bernadotte to the austrian commander of gradisca head-quarters gradisca th ventose march you have defended yourself sir like a brave man and by your conduct you have acquired the esteem of soldiers but any further obstinacy would be a crime which i would make fall on you principally and for the purpose of justifying myself to posterity i now summon you to surrender in ten minutes if you refuse i will put your troops to the sword spare blood the principles of philanthropy which ought to animate a chief impose on you this obligation the feales are prepared and the grenadiers and chas seurs demanded the assault with loud cries i am with esteem the gen of division bernadotte buonaparte commander in chief of the army of italy to the executive directory head-quarters at goritz germinal march th year citizen directors i gave you an account by my last courier that a column of the army of prince charles was hemmed in between the division of gen massena who was at tarvis and that of gen guieu who on arriving at caporetto pushed it into the defiles battle of tarvis gen massena being arrived at tarvis was attacked by a division of the enemy which left clagenfurt and came to the assistance of the division that was hemmed in after a conflict extremely obstinate he put it to the route and took a vast number of prisoners among whom are three generals the emperor's cuirassiers who arrived from the rhine have suffered most severely engagement of la chinse meanwhile gen guieu drove the column which he had defeated to pufere as far as the austrian chinee a post extremely well entrenched but which was carried by assault after a very obstinate engagement in which general don verdier and the fourth half brigade as well as the d particularly distinguished themselves gen kables himself defended the chinee with grenadiers by the laws of war these men ought to have been put to the sword but this barbarous right has always been disclaimed and never been exercised by the french army the hostile column seeing the chinee taken precipitated its march and fell into the middle of the division of gen massena who after a slight combat made the whole column prisoners pieces of cannon wagons carrying the baggage of the enemy men and four generals fell into our hands i am eager to apprise you of this event because under the present circumstances it is indispensable that you should be informed of everything without delay i reserve it to give you a more detailed account of all these events as soon as i shall have received all the reports and as soon as every moment shall be less precious the chain of the alps which parts france and switzerland from italy separates the italian part of tyrol from the german part the venetian states from the tirol of the emperor and carinthia from the county of goritz and gradisca the division of massena has crossed the italian alps our enemies were so awkward at to entral all their baggage and part of the army by the noric alps who were that moment taken the engagement of tarvis was fought above the clouds on a height which commanded germany in several parts to which our line extended the how lay three feet deep and the cavalry charging on the lees suffered accidents the result of which were extremely"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-13|1|2", "date": "1797-06-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797061301/0304.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "our future success gen bernadotte himself his aid-de-camp and generals braved every difficulty and danger i solicit the rank of general of brigade for adjutant general mireur battle of casasola the division of gen massena carrying the first of le chinfie encountering the enemy who wishes to dispute the passage of the bridge of casasola the riflemen forced the enemy to fall back and immediately after the grenadiers of the d and th demi brigade in close columns forced the bridge bearing the enemy notwithstanding their entrenchments and chevaux de frise pursuing them even to pontiebba taking prisoners all belonging to the regiments lately brought from the rhine all the magazines which the enemy possessed on this side also became our property the ranges of the th regiment with sword in hand rushed forward into the enemy's entrenchment and have consequently new claims to the esteem of the army signed buonaparte buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters goritz d germinal d march citizen directors we entered yesterday into goritz the enemy's army have effected their retreat with so much precipitation that it has left in our hands four hospitals containing sick and all the magazines of provisions and warlike ammunition of which i will give you an account by the next courier the division of gen bernadotte went yesterday to camiza his advanced guard and the rear guard of the enemy have had a rencontre at carminia the th regiment of chasseurs charged the enemy with so much impetuosity that they made hussars prisoners with their horses gen massena pursued the enemy to la pontiebba buonaparte buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters goritz th germinal th march citizen directors you will find subjoined an account of the articles we have found in goritz i will send to you by the next courier an account of those we have found in trieste we are masters of the celebrated mines of d'yoria we have found substance prepared for two millions we are placing it in waggons and if this operation succeeds without any accident it will be very useful to our finances buonaparte buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters goritz th germinal march citizen directors gen guieux with his division went on the d to cividale at caporetto he there encountered the enemy entrenched at putero attacked them and took from them pieces of cannon and prisoners and pursued them into the defiles of caporetto in the austrian chinfie and left the field of battle covered with austrians gen massena with his division is at tarvis i have therefore reason to hope that the men whom gen guieux has pushed before him will fall into the hands of the division of massena the general of division dugua entered trieste last night buonaparte buonaparte to the austrian commander of gradisca head-quarters gradisca th ventose march you have defended yourself sir like a brave man and by your conduct you have acquired the esteem of soldiers but any further obstinacy would be a crime which i would make fall on you principally and for the purpose of justifying myself to posterity i now summon you to surrender in ten minutes if you refuse i will put your troops to the sword spare blood the principles of philanthropy which ought to animate a chief impose on you this obligation the scales are prepared and the grenadiers and chasseurs demand the assault with loud cries i am with esteem the gen of division buonaparte buonaparte commander in chief of the army of italy to the executive directory head-quarters at goritz th germinal march th year citizen directors i gave you an account by my last courier that a column of the army of prince charles was hemmed in between the division of general massena who was at tarvis and that of general guieux who on arriving at caporetto pushed into the defiles i now give you further particulars battle of tarvis general massena being arrived at tarvis was attacked by a division of the enemy which left clagenforth and came to the assistance of the division that was hemmed in after a conflict extremely obstinate he put it to the route and took a vast number of prisoners among whom are three generals the emperor's cuirassiers who arrived from the rhine have suffered most severely engagement of la chinfie meanwhile general guieux drove the column which he had defeated to putero as far as the austrian chinfie a post extremely well entrenched but which was carried by assault after a very obstinate engagement in which gen don verdier and the fourth half brigade as well as the d particularly distinguished themselves gen kables himself defended the chinfie with grenadiers by the laws of war these men ought to have been put to the sword but this barbarous right has always been disclaimed and never exercised by the french army the hostile column seeing the chinfie taken precipitated its march and fell into the middle of the division of gen massena who after a slight combat made the whole column prisoners pieces of cannon waggons carrying the baggage of the enemy men and four generals fell into our hands i am eager to apprise you of this event because under the present circumstances it is indispensable that you should be informed of every thing without delay i reserve it to give you a more detailed account of these events as soon as i shall have received all the reports and soon as every moment shall be less precious the chain of the alps which parts france and switzerland from italy separates the italian part of tyrol from the german part the venetian states from the dominions of the emperor and carinthia from the county of goritz and gradisca the division of massena have crossed the italian alps our enemies were so awkward as to entral all their baggage and part of the army by the noric alps who were that moment taken the engagement of tarvis was fought above the clouds on a height which commands germany in several parts to which our line extended the snow lay three 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from falling into the hands of the enemy the heroic behaviour of his royal highness upon this occasion is spoken of in terms of the highest admiration on the intelligence of this disaster reaching vienna that city was thrown into the utmost consternation and in the moment of alarm many of the inhabitants proceeded to pack up their property for the purpose of removing it to a place of greater security such are the general outlines of the private advices received upon this subject the official dispatches received by government on thursday it is however necessary to observe make no mention whatever of any general engagement having taken place they however make mention that the imperialists had been defeated in a partial action with the loss of one general and men taken prisoners and adds that there had been several affairs of posts in which the french were generally victorious the archduke it is allowed on all hands has retreated into carinthia but whether in consequence of the defeat 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inhabitants proceeded to pack up their property for the purpose of removing it to a place of greater safety such are the general outlines of the private advices received upon this subject the official dispatches received by government on thursday it is however necessary to observe make no mention whatever of any general engagement having taken place they however make mention that the imperialists had been defeated in a partial action with the loss of one general and men taken prisoners and add that there had been several affairs of posts in which the french were generally victorious the archduke it is allowed on all hands has retreated into corinthia but whether in consequence of the defeat stated to have been sustained by him or for the purpose of concentrating his force for the defence of austria is difficult to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1682, 1784], 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which the archduke was reported to have taken and he can here receive the reinforcements which are sending to him without any interruption"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-24|1|2", "date": "1797-06-24", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062401/0987.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "graham in the london gazette of saturday evening is so far satisfactory as it enables the public to ascertain the position of the archduke's army in italy which has been very erroneously represented instead of his royal highness having been forced to retreat to clagenfurt the capital of corinthia it appears that on the th ult he was only at vipach in carniola about miles from cradiska and from trieste this position is much more favorable than that which the 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an event which still appears to us as a dream has taken place the first families of this city have placed themselves under the protection of the french all the venetian authorities are suspended and all the troops have disbanded and disbanded a municipality has been elected which has already administered the oath to about persons"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-28|1|3", "date": "1797-06-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an unexpected and important change has taken place in the venetian territory three of the principal towns of that republic verona brescia and bergamo the former of which contains the second and the last inhabitants together with the town of crema have thrown themselves on the 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wadsworth j williams nays messrs baldwin baird blount bryan cabell coit davis dent fowler giles gregg harper lyon macon m'clenachan m'dowell nicholas parker sumpter venable r williams the question was then taken upon mr dayton's amendment as amended when the yeas and nays were as follows yeas messrs baldwin baird blount brent bryan cabell champlin claiborn clay clopton dana davis dawson elmendorf findley n freeman gallatin giles gillespie gregg hanna harrison havens holmes jones kittera livingston locke lyon machir macon m'clenachan m'dowell milledge morgan new nicholas otis parker potter reed rutledge schureman skinner s smith w smith p sprigg standford sumpter swanwick thomas a trigg j trigg van cortlandt varnum venable j williams r williams nays messrs allen baer bayard"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-11|1|2", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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amended by yeas and nays as follows yeas messrs allen baer baldwin bard bayard bradbury brooke chapman champlin cochran coit craik dana davenport dennis dent ege evans a foster d foster j freeman n freeman gallatin glenn goodrich gordon griswold grove hanna harper harrison hartley hindman holmes hofmer imlay jones lyman machir milledge morgan nicholas otis potter reed rutledge schureman sewall shepard skinner sinnickson j smith n smith"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-11|1|2", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071101/0320.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "yeas messrs baldwin baird blount brent bryan burgess cabel chapman claiborn clay clopton coit davis dawson dent elmdorff fowler n freeman gallatin giles gillespie gregg grove hanna harrison havens holmes jones locke lyon macon m c clenchan m c dowell milledge new nicholas parker skinner s smith w smith p r sprigg stanford sumpter swanwick a trigg j trigg van cortlandt varnum venable r williams nays messrs allen baer bayard bradbury brookes champlin cochran craik dana davenport dennis ege evans a foster d foster j freeman glenn goodrich gordon griswold harper hartley hindman hofner imlay kittera lyman machir matthews morgan otis potter reed rutledge schureman sewall shepard sinnickson sitgreaves j smith n smith w smith c thompson thomas thatcher van allen wadsworth j williams the question was then taken on striking out the th and th sections which provided for nine additional vessels of guns each it was taken by yeas and nays as follows yeas messrs baldwin baird blount brent bryan burgess cabell chapman claiborn clay clopton coit davis dawson dennis dent elmdorff evans d foster fowler n freeman gallatin giles gillespie gregg griswold grove hanna harper harrison hartley havens holmes jones kittera locke lyman lyon machir macon matthews m c clenchan m c dowell milledge morgan new nicholas otis parker potter reed rutledge schureman sewall shepard skinner sinnickson j smith n smith"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3727, 3814], "b_span": [102, 187], "matched_words": 83, "similarity": 0.9651162790697675, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00534", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|2", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797060501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a quaker lately invited a tradesman to dine with him whom he treated with an excellent dinner wine tobacco c his guest after drinking pretty freely became rude and abusive to his host inasmuch that the quaker's patience was at length exhausted and he addressed him in the following words friend i have given thee a meat offering a drink offering and a burnt offering and for thy misconduct i will now give thee a heavy offering and immediately threw him into the street out of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-28|1|4", "date": "1797-06-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797062801/0004.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a quaker lately invited a tradesman to dine with him whom he treated with an excellent dinner wine to-bacco c his guest after drinking pretty freely became rude and abusive to his host inasmuch that the quaker's patience was at length exhausted and he addressed him in the following words friend i have given thee a meat offering a drink offering and burnt offering and for thy misconduct i will now give thee a heave offering and immediately threw into the street out of the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [63, 157], "b_span": [1321, 1415], "matched_words": 88, "similarity": 0.9361702127659575, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00535", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|3", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797060501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote and accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interest and honor of the nation if we have committed errors and there can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we shall be willing to compensate them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-07|1|2", "date": "1797-06-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-06-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797060701/0947.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the honor nor the interest of the united states absolutely forbid the repetition of advances for securing these desirable objects with france i shall institute a fresh attempt at negotiation and shall not fail to promote accelerate an accommodation on terms compatible with the rights duties interests honor of the nation if we have committed errors and these can be demonstrated we shall be willing to correct them if we have done injuries we will be willing on conviction to redress them and equal measures of justice we have a right to expect from"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1325, 2710], "b_span": [955, 2396], "matched_words": 1353, "similarity": 0.9575371549893843, "seeds": 248, "id": "M00536", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|3", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797060501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the following address to the president of the united states the interesting detail of those events which have rendered the convention of congress at this time indispensable communicated in your speech to both houses has excited in us the strongest emotions whilst we regret the occasion we cannot omit to testify our approbation of the measure and to pledge ourselves that no considerations of private inconvenience shall prevent on our part a faithful discharge of the duties to which we are called we have constantly hoped that the nations of europe whilst defeated by foreign wars or intestine divisions would have left the united states to enjoy that peace and tranquility so which the imperial conduct of our government had entitled us and it is now with extreme regret we find the measures of the french republic tending to endanger a situation so desirable and interesting to our country upon this occasion we feel it our duty to express in the most explicit manner the sensations which the present crisis has excited and to assure you of our zealous co-operation in those measures which may appear necessary to our security or peace although it is in the earnest of our hearts that peace may be maintained with the french republic and with all the world yet we never will surrender those rights which belong to us as a nation and whilst we view with satisfaction the wisdom dignity and moderation which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempts to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered to our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our continent they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of the opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability sensibly as we feel the wound which has been inflicted by the transactions disclosed in your communications yet we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace we therefore receive with the utmost satisfaction your information that a fresh attempt at negotiation will be instituted and we cherish the hope that a mutual spirit of conciliation and a disposition on the part of france to compensate for any injuries which may have been committed upon our neutral rights and on the part of the united states to place france on grounds similar to those of other countries in their relation and connection with us if any inequality shall be found to exist will produce an accommodation compatible with the rights duties and honor of the united states fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any untoward event which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honour and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself and advantage to our common country to which he returned the following answer mr speaker and gentlemen of the house of representatives i receive with great satisfaction your candid approbation of the convention of congress and thank you for your assurances that the interesting subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive the attention which their importance demands and that your co-operation may be expected in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace the declaration of the representatives of this nation of their satisfaction at my promotion to the first office in the government and of their confidence in my sincere endeavours to discharge the several duties of it with advantage to our common country have excited my most grateful sensibility i pray you gentlemen to believe and to communicate such assurance to our constituents that no events which i can foresee to be attainable by any exertions in the discharge of my duties can afford me so much cordial satisfaction as to conduct a negotiation with the french republic to a removal of prejudices a correction of errors a disposition of imbrages an accommodation of all differences and a restoration of harmony and affection to the mutual satisfaction of both nations and whenever the legitimate organs of intercourse shall be restored and the real sentiments of the two governments can be candidly communicated to each other although strongly impressed with the necessity of collecting ourselves into a manly posture of defence i nevertheless entertain an encouraging confidence that a mutual spirit of conciliation a disposition to compensate in injuries and accommodate each other in all our relations and connections will produce an agreement to a treaty consistent with the engagements rights duties and honour of both nations john adams united states june the house having returned mr smith ch gave notice that if the house were to go into committee of the whole on the state of the union to take up the subject matter of the president's speech that he had business to present which would require recess the galleries were accordingly cleared at three the house adjourned before adjournment they determined that the business brought forward with closed doors did not require recess the following are the propositions introduced resolved as the opinion of this committee that further provision ought to be made for fortifying the ports and harbours of the united states resolved that provision be made by law for completing and manning the frigates united states constitution and constellation resolved that provision be made by law for procuring by purchase a further naval force to consist of three frigates of guns and six sloops of war resolved that provision be made by law for empowering the president to employ the naval force of the united states as convoys to protect the trade thereof resolved c for regulating the arming of the merchant vessels of the united states resolved that the military establishment ought to be augmented by an addition of one regiment a corps of artificers and engineers and companies of dragoons resolved c for empowering the president to raise a provisional army to consist of regiments of infantry one regiment of artillery and one regiment of dragoons by commissioning the officers and by volunteers or enlistments whenever the country shall in his opinion require the said army necessary for the protection and defence of the united states provided that neither the officers or soldiers shall receive any pay or emolument"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-13|1|3", "date": "1797-06-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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republic tending to endanger a situation so desirable and interesting to our country upon this occasion we feel it our duty to express in the most explicit manner the sensations which the present crisis has excited and to assure you of our zealous co-operation in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace although it is the earnest with our hearts that peace may be maintained with the french republic and with all the world yet we will never surrender those rights which belong to us as a nation and whilst we view with satisfaction the wisdom dignity and moderation which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempts to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our constituents they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate in expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of the opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet notes the words in italics were not in the original address the subsequent notes show the original report original first and most original can original at the sentiments disclosed by the president of the executive directory of france in his speech to the late minister of the united states such sentiments serve to discover the the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability sensibly as we feel the wound which has been inflicted by the transactions disclosed in your communications yet we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace we therefore receive with the utmost satisfaction your information that a fresh attempt at negotiation will be instituted and we cherish the hope that a mutual spirit of conciliation and a disposition on the part of france to compensate for any injuries which may have been committed upon our neutral rights and on the part of the united states to place france on grounds similar to those of other countries in their relation and connection with us if any inequalities shall be found to exist will produce an accommodation compatible with the engagements rights duties and honor of the united states fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any unfavorable events which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honor and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself and advantage to our common country to which he returned the following answer mr speaker and gentlemen of the house of representatives i receive with great satisfaction your candid approbation of the convention of congress and thank you for assurances that the interesting subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive the attention which their importance demands and that your co-operation may be expected in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace the declaration of the representatives of this nation of their satisfaction at my promotion to the first office in the government and of their confidence in my sincere endeavours to discharge the various duties of it with advantage to our common country have excited my most grateful sensibility i pray you gentlemen to believe and to communicate such assurance to our constituents that no event which i can foresee to be attainable by any exertions in the discharge of my duties can afford me so much cordial satisfaction as to conduct a negotiation with the french republic to a removal of prejudices a correction of errors a dissipation of umbrages an accommodation of all differences and a restoration of harmony and affection to the mutual satisfaction of both nations and whenever the legitimate organs of intercourse shall be restored and the real sentiments of the two governments can be candidly communicated to each other although strongly impressed with the necessity of collecting ourselves into a manly posture of defence i nevertheless entertain an encouraging confidence that a mutual spirit of conciliation a disposition to compensate injuries and accommodate each other in all our relations and connections will produce an agreement to a treaty consistent with the engagements rights duties and honor of both nations john adams united states june the house having returned mr smith ch gave notice that if the house were to go into a committee of the whole on the state of the union to take up the subject matter of the president's speech that he had business to present which would require secrecy the galleries were accordingly cleared at three the house adjourned before the adjournment they determined that the business brought forward with closed doors did not require secrecy the following are the propositions introduced st resolved as the opinion of this committee that further provision ought to be made for fortifying the ports and harbours of the united states resolved that provision be made by law for completing and manning the united states constitution and 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the notice of our continent they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of the opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow-citizens will convince the world of its impracticability sensibly as we feel the wound which has been inflicted by the transactions disclosed in your communications yet we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace we therefore receive with the utmost satisfaction your information that a fresh attempt at negotiation will be instituted and we cherish the hope that a mutual spirit of conciliation and a disposition on the part of france to compensate for any injuries which may have been committed upon our neutral rights and on the part of the united states to place france on grounds similar to those of other countries in their relation and connection with us if any inequality shall be found to exist will produce an accommodation compatible with the rights duties and honor of the united states fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any untoward event which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honour and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself and advantage to our common country to which he returned the following answer mr speaker and gentlemen of the house of representatives i receive with great satisfaction your candid approbation of the convention of congress and thank you for your assurances that the interesting subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive the attention which their importance demands and that your co-operation may be expected in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace the declaration of the representatives of this nation of their satisfaction at my promotion to the first office in the government and of their confidence in my sincere endeavours to discharge the several duties of it with advantage to our common country have excited my most grateful sensibility i pray you gentlemen to believe and to communicate such assurance to our constituents that no events which i can foresee to be attainable by any exertions in the discharge of my duties can afford me so much cordial satisfaction as to conduct a negotiation with the french republic to a removal of prejudices a correction of errors a disposition of imbrages an accommodation of all differences and a restoration of harmony and affection to the mutual satisfaction of both nations and whenever the legitimate organs of intercourse shall be restored and the real sentiments of the two governments can be candidly communicated to each other although strongly impressed with the necessity of collecting ourselves into a manly posture of defence i nevertheless entertain an encouraging confidence that a mutual spirit of conciliation a disposition to compensate in injuries and accommodate each other in all our relations and connections will produce an agreement to a treaty consistent with the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-01|1|2", "date": "1797-07-01", "paper": "The Kentucky 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which the impartial conduct of our government has entitled us and it is now with extreme regret we find the measures of the french republic tending to endanger a situation so desirable and interesting to our country upon this occasion we feel it our duty to express in the most explicit manner the sensations which the present crisis has excited and to assure you of our zealous cooperation in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace although it is the earnest wish of our hearts that peace may be maintained with the french republic and with all the world yet we never will surrender those rights which belong to us as a nation and whilst we view with satisfaction the wisdom dignity and moderation which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempt to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our constituents they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate in expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of the opinions of our constituents sensibly as we feel the wound which has been inflicted the transactions disclosed in your communication yet we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace we therefore receive with the utmost satisfaction your information that a fresh attempt at negotiation will be instituted and we cherish the hope that a mutual spirit of conciliation a disposition on the part of france to compensate for any injury which may have been committed on our neutral rights on the part of the united states to place france on grounds similar to those of other countries in their relations and connection with us if any inequalities shall be found to exist will produce an accommodation compatible with the engagements rights interests and honour of the united states fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any unfavorable events which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and with all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the general government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honour and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself and advantage to our common country his answer was as follows mr speaker and gentlemen of the house of representatives i receive with great satisfaction your candid approbation of the convention of congress and thank you for your assurances that the interesting subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive the attention which their importance demands and that your co-operation may be expected in those measures which may appear necessary for our security and peace the declaration of the representatives of this nation of their satisfaction at my promotion to the first office in the government and of their confidence in my sincere endeavors to discharge the various duties of it with advantage to our common country have excited my most grateful sensibility i pray you gentlemen to believe and to communicate such assurance to our constituents that no event which i can foresee to be attainable by any exertions in the discharge of my duties can afford me so much cordial satisfaction as to conduct a negotiation with the french republic to a removal of prejudices a correction of errors a disputation of umbrages an accommodation of all differences and a restoration of harmony and affection to the mutual satisfaction of both nations and whenever the legitimate organs of intercourse shall be restored and the real sentiments of the two governments can be candidly communicated to each other although strongly impressed with the necessity of collecting ourselves into a manly posture of defence i nevertheless entertain an encouraging confidence that a mutual spirit of conciliation a disposition to compensate injuries and accommodate each other in all our relations and connections will produce an agreement to a treaty consistent with the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2507, 2791], "b_span": [561, 847], "matched_words": 279, "similarity": 0.9789473684210527, "seeds": 49, "id": "M00541", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-05|1|3", "date": "1797-06-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia 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dispositions it is our firm belief that effectual measures of defence will tend to inspire that national self-respect and confidence at home which is the unfailing source of respectability abroad to check aggression and prevent war while we are endeavoring to adjust our differences with the french republic by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs prove to us your vigilant care in recommending to our attention effectual measures of defence those which you recommend whether they relate to external defence by permitting our citizens to arm for the purpose of repelling aggressions on their commercial rights and by providing sea convoys or to internal defence by increasing the establishments of artillery and cavalry by forming a provisional army by revising the militia laws and fortifying more completely our ports and harbours will meet our consideration under the influence of the same just regard for the security interest and honor of our country which dictated your recommendation practices so unnatural and iniquitous as those you state of our own citizens converting their property personal exertions into the means of annoying our trade and injuring their fellow-citizens deserve legal severity commensurate with their turpitude although the senate believe that the prosperity and happiness of our country does not depend on general and extensive political connections with european nations yet we can never lose sight of the propriety as well as necessity of enabling the executive by sufficient and liberal supplies to maintain and even extend our foreign intercourse as exigencies may require reposing full confidence in the executive in whom the constitution has placed the powers of negotiation we learn with sincere concern that attempts are in operation to alienate the affections of our fellow-citizens from their government attempts so wicked wherever they exist cannot fail to excite our utmost abhorrence a government chosen by the people for their own safety and happiness and calculated to secure both cannot lose their affections so long as its administration pursues the principles upon which it was erected and your resolution to observe a conduct just and impartial to all nations a sacred regard to our national engagements and not to impair the rights of our government contains principles which cannot fail to secure to your administration the support of the national legislature to render abortive every attempt to excite dangerous jealousies among us and to convince the world that our government and your administration if it cannot be separated from the affectionate support of every good citizen and the senate cannot suffer the present occasion to pass without thus publicly and solemnly expressing their attachment to the constitution and government of their country and as they hold themselves responsible to their constituents their consciences and their god it is their determination by all their exertions to repel every attempt to alienate the affections of the people from the government so highly injurious to the honor safety and independence of the united states we are happy since our sentiments on the subject are in perfect union with yours in this public manner to declare that we believe the conduct of the government has been just impartial towards foreign nations and that those internal regulations which have been established for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and have been fairly executed and we are equally happy in possessing an entire confidence in your abilities and exertions in your station to maintain untarnished the honor preserve the peace and support the independence of our country to acquire and establish which in connection with your fellow citizens has been the virtuous effort of a principal part of your life to aid you in the honorable and arduous exertions as it is our duty so it shall be our faithful endeavour and we flatter ourselves sir that the proceedings of the present session of congress will manifest to the world that although the united states love peace they will be independent that they are sincere in their declarations to be just to the french and all other nations and expect the same in return if a sense of justice a love of moderation and peace shall influence their councils which we sincerely hope we shall have just grounds to expect peace and amity between the united states and all nations will be preferred but if we are so unfortunate as to experience injuries from any foreign power and the ordinary methods by which differences are amicably adjusted between nations shall be rejected the determination not to surrender in any manner the rights of the government being so inseparably connected with the dignity interest and independence of our country shall by us be steadily and inviolably supported thomas jefferson 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measures of defence will tend to inspire that national self respect and confidence at home which is the unfailing source of respectability abroad to check aggression and prevent war while we are endeavoring to adjust our differences with the french republic by amicable negotiation the progress of the war in europe the depredations on our commerce the personal injuries to our citizens and the general complexion of affairs prove to us your vigilant care in recommending to our attention effectual measures of defence those which you recommend whether they relate to external defence by permitting our citizens to arm for the purpose of repelling aggressions on their commercial rights and by providing sea convoys or to internal defence by increasing the establishments of artillery and cavalry by forming a provisional army by revising the militia laws and fortifying more completely our ports and harbors will meet our consideration under the influence of the same just regard for the security interest and honor of our country which dictated your recommendation practices so unnatural and iniquitous as those you state of our own citizens converting their property and personal exertions into the means of annoying our trade and injuring their fellow citizens deserve legal severity commensurate with their turpitude although the senate believe that the prosperity and happiness of our country do not depend on general and extensive political connexions with european nations yet we can never lose sight of the propriety as well as necessity of enabling the executive by sufficient and liberal supplies to maintain even extend our foreign intercourse as exigencies may require reposing full confidence in the executive in whom the constitution has placed the powers of negotiation we learn with sincere concern that attempts are in operation to alienate the affections of our fellow citizens from their government attempts so wicked where ever they exist cannot fail to excite our utmost 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all their exertions to repel every attempt to alienate the affections of the people from the government so highly injurious to the honor safety and independence of the united states we are happy since our sentiments on the subject are in perfect unison with yours in this public manner to declare that we believe the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations and that those internal regulations which have been established for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper and have been fairly executed and we are equally happy in possessing an entire confidence in your abilities and exertions in your station to maintain untarnished the honor preserve the peace and support the independence of our country to acquire and establish which in connexion with your fellow citizens has been the virtuous effort of a part of your life to aid you in the honorable and arduous exertions as it is our duty so it shall be our faithful endeavor and we flatter ourselves 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of the ships of their valuables and then let them go this was communicated to capt white by the spanish commodore should this fail of convincing any one it is still further corroborated by capt church of his majesty's frigate topaz who on the d just boarded capt white and gave him similar information to the above the number of spanish vessels taken was supposed to be about sail capt white on his outward bound passage was peeped at and shot at by several french picaroons but the weight of his metal kept them at a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1674, 1884], "b_span": [1083, 1316], "matched_words": 151, "similarity": 0.6817155756207675, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00551", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-06-10|1|2", "date": "1797-06-10", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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ammunition military stores provisions c and two millions worth of quicksilver from the mines of idria our corroborating intelligence are first mr fox in the british house of commons the d of may announced the event and mr pitt did not contradict it second the french executive directory on the th april in a message to the council of five hundred says a dispatch from general moreau is ter minated by the following postscript a courier which i received this moment from gen buonaparte announces me the signing of the preliminaries of peace with the em peror this message created the liveliest emotions of joy as the harbinger of a speedy peace third the directory in another message on the same day to the council of five hundred respecting the french colo nies say the constitution ought not to be put in activity until after the peace but every thing announces that this peace will be concluded in less than a month it may be necessary here to state that that the reason why the directory did not receive a courier from buonaparte announc ing the above event as early as general mo reau was that general buonaparte in or der to stop the useless effusion of blood dis respected the courier he sent with the intelli gence to proceed to moreau's and hoche's armies on the rhine before he went to paris fourth gen vernier governor of strasbourg announced by the sound of trum pet on the th april a letter from gen eral regnio to gen vandamme as follows i have the pleasure to inform you general that the preliminaries of a peace have just been signed by the army of italy and an armistice has just been proclaimed between the austrian army and that of the rhine and moselle and in consequence you will cease all hostilities and the advanced posts will remain in the same position this event caused unusual demonstra tions of joy at strasbourg which was brilli antly illuminated at paris numerous dis charges of artillery announced the peace the business was suspended and the streets and gardens resounded with the shouts of vive la paix vive la republique fifth general leclerc arrived at paris from the army left the two generals settling the preliminary terms of peace gen b required that the formal acknowledgment of the french republic by the emperor should be ex punged from the treaty as the republic stood not in need of it for its existence a number of less prominent occurrences convince us that peace now exists between the french republic and the emperor of ger many it will be asked does the peace include great-britain we can give no decisive answer on that head a paris paper of april says the directory also reck ons on a peace with england and on the d of may the british parliament voted l loan to the emperor likewise provision for guaranteeing l to be raised on account of the emperor this was on the day the news arrived of the em peror's having made peace the officiality of which mr p seemed unsatisfied with but told the house if it was necessary to stop the loan it could be done in any stage of the bill the conditions of the peace are variously stated some say that austria consents to the boundaries of the rhine and the alps and the liberty of lombardy and mantua others state the conditions to be st the independence of italy d the cession of part of upper austria to the prince of orange d the expenses of the war to be paid by the emperor the terms are only editorial conjectures the french armies of the upper and lower rhine both passed that river about the th april general moreau attacked and carried at noon day the strong post of kehl and before o'clock planted the tri-coloured flag on the battlements of that very kehl which they had defended for days against prince charles and all the vi gour of his veteran army general hoche established his position on the right side of the rhine after a pitched battle"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-05|1|3", "date": "1797-07-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070501/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "which contain paris news to april th much later than before received these papers abound with events of the greatest magnitude the article most interesting to a mericans contains well corroborated accounts that preliminaries of peace had been signed between the emperor and the french republic having been concluded between the arch-duke charles and gen buonaparte the events which led to this measure were an unexampled series of victories by the french army of italy over the au strians in which the latter lost be tween and men in killed wounded and prisoners great quan tities of ammunition military stores provisions c and two millions worth of quick silver from the mines of i dra our corroborations of this intel ligence are first mr fox in the british house of commons the d of may announced the event and mr pitt did not contradict it second the french executive directory on the th april in a message to the council of five hundred says a dis patch from gen moreau is terminated by the following postscript a courier which i received this mo ment from gen buonaparte announ ces me the signing of the preliminaries of peace with the emperor this message created the liveliest emotions of joy as the harbinger of a speedy peace third the directory in an other message on the same day to the council of five hundred say the constitution ought not to be put into activity until after peace but every thing announces that this peace will be concluded in less than a month it may be necessary here to state that the reason why the directory did not receive a courier from buon aparte announcing the above event as early as gen moreau was that gen buonaparte in order to stop the useless effusion of blood directed the courier he sent with the intelligence to proceed to moreau's and hoche's armies on the rhine before he went to paris fourth gen vernier go vernor of strasburgh on the rhine announced by the sound of trumpet on the th of april a letter from gen vandamme as follows i have the pleasure to inform you general that the preliminaries of a peace have just been signed by the army of italy and an armistice has just been proclaimed between the austrian army and that of the rhine and moselle and in consequence you will cease all hostili ties and the advanced posts will re main in the same position this event caused unusual demon strations of joy at strasburgh which was brilliantly illuminated at paris numerous discharges of artillery an nounced the peace business was sus pended and the streets and gardens resounded with the shouts of vive la paix vive la republique fifth gen leciere arrived at paris from the army left the two generals settling the preliminary terms of peace gen buonaparte required that a formal acknowledgement of the french re public by the emperor should be ex punged from the treaty as the repub lic stood not in need of it for its ex istence a number of less prominent occurrences convince us that peace now exists between the french re public and the emperor of germa ny it will be asked does the peace in clude great-britain we can give no decisive answer upon this head a paris paper of april says the directory reckons on a peace with en gland and on the d of may the british parliament voted loan to the emperor likewise provis ions for guaranteeing to be raised on account of the emperor this was on the day the news arrived of the emperor's having made peace the officiality of which mr pitt seem ed unsatisfied with but told the house if it was necessary to stop the loan it could be done in any stage of the bill the conditions of the peace are va riously stated some say that austria consents to the boundaries of the rhine and the alps and the liberty of lombardy and mantua others state the conditions to be st the inde pendence of italy d the cession of part of upper austria to the prince of orange d the expenses of the war to be paid by the emperor these terms are only editorial conjectures the french armies of the upper and lower rhine both passed that ri ver about the th april gen mo reau attacked and carried at noon day the strong post of kehl and at o'clock in the evening planted the tri colored flag on the battlement of that very kehl which they defended for fifty two days against prince charles and all the vigor of his veteran army gen hoche established his position on the right side of the rhine after a pitched battle"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4316, 4575], "b_span": [1426, 1687], "matched_words": 219, "similarity": 0.8423076923076923, "seeds": 22, "id": "M00555", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-12|1|3", "date": 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most alarming aspect the demands of the seamen were an advance of pay to s per month a due allowance of provisions a more equal distribution of prize-money and the displacement of se veral obnoxious officers these demands created the most alarming apprehension in the british ministry but they were complied with in their fullest extent admiral brid port communicated to the crews the con cession of the government and a pardon from the king on which they all returned to their duty the contagion spread thro every port in england but at the sailing of the telemachus order had been restored a new loan for l was carried in the house of commons may against no intelligence had been received from mr hammond who had been sent to vi enna on a pacific embassy twenty-one counties cities and towns have petitioned for peace and the dismissal of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-05|1|3", "date": "1797-07-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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distribution of prize money and a displacement of several obnoxious officers these de mands created the most alarming ap prehension in the british ministry but they were complied with in their fullest extent admiral bridport communicated to the crews the concession of the govern ment and a pardon from the king on which they all returned to their duty the contagion spread through every port in england but at the sailing of the telemachus order had been re stored a new loan for l was car ried in the house of commons may against no intelligence had been received from mr hammond who had been sent to vienna on a pacific embassy twenty-one counties cities and towns have petitioned for peace and the dismissal of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1524, 2735], "b_span": [739, 1969], "matched_words": 1056, "similarity": 0.865219172470299, "seeds": 139, "id": "M00556", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-13|1|2", "date": "1797-06-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797061301/0304.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in chief to the executive directory head-quarters at hilschofheim april citizens directors i take advantage of the conveyance of the adjutant-general le clerc of the army of italy in order to give you a very succinct account of our operation since the th inst a thousand obstacles prevented us from beginning till six in the morning though false attacks had been heard for two hours so that we were not indebted for our success to a surprise of the enemy but to our courage generals duhesim vancame davonet and jordis adjutant-generals demont and encelet commanded the attacks made by the st th and th demi brigades a battalion of the th two of the th and two of the th light infantry these troops landed in turn on the right bank disembarking men these ought to have been but of boats that we were to have had only were able to reach us the enemy made unheard of attempts to destroy us while on the rhine after the most obstinate engagement our bridges being fixed and the reserved corps having passed the rhine we began to act offensively by yesterday noon the enemy were completely routed we drove and dispersed them to gengenbach in the valley of protzig two leagues from offenburg kehl has been retaken and we now find ourselves more advantageously situated than before the siege of that place the result of this victory are seven stands of colours more than pieces of cannon all the baggage the military chest and the papers of the general staff of the army three or four thousand prisoners one of whom is a general officer and several of them staff officers and of a superior rank the loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is enormous the troops performed prodigies of valour a squadron of the th regiment of hussars the th and th dragoons the d of cavalry the companies of light artillery commanded by captains fort and gras who in succession disembarked in the train of the infantry deserve the highest praise it is impossible to give you at this moment more circumstantial details of this the boldest most dangerous operation that i have ever yet witnessed i shall send them by the first courier i shall then be able more particularly to inform you of the names of the corps and of the soldiers who have distinguished themselves this day general davent at the head of a strong body is marching to gain the head of the valley of kentaig and the adjutant-general randes towards the kemsis we have taken a position above lacheren after an engagement of the advanced posts where the enemy opposed only a feeble resistance the wounds of several of the general officers rendering a greater degree of exertion necessary on the part of others i could not write to you sooner you shall receive interesting accounts of the different engagements which we have fought four austrian general officers have been wounded one of whom is dead and one a prisoner this is an unequivocal proof of the slaughter which the enemy has been willing to suffer for the sake of preventing our establishing ourselves on the right bank of the rhine signed moreau p s a courier which i this moment received from gen buonaparte announces the signing the preliminaries of peace with the emperor army of the sambre meuse the commander in chief of the sambre and meuse to the executive directory head-quarters at herborn april citizens directors i yesterday morning sent you word that the left body of the army was going to klein neifter in order to drive the enemy from the important position which it occupied but as the latter declined engaging we could only have an affair of the advanced posts which generals nye and soult commanded with that valour which they are known to possess these officers so contrived as to arrive with the enemy at the defile of the dile by which the enemy were returning by herborn to wetzlaer pushed them vigorously and took from them prisoners two of whom are officers the aid-de-camp sovolt brother of the general of that name took of them with hussars and threw the whole column of the enemy's infantry into the greatest confusion six squadrons of dragoons who at the battle of altenkitchen were covered with glory again conducted themselves in the most distinguished manner and the hussars as usual did perfectly well two battalions of the th willing to take a part in the engagement followed the cavalry who were on full trot a league and a half indeed too much cannot be said in praise of all these brave troops the enemy are said to be re-united at wetzlaer and giesen grenier is however already on their left flank we hope to dislodge them this day from this position however formidable it may be signed l hoche peace with the emperor buonaparte to the executive directory head-quarters at judenburg germinal april citizens directors i have had the honor to send you the letter which i wrote to prince charles and his answer you will have annexed the note which was remitted to me by gen bellegarde and morveldt the answer which i made and the conditions of the suspension of arms we have concluded you will there remark by the line of demarcation that we find ourselves in possession of gratz brueck and rosenman which we had not before besides my intention was to give my army two or three days repose this suspension therefore deranges the military operations very little signed buonaparte letter from generals bellegarde and morveldt to gen buonaparte judenburg april his majesty the emperor and king having nothing more at heart than to concur to the repose of europe and to terminate a war that desolates the two nations in consequence of the overture you have made to his royal highness by your letter from clagenfurth has now sent us to hear your proposals of so great importance after the conversation we have had with you and persuaded of the earnest desire as well as intention of the two powers to finish as soon as possible this disastrous war his royal highness desires a suspension of arms for ten days in order to have more facility in coming to this desirable end and in order that all the delays and obstacles that the continuation of hostilities would occasion to the negotiation be removed and that every thing may concur to re-establish peace between the two great nations signed le compte de bellegarde lieutenant-general morveldt maj general to generals bellegarde and morveldt head-quarters judenburg april messieurs in the military position of the two armies a suspension of arms is altogether disadvantageous to the french army but if it can open a road to the peace so much desired and so useful to the two nations i consent without hesitation to the request the french republic has often manifested to his majesty her desire to put an end to this cruel contest she persists in the same sentiments and i do not doubt after the conference i have had the honor to have with you that in a very few days peace will be"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-13|1|3", "date": "1797-06-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in chief to the executive directory citizens directors i take advantage of the conveyance of adjutant general le clerc of the army of italy in order to give you a very succinct account of our operations since the th inst a thousand obstacles prevented us from beginning till in the morning though false attacks had been heard for two hours so that we were not indebted for our success to a surprise of the enemy but to our courage generals debelle vandamme davoust and jordis adjutant generals demont and endel commanded the attacks made by st th and th demi-brigades a battalion of the th two of the th and two of the th light infantry these troops landed in turn on the right bank disembarking men these ought to have been but of boats that we were to have had only were able to reach us the enemy made unheard of attempts to destroy us while on the rhine after the most obstinate engagement our bridges being fixed and the reserved corps having passed the rhine we began to act offensively by yesterday noon the enemy were completely routed we drove and dispersed them to gegenbach in the valley of protzig two leagues from offenbourg kell has been retaken and we now find ourselves more advantageously situated than before the siege of that place the result of this victory are seven stands of colors more than pieces of cannon the baggage of the military chest and the papers of the general staff of the army three or four thousand prisoners one of whom is a general officer and several of them staff officers and of a superior rank the loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is enormous the troops performed prodigies of valor a squadron of the th regiment of hussars the th and th of dragoons the d of cavalry the companies of light artillery commanded by captains fort and gras who in succession embarked in the train of the infantry deserve the highest praise it is impossible to give you at this moment more circumstantial details of this the boldest most dangerous operation i have ever witnessed i shall send them by the first couriers i shall then be able more particularly to inform you of the corps and of the soldiers who have distinguished themselves this day gen davoust at the head of a strong body is marching to gain the head of the valley of kintzig and the adjutant general rudeus towards the kembs we have taken a position above lacherges after an engagement of the advanced posts where the enemy opposed only a feeble resistance the wounds of several of the general officers rendering a greater degree of exertion necessary on the part of others i could not write to you sooner you shall receive interesting accounts of the different engagements which we have fought four austrian general officers have been wounded one of whom is dead and one a prisoner this is an unequivocal proof of the slaughter which the enemy has been willing to suffer for the sake of preventing our establishing ourselves on the right bank of the rhine signed moreau p s a courier which i this moment received from gen buonaparte announces the signing of the preliminaries of peace with the emperor army of the sambre and meuse head quarters at herborn april the commander in chief of the sambre and meuse to the executive directory citizens directors i yesterday morning sent you word that the left body of the army was going to klein neiffer in order to drive the enemy from the important position which it occupied but as the latter declined engaging we could only have an affair of the advanced posts which gen ney and soult commanded with that valor which they are known to possess these officers so contrived as to arrive with the enemy at the defile of the dile by which the enemy were retiring by herborn to wetzlaer pushed them vigorously and took from them prisoners two of whom are officers the aid-de-camp soult brother of the general of that name took of them with hussars and threw the whole column of the enemy's infantry into the greatest confusion six squadrons of dragoons who at the battle of altenkirchen were covered with glory again conducted themselves in the most distinguished manner and the hussars as usual did perfectly well two battalions of the th willing to take a part in the engagement followed the cavalry who were on a trot a league and a half indeed too much cannot be said in praise of all these brave troops the enemy are said to be re-united at wetzlaer and giesen grenier is however already on their left flank we hope to dislodge them this day from their position however formidable it may be signed l hoch army of italy buonaparte commander in chief of the army in italy to the executive directory head-quarters at jundenberg th april citizens directors i have the honor to transmit to you the letter which i wrote prince charles and his answer you will find hereunto annexed the note which has been sent by general bellegarde and morveldt the answer which i have given them and finally the conditions of the suspension of arms which we have concluded you will remark by the line of demarcation that we find ourselves in possession of gratz bruck and rosenmann places of which we were not before in possession my intention is besides to give the army two or three days rest so that this suspension very little deranges the military operations signed bunoparte jundenberg april his majesty the emperor and king having nothing so much at heart as what can conduce to the repose of europe and to the termination of a war which devastates the two nations has in consequence of the overture which was made to his royal highness by your letter from clagenfuth sent in to you to come to some understanding on an object of so great importance after the conversation which we have held with you and persuaded of the good will and of the intentions of the two powers to finish with the utmost promptitude possible this disastrous war his royal highness desires a suspension of hostilities for days in order to be able with more celerity to attain this desirable object and in order that all the delays and obstacles that the continuation of hostilities would throw in the way of negotiation be done away and that every thing may occur towards the re-establishment of peace between the two nations signed the count de bellegarde lieutenant general morveldt major general a true copy buonoparte head-quarters jundenberg april th to the generals bellegarde and morveldt gentlemen in the military situation of the two armies a suspension of hostilities is quite adverse to the french army but if it can pave the way to the peace so much desired and so useful to the two countries i consent without difficulty to your request the french republic has often shown his majesty her desire to put an end to this cruel slaughter she persists in the same sentiments and i have no doubt after the conference which i had the honor of having with you that in a few days peace will be"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3121, 3208], "b_span": [1859, 1946], "matched_words": 85, "similarity": 0.9770114942528736, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00557", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-13|1|2", "date": "1797-06-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797061301/0304.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "after the message of the directory relative to a peace with the emperor had been read dumolarde made the following speech it is certainly impossible to express in proper terms our sensations of admiration and gratitude we may say our brave armies have deserved well not of their country merely but of the human race yes we shall obtain that peace for which europe sighs and we shall owe it to the courage of our brave defenders friends of peace you will obtain that peace which for"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-12|1|2", "date": "1797-07-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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morveldt to gen buonaparte judenburg april his majesty the emperor and king having nothing more at heart than to concur to the repose of europe and to terminate a war that desolates the two nations in consequence of the overture you have made to his royal highness by your letter from clagenfurth has now sent us to hear your proposals of so great importance after the conversation we have had with you and persuaded of the earnest desire as well as intention of the two powers to finish as soon as possible this disastrous war his royal highness desires a suspension of arms for ten days in order to have more facility in coming to this desirable end and in order that all the delays and obstacles that the continuation of hostilities would occasion to the negotiation be removed and that every thing may concur to re-establish peace between the two great nations signed le compte de bellegarde lieutenant-general morveldt maj general to generals bellegarde and morveldt head-quarters judenburg april messieurs in the military position of the two armies a suspension of arms is altogether disadvantageous to the french army but if it can open a road to the peace so much desired and so useful to the two nations i consent without hesitation to the request the french republic has often manifested to his majesty her desire to put an end to this cruel contest she persists in the same sentiments and i do not doubt after the conference i have had the honor to have with you that in a very few days peace will be"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-15|1|2", "date": "1797-07-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797071501/0022.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the executive directory head-quarters at jundenberg april citizens directors i have the honor to transmit to you the letter which i wrote prince charles and his answer you will find hereunto annexed the note which has been sent by gen bellegarde and morvelde the answer of which i have given them and finally the conditions of the suspension of arms which we have concluded you will remark by the line of demarcation that we find ourselves in possession of graz bruck and rosenheim places of which we were not before in possession my intention is besides to give the army two or three days rest so that this suspension very little deranges the military operations signed buonaparte jundenberg april his majesty the emperor and king having nothing so much at heart as what can conduce to the repose of europe and to the termination of war which devastates the two nations has in consequence of the overture which was made to his royal highness by your letter from clagenfurth sent in to you to come to some understanding on an object of so great importance after the conversation which we have held with you and persuaded of the good will and of the intentions of the powers to finish with the utmost promptitude possible this disastrous war his royal highness desires a suspension of hostilities for ten days in order to be able with more celerity to attain this desirable object and in order that all the delays and obstacles that the continuation of hostilities would throw in the way of negotiation be done away and that every thing may occur towards the re-establishment of peace between the two nations signed the count de bellegarde lieutenant general morveldt major general a true copy buonaparte to the generals bellegarde and morvelde head-quarters jundenberg april gentlemen in the military situation of the two armies a suspension of hostilities is quite adverse to the french army but if it can pave the way to the peace so much desired and so useful to the two countries i consent without difficulty to your request the french republic has often shown his majesty her desire 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france in his speech to the late minister of the united states such sentiments serve to discover the imperfect knowledge which france possesses of real opinions of our constituents an attempt to separate the people of the united states from their government is an attempt to separate them from themselves and although foreigners who know not the genius of our country may have conceived the project and foreign emissaries may attempt the execution yet the united efforts of our fellow citizens will convince the world of its impracticability happy would it have been if the transactions disclosed in your communication had never taken place or that they could have been concealed sensibly however as we feel the wound which has been inflicted we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": 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is now with extreme regret we find the measures of the french republic tending to endanger a situation so desirable and interesting to our country upon this occasion we feel it our duty to express in the most explicit manner the sensations which the present crisis has excited and to assure you of our zealous co-operation in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace although it is the earnest with our hearts that peace may be maintained with the french republic and with all the world yet we will never surrender those rights which belong to us as a nation and whilst we view with satisfaction the wisdom dignity and moderation which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempts to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our constituents they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate in expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-01|1|2", "date": "1797-07-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070101/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the following address to the president of the united states sir the interesting detail of those events which have rendered the convention of congress at this time indispensable communicated in your speech to both houses has excited in us the strongest emotions whilst we regret the occasion we cannot omit to testify our approbation of the measure and to pledge ourselves that no considerations of private inconvenience shall prevent on our part a faithful discharge of the duties to which we are called we have constantly hoped that the nations of europe whilst desolated by foreign wars or convulsed by intestine divisions would have left the united states to enjoy that peace and tranquillity to which the impartial conduct of our government has entitled us and it is now with extreme regret we find the measures of the french republic tending to endanger a situation so desirable and interesting to our country upon this occasion we feel it our duty to express in the most explicit manner the sensations which the present crisis has excited and to assure you of our zealous cooperation in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace although it is the earnest wish of our hearts that peace may be maintained with the french republic and with all the world yet we never will surrender those rights which belong to us as a nation and whilst we view with satisfaction the wisdom dignity and moderation which have marked the measures of the supreme executive of our country in its attempt to remove by candid explanations the complaints and jealousies of france we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered our country in the rejection of its minister no attempts to wound our rights as a sovereign state will escape the notice of our constituents they will be felt with indignation and repelled with that decision which shall convince the world that we are not a degraded people that we can never submit to the demands of a foreign power without examination and without discussion knowing as we do the confidence reposed by the people of the united states in their government we cannot hesitate in expressing our indignation at any sentiments tending to derogate from that confidence such sentiments wherever entertained serve to evince an imperfect knowledge of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1462, 2107], "b_span": [484, 1127], "matched_words": 626, "similarity": 0.9720496894409938, "seeds": 116, "id": "M00564", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-13|1|3", "date": "1797-06-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797061301/0305.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sensibly as we feel the wound which has been inflicted by the transactions disclosed in your communications yet we think with you that neither the honor nor the interest of the united states forbid the repetition of advances for preserving peace we therefore receive with the utmost satisfaction your information that a fresh attempt at negotiation will be instituted and we cherish the hope that a mutual spirit of conciliation and a disposition on the part of france to compensate for any injuries which may have been committed upon our neutral rights and on the part of the united states to place france on grounds similar to those of other countries in their relation and connection with us if any inequalities shall be found to exist will produce an accommodation compatible with the engagements rights duties and honor of the united states fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any unfavorable events which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honor and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself and advantage to our common country to which he returned the following answer mr speaker and gentlemen of the house of representatives i receive with great satisfaction your candid approbation of the convention of congress and thank you for assurances that the interesting subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive the attention which their importance demands and that your co-operation may be expected in those measures which may appear necessary for our security or peace the declaration of the representatives of this nation of their satisfaction at my promotion to the first office in the government and of their confidence in my sincere endeavours to discharge the various duties of it with advantage to our common country have excited my most grateful sensibility i pray you gentlemen to believe and to communicate such assurance to our constituents that no event which i can foresee to be attainable by any exertions in the discharge of my duties can afford me so much cordial satisfaction as to conduct a negotiation with the french republic to a removal of prejudices a correction of errors a dissipation of umbrages an accommodation of all differences and a restoration of harmony and affection to the mutual satisfaction of both nations and whenever the legitimate organs of intercourse shall be restored and the real sentiments of the two governments can be candidly communicated to each other although strongly impressed with the necessity of collecting ourselves into a manly posture of defence i nevertheless entertain an encouraging confidence that a mutual spirit of conciliation a disposition to compensate injuries and accommodate each other in all our relations and connections will produce an agreement to a treaty consistent with the engagements rights duties and honor of both"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-01|1|2", "date": 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connection with us if any inequalities shall be found to exist will produce an accommodation compatible with the engagements rights interests and honour of the united states fully however impressed with the uncertainty of the result we shall prepare to meet with fortitude any unfavorable events which may occur and to extricate ourselves from their consequences with all the skill we possess and with all the efforts in our power believing with you that the conduct of the general government has been just and impartial to foreign nations that the laws for the preservation of peace have been proper and that they have been fairly executed the representatives of the people do not hesitate to declare that they will give their most cordial support to the execution of principles so deliberately and uprightly established the many interesting subjects which you have recommended to our consideration and which are so strongly enforced by this momentous occasion will receive every attention which their importance demands and we trust that by the decided and explicit conduct which will govern our deliberations every insinuation will be repelled which is derogatory to the honour and independence of our country permit us in offering this address to express our satisfaction at your promotion to the first office in the government and our entire confidence that the pre-eminent talents and patriotism which have placed you in this distinguished situation will enable you to discharge its various duties with satisfaction to yourself and advantage to our common country his answer was as follows mr speaker and gentlemen of the house of representatives i receive with great satisfaction your candid approbation of the convention of congress and thank you for your assurances that the interesting subjects recommended to your consideration shall receive the attention which their importance demands and that your co-operation may be expected in those measures which may appear necessary for our 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having passed the defiles which lead into germany from the venetian states encamped at villach on the borders of the drave gen massena put himself in movement with his division on the th and about a league from clagenfurth he fell in with the enemy's army took two pieces of cannon and prisoners we entered clagenfurth the same night and prince charles with the ruins of his army is flying before us our head-quarters are this day between saint veit and friezaeh gen bernadotte's division is at laubach the capital of carniola i have dispatched the polish gen zajouzech at the head of a body of cavalry for the purpose of penetrating to lienz by the valley of the drave and effecting a junction between me and general joubert who is at brixen it should take place about the present time since the beginning of the campaign prince charles has lost near men who are our prisoners the inhabitants of carniola and carinthia have the most inexpressible contempt for the administrations of vienna and great britain the english nation possesses so completely the hatred and execration of the continent that i believe if the war continues yet for some time the english will be so universally detested that no part of it whatever will grant them a reception here then are the enemies entirely driven from the states of venice the upper and lower carniola carinthia the district of trieste and all the tyrol are subjected to the arms of the republic we have found near villach a magazine of iron shot cartridges and powder mines of lead tin iron c we have also found near clagenfurth manufactures of arms and of cloth signed buonaparte another letter from buonaparte of the same date announces three new engagements that of lavis where joubert and berangauy d'hilliers surrounded on the th ventose a body of the enemy on the lavis and after an obstinate action took prisoners killed men and carried off three pieces of cannon and standards that of tramin on the d germinal in which gen dumas took prisoners and 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drave gen massena put himself in movement with his division on the th and about a league from clagenfurth he fell in with the enemy's army took two pieces of cannon and prisoners we entered clagenfurth the same night and prince charles with the ruins of his army is flying before us our head-quarters are this day between st veit and friezech gen buonaparte's division is at laubach the capital of carniole i have reached the polish gen zajouzech at the head of a body of cavalry for the purpose of penetrating to liertz by the valley of the drave and effecting a junction between me and gen joubert who is at brixen it should take place about the present time since the beginning of the campaign prince charles has lost near men who are our prisoners the inhabitants of carniola and carinthia have the most inexpressible contempt for the administrations of vienna and great britain the english nation possesses so completely the hatred and execration of the continent that i believe if the war 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prince charles and his answer you will find hereunto annexed the note which has been sent by general bellegarde and morveldt the answer which i have given them and finally the conditions of the suspension of arms which we have concluded you will remark by the line of demarcation that we find ourselves in possession of gratz bruck and rosenmann places of which we were not before in possession my intention is besides to give the army two or three days rest so that this suspension very little deranges the military operations signed bunoparte jundenberg april his majesty the emperor and king having nothing so much at heart as what can conduce to the repose of europe and to the termination of a war which devastates the two nations has in consequence of the overture which was made to his royal highness by your letter from clagenfuth sent in to you to come to some understanding on an object of so great importance after the conversation which we have held with you and persuaded of the good will and of the intentions of the two powers to finish with the utmost promptitude possible this disastrous war his royal highness desires a suspension of hostilities for days in order to be able with more celerity to attain this desirable object and in order that all the delays and obstacles that the continuation of hostilities would throw in the way of negotiation be done away and that every thing may occur towards the re-establishment of peace between the two nations signed the count de bellegarde lieutenant general morveldt major general a true copy buonoparte head-quarters jundenberg april th to the generals bellegarde and morveldt gentlemen in the military situation of the two armies a suspension of hostilities is quite adverse to the french army but if it can pave the way to the peace so much desired and so useful to the two countries i consent without difficulty to your request the french republic has often shown his majesty her desire to put an end to this cruel slaughter she persists in the same sentiments and i have no doubt after the conference which i had the honor of having with you that in a few days peace will be finally re-established between the french republic and his imperial majesty i beg of you to give me credit for the sentiments of esteem and distinguished consideration with which i am gentlemen your's signed buonaparte a true copy buonaparte condition of the cessation of hostilities general buonaparte commander in chief of the french army in italy and his royal highness the archduke charles commander in chief of the imperial army wishing to facilitate the negotiations for peace which are on the point of being opened agree as follows art i there shall be a suspension of arms between the french and imperial armies from this evening the th of april to the th of april art ii the french army shall keep the following line the advanced posts on the right wing of the army shall remain in the position in which they are at present between fiume and trieste the line shall be extended to comprehend trieste lissa windischgr tz marburg cienhoufen the right bank of the muhl leoben traismauer mannern the road from mannern as far as rottemann irdung the valley of reins as far as raasdorf st michael spital the valley of la drave and linz art iii the suspension of arms shall take place equally in the tyrol and the generals commanding the french and imperial troops in that part shall settle together the posts that they are to occupy hostilities shall not commence in the tyrol until twenty hours after the commander in chief shall have agreed to it or at least not till twenty-four hours after the generals commanding the french and imperial troops in the tyrol shall have been reciprocally apprised of it done at jundenberg th april signed morveldt major gen count de bellegarde lieutenant general in the service of the emperor buonaparte commander in chief of the army of the french republic"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-15|1|2", "date": 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majesty when they withdraw his troops from within the territory of the united states either to leave the works standing or to demolish them and to remove the second i shall cause an assurance to be published and to be particularly communicated to the minister of his catholic majesty and to the governor of louisiana that the settlers or occupants of the lands in question shall not be disturbed in their possessions by the troops of the united states but on the contrary that they shall be protected in all their lawful claims and to prevent every doubt on this point it merits the consideration of congress whether it will not be expedient immediately to pass a law giving positive assurances to those inhabitants who by fair and regular grants or by occupancy have obtained legal titles or equitable claims to lands in that country prior to the final ratification of the treaty between the united states and spain on the th of april this country is rendered peculiarly valuable by its inhabitants who are represented to amount to nearly four thousand generally well affected and much attached to the united states and zealous for the establishment of a government under their authority i therefore recommend to your consideration the expediency of erecting a government in the district of the natchez similar to that established for the territory north-west of the river ohio but with certain modifications relative to titles or claims of land whether of individuals or companies or to claims of jurisdiction of any individual state john adams"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-27|1|2", "date": "1797-06-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797062701/0312.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "house of representatives i have received information from the commissioners appointed on the part of the united states pursuant to the third article of our treaty with spain that the running and marking of the boundary line between the colonies of east and west florida and the territory of the united states have been delayed by the officers of his catholic majesty and that they have declared their intention to maintain his jurisdiction and to suspend the withdrawing of his troops from military posts they occupy within the territory of the united states until the two governments shall by negotiation have settled the meaning of the second article respecting the withdrawing of the troops garrisons or settlement of either party in the territory of the other that is whether when the spanish garrisons withdraw they are to leave the works standing or to demolish them and until by an additional article to the treaty the real property of the inhabitants shall be secured and likewise until the spanish officers are sure the indians will be pacific 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britannic majesty and the british nation it is found right that spain should no longer have any trade i have therefore the honor to acquaint you that no neutral vessel shall hereafter be suffered to enter or leave the port of cadiz without having obtained my permission or that of the commander in chief of the british fleet that from this moment cadiz is to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-05|1|3", "date": "1797-07-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070501/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "cadiz blockaded capt john barton from cadiz has politely handed us the following his britannic majesty's ship cap tain off cadiz th april sir in consequence of the unprovo ked declaration of war from his ca tholic majesty against his britannic majesty and the british nation it is found right that spain should no lon ger have any trade i have therefore the honor to ac quaint you that no neutral vessel shall hereafter be suffered to enter or leave the port of cadiz without having ob tained my permission or that of the commander in chief of the british fleet that from this moment cadiz is to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [142, 282], "b_span": [293, 432], "matched_words": 131, "similarity": 0.9390681003584229, "seeds": 20, "id": "M00581", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-15|1|4", "date": "1797-06-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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exceeding ten years and the trial for such offence if committed without the limits of the united states shall be in the district where the offender shall be apprehended or first brought and be it further enacted that nothing in the foregoing act shall be construed to prevent the prosecution or punishment of treason or any piracy defined by treaty or other law of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-27|1|2", "date": "1797-06-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797062701/0312.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "states from privateering against nations in amity with or against the citizens of the united states be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that if any citizen 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"normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of andrew ellicott esq commissioner for running the boundary line between the united states and east and west florida department of state june the secretary of state respectfully reports to the president of the united states the substance of the information received the th inst from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states appointed to run the boundary line between their territory and his catholic majesty's colonies of east and west florida although mr ellicott left philadelphia in september to proceed by the ohio and mississippi rivers to the natchez the place appointed by the treaty with spain at which the commissioners of the two governments were to meet yet owing to the lowness of the waters of the ohio he did not reach its mouth until the th day of december two days after which both the ohio and mississippi were almost frozen over on the st january the ice began to give way and their store boat arriving on the th they proceeded on the st for the natchez on the st february mr ellicott received a letter no from his catholic majesty's governor gayoso de lemus dated at the natchez the th february mentioning the information he had received of his approaching arrival attended by a military guard and some woodmen and desiring that the troops might be left about the mouth of bayou pierre assigning for his reason that there every unforeseen misunderstanding between the troops of the two powers would be prevented with this request from views of accommodation mr ellicott complied bayou pierre is about miles above the natchez on the th february mr ellicott reached the natchez and immediately by a letter acquainted governor gayoso of his arrival the governor on the same day returned an answer no the day following they had an interview and fixed on the th of march to proceed down the river to clarkeville near which it was supposed the line would commence the monday following february th mr ellicott wrote a letter no to the baron de carondelet his catholic majesty's governor general of louisiana and the commissioner named by the court of spain for ascertaining the boundary line to inform him of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner of the united states the baron's answer no dated march st was received the th and on the same day governor gayoso waited on mr ellicott and informed him that the baron in consequence of interesting concerns below had declined to attend and that the whole business had devolved on him mr ellicott expressed his satisfaction because he expected that he governor gayoso would be immediately ready to proceed the governor answered no time shall be lost but i fear i shall not be ready by the th and although the baron declines acting on account of the business which demands his constant attention at orleans he is nevertheless desirous of having an interview with you and for that purpose has ordered a galley to be fitted up for your use and accommodation to new orleans mr ellicott considered that the third article of the treaty with spain required the commissioners for running the boundary line to meet at the natchez and that being then at his post it was his duty to remain there until the spanish commissioner should be ready to proceed with him to the place where the line should commence and therefore he declined the baron's invitation on the th of february mr ellicott encamped at the upper end of the town of natchez about a quarter of a mile from the fort occupied by the spanish troops and two days after hoisted the flag of the united states upon this he received a verbal message from governor gayoso by his aid major minor desiring the flag might be taken down which mr ellicott declined doing the request was not repeated here mr ellicott began his astronomical observations and found the hill on which he was encamped to be in latitude n or about miles north of the fourth boundary of the united states in this situation mr ellicott was told alarming stories about the unfavorable disposition of the indians under an idea that the united states were meditating their destruction the whole settlement was for some days swarming with them and they frequently went about the settlement with drums knives for his own safety he frequently issued provisions to them thus critically circumstanced he on the th of march wrote to governor gayoso the letter no to which he received the answer no but in the mean time mr ellicott had sent an express to the commanding officer of his escort consisting of only men which in compliance to the governor's first request he had left sixty miles up the river to come down directly to the natchez and being determined not to countenance this order he on the th wrote to governor gayoso the letter no proposing bacon's landing about a mile below his camp for the station of his escort but before this letter was sent he had an interview with the governor who undertook to prove the propriety and necessity of the whole party from the united states going down to clark's place and closed his reasoning by observing that if the escort did land at the natchez he should consider it as an insult offered to the king his master mr ellicott then telling the governor that he should send him immediately an answer in writing observed that the desire which was constantly manifested to draw him from that place the natchez appeared very singular as it was designated in the late treaty between his catholic majesty and the united states as the place of meeting for the commissioners and therefore that he should reject every proposition that was intended to draw him from his present situation until the commissioner and surveyor on behalf of the crown of spain were ready to proceed to business to which the governor replied sir you either mistake my meaning or i have expressed myself very badly i do not want you to leave this place but on the contrary i am desirous for you to take up your residence in my house you will live there much more comfortably than in a tent mr ellicott said that his tent was much more agreeable than a palace for in his camp he enjoyed an independence characteristic of the nation he had the honor to represent the next morning mr ellicott sent his letter no and the same day received the governor's answer no expressing his entire satisfaction with mr ellicott's sentiments as uniformly agreeing with his own in every thing which could combine the mutual interests of the two nations the evening following march th mr ellicott's escort arrived at the landing and the next day went down to the place he had proposed for their station the officer of the escort having found in the settlement a number of deserters from the american army took them up this occasioned some verbal communications between governor gayoso and mr ellicott the former desiring the deserters might be dismissed mr ellicott thereupon proposed this arrangement that such deserters from the army of the united states as came into that country and took the protection of the spanish government prior to the time fixed by the treaty for the evacuation of the posts should for the present remain unmolested but that such as had come to that country since that time should be liable to be taken and detained about the time mr ellicott's escort arrived the principal part of the artillery was taken out of the fort and carried to the landing and every appearance made of a speedy evacuation but on the nd of march great industry was used in carrying cannon back to the fort which were immediately re-mounted this gave great alarm to the inhabitants of the district who generally manifested a desire of being declared subjects of the united states and at once to renounce the spanish jurisdiction in order to quiet the minds of the inhabitants and to be able to give them some reasons for the governor's conduct which now began to be considered as hostile to the united states mr ellicott on the rd of march wrote the letter no which was followed by a note no to which he received the governor's answer no this answer containing information that the important business of running the boundary line should soon be commenced and an assurance that nothing could prevent the religious compliance with the treaty mr ellicott expressed his satisfaction in his letter to the governor no it being now reported that the american troops would be down in a few days the governor sent by his aid to mr ellicott an open letter from the governor directed to captain pope who it was said commanded those troops informing him that for sundry reasons it would be proper and conducive to the harmony of the two nations for himself and the detachment under his command to remain at or near the place where the letter should meet him until the posts should be evacuated and as every preparation was making for that purpose the delay would be but a few days when he would be happy to see him at the natchez this proposal to captain pope the governor in his letter no desired mr ellicott to second upon reading the letter mr ellicott observed to major minor that it was impossible for him to join in the governor's request to captain pope as it was well known to him mr ellicott that instead of evacuating the posts they were making them more defensible however mr ellicott said he would write a letter to the officer commanding the detachment and requested major minor as he was to be the bearer of the governor's letter to the walnut hills to take charge of it to which he had no objection this letter is no on the th of march the governor issued the proclamation no bearing the date of march th and another no bearing the same date with the avowed object of quieting the minds of the inhabitants but they produced a contrary effect as soon as the governor discovered this he requested two gentlemen of the settlement to inform mr ellicott that he the governor had received directions from the general in chief the baron de carondelet to have the artillery and military stores expedimmediately to be given up to the troops of the united states upon their arrival great pains were taken to inculcate this report but it did not remove suspicions in order therefore to obtain a direct explanation mr ellicott on the st of march wrote to the governor the letter no inclosing two paragraphs no of an address he had received from a number of respectable inhabitants of the district the governor's answer no of the same date confirmed every suspicion as it contained an explicit declaration that his general had given him positive orders to suspend the evacuation of the posts until the two governments should determine whether the works were to be left standing or to be demolished and until by an additional article to the treaty the real property of the inhabitants should be secured agreeably to his proclamations in which the governor thought proper to tell the inhabitants that negotiations were on foot between his catholic majesty and the united states for the adjustment of that and other matters it may not be improper to remark that no such negotiation has existed and that this is the first time that these objections to the evacuation of the posts have been heard of this peremptory declaration of governor gayoso requires no comment mr ellicott says that with the exception of about eight persons including some officers all the inhabitants of the natchez district within the limits of the united states are desirous of coming under their jurisdiction and to have a government established there similar to that north-west of the river ohio my enquiries enable me to add that the population amounts to near four thousand souls mr ellicott further informs that he has not only reason to believe but is certain that many grants for lands in that district have been given out by the officers of the government of louisiana since the ratification of the late treaty and that their surveyors are now executing the surveys on the th of april when mr ellicott was folding up his dispatches he received from governor gayoso the letter no of that date complaining of the infringement of persons in that district as an infringement of the rights of his catholic majesty and requesting that the persons inlisted might be discharged to which mr ellicott immediately returned the answer no observing that the matter required investigation but assuring governor gayoso that he would be careful neither to infringe the rights of the subjects of his catholic majesty nor willingly suffer those of the citizens of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-05|1|2", "date": "1797-07-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070501/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of andrew ellicott esquire commissioner for running the boundary line between the united states and east and west florida department of state june the secretary of state respectfully reports to the president of the united states the substance of the information received the eighth instant from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states appointed to run the boundary line between their territory and his catholic majesty's colonies of east and west florida although mr ellicott left philadelphia in september to proceed by the ohio and mississippi rivers to the natchez the place appointed by the treaty with spain at which the commissioners of the two governments were to meet yet owing to the lowness of the waters of the ohio he did not reach its mouth until the th of december two days after which both the ohio and mississippi were almost frozen over on the st of january the ice began to give way and their store-boat arriving on the th proceeded on the st for the natchez on the st of february mr ellicott received a letter no from his catholic majesty's governor gayoso de lemos dated at the natchez the th of february mentioning the information he had received of his approaching arrival attended by a military guard and some woodmen and desiring that the troops might be left about the mouth of bayou pierre assigning for his reason that every unforeseen misunderstanding between the troops of the two powers would be prevented with this request from views of accommodation mr ellicott complied bayou pierre is about miles above the natchez on the th of february mr ellicott reached the natchez and immediately by a letter acquainted governor gayoso of his arrival the governor on the same day returned an answer no the day following they had an interview and fixed on the th of march to proceed down the river to clarkeville near which it was supposed the line would commence the monday following february th mr ellicott wrote a letter no to the baron de carondelet his catholic majesty's governor general of louisiana and the commissioners named by the court of spain for ascertaining the boundary line to inform him of his arrival at natchez as the commissioner of the united states the baron's answer no dated march st was received the th and on the same day governor gayoso waited on mr ellicott and informed him that the baron in consequence of interesting concerns below had declined to attend and that the whole business had devolved on him mr ellicott expressed his satisfaction because he expected that he governor gayoso would immediately be ready to proceed the governor answered no time shall be lost but i fear i shall not be ready by the th and although the baron declines acting on account of the business which demands his constant attention at orleans he is nevertheless desirous of having an interview with you and for that purpose has ordered a galley to be fitted up for your use and accommodation to new-orleans mr ellicott considered that the d article of the treaty with spain required the commissioners for running the boundary line to meet at the natchez and that being then at his post it was his duty to remain there until the spanish commissioners should be ready to proceed with him to the place where the line should commence and therefore he declined the baron's invitation on the th of february mr ellicott encamped at the upper end of the town of natchez about a quarter of a mile from the fort occupied by the spanish troops two days after hoisted the flag of the u states upon this he received a verbal message from governor gayoso by his aid major minor desiring the flag might be taken down which mr ellicott declined doing the request was not repeated here mr ellicott began his astronomical observations and found the hill on which he was encamped to be in latitude or about miles north of the south boundary of the united states in this situation mr ellicott was told alarming stories about the unfavorable disposition of the indians under an idea that the united states were meditating their destruction the whole settlement was for some days swarming with them and they frequently went about his camp with drawn knives for his own safety he frequently issued provisions to them thus critically circumstanced he on the th of march wrote to governor gayoso the letter no to which he received the answer no but in the mean time mr ellicott had sent an express to the commanding officer of his escort consisting of only men which in compliance to the governor's first request he had left miles up the river to come down directly to the natchez and being determined not to countermand this order he on the th wrote to gov gayoso the letter no proposing bacon's landing about a mile below his camp for the station of his escort but before this letter was sent he had an interview with the governor who undertook to prove the propriety and necessity of the whole party from the united states going down to clark's place and closed his reasoning by observing that if the escort did land at the natchez he should consider it as an insult offered to the king his master mr ellicott then telling the governor that he should send him immediately an answer in writing observed that the desire which was constantly manifested to draw him from that place the natchez appeared very singular as it was designated in the late treaty between his catholic majesty and the united states as the place of meeting for the commissioners and therefore that he should reject every proposition that was intended to draw him from his present situation until the commissioner and surveyor on behalf of the crown of spain were ready to proceed to business to which the governor replied sir you either mistake my meaning or i have expressed myself very badly i do not want you to leave this place but on the contrary i am desirous for you to take up your residence in my house you will live there much more comfortable than in a tent mr ellicott said that his tent was much more agreeable than a palace for in his camp he enjoyed an independence characteristic of the nation he had the honor to represent the next morning mr ellicott sent his letter no and the same day received the governor's answer no expressing his entire satisfaction with mr ellicott's sentiments as uniformly agreeing with his own in every thing which could combine the mutual interests of the two nations the evening following march th mr ellicott's escort arrived at the landing and the next day went down to the place he had proposed for their station the officer of the escort having found in the settlement a number of deserters from the american army took them up this occasioned some verbal communications between governor gayoso and mr ellicott the former desiring the deserters might be dismissed mr ellicott thereupon proposed this arrangement that such deserters from the army of the united states as came into that country and took the protection of the spanish government prior to the time fixed by the treaty for the evacuation of the posts should for the present remain unmolested but that such as had come to that country since that time should be liable to be taken and detained about the time mr ellicott's escort arrived the principle part of the artillery was taken out of the fort and carried to the landing and every appearance made of a speedy evacuation but on the d of march grand artillery was used in carrying cannon back to the fort which were immediately remounted this gave great alarm to the inhabitants of the district who generally manifested a desire of being declared subjects of the united states and at once to renounce the spanish jurisdiction in order to quiet the minds of the inhabitants and to be able to give them some reasons for the governor's conduct which now began to be hostile to the united states mr ellicott on the d of march wrote the letter no which was followed by a note no to which he received the governor's answer no this answer containing information that the important business of running the boundary line should soon be commenced and an assurance that nothing could prevent the religious compliance with the treaty mr ellicott expressed his satisfaction in his letter to the governor no it being now reported that the american troops would be down in a few days the governor sent by his aid to mr ellicott an open letter from the governor directed to captain pope who it was said commanded these troops informing him that for sundry reasons it would be proper and conducive to the harmony of the two nations for himself and the detachment under his command to remain at or near the place where the letter should meet him until the posts should be evacuated and as every preparation was making for that purpose the delay would be but a few days when he would be happy to see him at the natchez this proposal to captain pope the governor in his letter no desired mr ellicott to second upon reading the letter mr ellicott observed to major minor that it was impossible for him to join in the governor's request to capt pope as it was well known to him mr ellicott that instead of evacuating the posts they were making them more defensible however mr ellicott said he would write a letter to the officer commanding the detachment and requested major minor as he was to be the bearer of the governor's letter to the walnut hills to take charge of it to which he had no objection this letter is no on the th of march the governor issued the proclamation no bearing the date of march th and another no bearing the same date with the avowed object of quieting the minds of the inhabitants but it produced a contrary effect as soon as the governor discovered this he requested two gentlemen of the settlement to inform mr ellicott that he the governor had received directions from the general in chief the baron de carondelet to have the artillery and other military stores expeditiously removed from the fort which were immediately to be given up to the troops of the united states upon their arrival great pains were taken to inculcate this report but it did not remove suspicions in order therefore to obtain a direct explanation mr ellicott on the st of march wrote to the governor the letter no inclosing two paragraphs no of an address he had received from a number of respectable inhabitants of the district the governor's answer no of the same date confirmed every suspicion as it contained an explicit declaration that his general had given him positive orders to suspend the evacuations of the posts until the two governments should determine whether the works were to be left standing or to be demolished and until by an additional article to the treaty the real property of the inhabitants should be secured agreeably to his proclamations in which the governor thought proper to tell the inhabitants that negotiations were on foot between his catholic majesty and the united states for the adjustment of that and other matters it may not be improper to remark that no such negotiation has existed and that this is the first time that these objections to the evacuation of the posts have been heard of this peremptory declaration of governor gayoso requires no comment mr ellicott says that with the exception of about eight persons including some officers all the inhabitants of the natchez district within the limits of the united states are desirous of coming under their jurisdiction and to have a government established there similar to that north west of the river ohio my inquiries enable me to add that the population amounts to near four thousand souls mr ellicott further informs that he has not only reason to believe but is certain that many grants for lands in that district have been given out by the officers of the government of louisiana since the ratification of the late treaty and that their surveyors are 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request you to leave the troops about the mouth of bayou pierre where they may be provided with all their necessaries which you can regulate on your arrival here by this means every unforeseen misunderstanding will be prevented between his majesty's troops and those of the united states besides it is necessary to make some arrangements previous to the arrival of the troops on which subject i shall have the honor of entertaining you when we meet i embrace this opportunity to assure you of the satisfaction i feel in being appointed to act in concert with you though your first interview is to be with the general in chief of this province i have the honor to be with the highest consideration sir your most humble and obedient servant manuel gayoso de lemos natchez feb copy the hon a ellicott no baron de carondelet to the hon a e esq natchez th feb sir by your favor of this day delivered to me by mr nolan i learn with pleasure your arrival at this post in the character of commissioner in behalf of the united states to ascertain the boundaries between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the said united states i have the honor to be with the highest respect sir your most humble servant"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-08|1|1", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070801/0013.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that left you at the mouth of the ohio have informed me of your approaching arrival here and that to attend you on your commission you bring a military guard and some woods men it is with pleasure that i propose myself the satisfaction of seeing you here and to make your acquaintance though i do not conceive that the least difficulty will arise respecting the execution of the part of the treaty in which you are an acting person yet as we are not prepared to evacuate the posts immediately for want of the vessels that i expect will arrive soon i find it indispensable to request you to leave the troops about the mouth of bayou pierre where they may be provided with all their necessaries which you can regulate on your arrival here by this means every unforeseen misunderstanding will be prevented between his majesty's troops and those of the united states besides it is necessary to make some arrangements previous to the arrival of the troops on which subject i shall have the honor of entertaining you when we meet i embrace this opportunity to assure you of the satisfaction i feel in being appointed to act in concert with you though your first interview is to be with the general in chief of this province i have the honor to be with the highest consideration sir your most humble obedient servant manuel gayoso de lemos natchez february th copy the honorable a ellicott no baron de carondelet to the honorable andrew ellicott natchez th february sir by your favor of this day delivered to me by mr nolan i learn with pleasure your arrival at this post in the character of commissioner in behalf of the united states to ascertain the boundaries between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the said united states i have the honor to be with the highest respect sir your most humble servant"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4202, 4270], "b_span": [1404, 1476], "matched_words": 65, "similarity": 0.9285714285714286, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00586", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-16|1|3", "date": "1797-06-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is hereby made known in the name of the government of the united states that it is met and is necessary for the better security of commerce that all vessels now in the bay cleared by this consulate should suspend their sailing until further orders and whatever captain transgresses this notice is to be accountable for all every consequence which may result from his disobedience either against"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-27|1|3", "date": "1797-06-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797062701/0313.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is hereby made known in the name of the government of the u nited states that it is met and is necessary for the better security of commerce that all vessels now in the bay cleared by this consulate should suspend their sailing until further orders and whatever cap tain transgresses this notice is to be accountable for all and every conse quence which may result from his disobedience either against"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [12, 704], "b_span": [1710, 2404], "matched_words": 680, "similarity": 0.9812409812409812, "seeds": 137, "id": "M00587", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-16|1|3", "date": "1797-06-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is with pleasure i embrace this opportunity of informing you of my safe arrival at this place as commissioner in behalf of the united states for ascertaining the boundaries between the territories of his most catholic majesty and those of the united states the polite manner in which i have been received at the posts on the mississippi now in the possession of his most catholic majesty demands my thanks and gratitude and am in hopes that a similar conduct will be observed on our part i have the honor to be c c andrew ellicott copy the baron de carondelet no translation new-orleans march my dear sir i have received with great satisfaction your friendly letter of the th of february last in consequence of which i congratulate you on your arrival in this country in the character of commissioner on the part of the united states to run the dividing line between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the u states you likewise did me the favor to mention with what kindness and attention you were received at the different posts as well as by the whole government under my direction and from the general principles of your nation i have no doubt but the same conduct will be observed on the part of the united states god guard you most excellent sir baron de carondelet andrew ellicott esq no hon a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march my dear sir the conduct of the indians yesterday and last night owing principally to their constant state of intoxication renders it absolutely necessary in my opinion to have recourse to my military escort for protection the discipline of our army is such that you may rest assured none of the inconveniences mentioned in your first communication to me are to be apprehended from the escort's being stationed at this place on our part and as the attendance of the guard forms a part of the treaty now carrying into effect between his most catholic majesty and the united states which i am authorized to declare will be observed by the nation i have the honor to represent with good faith and punctuality i must request the favor of you to withdraw your objections against my escort's joining me at this place as soon as possible i am c c andrew ellicott copy his ex'cy manuel gayoso de lemos no manuel gayoso de lemos to the hon a ellicott natchez march th my dear sir this morning i had the pleasure to receive your amicable communication dated yesterday i give you my sincere thanks for having established this form of intercourse as it will make our business more easy and indeed it is more conformable to the sincere friendship we have contracted in answer to your said letter i will remark that such conduct of the indians is not customary here i forefaw that it would happen from the moment you showed a desire of having your colours flying before all the transactions were terminated knowing the indians as well as i do this was the reason of the objections i offered the moment i saw it hoisted for otherwise i know it very well that it is frequently used by the representatives of any nation in a foreign country it's even done in spain by foreign consuls i am sorry you should have experienced any inconveniency from this particular circumstance and that urged by such effects to wish to have by you your escort i have not the least objection that it should be called from its actual station but as it is my duty and that i am answerable for the tranquillity of the country that is entrusted to my charge i must propose to you a method that will answer every good and satisfactory purpose had not you been unluckily stopped on your voyage to this country you would have had immediately the general of the province here to begin the operation of demarking the dividing line between the territories of his catholic majesty and those of the united states of america he had"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-08|1|1", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070801/0013.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is with pleasure i embrace this opportunity of informing you of my safe arrival at this place as commissioner in behalf of the united states for ascertaining the boundaries between the territories of his most catholic majesty and those of the united states the polite manner in which i have been received at the posts on the mississippi now in possession of his most catholic majesty demands my thanks and gratitude and am in hopes that a similar conduct will be observed on our part i have the honor to be c c c andrew ellicott copy the baron de carondelet translation new-orleans march st my dear sir i have received with great satisfaction your friendly letter of the th of february last in consequence of which i congratulate you on your arrival in this country in the character of commissioner on the part of the united states to run the dividing line between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the united states you likewise did me the favor to mention with what kindness and attention you were received at the different posts as well as by the whole government under my direction and from the general principles of your nation i have no doubt but the same conduct will be observed on the part of the united states god guard you most excellent sir baron de carondelet andrew ellicott esq no hon a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march th my dear sir the conduct of the indians yesterday and last night owing principally to their constant state of intoxication renders it absolutely necessary in my opinion to have recourse to my military escort for protection the discipline of our army is such that you may rest assured none of the inconveniences mentioned in your first communication to me are to be apprehended from the escort's being stationed at this place on our part and as the attendance of the guard forms a part of the treaty now carrying into effect between his most catholic majesty and the united states which i am authorized to declare will be observed by the nation i have the honor to represent with good faith and punctuality i must request the favor of you to withdraw your objections against my escort's joining me at this place as soon as possible i am c c andrew ellicott copy his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos no manuel gayoso de lemos to the honorable andrew ellicott natchez th march my dear sir this morning i had the pleasure to receive your amicable communication dated yesterday i give you my sincere thanks for having established this form of intercourse as it will make our business more easy and indeed it is more conformable to the sincere friendship we have contracted in answer to your said letter i will remark that such conduct of the indians is not customary here i foresaw that it would happen from the moment you shewed a desire of having your colors flying before all the transactions were terminated knowing the indians as well as i do this was the reason of the objections i offered the moment i saw it hoisted for otherwise i know it very well that it is frequently used by the representatives of any nation in a foreign country it's even done in spain by foreign consuls i am sorry you should have experienced any inconvenience from this particular circumstance and that urged by such effects to wish to have by you your escort i have not the least objection that it should be called from its actual station but as it is my duty and that i am answerable for the tranquility of the country that is entrusted to my charge i must propose to you a method that will answer every good and satisfactory purpose had not you been unluckily stopped on your voyage to this country you would have had immediately the the general of the province here to begin the operation of demarking the dividing line between the territories of his catholic majesty and those of the united states of america he had"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [712, 1815], "b_span": [7, 1105], "matched_words": 1079, "similarity": 0.9804634257155839, "seeds": 222, "id": "M00588", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-16|1|3", "date": "1797-06-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "but since the time he had a right to expect the commissioners of the united states the war with england has taken place and his cares thereby increased yet he expected to have had it in his power to come to meet you at daniel clarke's esq which place is near the point of the o but he has found it impossible as it would oblige him to make too long an absence from new orleans therefore it is myself that will have the honor to accompany you on that important commission on behalf of his catholic majesty this is the moment when i am in want of every individual thing both for my person and for the attendants of the commission tho the geometer and other officers that are to be employed are already on their way from new orleans and will stop at clarkeville where i shall go myself as soon as my equipage arrives from the capital but this will inevitably take some time therefore the plan that i wished to arrange with you will be to make loftus's cliffs our point of re-union this place is a short distance from clarkeville and it is a very healthy situation there i will send every thing concerning the spanish commission and that will be the most convenient place to establish for a while your head quarters under your military escort by adopting this measure you will have your people together and the most distant disagreeable occurrence avoided as i am positively confident that none would happen by the conjunction here as you propose it is true that by the treaty an escort is supposed and even recommended to each commission but it is to be on the line and not at a distance from it where it would interfere with other business therefore i feel sensibly hurt that it is out of my power to consent in the landing of the troops in this place tho i have not the least objection on their going directly to loftus's cliffs i have given the most positive orders to prevent the indians getting liquor and to their interpreter i have given the strictest charge to be always in sight and to-morrow i expect that they will remove to some distance from hence i have the honor to be with the highest respect and esteem your most affectionate friend and humble servant manuel gayoso de lemos a true copy d gillespie secretary the honorable andrew ellicott no hon a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march th my dear sir your favor of yesterday was handed to me in due time which would have been answered sooner had not the storm last night prevented me from writing in my tent your letter as well as many circumstances which have come to my knowledge contain fresh proofs of your desire to promote good order and harmony in this part of the country but sir i cannot suppose that any inconvenience could possibly arise or the peace of this settlement be disturbed by the arrival and landing of the escort which i left at bayou pierre if i did suppose the contrary i trust that i should be one of the last persons to propose the measure in my opinion the escort which accompanied me is as much bound to observe good order in this country as the troops of his catholic majesty this is not an opinion of the day it has uniformly been mine ever since i left the seat of our government in consequence of which immediately upon my entering the mississippi i issued a standing order that when any of our party the military included should be at any place where the jurisdiction was exercised by his catholic majesty the laws and usages of that government should be observed and submitted to in the most pointed manner the escorts by the spirit of the treaty are intended for our mutual protection against straggling hostile indians and the preservation of our stores this appears to be their whole business as i hope that mere punctilios may never interrupt our friendship and the conduct of the indians having become more peaceable since the night before last i am less anxious for the escort's being stationed at my present encampment i would therefore to prevent any disturbance or misunderstanding propose that the officer who commands the escort which accompanied me to bayou pierre be directed to proceed down the river to bacon landing from whence he may come to this place and procure such necessaries as he may be in want of for the ensuing season as this is the place designated by the treaty for our meeting and making our arrangements for carrying on the business i conceive there would be an impropriety in my leaving it till your excellency is ready to join me in fixing the first point of latitude i am c c andrew ellicott copy d gillespie secretary note the last two paragraphs were added after having had a private conversation with the governor no manuel gayoso de lemos to the hon a ellicott natchez th march my dear sir i do myself the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your favor dated of yesterday and am very happy to find that our sentiments uniformly agree in every thing that can combine the mutual interests of our nations and i pledge you my honor and friendship that every step of my conduct shall be guided by this principle impressed in me by my duty and by the very particular attachment i have for you i have the honor to be with the greatest esteem and affection my dear sir your most humble obedient servant manuel gayoso de lemos copy d gillespie secretary the honorable andrew ellicott no hon a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march d my dear sir the re-mounting of the cannon at this place at the very moment when our troops are daily expected down to take possession of it the insolent treatment which the citizens of the united states have received at the walnut hills and the delay in the business upon which i came concur in giving me reason to suppose that the treaty will not be observed with the same good faith and punctuality by the subjects of his catholic majesty as it will be by the citizens of the united states i hope your excellency will give such an explanation of the above as to remove my doubts and apprehensions which i am afraid have been too justly excited i"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-08|1|2", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797070801/0014.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "but since the time he had a right to expect the commissioners of the united states the war with england has taken place and his cares thereby increased yet he expected to have had it in his power to come to meet you at dan clarke's esq which place is near the point of the o but he has found it impossible as it would oblige him to make too long an absence from new-orleans therefore it is my self that will have the honor to accompany you on that important commission on behalf of his catholic majesty this is the moment when i am in want of every individual thing both for my person and for the attendance of the commission though the geometer and other officers that are to be employed are already on their way from new-orleans and will stop at clarkeville where i shall go myself as soon as my equipage arrives from the capital but this will inevitably take some time therefore the plan that i wished to arrange with you will be to make loftus's cliffs our point of re-union this place is a short distance from clarkeville and is a very healthy situation there i will send every thing concerning the spanish commission and that will be the most convenient place to establish for a while your head-quarters under your military escort by adopting this measure you will have your people together and the most distant disagreeable occurrence avoided as i am positively confident that some would happen by the conjunction here as you propose it is true that by the treaty an escort is supposed and even recommended to each commission but it is to be on the line and not at a distance from it where it would interfere with other business therefore i feel sensibly hurt that it is out of my power to consent in the landing of the troops in this place tho i have not the least objection on their going directly to loftus's cliffs i have given the most positive orders to prevent the indians getting liquor and to their interpreter i have given the strictest charge to be always in sight and to-morrow i expect that they will remove to some distance from hence i have the honor to be with the highest respect and esteem your most affectionate friend and humble servant manuel gayoso de lemos a true copy d gillespie secretary the honorable andrew ellicott no hon a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march th my dear sir your favor of yesterday was handed to me in due time which would have been answered sooner had not the storm last night prevented me from writing in my tent your letter as well as many circumstances which have come to my knowledge contain fresh proofs of your desire to promote good order and harmony in this part of the country but sir i cannot suppose that any inconvenience could possibly arise or the peace of this settlement be disturbed by the arrival and landing of the escort which i left at bayon pierre it i did not suppose to the contrary i trust i should be one of the last persons to propose the measure in my opinion the escort which accompanied me is as much bound to observe good order in this country as the troops of his catholic majesty this is not an opinion of the day it has uniformly been mine ever since i left the seat of our government in consequence of which immediately upon my entering the mississippi i issued a standing order that when any of our party the military included should be at any place where the jurisdiction was exercised by his catholic majesty the laws and usages of that government should be observed and submitted to in the most pointed manner the escorts by the spirit of the treaty are intended for our mutual protection against straggling hostile indians and the preservation of our stores this appears to be their whole business as i hope that mere punctilios may never interrupt our friendship and the conduct of the indians having become more peaceable since the night before last i am less anxious for the escort's being stationed at my present encampment i would therefore to prevent any disturbance or misunderstanding propose that the officer who commands the escort which accompanied me to bayon pierre be directed to proceed down the river to bacon landing from whence he may come to this place and procure such necessaries as may be in want of for the ensuing season as this is the place designated by the treaty for our meeting and making our arrangements for carrying on the business i conceive there would be an impropriety in my leaving it till your excellency is ready to join me in fixing the first point of latitude i am c c andrew ellicott copy d gillespie secretary note the last two paragraphs were added after having had a private conversation with the governor no manuel gayoso de lemos to the honorable a ellicott natchez th march my dear sir i do myself the pleasure to acknowledge the reception of your favor dated of yesterday and am very happy to find that our sentiments uniformly agree in every thing that can combine the mutual interests of our nations and i pledge you my honor and friendship that every step of my conduct shall be guided by this principle impressed in me by my duty and by the very particular attachment i have for you i have the honor to be with the greatest esteem and affection my dear sir your most humble obedient servant manuel gayoso de lemos copy d gillespie secretary the honorable andrew ellicott no honorable a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march d my dear sir the remounting of the cannon at this place at the very moment when our troops are daily expected down to take possession of it the 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displayed on a small redoubt the national flag we are told on seeing it gen abercrombie was vexed and swore in a rage wherever we go we find this infernal nation the garrison of the forts who had well calculated that the english would advance with confidence in expectation of being well received by their friends seized the favourable moment for firing on them which was seconded by the land forces they made about prisoners killed or sunk one vessel and a frigate and compelled a third to run"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-12|1|2", "date": "1797-07-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797071201/0018.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "english squadron under gen abercrombie arrived before porto rico with or transports and had actually effected a 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flax tow cotton wool manufac turing twines and weaving by water on the most reasonable terms a manufactory on this principle he flatters himself will meet with very general patronage as the machines will be made and delivered complete ly furnished for spindle or piece nor will any charge be made for his patent rights but liberty will be given to the purchaser to use them the great inconvenience of employing workmen in the erec tion of them will be avoided and the person wishing to extend them will be able exactly to calculate the expense he engages to set them to work and also instruct or cause to be instructed any person or persons in any part of the union who may purchase these machines in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-29|1|4", "date": "1797-08-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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friends to france at that place that the exchange between france and spain of st domingo for the floridas had taken place and possession was to be given in a few days in consequence of which the british had sent several armed vessels to endeavor to take possession of st augustine before it should be delivered into the hands of the french that he the french gentleman was a general officer in the french service and was on his way to that place in order to put it in the best possible state of defence before the meditated attack should be made by the british by accounts from orleans of a very late date we are informed that the mouth of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [682, 2170], "b_span": [1183, 2668], "matched_words": 1438, "similarity": 0.9673730238816011, "seeds": 262, "id": "M00593", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-17|1|3", "date": "1797-06-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos to andrew ellicott esquire natchez march d my dear sir i have just now received your communication of this day by which i am sorry to find the construction you put on the firing of the ammunition that came from the walnut hills in this fort i have no other place to put them in for it would be imprudent to leave them exposed in an insecure place at a time when the indians might take advantage of us if they found that in the present circumstances we acted without the necessary precautions at the time you saw me concluding ammunition to the fort you will like to see as many go out of it for the arkansas to reinforce that post which will now be exposed to the incursions of the osage indians who in the last season pillaged the whole inhabitants of that country i am entirely unacquainted with any ill treatment the citizens of the united states should have received at the walnut hills if you mean the execution of the orders of the general in chief of this province to demolish that post it was in consequence of our treaty with the indians that they might have no just reason to complain of our conduct but since i have been formed of their unsettled disposition i have sent counter orders to suspend every thing that might injure the actual state of those fortifications and in such circumstances shall not move any thing else until the arrival of the american troops that are daily expected the unavoidable detention that has been experienced in beginning the line you know the reasons but they shall soon be removed as lieutenant colonel guillemard is far on his way up and at his arrival no important business shall be begun i do assure you that there is nothing that can prevent the religious exercise of the treaty though i might observe that the conduct of some persons that seem to affect an immediate success for the united states is high as to secure my attention i request that you will be so kind as to take such measures as to prevent untimely expressions that can only tend to disturb the tranquility of the public or which i am solely answerable for the present as i was finishing this mr gillespie brought to me your note inquiring if the works at the bluffs had been destroyed or removed to the other side of the river what i have already said concerning our treaty with the indians i suppose has guided the general of this province to take that step i really do not know whether they are destroyed or not i give you my word that i did not know what was to be done there and it is only by baron beldop that i learn that that post would soon be evacuated but as this is a thing that only regards the general of the province i cannot account for it nor can i say more on the subject as all the orders proceed from him the post being entirely out of my jurisdiction my dear sir your most humble obedient servant and friend manuel gayoso de lemos the honorable andrew ellicott no from andrew ellicott esq to his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march my dear sir it is with pleasure i acknowledge the receipt of your excellency's very satisfactory letter of yesterday you may rest assured that i have and shall continue to discountenance every measure and the propagation of any opinion which may have a tendency to disturb the good order and harmony of this settlement i shall close this letter with requesting that the commandant of the walnut hills be directed to treat the citizens of the united states with politeness when they stop at that post as a contrary conduct may be attended with disagreeable consequences on a river which both nations have an equal right to navigate i am with sentiments of real esteem your sincere and affectionate friend andrew ellicott his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos copy no from his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos to andrew ellicott esq copy natchez march my dear sir by every report you are acquainted with the confirmation of every thing i have told you concerning our business you know that lieutenant col guillemard will be here very soon and that immediately we shall proceed to the opening of the line but as nothing but friendly arrangements are to guide our conduct it is necessary to avoid every shadow of compulsion by the contents of my letter to captain pope you will see my reasons therefore i request that you will join a couple of lines to avoid any more writing i am surrounded by many people who have business this being court day though i have tried to dismiss myself but cannot wait upon you i am with the highest esteem and respect my dear sir your most humble servant and friend manuel gayoso de lemos the honorable andrew ellicott esquire n from andrew ellicott esq to lieut pope natchez march dear sir this will be handed you by major minor a friend of mine an officer in the service of his catholic majesty your polite attention to him will be considered as a particular favor conferred upon me by order of governor gayoso his letter to you of this day has been shown to me his request for you and the troops under your command to remain for an indefinite time above this place appears to me a very extraordinary one sufficient time has already been given by the united states for the evacuation of all the posts on the east side of the mississippi above the st degree of north latitude and from the troops of his catholic majesty carrying up and remounting the cannon at this place i cannot pretend to say that an evacuation is really intended in any reasonable time from this circumstance i should conclude that the sooner you are here the better however as i have no control over the destination of the troops of the united states except my own escort i shall take it for granted that your instructions are sufficiently pointed to direct your conduct please to accept of my sincere wishes for the safe and speedy arrival of yourself and troops at this place and am dear sir your friend and humble servant andrew ellicott lieutenant-pope no don manuel gayoso de lemos brigadier in the royal armies governor military and civil of natchez and its dependencies c c c whereas the political situation of this country offers a large field to busy and malignant minds to disturb the tranquility of its inhabitants it is therefore my duty and the continuation of that vigilance which i have constantly exerted not only to promote the happiness of every individual of this government but likewise to support their interest and secure their tranquility that i step forth to warn the public against being led by their innocent credulity against any measure that may be productive of ill consequences and frustrate all the advantages they have a right to expect and by the present i assure to them if they continue as they have always done with strict attachment to the welfare of his catholic majesty's government from which will depend the following favorable events viz his ty has offered to support the rights of the inhabitants to the real property and until that is ascertained i am bound to keep possession of this country as likewise until we are sure the indians will be pacific contrary to the general expectation the same indulgence that until now protected the inhabitants in distress will be continued during his majesty's sovereignty in this country and this being the season in which the planters are employed in preparing for an ensuing crop none shall be disturbed from that important object on account of their pending debts the misconstruction of what is the enjoyment of the liberty of conscience is hereby positively explained to be that no individual of this government shall be molested on account of religious principles and that they shall not be hindered in their private meetings but no other public worship will be allowed but that generally established in all his majesty's dominions which is the catholic religion these important objects that until now have not been published though resolved i acquaint the public with apprehensive of the dangerous insinuations of several persons that have made it their business to dazzle the public with false notions to serve their own purpose in the speculation of lands that are lawfully held by all the inhabitants of this government therefore i firmly rely that no person will deviate from the principles of adhesion to our government until the negotiations that are now on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-08|1|2", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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with a ny ill treatment that the citizens of the u s should have received at the walnut-hills if you mean the execution of the orders of the general in chief of this province to demolish that post it was in consequence of our treaty with the indians that they might have no just reason to complain of our conduct but since i have been informed of their unsettled disposition i have sent counter orders to suspend every thing that might injure the actual estate of those fortifications and in such circumstances shall not move any thing else until the arrival of the american troops that are daily expected the unavoidable detention that has been experienced in beginning the line you know the reasons but they shall soon be removed as lieutenant col guillemand is far on his way up and at his arrival this important business shall be begun i do assure you that there is nothing that can prevent the religious compliance of the treaty though i might observe that the conduct of some persons that seem to affect an immediate interest for the u states is such as to occupy my attention i request that you will be so kind as to take such measures as to suppress untimely expressions that can only tend to disturb the tranquility of the public of which i am solely answerable for the present as i was finishing this mr gillespie brought to me your note inquiring if the works at the bluffs had been destroyed or removed to the other side of the river what i have already said concerning our treaty with the indians i suppose has guided the general of this province to take that step i really do not know whether they are destroyed or not i give you my word that i did not know what was to be done there and it is only by baron bastrop that i learn that that post would soon be evacuated but as this is a thing that only regards the general of the province i cannot account for it nor can i say more on the subject as all the orders proceed from him that post being entirely out of my jurisdiction my dear sir your most humble obedient servant and friend manuel gayoso de lemos the honorable a ellicott no from andrew ellicott esquire to his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march my dear sir it is with pleasure i acknowledge the receipt of your excellency's very satisfactory letter of yesterday you may rest assured that i have and shall continue to discountenance every measure and the propagation of any opinion which may have a tendency to disturb the good order and harmony of this settlement i shall close this with requesting that the commandant of the walnut-hills be directed to treat the citizens of the united states with politeness when they stop at that post as a contrary conduct may be attended with disagreeable consequences on a river which both nations have an equal right to navigate i am with sentiments of real esteem your sincere and affectionate friend andrew ellicott his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos copy no from his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos to andrew ellicott esquire copy natchez march my dear sir by every report you are acquainted with the confirmation of every thing i have told you concerning our business you know that lieutenant col guillemand will be here very soon and that immediately we shall proceed to the running of the line but as nothing but friendly arrangements are to guide our conduct it is necessary to avoid every shadow of compulsion by the contents of my letter to capt pope you will see my reasons therefore i request that you will join a couple of lines to avoid any more writing i am surrounded by many people who have business this being court day though i have tried to disembark myself but cannot wait upon you i am with the highest esteem and respect my dear sir your most humble servant and friend manuel gayoso de lemos the honorable andrew ellicott no from andrew ellicott esquire to lieutenant pope natchez march dear sir this will be handed you by major minor a friend of mine an officer in the service of his catholic majesty your polite attention to him will be considered as a particular favor conferred upon me by order of governor gayoso his letter to you of this day has been shown to me his request for you and the troops under your command to remain for an indefinite time above this place appears to me a very extraordinary one sufficient time has already been given by the united states for the evacuation of all the posts on the east side of the mississippi above the st degree of north latitude and from the troops of his catholic majesty carrying up and mounting the cannon at this place i cannot pretend to say that an evacuation is really intended in any reasonable time from this circumstance i should conclude that the sooner you are here the better however as i have no control over the destination of the troops of the united states except my own escort i shall take it for granted that your instructions are sufficiently pointed to direct your conduct please to accept my sincere wishes for the safe and speedy arrival of yourself and troops at this place and am dear sir your friend and humble servant andrew ellicott lieutenant pope no don manuel gayoso de lemos brigadier in the royal armies governor military and civil of natchez and its dependencies c c c whereas the political situation of this country offers a large field to busy and malignant minds to disturb the tranquility of its inhabitants it is therefore my duty and the continuation of that vigilance which i have constantly exerted not only to promote the happiness of every individual of this government but likewise to support their interest and secure their tranquility that i step forth to warn the public against being led by their innocent credulity against any measure that may be productive of ill consequences and frustrate all the advantages they have a right to expect and by the present i assure to them if they continue as they have always done with strict attachment to the welfare of his catholic majesty's government from which will depend the following favorable events viz his majesty has offered to support the rights of the inhabitants to the real property and until that is ascertained i am bound to keep possession of this country as likewise until we are sure the indians will be pacific contrary to the general expectation of the same indulgence that until now protected the inhabitants in distress will be continued during his majesty's sovereignty in this country and this being the season in which the planters are employed in preparing for an ensuing crop none shall be disturbed from that important object on account of their depending debts the misconstruction of what is the enjoyment of the liberty of conscience is hereby positively explained to be that no individual of this government shall be molested on account of religious principles and that they shall not be hindered in their private meetings but no other public worship will be allowed but that generally established in all his majesty's dominions which is the catholic religion these important objects that until now have not been published though resolved i acquaint the public with apprehensive of the dangerous insinuations of several persons that have made it their business to dazzle the public with false notions to serve their own purpose in the speculation of lands that are lawfully held by all the inhabitants of this government therefore i firmly rely that no person will deviate from the principles of adhesion to our government until the negotiations that are now on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2184, 3119], "b_span": [7, 949], "matched_words": 921, "similarity": 0.9813532232285562, "seeds": 194, "id": "M00594", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-17|1|3", "date": "1797-06-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": 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mentioned that until the real property should be secured to the inhabitants this country should be considered in the same situation as before as likewise while the pacific disposition of the indians was not ascertained i find it my duty to explain that a negotiation is now carrying on to secure the right of the said real property as that right cannot be secured but by an additional article to the late treaty and until that article is officially communicated to me i am bound to keep possession of the country and continue the same indulgence and the same anxious protection as until now the negotiations with the indians will produce the same effects as it is impossible for his majesty to leave unprotected so many of his faithful subjects and expose other settlements to the revengeful disposition of discontented indians these important objects are of the greatest moment to every person in this government their interest and allegiance to his majesty binds them to keep steady in their principles of loyalty until by the definitive arrangements of both nations a change takes place being informed that some persons are apprehensive that violent measures will be taken against those that seemed pleased with the prospects of becoming citizens of the united states i declare that such a notion is unfounded as likewise the suspicion that individuals would be prevented from moving to any part they please either within his majesty's dominions or elsewhere as it is notorious that no such obstacle was ever offered to any body it being contrary to one of the greatest prerogatives that are enjoyed by his majesty's subjects don manuel gayoso de lemos march th no from andrew ellicott esq to his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march st my dear sir i was last evening addressed by a number of respectable inhabitants of the district of natchez they are very much alarmed for their situation in consequence of having expressed their pleasure since my arrival at this place in speedily becoming citizens of the united states your proclamation of the th inst they conceive renders that event doubtful they have therefore from considerations of personal safety and to avoid the insults which many of them have experienced from one or more officers of a small grade in this district have called upon me to use my influence with your excellency to grant them and all others who incline to leave this country the privilege of disposing of their properties and passports to enable them to reach the frontiers of such states as they may be inclined to remove to i have now stated the substance of their application and assure your excellency from the respectability of the applicants it is a subject in which i feel myself interested and to which i request your excellency's attention ever since i arrived in this district i have uniformly recommended to the inhabitants a quiet submission to the government now in force at the same time they have been in the most explicit manner assured that the period would not be far distant when the jurisdiction of the united states would be extended to them but they are not satisfied they have their suspicions and it is your excellency alone that can quiet them let the cannon and military stores be again taken out of the fort withdraw your objections to the arrival of the american troops and their apprehensions will subside i do not pretend to say that their apprehensions are well founded it is possible they are not but your objection to my escort's being stationed with me your hauling back and remounting the cannon at this place your dispatching major minor to delay the arrival of the troops of the united states at this post added to your excellency's proclamation however well meant have had a contrary effect by encrating their fears i have enclosed two paragraphs of the address which was handed to me last evening i am c c andrew ellicott no copy many whose ideas of allegiance had been preponderant from the treaty until the time of your arrival at this place thought themselves at full liberty to announce their sentiments in any way that might not affect the operations of peace and good order in society but the result is a melancholy contrast to the construction some have been already torn away from the bosom of agricultural life and conveyed to prison with every indignant epithet that malevolence could invent scouts are crossing the country in various directions breathing threats of vengeance against those who had unguardedly thrown aside the mask of duplicity and a number are waiting with solicitude the moment of their fate there are many in this country to whose exertions america is much indebted for her political existence we call upon you in the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-08|1|3", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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be considered in the same situation as before as likewise while the pacific disposition of the indians was not ascertained i find it my duty to explain that a negotiation is now carrying on to secure the right of the said real property as that right cannot be secured but by an additional article to the late treaty and until that article is officially communicated to me i am bound to keep possession of the country and continue to its inhabitants the same indulgence and the same anxious protection as until now the negotiations with the indians will produce the same effects as it is impossible for his majesty to leave unprotected so many of his faithful subjects and to expose other settlements to the vengeful disposition of discontented indians these important objects are of the greatest moment to every person in this government their interest and allegiance to his majesty bind them to keep steady in their principles of loyalty until by the definitive arrangements of both nations a change takes place being informed that some persons are apprehensive that violent measures will be taken against those that seemed pleased with the prospect of becoming citizens of the united states i declare that such a notion is unfounded as likewise the suspicion that individuals would be prevented from moving to any part they please either within his majesty's dominions or elsewhere as it is notorious that no such obstacle was ever offered to any body it being contrary to one of the greatest prerogatives that are enjoyed by his majesty's subjects don manuel gayoso de lemos march th no from andrew ellicott esquire to his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez march st my dear sir i was last evening addressed by a number of respectable inhabitants of the district of natchez they are very much alarmed for their situation in consequence of having expressed their pleasure since my arrival at this place in speedily becoming citizens of the united states your proclamation of the th instant they conceived renders that event doubtful they have therefore from considerations of personal safety and to avoid the insults which many of them have experienced from one or more officers of a small grade in this district have called upon me to use my influence with your excellency to grant them and all others who incline to leave this country the privilege of disposing of their properties and passports to enable them to reach the frontiers of such states as they may be inclined to remove to i have now stated the substance of their application and assure your excellency from the respectability of the applicants it is a subject in which i feel myself interested and to which i request your excellency's attention ever since i arrived in this district i have uniformly recommended to the inhabitants a quiet submission to the government now in force at the same time they have been in the most explicit manner assured that the period would not be far distant when the jurisdiction of the united states would be extended to them but they are not satisfied they have their suspicions and it is your excellency alone that can quiet them let the cannon and military stores be again taken out of the fort withdraw your objections to the arrival of the american troops of the american troops and their apprehensions will subside i do not pretend to say that their apprehensions are well founded it is possible they are not but your objection to my escort's being stationed with me your hauling back and re-mounting the cannon at this place your dispatching major minor to delay the arrival of the troops of the united states at this post added to your excellency's proclamation however well meant have had a contrary effect by encreasing their fears i have enclosed two paragraphs of the address which was handed to me last evening i am c c andrew ellicott no copy many whole ideas of allegiance had been preponderent from the treaty until the time of your arrival at this place thought themselves at full liberty to announce their sentiments in any way that might not affect the operations of peace and good order in society but the result is a melancholy contrast to the construction some have been already torn away from the bosom of agricultural life and conveyed to prison with every indignant epithet that malevolence could invent scouts are crossing the country in various directions breathing threats of vengeance against those who had unguardedly thrown aside the mask of duplicity and a number are waiting with solicitude the moment of their fate there are many in this country to whose exertions america is much indebted for her political existence we call upon you in the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3114, 3883], "b_span": [953, 1719], "matched_words": 755, "similarity": 0.9837133550488599, "seeds": 157, "id": "M00595", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-17|1|3", "date": "1797-06-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "call upon you in the name of every friend to that emblem of peace and science which has been recently displayed to us to stand forth with a countenance suitable to the dignity of your commission and demand of the governor passports with leave for all such as would dispose of their property and avail themselves of a change of situation by withdrawing to the united states no xix from his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos to andrew ellicott esq natchez march st my dear sir i have just now received your favor of this day in which you informed of the application of several respectable inhabitants of this government to you requesting your interposition to facilitate to them a privilege that they never ceased enjoying and in which consists the great liberty of a spaniard there is not one single instance in our government of having made opposition to a person's selling his property and leaving the country whenever they called for a passport and as our system is not altered i shall not refuse the same privilege to any person that may apply for it i am sorry to find that those persons who have addressed you have imposed upon your credulity and goodness in making use of remonstrances proper to make sensation on the feelings of a good citizen of the united states but there is not a word of truth in what they have advanced i have not taken notice of the farisfaction that some persons have expressed on the prospect of becoming citizens of the united states nor has any body been apprehended for it nor have i issued any order for such a purpose but against mr green sen who had made his escape conscious of the criminality of his conduct which is notorious and indeed in all the extent of this government there is but one single individual confined and that is for a criminal proceeding there is not a single patrol out in search of any one nor just in this moment do i find occasion for it but if i should i would employ every means in my power to suppress disorder and to keep the peace of the country as i have always done i doubt not of the assurances you please to give me of the good advice you have uniformly given to the people it being conformable to the character of a gentleman whose object is another than that of interfering in the matters of government my proclamation i found absolutely necessary to calm the minds of the people flattering to them the true situation of the political arrangements between his majesty and the united states which does not dissolve the treaty but requires an essential explanation not only with regard to the points alluded to in my proclamation but likewise as i am authorized to declare to you that the general of this province finds himself under the necessity to consult his majesty concerning the manner in which the posts are to be evacuated as it appears by general wayne's communication to him that he expects that the posts will be delivered with the buildings standing as they are and by the treaty we conceive that the posts are to be demolished before we leave them and as such interpretation of the true meaning of the treaty either one way or the other it might produce unnecessary ministerial contests my general has given me positive orders to suspend the evacuation of the posts until the matter shall be amicably settled between the two courts in the mean while if the troops of the united states that are daily expected arrive they shall be received at nogales in the most friendly and hospitable manner as is due to a nation with whom we are at perfect peace and with whom we wish to keep the most perfect harmony i flatter myself you will do me the justice to acknowledge the propriety of my conduct in obeying the superior orders of my general who is actuated by the principles of the strictest honor in supporting the interest of his majesty intrusted to him the uniform good harmony that we have reciprocally promised to each other will subsist and it will not be only our duty but our glory to banish every shadow of misunderstanding which is wrongly interpreted by the public without any more foundation than assisted those that tried to persuade you of wrongs that they never suffered i am with sentiments of the most sincere esteem and true friendship c manuel gayoso de lemos to be"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-08|1|3", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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having made opposition to a person's selling his property and leaving the country whenever they called for a passport and as our system is not altered i shall not refuse the same privilege to any person that may apply for it i am sorry to find that those persons who have addressed you have imposed upon your credulity and goodness in making use of remonstrances proper to make sensations on the feelings of a good citizen of the united states but there is not a word of truth in what they have advanced i have not taken notice of the satisfaction that some persons have expressed on the prospect of becoming citizens of the united states nor has any body been apprehended for it nor have i issued any order for such a purpose but against mr green sen who had made his escape conscious of the criminality of his conduct which is notorious and indeed in all the extent of this government there is but one single individual confined and that is for a criminal proceeding there is not a single patrol out in search of any one nor just in this moment do i find occasion for it but if i should i would employ every means in my power to suppress disorder and to keep the peace of the country as i have always done i doubt not of the assurances you please to give me of the good advice you have uniformly given to the people it being conformable to the character of a gentleman whose object is another than that of interfering in the matters of government my proclamation i found absolutely necessary to calm the minds of the people itating to them the true situation of the political arrangements between his majesty and the united states which does not dissolve the treaty but requires an essential explanation not only with regard to the points alluded to in my proclamation but likewise as i am authorised to declare to you that the general of this province finds himself under the necessity to consult his majesty concerning the manner in which the posts are to be evacuated as it appears by general wayne's communication to him that he expects that the posts will be delivered with the buildings standing as they are and by the treaty we conceive that the posts are to be demolished before we leave them and as such interpretation of the true meaning of the treaty either one way or the other it might produce unnecessary ministerial contests my general has given me positive orders to suspend the evacuations of the posts until the matter shall be amicably settled between the two courts in the mean while if the troops of the united states that are daily expected arrive they shall be received at nogales in the most friendly and hospitable manner as is due to a nation with whom we are at perfect peace and with whom we wish to keep the most perfect harmony i matter myself you will do me the justice to acknowledge the propriety of my conduct in obeying the superior order of my general who is actuated by the principles of the strictest honor in supporting the interest of his majesty intrusted to him the uniform good harmony that we have reciprocally promised to each other will subsist and it will not be only our duty but our glory to banish every shadow of misunderstanding which is wrongly interpreted by the public without any more foundation than alighted those that tried to persuade you of wrongs that they never suffered i am with sentiments of the esteem and true friendship c manuel gayoso de lemos to be"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2921, 3633], "b_span": [55, 764], "matched_words": 680, "similarity": 0.9570724841660803, "seeds": 118, "id": "M00596", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-19|1|1", "date": "1797-06-19", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-06-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797061901/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "i am informed that the officer commanding your escort has enlisted several persons residents of this government which being against the laws of nations i cannot pass unnoticed it being an infringement on the sovereignty of the king my master and a disregard of the authority residing in me i cannot persuade myself that it was done intentionally nor thinking that it could give the most remote offence but as the matter is of a most delicate nature i request you to give the necessary orders that the men so enlisted may be discharged and delivered to major minor whom i commission for this purpose the object of the escort not being to raise men in this country while under his catholic majesty's dominion i request of you likewise to give the most precise and positive orders to the officer of the troops or to whom it may appertain to discontinue such proceedings or any thing that may injure the immunity of the king's dominions or his royal rights the most perfect harmony and friendship subsisting between his catholic majesty and the united states of america the same being recommended in the most particular manner to the individuals of both nations it would be unaccountable if we that have had the honor to be distinguished by our appointments did not promote this friendly reciprocity which not only consists in a hospitable and polite intercourse but guarding and keeping to one another the prerogatives and privileges that are due enclosed i have the honor of transmitting to you a list of the men that to my knowledge have been recruited or suffered to be recruited in this government by the officer commanding your escort i have the honor to be with the highest consideration sir your most humble and obedient servant manuel gayoso de lemus copy the hon a ellicott no xxi the hon a ellicott to manuel gayoso de lemus natchez april th my dear sir your excellency's favor of this date was handed to me by major minor but the request it contains is of so general and important a nature and affecting so deeply that privileges of the citizens of the u states that i must take a short time to investigate its ultimate tendency as a part if not all of the persons named in your excellency's list cannot by any construction of the late treaty or the laws of nations be considered as the subjects of his catholic majesty you may rest assured that having in view the sacred and honorable principles which are the basis of that government i have the honor to serve and by which treaties are considered the most sacred of all obligations i will be careful neither to infringe the rights of the subjects of his catholic majesty nor willingly suffer infringement of those of the citizens of the united states i have the honor to be c c andrew ellicott copy his excellency manuel gayoso de lemus no xxii from lieutenant col charles de hault de lassus to major gen anthony wayne new madrid on the mississippi dec th sir lieutenant taylor has delivered me your excellency's letter dated detroit october th and according to your intention i have acquainted him with the orders i have received from the governor-general of this province respecting the treaty of friendship navigation and limits between the united states of america and the king my master i here enclose a copy of my letter to him wherein i hope you will find sufficient and satisfactory information as lieut taylor has according to his instructions determined to return from here without going any further down i am about sending immediately an express to new orleans with your excellency's letter to the governor-general of louisiana i will think myself happy if i have succeeded in complying with your intentions i have the honor to be with the highest respect your excellency's most obedient humble servant signed charles de hault de lassus lieutenant colonel in his catholic majesty's service and commander of the post of new madrid major-general anthony wayne commanding the army of the united states of america no xxiii from lieut col charles hault de lassus to lieut taylor new madrid on the mississippi december th sir"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-12|1|2", "date": "1797-07-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797071201/0018.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "i am informed that the officer commanding your escort has enlisted several persons residents of this government which being against the laws of nations i cannot pass unnoticed it being an infringement on the sovereignty of the king my master and a disregard of the authority residing in me i cannot persuade myself that it was done intentionally nor thinking that it could give the most remote offence but as the matter is of a most delicate nature i request you to give the necessary orders that the men so enlisted may be discharged and delivered to major minor whom i commission for this purpose the object of the escort not being to raise men in this country while under his catholic majesty's dominion i request of you likewise to give the most precise and positive orders to the officer of the troops or to whom it may appertain to discontinue such proceedings or any thing that may injure the immunity of the king's dominions or his royal rights the most perfect harmony and friendship subsisting between his catholic majesty and the united states of america the same being recommended in the most particular manner to the individuals of both nations it would be unaccountable if we that have had the honor to be distinguished by our appointments did not promote this friendly reciprocity which not only consists in a hospitable and polite intercourse but guarding and keeping to one another the prerogatives and privileges that are due enclosed i have the honor of transmitting to you a list of the men that to my knowledge have been recruited or suffered to be recruited in this government by the officer commanding your escort i have the honor to be with the sincerest friendship my dear sir your most humble and obedient servant manuel gayoso de lemos the honorable andrew ellicott copy no xxi from andrew ellicott esquire to his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez april th dear sir your excellency's favor of this date was handed to me by major minor but the request it contains is of so general and important a nature and affecting so deeply the privileges of the citizens of the united states that i must take a short time to investigate its ultimate tendency as a part if not all the persons named in your excellency's list cannot by any construction of the late treaty or the laws of nations be considered as the subjects of his catholic majesty you may rest assured that having in view the sacred and honorable principles which are the basis of that government i have the honor to serve and by which treaties are considered the most sacred of all obligations i will be careful neither to infringe the rights of the subjects of his catholic majesty nor willingly suffer infringement of those of the citizens of the united states i am c c andrew ellicott his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos no xxii from lieutenant colonel charles de hault de lassus to major general anthony wayne new madrid on the mississippi dec sir lieutenant taylor has delivered me your excellency's letter dated detroit october th and according to your intention i have acquainted him with the orders i have received from the governor-general of this province respecting the treaty of friendship navigation and limits between the united states of america and the king my master i here enclose a copy of my letter to him 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troops who are to accompany them but that in the mean time he orders me to tell them that the evacuation of the posts cannot take place until the time of high waters i will beg leave to observe to you that although this is the affirmative answer that gen wayne spoke of yet as he says that the troops who are to take possession of the posts are now waiting at fort miamis their coming down the river immediately that is before the high waters would be somewhat sooner than the governor-general of this province seems to expect and somewhat contrary to major-general wayne's own intentions since he tells the baron de carondelet to appoint the most convenient time for the evacuation of the posts i hope you will be so good as to make that observation to such officers as are in possession of general wayne's orders respecting the taking of possession of the posts and at the same time to make them sensible of the convenience it will be to both the americans and the spaniards to wait for a more proper season for the transport of artillery baggage provisions c which could not be moved at this present time without much trouble and risk on account of the river being so remarkably low as to render its navigation very dangerous i have the honor to be sir your most obedient and very humble servant charles de hault de lassus lieutenant colonel in his catholic majesty's service and commander of the post of new madrid to lieut taylor department of state th june i hereby certify that the foregoing documents numbered from to inclusive are true copies of the original communication from andrew ellicott esq the commissioner of the united states appointed to run the boundary line between their territory and his catholic majesty's colonies of east and west florida to the secretary of state george taylor jun"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-12|1|2", "date": "1797-07-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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as he says that the troops who are to take possession of the posts are now waiting at fort massac their coming down the river immediately that is before the high waters would be somewhat sooner than the governor-general of this province seems to expect and somewhat contrary to major-general wayne's own intentions since he tells the baron de carondelet in his letter to appoint the most convenient time for the evacuation of the posts i hope you will be so good as to make that observation to such officers as are in possession of general wayne's orders respecting the taking of possession of the posts and at the same time to make them sensible of the convenience it will be to both the americans and the spaniards to wait for a more proper season for the transport of artillery baggage provisions c which could not be moved at this present time without much trouble and risk on account of the river being so remarkably low as to render its navigation very dangerous i have the honor to be sir your most obedient humble servant charles de hault de lassus lieut colonel in his ca tholic majesty's service commander of the post of new madrid to lieut taylor department of state th june i hereby certify that the foregoing documents numbered from to inclusive are true copies of the original communication from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states appointed to run the boundary line between their territory and his catholic majesty's colonies of east and west florida to the secretary of state george taylor jun"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [718, 1064], "b_span": [589, 924], "matched_words": 308, "similarity": 0.9045521292217328, "seeds": 48, "id": "M00598", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-19|1|3", "date": "1797-06-19", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", 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hope and confidence from the illustrious character of the first magistrate of the united states his eminent services at home his able and successful negotiations abroad leave no ground of doubt that his abilities and influence will be further exerted for the good of his country whatever constitutional measures the general government may adopt for our common safety and defence shall receive our prompt and effective aid we wish to live in peace upon equal and honourable terms with all the nations of the earth we would be just to all but will be dictated by none and we reject with indignation the idea of our ever becoming so depraved and corrupt a people as to be subjected to any foreign influence or controul in the choice of our public officers or in the direction of our public councils in such a case we prefer contention to peace and the consequence of war to such degradation and abasement sensible that a time of peace and prosperity is the most fit season to prepare for any exigency 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other administration than the present but under such ministers can expectations be sanguine can we rationally hope that they who entered into the war so rashly will even now be eager to make peace or can we believe that men who have conducted the war so disgracefully will be able to terminate it honorably it is under such men that the sentiments of the french towards the english government have assumed a character and complexion which is horribly described in the grondeur of the th ult a paper attached to the directory and esteemed to be one of the most moderate all the accounts from vienna represent the alarm that prevailed there before the signing of the preliminaries to have been extreme the head quarters of the republican army were but posts from vienna most of the royal family had fled the ambassadors had made preparations for their departure at a moment's notice the archives chancery c had been packed up and sent off and many of the nobles and men of property had taken flight 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circulating medium passed at s petitions continued to pour in upon his majesty for the removal of his ministers and for the termination of the war a gentleman from st andrews n c acquaints us with the arrival there of the ship america capt luck from torbay which she left may the positive news of a signing a treaty of peace between the french"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-27|1|2", "date": "1797-06-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-06-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797062701/0312.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "june from england on sunday capt henshaw arrived here from london in days the papers brought were no later than before received the original information of the captain and gentlemen passengers is that peace has certainly and finally been settled between the emperor and the french which they deduce from the opinions of the best informed persons of different political sentiments and it was also believed that great-britain though not included in the austrian treaty would be at peace with france in a very short time bank notes designed as a circulating medium passed at petitions continued to pour in upon his majesty for the removal of his ministers and for the termination of the war a gentleman from st andrews acquaints us with the arrival there of the ship america capt lusk from torbay which left may that the positive news of the signing a treaty of peace between the french"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [740, 1264], "b_span": [48, 579], "matched_words": 508, "similarity": 0.9630331753554502, "seeds": 84, "id": "M00617", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-06-27|1|2", "date": "1797-06-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire 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garrisons or settlement of either party in the territory of the other that is whether when the spanish garrisons withdraw they are to leave the works standing or to demolish them and until by an additional article to the treaty the real property of the inhabitants shall be secured and likewise until the spanish officers are sure the indians will be pacific the two first questions if to be determined by negotiation might be made subjects of discussion for years and as no limitation of time can be prescribed to the other a certainty in the opinion of the spanish officers that the indians will be pacific it will be impossible to suffer it to remain an obstacle to the fulfillment of the treaty on the part of spain to remove the first difficulty i have determined to leave it to the discretion of the officers of his catholic majesty when they withdraw his troops from the forts within the territory of the united states either to leave the works standing or to demolish them and to remove the second i shall cause an assurance to be published and to be particularly communicated to the minister of his catholic majesty and to the governor of louisiana that the settlers or occupants of the lands in question shall not be disturbed in their possessions by the troops of the united states but on the contrary that they shall be protected in all their lawful claims and to prevent or remove every doubt on this point it merits the consideration of congress whether it will not be expedient immediately to pass a law giving positive assurance to those inhabitants who by fair and regular grants or by occupancy have obtained legal titles or equitable claims to lands in that country prior to the final ratification of the treaty between the u states and spain on the th of april the country is rendered peculiarly valuable by its inhabitants who are represented to amount to nearly four thousand generally well affected and much attached to the united states and zealous for the establishment of a 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the opinion of the spanish officers that the indians will be pacific it will be impossible to suffer it to remain an obstacle to the fulfilment of the treaty on the part of spain to remove the first difficulty i have determined to leave it to the discretion of the officers of his catholic majesty when they withdraw his troops from the forts within the territory of the united states either to leave the works standing or to demolish them and to remove the second i shall cause an assurance to be published and to be particularly communicated to the minister of his catholic majesty and to the governor of louisiana that the settlers or occupants of the lands in question shall not be disturbed in their possessions by the troops of the united states but on the contrary that they shall be protected in all their lawful claims and to prevent or remove every doubt on this point it merits the consideration of congress whether it will not be expedient immediately to pass a law giving positive assurances to those inhabitants who by fair and regular grants or by occupancy have obtained legal titles or equitable claims to lands in that country prior to the final ratification of the treaty between the united states and spain on the twenty-fifth of april one thousand seven hundred and ninety six this country is rendered peculiarly valuable by its inhabitants who are represented to amount to nearly four thousand generally well affected and much attached to the united states and zealous for the establishment of a government under their authority i therefore recommend to your consideration the expediency of erecting a government in the district of the natchez similar to that established for the territory north west of the river ohio but with certain modifications relative to titles or claims of land whether of individuals or companies or to claims of jurisdiction of any individual"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying 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buonaparte and the emperor's plenipotentiaries the adjutant general of the army of italy sole arrived yesterday evening with the preliminary stipulations signed which he delivered to the directory that officer passed through germany and hostilities have ceased every where the basis of these preliminaries approved of to-day by the executive directory are the cession of belgium by the emperor and king the acknowledgement of the limits of france such as they have been decreed by the laws of the republic the establishment and the independence"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1802, 1882], "b_span": [1815, 1896], "matched_words": 76, "similarity": 0.9440993788819876, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00619", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-06-28|1|2", "date": "1797-06-28", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": 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cannot serve for one and that you ought not if none be wanted the executive directory have it is said directed general buonaparte to demand the liberty of la fayette and his two companions in misfortune bureau de pufy and latour maubourg it is not to be supposed that the hero of italy so distinguished by every noble and generous sentiment would have neglected to break the chains of the illustrious victims of the vengeance and tyranny of the english government but it is pleasing to see the directory themselves anticipating this act of magnanimity and justice it is a glorious triumph of the spirit of moderation over the fury of party"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-19|1|2", "date": "1797-07-19", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797071901/0026.pdf", "source": 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between general buonaparte and the emperor's plenipotentiaries the adjutant-general of the army of italy sole arrived yesterday evening with the preliminary stipulations signed which he delivered to the directory that officer passed through germany and hostilities have ceased everywhere the basis of these preliminaries approved to-day by the executive directory are the cession of belgium by the emperor and king the acknowledgements of the limits of france such as they have been decreed by the laws of the republic the establishment and the independence of a republic in lombardy these moderate as well as honorable conditions are the guarantees of the solidity and duration of a peace so gloriously conquered by the love of liberty the indefatigable bravery of our brethren in arms and the talents of the generals who for six years have led them to victory this message was received by the council of five hundred with the loudest plaudits jean de bry paid a just tribute of gratitude to the peace-makers of europe he expressed the warmest wishes that the peace might extend beyond the continent and he concluded by moving that the legislative body should direct the day of the signing of the preliminaries of peace to be a day of rejoicing pastoret moved that a column should be erected to the brave defenders of the republic in the square of the great commune with this inscription la republique reconnoissante a ses braves defenseurs the republic in gratitude to her brave defenders these motions were referred to a commission the above is a literal translation of the message of the directory we shall now lay before our readers an extract from the republican francaise one of the most respectable of the paris papers which gives more in detail the preliminary articles and this intelligence though not official may probably be considered as authentic it has been copied by all the other paris papers the independence of the republic of batavia is recognised by the emperor the preservation by the republic of belgium and the country of liege the french republic shall have for limits luxembourg and all the territories of the empire to the meuse the emperor recognises the independence of the republic of lombardy he receives as an indemnification a part of the terra firma of venice venice is to receive in exchange the legation of bologna and ferrara there is to be a congress at berne to regulate the definitive articles the two powers shall invite their allies to be present at the congress to treat for"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-19|1|2", "date": "1797-07-19", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797071901/0026.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from the directory to the council of five hundred of the ult we are eager to 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talents of the generals who for six years have led them to victory this message was received by the council of five hundred with the loudest plaudits jean de bry paid a just tribute of gratitude to the peace makers of europe he expressed the warmest wishes that the peace might extend beyond the continent and he concluded by moving that the legislative body should direct the day of signing of the preliminaries of peace to be a day of rejoicing pastoret moved that a column should be erected to the brave defenders of the republic in the principal square of the great commune with this inscription the republic in gratitude to her brave defenders these motions were referred to a commission the above is a literal translation of the message of the directory we shall now lay before our readers an extract from the republican francaise one of the most respectable of the paris papers which gives more in detail the preliminary articles and this intelligence though not official may probably be 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"this message the uneasiness created in the public mind and which disaffection stock-jobbing have attempted to accredit relative to the reality of the preliminaries of peace concluded between general buonaparte and the emperor's plenipotentiaries the adjutant general of the army of italy sole arrived yesterday evening with the preliminary stipulations signed which he delivered to the directory that officer passed through germany and hostilities have ceased every where the basis of these preliminaries approved of to day by the executive directory are the cession of belgium by the emperor and king the acknowledgements of the limits of france such as they have been decreed by the laws of the republic the establishment and the independence"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1819, 1951], "b_span": [2330, 2464], "matched_words": 122, "similarity": 0.9172932330827067, "seeds": 20, 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the interior though no person whatever is admitted on board any of the ships yet we have reason to know that the present alarming discontent which threatens the pillars of the empire originated from what passed a few days since in the house of lords wherein they considered the faith pledged to them was not meant to be performed and this inference they probably drew from the circumstance that when a mutiny lately happened on board the culloden at spithead and though an amnesty was solemnly promised on returning to their duty yet five of the ring-leaders were afterwards executed extract of another letter portsmouth saturday half past p m this morning a cutter arrived from sir john b warren it is stated that the french fleet had worked out into the outer road of brest consisting of sail of the line and a number of transports which appeared ready for sailing at a moment's notice in consequence a message by the telegraph was conveyed to the admiralty and an answer returned on a cutter going 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majesty's secretary of state and i have authority to assure you philadelphia th june department of state philadelphia july sir your note of the th of the last month alluding to the suspicions expressed by the spanish minister respecting an expedition suggested to be preparing on the lakes will you permit me to inquire whether you can give any information concerning any other project of an expedition against any part of the dominions of spain adjacent to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-25|1|2", "date": "1797-07-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797072501/0328.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "houses of congress by a message from the president july r linton presents his respects to col pickering secretary of state when you first 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spanish posts in louisiana i laid before the president of the united states who received great satisfaction from your assurance that no such expedition has been or is intended by the british government will you permit me to enquire whether you can give me any information concerning any other project of an expedition against any part of the dominions of spain adjacent to the"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [195, 479], "b_span": [1408, 1818], "matched_words": 280, "similarity": 0.8069164265129684, "seeds": 55, "id": "M00640", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-06|1|3", "date": "1797-07-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the territories of the united states the general outline of the project was that the expedition should be undertaken by a british force sent by sea and seconded by a number of men resident within the limits of the united states i informed the projectors that i could not give any encouragement to a plan of this nature and i particularly stated two objections to it i conceived it to be my duty however to mention the business in my correspondence with my superiors and i lately received an answer acquainting me that his majesty's ministers did not think proper to give any countenance to the project you must allow me sir to decline entering into any further particulars on the one hand because although i have all along suspected that the persons who proposed the plan to me might not improbably be employed by the enemies of great britain hand because however loose the principles of these speculators may have been on the subject of the law of nations as it regards the duties of neutrality none 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i had of course insisted on in my report are stated as sufficient reasons for its rejection you must allow me sir to decline entering into any farther particulars on the one hand because although i have all along suspected that the persons who proposed the plan to me might not improbably be employed by the enemies of great britain to endeavor with sinister views to insinuate themselves into my confidence yet as these my surmises may be false i should not be justified in betraying the secrets of men who may have meant me well and on the other hand because however loose the principles of these speculators may have been on the subject of the law of nations as it regards the duties of neutrality none of them in their intercourse with me ever expressed sentiments that were in any degree hostile to the interests of the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [691, 753], 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manuel gayoso de lemos and lieutenant piercy pope of the corps of artillery and engineers and commandant of the advanced guard of the troops of the united states destined to take possession of those posts which exhibit the reasons that had prevented his receiving them the secretary further reports a copy of a letter from william blount senator from the state of tennessee the original of which is believed to be in his hand writing addressed to james carey interpreter to the cherokee nation and assistant to the indian factory at tellico in tennessee who had received it and which had since come to the hands of the principal of that factory james m'henry secretary of war no"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-29|1|3", "date": "1797-07-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the reasons that had prevented his receiving them the secretary further reports a copy of a letter from william blount governor from the state of tennessee the original of which is believed to be in his hand writing addressed to james carey interpreter to the cherokee nation and assistant to the indian factory at tellico in tennessee who had received it and which had since come to the hands of the principal of that factory james m'henry secretary of war no"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1454, 1680], "b_span": [1105, 1374], "matched_words": 220, "similarity": 0.8888888888888888, "seeds": 42, "id": "M00647", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-07|1|3", "date": "1797-07-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-07/ed-1/", 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our guards from officer's guards to non-commissioned officer's and our strength does not admit of three relievers i have had for a long time past a large number of indians i do not know well their intentions but i think it would be prudent not to weaken the garrison more than it is and i am pretty sure that both the french and spaniards have emissaries amongst the indians i have it from indubitable authority that a large belt from the spaniards is now travelling through the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-29|1|3", "date": "1797-07-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072901/0039.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from brigadier general james wilkinson to the secretary of war dated fort washington th june received d instant letters from all quarters announce the discontents and menacing aspect of the savages two white men have been recently murdered on the ohio below the cumberland and the savages beyond the mississippi and those who pass massac make no hesitation to avow their purpose for war the shawanese at the old tawa towns are our nearest neighbors they profess friendship but are making no preparations for a crop which is a certain indication of their intention to change ground the enclosed extract of a letter from colonel hamtramck is corroborated by information from kaskaskias st vincennes and massac at the same time colonel howard is strengthening his works at st louis and organizing the militia who are taken into pay at nine dollars per month no extract of a letter from lieutenant colonel hamtramck to brigadier general james wilkinson dated detroit st may the departure of the fourth regiment and now of the artillery makes us very weak it has reduced our guards from officer's guards to 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world on board a small vessel that in a gale of wind receiving much damage in her sails and rigging one of the hands asked the graduate who had been telling them he was a master of arts a m to assist in knotting and splicing some parts of the standing and running rigging that had been broken or damaged excuse me friend said the graduate i know nothing about splicing what cried the sailor did you not call yourself master of arts aye aye quoth numps and have my diploma in my pocket too you a pretty master of arts replied the sailor and not know how to"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 3006], "b_span": [615, 987], "matched_words": 358, "similarity": 0.9585006693440429, "seeds": 59, "id": "M00649", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-08|1|3", "date": "1797-07-08", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": 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where there are sufficient buildings to accommodate both you and your troops this intimation being an effect of the desire we have to shew every degree of consideration as a proof of our disposition to improve the friendship between our nations assuring you that in any part that you should determine to remove or stay the commander general of this province will facilitate every convenience in his power for your satisfaction i"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-12|1|2", "date": "1797-08-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797081201/0054.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "general of this province desires me to inform you that his majesty's envoy in the united states has given him the intelligence of an attack proposed against our part of the illinois by the british from canada and as such an expedition cannot take place without passing thro the territory of the united states said envoy did officially communicate what was necessary to the secretary of state of the united states requiring that convenient orders should be issued to have their territory respected and provide for their own safety which we doubt not but the united states will acquiesce to in consequence of the treaty and the good harmony that subsists between the united states of america and his majesty the said commander general of this province in consequence of the foregoing information finds himself under the necessity of putting in a state of defence several points of this river and particularly nogales to cover lower louisiana in case the british should succeed in their project against illinois for which purpose a convenient force shall be sent to nogales to repair and defend that post which far from being against the interest of the united states of america will in case of being agreed to leave the military posts in that state of defence which it may be found as this is a powerful reason in addition to those that offered before to suspend the evacuation of these posts and of running the line as our attention is entirely drawn towards the defence of the province the said commander general desires me to pass to you this official communication and in consequence of the unavoidable delay to repeat to you in his name the proposal of remaining here to go down to lower louisiana or as he thinks might be preferable to remove to villa gayoso where there are sufficient buildings to accommodate you this insinuation being an effect of the desire we have to show every degree of consideration as a proof of our disposition to improve the friendship between our nations assuring you that in any part that you should determine to remove to or stay the commander general will facilitate every convenience in his power for your satisfaction i"}, 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farther dispatches from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states at the natchez dated the tenth of may last of which an extract and copies numbered one two and three are subjoined by these it appears that a new motive has been assigned by the commander in chief the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso for still retaining the possession of the posts of the natchez and the walnut hills and for strengthening the fortifications viz to guard against an attack by the british from canada this motive being derived from information communicated to the baron de carondelet by the chevalier de yrujo the minister of his catholic majesty to the united states it appears necessary again to bring before the president my correspondence with the spanish and british ministers on that subject these papers are numbered and although the minister declared he had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper posts of louisiana yet he never mentioned a single fact or reason on which his suspicion was founded from all existing circumstances i ever believed the suspicion to be groundless and the note of mr linton the british minister of the th of the last month declares that no such expedition has been or is intended by the british government on the th of march last by the president's direction i enquired of the minister of his catholic majesty whether the spanish troops had been withdrawn agreeably to the treaty from the territory of the united states and if not what orders or measures for withdrawing them had been taken to this the minister answered on the th of april that not having for some months heard from the baron de carondelet he was deprived of any information touching the steps taken for the execution of the treaty nevertheless he had previously informed the baron de carondelet of his suspicions of a projected expedition from canada for on the first of may it is offered by governor gayoso as a new reason for continuing to hold the posts these two letters are numbered to on the th of june last the minister of his catholic majesty wrote me the letter number in which he undertakes to give the substance of two letters from the baron de carondelet and which about a week before he had orally translated to me from the spanish originals these letters as appears by the detail of them now given by the minister exhibited divers complaints against mr ellicott whose conduct is assigned as the cause of an alleged misunderstanding between him and governor gayoso and of the delay in commencing the running of the boundary line one article however the minister has omitted in his recital the baron de carondelet complained among other things that mr ellicott had not given him notice of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner on the part of the united states for running the boundary line between their territories and those of spain i was astonished at this complaint as i had then lying on my table a copy of mr ellicott's letter to the baron dated the th of february only three days after mr ellicott's arrival at the natchez announcing his arrival as the commissioner of the united states for the object above expressed and two copies of the baron's answer dated at new orleans the first of march one of the original spanish and the other a translation in english acknowledging the receipt of mr ellicott's letter and congratulating him on his arrival in that country in the character of commissioner on the part of the united states i immediately presented these copies to the minister in whom the repugnance of fact to assertion excited the natural suspicion but soon recollecting himself he made this apology for the baron that he supposed he did not consider mr ellicott's letter as official this letter and the translation of the baron's answer have been already laid before congress and published i now submit the copy of the baron's answer in spanish no the facts i have here stated relative to the complaint of the baron de carondelet which the spanish minister has omitted in his detail appeared to me important to be laid before you to be considered together with the other complaints which the minister has recited as to the complaint that mr ellicott attempted to get possession of the natchez fort by surprise and that the governor gayoso had in his power documents which evidently prove the intention of that attempt i have examined the two gentlemen who have brought mr ellicott's dispatches and they declare that they never heard of such an attempt being made or intended by mr ellicott and that far from exciting dissatisfaction to the spanish government in the minds of the inhabitants at the natchez he uniformly recommended patience and submission until the spanish jurisdiction should be withdrawn upon a view of the whole correspondence now and before submitted to the president it appears that the governors of his catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the territory of the united states that after repeated overtures promises and assurances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both those respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exerted over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for rupture with the united states those suspicions corresponding with other intelligence recently received by the secretary of war and by me mine is by a private letter from colonel sargent the secretary of the territory northwest of the river ohio of which an extract no is annexed whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain the evidence of this important fact will be laid before you by the secretary of war that evidence having a reference to the british minister and his government i took the liberty of addressing to him a letter dated the st instant no to which i received an answer no as closely connected with this business i lay before you the copy of my letter no dated the th of april last to charles jackson esquire the district attorney of georgia reciting a passage in a letter from the spanish minister dated the st of april declaring his positive knowledge that the english had made propositions to general clarke of georgia to obtain his influence in that state in conjunction with some persons who might make a diversion or serious attack against florida by mr jackson's answer from which an extract no is herewith presented it appears that after diligent enquiry he could not find any person that knew any thing of the business or that entertained a belief of the kind and that from general clarke's known violent antipathies to the english and other circumstances he doubted the truth of the report altogether on the th ult i received a letter from general pickney dated the th of may which contains the latest intelligence from him and seems proper to accompany the other papers now laid before you his letter no therein referred to has not yet come to hand all which is respectfully submitted"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-18|1|2", "date": "1797-07-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071801/0324.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of his catholic majesty in relation to the posts occupied by his troops within the limits of the united states the boundary line and other matters therewith connected on thursday last the th of june i received farther dispatches from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states at the natchez dated the th of may last of which an extract and copies numbered one two and three are subjoined by these it appears that a new motive has been assigned by the commander in chief the baron de carondolet and gov gayoso for still retaining the possession of the posts the natchez and the walnut hills and for strengthening the fortifications viz to guard against an attack by the british from canada this motive being derived from information communicated to the baron de carondolet by the chevalier de yrujo the minister of his catholic majesty to the united states it appears necessary again to bring before the president my correspondence with the spanish and british ministers on that subject these papers are numbered and although the minister declared he had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper posts of louisiana yet he never mentioned a single fact or reason on which his suspicion was founded from all the existing circumstances i ever believed the suspicion to be groundless and the note of mr liston the british minister of the th of the last month declares that no such expedition had been or is intended by the british government on the th march last by the president's direction i enquired of the minister of his catholic majesty whether the spanish troops had been withdrawn agreeably to the treaty from the territory of the united states and if not what orders or measures for withdrawing them had been taken to this the minister answered on the th of april that not having for some months heard from the baron de carondolet he was deprived of any information touching the steps taken for the execution of the treaty nevertheless he had previously informed the baron de carondolet of his suspicions of a projected expedition from canada for on the first of may it is offered by governor gayoso as a new reason for continuing to hold the posts these two letters are numbered on the th june last the minister of his catholic majesty wrote me the letter number in which he undertakes to give the substance of two letters from the baron de carondolet and which about a week before he had only translated to me from the spanish originals these letters as appears by the detail of them now given by the minister exhibited divers complaints against mr ellicott whose conduct is assigned as the cause of an alleged misunderstanding between him and governor gayoso and of the delay in commencing the running of the boundary line one article however the minister has omitted in his recital the baron de carondolet complained among other things that mr ellicott had not given him notice of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner on the part of the u s for running the boundary line between their territories and those of spain i was astonished at this complaint as i had then lying on my table a copy of mr ellicott's letter to the baron dated the th feb only three days after mr ellicott's arrival at the natchez announcing his arrival as the commissioner of the u s for the object above expressed and two copies of the baron's answer dated at new orleans the first of march one in the original spanish and the other a translation in english acknowledging the receipt of mr ellicott's letter and congratulating him on his arrival in that country in the character of commissioner on the part of the u s to run the dividing line between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the u s i immediately presented these copies to the minister in whom the repugnance of fact to assertion excited the natural sensation but soon recollecting himself he made this apology for the baron that he supposed he did not consider mr ellicott's letter as official this letter and the translation of the baron's answer have been already laid before congress and published i now subjoin the copy of the baron's answer in spanish no the facts i have here stated relative to the complaint of the baron de carondolet which the spanish minister has omitted in his detail appeared to me important to be laid before you to be considered together with the other complaints which the minister has recited as to the complaint that mr ellicott attempted to get possession of the natchez fort by surprise and that the governor gayoso has in his power documents which evidently prove the intention of that attempt i have examined the two gentlemen who have brought mr ellicott's dispatches and they declare that they never heard of such an attempt being made or intended by mr ellicott and that far from exciting dissatisfaction to the spanish government in the minds of the inhabitants at the natchez he uniformly recommended patience and submission until the spanish jurisdiction should be withdrawn upon a view of the whole correspondence now and before submitted to the president it appears that the governors of his most catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the cutting of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the u s that after repeated overtures promises and appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both those respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well-founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by the officers of his c m to prepare them for a rupture with the u s those suspicions corresponding with other intelligence received by the s of war and by me mine is by a private letter from col sargent the sec of the territory n w of the river ohio of which an extract no is annexed whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interest of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain the evidence of this important fact will be laid before you by the secretary of war that evidence having a reference to the british minister and his government i took the liberty of addressing to him a letter dated the st inst no to which i received the answer no as closely connected with this business i lay before you the copy of my letter no dated the th of april last to charles jackson esq the district attorney of georgia reciting a passage in a letter from the spanish minister dated the st of april declaring his positive knowledge that the english had made propositions to gen clark of georgia to obtain his influence in that state in conjunction with some persons who might make a division or serious attack against florida by mr jackson's answer from which an extract no is herewith presented it appears that after diligent enquiry he could not find any person that knew any thing of the business or that entertained a belief of the kind and that from gen clark's known violent antipathies to the english and other circumstances he doubted the truth of the report altogether on the th ult i received a letter from gen pinckney dated the th of may which contains the latest intelligence from him and seems proper to accompany the other papers now laid before you his letter no therein referred to has not yet come to hand all which is respectfully submitted"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [516, 1907], "b_span": [259, 1664], "matched_words": 1370, "similarity": 0.9799713876967096, "seeds": 264, "id": "M00651", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|2", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of his catholic majesty in relation to the posts occupied by his troops within the limits of the united states the boundary line and other matters therewith connected on thursday last the th of june i received farther dispatches from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states at the natchez dated the tenth of may last of which an extract and copies numbered one two and three are subjoined by these it appears that a new motive has been assigned by the commander in chief the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso for still retaining the possession of the posts of the natchez and the walnut hills and for strengthening the fortifications viz to guard against an attack by the british from canada this motive being derived from information communicated to the baron de carondelet by the chevalier de yrujo the minister of his catholic majesty to the united states it appears necessary again to bring before the president my correspondence with the spanish and british ministers on that subject these papers are numbered and although the minister declared he had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper posts of louisiana yet he never mentioned a single fact or reason on which his suspicion was founded from all existing circumstances i ever believed the suspicion to be groundless and the note of mr linton the british minister of the th of the last month declares that no such expedition has been or is intended by the british government on the th of march last by the president's direction i enquired of the minister of his catholic majesty whether the spanish troops had been withdrawn agreeably to the treaty from the territory of the united states and if not what orders or measures for withdrawing them had been taken to this the minister answered on the th of april that not having for some months heard from the baron de carondelet he was deprived of any information touching the steps taken for the execution of the treaty nevertheless he had previously informed the baron de carondelet of his suspicions of a projected expedition from canada for on the first of may it is offered by governor gayoso as a new reason for continuing to hold the posts these two letters are numbered to on the th of june last the minister of his catholic majesty wrote me the letter number in which he undertakes to give the substance of two letters from the baron de carondelet and which about a week before he had orally translated to me from the spanish originals these letters as appears by the detail of them now given by the minister exhibited divers complaints against mr ellicott whose conduct is assigned as the cause of an alleged misunderstanding between him and governor gayoso and of the delay in commencing the running of the boundary line one article however the minister has omitted in his recital the baron de carondelet complained among other things that mr ellicott had not given him notice of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner on the part of the united states for running the boundary line between their territories and those of spain i was astonished at this complaint as i had then lying on my table a copy of mr ellicott's letter to the baron dated the th of february only three days after mr ellicott's arrival at the natchez announcing his arrival as the commissioner of the united states for the object above expressed and two copies of the baron's answer dated at new orleans the first of march one of the original spanish and the other a translation in english acknowledging the receipt of mr ellicott's letter and congratulating him on his arrival in that country in the character of commissioner on the part of the united states i immediately presented these copies to the minister in whom the repugnance of fact to assertion excited the natural suspicion but soon recollecting himself he made this apology for the baron that he supposed he did not consider mr ellicott's letter as official this letter and the translation of the baron's answer have been already laid before congress and published i now submit the copy of the baron's answer in spanish no the facts i have here stated relative to the complaint of the baron de carondelet which the spanish minister has omitted in his detail appeared to me important to be laid before you to be considered together with the other complaints which the minister has recited as to the complaint that mr ellicott attempted to get possession of the natchez fort by surprise and that the governor gayoso had in his power documents which evidently prove the intention of that attempt i have examined the two gentlemen who have brought mr ellicott's dispatches and they declare that they never heard of such an attempt being made or intended by mr ellicott and that far from exciting dissatisfaction to the spanish government in the minds of the inhabitants at the natchez he uniformly recommended patience and submission until the spanish jurisdiction should be withdrawn upon a view of the whole correspondence now and before submitted to the president it appears that the governors of his catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the territory of the united states that after repeated overtures promises and assurances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both those respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exerted over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for rupture with the united states those suspicions corresponding with other intelligence recently received by the secretary of war and by me mine is by a private letter from colonel sargent the secretary of the territory northwest of the river ohio of which an extract no is annexed whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain the evidence of this important fact will be laid before you by the secretary of war that evidence having a reference to the british minister and his government i took the liberty of addressing to him a letter dated the st instant no to which i received an answer no as closely connected with this business i lay before you the copy of my letter no dated the th of april last to charles jackson esquire the district attorney of georgia reciting a passage in a letter from the spanish minister dated the st of april declaring his positive knowledge that the english had made propositions to general clarke of georgia to obtain his influence in that state in conjunction with some persons who might make a diversion or serious attack against florida by mr jackson's answer from which an extract no is herewith presented it appears that after diligent enquiry he could not find any person that knew any thing of the business or that entertained a belief of the kind and that from general clarke's known violent antipathies to the english and other circumstances he doubted the truth of the report altogether on the th ult i received a letter from general pickney dated the th of may which contains the latest intelligence from him and seems proper to accompany the other papers now laid before you his letter no therein referred to has not yet come to hand all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-26|1|2", "date": "1797-07-26", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072601/0034.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of his catholic majesty in relation to the posts occupied by his troops within the limits of the united states the boundary line and other matters therein connected on thursday last the th of june i received further dispatches from andrew ellicott esq the commissioner of the united states at the natchez dated the th of may last of which an extract and copies numbered one two and three are subjoined by these it appears that a new motive has been assigned by the commander in chief the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso for still retaining the possession of the posts of the natchez and the walnut hills and for strengthening the fortifications viz to guard against an attack by the british from canada this motive being derived from information communicated to the baron de carondelet by the chevalier de yrujo the minister of his catholic majesty to the united states it appears necessary again to bring before the president my correspondence with the spanish and british ministers on that subject these papers are numbered and although the minister declared he had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper posts of louisiana yet he never mentioned a single fact or reason on which his suspicion was founded from all the existing circumstances i ever believed the suspicion to be groundless and the note of mr litton the british minister of the th of the last month declares that no such expedition has been or is intended by the british government on the th of march last by the president's direction i enquired of the minister of his catholic majesty whether the spanish troops had been withdrawn agreeably to the treaty from the territory of the united states and if not what orders or measures for withdrawing them had been taken to this the minister answered on the th of april that not having for some months heard from the baron de carondelet he was deprived of any information touching the steps taken for the execution of the treaty nevertheless he had previously informed the baron de carondelet of his suspicions of a projected expedition from canada for on the first day of may it is offered by governor gayoso as a new reason for continuing to hold the posts these two letters are numbered on the th of june last the minister of his catholic majesty wrote me the letter number in which he undertakes to give the substance of two letters from the baron de carondelet and which about a week before he had orally translated to me from the spanish originals these letters as appears by the detail of them now given by the minister exhibited divers complaints against mr ellicott whose conduct is assigned as the cause of an alleged misunderstanding between him and governor gayoso and the delay in commencing the running of the boundary line one article however the minister has omitted in his recital the baron de carondelet complained among other things that mr ellicott had not given him notice of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner on the part of the united states for running the boundary line between their territories and those of spain i was astonished at this complaint as i had then lying on my table a copy of mr ellicott's letter to the baron dated the th of february only three days after mr ellicott's arrival at the natchez announcing his arrival as commissioner of the united states for the object above expressed and two copies of the baron's answer dated at new orleans the first of march one of the original spanish and the other a translation in english acknowledging the receipt of mr ellicott's letter and congratulating him on his arrival in that country in the character of commissioner on the part of the united states to run the dividing line between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the united states i immediately presented these copies to the minister in whom the repugnance of fact to assertion excited the natural sensation but soon recollecting himself he made this apology for the baron that he supposed he did not consider mr ellicott's letter as official this letter and the translation of the baron's answer have been already laid before congress and published i now subjoin the copy of the baron's answer in spanish no the facts i have here stated relative to the complaint of the baron de carondelet which the spanish minister has omitted in his detail appeared to me important to be laid before you to be considered together with the other complaints which the minister has recited as to the complaint that mr ellicott attempted to get possession of the natchez fort by surprise and that the governor gayoso has in his power documents which evidently prove the intention of that attempt i have examined the two gentlemen who have brought mr ellicott's dispatches and they declare that they never heard of such an attempt being made or intended by mr ellicott and that far from exciting dissatisfaction to the spanish government in the minds of the inhabitants at the natchez he uniformly recommended patience and submission until the spanish jurisdiction should be withdrawn upon a view of the whole correspondence now and before submitted to the president it appears that the governors of his catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the territory of the united states that after repeated overtures promises and appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both those respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the united states those suspicions corresponding with other intelligence recently received by the secretary of war and by me mine is by a private letter from col sargent the secretary of the territory north-west of the river ohio of which an extract no is annexed whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the u states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain the evidence of this important fact will be laid before you by the secretary of war that evidence having a reference to the british minister and his government i took the liberty of addressing to him a letter dated the st instant no to which i received the answer no as closely connected with this business i lay before you the copy of my letter no dated the th of april last to charles jackson esquire the district attorney of georgia reciting a passage in a letter from the spanish minister dated the st of april declaring his positive knowledge that the english had made propositions to general clarke of georgia to obtain his influence in that state in conjunction with some persons who might make a diversion or serious attack against florida by mr jackson's answer from which an extract no is herewith presented it appears that after diligent enquiry he could not find any person that knew any thing of the business or that entertained a belief of the kind and that from general clarke's known violent antipathies to the english and other circumstances he doubted the truth of the report altogether on the th ult i received a letter from general pinckney dated the th of may which contains the latest intelligence from him and seems proper to accompany the other papers now laid before you his letter no therein referred to has not yet come to hand all which is respectfully submitted timothy pickering"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 2875], "b_span": [21, 261], "matched_words": 236, "similarity": 0.9752066115702479, "seeds": 48, "id": "M00652", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|2", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sir three days ago i declared to you the just reasons which i had for suspecting that an expedition was preparing on the lakes on the part of the english the object of which is to attack upper louisiana and take by surprise the posts of st louis and new-madrid the proofs which i have since been able to obtain confirm me in my suspicion that the english troops who mediate this coup de main intend to descend the mississippi by fox river oconelon or by the illinois or other parts of the territory of the united states i suppose the government of this country too jealous of its rights to suffer so scandalous a violation of its territory but having always in view the interests of the king my master and the security of its possessions in this part of the world in his name i request sir that in virtue of the information cited this government may take the measures necessary for preventing the passage of foreign troops of what description soever over its territory an undertaking in which are united the dignity of the united states and the security of the possessions of a friendly nation assures me beforehand that the administration of this country will take the measures which shall be most adapted to this end with these reasons i offer myself to your disposal and pray god to preserve you many years your most obedient humble servant charles martinez"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-29|1|2", "date": "1797-07-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072901/0038.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sir three days ago i declared to you the just reasons which i had for suspecting that an expedition was preparing on the lakes on the part of the english the object of which is to attack upper louisiana and take by surprise the posts of st louis and new-madrid the proofs which i have since been able to obtain confirm me in my suspicion that the english troops who meditate this coup-de-main intend to descend the mississippi by fox river ouisconsin or by the illinois or other parts of the territory of the united states i suppose the government of this country too jealous of its rights to suffer so scandalous a violation of its territory but having always in view the interests the king my master and the security of his possessions in this part of the world in his name i request sir that in virtue of the information cited this government may take the measures necessary for preventing the passage of foreign troops of what description soever over its territory an undertaking in which are united the dignity of the united states and the security of the possessions of a friendly nation assures me beforehand that the administration of this country will take the measures shall be most adapted to this end with these reasons i offer myself to your disposal and pray god to preserve you many years your most obedient humble servant charles martinez"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1571, 1658], "b_span": [258, 345], "matched_words": 87, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00653", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|2", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0043.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1928, 2499], "b_span": [14, 587], "matched_words": 559, "similarity": 0.9772727272727273, "seeds": 114, "id": "M00654", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|2", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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lieut pope with a detachment of about forty troops which happened the th of last month would make some change for the better in this i have been disappointed additional labourers were set to work in the fort and several more pieces of artillery mounted on the first of this month i received a letter from governor gayoso a copy of which with the answer you will find inclosed on sunday last the fort at this place was reinforced by about forty men and a company of grenadiers are on their way and hourly expected to join them yesterday mr gillamard the spanish surveyor an engineer and several other military officers with a boat-load of entrenching tools left this place for the walnut hills where the works are to be immediately put into a complete state of defence the labourers who were employed by the direction of governor gayoso to go in the line are now ordered to the walnut hills to assist in repairing the fortifications if the court of madrid has any design of carrying the late treaty with the united states into effect the conduct of the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso is to the altogether inexplicable all their measures have the appearance of approaching hostility and from some information which i have lately received from a source to which i cannot avoid giving a degree of credit but a short period will elapse before we shall be ordered to leave this place if not the country i have in a former communication mentioned my suspicions that an undue influence has been exerted over the indians to prepare them for a rupture with the united states and to awe into a quiet submission the inhabitants of this district who are at their mercy i am sorry that no circumstance has yet occurred to make me change this opinion immediately upon mr pope's arrival he was joined by ensign m'clary who commands my escort which consists of about thirty-seven men and all encamped with me we now make a respectable appearance the men are in good health and well clothed and the strictest discipline is observed by the whole camp lieut pope has hitherto conducted himself in such a manner as to give general satisfaction to the neighbouring inhabitants without incurring the displeasure of the present governor or his officers and at the same time supported the honour of the united states but he has unfortunately been indisposed almost ever since his arrival i am sir with great esteem c andrew ellicott secretary"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-12|1|2", "date": "1797-08-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797081201/0054.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the secretary of state dated natchez may sir since my dispatches by mr knox the whole of the spanish commission for the purpose of running the boundary lines between the territory of his catholic majesty and that of the united states has arrived but notwithstanding this circumstance i see no appearance of getting to business in any reasonable time various pretences are resorted to by the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso to justify the delay but the true reason i am well persuaded has never yet been made known to myself or to the inhabitants of the district of natchez who are generally very uneasy and many of them consider their situations as desperate if not supported in a few months by the united states as the arrival of the whole spanish commission produced no effect favorable to our business i expected that of lieutenant pope with a detachment of about forty troops which have been some time in the fort would make some change for the better in this i have been disappointed additional labourers were set to work in the fort and several more pieces of artillery mounted on the first of this month i received a letter from governor gayoso a copy of which with the answer you will find inclosed on sunday last the fort at this place was reinforced by about forty men and a company of grenadiers are on their way and hourly expected to join them yesterday mr gilimard the spanish surveyor an engineer and several other military officers with a boat-load of entrenching tools left this place for the walnut hills where the works are to be immediately put into a complete state of defence the labourers who were employed by the direction of governor gayoso to go on the line are now ordered to the walnut hills to assist in repairing the fortifications if the court of madrid has any design of carrying the late treaty with the united states into effect the conduct of the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso is to me altogether inexplicable all their measures have the appearance of approaching hostility and from some information which i have lately received from a source to which i cannot avoid giving a degree of credit but a short period will elapse before we shall be ordered to leave this place if not the country i have in a former communication mentioned my suspicions that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians to prepare them for a rupture with the united states and to awe into a quiet submission the inhabitants of this district who are at their mercy i am sorry that no circumstance has yet occurred to make me change this opinion immediately upon mr pope's arrival he was joined by ensign mcclary who commands my escort which consists of about thirty-seven men and all encamped with me we now make a respectable appearance the men are in good health and well clothed and the strictest discipline is observed by the whole camp lieutenant pope has hitherto conducted himself in such a manner as to give general satisfaction to the neighbouring inhabitants without incurring the displeasure of the present governor or his officers and at the same time readily supported the honour of the united states but he has unfortunately been indisposed almost ever since his arrival i am sir with great esteem c andrew ellicott secretary"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2526, 2627], "b_span": [1007, 1107], "matched_words": 98, "similarity": 0.9751243781094527, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00655", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|2", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez may d sir your excellency's favour of yesterday is now before me but as it principally concerns the commanding officer of the troops of the united states in this quarter who i presume will give you a satisfactory answer it will therefore be unnecessary for me to make any remarks upon it in a former communication you were apprized of my determination to remain at this place until we proceeded to running the line or are recalled by the executive of the united states i am c c andrew ellicott his excellency manuel gayoso"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-12|1|2", "date": "1797-08-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797081201/0054.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "his excellency manuel gayoso de lemos natchez may sir your excellency's favor of yesterday is now before me but as it principally concerns the commanding officer of the troops of the united states in this quarter who i presume will give you a satisfactory answer it will therefore be unnecessary for me to make any remarks upon it in a former communication you were apprized of my determination to remain at this place until we proceeded to running of the line or recalled by the executive of the united states i am c c andrew ellicott his excellency manuel gayoso"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4060, 4137], "b_span": [480, 557], "matched_words": 67, "similarity": 0.8701298701298701, "seeds": 6, "id": "M00656", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|3", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"this act shall continue and be in force for the space of one year from the passing thereof and from thence to the end of the next session of congress and no longer jonatan dayton speaker of the house of representatives thomas jefferson vice-president of the united states and president of senate approved june john adams president of the united states deposited among the rolls in the office of the department of state timothy pickering secretary of"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4289, 4545], "b_span": [1593, 1850], "matched_words": 225, "similarity": 0.8771929824561403, "seeds": 27, "id": "M00657", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|3", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "order of the day was called for on the motion for expel ling william blount from his seat in the senate which was on friday postponed to take into con sideration the message of the house of representa tives and mr martin and mr cooke were sworn by a magistrate who attended for the purpose and interrogated as to the hand writing of mr blount which they substantiated the business had not been far proceeded with when mr blount took his seat and informed the house messrs dula and ingersoll his council were ready to plead in his defence they were allowed to take their seats at the bar of the house and mr dallas commenced the defence in a very able and ingenious address which occupied more than three hours mr ingersoll followed him in a speech of nearly two hours these gentlemen had recourse to every precedent which could be produced from history and to every argument which ability and inge nuity could suggest they particularly relied on the ground that the punishment of an offender should in no case precede the trial and that to expel mr blount from his seat at this time would be to do what could only be done provided he was found guilty of the impeachment preferred which how ever they denied the right of the house of rep resentatives to prefer the defence being finished mr ross rose and in a very luminous speech examined all the argu ments which had been adduced by the counsel and"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-07-24|1|2", "date": "1797-07-24", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-07-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797072401/0090.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "order of the day was called for on the motion for expelling william blount from his seat in the senate which was on friday postponed to take into con sideration the message of the house of representatives and mr mawin and mr cooke were sworn by a mag istrate who attended for the purpose interrogated as to the hand-writing of mr blount which they substantiated the business had not been far proceeded with when mr blount took his seat and informed the house m mrs dallas and ingersoll his counsel were ready to plead in his defence they were allowed to take their seats at the bar of the house and mr dallas commene ed the defence in a very able and inge nious address which occupied more than three hours mr ingersoll followed him in a speech of nearly two hours these gentlemen had recourse to ev ery precedent which could be proce ed from history and to every argument which ability and ingenuity could sug gest they particularly relied on the ground that the punishment of an officer should in no case precede his trial and that to expel mr blount from his seat at this time would be to do what could only be done provided he was found guilty on the impeachment prefer red which however they denied the right of the house of representatives to pre fer the defence being finished mr r rose and in a very luminous speech examined all the arguments which had been adduced by the counsel and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4549, 4702], "b_span": [4, 151], "matched_words": 139, "similarity": 0.9266666666666666, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00658", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|3", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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expulsion and carried by yeas and nays to mr tazewell's vote was the negative after this decision mr blount's bail delivered him up and he was taken into the custody of the messenger of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [53, 1618], "b_span": [14, 1576], "matched_words": 1466, "similarity": 0.9376399104573073, "seeds": 246, "id": "M00659", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|3", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and paper be it enacted by the senate and house of rep resentatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that from and after the thirty-first day of december next there shall be levied collected and paid through out the united states the several stamp du ties following to wit for every skin or piece of vellum or parchment or sheet or piece of paper upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following to wit any certificate of naturalization five dollars any li cence to practice or certificate of the admis sion enrolment or registry of any counsel lor solicitor attorney advocate or proctor in any court of the united states the sum of ten dollars any grant or letters patent under the seal or authority of the united states except for lands granted for military services four dollars any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent two dollars any charter party bot tomry or respondentia bond one dollar any receipt or other discharge for or on ac count of any legacy left by any will or other testamentary instrument or for any share or part of a personal estate divided by force of any statute of distributions the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars twenty-five cents where the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars and shall not exceed five hundred dollars fifty cents and for every further sum of five hundred dollars the ad ditional sum of one dollar any policy of insurance or instrument in nature thereof whereby any ships vessels or goods going from one district to another in the united states or from the united states to any for eign port or place shall be insured to wit if going from one district to another in the united states twenty-five cents if going from the united states to any foreign port or place when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars twenty-five cents and when the sum insur ed shall exceed five hundred dollars one dol lar any exemplification of what nature so ever that shall pass the seal of any court other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the united states or some particular state fifty cents any bonds bills single or pe nalty foreign or inland bill of exchange pro missory note or other note for the security of money according to the following scale viz on all bonds bills single or penal for eign or inland bills of exchange promissory note or other note above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars ten cents above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars twenty-five cents above five hundred and not exceed ing one thousand dollars fifty cents above one thousand dollars seventy-five cents provided that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within days such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid and provided that notes issued by any of the banks now established or which hereafter may be established within the united states shall be subject to a duty according to the following scale viz on all notes not ex ceeding fifty dollars at the rate of three fifths of a cent for every dollar above fifty dol lars and not exceeding one hundred dollars fifty cents above one hundred dollars not exceeding five hundred dollars one dollar above five hundred dollars two dollars a ny protest or other notarial act twenty-five cents any letter of attorney except for invalid pensions or to obtain or sell warrants for lands granted by the united states as bounty for military services performed in the late war twenty-five cents any certificate or debenture for drawback of customs or du ties for less than five hundred dollars one dollar any certificate or debenture for five hundred dollars and not ex ceeding two thousand dollars two dollars and on every certificate or debenture for more than two thousand dollars three dollars any note or bill of lading for any goods or merchandise to be exported if from one district to another district of the united states not being in the same state ten cents if to be exported to any foreign port or place twenty-five cents any inventory or catalogue of any furniture goods or effects made in any case required by law except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer fifty cents any certificate of a share in the bank of the united states or of any state or other bank above twenty dollars and not exceed ing one hundred dollars ten cents above one hundred dollars twenty-five cents and for any certificate for every such share un der twenty dollars at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars and the same for any less sum of the amount of the shares ex pressed in such certificate provided that nothing in this act contained shall extend to charge with a duty any legacy left by a ny will or other testamentary instrument or any share or part of a personal estate to be divided by force of any statute of distribu tions which shall be left to or divided a mongst the wife children or grand chil dren of the person deceased intestate or mak ing such will or testamentary instrument or any recognizance bill bond or other ob ligation or contract which shall be made to or with the united states or any state or for their use respectively seet and be it further enacted that in respect to any stamp on any of the notes of the banks now established or which hereafter may be established within the uni ted states it shall be lawful for the secre tary of the treasury to agree to an annual composition for the amount of such stamp duty with any of the said banks for one per centum on the amount of the annual dividend made by such banks to their stock holders respectively seet and be it further enacted that all deeds and writings whatsoever for the payment of any sum of money upon the contingency of the loss of any ship or goods laden or to be laden on board of any ship or of damage thereto shall be con strued and adjudged to be policies of insurance within this act chargeable with the several rates of duty herein before mentioned seet and be it further enacted that when any vessel or any goods or merchan dize laden or to be laden on board of any vessel shall be insured a policy duly stamp ed shall be issued or made out within the space of three days at furthest and the insurer or insurers neglecting to make out such policy or policies within the time aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars for every such neglect or offence and all promissory notes or other security made for assurance or insurances of ships goods or merchandizes at sea or going to sea in lieu of a policy are hereby declared void seet and be it further enacted that every deed instrument note memorandum letters or other writing between the captain or master or owner of any ship or vessel and any merchant trader or other person in respect to the hire or freight of such ship or vessel for conveyance of any money goods wares merchandise or effects laden or to be laden on board of such ship or ves sel shall be deemed and adjudged to be a charter party seet and be it further enacted that every receipt for every sum of money paid in whole or in part of any legacy or share of personal estate distributed as aforesaid in the cases in which a duty is hereby char ged shall express therein the true sum which shall have been so paid in default of which as well the person or persons by whom the same shall have been paid as the person or persons by whom the same shall have been received shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars and every receipt in full shall be deemed for the purpose of charging the duties hereby laid to be for the entire sum of such legacy or share of personal estate unless it shall be made to ap pear that all such part thereof as may not be expressed in such receipt in full was pre viously thereto paid and upon a receipt or receipts duly marked or stamped according to the directions of this act seet and be it further enacted that every counsellor solicitor attorney pro ctor or advocate who hath been or shall be admitted enrolled or registered in any court of the united states before he shall at any time after the said thirty-first day of dec ember next prosecute carry on or defend any action suit or proceeding in any court of the united states shall take out a cer tificate of such admission enrolment or"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-05|1|2", "date": "1797-08-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080501/0046.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and paper be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that from and after the thirty-first day of december next there shall be levied collected and paid throughout the united states the several stamp duties following to wit for every skin or piece of vellum or parchment or sheet or piece of paper upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following to wit any certificate of naturalization five dollars any license to practice or certificate of the admission enrolment or registry of any counsellor solicitor attorney advocate or proctor in any court of the united states the sum of ten dollars any grant or letters patent under the seal or authority of the united states except for lands granted for military services four dollars any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent two dollars any charter party bottomry or respondentia bond one dollar any receipt or other discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will or other testamentary instrument or for any share or part of a personal estate divided by force of any statute of distributions the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars twenty-five cents where the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars and shall not exceed five hundred dollars fifty cents and for every further sum of five hundred dollars the additional sum of one dollar any policy of insurance or instrument in nature thereof whereby any ships vessels or goods going from one district to another in the united states or from the united states to any foreign port or place shall be insured to wit if going from one district to another in the united states twenty-five cents if going from the united states to any foreign port or place when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars twenty-five cents and when the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars one dollar any exemplification of what nature soever that shall pass the seal of any court other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the united states or some particular state fifty cents any bonds bills single or penal foreign or inland bill of exchange promissory note or other note for the security of money according to the following scale viz on all bonds bills single or penal foreign or inland bills of exchange promissory note or other note above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars ten cents above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars twenty-five cents above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars fifty cents above one thousand dollars seventy-five cents provided that if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within days such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two fifth parts of the duty aforesaid and provided that notes issued by any of the banks now established or which hereafter may be established within the united states shall be subject to a duty according to the following scale viz on all notes not exceeding fifty dollars at the rate of three fifths of a cent for every dollar above fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars fifty cents above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars one dollar above five hundred dollars two dollars any protest or other notarial act twenty five cents any letter of attorney except for invalid pensions or to obtain or sell warrants for lands granted by the united states as bounty for military services performed in the late war twenty-five cents any certificate or debenture for drawback of customs or duties for less than five hundred dollars one dollar any certificate or debenture for five hundred dollars and not exceeding two thousand dollars two dollars and on every certificate or debenture for more than two thousand dollars three dollars any note or bill of lading for any goods or merchandise to be exported if in one district to another district of the united states not being in the same state ten cents if to be exported to any foreign port or place twenty-five cents any inventory or catalogue of any furniture goods or effects made in any case required by law except in case of goods and chattels detained for rent or taxes and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer fifty cents any certificate of a share in the bank of the united states or of any state or other bank above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars ten cents above one hundred dollars twenty-five cents and for any certificate for every such share under twenty dollars at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars and the same for any less sum of the amount of the shares expressed in such certificate provided that nothing in this act contained shall extend to charge with a duty any legacy left by any will or other testamentary instrument or any share or part of a personal estate to be divided by force of any statute of distributions which shall be left to or divided amongst the wife children or grand children of the person deceased intestate or making such will or testamentary instrument or any recognizance bill bond or other obligation or contract which shall be made to or with the united states or any state or for their use respectively and be it further enacted that in respect to any stamp on any of the notes of the banks now established or which hereafter may be established within the united states it shall be lawful for the secretary of the treasury to agree to an annual composition for the amount of such stamp duty with any of the said banks for one per centum on the amount of the annual dividend made by such banks to their stockholders respectively and be it further enacted that all deeds and writings whatsoever for the payment of any sum of money upon the contingency of the loss of any ship or goods laden or to be laden on board of any ship or of damage thereto shall be construed and adjudged to be policies of insurance within this act chargeable with the several rates of duty herein before mentioned and be it further enacted that when any vessel or any goods or merchandise laden or to be laden on board of any vessel shall be insured a policy duly stamped shall be issued or made out within the space of three days at furthest and the insurer or insurers neglecting to make out such policy or policies within the time aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars for every such neglect or offence and all promissory notes or other security made for assurance or insurances of ships goods or merchandizes at sea or going to sea in lieu of a policy are hereby declared void and be it further enacted that every deed instrument note memorandum letters or other writing between the captain or master or owner of any ship or vessel any merchant trader or other person in respect to the hire or freight of such ship or vessel for conveyance of any money goods wares merchandise or effects laden or to be laden on board of such ship or vessel shall be deemed and adjudged to be a charter party and be it further enacted that every receipt for every sum of money paid in whole or in part of any legacy or share of personal estate distributed as aforesaid in the cases in which a duty is hereby charged shall express therein the true sum which shall have been so paid in default of which as well the person or persons by whom the same shall have been paid as the person or persons by whom the same shall have been received shall severally forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars and every receipt in full shall be deemed for the purpose of charging the duties hereby laid to be for the entire sum of such legacy or share of personal estate unless it shall be made to appear that all such part thereof as may not be expressed in such receipt in full was previous thereto paid and upon a receipt or receipts duly marked or stamped according to the directions of this act and be it further enacted that every counsellor solicitor attorney proctor or advocate who hath been or shall be admitted enrolled or registered in any court of the united states before he shall at any time after the said thirty-first day of december next prosecute carry on or defend any action suit or proceeding in any court of the united states shall enrolment or registry from the clerk or prothonotary of the court granting such admission take out a certificate of such admission which certificate shall be written on a piece of vellum parchment or paper stamped according to the directions of this act and such clerk or prothonotary shall make entry of such admission enrolment or"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1622, 3160], "b_span": [1526, 3021], "matched_words": 1438, "similarity": 0.948236069897791, "seeds": 240, "id": "M00660", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|3", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "clerk or prothonotary of the court granting such admission which certificate shall be written on a piece of vel lum parchment or paper stamped according to the directions of this act and such clerk or prothonotary shall make entry of such admission enrolment or registry in a book to be by him kept for that purpose to which any person may at reasonable times have access without fee or reward for which certificate and entry there shall be paid to such clerk or prothonotary by the supervisor of the revenue for the district wherein such court shall be held the sum of twenty-five cents seet and be it further enacted that the receiving a certificate as aforesaid in any one of the courts of the united states for any one of the said offices shall be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the same for that or any other of the said offi ces so far as relates to the payment of the duties imposed by this act any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding seet and be it further enacted that the several duties aforesaid shall be levied collected received and accounted for by and under the immediate direction and man agement of the supervisors and inspectors of the revenue and other officers of inspec tion subject to the superintendence con trol and direction of the treasury depart ment according to the respective author ities and duties of the offices thereof seet and be it further enacted that it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause to be provided to many marks and stamps differing from each other as shall correspond with the several rates of duty aforesaid that is to say one mark or stamp for each distinct rate of duty with which marks and stamps respectively shall be marked or stamped all vellum parchment or paper upon which shall be written or printed all or any of the several instruments writings matters and things herein before enumer ated and charged according to the nature and description of each of the said instru ments writings matters and things as are herein before specified and described which said several marks and stamps shall be notified by a public notification or ad vertisement to be issued by the secretary of the treasury and inserted in at least one newspaper printed in each state and in the territory north-west of the ohio and for not less than three months before the said thirty-first day of december next to the end that all persons may have due notice thereof and which said marks and stamps or any of them shall or may be altered or renewed from time to time as the said se cretary of the treasury shall think fit so as like public notification thereof be made for a term not less than three months before such new stamps or marks shall begin to be used seet and be it further enacted that the supervisors of the revenue are hereby empowered and required forthwith upon demand to them or any of them made by any person or persons to stamp or mark any quantities or parcels of vellum parchment or paper he or they paying to the super visors of the revenue respectively the respective duties hereby directed to be paid for the same to stamp and mark the same according ly without any other fee or reward which stamp or mark shall be a sufficient discharge for the several and respective du ties hereby granted upon the said vellum parchment or paper which shall be so stamp ed or marked seet and be it further enacted that if any supervisor of the revenue shall fix any such mark or stamp to any vellum parch ment or paper upon such request or demand as aforesaid before the several and respective duties thereupon charged by this act shall be duly answered and paid or secured to be paid he shall for every such offence forfeit his office together with the sum of five hundred dollars seet and be it further enacted that if any person or persons shall write or print or cause to be written or printed upon any unstamped vellum parchment or paper with intent fraudulently to evade the duties imposed by this act any of the matters or things for which the said vellum parch ment or paper is hereby charged to pay any duty or shall write or print or cause to be written or printed any matter or thing upon any vellum parchment or paper that shall be marked or stamped for any lower duty than the duty by this act payable such per son or persons for every such offence for feit the sum of one hundred dollars and in case any clerk officer or person who in respect of any public office or employment is or shall be authorized or instructed to make write or print any deeds instruments or writings by this act charged to pay a duty as aforesaid shall be guilty of any fraud or practice to defraud or deprive the united states of any duty by this act payable by making writing or printing any such deed instrument or writing or causing the same to be made written or printed upon vel lum parchment or paper not marked or stamped according to this act or upon vel lum parchment or paper marked or stamp ed with any mark or stamp which he shall know to be counterfeit or by writing or printing any such deed instrument or other writing upon vellum parchment or paper that shall be marked or stamped for a lower duty as aforesaid every such clerk officer or person so guilty and being thereof law fully convicted shall instead of the penalty aforesaid forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars and if an officer of the u nited states shall in addition thereto for feit his office and be disabled to hold or en joy the same for the future and if any deed instrument or writing whatsoever by this act charged with the payment of a duty as aforesaid shall contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof be written or print ed by any person or persons whomsoever upon vellum parchment or paper not marked or stamped according to this act or upon vellum parchment or paper mark ed or stamped for a lower duty than ought to be paid upon the same then and in every such case there shall be paid to the uni ted states for their use over and above the duty herein before charged thereupon for stamping every such deed instrument or writing the sum of ten dollars and no such deed instrument or writing shall be pleaded or given in evidence in any court or admitted in any court to be available in law or equity until it shall be stamped as aforesaid and the supervisors respectively are hereby enjoined and required upon pay ment or tender of the said duty and sum of ten dollars unto any of them to mark or stamp the said vellum parchment or paper with the mark or stamp that shall be proper for such deed instrument or writing re spectively and if any person or persons what soever shall counterfeit or forge any stamp or mark to resemble any stamp or mark which shall be provided or made in pursuance of this act or shall counterfeit or resemble the impression of the same upon any vellum parchment or paper thereby to defraud the united states of any of the duties hereby granted or shall utter vend or sell any vel lum parchment or paper with such coun terfeit mark or impression thereupon know ing such mark or impression to be counter feit or shall privately or fraudulently use any stamp or mark directed or allowed to be used by this act in relation to the duties hereby laid with intent to defraud the uni ted states of any of the said duties then every such person so offending being thereof convicted in due form of law shall be judged guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding seven years seet and be it further enacted that from and after the thirty-first day of decem ber no bank now established or which shall be hereafter established which shall not have compounded for the duty hereby required shall issue any bank bill or promissory note unless upon paper duly stamped and where on the respective duties shall have been paid and if the officer of any such bank or any person or persons employed therein shall thereafter issue any bill or note not duly stamped as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit and pay a fine equal to the value of the bill or note so issued seet and be it further enacted that every person who shall be employed for the marking or stamping of vellum parchment or paper as aforesaid before his acting in the marking or stamping of the said"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-05|1|2", "date": "1797-08-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080501/0046.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "clerk or prothonotary of the court granting such admission take out a certificate of such admission which certificate shall be written on a piece of vellum parchment or paper stamped according to the directions of this act and such clerk or prothonotary shall make entry of such admission enrolment or registry in a book to be by him kept for that purpose to which any person may at reasonable times have access without fee or reward for which certificate and entry there shall be paid to such clerk or prothonotary by the supervisor of the revenue for the district wherein such court shall be held the sum of twenty-five cents and be it further enacted that the receiving a certificate as aforesaid in any one of the courts of the united states for any one of the said offices shall be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the same for that or any other of the said offices so far as relates to the payment of the duties imposed by this act any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding and be it further enacted that the several duties aforesaid shall be levied collected received and accounted for by and under the immediate direction and management of the supervisors and inspectors of the revenue and other officers of inspection subject to the superintendence control and direction of the treasury department according to the respective authorities and duties of the officers thereof and be it further enacted that it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause to be provided so many marks and stamps differing from each other as shall correspond with the several rates of duty aforesaid that is to say one mark or stamp for each distinct rate or duty with which marks and stamps respectively shall be marked or stamped all vellum parchment or paper upon which shall be written or printed all or any of the several instruments writings matters and things herein before enumerated and charged according to the nature and description of each of the said instruments writings matters and things as are herein before specified and described which said several marks and stamps shall be noticed by a public notification or advertisement to be issued by the secretary of the treasury and inserted in at least one newspaper printed in each state and in the territory north-west of the ohio and for not less than three months before the said thirty-first day of december next to the end that all persons may have due notice thereof which said marks stamps or any of them shall or may be altered or renewed from time to time as the said secretary of the treasury shall think fit so as like public notification thereof be made for a term not less than three months before such new stamps or marks shall begin to be used and be it further enacted that the supervisors of the revenue are hereby empowered required forthwith upon demand to them or any of them made by any person or persons to stamp or mark any quantities or parcels of vellum parchment or paper he or they paying to the supervisors of the revenue respectively the respective duties hereby directed to be paid for the same to stamp and mark the same accordingly without any other fee or reward which stamp or mark shall be a sufficient discharge for the several and respective duties hereby granted upon the said vellum parchment or paper which shall be so stamped or marked and be it further enacted that if any supervisor of the revenue shall fix any such mark or stamp to any vellum parchment or paper upon such request or demand as aforesaid before the several and respective duties thereupon charged by this act shall be duly answered and paid or secured to be paid he shall for every such offence forfeit his office together with the sum of five hundred dollars and be it further enacted that if any person or persons shall write or print or cause to be written or printed upon any unstamped vellum parchment or paper with intent fraudulently to evade the duties imposed by this act any of the matters or things for which the said vellum parchment or paper is hereby charged to pay any duty or shall write or print or cause to be written or printed any matter or thing upon any vellum parchment or paper that shall be marked or stamped for any lower duty than the duty by this act payable such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars and in case any clerk officer or person who in respect to any public office or employment is or shall be authorized or instructed to make write or print any deeds instruments or writings by this act charged to pay a duty as aforesaid shall be guilty of any fraud or practice to defraud or deprive the united states of any duty by this act payable by making writing or printing any such deed instrument or writing or causing the same to be made written or printed upon vellum parchment or paper not marked or stamped according to this act or upon vellum parchment or paper marked or stamped with any mark or stamp which he shall know to be counterfeited or by writing or printing any such deed instrument or other writing upon vellum parchment or paper that shall be marked or stamped for a lower duty as aforesaid every such clerk officer or person so guilty and being thereof lawfully convicted shall instead of the penalty aforesaid forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars and if an officer of the united states shall in addition thereto forfeit his office and be disabled to hold or enjoy the same for the future and if any deed instrument or writing whatsoever by this act charged with the payment of a duty as aforesaid shall contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof be written or printed by any person or persons whomsoever upon vellum parchment or paper not marked or stamped according to this act or upon vellum parchment or paper marked or stamped for a lower duty than ought to be paid upon the same then and in every such case there shall be paid to the united states for their use over and above the duty herein before charged thereupon for stamping every such deed instrument or writing the sum of ten dollars and no such deed instrument or writing shall be pleaded or given in evidence in any court or admitted in any court to be available in law or equity until it shall be stamped as aforesaid and the supervisors respectively are hereby enjoined and required upon payment or any tender of said duty and sum of ten dollars unto any of them to mark or stamp the said vellum parchment or paper with the mark or stamp that shall be proper for such deed instrument or writing respectively and if any person or persons whatsoever shall counterfeit or forge any stamp or mark to resemble any stamp or mark which shall be provided or made in pursuance of this act or shall counterfeit or resemble the impression of the same upon any vellum parchment or paper thereby to defraud the united states of any of the duties hereby granted or shall utter vend or sell any vellum parchment or paper with such counterfeit mark or impression thereupon knowing such mark or impression to be counterfeit or shall privately or fraudulently use any stamp or mark directed or allowed to be used by this act in relation to the duties hereby laid with intent to defraud the united states of any of the said duties then every such person so offending being thereof convicted in due form of law shall be judged guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding seven years and be it further enacted that from and after the st day of december no bank now established or which shall be hereafter established which shall not have compounded for the duty hereby required shall issue any bank bill or promissory note unless upon paper duly stamped and whereon the respective duties shall have been paid if the officer of any such bank or any person or persons employed therein shall thereafter issue any bill or note not duly stamped as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit and pay a fine equal to the value of the bill or note so issued and be it further enacted that every person who shall be employed for the marking or stamping of vellum parchment or paper as aforesaid before his acting in the marking or stamping of the said"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3162, 4091], "b_span": [1, 906], "matched_words": 876, "similarity": 0.955288985823337, "seeds": 148, "id": "M00661", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-10|1|3", "date": "1797-07-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "or paper shall take the following oath or affirmation insert here the name of the person do solemnly swear or affirm as the case may be that i will according to the best of my knowledge and skill faithfully honestly and carefully execute the trust reposed in me and will truly mark or stamp all vellum parchment or paper which i shall be requir ed or directed to mark or stamp and will render a true and exact account thereof to the proper officer or officers and will faith fully account for all monies which shall re ceive therefor seet and be it further enacted that the said supervisors of the revenue of ficers and other persons to be employed by them shall from time to time for the bet ter execution of their several duties and trusts observe and execute such directions as they respectively shall from time to time receive from the department of treasury which department shall take care that the several parts of the united states shall from time to time be sufficiently furnished with vellum parchment and paper stamped or marked as aforesaid so that the citizens thereof may have it in their election to buy the same of the officers or persons to be em ployed in and about the execution of this act at the usual or most common rates a bove the said duty or to bring their own vellum parchment or paper to be marked or stamped as aforesaid seet and be it further enacted that as often as any alteration or renewal shall be made of or in the marks or stamps before in use or any of them it shall be lawful for all persons who shall at that time have in their custody or possession any vellum parchment or paper marked with any mark or stamp which shall be so altered or renewed and upon which any of the matters or things hereby charged shall not have been written or printed at any time within the space of sixty days after the in tention of renewing or altering shall be no tified as aforesaid to bring or send such vellum parchment or paper unto some of fice of inspection and the officer of inspec tion to whom they shall be brought or sent is hereby required to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the several persons who shall so bring and deliver any quantity of vellum parchment or paper the like quantity of vellum parchment or paper and as good in quality stamped with such new stamp or mark without demanding or taking directly or indirectly for the same any money or other consideration whatsoever and in case any person shall neglect or refuse within the time aforesaid to bring or cause to be brought and delivered unto some officer of inspection any such vellum parchment or paper the same is hereby declared to be of no other effect or use than if it had never been marked or stamped and all matters and things which shall after that time be written or printed thereon shall be of no o ther effect than if they had been written or printed on vellum parchment or paper not marked or stamped and all persons who shall write or print any of the matters or things hereby charged on such vellum parchment or paper after the said time shall forfeit and suffer as herein before is en acted for persons writing or printing on vel lum parchment or paper not marked or stamped seet and be it further enacted that all and every the officer and officers who shall be concerned in the levying col lecting and receiving the duties arising by this act shall keep a separate and distinct account thereof and shall pay or remit the same as speedily as may be after it shall be received according to the orders of the department of the treasury seet and be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for the president of the united states to cause such sum and sums of money to be expended and paid from time to time for salaries compensa tions and other incidental charges as shall be necessary in and for the receiving collect ing levying or managing of the said duties so as that the whole amount thereof shall not exceed five per centum of the gross total product of the said duties seet and be it further enacted that all fines penalties and forfeitures which shall be incurred by virtue of this act shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the united states or of the supervisor of the revenue within whose district any such fine penalty or forfeiture shall have been in curred by bill or information in any cir cuit or district court of the united states or in any court of either of the said states one half thereof to the use of the person who if an officer of inspection shall first discover if other than an officer of inspection shall first inform of the cause whereby any such fine penalty or forfeiture shall have been incurred except in the cases in which a different disposition thereof may have been herein before made and the other half to the use of the united states seet and be it further enacted that this act shall continue and be in force for and during the term of five years and from thence to the end of the next session of congress and no longer"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-05|1|3", "date": "1797-08-05", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080501/0047.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "or paper shall take the following oath or affirmation i insert the name of the person do solemnly swear or affirm as the case may be that i will according to the best of my knowledge and skill faithfully honestly and carefully execute the trust reposed in me and will truly mark or stamp all vellum parchment or paper which i shall be required or directed to mark or stamp and will render a true and exact account thereof to the proper officer or officers and will faithfully account for all monies which i shall receive therefor and be it further enacted that the said supervisors of the revenue officers and other persons to be employed by them shall from time to time for the better execution of their several duties and trusts observe and execute such directions as they respectively shall from time to time receive from the department of the treasury which department shall take care that the several parts of the united states shall from time to time be sufficiently furnished with vellum parchment and paper stamped or marked as aforesaid so that the citizens thereof may have it in their election to buy the same of the officers or persons to be employed in and about the execution of this act at the usual or most common rates above the said duty or to bring their own vellum parchment or paper to be marked or stamped as aforesaid and be it further enacted that as often as any alteration or renewal shall be made of or in the marks or stamps before in use or any of them it shall be lawful for all persons who shall at that time have in their custody or possession any vellum parchment or paper marked with any mark or stamp which shall be so altered or renewed and upon which any of the matters or things hereby charged shall not have been written or printed in any time within the space of sixty days after the intention of renewing or altering shall be notified as aforesaid to bring or send such vellum parchment or paper unto some officer of inspection and the officer of inspection to whom they shall be brought or sent is hereby required to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the several persons who shall so bring and deliver any quantity of vellum parchment or paper the like quantity of vellum parchment or paper and as good in quality stamped with such new stamp or mark without demanding or taking directly or indirectly for the same any money or other consideration whatsoever and in case any person shall neglect or refuse within the time aforesaid to bring or cause to be brought and delivered unto some officer of inspection any such vellum parchment or paper the same is hereby declared to be of no other effect or use than if it had never been marked or stamped and all matters and things which shall after that time be written or printed thereon shall be of no other effect than if they had been written or printed on vellum parchment or paper not marked or stamped and all persons who shall write or print any of the matters or things hereby charged on such vellum parchment or paper after the said time shall forfeit and suffer as herein before is enacted for persons writing or printing on vellum parchment or paper not marked or stamped and be it further enacted that all and every the officer and officers who shall be concerned in the levying collecting and receiving the duties arising by this act shall keep a separate and distinct account thereof and shall pay or remit the same as speedily as may be after it shall be received according to the orders of the department of the treasury and be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for the president of the united states to cause such sums and sums of money to be expended and paid from time to time for salaries compensations and other incidental charges as shall be necessary in and for the receiving collecting levying or managing of the said duties so as that the whole amount thereof shall not exceed five per centum of the gross total product of the said duties and be it further enacted that all fines penalties and forfeitures which shall be incurred by virtue of this act shall be paid for recovered in the name of the u s or of the fuvisor of the revenue within whose district any such fine penalty or forfeiture shall have been incurred by bill or information in any circuit or district court of the united states or in any court of either of the said states one half thereof to the use of the persons who if an officer of inspection shall first discover if other than an officer of inspection shall first inform of the cause whereby any such fine penalty or forfeiture shall have been incurred except in the cases in which a different disposition thereof may have been herein before made and the other half to the use of the united states and be it further enacted that this act shall continue and be in force for and during the term of five years and from thence to the end of the next session of congress and no longer"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1410, 1664], "b_span": [76, 327], "matched_words": 241, "similarity": 0.9544554455445544, "seeds": 43, "id": "M00662", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-11|1|1", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": 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it if the house of austria and the italian states are not extinguished it is to the ulterior intentions of our government that they are indebted for their political existence let us thank god that the rage of the french people is now to be altogether turned against a power odious to all parties never did a war obtain the national assent so perfectly as that which we have yet to terminate we have pitied all the other nations over whom we have triumphed we have wept over the ruins of italy of belgium and of germany but we address with all our hearts to england the invocation which was addressed to rome by"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-19|1|2", "date": "1797-07-19", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797071901/0026.pdf", "source": "RevX", 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is now to be altogether turned against a power odious to all parties never did a war obtain the national assent so perfectly as that which is to terminate it we have pitied all the other nations over whom we have triumphed we have wept over the ruins of italy of belgium and of germany but we address with all our hearts to england the invocation which was addressed to rome by"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5, 101], "b_span": [1626, 1722], "matched_words": 94, "similarity": 0.9791666666666666, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00663", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-11|1|3", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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fleet to admiral jervis the passage of the english frigate is not mentioned nor was it known by capt hinckley n b capt hinckley had read previous to this intelligence in the english newspapers the accounts of the mutiny in the fleet at portsmouth previous to the arrival of this frigate there were three mails due at lisbon from england which had excited considerable alarm it was currently reported at lisbon and generally believed that mr pitt had absconded from england or rather that he dared not appear in public and was obliged to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0043.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the brig mercury arrived at marblehead yesterday in days from lisbon she left there june by capt hinckley a passenger in the above brig we are informed that two days before he failed he was told by mr dorman a reputable english merchant in lisbon that an english frigate had that moment arrived from portsmouth having slipped her cables and brought intelligence that the mutiny in the grand english fleet had arisen to such a height that an engagement had actually commenced between several ships and it is conjectured that this frigate was dispatched to give intelligence of the situation of the grand fleet to admiral jervis the passage of the english frigate is not mentioned nor was it known by captain hinckley n b captain hinckley had read previous to this intelligence in the english news-papers the accounts of the mutiny in the fleet at portsmouth previous to the arrival of this frigate there were three mails due at lisbon from england which had excited considerable alarm it was currently reported at lisbon and generally believed that mr pitt had absconded 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article cited and although the natchez and some other spanish posts are probably situated above the said line of demarcation the formality and delicacy which one government owes to another required that mr ellicott should not pretend to take possession of the territory until the said demarcation should be made and the more so as he had been informed officially that the spanish engineer m guillemard was already on his way to fulfil this part of his commission mr ellicott not attending to these just observations immediately began to wound the feelings of the spanish commander by hoisting the american flag on the territory which would not belong to the united states till after having jointly made the astronomical observations for ascertaining the course of the line not content with this he began to exercise an authority to wit that of recruiting for the united states in a place which was then under the jurisdiction of the spanish government these imprudences which can admit of no excuse gave rise to a personal resentment from which there is little to hope with respect to harmony between those commissioners in future in these circumstances the governor general of the provinces the baron de carondelet made known the just doubts which he had about the delivery of the posts since in the d article it is not stipulated that they were to be given up and it seems that it could never have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up any fortifications on which he had expended great sums of money and which through political vicissitudes might perhaps be one day prejudicial to his subjects in this situation prudence required that the decision of this doubtful point should be left to the two governments but mr ellicott adding imprudence to imprudence and with a pretext which a quarrel between some drunken chickasaws and the people of his company afforded him not only violated a territory then spanish by desiring to excite the inhabitants by all imaginable means but also carried his zeal so far as to attempt to get possession of the fort of the natchez by surprise governor gayoso says he has in his power documents which prove evidently the intention of this attempt such conduct was little calculated to produce the spirit of harmony in such circumstances and obliged governor gayoso when he discovered such hostile intentions to take on his part measures necessary for his defence this is the true state of things by which it clearly appears that the inconsiderate conduct of mr ellicott is the only cause of the disagreement at the natchez the more so as the spanish commanders declared to him that while the two governments were deciding on the doubt which occurred to the baron de carondelet about the delivery of the posts the drawing of the line of demarcation might be begun when mr de guillemard who had already departed from new orleans for the natchez should arrive if in this situation of the business the commanders changed their ideas or their measures it could only proceed from the imprudent conduct of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-29|1|2", "date": "1797-07-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072901/0038.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "being desirous at this time to avoid all equivocation as to the substance of those letters i have determined to communicate it to you in writing by the d article of the treaty with spain it is stipulated that the garrisons which are found above the line of demarcation agreed on shall be withdrawn setting out then with this principle it appears that the first operation ought to be to draw this line in order to know which were the garrisons which were to be withdrawn according to the article cited and although the natchez and some other spanish posts are probably situated above the said line of demarcation the formality and delicacy which one government owes to another required that mr ellicott should not pretend to take possession of the territory until the said demarcation should be made and the more so as he had been informed officially that the spanish engineer m guillemard was already on his way to fulfil this part of his commission mr ellicott not attending to these just observations immediately began to wound the feelings of the spanish commander by hoisting the american flag on a territory which would not belong to the united states till after having jointly made the astronomical observations for ascertaining the course of the line not content with this he began to exercise an authority was unlawful for the same reasons to wit that of recruiting for the united states in a place which was then under the jurisdiction of the spanish government these imprudencies which can admit of no excuse give rise to a perpetual resentment from which there is little to hope with respect to harmony between those co millioners in future in these circumstances the governor general of the province the baron de carondelet made known the just doubts which he had about the delivery of the posts since in the second article it is not stipulated that they were to be given up and it seems that it could never have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up any fortifications on which he had expended great sums of money and which through political vicissitudes might perhaps be one day prejudicial to his subjects in this situation prudence required that the decision of this doubtful point should be left to the two governments but mr ellicott adding imprudence to imprudence with a pretext which a quarrel between some drunken chickasaws the people of his company afforded him not only violated a territory then spanish by desiring to excite the inhabitants by all imaginable means but also carried his zeal so far as to attempt to get possession of the fort of the natchez by surprise governor gayoso says he has in his power documents which prove evidently the intention of this attempt such conduct was little calculated to produce the spirit of harmony so necessary in such circumstances and obliged governor gayoso when he discovered such hostile intentions to take on his part measures necessary for his defence this is the true state of things by which it clearly appears that the inconsiderate conduct of mr ellicott is the only cause of the disagreement at the natchez the more so as the spanish commanders declared to him that while the two governments were deciding on the doubt which occurred to the baron de carondelet about the delivery of the posts the drawing of the line of demarcation might be begun when mr de guillemard who had already departed from new orleans for the natchez should arrive if in this situation of the business the commanders changed their ideas or their measures it could only proceed from the imprudent conduct of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [622, 807], "b_span": [5, 190], "matched_words": 181, "similarity": 0.9783783783783784, "seeds": 33, "id": "M00668", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-11|1|2", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the treaty so far as was not inconsistent with his duty seeing the personal resentment which exists between mr ellicott and governor gayoso desires that there may be sent to command the detachment of american troops on that frontier a man of judgment and prudence who in such delicate circumstances shall act with moderation which is of so much importance to the two governments this is what i had the honour of communicating verbally to you sir in my last conference and i repeat it now recommending more particularly that there should be sent on the part of the united states to that frontier a person of prudence and found judgment leaving to mr ellicott the technical part only for while he acts as principal it is to be feared that we shall not see the agents of the two governments which are interested proceed with that union and harmony which is ever important to us i repeat sir my wishes of obliging you and that our lord may preserve your life many years philadelphia th june your most obedient servant carlos martinez de yrujo"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-29|1|3", "date": "1797-07-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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the two governments which are interested proceed with that union and harmony which is ever important to us i repeat sir my wishes of obliging you and that our lord may preserve your life many years philadelphia th june your most obedient servant carlos martinez de yrujo"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1003, 1171], "b_span": [2323, 2495], "matched_words": 163, "similarity": 0.9588235294117647, "seeds": 29, "id": "M00669", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-11|1|2", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071101/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "seize the occasion to transcribe for you some paragraphs of a western letter the spaniards are reinforcing their upper posts on the mississippi considerably general howard an irishman in the quality of commander in chief with upwards of men arrived at st louis and employed in erecting very formidable works it likewise appears through various channels that they are inviting a great number of indians of the territory to cross the mississippi and for this express purpose mr larromie an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time several indians have been seen on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of delawares passed down white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain sent them from st louis they the spaniards have above the mouth of the ohio on the mississippi several row-gallies with cannon"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|2", 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generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of delawares passed down on white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain some of them from st louis they the spaniards have above the mouth of the ohio on the mississippi several row-gallies with cannon"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2638, 2755], "b_span": [1181, 1248], "matched_words": 67, "similarity": 0.7282608695652174, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00670", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-11|1|2", "date": "1797-07-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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for that republic james leander cathcart a citizen of the u states and many years a prisoner in algiers to be consul of the united states for the city and kingdom of tripoli william eaton a native citizen of the united states a captain in their army in which he has served about eight years to be consul of the united states for the city and kingdom of tunis william hort to be naval officer for the district of charleston in south carolina promotions and appointments dragoons stephen g simmons lieutenant vice slough resigned charles warfield cornet vice ball promoted william tharp do vice stirling do first regiment of infantry william h harrison captain vice kingsbury promoted th may nicholas rosenkrantz lieutenant vice harrison promoted john alexander davidson ensign vice nicholas deceased isaac lane ensign vice rosenkrantz promoted second regiment of infantry jacob kingsbury major vice shayler resigned th march benjamin rand lieutenant vice lee resigned th march peter p schuyler ensign vice faulkner declined john whipple do vice martin promoted john visher glen do vice rand do third regiment of infantry william r boote ensign vice bodley resigned samuel parmele do vice stirling do fourth regiment of infantry benjamin lockwood captain vice eaton john wallington lieutenant vice strother resigned st june francis johnston lieutenant vice lockwood promoted samuel crutchfield ensign vice dold"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-25|1|2", "date": "1797-07-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797072501/0328.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "by authority william smith of s carolina minister plenipotentiary to portugal vice john q adams removed to berlin thomas bulkley consul in portugal richard o'brien consul-general with the dey 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promoted william tharp do vice m'dormet do first regiment of infantry william h harrison captain vice kingsbury promoted th may nicholas rozenkrantz lieutenant vice harrison promoted john alexander davidson ensign vice nicholas deceased lemuel lane ensign vice rozenkrantz promoted second regiment of infantry jacob kingsbury major vice shaylor resigned th march benjamin rand lieutenant vice lee resigned th march peter p schuyler ensign vice faulkner declined john whipple ensign vice martin promoted john vischer glen ensign vice rand promoted third regiment of infantry william r boote ensign vice bodley resigned samuel parmale ensign vice sterling resigned fourth regiment of infantry benjamin lockwood captain vice eaton john wallington lieutenant vice strother resigned st june francis johnson lieutenant vice lockwood promoted samuel crutchfield ensign vice dold"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article 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support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in congress assembled that for the expenditure of the civil list for the sup port of light-houses for the expenses of foreign intercourse for certain expenses in relation to the military and naval establish ments and to satisfy certain miscellaneous demands the following sums be respectively appropriated that is to say for the compensations granted by law to the mem bers of the senate house of representatives their of ficers and attendants estimat ed for a session of months for the expenses of fire wood stationery printing work and all other contin gent expenses of the two houses of congress for printing the laws of the present session for making good the allowance to clerks employ ed in the department of state agreeably to law for the salary of an ad ditional clerk in the depart ment of state to perform the duties of an 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third of march one thousand se ven hundred and ninety-seven for the hospital de partment for making good a de ficiency arising from the balance of monies of various appropriations being carried to the credit of the surplus fund in pursuance of the sixteenth section of the act passed the third of march one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five viz for er ecting a light house on the head land of cape hatteras and a lighted beacon on shell castle island in the harbour of ocracoke in the state of north carolina for enabling a remit tance to the commissioners of the dutch loans at am sterdam in payment for a quantity of salt-petre for re-paying the bank of the united states a sum advanced upon certain treasury bills drawn upon collect ors of the revenue of the u nited states in north caro lina for the payment of the commissioner of loans for the state of rhode island on account of two clerks who were employed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five sect and be it further enacted that the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid and discharged out of the surplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereon to the end of the present year jonathan dayton speaker of the house of representatives william bradford president pro tempore of the senate approved july john adams president of the united states deposited among the rolls in the office of the department of state timothy pickering secretary of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-12|1|2", "date": "1797-08-12", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797081201/0054.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an act making additional appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven be it 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good a deficiency arising from the balance of monies of various appropriations being carried to the credit of the surplus fund in pursuance of the sixteenth section of the act passed the d of march one thousand seven hundred ninety-five viz for erecting a light house on the head land of cape hatteras and a lighted beacon on shell cattle island in the harbor of oeracack in the state of north carolina for enabling a remittance to the commissioners of the dutch loans at amsterdam in payment for a quantity of salt-petre for re-paying the bank of the united states a sum advanced upon certain treasury bills drawn upon collectors of the revenue of the united states in north-carolina for the payment of the commissioner of loans for the state of rhode-island on account of two clerks who were employed in the year one thousand seven hundred and nine six and be it further enacted that the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid and discharged out of the surplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereon to the end of the present year jonathan dayton speaker of the house of representatives william bradford president pro tempore of the senate approved july john adams president of the united states deposited among the rolls in the office of the department of state timothy pickering secretary of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [648, 828], "b_span": [720, 873], "matched_words": 126, "similarity": 0.7567567567567568, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00675", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-13|1|3", "date": "1797-07-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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as zn observation and that in fadt he never has done it"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0043.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "have had very powerful motives to prevent you from communicating it to him that it does not appear by the documents presented by the secretary of war that government had given orders to the military commanders to cause the territory and neutrality of the united states to be respected that you made to the english minister a communication which in my opinion you ought not and that even if you thought it necessary you delayed doing it for two months that is from the th of february to the th of april although it respected a most urgent and important 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unfounded as by mr of theirf blount's letter it is clearly demonstrated to be a precaution for the mere purpose of de himfdf wii fen ce judges to b ip that you evidently contradi'ft your when on one hand you are pleased to twelve mon attribute to us the movements of the lndi n b a ans and in the very next paragraph you tu f d and shew it might proceed from american citi dll al ch an zens as it actually does according to mr blount's letter and that he afted with the knowledge and intelligence of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0043.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "are unjust as well as unfounded as by mr blount s letter it is clearly demonstrated to be a precaution for the mere purpose of defence that you evidently contradict yourself when on one hand you are pleased to attribute to us the movements of the indians and in the very next paragraph you shew it might proceed from american citizens as it actually does according to mr blount s letter and that he acted with the knowledge and intelligence of the"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3252, 3472], "b_span": [1223, 1421], "matched_words": 136, "similarity": 0.6507177033492823, "seeds": 9, "id": "M00677", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-13|1|3", "date": "1797-07-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071301/0003.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "in the brig mercury arrived t j l fbon she left there june by capt hinckley a passenger in the above brig we dollars a are informed that two days before he failed tlie lft he was told by mr dorman a reputable ft n vei engl lh merchant in jlilbon that an englilh frigate had that moment arrived from ports lit r t mouth havmg llipped her cables brought into rigid intelligence that the mutiny on board the quents grand englilh fleet had arisen to such a by height that an engagement had a ually w commenced between several ihips and it was conjeaured that this frigate was difpatched to give intelligence to the grand wi tc p in j t he passage of lotte the englilh frigate is not mentioned nor was it known by capt hinckley pickei b capt hinckley had read previ con m ous to this intelligence in tlje englilh news sajje tl rrevious to the arrival of this frigate drawin there were three mails duejat lifton from check england which haft excited confidence i t i te alarm x and p te reported at lilbon ant generally believed that mr pitt had abfeon drawing in ded from eugland or rather he dared not i e lu i appear in public and was obliged to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0043.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the brig mercury arrived at marblehead yesterday in days from lisbon she left there june by capt hinckley a passenger in the above brig we are informed that two days before he failed he was told by mr dorman a reputable english merchant in lisbon that an english frigate had that moment arrived from portsmouth having slipped her cables and brought intelligence that the mutiny in the grand english fleet had arisen to such a height that an engagement had actually commenced between several ships and it is conjectured that this frigate was dispatched to give intelligence of the situation of the grand fleet to admiral jervis the passage of the english frigate is not mentioned nor was it known by captain hinckley n b captain hinckley had read previous to this intelligence in the english news-papers the accounts of the mutiny in the fleet at portsmouth previous to the arrival of this frigate there were three mails due at lisbon from england which had excited considerable alarm it was currently reported at lisbon and generally believed that mr pitt had absconded from england or rather that he dared not appear in public and was obliged to"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2190, 5056], "b_span": [5, 2878], "matched_words": 2811, "similarity": 0.9796131730266597, "seeds": 571, "id": "M00678", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-14|1|2", "date": "1797-07-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071401/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "esq secretary of state from the chevalier de fages minister plenipotentiary of his catholic majesty c dated july sir your additional report to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of the king of spain in relation to the ports and the running of the boundary line which i find published in all the newspapers obliges me to trouble you with this letter if your discussion of facts has been as correct and impartial as there was reason to expect i should not have been under the necessity of undertaking this task but the construction which you are pleased to put upon every act of the spanish officers in general and especially upon those in which i am personally concerned compels me to observe upon several expressions which i have noticed in your said report you begin sir with saying that altho i had declared i had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada upper parts of louisiana yet i never had mentioned a single fact or reason on which my suspicion was founded in my letter of the d of march i pointed out to you the probable route which the expedition would take and in our conference of the th of february i gave you information that a corps of men had been raised at montreal and marched towards the lakes where after the evacuation of the american forts there was no ostensible object for them i also told you that i knew that the british agents had treated with some of the indian nations in that country concerning the intended expedition and i added that i had received those advices from a person who might be depended on who had seen those new levies passing through johnstown on their way to the westward but even supposing that i had not entered into any particulars even supposing that my information at that period was not complete yet did not the interest and dignity of this government did not its friendly connection with spain require that it should have taken every proper means to prevent the attempt we were threatened with by giving suitable orders to general wilkinson or to the commanding officers of the military force on those frontiers the absolute silence in this particular of the documents which accompany the report of the secretary of war your never having communicated to me any determinate disposition on this point as you do in your answer to my letter which in the publication is marked no vii afford me sufficient grounds to fear that these precautions were omitted you add sir with a degree of candour difficult to be conceived that from my not having given to you detailed information respecting the expedition and from the answer which you received on the th ultimo from the british minister you believed my suspicions to be groundless is it possible that any one will candidly imagine that if the english intended to violate the territory of the united states in order to effect a coup de main they would be as ingenious in answering as you were in asking their minister the question i shall not enter into all the observations which suggest themselves to my mind from your having communicated to mr litton the contents of my letters i expected that the american government would have watched his motions and taken the means which i have already mentioned to prevent the success of a similar enterprise but i never could have imagined that you would have given to the british minister a piece of advice which might enable him to alter his plan by letting him know that the former one was discovered by the line of conduct which you have pursued in this business i am convinced that had i communicated to you more particular details respecting this transaction you would with the same good-natured frankness have given information of them to mr litton but if you did believe that asking this question of the british envoy was the most efficacious means to prevent the violation of the neutrality of the united states and the invasion of the spanish territory let me ask why you was so remiss in this measure that although i had communicated this project to you verbally on the th of february and on the d of march in writing yet in a matter obviously so urgent you only wrote to the british envoy on the th of april that is two months afterwards i shall not quit this subject without taking the liberty of making to you one observation which is intimately connected with it by the date of the letter i have just mentioned it evidently appears that i gave you advice of this intended expedition on the nd of march and that three days before i had given you the same information verbally i imagined from your known attention to business and the importance of the subject that you would have submitted it immediately to the consideration of the president of the united states on the th of march i had the honor of speaking to mr adams at his lodgings at francis's hotel and mentioned this subject as a matter that i supposed him already fully informed of and it was with no small surprise i heard him say that he knew nothing about it i produced the map which i had in my pocket-book and he listened with great attention to all that i had to say to him it was no doubt to this conference with mr adams that i was indebted to your answer of the th of the same month i shall entirely abstain from putting any construction upon the reasons which induced you to omit making this communication to the president but they must have been very powerful motives which could oblige you to remain so long silent on a matter of such importance you say in the third paragraph of your report on your asking me what measures spain had taken in order to carry into execution that part of the treaty which relates to the withdrawing the garrisons i answered you on the th of april that i had been for some months without receiving letters from the baron and consequently was entirely ignorant of the steps which had been taken for the execution of the treaty from this expression which in order to draw attention you place between inverted commas you insinuate an inference which in my opinion is very far from being true when you add immediately afterwards nevertheless he had previously informed the baron of his suspicions of a projected expedition what is this to prove sir that the baron indeed had received my letters but not that i had received his the irregularity and uncertainty of navigation easily shews that your logic on this point is extremely false in the fifth paragraph after giving an account of my letter of the th ultimo and of its object you observe that i have omitted to mention among the other complaints of the baron that of mr ellicott's not having given him notice of his arrival at natchez permit me sir to represent to you that you have entirely mistaken what i had the honor of telling you on that occasion for i simply mentioned not as a complaint but as a mere observation that the baron in the vigour might not have considered mr ellicott as an american commissioner for not having given him on his arrival official notice of his appointment having merely informed him of it in the way of a confidential communication you cannot be ignorant sir that there are certain requisite formalities when nations treat with one another of their mutual concerns which are not required between individuals the baron when he speaks in this manner clearly points out his meaning that besides the confidential letter the communication of which you consider as so important no doubt he expected another official one including his commission authority or some other document to ascertain the identity of the person and the object of his mission when on my arrival in this country i had not yet preferred my credentials to the president although i had delivered to you a copy of them you might in the vigour not have recognized me as the envoy extraordinary of the king my master for want of having complied with that necessary requisite of the established etiquette i do not mean to say that in the present case it was absolutely necessary to go through a similar formality nor did the baron mention this but as a mere matter of observation which was not to affect the object in question although you thinking that it affords you a victorious argument are pleased to give to this circumstance an importance which it does not deserve besides sir i might observe to you that when after a mixed and desultory conversation upon various subjects i had collected and methodized my ideas and committed them to writing your answer and observations ought to have been confined to the written communication clothed with all the necessary formalities but neither do i wish to make of this an object of discussion the proof which you give in the sixth paragraph of your report to shew that it is not certain that mr ellicott intended to get possession of natchez by surprise and that for that purpose he had endeavoured to gain over the inhabitants is merely negative from your examination of the two persons you mention you had very little to expect the circumstance alone of their being the bearers of mr ellicott's dispatches points out that they were both in his confidence and it may be presumed without temerity that being his friends or employed under his orders they would hardly make a denunciation that might be prejudicial to him governor gayoso declares that he has proofs of the facts in his power i shall not fail to apply to him for them and perhaps i may one day speak to you more positively on this business after having discussed the history of these transactions with all the force and accuracy which result from these observations you assure with a very ill-grounded confidence that upon a view of the whole it appears that his majesty's governors on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the evacuation of the posts but i appeal to that candour which you have so generously shown to the british minister that you may tell me whether it can be called a pretence that the baron de carondelet who was entrusted with the safety of louisiana refused to carry into execution a pretension that was not stipulated for by the treaty by the second article it is only agreed that the garrisons shall be withdrawn and as i had the honor of presenting to you in my letter of the th ultimo it is not to be presumed that it could ever have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which besides that they have cost him considerable sums of money may be the effect of political vicissitudes be one day prejudicial to his subjects if not to do what was stipulated for and the execution of which would be contrary to the interests of spain is a pretence we must confess that is a very plausible one with respect to the line of demarcation it appears by the correspondence and letters of the baron de carondelet which are in my possession that although he entertained the same doubts which were suggested by governor gayoso respecting the posts yet he was contenting that the astronomical observations should be begun upon for which purpose the engineer mr de guillemand had already arrived at the natchez with all the instruments and apparatus such was the situation of things when my communication respecting the intended expedition got to hand from that moment imperious necessity and the great principle of self-defence made his catholic majesty's officers turn their thoughts to objects of a more urgent nature mr ellicott's letter and the late detected conspiracy evince how far their conduct in this respect was necessary and you sir possess as you were of all the facts when you laid them before the president ought to have been one of the last to have stigmatized the motives with the epithet of pretexts so palpable an attempt to make groundless and unfair impressions on the public mind is well calculated to defeat its own ends and appears still more extraordinary when we consider that the american government is in every way anxious by its own confession to maintain peace and harmony with spain nor do your ill-founded insinuations stop here sentiments and expressions still more violent flow from that same halcyon pen you say in another part that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the united states fortunately sir you have told us the source whence you derived all those dreadful conjectures of yours otherwise perhaps the weight and authority which your high official character stamps upon whatever you write or say might make an undue impression on the public you acknowledge sir that it was a private letter of mr sargent's secretary of the north western territory that gave rise to your families we shall now see what the letter lays no extract of a letter from winthrop sargent esq secretary of the north western territory to the secretary of state dated cincinnati june d general wilkinson sending off an express i seize the occasion to transcribe for you some paragraphs from a western letter the spaniards are reinforcing their upper posts on the mississippi considerably general howard an irishman in quality of commander in chief with upwards of three hundred men is arrived at st louis and employed in erecting very formidable works it likewise appears through various channels that they are inviting a great number of indians of the territory to cross the mississippi and for this express purpose mr lorimier an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time several indians have been seen on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of delawares passed down on white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish fort bearing the national flag of spain some of them from saint louis they the spaniards have above the mouth of the ohio on the mississippi several row-galleys with cannon now sir what inference can be drawn from that letter why that the spaniards have fortified san luis and availed themselves of every means of defence that the country afforded but let me ask you sir against whom it is that they were thus preparing to defend themselves surely the documents which you have laid before the president and the momentous business which now engages the attention of congress and agitates the public at large afforded a complete and satisfactory answer i mentioned to you in my letter of d march that the object of the british was to attack upper louisiana and take san luis and new madrid by surprise it will not be questioned that prudence required of us at that juncture to fortify the threatened points this sir was all we did and this sir you knew many months past yet mr sargent's letter which in substance says no more fills you all at once with fears and foresees apprehensions and makes you declare in the face of the american people that the spanish officers are exciting the indians to a rupture with us no one will say that preparations for our self defence were not necessary on our part the assurance given you by the british minister with all the appearance of a confidential communication but without any signature did not inspire the servants of his catholic majesty with the same blind confidence which it produced in you we know from daily experience how religiously the british nation observes the rights of neutrality witness the american sailors witness the republic of genoa in whose port they attacked and made prize of the french frigate la molette as she lay at anchor there witness the inhabitants of trinidad when the british though then in amity with them entered their capital with drums beating and colours flying in pursuit of a few french who had taken refuge there these and other instances of the sort too numerous to be recapitulated make us less credulous on the score of great britain's respect for the rights of neutrality than you appear to have been as to those tender considerations which actuated the british minister to reject the plan on account of the inhumanity of calling in the aid of the indians i did"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|2", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0042.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "esq secretary of state from the chevalier de yrujo minister plenipotentiary of his catholic majesty c c dated july sir your additional report to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of the king of spain in relation to the posts and the running of the boundary line which i find published in all the newspapers obliges me to trouble you with this letter if your discussion of facts had been as correct and impartial as there was reason to expect i should not have been under the necessity of undertaking this task but the construction which you are pleased to put upon every act of the spanish officers in general and especially upon those in which i am personally concerned compels me to observe upon several expressions which i have noticed in your said report you begin sir with saying that although i had declared i had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper parts of louisiana yet i never had mentioned a single fact or reason on which my suspicion was founded in my letter of the d of march i pointed out to you the probable route which the expedition would take and in our conference of the th of february i gave you information that a corps of men had been raised at montreal and marched towards the lakes where after the evacuation of the american forts there was no ostensible object for them i also told you that i knew that the british agents had treated with some of the indian nations in that country concerning the intended expedition and i added that i had received those advices from a person who might be depended on who had seen those new levies passing through johnstown on their way to the westward but even supposing that i had not entered into any particulars even supposing that my information at that period was not complete yet did not the interest and dignity of this government did not its friendly connection with spain require that it should have taken every proper means to prevent the attempt we were threatened with by giving suitable orders to general wilkinson or to the commanding officers of the military force on those frontiers the absolute silence in this particular of the documents which accompany the report of the secretary of war your never having communicated to me any determinate disposition on this point as you do in your answer to my letter which in the publication is marked no afford me sufficient grounds to fear that these precautions were omitted you add sir with a degree of candour difficult to be conceived that from my not having given to you detailed information respecting the expedition and from the answer which you received on the th ultimo from the british minister you believed my suspicions to be groundless is it possible that any one will candidly imagine that if the english intended to violate the territory of the united states in order to effect a coup de main they would be as ingenuous in answering as you were in asking their minister the question i shall not enter into all the observations which suggest themselves to my mind from your having communicated to mr liston the contents of my letters i expected that the american government would have watched his motions and taken the means which i have already mentioned to prevent the success of a similar enterprise but i never could have imagined that you would have given to the british minister a piece of advice which might enable him to alter his plan by letting him know that the former one was discovered by the line of conduct which you have pursued in this business i am convinced that had i communicated to you more particular details respecting this transaction you would with the same good natured frankness have given information of them to mr liston but if you did believe that asking this question of the british envoy was the most efficacious means to prevent the violation of the neutrality of the united states and the invasion of the spanish territory let me ask why you was so remiss in this measure that although i had communicated this project to you verbally on the th of february and on the second of march in writing yet in a matter obviously so urgent you only wrote to the british envoy on the th of april that is two months afterwards i shall not quit this subject without taking the liberty of making to you one observation which is intimately connected with it by the date of the letter i have just mentioned it evidently appears that i gave you advice of this intended expedition on the second of march and that three days before i had given you the same information verbally i imagined from your known attention to business and the importance of the subject that you would have submitted it immediately to the consideration of the president of the united states on the th of march i had the honour of speaking to mr adams at his lodgings at francis's hotel and mentioned this subject as a matter that i supposed him already fully informed of and it was with no small surprize i heard him say that he knew nothing about it i produced the map which i had in my pocket-book and he listened with great attention to all that i had to say to him it was no doubt to this conference with mr adams that i was indebted to your answer of the th of the same month i shall entirely abstain from putting any construction upon the reasons which induced you to omit making this communication to the president but they must have been very powerful motives which could oblige you to remain so long silent on a matter of such importance you say in the third paragraph of your report that on your asking me what measures spain had taken in order to carry into execution that part of the treaty which relates to the withdrawing the garrisons i answered you on the th of april that i had been for some months without receiving letters from the baron and consequently was entirely ignorant of the steps which had been taken for the execution of the treaty from this expression which in order to draw attention you place between inverted commas you insinuate an inference which in my opinion is very far from being true when you add immediately afterwards nevertheless he had previously informed the baron of his suspicions of a projected expedition what is this to prove sir that the baron indeed had received my letters but not that i had received his the irregularity and uncertainty of navigation easily shows that your logic on this point is extremely false in the fifth paragraph after giving an account of my letter of the th ultimo and of its object you observe that i have omitted to mention among the other complaints of the baron that of mr ellicott's not having given him notice of his arrival at natchez permit me sir to represent to you that you have entirely mistaken what i had the honour of telling you on that occasion for i simply mentioned not as a complaint but as a mere observation that the baron in the vigour might not have considered mr ellicott as an american commissioner for not having given him on his arrival official notice of his appointment having merely informed him of it in the way of a confidential communication you cannot be ignorant sir that there are certain requisite formalities when nations treat with one another of their mutual concerns which are not required between individuals the baron when he speaks in this manner clearly points out his meaning that besides the confidential letter the communication of which you consider as so important no doubt he expected another official one including his commission authority or some other document to ascertain the identity of the person and the object of his mission when on my arrival in this country i had not yet presented my credentials to the president although i had delivered to you a copy of them you might in the vigour not have recognized me as the envoy extraordinary of the king my master for want of having complied with that necessary requisite of the established etiquette i do not mean to say that in the present case it was absolutely necessary to go through a similar formality nor did the baron mention this but as a mere matter of observation which was not to affect the object in question although you thinking that it affords you a victorious argument are pleased to give to this circumstance an importance which it does not deserve besides sir i might observe to you that when after a mixed and desultory conversation upon various subjects i had collected and methodized my ideas and committed them to writing your answer and observations ought to have been confined to the written communication clothed with all the necessary formalities but neither do i wish to make of this an object of discussion the proof which you give in the sixth paragraph of your report to shew that it is not certain that mr ellicott intended to get possession of natchez by surprize and that for that purpose he had endeavoured to gain over the inhabitants is merely negative from your examination of the two persons you mention you had very little to expect the circumstance alone of their being the bearers of mr ellicott's dispatches points out that they were both in his confidence and it may be presumed without temerity that being his friends or employed under his orders they would hardly make a denunciation that might be prejudicial to him governor gayoso declares that he has proofs of the fact in his power i shall not fail to apply to him for them and perhaps i may one day speak to you more positively on this business after having discussed the history of these transactions with all the force and accuracy which result from these observations you assure with a very ill-grounded confidence that upon a view of the whole it appears that his majesty's governors on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the evacuation of the posts but i appeal to that candor which you have so generously shewn to the british minister that you may tell me whether it can be called a pretence that the baron de carondelet who was entrusted with the safety of louisiana refused to carry into execution a pretention that was not stipulated for by the treaty by the second article it is only agreed that the garrisons shall be withdrawn and as i had the honor of representing to you in my letter of the th ultimo it is not to be presumed that it could ever have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which besides that they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the effect of political vicissitudes be one day prejudicial to his subjects if not to do what was not stipulated for and the execution of which would be contrary to the interests of spain is a pretence we must confess that is a very plausible one with respect to the line of demarcation it appears by the correspondence and letters of the baron de carondelet which are in my possession that although he entertained the same doubts which were suggested by governor gayoso respecting the posts yet he was consenting that the astronomical observations should be begun upon for which purpose the engineer mr de gullemand had already arrived at the natchez with all the instruments and apparatus such was the situation of things when my communications respecting the intended expedition got to hand from that moment imperious necessity and the great principle of self-defence made his catholic majesty's officers turn their thoughts to objects of a more urgent nature mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy evince how far their conduct in this respect was necessary and you sir possessed as you were of all the facts when you laid the facts before the president ought to have been one of the last to have stigmatized the motives with the epithet of pretences so palpable an attempt to make groundless unfair impressions on the public mind is well calculated to defeat its own ends and appears still more extraordinary when we consider that the american government is in every way anxious by its own confession to maintain peace and harmony with spain nor do your ill founded insinuations stop here sentiments and expressions still more violent flow from that same hasty pen you say in another part that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the united states fortunately sir you have told us the source whence you derived all those dreadful conjectures of yours otherwise perhaps the weight and authority which your high official character stamps upon whatever you write or say might make an undue impression on the public you acknowledge sir twas a private letter of mr sargent's secretary of the north-western territory that gave rise to your surmises we shall now see what the letter says no extract of a letter from winthrop sargent esquire secretary of the north-western territory to the secretary of state dated cincinnati june d general wilkinson sending off an express i seize the occasion to transcribe for you some paragraphs from a western letter the spaniards are reinforcing their upper posts on the mississippi considerably general howard an irishman in quality of commander in chief with upwards of three hundred men is arrived at st louis and employed in erecting very formidable works it likewise appears through various channels that they are inviting a great number of indians of the territory to cross the mississippi and for this express purpose mr lorromie an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time several indians have been sent on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of delawares passed down on white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain some of them from st louis they the spaniards have above the mouth of the ohio on the mississippi several row-gallies with cannon now sir what inference can be drawn from that letter why that the spaniards have fortified san luis and availed themselves of every means of defence that the country afforded but let me ask you sir against whom it is that they were thus preparing to defend themselves surely the documents which you have laid before the president and the momentous business which now engages the attention of congress and agitates the public at large afford a complete and satisfactory answer i mentioned to you in my letter of d march that the object of the british was to attack upper louisiana and take san luis and new madrid by surprize it will not be questioned but that prudence required of us at 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made in october last the consequence is open hostilities on his part you would therefore do well to caution such americans as are at your port against his cruisers mr barlow at the same time tells me he flatters himself the matter will soon be accommodated as the bey of algiers has undertaken the affair with great respect your most obedient jos donaldson jr mr j m mathieu is the american consul at naples the vigilance of mr donaldson is"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3827, 3962], "b_span": [2911, 3045], "matched_words": 126, "similarity": 0.9368029739776952, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00684", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-14|1|3", "date": "1797-07-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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suspicions in your minds if you have not been very successful sir in the solidity of your reasonings you appear not to be more so in the method of following them after having denounced us to the whole american nation as stirring up the indians against the united states and preparing them for a rupture you fall into the most glaring inconsistency in the following paragraph whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and provided by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain i again appeal here sir to your generous candor how is it possible to reconcile such evident contradictions on the one hand the spanish officers are those who excite the southern indians against the united states and on the other you quickly follow presuming with sufficient foundation in my opinion that it may be some citizens of the united states but although you might entertain any doubts yourself on the subject which i am sure no person in america will after reading mr blount's letter did not this very same doubtful case and uncertainty require in your situation more circumspect language and if even in this case you appear to have gone beyond what found policy the tranquility and interest of the united states required how much more unjust are your insinuations against spain when the public papers in mr blount's letter a document by which they can see that if the manoeuvres with the indians were not favourable to the united states they were precisely combined to attack the spaniards from this method of reasoning of yours it appears as if the spaniards were jointly with mr blount stirring up the indians to attack themselves respecting the last article of your report i have only to observe that although you have constantly assured me that government had not the least information respecting the subject of my representations and although the letter of mr jackson of georgia appears to coincide with your ideas nevertheless time has shown that i have complied with my duty by not repeating on such assurances the plot is discovered and nobody any longer doubts that the expedition was to have taken place after having followed you step by step through the various points of your report to the president i shall make a short compendium of such as arise from this letter from which it results that on the th of february i gave you sufficient particulars respecting the intended expedition to have attracted the attention of this government that although to this verbal communication i added another in writing on the d of march the president had not the least knowledge of it on the th of the same month and that without doubt you must have had very powerful motives to prevent you from communicating it to him that it does not appear by the documents presented by the secretary of war that government had given orders to the military commanders to cause the territory and neutrality of the united states to be respected that you made to the english minister a communication which in my opinion you ought not and that even if you thought it necessary you delayed doing it for two months that is from the th of february to the th of april although it respected a most urgent and important object that the baron de corondelet could very well have received my letters without its necessarily following that his had come to hand that the baron did not represent mr ellicott's not writing to him officially as a complaint but as an observation and that in fact he never has done it in those terms that the proofs you allege to exculpate mr ellicott respecting his intentions of taking the fort of natchez by surprise are purely negative that it is not merely pretences but very powerful reasons which have impeded the evacuation of the posts and the running of the boundary line that the insinuations with which you are willing to persuade the american people that our arming is directed against them are unjust as well as unfounded as by mr blount's letter it is clearly demonstrated to be a precaution for the mere purpose of defence that you evidently contradict yourself when on one hand you are pleased to attribute to us the movements of the indians and in the very next paragraph you shew it might proceed from american citizens as it actually does according to mr blount's letter and that he acted with the knowledge and intelligence of the very same british minister in whose private notes without signatures and perhaps not of his hand writing you place such implicit confidence that although in all your official communications you have always manifested to me that the american government knew of nothing which indicated any foundation for my suspicions mr blount's letter clearly proves that i was perfectly in the right i have thus fulfilled a very disagreeable duty always desirous to contribute to strengthen the bands of friendship which unite spain and america and to which their situation their wants and resources invite them i have been with the most profound grief that the language and tenor of your communication to the president is not in my opinion calculated to promote to defennable an object to us all for my part although i shall leave nothing undone to cement the union and harmony with a nation which i respect neither shall i ever suffer the interests of the king my master in any case whatever to be sacrificed to an unjust partiality i pray god to preserve you many years your most obedient humble servant carlos martinez de yrujo"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", 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citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain i again appeal here sir to your generous candor how is it possible to reconcile such evident contradictions on the one hand the spanish officers are those who excite the southern indians against the united states and on the other you quickly follow presuming with sufficient foundation in my opinion that it may be some citizens of the united states but altho you might entertain any doubts yourself on the subject which i am sure no person in america will after reading mr blount s letter did not this very same doubtful case and uncertainty require in your situation more circumscript language and if even in this case you appear to have gone beyond what sound policy the tranquility and interest of the united states required how much more unjust are your insinuations against spain when the public possets in mr blount s letter a document by which they can see that if the manoeuvres with the indians were not favorable to the united states they were precisely combined to attack the spaniards from this method of reasoning of yours it appears as if the spaniards were jointly with mr blount stirring up the indians to attack themselves respecting the last article of your report i have only to observe that although you have constantly assured me that government had not the least information respecting the subject of my representations and although the letter of mr jackson of georgia appears to coincide with your ideas nevertheless time has shown that i have complied with my duty by not reposing on such assurances the plot is discovered and nobody any longer doubts that the expedition was to have taken place after having followed you step by step through the various points of your report to the president i shall make a short compendium of such as arise from this letter from which it results that on the th of february i gave you sufficient particulars respecting the intended expedition to have attracted the attention of this government that although to this verbal communication i added another in writing on the d of march the president had not the least knowledge of it on the th of the same month and that without doubt you must have had very powerful motives to prevent you from communicating it to him that it does not appear by the documents presented by the secretary of war that government had given orders to the military commanders to cause the territory and neutrality of the united states to be respected that you made to the english minister a communication which in my opinion you ought not and that even if you thought it necessary you delayed doing it for two months that is from the th of february to the th of april although it respected a most urgent and important object that the baron de chastel could very well have received my letters without its necessarily following that his had come to hand that the baron did not represent mr ellicott s not writing to him officially as a complaint but as an observation and that in fact he never has done it in those terms that the proofs you allege to exculpate mr ellicott respecting his intentions of taking the fort of natchez by surprise are purely negative that it is not merely pretence but very powerful reasons which have impeded the evacuation of the posts and the running of the boundary line that the insinuations with which you are willing to persuade the american people that our arming is directed against them are unjust as well as unfounded as by mr blount s letter it is clearly demonstrated to be a precaution for the mere purpose of defence that you evidently contradict yourself when on one hand you are pleased to attribute to us the movements of the indians and in the very next paragraph you shew it might proceed from american citizens as it actually does according to mr blount s letter and that he acted with the knowledge and intelligence of the very same british minister in whole private notes without signature and perhaps not of his own hand writing you place such implicit confidence that although in all your official communications you have always manifested to me that the american government knew nothing which indicated any foundation for my suspicions mr blount s letter clearly proves that i was perfectly in the right i have thus fulfilled a very disagreeable duty always desirous to contribute to strengthening the bonds of friendship which unite spain and america and to which their situation their wants and resources invite them i have seen with the most profound grief that the language and tenor of your communication to the president is not in my opinion calculated to promote so desirable an object to us all for my part although i shall leave nothing undone to cement the 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the committee of the house he is here as a witness only in the case of william blount and consequently is not held in durance the powers of the committee are confined to the impeachment of william blount they have received authority to send for persons and papers relating to this subject but they have no power of course to examine into the conduct of any individual not an officer"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-25|1|2", "date": "1797-07-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797072501/0328.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an examination before the committee of the house he is here as a witness only in the case of wm blount and consequently is not held in dureffe the powers of the committee are confined to the impeachment of wm blount they have received authority to send for persons and papers relating to the subject but they have no power of course to examine into the conduct of any individual not an officer"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [546, 807], "b_span": [2900, 3160], "matched_words": 252, "similarity": 0.9673704414587332, "seeds": 44, "id": "M00688", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-15|1|3", "date": "1797-07-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from captain j scott master of the brig john of this port dated morlaix france april i was captured on feb in fight of scilly and sent in here after suffering much unkind treatment i was by the interposition of our vice-consul and captain barr of salem to whom i am much obliged freed from confinement march on the th inst my vessel and cargo were condemned as lawful prize agreeably to an arrest of this government of the th ventose the roll d'equipage shipping paper not being signed and sealed by some public officer in america i am informed that the antelope of boston hope of baltimore at l'orient the leonard of newburyport at brest and the d of new-york at this place are in the same situation with myself the sally of alexandria from rotterdam was sent in here last evening and will doubtless share the same fate i have merely saved the cloaths i had on and a few guineas by advice of the american consul i have appealed to the tribunal of the department but have little hopes of redress as the decree against the antelope was confirmed in this tribunal if they continue to capture all vessels lacking the documents alluded to our commerce will be much distressed i thought before i left boston i had furnished myself with every necessary paper the privateers on cruise had dispatches sent to them on the very day of my condemnation and i expect french ports will be filled with american prizes extract of a letter"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-18|1|3", "date": "1797-07-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071801/0325.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from captain j scott master of the john of this port dated morlaix france april i was captured feb in sight of scilly and sent in here after suffering much unkind treatment i was by the interposition of our vice-consul and capt barr of salem to whom i am much obliged freed from confinement march on the th inst my vessel and cargo were condemned as lawful prize agreeably to an arrest of this government of the th ventose the roll'd equipage shipping paper not being signed and sealed by some public officer in america i am informed that the antelope of boston hope of baltimore at l'orient the leonard of newbury-port at brest and the d of new-york at this place are in the same situation with myself the sally of alexandria from rotterdam was sent in here last evening and will doubtless share the same fate i have merely saved the clothes i had on and a few guineas by the advice of the american consul i have appealed to the tribunal of this department but have little hopes of redress as the decree against the antelope was confirmed in this tribunal if they continue to capture all vessels lacking the documents alluded to our commerce will be much distressed i thought before i left boston i had furnished myself with every necessary paper the privateers on cruise had dispatches sent to them on the very day of my condemnation and i expect french ports will be filled with american prizes extract of a letter"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [808, 933], "b_span": [1198, 1324], "matched_words": 117, "similarity": 0.9322709163346613, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00689", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-15|1|3", "date": "1797-07-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the master of the sch betsey of this port from norfolk for st barts dated st barts june i would wish to inform you that i was captured by the french the th june and carried into basseterre in guadaloupe i arrived there th june i was robbed of all my towls hogs cheele hats shoes cloaths hams drafts books and every thing eatable but the worst of all they took mr bellows mr gay and frank on board the privateer i had my trial and was cleared and got permission to go to st barts my people did not come in and i have got other persons my port charges were dolls at guadaloupe after being robbed of every thing and being detained there"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-18|1|3", "date": "1797-07-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071801/0325.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the master of the sch betsy of this port from norfolk for st barts dated st barts june i would wish to inform you that i was captured by the french the th june and carried into basseterre in guadalupe i arrived there the th june i was robbed of all my fowls hogs cheeses hats shoes cloths hams draft books and every thing eatable but the worth of all they took mr bellows mr gay and frank on board the privateer i had my trial and was cleared and got permission to go to st barts my people did not come in and i have got other persons my port charges were dolls at guadalupe after being robbed of every thing and being detained there"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [942, 1007], "b_span": [1474, 1539], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.9846153846153847, "seeds": 12, "id": "M00690", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-07-15|1|3", "date": "1797-07-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-07-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797071501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at quebec and was to be tried on the th of june when as evidence was brought against him it is probable he was convicted and perhaps ere this he is executed and thus may it fare with every one who interferes with the local concerns of other countries than his own let the sovereign people of every country determine for themselves when it is"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-18|1|3", "date": "1797-07-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071801/0325.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at quebec and was to be tried on the th of june when as evidence was strong against him it is probable he was convicted and perhaps ere this he is executed and thus may it fare with every one who interferes with the local concerns of other countries than his own let the sovereign people of every country determine for themselves when it is"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2662, 2938], "b_span": [939, 1214], "matched_words": 268, "similarity": 0.9727767695099818, "seeds": 45, "id": "M00691", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-18|1|2", "date": "1797-07-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071801/0324.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the last confidential message upon which mr sitgreaves reported was deemed to be of a nature proper to be made public it is of very serious import the whole of the particulars we have not yet been able to learn but we shall state such as have come to our knowledge and such as will shew to our readers that a very extraordinary correspondence has lately been carried on between w m blount a senator from the new state of tennessee and the british minister resident here the following is the copy of a letter from william blount to a person of the name of carey an indian interpreter which together with other particulars were on monday laid before both houses of congress by the president of the united states col king's iron-works april st dear carey i wished to have seen you before i returned to philadelphia but i am obliged to return to the session of congress which commences on the fifteenth of may among other things that i wished to have seen you about was the business capt chesholm mentioned to the british minister last winter at philadelphia i believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of and if the indians act their part i have no doubt but it will succeed a man of consequence has gone to england about the business and if he makes arrangements as he expects i shall myself have a hand in the business and probably shall be at the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-07-24|1|1", "date": "1797-07-24", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-07-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797072401/0089.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the last confidential message upon which mr sitgreaves reported was declared to be of a nature proper to be made public it is of very serious importance the whole of the particulars we have not yet been able to learn but we shall state such as have come to our knowledge and such as will shew to our readers that a very extraordinary correspondence has lately been carried on between william blount a senator from the new state of tennessee and the british minister resident here the following is the copy of a letter from william blount to a person of the name of carey an indian interpreter which together with other particulars were on monday laid before both houses of congress by the president of the united states col king's iron-works april dear carey i wished to have seen you before i returned to philadelphia but i am obliged to return to the session of congress which commences on the th of may among other things that i wished to have seen you about was the business of captain cisholm mentioned to the british minister last winter at philadelphia i believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of and if the indians act their part i have no doubt but it will succeed a man of consequence has gone to england about the business and if he makes arrangements as he expects i shall myself have a hand in the business and probably shall be at the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [935, 2335], "b_span": [259, 1662], "matched_words": 1348, "similarity": 0.9618266143417766, "seeds": 243, "id": "M00692", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-18|1|2", "date": "1797-07-18", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-07-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797071801/0324.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of his catholic majesty in relation to the posts occupied by his troops within the limits of the united states the boundary line and other matters therewith connected on thursday last the th of june i received farther dispatches from andrew ellicott esquire the commissioner of the united states at the natchez dated the th of may last of which an extract and copies numbered one two and three are subjoined by these it appears that a new motive has been assigned by the commander in chief the baron de carondolet and gov gayoso for still retaining the possession of the posts the natchez and the walnut hills and for strengthening the fortifications viz to guard against an attack by the british from canada this motive being derived from information communicated to the baron de carondolet by the chevalier de yrujo the minister of his catholic majesty to the united states it appears necessary again to bring before the president my correspondence with the spanish and british ministers on that subject these papers are numbered and although the minister declared he had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper posts of louisiana yet he never mentioned a single fact or reason on which his suspicion was founded from all the existing circumstances i ever believed the suspicion to be groundless and the note of mr liston the british minister of the th of the last month declares that no such expedition had been or is intended by the british government on the th march last by the president's direction i enquired of the minister of his catholic majesty whether the spanish troops had been withdrawn agreeably to the treaty from the territory of the united states and if not what orders or measures for withdrawing them had been taken to this the minister answered on the th of april that not having for some months heard from the baron de carondolet he was deprived of any information touching the steps taken for the execution of the treaty nevertheless he had previously informed the baron de carondolet of his suspicions of a projected expedition from canada for on the first of may it is offered by governor gayoso as a new reason for continuing to hold the posts these two letters are numbered on the th june last the minister of his catholic majesty wrote me the letter number in which he undertakes to give the substance of two letters from the baron de carondolet and which about a week before he had only translated to me from the spanish originals these letters as appears by the detail of them now given by the minister exhibited divers complaints against mr ellicott whose conduct is assigned as the cause of an alleged misunderstanding between him and governor gayoso and of the delay in commencing the running of the boundary line one article however the minister has omitted in his recital the baron de carondolet complained among other things that mr ellicott had not given him notice of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner on the part of the u s for running the boundary line between their territories and those of spain i was astonished at this complaint as i had then lying on my table a copy of mr ellicott's letter to the baron dated the th feb only three days after mr ellicott's arrival at the natchez announcing his arrival as the commissioner of the u s for the object above expressed and two copies of the baron's answer dated at new orleans the first of march one in the original spanish and the other a translation in english acknowledging the receipt of mr ellicott's letter and congratulating him on his arrival in that country in the character of commissioner on the part of the u s to run the dividing line between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the u s i immediately presented these copies to the minister in whom the repugnance of fact to assertion excited the natural sensation but soon recollecting himself he made this apology for the baron that he supposed he did not consider mr ellicott's letter as official this letter and the translation of the baron's answer have been already laid before congress and published i now subjoin the copy of the baron's answer in spanish no the facts i have here stated relative to the complaint of the baron de carondolet which the spanish minister has omitted in his detail appeared to me important to be laid before you to be considered together with the other complaints which the minister has recited as to the complaint that mr ellicott attempted to get possession of the natchez fort by surprise and that the governor gayoso has in his power documents which evidently prove the intention of that attempt i have examined the two gentlemen who have brought mr ellicott's dispatches and they declare that they never heard of such an attempt being made or intended by mr ellicott and that far from exciting dissatisfaction to the spanish government in the minds of the inhabitants at the natchez he uniformly recommended patience and submission until the spanish jurisdiction should be withdrawn upon a view of the whole correspondence now and before submitted to the president it appears that the governors of his most catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the cutting of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the u s that after repeated overtures promises and appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both those respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well-founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by the officers of his c m to prepare them for a rupture with the u s those suspicions corresponding with other intelligence received by the s of war and by me mine is by a private letter from col sargent the sec of the territory n w of the river ohio of which an extract no is annexed whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interest of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace is certain the evidence of this important fact will be laid before you by the secretary of war that evidence having a reference to the british minister and his government i took the liberty of addressing to him a letter dated the st inst no to which i received the answer no as closely connected with this business i lay before you the copy of my letter no dated the th of april last to charles jackson esq the district attorney of georgia reciting a passage in a letter from the spanish minister dated the st of april declaring his positive knowledge that the english had made propositions to gen clark of georgia to obtain his influence in that state in conjunction with some persons who might make a division or serious attack against florida by mr jackson's answer from which an extract no is herewith presented it appears that after diligent enquiry he could not find any person that knew any thing of the business or that entertained a belief of the kind and that from gen clark's known violent antipathies to the english and other circumstances he doubted the truth of the report altogether on the th ult i received a letter from gen pinckney dated the th of may which contains the latest intelligence from him and seems proper to accompany the other papers now laid before you his letter no therein referred to has not yet come to hand all which is respectfully submitted"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-26|1|2", "date": "1797-07-26", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072601/0034.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of state to the president of the united states of the proceedings of the officers of his catholic majesty in relation to the posts occupied by his troops within the limits of the united states the boundary line and other matters therein connected on thursday last the th of june i received further dispatches from andrew ellicott esq the commissioner of the united states at the natchez dated the th of may last of which an extract and copies numbered one two and three are subjoined by these it appears that a new motive has been assigned by the commander in chief the baron de carondelet and governor gayoso for still retaining the possession of the posts of the natchez and the walnut hills and for strengthening the fortifications viz to guard against an attack by the british from canada this motive being derived from information communicated to the baron de carondelet by the chevalier de yrujo the minister of his catholic majesty to the united states it appears necessary again to bring before the president my correspondence with the spanish and british ministers on that subject these papers are numbered and although the minister declared he had just reasons for suspecting an expedition from canada was preparing by the british against the upper posts of louisiana yet he never mentioned a single fact or reason on which his suspicion was founded from all the existing circumstances i ever believed the suspicion to be groundless and the note of mr litton the british minister of the th of the last month declares that no such expedition has been or is intended by the british government on the th of march last by the president's direction i enquired of the minister of his catholic majesty whether the spanish troops had been withdrawn agreeably to the treaty from the territory of the united states and if not what orders or measures for withdrawing them had been taken to this the minister answered on the th of april that not having for some months heard from the baron de carondelet he was deprived of any information touching the steps taken for the execution of the treaty nevertheless he had previously informed the baron de carondelet of his suspicions of a projected expedition from canada for on the first day of may it is offered by governor gayoso as a new reason for continuing to hold the posts these two letters are numbered on the th of june last the minister of his catholic majesty wrote me the letter number in which he undertakes to give the substance of two letters from the baron de carondelet and which about a week before he had orally translated to me from the spanish originals these letters as appears by the detail of them now given by the minister exhibited divers complaints against mr ellicott whose conduct is assigned as the cause of an alleged misunderstanding between him and governor gayoso and the delay in commencing the running of the boundary line one article however the minister has omitted in his recital the baron de carondelet complained among other things that mr ellicott had not given him notice of his arrival at the natchez as the commissioner on the part of the united states for running the boundary line between their territories and those of spain i was astonished at this complaint as i had then lying on my table a copy of mr ellicott's letter to the baron dated the th of february only three days after mr ellicott's arrival at the natchez announcing his arrival as commissioner of the united states for the object above expressed and two copies of the baron's answer dated at new orleans the first of march one of the original spanish and the other a translation in english acknowledging the receipt of mr ellicott's letter and congratulating him on his arrival in that country in the character of commissioner on the part of the united states to run the dividing line between the territories of his most catholic majesty and the united states i immediately presented these copies to the minister in whom the repugnance of fact to assertion excited the natural sensation but soon recollecting himself he made this apology for the baron that he supposed he did not consider mr ellicott's letter as official this letter and the translation of the baron's answer have been already laid before congress and published i now subjoin the copy of the baron's answer in spanish no the facts i have here stated relative to the complaint of the baron de carondelet which the spanish minister has omitted in his detail appeared to me important to be laid before you to be considered together with the other complaints which the minister has recited as to the complaint that mr ellicott attempted to get possession of the natchez fort by surprise and that the governor gayoso has in his power documents which evidently prove the intention of that attempt i have examined the two gentlemen who have brought mr ellicott's dispatches and they declare that they never heard of such an attempt being made or intended by mr ellicott and that far from exciting dissatisfaction to the spanish government in the minds of the inhabitants at the natchez he uniformly recommended patience and submission until the spanish jurisdiction should be withdrawn upon a view of the whole correspondence now and before submitted to the president it appears that the governors of his catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the territory of the united states that after repeated overtures promises and appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both those respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the united states those suspicions corresponding with other intelligence recently received by the secretary of war and by me mine is by a private letter from col sargent the secretary of the territory north-west of the river ohio of which an extract no is annexed whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the u states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens it may be difficult to say but that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy 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to have seen you before i returned to philadelphia but i am obliged to return to the session of congress which commences on the fifteenth of may among other things that i wished to have seen you about was the business capt chesholm mentioned to the british minister last winter at philadelphia i believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of and if the indians act their part i have no doubt but it will succeed a man of consequence has gone to england about the business and if he makes arrangements as he expects i shall myself have a hand in the business and probably shall be at the head of the business on the part of the british you are however to understand that it is not yet quite certain that the plan will be attempted yet you will do well to keep things in a proper train of action in case it should be attempted and to do so will require all your management i say require all your management because you must take care in whatever you say to rogers or any body else not to let the plan be discovered by hawkins dinsmoor byers or any other person in the interest of the united states or spain if i attempt this plan i shall expect to have you and all my indian country and indian friends with me but you are now in good business i hope and you are not to risk the loss of it by saying any thing that will hurt you until you again hear from me where capt chesholm is i do not know i left him in philadelphia in march and he frequently visited the minister and spoke upon the subject but i believe he will go into the creek nation by way of south carolina or georgia he gave out he was going to england but i did not believe him among other things that you may safely do will be to keep up my consequence with watts and the creeks and cherokees generally and you must by no means say any thing in favor of hawkins but as often as you can with safety to yourself you may teach the creeks to believe he is no better than he should be any power or consequence he gets will be against our plan perhaps rogers who has no office to lose is the best man to give out talks against hawkins read the letter to rogers and if you think it best to send it to him put a wafer in it and forward it to him by a safe hand or perhaps you had best send for him to come to you and speak to him yourself respecting the state and prospect of things i have advised you in whatever you do to take care of yourself i have now to tell you to take care of me too for a discovery of the plan would prevent the success and much injure all parties concerned it may be that the commissioners may not run the line as the indians expect or wish and in that case it is probable the indians may be taught to blame me for making the treaty to such complaints against me if such there are it may be said by my friends at proper times and places that doublehead confirmed the treaty with the president at 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the creek nation by way of s carolina or georgia he gave out he was going to england but i did not believe him among things that you may safely do will be to keep up my consequence with watts and the creeks cherokees generally you must by no means lay any thing in favor of hawkins but as often as you can with safety to yourself you may reach the creeks to believe he is no better than he should be any power or consequence he gets will be against our plan perhaps rogers who has no office to lose is the best man to give out talks against hawkins read the letter to rogers and if you think it best to send it to him put a wafer in it and forward it to him by a safe hand or perhaps you had best send for him to come to you and speak to him yourself respecting the state and prospect of things i have advised you in whatever you do to take care of yourself i have now to tell you to take care of me too for a discovery of the plan would prevent the success and much injure all the parties concerned 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immediately arrested lord cornwallis and many of the superior officers and appointed a commission of delegates from the several ships to try them mean while deputations from the fleet were sent to the other ports in england to engage all the sailors in a common cause for obtaining the justice they require of government it is unnecessary to add that while we give publicity to these reports we think it prudent to suspend our belief of their entire authenticity till further accounts are"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-09|1|2", "date": "1797-08-09", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080901/0050.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "directory is said to have appointed buonaparte brother of the general ambassador to rome and scherer consul general to reside at new-york mr scherer is brother of the general of that name la fayette and his companions in misfortune bureau de puzy and latour maubourg are liberated buonaparte did not wait for special instructions from the directory but demanded and obtained their enlargement immediately after the signature of the preliminaries with the emperor we are assured that la fayette is determined to repair to paris in the character of a prisoner and that he means to solicit a formal trial may letters have been received from london of the fifteenth instant which announce that a new insurrection has taken place in the british fleet commanded by lord cornwallis and destined for india the admiral having given orders for sailing the crews refused to obey he resolved on decisive measures and directed the mutineers to be fired on this step far from calming the insurrection served only to exasperate the sailors who soon obtained the entire command of several ships they immediately arrested lord cornwallis and many of the superior officers and appointed a commission of delegates from the several ships to try them mean while deputations from the fleet were sent to the other ports in england to engage all the sailors in a common cause for obtaining the justice they require of government it is unnecessary to add that while we give publicity to these reports we think it prudent to suspend our belief of their entire authenticity till further accounts are"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [939, 1214], "b_span": [1673, 1947], "matched_words": 268, "similarity": 0.97632058287796, "seeds": 46, "id": "M00703", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-07-24|1|1", "date": "1797-07-24", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-07-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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obliged to return to the session of congress which commences on the th of may among other things that i wished to have seen you about was the business of captain cisholm mentioned to the british minister last winter at philadelphia i believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of and if the indians act their part i have no doubt but it will succeed a man of consequence has gone to england about the business and if he makes arrangements as he expects i shall myself have a hand in the business and probably shall be at the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-26|1|2", "date": "1797-07-26", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072601/0034.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the last confidential message upon which mr sitgreaves reported was declared to be of a nature proper to be made public it is of very serious import the whole of the particulars we have not been able to learn but we shall state such as have come to our knowledge and such as will shew to our readers that a very extraordinary correspondence has lately been carried on between william blount a senator from the new state of tennessee and the british minister resident here the following is the copy of a letter from william blount to a person of the name of carey an indian interpreter which together with other particulars were on monday laid before both houses of congress by the president of the united states colonel king's iron works april st dear carey i wished to have seen you before i returned to philadelphia but i am obliged to return to the session of congress which commences on the th may among other things that i wished to have seen you about was the business captain chisholm mentioned to the british minister last winter at philadelphia i believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of and if the indians act their part i have no doubt but it will succeed a man of consequence has gone to england about the business and if he makes arrangements as he expects i shall myself have a hand in the business and probably shall be at the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [163, 361], "b_span": [1622, 1818], "matched_words": 193, "similarity": 0.9796954314720813, "seeds": 39, "id": "M00704", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-07-24|1|3", "date": "1797-07-24", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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heard who has been appointed in his stead our readers will not be surprised to hear that blount is gone off when they are informed that though in the first instance bonds to the amount of fifty thousand dollars were required the senate have now held him to bail only in bonds of two thousand dollars viz himself in dollars and two sureties in dollars each"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|3", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0043.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to a period by the adjournment of both houses whilst the doors of the house of representatives were closed we understand the select committee appointed to prepare articles of impeachment against governor blount made a report of certain papers found in his possession amongst which we have heard we several letters which had passed between him and a person of the name of romayne of new-york in order to probe this mysterious affair to the bottom the select committee have power given them to sit during the recess of congress and to send for persons papers and records from any part of the united states the members appointed on the select committee were messrs sitgreaves baldwin dawson harper and dana the last gentleman we believe has declined serving we have not heard who has been appointed in his stead our readers will not be surprised to hear that blount is gone off when they are informed that though in the first instance bonds to the amount of fifty thousand dollars were required the senate have now held him to bail only in bonds of two thousand dollars viz himself dollars and two sureties in dollars each"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries 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men on that side of the mountain with the governor at their head with it also is connected the purchase of arms in france this information comes in a"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-16|1|2", "date": "1797-08-16", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797081601/0058.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from a gentleman in vermont dated windsor july th since the mail is closed we have received information from canada that the two m'leans taken some time since with one butterfield for treasonable practices have been tried and executed tis said butterfield turned king's evidence and has discovered an extensive plot against the province of canada in which are concerned a considerable number of the first men on that side of the mountain with the governor at 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law tis conscience that flirs within us tis guilt itself that points out a fine or intimates a whipping post to man whipping post thou cruel tort'ring monster thro what variety of untried gamblers thro what new games losses must we pass the wide the useful table stands before us and brandy wine and cherry rest upon it here will i bet if there is punch so nigh me and that there is the gamblers all have tasted to their sorrow they must delight in brandy and that which they delight in must be good but when or how have i lost twenty dollars i'm weary of ill fortunes this shall soothe them thus i'm completely arm'd my cards my good lemon punch and brandy are all before me these in a moment reduce my heavy purse while this informs me i shall win it back the coin secur'd within my pocket smiles at the swearing gamblers defies their art the punch shall all be brandy the wine itself go down our throats and brandy all be spilt yet wealth shall line my inmost faithful pocket untouch'd amidst a pack of rascals the wiles of gamblers and a flush at trumps non ego"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-02|1|4", "date": "1797-08-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797080201/0044.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "be so great hoyle thou reason'st well else whence this pleasing hope this fond desire of winning fifty dollars or whence this secret dread and inward horror of losing twenty cents why shrinks the village into paleness and startles at the law tis conscience that stirs within us tis guilt itself that points out a fine or intimates a whipping post to man whipping post thou cruel tort'ring monster thro what variety of untried gambles thro what new games and losses must we pass the wife the useful table stands before us and brandy wine and cherry-reft upon it here will i sit if there is punch so high me and that there is the gamblers all have tasted to their sorrow they must delight in brandy and that which they delight in must be good but when or how have i lost twenty dollars i'm weary of ill fortunes this shall soothe them then and i completely arm'd my cards my call good lemon punch and brandy all before me these in a moment reduce my heavy purse whilst this informs me i shall win it back the coin secur'd within my pocket smiles at the swearing gamblers and defies their art the punch shall all be brandy the wine itself go down our throats and brandy all be spilt yet wealth shall line my inmost faithful pocket untouch'd amidst a pack of rascals the wiles of gamblers and a flush at trumps non ego"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1203, 1371], "b_span": [615, 780], "matched_words": 119, "similarity": 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th november between the united states of america and england in consequence st pursuant to art of the treaty of london concluded on the th nov copied hereafter all merchandise belonging to an enemy or not sufficiently proved to be neutral property shipped under the american flag shall be confiscated but the vessel on board of which such property is found shall be released and restored"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-19|1|2", "date": "1797-09-19", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797091901/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "whether they have been modified since their conclusion the minister of foreign affairs shall furnish him for this purpose with all the information he may stand in need of and the former shall refer the matter to the executive directory in the manner prescribed by the law of the th floreal th year art iii the executive directory reminds all french citizens that the treaty made on the th february between france and the united states of america has been according to the terms of its second article modified of full right by that concluded at london on the th november between the united states of america and england consequently st agreeably to the th article of the treaty of london of the th of november transcribed below all merchandise belonging to the enemy or not sufficiently appearing to be neutral laden under the american flag shall be confiscated but the vessel on board of which it shall be found shall be released and restored"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1450, 1674], "b_span": [1002, 1218], "matched_words": 148, "similarity": 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from the governor general of canada and his majesty's secretary of state and i have authority to assure you that no expedition of the nature of that alluded to has been or is intended by the british government indeed the impropriety of violating the neutral territory of the united states is an objection of sufficient magnitude to induce the king's ministers to reject any such plan were it suggested to them philadelphia th"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-07-29|1|2", "date": "1797-07-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-07-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797072901/0038.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "first mentioned to me the suspicions expressed by the spanish minister respecting an expedition supposed to be preparing on the lakes with a view to attack the spanish posts in louisiana i took the liberty of observing to you that i had no knowledge of any such preparations and did not believe that they existed i have since requested information on the subject from the governor general of canada and from his majesty's secretary of state and i have authority to assure you that no expedition of the nature of that alluded to has been or is intended by the spanish government indeed the impropriety of violating the neutral territory of the united states is an objection of sufficient magnitude to induce the king's ministers to reject any such plan were it suggested to them philadelphia th"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1142, 1818], "b_span": [203, 879], "matched_words": 661, "similarity": 0.977810650887574, "seeds": 127, "id": "M00713", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-07-25|1|2", "date": "1797-07-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", 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your verbal answer formerly relating to the alleged expedition from canada and the afurances in your note above mentioned lead me to hope that you will not deem the present inquiry improper and the proofs you have uniformly given of respect to the rights and interests of the united states authorise the further hope that you will feel yourself at liberty to communicate any information you possess which on this occasion may concern their tranquility and welfare and i beg you to be assured that it is on this ground only that i would make the enquiry i will add however that it is not the result of suspicion but of information in which your name is introduced that some project of the kind has been contemplated and that the means proposed for carrying it into execution could not but be highly detrimental to the united states i have the honor to be with great respect sir your most obedient servant timothy pickering robert linton esq envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty to the united states r linton presents his respects to col pickering secretary of state i have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday in the course of last winter some persons did actually propose to me a plan for an attack on the floridas and the other possessions of his catholic majesty adjoining to the territories of the united states the general outline of the project was that the expedition should be undertaken by a british force sent by sea and seconded by a number of men resident within the limits of the united states who i was assured would be willing to join the king's standard if it were erected on the spanish territory i informed the projectors that i could not give any encouragement to a plan of this nature and i particularly stated two objections to it the impropriety of any measure that tended to a violation of the neutrality of the united states and the inhumanity of calling in the aid of the indians a circumstance hinted at in the conversation that had taken place on the subject i conceived it to be my duty however to mention the business in my correspondence with my superiors and lately received an answer acquainting me that his majesty's ministers did not think proper to give any countenance to the project the two objections above alluded to which i had of course insisted on in my report are stated as sufficient reasons for its rejection you must allow me sir to decline entering into any further particulars on the one hand because although i have all along suspected that the persons who proposed the plan to me might not improbably be employed by the enemies of great britain to endeavour with sinister views to insinuate themselves into my confidence yet as these my surmises may be false i should not be justified in betraying the secrets of men who may have meant me well and on the other hand because however loose the principles of these speculators may have been on the subject of the law of nations as it 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concerning any other project of an expedition against any part of the dominions of spain adjacent to the territory of the united states where or from whence any co-operation was contemplated i am aware of the delicacy of this inquiry but the frankness of your verbal answer formerly relating to the alleged expedition from canada and the assurances in your note above-mentioned lead me to hope that you will not deem the present inquiry improper and the proofs you have uniformly given of respect to the rights and interests of the united states authorize the further hope that you will feel yourself at liberty to communicate any information you possess which on this occasion may concern their tranquility and welfare and i beg you to be assured that it is on this ground only that i would make the inquiry i will add however that it is not the result of suspicion but of information in which your name is introduced that some project of the kind has been contemplated and that the means proposed for carrying it into execution could not but be highly detrimental to the united states i have the honor to be with great respect sir your most obt servant timothy pickering robert liston esq envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from his britannic majesty to the united states no r liston presents his respects to colonel pickering secretary of state i have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday in the course of last winter some persons did actually propose to me a plan for an attack on the floridas and the other possessions of his catholic majesty adjoining to the territories of the united states the general outline of the project was that the expedition should be undertaken by a british force sent by sea and seconded by a number of men resident within the limits of the u states who i was assured would be willing to join the king's standard if it were erected on the spanish territory i informed the projectors that i could not give any encouragement to a plan of this nature and i particularly stated two objections to it the impropriety of any measure that tended to a violation of the neutrality of the united states and the inhumanity of calling in the aid of the indians a circumstance hinted at in the conversation that had taken place on the subject i conceived it to be my duty however to mention the business in my correspondence with my superiors and i lately received an answer acquainting me that his majesty's ministers did not think proper to give any countenance to the project the two objections above alluded to which i had of course insisted on in my report are stated as sufficient reasons for its rejection you must allow me sir to decline entering into any farther particulars on the one hand because although i have all along suspected that the persons who proposed the plan to me might not improbably be employed by the enemies of great britain to endeavor with sinister views to insinuate themselves into my confidence yet as these my 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the present is able seamen ordinary do per month landmen there being now three classes we requested likewise that the pursers eights should be taken off which was complied with the weight of the different articles were as follows bread ounces cheese ditto butter ditto of spirituous liquors and small beer the purser had an eighth out of each gallon those eighths are now taken off and we have the full weight his majesty's pardon was then requested to exempt our brethren from having any punishment inflicted on them for trivial misdemeanors and our non-compliance to the order given for going to sea his majesty was pleased to grant the same we then returned to the ordinary discharge of our duty as desired but from that we never deviated during our perseverance except weighing anchor which we positively refused excepting our requests were complied with we then went to st helen's distant from spithead about three miles on the signal being made by the admiral excepting three ships of the line which had not their private grievances redressed viz london marlborough and la nymph the wind did not favor our proceeding to sea during our silence for by this we wish to be understood we were in state of suspension as there was no sign of an act being passed we could not be deceived in that point as the freedom of the press is allowed and several of us in the fleet can read our reasons are obviously not confined alone to the act not being passed although it lay dormant for fourteen days private instructions were sent to each commander in the fleet of which we are not ignorant as will be found in the sequel full allowances were granted to some ships companies supposed to be the leading ones and not to others which caused a suspicion throughout the whole fleet the ships remaining at spithead had not their private grievances redressed though many days had elapsed nor any sign of their being redressed be it understood by private grievances trying by a court martial such officer as had 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three classes we requested likewise that the purser's eighths should be taken off which was complied with the weight of the different articles were as follows bread ounces cheese do butter do of spirituous liquors and small beer the purser had an eighth out of each gallon those eighths are now taken off and we have the full measure his majesty's pardon was then requested to exempt our brethren from having any punishment inflicted on them for trivial misdemeanors and our non compliance to the order given for going to sea his majesty was pleased to grant the same we then returned to the ordinary discharge of our duty as desired but from that we never deviated during our perseverance except weighing anchor which we positively refused unless our requests were complied with we then went to st helens distant from spithead about three miles on the signal being made by the admiral excepting three ships of the line which had not had their private grievances redressed viz london marlborough and la nymph the wind did not favor our proceeding to sea during our silence for by this we wish to be understood we were in state of suspension as there was no sign of an act being passed we could not be deceived in this point as the freedom of the press is allowed and several of us in the fleet can read our reasons are obviously not confined alone to the act not being passed although it lay dormant for fourteen days private instructions were sent to each commander in the fleet of which we are not ignorant as will be found in the sequel full allowances were granted to some ship's companies supposed to be the leading ones and not to others which caused a suspicion throughout the whole fleet the ships remaining at spithead had their private grievances redressed though many days had elapsed nor any sign of these being redressed be it understood by private grievances trying by court martial such officers as had repeatedly behaved in a tyrannical and oppressive manner unbecoming the character of a gentleman and the dignified station they filled private murmurings were heard at length the breasts of seamen fired with indignation at being neglected burst forth on the th inst it was then oh horrid to relate that we found out the scheme laid to sacrifice some of the brightest gems that ever adorned this or any"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [869, 1711], "b_span": [1489, 2316], "matched_words": 794, "similarity": 0.951467944877172, "seeds": 145, "id": "M00749", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-08|1|2", "date": "1797-08-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797080801/0336.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "not the following melancholy catastrophe evince the whole world of our affections on saturday the d inst ever to be recorded a gallant chief not indeed so but as such represented by an hon member mr whitbread perhaps the hon member committed a mistake it was surely his gallantry with the fair sex he alluded to for his country is ignorant of any gallant action by him performed with his officers in concert espied the boats of the fleet proceeding on board the marlborough which was fortunate enough on their side as the london's officers had the quarter deck guns loaded with grape and canister shot ready to fire into them admiral colpoys had all the hands sent aft and informed them that there was something amiss among the ships at st helen's and desired them to go below run in the lower deck guns and lower the ports and then part of them to return on deck and hoist in the boats which was complied with the fame being done all hands were ordered below at the same time the officers appeared armed and the marines were armed and accoutered with bayonets fixed and pieces loaded four of the main deck guns were ordered to be loaded with grape and canister shot run in as far as the breechings would allow to be ready to point forward on the ship's company before the people could well comply with the orders of going below the capt ordered lieut bover to fire on some of the people that were forward under the forecastle which he did not immediately comply with upon which capt griffiths presented his pistols to him and swore he would put him to death that moment if he did not instantly comply with his orders in this dilemma the lieutenant fired and wounded two men the ship's company being now all below and hearing there were some boats along side they expressed their wish to know what they wanted but in vain the hammocks and spars from the booms were thrown on all the hatchways and the officers putting the hammocks a little aside so as to give room fired a salvo down the hatchways on the unarmed men below and wounded several severely part of which are since dead in the mean time the little midshipmen were busily employed with proper implements prepared for the purpose to cut the port ropes of the middle deck well knowing that the heart of a seaman could not hurt a boy at last irritated with seeing so much blood spilt we were determined to force the gunner's store room to procure small arms they then drew cartridges from some of the lower deck guns to supply them with powder taking care to secure the magazine with proper centinels thus armed they were determined to gain the main deck to confer with the officers on which the marines were summoned to take the oath of allegiance to the officers but they provoked at the premeditated murder did not consent nor would they fire but went and joined their unhappy shipmates the upper deck was then stormed in spite of opposition the officers called for quarter and then fled the heat of passion was by this time subsided and they were used with much more humanity than the most part of them deserved this is an impartial account of the unhappy affair and we trust will be a warning to the officers of the navy to use men with less tyrannic sway seamen dangerously wounded and since dead marines slightly wounded officers wounded one in the arm and has since suffered amputation thus ended the first action that ever the brave admiral colpoys as some are pleased to call him was in and had it not been owing to the kind interference of the delegates and the boat's crews which arrived at the time they had got the better of the officers that gallant officer with all his associates would have fell victims to an enraged crew which their rashness justly merited they were then confined each to his separate cabin to be tried when they arrive at st helen's it was the general opinion of the seamen and much to their credit it be spoken on the ships arrival at st helen's to deliver the officers except admiral colpoys whom they were certain was the instigator of the whole up to the civil law on the th it was proposed that the opinion of each ship's company should be given in writing folded up and not to be opened until the whole of the opinions were delivered on board the london and the delegates from each ship present a signal was then made by the london for all the delegates to attend may and deliver their respective ship's opinion when there appeared in his favor at least that he should be left to his own ship's company's mode of punishment for immediate execution majority in his favor the admiral and his officers were"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-19|1|2", "date": "1797-08-19", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797081901/0062.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "not the following melancholy catastrophe evince the whole world of our assertions on sunday the th inst ever to be recorded a gallant chief not indeed so but as such represented by an honorable member mr whitebread perhaps the honorable member committed a mistake it was surely his gallantry with the fair sex he alluded to for his country is ignorant of any gallant action by him performed with his officers in concert espied the boats of the fleet proceeding on board the marlborough which was fortunate enough on their side as the london's officers had the quarter deck guns loaded with grape-cannister shot ready to fire into them admiral colpoys had all his hands sent aft and informed them there was something amiss among the ships at st helens and desired them to go below run in the lower deck guns and lower the ports and then part of them to return on deck and hoist in the boats which was complied with the same being done all hands were ordered below at the same time the officers appeared armed and the marines were armed and accoutered with bayonets fixed and pieces loaded four of the main deck guns were ordered to be loaded with grape and cannister-shot run in as far as the breechings would allow to be ready to point forward on the ship's company before the people could well comply with the orders of going below the captain ordered lieutenant boyer to fire on some of the people that were forward under the forecastle which he did not immediately comply with upon which captain griffiths presented his pistols at him and swore he would put him to death that moment if he did not instantly comply with his orders in this dilemma the lieutenant fired and wounded two men the ship's company being now all below and hearing there were some boats alongside they expressed their wish to know what they wanted but in vain the hammocks and spars from the booms were thrown on all the hatchways and the officers putting a little a side so as to give room fired assault down the hatchways on the unarmed men below and wounded several part of which are since dead in the mean time the little midshipmen were busily employed with proper implements prepared for the purpose to cut away the port ropes of the middle deck well knowing that the heart of a seaman could not hurt a boy at last irritated with seeing so much blood spilt we were determined to force the gunners fore room to procure small arms they then drew cartridges from some of the lower deck guns to supply them with powder taking care to secure the magazine with proper centinels thus armed they were determined to gain the main deck to confer with the officers on which the marines were summoned to take the oath of allegiance to the officers but they provoked at premedictated murder did not consent nor would they fire but went and joined their unhappy shipmates the upper deck was then stormed in spite of opposition the officers called for quarters and then fled the heat of passion by this time subsided and they were used with 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whole up to the civil law on the th it was proposed that the opinion of each ship's company should be given in writing folded up and not to be opened until the opinions were delivered on board of the london and the delegates from each ship present a signal was then made by the london for all the delegates to attend may and deliver their respective ships opinion when there appeared in his favour at least that he should be left to his own ship's company's mode of punishment for immediate execution majority in his favour the admiral and his officers were"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2977, 3110], "b_span": [1614, 1742], "matched_words": 127, "similarity": 0.9731800766283525, "seeds": 26, "id": "M00750", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-08|1|2", "date": "1797-08-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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be heard in his own defence which was granted he began by thanking the court for the indulgence he had received and after a short address to the jury on the subject of his innocence he turned round and began to harangue the audience hereupon he was interrupted by the chief justice who informed him that a patient hearing should be given to whatever he might have to urge but that it should be addressed to the court and jury and not to the bystanders the prisoner apologized for his ignorance in matters of form and proceeded in a speech of near an hour's length to give an account of his life connections in the course of which he admitted most of the principal facts proved against him particularly that of having a certificate signed by adet the french minister concealed in his shoe on all of which he attempted to put an innocent construction and concluded with a fervent prayer to the deity that he would give the powers of utterance to his young counsel who"}, "b": {"key": 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might urge but that it must be addressed to the court and jury and not the by standers the prisoner apologized for his ignorance in matters of form and proceeded in a speech of near an hour's length to give an account of his life and connections in the course of which he admitted most of the principal facts proved against him particularly that of having a certificate signed by ader the french minister concealed in his shoe on all of which he attempted to put an innocent construction and concluded with a fervent prayer to the deity that he would give the powers of utterance to his young counsel who"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [295, 395], "b_span": [1654, 1754], "matched_words": 97, "similarity": 0.97, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00752", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-08|1|3", "date": "1797-08-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": 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several merchantmen detained by them to depart up the thames this amicable display was however of very short duration for on being informed that it was the intention of government that the insurgents should legally answer for their crimes the emblem of defiance was again hoisted and there are at this moment or red flags flying at the nore in the mean time admiral buckner has sent to the admiralty for fresh instructions with respect to the future conduct to be observed towards the mutineers capt night of the montague who has been out for town is the bearer of the admiral's letters the answer of their lordships to which will decide the fate of the delegates lieutenants ryder and boller of the nassau and repulse also arrived yesterday for london to give some necessary information to the lords of the admiralty respecting the present condition of the fleet the ships which escaped yesterday are now under the protection of the batteries the ramparts facing the nore is fully manned the red hot 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between the united states and france will soon be amicably adjusted as matters were in train and considerable forwardness for effecting so desirable an event no names are mentioned but it was thought that a communication had been commenced between the minister of foreign relations and general pinckney another letter of a date posterior to the above mentions the same and adds that orders were actually given in france to cease privateering against american vessels that those which had already been bro't in should be released and restitution made for such as had been condemned"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2084, 2258], "b_span": [1493, 1663], "matched_words": 160, "similarity": 0.9302325581395349, "seeds": 29, "id": "M00766", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-08-21|1|2", "date": "1797-08-21", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-08-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797082101/0094.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "friday night last a little before eleven o'clock the inhabitants of this city were alarmed with the cry of fire which broke out in a stable belonging to the widow a bradt in montgomery street and which notwithstanding the alacrity displayed by the citizens to check its progress was soon communicated to the adjacent buildings the wind blew fresh from the southeast and great apprehensions were entertained for the fate of no inconsiderable part of the city the misery and distress concomitant on this dreadful calamity can be more easily conceived than described eighty three dwelling houses were burnt and a number of others much injured forty nine storehouses and workshops and eighty stables were destroyed a greater part by the flames a few were taken down to obstruct the spreading of the terrible element it is said that nearly one thousand persons are driven from the friendly roof which protected them previous to this distressing accident the wide and oil of charity we trust will be administered with a ready hand to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|2", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082201/0344.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "friday night last a little before eleven o'clock the inhabitants of this city were alarmed with the cry of fire which broke out in a stable belonging to the widow a bradt in montgomery-street and which notwithstanding the alacrity displayed by the citizens to check its progress was soon communicated to the adjacent buildings the wind blew fresh from s e and great apprehensions were entertained for the fate of no inconsiderable part of the city the misery and distress concomitant on this dreadful calamity can be more easily conceived than described eighty-three dwelling-houses were burnt and a number of others much injured forty-nine store-houses and work-shops and eighty stables were destroyed a greater part by the flames a few were taken down to obstruct the spreading of the terrible element it is said that nearly one thousand persons are driven from the friendly roofs which protected them previous to this distressing accident the wine and oil of charity we trust will be administered with a ready hand to the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [281, 365], "b_span": [1916, 2000], "matched_words": 82, "similarity": 0.9761904761904762, "seeds": 15, 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paris great hopes are entertained that all the differences subsisting between the united states and france will soon be amicably adjusted as matters were in a train and considerable forwardness for effecting so desirable an event no names are mentioned but it was thought that a communication had been commenced between the minister of foreign relations and general pinckney another letter of the date posterior to the above mentions the same and adds that orders were actually given in france to cease privateering against american vessels that those which had already been brought in should be released and restitution made for such as had been condemned and sold and another letter from bristol by the patty says that reports are in circulation and generally credited that a friendly settlement of the differences between the two nations will take place and that within a very short time it was believed that american commerce"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic 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november nor obtain my audience for taking leave of the french government till the first of january following it was impossible for me to fail before the spring without hazarding a winter's passage and to which i did not wish to expose my family this explains the cause why i did not render myself at a much earlier period i postpone my reply to that letter till my arrival because i deemed it more suitable for many reasons to answer it in my own country than from a foreign one i think proper however to call your attention to the subject of that letter with a view to justify myself against any imputations that have been or were intended to be raised against me by the measures it"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|1", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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subject of that letter with a view to justify myself against any imputations that have been or were intended to be raised against me by the measures it"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1140, 1723], "b_span": [243, 830], "matched_words": 565, "similarity": 0.9658119658119658, "seeds": 104, "id": "M00772", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-08-21|1|3", "date": "1797-08-21", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-08-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797082101/0095.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "this statement as a matter of right and upon the principle that although the executive possess the power to censure and remove a public minister yet it is a power which ought to be exercised according to the rules of justice which rules are too well defined by the principles of our government to require illustration here i make this request therefore in a confidence that you will comply with it as soon as you can with convenience with due respect c from mr munroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july th sir upon leaving paris i committed my letter book to the care of mr provost and after his departure of mr shipwith sealed up for gen pinkney in case he arrived whilst either of those gentlemen was there to furnish him with such light upon our affairs as he did not derive from your department when he left this i had previously given gen pinkney copies of some papers which he found necessary upon his first arrival so that in a possible case i trust your wish was fulfilled in possessing him with such documents as have been or may be necessary for some time to come i think proper however to suggest the propriety of such a complete copy being 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letters of the th and th inst the latter stating the disposition you made of letters and papers relating to your mission to the french republic for the use of your successor your intended absence as mentioned in your letter of the th and the pressure of public business on the eve of the departure of our minister for europe induced the delay of an answer to this time the request contained in your letter of the th was unexpected it is easy to conceive that the president of the united states may be possessed of facts and information which would not only justify but require the recall of a foreign minister or the dismissal of an officer at home altho they should not furnish ground for a legal investigation when the tenure of public offices that of the judges excepted was deliberately and confidentially placed in the pleasure of the president of the united states it certainly was not contemplated to test the propriety or expediency of particular acts of that pleasure or discretion by a formal trial or a public discussion these remarks i trust exhibit satisfactory reasons why i cannot undertake to comply with your request i am sir c from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july sir i have been favored with yours of the th inst and answer it without delay if you supposed i would submit in silence to the injurious imputations that were raised against me by the administration you were mistaken i set too high a value upon blessing of an honest fame and have too long enjoyed that blessing in the estimation of my countrymen to suffer myself to be robbed of it by any description of persons and under any pretence whatever nor can i express the astonishment which the present conduct of the administration excites in my mind for i could not believe till it was verified by the event after having denounced me to my country as a person who had committed some great act of misconduct and censured me for such supposed act by deprivation from office that when i called upon you for a statement of the charge against me with the facts by which you support it i should find you disposed to evade my demand and shrink from the enquiry upon what principle does the administration take this ground and what are its motives for it do you suppose or contend that the power committed to the executive by the constitution to remove and censure a public minister or any other public servant has authorised it so to do without a sufficient cause or that the executive is not accountable to the public and the party injured for such an act in like manner as it is accountable for any and every other act it may perform by virtue of the constitution upon what principle is a discrimination founded which presumes restraints in certain cases against the abuse of executive power and leaves that power without restraint in all other cases and how do you designate or where draw the line between these two species of power so opposite in their nature and character this doctrine is against the spirit of our constitution which provides a remedy for every injury it is against the spirit of elective government which considers every public functionary as a public servant it becomes the meridian of those countries only where the monarch inherits the territory as his patrimony and the people who inhabit it as his slaves that the right to censure and remove a public officer was delegated to the executive with peculiar confidence is a motive why it should be exercised with peculiar care for the more confidential trust which is committed to a public functionary in a responsible station the greater circumspection should be use in the discharge of it it was not intended thereby to dispense with the principles of justice or the unalienable rights of freemen in favor of executive pleasure on the contrary it was expected that that pleasure would be exercised with discretion and that those principles and rights would be invariably observed it is an incompetent recompence to a person who has been injured by the executive to be told that the constitution permits the injury if the power intrusted was thereby abused and the principles of the constitution violated and it is an unbecoming measure in the administration to defend by the argument of power what it cannot justify at the tribunal of reason and justice i have been injured by the administration and have a right to redress imputations of misconduct have been raised against me by it and i have a right to vindicate myself against them i have invited you to state and substantiate your charges if you have any and i repeat again the invitation you suggest that you have facts and information which warrant this procedure let me know them and likewise your informers that i may be able to place this act of the executive and my own conduct in the light in which they respectively merit to stand the situation of the united states has become in many respects a very critical one and it is of importance that the true cause of this crisis be distinctly known you have endeavored to impress the public with a belief that it proceeded in some respect from me why then do you evade the enquiry is it because you know the imputation was unjust and wish to avoid the demonstration of a truth you are unwilling to acknowledge or that you fear a discussion which may throw light upon a topic heretofore too little understood i am with due respect c from the same to the same philadelphia july mr monroe presents his compliments to col pickering he wishes to revive his correspondents in the department of state and for that purpose will thank him for the assignment of a chamber in his office with the aid of a clerk for a few days till he can run through it he hopes an answer to this immediately if convenient from the same to the same philadelphia july mr monroe requests to know of col pickering whether and when he is to expect an answer to his letter of the th inst as likewise to his note of the same date from mr pickering to mr monroe philadelphia july col pickering informs mr monroe that his absence last week and engagements previous to the departure of the president for boston prevented an answer to mr monroe's letter of the th and his note of the same date which however mr monroe may expect to-morrow from the secretary of state to mr monroe department of state philadelphia july sir i have read attentively your letter of the th inst but discover in it no argument to induce a change of the opinion expressed to you in my letter of the th i understand you to contend that every minister of the united states who is recalled and every other public officer who is removed from office by the executive of the united states has a right to demand and be informed of the reasons and motives for the recall or removal in all cases except that of the judges it has been established from the time of organizing the government that removal from offices should depend on the pleasure of the executive power and you know that with the above exception the commissions of all officers civil and military appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate explicitly declare that they hold their offices during the pleasure of the president of the united states hence i conclude that a compliance with your request might form an improper inconvenient and unwise precedent in my letter of the th i remarked that it is easy to conceive that the president of the united states may be possessed of facts and information which would not only justify but require the recall of a foreign minister or the dismissal of an officer at home although they should not furnish ground for a legal investigation for instance communications which would not permit a disclosure while to admit the principle you contend for would be to shut the door to intelligence of infidelity in public officers especially in diplomatic agents who residing in foreign countries are removed from the immediate observation of their own government again the want of confidence from whatever cause it may arise is a good reason for changing a diplomatic agent if he is found on experience to be deficient in judgment skill or diligence or if circumstances inspire a reasonable doubt of the sincerity of his views he cannot with prudence be continued for it is essential that there should be full confidence in him a diplomatic agent although his official communications have a fair appearance may hold intimate and improper correspondences on political subjects with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion he may even from mistaken views of the interests of his own country countenance and invite a conduct in another derogatory from its dignity and injurious to those interests the foregoing are cases in which the necessary confidence of a government must be abated or destroyed and yet the circumstances might be such as could not prudently be brought to formal discussion more may be imagined to establish the principle that in regard to various public officers it is essential that there should be a discretion to remove without an obligation to assign reasons in the case of a diplomatic character they apply with extraordinary force it is not true that removal from office necessarily implies actual misconduct it may merely imply a want of ability or in respect to a minister it may imply only a change in political affairs which demands or renders expedient for the public good the substitution of a different character still another instance may be mentioned in which a demand like yours could not be complied with a president of the united states may on good grounds which he reserves to himself remove a public officer previous to his retiring from office in which case no officer in the succeeding administration could possibly assign the motives to the removal these reasons i conceive are sufficient to justify the determination taken in my letter of the th inst and render unnecessary a particular examination of your observations or answer to your numerous questions there is no disposition to treat you or any other man with injustice but the government cannot for the sake of indulging your sensibility sacrifice a great national principle i will conclude with one remark i agree with you that the president in using that pleasure with which the constitution has invested him for the removal of public officers is bound to exercise it with discretion but i deny that he is bound on every occasion to explain and justify his conduct to the individual removed from office which beside other objections would expose the executive to perpetual alterations and controversies with the officers removed in answer to your note of the th inst i inform you that the revision of your correspondence with the department of state which you request may take place with the aid of a clerk when it shall suit your own convenience i am with due respect c from mr pickering to mr monroe philadelphia july th sir it has been deemed improper for the reasons assigned in my official letters to attempt an official explanation of the reasons and motives which influenced the late"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-23|1|2", "date": "1797-08-23", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797082301/0066.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "this statement as a matter of right and upon the principle that although the executive possesses the power to censure and remove a public minister yet it is a power which ought to be exercised according to the rules of justice which rules are too well de fined by the principles of our govern ment to require illustration here i make this request therefore in a confi dence that you will comply with it as soon as you can with convenience with due respect c from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july sir upon leaving paris i committed my letter book to the care of mr pre vost and after his departure to mr skipwith sealed up for general pinck ney in case he arrived whilst either of those gentlemen was there to fur nish him with such light upon our af fairs as he did not derive from your department when he left this i had previously given general pinckney co pies of some papers which he found necessary upon his first arrival so that in a possible case i trust your wish was fulfilled in possessing him with such documents as have been or may be necessary for some time to come i think proper however to suggest the propriety of such a complete copy being furnished from your office as you seem to deem necessary for our representa tive at paris since when i arrived there no paper whatever was furnish ed me by my predecessor either of his own correspondence or of mr jef ferson's or dr franklin's i have thought it my duty to state to you how i found and left this business to ena ble you to make such disposition therein according to the rules of your depart ment as is thought suitable i shall be absent from this city till thursday next at which time i shall be happy to receive an answer to the letter i had the pleasure to write to you yesterday your most obedient c from the same to the same philadelphia july sir i think proper to apprize you of my return to this city and to request the favour of an answer to my letter of the th instant i am with due respect c from the secretary of state to mr monroe department of state philadelphia july sir i duly received your letters of the th and th instant the latter stating the disposition you had made of letters and papers relating to your mission to the french republic for the use of your successor your intended absence as mentioned in your letter of the th and the pressure of public business on the eve of the departure of our mini ster for europe induced the delay of an answer to this time the request contained in your letter of the th was unexpected it is easy to conceive that the president of the u nited states may be possessed of facts and information which would not on ly justify but require the recall of a for eign minister or the dismissal of an officer at home altho they should not furnish ground for a legal investigation when the tenure of public offices that of the judges excepted was deliberate ly and confidentially placed in the plea sure of the president of the united states it certainly was not contem plated to test the propriety or expedi ency of particular acts of that pleasure or discretion by a formal trial or a pub lic discussion these remarks i trust exhibit satisfactory reasons why i can not undertake to comply with your re quest i am sir c from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july sir i have been favoured with yours of the th instant and answer it without delay if you supposed that i would sub mit in silence to the injurious imputa tions that were raised against me by the administration you were mistaken i set too high a value upon the blessing of an honest fame and have too long enjoyed that blessing in the estimation of my countrymen to suffer myself to be robbed of it by any description of per sons under any pretence whatever nor can i express the astonishment which the present conduct of the ad ministration excites in my mind for i could not believe till it was verified by the event after having denounced me to my country as a person who had committed some great act of miscon duct and censured me for such suppo sed act by deprivation from office that when i called upon you for a statement of the charge against me with the facts by which you support it i should find you disposed to evade my demand and shrink from the enquiry upon what principle does the administration take this ground and what are its motives for it do you suppose or contend that the power committed to the executive by the constitution to remove and censure a public minister or any other public servant has authorised it so to do with out a sufficient cause or that the ex ecutive is not accountable to the pub lic and the party injured for such an act in like manner as it is accountable for any and every other act it may per form by virtue of the constitution upon what principle is a discriminati on founded which presumes restraints in certain cases against the abuse of executive power and leaves that pow er without restraint in all other cases and how do you designate or where draw the line between these two speci es of power so opposite in their nature and character this doctrine is against the spirit of our constitution which pro vides a remedy for every injury it is against the spirit of elective government which considers every public functiona ry as a public servant it becomes the meridian of these countries only where the monarch inherits the territory as his patrimony and the people who in habit it as his slaves that the right to censure and remove a public officer was delegated to the execu tive with peculiar confidence is a motive why it should be exercised with pe culiar care for he more confident the trust which is committed to a public fun ctionary in a responsible station the greater circumspection he should use in the discharge of it it was not intended thereby to dispense with the principles of justice and the unalienable rights of freemen in favour of executive pleasure on the contrary it was expected that that pleasure would be exercised with discretion and that those principles and rights would be invariably observed it is an incompetent recompence to a per son who has been injured by the execu tive to be told that the constitution per mits the injury if the power intrusted was thereby abused and the principles of the constitution violated and it is an un becoming measure in the administration to defend by the argument of power what it cannot justify at the tribunal of reason and justice i have been injured by the admini stration and have a right to redress im putations of misconduct have been raised against me by it and i have a right to vindicate myself against them i have in vited you to state and substantiate your charges if you have any and i repeat a gain the invitation you suggest that you have facts and information which warrant the procedure let me know them as likewise your informers that i may be able to place this act of the ex ecutive and my own conduct in the light in which they respectively merit to stand the situation of the united states has become in many respects a very critical one and it is of importance that the true cause of this crisis be distinctly known you have endeavoured to impress the public with a belief that it proceeded in some respect from me why then do you evade the enquiry is it because you know that the imputation was unjust and with to avoid the demonstration of a truth you are unwilling to acknowledge or that you fear a discussion which may throw light upon a topic heretofore too little understood i am with due respect c from the same to the same july mr monroe presents his compli ments to col pickering he wishes to revise his correspondence in the de partment of state and for that purpose will thank him for the assignment of a chamber in his office with the aid of a clerk for a few days till he can run through it he hopes an answer to this immediately if convenient from the same to the same phila july mr monroe requests to know of col pickering whether and when he is to expect an answer to his letter of the th inst as likewise to his note of the same date from mr pickering to mr monroe july col pickering informs mr mon roe that his absence last week and engagements previous to the depart ure of the president for boston pre vented an answer to mr monroe's let ter of the th and his note of the same date which however mr mon roe may expect to-morrow from the secretary of state to mr monroe department of state philadelphia july th sir i have read attentively your letter of the th instant but discover in it no argument to induce a change of the opinion expressed to you in my letter of the th i understand you to contend that ev ery minister of the united states who is recalled and every other public offi cer who is removed from office by the executive of the united states has a right to demand and be informed of the reasons and motives for the recall or removal in all cases except that of the judges it has been established from the time of organizing the go vernment that removals from offices should depend on the pleasure of the executive power and you know that with the above exception the commi ssions of all officers civil and military appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate ex plicitly declare that they hold their offices during the pleasure of the president of the united states hence i conclude that a compliance with your request might form an im proper inconvenient and unwise pre cedent in my letter of the th i remarked that it is easy to conceive that the president of the united states may be possessed of facts and information which would not only justify but require the recall of a foreign mi nister or the dismissal of an officer at home although they should not furnish ground for a legal investiga tion for instance communica tions might be received entitled to credit but under restrictions which would not permit disclosure while to admit the principle you contend for would be to shut the door to intelli gence of infidelity in public officers especially in diplomatic agents who residing in foreign countries are remo ved from the immediate observation of their own government again the want of confidence from whatever cause it may arise is a good reason for changing a diplo matic agent if he is found on expe rience to be deficient in judgment skill or diligence or if circumstances in spire a reasonable doubt of the sinceri ty of his views he cannot with pru dence be continued for it is essential that there should be full confidence in him a diplomatic agent although his official communications have a fair appearance may hold intimate and im proper correspondencies on political subjects which men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion he may even from mistaken views of the interests of his own country coun tenance invite a conduct in another derogatory from its dignity inju rious to those interests the foregoing are cases in which the necessary confidence of a govern ment must be abated or destroyed and yet the circumstances might be such as could not prudently be brought to a formal discussion more may be imagined to establish the principle that in regard to various public offi cers it is essential that there should be a discretion to remove without an ob ligation to assign reasons in the case of a diplomatic character they apply with extraordinary force it is not true that a removal from office necessarily implies actual miscon duct it may merely imply a want of ability or in respect to a minister it may imply only a change in political affairs which demands or renders ex pedient for the public good the sub stitution of a different character still another instance may be men tioned in which a demand like yours could not be complied with a presi dent of the united states may on good grounds which he reserves to himself remove a public officer previ ous to his retiring from office in which case no officer in the succeeding administration could possibly assign the motives to the removal these reasons i conceive are suffi cient to justify the determination taken in my letter of the th instant and render unnecessary a particular exa mination of your observations or an swers to your numerous questions there is no disposition to treat you or any other man with injustice but the government cannot for the sake of indulging your sensibility sacrifice a great national principle i will conclude with one remark i agree with you that the president in using that pleasure with which the constitution has invested him for the removal of public officers is bound to exercise it with discretion but i deny that he is bound on every occasion to explain and justify his conduct to the individual removed from office which beside other objections would expose the executive to perpetual alterations and controversies with the officers re moved in answer to your note of the th instant i inform you that the re vision of your correspondence with the department of state which you re quest may take place with the aid of a clerk when it shall suit your own convenience i am with due respect c from mr pickering to mr monroe philadelphia july sir it has been deemed improper for the reasons assigned in my official letters to attempt an official explanation of the reasons and motives which influenced the late"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2604, 2722], "b_span": [3, 118], "matched_words": 113, "similarity": 0.9699570815450643, "seeds": 22, "id": "M00779", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|1", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082201/0343.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the french republic this i shall not venture to do in any capacity but it is in my power as an individual citizen to communicate the considerations which induced me last summer when called upon by the president in the line of my office to advise that this measure should be taken if in this form my sentiments will give you any satisfaction and you desire to receive them they shall be furnished i have conversed with mr m c henry and mr lee on this subject and in the like form you may receive their sentiments respectively mr wolcott being absent i can say nothing in respect to him i am with due respect c to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-23|1|3", "date": "1797-08-23", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797082301/0067.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the french republic this i shall not venture to do in any capacity but it is in my power as an individual citizen to communicate the considerations which induced me last summer when called upon by the president in the line of my office to advise that this measure should be taken if in this form my sentiments will give you any satisfaction and you desire to receive them they shall be furnished i have conversed with mr mchenry and mr lee on this subject and in like form you may receive their sentiments respectively mr wolcott being absent i can say nothing in respect of him i am with due respect c to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [106, 624], "b_span": [34, 553], "matched_words": 500, "similarity": 0.9643201542912246, "seeds": 92, "id": "M00780", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|2", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082201/0344.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "incapacity a distant spectator of the glory of the french republic and struck with admiration at her prosperity i knew not to what cause i ought to ascribe this excess of kindness and confidence which called me to the exercise of the first office in the state but soon forgetting my incapacity i became sensible of my good fortune to contribute at the close of a glorious revolution for the consolidation of its happy effects to preside at the execution of the laws to co-operate with you and the legislative body in repairing the mischief necessarily produced by a long and dreadful tempest is to me a glorious and enviable duty need i mention that on entering upon my office i cherish the sanguine hope of finding in the directory the foundation of general pacification i did imagine that after a grand display of power and energy the french republic would pursue a just and pacific line of conduct and manifest a disposition to treat with her most inveterate enemies the duration of empires is guaranteed by their justice and justice and moderation after victory will be the harbinger of that permanent peace which ought forever to confirm and consolidate the constitution which france has acquired accept citizens directors the assurance of my inviolable attachment to that constitution accept those sentiments of respect and esteem which are due to your characters i derive the utmost gratification from reflecting that our union under the guidance of the law will be cemented by reciprocal esteem affection and confidence the president's answer the executive directory receive with the most glowing sentiments of joy in their bosom the man whom the confidence of the representatives of the people has selected to participate in their labors in times of danger and difficulty you succeeded dear colleague in making the republic respected abroad in securing to her interest her old and faithful allies and in neutralizing the malignity of those who attempted to excite new enemies against her your extensive knowledge and the spirit of moderation which influences your conduct are the surest pledges of the success with which you will co-operate with us in the accomplishment of our principal object peace the soundness of your principles is likewise a guarantee that we shall establish that desirable event on a just basis and on terms highly honorable remote from the scene of conflicting parties who have so long kept the nation in a state of convulsion you will be an impartial judge and your efforts united to ours for the suppression of faction will be a favorable omen of its utter extinction we hope on a review of the conduct of the directory and observing the unanimity that prevails among the members that you will return esteem for esteem and will join with them in the sentiments they retain for the talents the probity and civic virtues of their old colleague letourneur which were so conspicuous during the eighteen months that he remained in the eminent situation which you are about to fill the ceremony was announced to the public by the discharge of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-02|1|2", "date": "1797-09-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797090201/0078.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "incapacity a distant spectator of the glory of the french republic and a weak with admiration at her prosperity i knew not to what cause i ought to ascribe this excess of kindness and confidence which called me to the exercise of the first office in the state but soon forgetting my incapacity i became sensible of my good fortune to contribute at the close a glorious revolution for the consolidation of its happy effects to preside at the execution of the laws to co-operate with you and the legislative body in repairing the mischief necessarily produced by a long and dreadful tempest is to me a glorious and an enviable duty need i mention that on entering upon my office i cherish the sanguine hope of finding in the directory the foundation of general pacification i did imagine that after a grand display of power and energy the french republic would pursue a just and pacific line of conduct and manifest a disposition to treat with her most inveterate enemies the duration of empires is guaranteed by their justice and justice and moderation after victory will be the harbinger of that permanent peace which ought forever to confirm and consolidate the constitution which france has acquired accept citizens directors the assurance of my inviolable attachment to the constitution accept those sentiments of respect and esteem which are due to your characters i derive the utmost satisfaction from reflecting that our union under the guidance of the law will be cemented by reciprocal esteem affection and confidence the president's reply the executive directory receive with the most glowing sentiments of joy in their bosom the man whom the confidence of the representatives of the people has elected to participate in their labours in times of danger and difficulty you succeeded dear colleague in making the republic respected abroad in securing to her incontest her old and faithful allies and in neutralizing the malignity of those who attempted to incite new enemies against her your extensive knowledge and the spirit of moderation which influences your conduct are the surest pledges of the success with which you will co-operate with us in the accomplishment of our principal object peace the soundness of your principles is likewise a guarantee that we shall establish that desirable event on a just basis and on terms highly honorable remote from the scene of contending parties who have so long kept the nation in a state of convulsion you will be an impartial judge and your efforts united to ours for the suppression of sedition will be a favourable omen of its utter extinction we hope that a review of the conduct of the directory and observing the unanimity that prevails among the members that you will return esteem for esteem and will join with them in the sentiments they retain for the talents the probity and civil virtues of their old colleague letourneur which we also conscious during the eighteen months that he remained in the eminent station which you are about to fill the ceremony was announced to the public by the discharge of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2386, 2509], "b_span": [1890, 2014], "matched_words": 120, "similarity": 0.97165991902834, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00781", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|2", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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and to assure you of the high respect they entertain for your personal character and your official conduct to evidence this publicly and respectfully they have made arrangements for a public dinner upon the occasion at which they request the honor of your presence at a period critical and important as the present when domestic faction appears to have conspired with foreign intrigue to destroy the peace of our country when our constituted authorities are reviled and insulted and the most daring attempts to separate the people from their government are openly made and avowed at such a crisis we are excited so less by our inclination than our duty to reprobate openly their wicked machinations and to declare our fixed resolution to support the measures which government may adopt to defeat their nefarious designs to us sir it is a pleasing reflection that at this juncture the interests and the honour of our country are in so great a degree committed to your immediate care and protection persuaded that this sacred and important trust can no where else be deposited to command so general and perfect confidence permit us sir to add that as citizens of massachusetts we feel a peculiar pride and pleasure in your being placed at the head of the union when we recollect that we have the honor to recognize you as one of our number may your health and usefulness long be continued to our country and may its citizens ever retain and express a grateful sense of the benefits they have derived from your public services benjamin lincoln thomas dawes oliver wendell jonathan mason jonathan jackson stephen higginson to the president of the united states to which the president was pleased to make the following reply gentlemen your kind congratulations on my return to my family and friends are very obliging your polite invitation is accepted with pleasure at this period when in many parts of the world disorder indiscipline and disobedience to every kind of authority fashioned into a sort of science are vindicated as rights and inculcated as duties it is not to be expected that our country should wholly escape their contagious effects although many of our worthy citizens may flatter themselves that calumnies and contempt against the constituted authorities will not make a dangerous impression upon a public opinion which is formed with so much deliberation intelligence and integrity as it generally is among us and may believe that the sagacity and candour with which the body of the people observe the characters of public men and weigh the tendency of public measures will be a sufficient security for the government yet i cannot but be of the opinion that the profligate spirit of falsehood and malignity which has appeared in some and the unguarded disposition in others to encourage it are serious evils and bear a threatening aspect upon the union of the states their constitution of government and the moral character of the nation the idea of separating the people from a 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to destroy the peace of our country when our constituted authorities are reviled and insulted and the most daring attempts to separate the people from their government are openly made and avowed at such a crisis we are excited no less by our inclination than our duty to reprobate openly their wicked machinations and to declare our fixed resolution to support the measures which government may adopt to defeat their nefarious designs to us sir it is a pleasing reflection that at this conjuncture the interests and the honour of our country are in so great a degree committed to your immediate care and protection persuaded that this sacred and important trust can no where else be deposited to command to general and perfect confidence permit us sir to add that as citizens of massachusetts we feel a peculiar pride and pleasure in your being placed at the head of the union when we recollect that we have the honor to recognize you as one of our number may your health and usefulness long be continued to our country and may its citizens ever retain and express a grateful sense of the benefits they have derived from your public service benjamin lincoln thomas dawes oliver wendell jonathan mason jonathan jackson stephen higginson to the president of the united states to which the president was pleased to make the following reply gentlemen your kind congratulations on my return to my family and friends are very obliging your polite invitation is accepted with pleasure at this period when in many parts of the world disorder indiscipline and disobedience to every kind of authority fashioned into a sort of science are vindicated as rights and inculcated as duties it is not to be expected that our country should wholly escape their contagious effects although many of our worthy citizens may flatter themselves that calumnies and contempt against the constituted authorities will not make a dangerous impression upon a public opinion which is formed with so much deliberation intelligence and integrity as it generally is among us and may believe the sagacity and conduct with which the body of the people observe the characters of public men and weigh the tendency of public measures will be a sufficient security for the government yet i cannot but be of opinion that the profligate spirit of falsehood and malignity which has appeared in some the unguarded disposition in others to encourage it are serious evils and bear a threatening aspect upon the union of the states their constitution of government and the moral character of the nation the idea of separating the people from a government of their own choice can originate with none but enemies of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1745, 1904], "b_span": [1545, 1705], "matched_words": 158, "similarity": 0.9905956112852664, "seeds": 32, "id": "M00783", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|3", 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may be called the pointers of the little bear and about or in the evenings of these days if the weather be clear it will be seen to the west of our zenith and not very far distant from it this comet at present has no tail but appears as a small nebulous or cloudy star of a round form being most bright towards"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1912, 2005], "b_span": [1620, 1713], "matched_words": 92, "similarity": 0.989247311827957, "seeds": 19, "id": "M00784", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|3", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082201/0345.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an albany paper by a gentleman of this city who left the county of onondaga on saturday last that on the preceding evening a gentleman arrived there from niagara who gave information that the british troops in that quarter with a general muster of indians headed by col brandt had marched towards the mississippi in hopes of meeting a large force of spaniards and french in their progress towards canada and that a company of american artillery had also marched on the same route for the purpose of protecting the neutrality and honor"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-06|1|2", "date": "1797-09-06", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797090601/0082.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an albany paper by a gentleman of this city who left the county of onondago on saturday last that on the preceding evening a gentleman arrived there from niagara who gave information that the british troops in that quarter with a general muster of indians headed by col brandt had marched towards the mississippi in hopes of meeting a large force of spaniards and french in their progress towards canada and that a company of american artillery had also marched on the same route for the purpose of protecting the neutrality and honor"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2776, 2839], "b_span": [2365, 2429], "matched_words": 61, "similarity": 0.9606299212598425, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00785", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|3", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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from st u and was there informed by the american consul mr tolardo that the french and spanish armies had entered the frontiers of portugal in three different bodies capt rice says that this news was currently circulated at the exchange in lisbon and was generally"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3, 210], "b_span": [1748, 1955], "matched_words": 205, "similarity": 0.9903381642512077, "seeds": 43, "id": "M00786", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-22|1|3", "date": "1797-08-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082201/0345.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a project were it practicable would be a demonstration that the people are not capable of such a government and by a sudden introduction of waiting calamities would soon convince the people themselves of the necessity of instituting another form for their own security and protection the decided reprobation of such nefarious designs by the citizens of boston and its vicinity will have a great effect in defeating them the present age has furnished examples in abundance of degradations and disasters brought upon nations by conspiracies between foreign intrigue and domestic faction it will be happy indeed for american citizens if they should learn wisdom from the woes of others the personal compliments you are pleased to present to me are the more grateful as it has been the pride of my life to be reckoned as one of your number assurances of approbation in age from the friends and companions of our youth and riper years i shall ever esteem among the choicest delights of life accept gentlemen of my kindest wishes for your health and happiness and for the prosperity of the town of boston and its vicinity venerable in our american history for virtues and wisdom as well as antiquity john adams quincy august"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-16|1|2", "date": "1797-09-16", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797091601/0094.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a project were it practicable would be a demonstration that the people are not capable of such a government and by a sudden introduction of wailing calamities would soon convince the people themselves of the necessity of instituting another form for their own security and protection the decided reprobation of such nefarious designs by the citizens of boston and its vicinity will have a great effect in defeating them the present age has furnished examples in abundance of degradations and disasters brought upon nations by conspiracies between foreign intrigue and domestic faction it will be happy indeed for american citizens if they could learn wisdom from the woes of others the personal compliments you are pleased to present to me are the more grateful as it has been the pride of my life to be reckoned as one of your number assurances of approbation in age from the friends and companions of our youth and riper years i shall ever esteem among the choicest delights of life accept gentlemen of my kindest wishes for your health and happiness and for the prosperity of the town of boston and its vicinity venerable in our american history for virtues and wisdom as well as antiquity john adams quincy august"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1021, 1099], "b_span": [2661, 2737], "matched_words": 67, "similarity": 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official character having yet to learn what your pretensions are to confidence as an individual citizen for the weight which your opinion ought to have as such especially in the present case i think proper now to observe that when i called upon you for an explanation of the motives of the administration in making this attack upon me it was not with a view to derive any information for myself i have been too long and too well acquainted with the political conduct principles and views of the administration not to know what its motives were in that respect without any aid from you indeed knowing what my own conduct was and what your views are of which a series of facts and circumstances leaves no doubt on my mind i had no expectation of obtaining from you anything like a candid answer on the contrary i expected an evasive one dealing in hints and innuendos thrown out to divert the mind from the true object of enquiry nor have i been disappointed in my expectation for i am persuaded that no impartial person can read your several letters upon this subject without entertaining the same opinion of them i expected even a disguise of the real motive and by every possible artifice which interest or ingenuity could suggest because i knew the real motive could not be avowed and such i am persuaded will be the opinion of every impartial person who after reading your letters traces the true motive by a correct analysis of those facts and circumstances to which i allude i called upon you in that spirit of candour which i have always observed towards the administration and others and to give you an opportunity to justify your conduct by your own arguments and thereby place it in the light you wished it to stand but this you have refused to do and for reasons the most extraordinary in calling upon you then i have acted consistently with my own principles and in refusing to comply you have taken a ground for which the administration is responsible i forbear to discuss again the solidity of that principle which supposes every public officer of the united states the judges excepted a menial servant to the president a principle which if established vanishes from the bosom of every such officer all regard for country every noble and patriotic sentiment and makes him dependent not upon the integrity and propriety of his own conduct but upon the personal favor of his superior if such were the case what confidence could the people of america repose in any public functionary since after he gets into office whatever may have been his character before he sinks into a machine and ceases to be a watchful sentinel over the public rights and interests if such were the case the principles and practice of our free governments are departed from and the most slavish doctrines of the most slavish governments are introduced in their stead and that such must be the case is obvious if the executive can exercise the discretion you speak of in the pleasurable manner you contend for and without accounting for any of its acts or the motives of them in any case to the party injured the public or any person whatever this doctrine merits the attention of the people of america because it is a pernicious one they have provided in the constitution they have adopted a suitable mode for the appointment of public officers and which supposes a due regard to be paid to the characters of those who are appointed and with a view that they may be faithfully served they pay to their public officers president and all liberally and ought to be faithfully served they have likewise provided for and with a supervision of the superior over the inferior but i trust it is their intention that the merits and character of the latter should be estimated by the standard of his integrity and public services and not by the whim caprice or any less worthy motive of those above him nor shall i discuss the solidity of the principle or the policy of the practice you have adopted of opening a door in your office for the reception of spies and informers to whose communications it appears implicit faith is given although their names their characters and even the purport of their denunciations be withheld this practice is of great antiquity and is now in use in the despotic governments of europe but i hoped never to see it transplanted to this side of the atlantic especially in the degree to which you extend it i dismiss these topics from view because they are only incidental to the main object of enquiry and involve principles in which i am not interested otherwise than in common with every other american citizen i have noticed them however that their tendency may be correctly understood but i think proper to make a few comments upon the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and with a view to place them and your conduct in making them in their true light you suggest many cases which provided they existed you say would justify the executive in the removal and censure of a public minister or other officer such for example as a defect of judgment skill or diligence the want of confidence in him by the administration his holding improper correspondences with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion his countenancing and inviting from a mistaken view of the interest of his own country a conduct in another derogatory from and injurious to those interests c the existence of any of these cases you say would justify the removal of any public minister it is not my intention to contest with you abstract principles because i will readily admit that if a public officer be incompetent to the duties of his office whether it proceed from want of judgment skill or diligence if he be the tool or partisan of another country against the honor and interest of his own or be associated with foreigners of any description whatever or with the agents or creatures of foreign powers in promoting any plan of conspiracy against insurrection in or disorganization of his own country that in any and every such case such officer whether he be employed at home or abroad ought to be dismissed and disgraced or rather severely punished for disgrace upon those who are capable such enormities is no punishment at all but do you mean to apply any of these imputations to me if so why not avow it and present your proof would it not be more manly to do so than to deal in innuendo and insinuation which without making you responsible for any charge are perhaps intended to be understood as such or do you hope that we shall take these innuendos for facts without your declaring them to be so or producing any testimonies to support them this might perhaps promote your views in the present case but would certainly not promote the cause of truth with respect to the clamour which is so incessantly raised and of which you seem disposed to avail yourself in the present instance of danger to the government from the exercise of freedom of opinion in debate and writing or of your insinuation that i had improper correspondence with any such persons it is one which merits no reply i have no correspondent in whom i repose confidence who has not given at least as strong proof of his attachment to good government and good order and who is not as much interested perhaps much more so in the preservation of those blessings as yourself or any of those who make the loudest clamour on that subject nor have i had a communication with any person or persons whilst employed abroad or at any other time of a public nature but with a view to preserve the government and the union intire always seeking to counteract the disuniting disorganizing projects of those who secretly wished to subvert them do you know of any correspondence of mine exhibiting an opposite character or having an opposite tendency if you do produce it and then we will discuss this point further but till then i shall consider this innuendo like the others as being thrown out only to obscure the subject and divert the mind from the true object of inquiry and upon the point of confidence between the administration and myself with respect to the period of its commencement and termination on both sides if indeed it ever existed on theirs in the view in which i believe it did with the cause which created and destroyed it i shall say but little at present because it is a very important one and requires to be more fully illustrated than the nature of this communication will admit of this point involves in it the whole policy of the administration in my mission and recall and will i think when fully understood tend essentially to illustrate the conduct principles views of the administration during this great interesting crisis of human affairs i think proper however to observe here that whatever may be the opinion of the world as to the merits of the administration in these respects or of its conduct towards me through the whole of my mission i can shew in the most satisfactory manner that my political character principles whilst a member of the american senate and whilst minister plenipotentiary of the united states with the french republic were always the same and that in both stations and through every vicissitude of our affairs it was the constant and laborious effort of my life to preserve peace harmony and perfect amity between the two republics i can shew too that those efforts had produced and were still producing a good effect of which the administration had full knowledge at the very moment when it endeavored to impress the public with a belief that i had failed to do my duty the administration may perhaps find it hereafter expedient to explain why i was invited to accept that mission and confided in at that time and why that confidence was withdrawn afterwards were my political character and principles less known in the former stage than in the latter i presume not for at the time when i was invited to accept this mission to the french republic i was a member of the senate of the united states and had acted with such decision upon all topics which came before that body as to leave no doubt with any one what my political principles were was there any particular object in view depending any where at the former period and which my appointment to the french republic might then promote and did the accomplishment of that object produce a change in the policy of the administration towards that republic and of what nature was that object i suggest these ideas incidentally only and without meaning to go fully into them so much i have thought proper to say in reply to the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and which i presume will fully explain my motives in making them i will now proceed to another point of more importance in the present enquiry the change in the political situation of the united states is too obvious and interesting not to attract the attention and excite the sensibility of even those who are the least observant a few years past the name of america was a venerable name in the catalogue of nations it commanded the respect and drew the sympathetic attention of all powers and of all men her commerce and her agriculture flourished hand in hand and her people were happy beloved by her ancient friends and dreaded by her ancient foes there was no cloud in the political horizon to darken her prospects a coalition of tyrants it is true whose avowed object it was to extirpate liberty from off the face of the globe excited uneasiness for awhile soon however the strong and potent arm of republicanism crushed its efforts and averted the storm but what a reverse has now taken place and where will the catastrophe end our national character has not only already greatly declined and our commerce and agriculture greatly suffered but we are upon the point of being involved in a war with our ancient and deserving ally now become a republic after our example and on the side of the remnants of that same coalition which was lately armed against the liberties of the world strange and almost incredible event indeed by what means has this change been produced much has been said and done by the administration not simply to exculpate itself from all blame in that respect but to criminate others and when called upon to state and substantiate its charge what has been the result let your letters shew it is now time to close this subject and to bring into view an important question which must be decided on has the administration performed its duty to its country in these great concerns acquitted itself to the public as it ought to have done in my judgment it has not might we not have avoided this crisis by other and obvious measures more consistent with our national honour interest and without exposing ourselves to any real danger whatever in my judgment we might in this latter view the subject acquires new importance and is entitled to more particular attention you will readily perceive that our fellow citizens in general are deeply interested in the several points of discussion between us to whom it likewise belongs to estimate yours and my conduct and i now think proper to inform you that it is my intention to carry the subject before that enlightened and impartial tribunal with all the lights which i possess i am sir with due respect c from mr monroe to the secretary of state july mr monroe requests col pickering to inform his colleagues that the evident impropriety of his having any communication otherwise than with the administration itself upon an act for which he holds the administration responsible precludes his receiving from them as individual citizens any information whatever respecting the motives which governed them in the case referred to he declines this with the greater pleasure because the course he finds it necessary to adopt for the examination and development of this subject generally offers to those gentlemen as individual citizens an opportunity to communicate the motives of their conduct in that case to the community at large thro which channel only can he"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-29|1|1", "date": "1797-08-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082901/0347.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "james monroe and timothy pickering secretary of state concluded from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july th sir i have received and attended to your official letter of the th and your private of the th inst and shall now reply to both permit me to promise that in any discussion which has or may take place between us i have not nor shall i consider you in any other than your official character having yet to learn what your pretensions are to confidence as an individual citizen or the weight which your opinion ought to have as such especially in the present case i think proper now to observe that when i called upon you for your explanation of the motives of this attack upon me it was not with a view to derive any information for myself i have been too long and too well acquainted with the political conduct principles and views of the administration not to know what its motives were in that respect without any aid from you indeed knowing what my own conduct was and what your views are of which a series of facts and circumstances leaves no doubt on my mind i had no expectation of obtaining from you any thing like a candid answer on the contrary i expected an evasive one dealing in hints innuendos thrown out to divert the mind from the true object of enquiry nor have i been disappointed in my expectation for i am persuaded that no impartial person can read your several letters upon this subject without entertaining the same opinion of them i expected even a disguise of the real motives and by every possible artifice which interest or ingenuity could suggest because i knew the real motives could not be avowed and such i am persuaded will be the opinion of every impartial person who after reading your letters traces the true motives by a correct analysis of those facts and circumstances to which i allude i called upon you in that spirit of candour which i have always observed towards the administration and others and to give you an opportunity to justify your conduct by your own arguments and merely place it in the light you wished it to stand but this you have refused to do and for reasons the most extraordinary in calling upon you then i have acted consistently with my own principles and in refusing to comply you have taken a ground for which the administration is responsible i forbear to discuss again the solidity of that principle which supposes every public officer of the united states the judges excepted a menial servant to the president a principle which if established banishes from the bosom of every such officer all regard for his country every noble and patriotic sentiment and makes him dependent not upon the integrity and propriety of his own conduct but upon the personal favour of his superior if such were the case what confidence could the people of america repose in any public functionary since after he gets into office whatever may have been his character before he sinks into a machine and ceases to be a watchful centinel over the public rights and interests if such were the case the principles and practice of our own government are departed from and the most slavish governments are introduced in their stead and that such must be the case is obvious if the executive can exercise the discretionary power you contend for and without accounting for any of its acts or the motives of them in any case to a party injured the public or any person whatsoever this doctrine merits the attention of the people of america because it is a pernicious one they have provided in the constitution they have adopted a suitable mode for appointment of public officers and which supposes a due regard to be paid to the characters of those who are appointed and with a view that they may be faithfully served they pay too their public officers president and all liberally and ought to be faithfully served they have likewise provided for and with a supervision of the superior over the inferior but i trust it is their intention that the merit and character of the latter should be estimated by the standard of his integrity and public services and not by the whim caprice or any less worthy motive of those about him nor shall i discuss the solidity of the principle or the policy of the practice you have adopted of opening a door in your office for the reception of spies and informers to whose communications it appears implicit faith is given although their names their characters and even the purport of their denunciations be withheld this practice is of great antiquity and is now in use in the despotic governments of europe but i hoped never to see it transplanted to this side of the atlantic especially in the degree to which you extend it i dismiss these topics from view because they are only incidental to the main object of enquiry and involve principles in which i am not interested otherwise than in common with every other american citizen i have noticed them however that their tendency may be correctly understood but i think proper to make a few comments upon the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and with a view to place them and your conduct in making them in their true light you suggest many cases which provided they exist you say would justify the executive in the removal and censure of a public minister or other officer such for example as a defect of judgment skill or diligence the want of confidence in him by the administration his holding improper correspondences with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion his countenancing and inviting from a mistaken view of the interests of his own country a conduct in another derogatory from and injurious to those interests c the existence of any of these cases you say would justify the removal of any public minister it is not my intention to contest with you abstract principles because i will readily admit that if a public officer be incompetent to the duties of his office whether it proceed from want of judgment skill or diligence if he be the tool or partisan of another country against the honour and interest of his own or be associated with foreigners of any description whatever or with the agents or creatures of foreign powers in promoting any plan of conspiracy against insurrection in or disorganization of his own country that in any and every such case such officer whether he be employed at home or abroad ought to be dismissed and disgraced or rather severely punished for disgrace upon those who are capable of committing such enormities is no punishment at all but do you mean to apply any of these imputations to me if so why not avow it and present your proof would it not be more manly to do so than to deal in innuendo and insinuation which without making you responsible for any charge are perhaps intended to be understood as such or do you hope that we shall take these innuendos for facts without your declaring them to be so or producing any testimony to support them this might perhaps promote your views in the present case but would certainly not promote the cause of truth with respect to the clamour which is so incessantly raised and of which you seem to avail yourself in the present instance of danger to the government from the exercise of freedom of opinion in debate and writing or of your insinuation that i had improper correspondence with any such persons it is one which merits no reply i have no correspondent in whom i reposed confidence who has not given at least as strong proof of his attachment to good government and good order and who is not as much interested perhaps more so in the preservation of those blessings as yourself or any of those who make the loudest clamour on that subject nor have i had a communication with any person or persons whilst employed abroad or at any other time of a public nature but with a view to preserve the government and the union entire always seeking to counteract the disuniting disorganizing projects of those who secretly wish to subvert them do you know of any correspondence of mine exhibiting an opposite character or having an opposite tendency if you do produce it and then we will discuss this point further but till then i shall consider this innuendo like the others as being thrown out only to obscure the subject and divert the mind from the true object of enquiry and upon the point of confidence between the administration and myself with respect to the period of its commencement and termination on both sides if indeed it ever existed on theirs in the view in which i had reason to believe it did with the cause which created and destroyed it i shall say but little at present because it is a very important one and requires to be more fully illustrated than the nature of this communication will admit of this point involves in it the whole policy of the administration in my mission and recall and will i think when fully understood tend essentially to illustrate the conduct principles and views of the administration during this great and interesting crisis of human affairs i think proper however to observe here that whatever may be the opinion of the world as to the merits of the administration in these respects or of its conduct towards me through the whole of my mission i can shew in the most satisfactory manner that my political character and principles whilst a member of the american senate and whilst minister plenipotentiary of the united states with the french republic were always the same and that in both stations and through every vicissitude of affairs it was the constant and laborious effort of my life to preserve peace harmony and perfect amity between the two republics i can shew too that those efforts had produced and were still producing a good effect of which the administration had full knowledge at the very moment when it endeavored to impress the public with a belief that i had failed to do my duty the administration may perhaps find it hereafter expedient to explain why i was invited to accept that mission and confided in at that time and why that confidence was withdrawn afterwards were my political character and principles less known in the former stage than in the latter i presume not for at the time when i was invited to accept this mission to the french republic i was a member of the senate of the united states and had acted with such decision upon all topics which came before that body as to leave no doubt with any one what my political principles were was there any particular object in view depending any where at the former period and which my appointment to the republic might then promote and did the accomplishment of that object produce a change in the policy of the administration towards that republic and of what nature was that object i suggest these ideas incidentally only and without meaning to go fully into them so much i have thought proper to say in reply to the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and which i presume will fully explain your motives in making them i will now proceed to another point of more importance in the present enquiry the change in the political situation of the united states is too obvious and interesting not to attract the attention and excite the sensibility of even those who are the least observant a few years past the name of america was a venerable name in the catalogue of nations it commanded the respect and drew the sympathetic attention of all powers and of all men her commerce and her agriculture flourished hand in hand and her people were happy beloved by her ancient friends and dreaded by her ancient foes there was no cloud in the political horizon to darken her prospects a coalition of tyrants it is true whose avowed object it was to extirpate liberty from off the face of the globe excited uneasiness for a while soon however the strong and potent arm of republicanism crushed its efforts and averted the storm but what a reverse has now taken place and where will the catastrophe end our national character has not only already greatly declined and our commerce and agriculture greatly suffered but we are upon the point of being involved in a war with our ancient and deserving ally now become a republic after our example and on the side of the remnants of that same coalition which was lately armed against the liberties of the world strange and almost incredible event indeed by what means has this change been produced much has been said and done by the administration not simply to exculpate itself from all blame in that respect but to criminate others and when called upon to substantiate its charges what has been the result let your letters show it is now time to close this subject and to bring into view an important question which must be decided on has the administration performed its duty to its country in these great concerns and acquitted itself to the public as it ought to have done in my judgment it has not might we not have avoided this crisis by other and obvious measures more consistent with our national honour and interest and without exposing ourselves to any real danger whatever in my judgment we might in this latter view then the subject acquires new importance and is entitled to more particular attention you will readily perceive that our fellow-citizens in general are deeply interested in the several points in discussion between us to whom it likewise belongs to estimate yours and my own conduct and i now think proper to inform you that it is my intention to carry this subject before that enlightened and impartial tribunal with all the lights which i possess i am sir with due respect yours c from mr monroe to the secretary of state july mr monroe requests col pickering to inform his colleagues that the evident impropriety of his having any communication otherwise than with the administration itself upon an act for which he holds the administration responsible precludes his receiving from them as individual citizens any information whatever respecting the motives which governed them in the case referred to he declines this with the greater pleasure because the course he finds it necessary to adopt for the examination and development of this subject generally offers to those gentlemen as individual citizens an opportunity to communicate the motives of their conduct in that case to 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that in any discussion which has or may take place between us i have not nor shall i consider you in any other than your official character having yet to learn what your pretensions are to confidence as an individual citizen for the weight which your opinion ought to have as such especially in the present case i think proper now to observe that when i called upon you for an explanation of the motives of the administration in making this attack upon me it was not with a view to derive any information for myself i have been too long and too well acquainted with the political conduct principles and views of the administration not to know what its motives were in that respect without any aid from you indeed knowing what my own conduct was and what your views are of which a series of facts and circumstances leaves no doubt on my mind i had no expectation of obtaining from you anything like a candid answer on the contrary i expected an evasive one dealing in hints and innuendos thrown out to divert the mind from the true object of enquiry nor have i been disappointed in my expectation for i am persuaded that no impartial person can read your several letters upon this subject without entertaining the same opinion of them i expected even a disguise of the real motive and by every possible artifice which interest or ingenuity could suggest because i knew the real motive could not be avowed and such i am persuaded will be the opinion of every impartial person who after reading your letters traces the true motive by a correct analysis of those facts and circumstances to which i allude i called upon you in that spirit of candour which i have always observed towards the administration and others and to give you an opportunity to justify your conduct by your own arguments and thereby place it in the light you wished it to stand but this you have refused to do and for reasons the most extraordinary in calling upon you then i have acted consistently with my own principles and in refusing to comply you have taken a ground for which the administration is responsible i forbear to discuss again the solidity of that principle which supposes every public officer of the united states the judges excepted a menial servant to the president a principle which if established vanishes from the bosom of every such officer all regard for country every noble and patriotic sentiment and makes him dependent not upon the integrity and propriety of his own conduct but upon the personal favor of his superior if such were the case what confidence could the people of america repose in any public functionary since after he gets into office whatever may have been his character before he sinks into a machine and ceases to be a watchful sentinel over the public rights and interests if such were the case the principles and practice of our free governments are departed from and the most slavish doctrines of the most slavish governments are introduced in their stead and that such must be the case is obvious if the executive can exercise the discretion you speak of in the pleasurable manner you contend for and without accounting for any of its acts or the motives of them in any case to the party injured the public or any person whatever this doctrine merits the attention of the people of america because it is a pernicious one they have provided in the constitution they have adopted a suitable mode for the appointment of public officers and which supposes a due regard to be paid to the characters of those who are appointed and with a view that they may be faithfully served they pay to their public officers president and all liberally and ought to be faithfully served they have likewise provided for and with a supervision of the superior over the inferior but i trust it is their intention that the merits and character of the latter should be estimated by the standard of his integrity and public services and not by the whim caprice or any less worthy motive of those above him nor shall i discuss the solidity of the principle or the policy of the practice you have adopted of opening a door in your office for the reception of spies and informers to whose communications it appears implicit faith is given although their names their characters and even the purport of their denunciations be withheld this practice is of great antiquity and is now in use in the despotic governments of europe but i hoped never to see it transplanted to this side of the atlantic especially in the degree to which you extend it i dismiss these topics from view because they are only incidental to the main object of enquiry and involve principles in which i am not interested otherwise than in common with every other american citizen i have noticed them however that their tendency may be correctly understood but i think proper to make a few comments upon the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and with a view to place them and your conduct in making them in their true light you suggest many cases which provided they existed you say would justify the executive in the removal and censure of a public minister or other officer such for example as a defect of judgment skill or diligence the want of confidence in him by the administration his holding improper correspondences with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion his countenancing and inviting from a mistaken view of the interest of his own country a conduct in another derogatory from and injurious to those interests c the existence of any of these cases you say would justify the removal of any public minister it is not my intention to contest with you abstract principles because i will readily admit that if a public officer be incompetent to the duties of his office whether it proceed from want of judgment skill or diligence if he be the tool or partisan of another country against the honor and interest of his own or be associated with foreigners of any description whatever or with the agents or creatures of foreign powers in promoting any plan of conspiracy against insurrection in or disorganization of his own country that in any and every such case such officer whether he be employed at home or abroad ought to be dismissed and disgraced or rather severely punished for disgrace upon those who are capable such enormities is no punishment at all but do you mean to apply any of these imputations to me if so why not avow it and present your proof would it not be more manly to do so than to deal in innuendo and insinuation which without making you responsible for any charge are perhaps intended to be understood as such or do you hope that we shall take these innuendos for facts without your declaring them to be so or producing any testimonies to support them this might perhaps promote your views in the present case but would certainly not promote the cause of truth with respect to the clamour which is so incessantly raised and of which you seem disposed to avail yourself in the present instance of danger to the government from the exercise of freedom of opinion in debate and writing or of your insinuation that i had improper correspondence with any such persons it is one which merits no reply i have no correspondent in whom i repose confidence who has not given at least as strong proof of his attachment to good government and good order and who is not as much interested perhaps much more so in the preservation of those blessings as yourself or any of those who make the loudest clamour on that subject nor have i had a communication with any person or persons whilst employed abroad or at any other time of a public nature but with a view to preserve the government and the union intire always seeking to counteract the disuniting disorganizing projects of those who secretly wished to subvert them do you know of any correspondence of mine exhibiting an opposite character or having an opposite tendency if you do produce it and then we will discuss this point further but till then i shall consider this innuendo like the others as being thrown out only to obscure the subject and divert the mind from the true object of inquiry and upon the point of confidence between the administration and myself with respect to the period of its commencement and termination on both sides if indeed it ever existed on theirs in the view in which i believe it did with the cause which created and destroyed it i shall say but little at present because it is a very important one and requires to be more fully illustrated than the nature of this communication will admit of this point involves in it the whole policy of the administration in my mission and recall and will i think when fully understood tend essentially to illustrate the conduct principles views of the administration during this great interesting crisis of human affairs i think proper however to observe here that whatever may be the opinion of the world as to the merits of the administration in these respects or of its conduct towards me through the whole of my mission i can shew in the most satisfactory manner that my political character principles whilst a member of the american senate and whilst minister plenipotentiary of the united states with the french republic were always the same and that in both stations and through every vicissitude of our affairs it was the constant and laborious effort of my life to preserve peace harmony and perfect amity between the two republics i can shew too that those efforts had produced and were still producing a good effect of which the administration had full knowledge at the very moment when it endeavored to impress the public with a belief that i had failed to do my duty the administration may perhaps find it hereafter expedient to explain why i was invited to accept that mission and confided in at that time and why that confidence was withdrawn afterwards were my political character and principles less known in the former stage than in the latter i presume not for at the time when i was invited to accept this mission to the french republic i was a member of the senate of the united states and had acted with such decision upon all topics which came before that body as to leave no doubt with any one what my political principles were was there any particular object in view depending any where at the former period and which my appointment to the french republic might then promote and did the accomplishment of that object produce a change in the policy of the administration towards that republic and of what nature was that object i suggest these ideas incidentally only and without meaning to go fully into them so much i have thought proper to say in reply to the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and which i presume will fully explain my motives in making them i will now proceed to another point of more importance in the present enquiry the change in the political situation of the united states is too obvious and interesting not to attract the attention and excite the sensibility of even those who are the least observant a few years past the name of america was a venerable name in the catalogue of nations it commanded the respect and drew the sympathetic attention of all powers and of all men her commerce and her agriculture flourished hand in hand and her people were happy beloved by her ancient friends and dreaded by her ancient foes there was no cloud in the political horizon to darken her prospects a coalition of tyrants it is true whose avowed object it was to extirpate liberty from off the face of the globe excited uneasiness for awhile soon however the strong and potent arm of republicanism crushed its efforts and averted the storm but what a reverse has now taken place and where will the catastrophe end our national character has not only already greatly declined and our commerce and agriculture greatly suffered but we are upon the point of being involved in a war with our ancient and deserving ally now become a republic after our example and on the side of the remnants of that same coalition which was lately armed against the liberties of the world strange and almost incredible event indeed by what means has this change been produced much has been said and done by the administration not simply to exculpate itself from all blame in that respect but to criminate others and when called upon to state and substantiate its charge what has been the result let your letters shew it is now time to close this subject and to bring into view an important question which must be decided on has the administration performed its duty to its country in these great concerns acquitted itself to the public as it ought to have done in my judgment it has not might we not have avoided this crisis by other and obvious measures more consistent with our national honour interest and without exposing ourselves to any real danger whatever in my judgment we might in this latter view the subject acquires new importance and is entitled to more particular attention you will readily perceive that our fellow citizens in general are deeply interested in the several points of discussion between us to whom it likewise belongs to estimate yours and my conduct and i now think proper to inform you that it"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-09-04|1|1", "date": "1797-09-04", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-09-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797090401/0097.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "james monroe and timothy pickering secretary of state continued from our last from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july sir i have received and attended to your official letter of the th and your private one of the th instant and shall now reply to both permit me to premise that in any discussion which has or may take place between us i have not nor shall i consider you in any other than your official character having yet to learn what your pretensions are to confidence as an individual citizen or the weight which your opinion ought to have as such especially in the present case i think proper now to observe that when i called upon you for an explanation of the motives of the administration in making this attack upon me it was not with a view to derive any information for myself i have been too long and too well acquainted with the political conduct principles and views of the administration not to know what its motives were in that respect without any aid from you indeed knowing what my own conduct was and what your views are of which a series of facts and circumstances leaves no doubt on my mind i had no expectation of obtaining from you any thing like a candid answer on the contrary i expected an evasive one dealing in hints and innuendoes thrown out to divert the mind from the true object of enquiry nor have i been disappointed in my expectation for i am persuaded that no impartial person can read your several letters upon this subject without entertaining the same opinion of them i expected even a disguise of the real motives and by every possible artifice which interest or ingenuity could suggest because i knew the real motives could not be avowed and such i am persuaded will be the opinion of every impartial person who after reading your letters traces the true motives by a correct analysis of those facts and circumstances to which i allude i called upon you in that spirit of candour which i have always observed towards the administration and others and to give you an opportunity to justify your conduct by your own arguments and merely place it in the light you wished it to stand but this you have refused to do and for reasons the most extraordinary in calling upon you then i have acted consistently with my own principles and in refusing to comply you have taken a ground for which the administration is responsible i forbear to discuss again the solidity of that principle which supposes every public officer of the u states the judges excepted a menial servant to the president a principle which if established banishes from the bosom of every such officer all regard for his country every noble and patriotic sentiment and makes him dependant not upon the integrity and propriety of his own conduct but upon the personal favour of his superior if such were the case what confidence could the people of america repose in any public functionary since after he gets into office whatever may have been his character before he sinks into a machine and ceases to be a watchful sentinel over the public rights and interests if such were the case the principles and practice of our own government are departed from the most slavish doctrines and the most slavish government are introduced in their stead and that such must be the case is obvious if the executive can exercise the discretion you speak of in the pleasurable manner you dedicated to politics and the belles-lettres quid verum atque decens curi impartial truth and usefulness we study contend for and without accounting for any of its acts or the motives of them in any case to the party injured the public or any person whatsoever this doctrine merits the attention of the people of america because it is a pernicious one they have provided in the constitution they have adopted a suitable mode for the appointment of public officers and which supposes a due regard to be paid to the characters of those who are appointed and with a view that they may be faithfully served they pay to their public officers president and all liberally and ought to be faithfully served they have likewise provided for and with a superior over the inferior but i trust it is their intention that the merits and character of the latter should be estimated by the standard of his integrity and public services and not by the whim caprice or any less worthy motive of those above him nor shall i discuss the solidity of the principle or the policy of the practice you have adopted opening a door in your office for the reception of spies and informers to whose communications it appears implicit faith is given altho their names their characters and even their purport of the denunciations be withheld this practice is of great antiquity and is now in use in the despotic governments of europe but i hope never to see it transplanted to this side the atlantic especially in the degree to which you extend it i dismiss these topics from view because they are only incidental to the main object of enquiry and involve principles in which i am not interested otherwise than in common with every other american citizen i have noticed them however that their tendency may be correctly understood but i think proper to make a few comments upon the hints and innuendoes contained in your letter of the th and with a view to place them and your conduct in making them in their true light you suggest many cases which provided they exist you say would justify the executive in the removal and censure of a public minister or other officer such for example as a defect of judgment skill or diligence the want of confidence in him by the administration his holding improper correspondence with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion his countenancing and inviting from a mistaken view of the interests of his own country a conduct in another derogatory from and injurious to those interests c the existence of any of these cases you say would justify the removal of any public minister it is not my intention to contest with you abstract principles because i will readily admit that if a public officer be incompetent to the duties of his office whether it proceed from want of judgment skill or diligence if he be the tool or partizan of another country against the honor and interest of his own or be associated with foreigners of any description whatever or with the agents or creatures of foreign powers in promoting any plan of conspiracy against insurrection in or disorganization of his own country that in any and every such case such officer whether he be employed at home or abroad ought to be dismissed and disgraced or rather severely punished for disgrace upon those who are capable of committing such enormities is no punishment at all but do you mean to apply any of these imputations to me if so why not avow it and present your proof would it not be more manly so to do than to deal in innuendo and insinuation which without making you responsible for any charge are perhaps intended to be understood as such or do you hope that we shall take these innuendoes for facts without your declaring them to be so or producing any testimony to support them this might perhaps promote your views in the present case but would certainly not promote the cause of truth with respect to the clamour which is so incessantly raised and of which you seem disposed to avail yourself in the present instance of danger to the government from the exercise of freedom of opinion in debate and writing or of your insinuation that i had improper correspondence with any such persons it is one which merits no reply i have no correspondent in whom i repose confidence who has not given at least as strong proof of his attachment to good government and good order and who is not as much interested perhaps much more so in the preservation of those blessings as yourself or any of those who make the loudest clamour on that subject nor have i had a communication with any person or persons whilst employed abroad or at any other time of a public nature but with a view to preserve the government and the union entire always seeking to counteract the disuniting disorganizing projects of those who secretly wish to subvert them do you know of any correspondence of mine exhibiting an opposite character or having an opposite tendency if you do produce it and then we will discuss this point further but till then i shall consider this innuendo like the others as being thrown out only to obscure the subject and divert the mind from the true object of enquiry and upon the point of confidence between the administration and myself with respect to the period of its commencement and termination on both sides if indeed it ever existed on theirs in the view in which i had reason to believe it did with the cause which created and destroyed it i shall say but little at present because it is a very important one and requires to be more fully illustrated than the nature of this communication will admit of this point involves in it the whole policy of the administration in my mission and recall and will i think when fully understood tend essentially to illustrate the conduct principles and views of the administration during this great and interesting crisis of human affairs i think proper however to observe here that whatever may be the opinion of the world as to the merits of the administration in these respects or of its conduct towards me through the whole of my mission i can shew in the most satisfactory manner that my political character and principles whilst a member of the american senate and whilst minister plenipotentiary of the united states with the french republic were always the same and that in both stations and through every vicissitude of our affairs it was the constant and laborious effort of my life to preserve peace harmony and perfect amity between the two republics i can shew too that those efforts had produced and were still producing a good effect of which the administration had full knowledge at the very moment when it endeavoured to impress the public with a belief that i had failed to do my duty the administration may perhaps find it hereafter expedient to explain number vii september why i was invited to accept that mission and confided in at that time and why that confidence was withdrawn afterwards were my political character and principles less known in the former stage than in the latter i presume not for at that time when i was invited to accept this mission to the french republic i was a member of the senate of the united states and had acted with such decision upon all topics which came before that body as to leave no doubt with any one what my political principles were was there any particular object in view depending any where at the former period and which my appointment to the french republic might then promote and did the accomplishment of that object produce a change in the policy of the administration towards that republic and of what nature was that object i suggest these ideas incidentally only and without meaning to go fully into them so much have i thought proper to say in reply to the hints and innuendoes contained in your letter of the th and which i presume will fully explain your motives in making them i will now proceed to another point of more importance in the present enquiry the change in the political situation of the united states is too obvious and interesting not to attract the attention and excite the sensibility of even those who are the least observant a few years past the name of america was a venerable name in the catalogue of nations it commanded the respect and drew the sympathetic attention of all powers and of all men her commerce and her agriculture flourished hand in hand and her people were happy beloved by her ancient friends and dreaded by her ancient foes there was no cloud in the political horizon to darken her prospects a coalition of tyrants it is true whose avowed object it was to extirpate liberty from off the face of the globe excited uneasiness for a while soon however the strong and potent arm of republicanism crushed its efforts and averted the storm but what a reverse has now taken place and where will the catastrophe end our national character has not only already greatly declined and our commerce and agriculture greatly suffered but we are upon the point of being involved in a war with our ancient and deserving ally now become a republic after our example and on the side of the remarks of that coalition which was lately armed against the liberties of the world strange and almost incredible event indeed by what means has this change been produced much has been said and done by the administration not simply to exculpate itself from all blame in that respect but to criminate others and when called upon to state and substantiate its charges what has been the result let your letters show it is now time to close this subject and to bring into view an important question which must be decided on has the administration performed its duty to its country in these great concerns and acquitted itself to the public as it ought to have done in my judgment it has not might we not have avoided this crisis by other and obvious measures more consistent with our national honor and interest and without exposing ourselves to any real danger whatever in my judgment we might in this latter view then the subject acquires new importance and is entitled to more particular attention you will readily perceive that our fellow citizens in general are deeply interested in the several points in discussion between us to whom it likewise belongs to estimate yours and my own conduct and i now think proper to inform you that it"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2432, 2571], "b_span": [4, 143], "matched_words": 137, "similarity": 0.9856115107913669, "seeds": 25, "id": "M00790", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-26|1|2", "date": "1797-08-26", "paper": "The Kentucky 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citizens any information whatever respecting the motives which governed them in the case referred to he declines this with the greater pleasure because the course he finds it necessary to adopt for the examination and development of this subject generally offers to those gentlemen as individual citizens an opportunity to communicate the motives of their conduct in that case to the community at large through which channel only can he"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [132, 218], "b_span": [782, 870], "matched_words": 84, "similarity": 0.9655172413793104, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00791", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-26|1|3", "date": "1797-08-26", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter to the editor dated hamilton district state of tennessee aug th we are in a confused state the commissioners are ascertaining the boundary line between this state and the indians there is not less than fowls that will fall into the indian hands and must move off shortly i have my doubts that there will be some difficulty as the people are very obstinate the th regiment is at knoxville and in case those people refuse to move off they will march in the course"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [132, 218], "b_span": [183, 270], "matched_words": 83, "similarity": 0.9595375722543352, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00792", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-08-26|1|3", "date": "1797-08-26", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-08-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"normalized_excerpt": "of a letter to the editor dated hamilton district state of tennessee aug we are in a confused state the commissioners are ascertaining the boundary line between this state and the indians there is not less than souls that will fall into the indian lands and must move off shortly i have my doubts that there will be some difficulty as the people are very obstinate the th regiment is at knoxville and in case these people refuse to move off they will march in the course"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3003, 3117], "b_span": [175, 260], "matched_words": 82, "similarity": 0.8241206030150754, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00793", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-08-28|1|2", "date": "1797-08-28", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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east and west york west norfolk militia a corps of invalids and a train of artillery all of which with fixed bayonets marched out of sally-port gate with their colours flying and proceeded in single files along the south shore of the medway near to queenborough in order to be spectators of the event all the barrier gates of the garrison were now shut and each ship in the fleet at this time kept a boat off with a lieutenant and a party of marines to attend the sandwich the crews of all were piped to the forecastle and the marines drawn up on the quarter-decks to be witnesses of the execution parker who had taken his usual repast in the birth allotted him in the gun-room and passed the night in great composure was awaked a little after o'clock from a sound sleep by the marshal provost who with a file of marines composed his guard he arose with cheerfulness and requested permission might be asked for a barber to attend him which was granted he soon dressed himself in a neat suit of mourning waistcoat excepted sent him by a friend of the name of templor wearing his half boots over a pair of black silk stockings he then took his breakfast talked of a will he had written in which he had bequeathed his wife a little estate he said he was heir to and after that lamented the misfortune that had been bro't on the country by the mutiny but solemnly denied having the least connection or correspondence with any disaffected persons on shore and declared that it was chiefly owing to him that the ships had not been carried into the enemy's parts at half after he was told the chaplain of the ship was ready to attend him to prayers upon the quarter-deck which he immediately ascended uncovered at his first entrance upon deck he looked a little paler than common but soon recovered his usual complexion he bowed to the officers and a chair being allowed him he sat down a few moments and steadily surveyed the military array of marines under arms round the deck he then arose and told the clergyman he was ready to attend him the chaplain informed him he had selected two psalms appropriate to his situation to which the prisoner assenting said and with your permission sir i will add a third and named the st that beautiful confessional of david and imploring of forgiveness have mercy upon me o god after thy goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences c he then recited each alternate verse in a manner peculiarly impressive at o'clock the preparatory gun was fired from l'espion which he heard without the smallest emotion prayers being soon after closed he rose and asked capt mofs if he might be indulged with a glass of white wine which being immediately granted lifting up his eyes he exclaimed i drink first to the salvation of my soul and next to the forgiveness of all my enemies addressing himself to capt mofs he said he hoped he would shake hands with him which the capt did he then desired that he might be remembered to his companions on board the neptune with his last dying entreaty to them to prepare for their destiny and refrain from unbecoming levity his arms being now bound the solemn procession moved from the quarter deck to the forecastle in the following order the boatswain and mates the provost marshall his sword in one hand and the halter in the other captain clerk of the sandwich bearing the warrant of execution"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-05|1|1", "date": "1797-09-05", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797090501/0351.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "parker the mutineer on friday june friday morning at o'clock a m a gun was fired from on board his majesty's ship l'espion lying off the garrison vice admiral lutwidge's flag ship and the yellow flag the signal of capital punishment was hoisted which was immediately repeated by the sandwich hoisting the same color on her foretop the sandwich was stationed rather above blackstake the headmost ship in the fleet the garrison on the gun firing were immediately under arms consisting of the east and west york and west norfolk militia a corps of invalids and a train of artillery all of which with fixed bayonets marched out to sally port gate with their colors flying and proceeded in single files along the south shore of the medway near to queenborough in order to be spectators of the event all the barrier gates of the garrison were now shut and each ship in the fleet at this time sent a boat off with a lieutenant and a party of marines to attend the sandwich and the crews of all were piped to the forecastle and the marines drawn up on the quarter-deck to be witnesses of the execution the prisoner who had taken his usual repast in the birth allotted him in the gun-room and passed the night in great composure was awaked a little after six o'clock from a sound sleep by the marshal provost who with a file of marines composed his guard he arose with cheerfulness and requested permission might be asked for a barber to attend him which was granted he soon dressed himself in a neat suit of mourning waistcoat excepted sent him by a friend of the name of templar wearing his half boots over a pair of black silk stockings he then took his breakfast talked of a will he had written in which he had bequeathed to his wife a little estate he said he was heir to and after that lamented the misfortune that had been bro't on the country by the mutiny but solemnly denied having the least connection or correspondence with any disaffected persons on shore and declared that it was chiefly owing to him that the ships had not been carried into the enemy's ports at half after eight he was told the chaplain of the ship was ready to attend him to prayers upon the quarter-deck which he immediately ascended uncovered at his first entrance on the deck he looked a little paler than common but soon recovered his usual complexion he bowed to the officers and a chair being allowed him he sat down a few moments and steadily surveyed the military array of marines under arms round the deck he then arose and told the clergyman he was ready to attend him the chaplain informed him he had selected two psalms appropriate to his situation to which the prisoner assenting said and with your permission sir i will add a third and named the st that beautiful confessional of david and imploring of forgiveness have mercy upon me o god after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences c he then recited each alternate verse in a manner peculiarly impressive at o'clock the preparatory gun was fired from l'espion which he heard without the smallest emotion prayers being soon after closed he rose and asked capt mofs if he might be indulged with a glass of white wine which being immediately granted he took it and lifted up his eyes exclaimed i drink first to the salvation of my soul and next to the forgiveness of all my enemies addressing himself to capt mofs he said he hoped he would shake hands with him which the capt did he then desired that he might be remembered to his companions on board the neptune with his last dying entreaty to them to prepare for their destiny and refrain from unbecoming levity his arms being now bound the solemn procession moved from the quarter deck to the forecastle in the following order the boatswain and mates the provost marshal his sword in one hand the halter in the other captain clark of the sandwich bearing the warrant of execution"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2046, 2950], "b_span": [1678, 2588], "matched_words": 865, "similarity": 0.9536934950385888, "seeds": 146, "id": "M00795", "a": 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captain mofs was now read by the clerk in which the sentence of the court martial order of the board admiralty and his majesty's approbation of the whole proceedings were fully recited which the prisoner heard with great attention and bowed his head as if an assent at the close of it he now asked the captain whether he might speak and immediately apprehended his intention might be misconceived he added i am not going sir to address the whole ship's company i will only to declare that i acknowledge the justice of the sentence under which i suffer and i hope my death may be deemed a sufficient atonement and save the lives of others he now requested a minute to recollect himself and knelt down alone about that space of time then rising up i am ready and holding his head with considerable dignity said to the boatwain's mate take off my handkerchief of black silk which being done the marshal provost placed the halter over his head which had been prepared with grease but doing it awkwardly the prisoner said rather pettishly to the boatwain's mate do you do it for he seems to know nothing about it the halter was then placed to the reeved rope all this being adjusted the marshal attempted to put a cap on which he refused but on being told it was indispensable he submitted requesting it might not be pulled over his eyes till he desired it he then turned quite round for the first time and gave a steady look at his shipmates on the forecastle and with an affectionate kind of smile nodded his head and said good by to you he now said captain mofs is the gun primed it is is the match light all is ready on this he advanced a little and said will any gentleman be so good as to lend me a white handkerchief for the signal after some little pause a gentleman stepped forward and gave him one to whom bowing he returned him thanks he now ascended the platform repeated the same question about the gun evidently to gain the time he wished for the perfect completion of what he had preconceived in his own mind then the cap being drawn over his face walked by firm degrees up to the extremity of the scaffold he dropped his handkerchief put his hands in his coat pockets with great rapidity and at the moment as he was springing off the fatal bow-gun fired and the reeve-rope catching him run him up though not with great velocity to the yard arm when suspended about midway by the elasticity of the rope his body appeared convulsed for a few seconds immediately after which no appearance of life remained it being tide of ebb the starboard yard arm pointed to the isle of grain where scaffolding was erected for spectators on shore a considerable number of yachts cutters and other craft surrounded the sandwich the last time the prisoner knelt with the chaplain at the cat head though he made his responses regularly his attention was particularly directed the whole time to the armed boats of the fleet which were plying round on duty the whole conduct of this awful ceremony was extremely decorous and impressive it was evident from the countenances of the crew of the sandwich that the general feeling for the fate of their mutinous conductor was such as might be wished nor a word and scarce a whisper was heard among them the instant he was visible to the garrison at the yard arm the telegraph was put in motion to announce it to the admiralty and from the clearness of the atmosphere and quickness of working the advice must have been received in seven minutes he suffered exactly at half past nine and was lowered down after hanging at the yard arm a full hour when the yellow flag was struck and his body immediately put into a shell that had been prepared for it with all his clothes on and soon after it was taken in one of the sandwich's boats and rowed to the east point of the garrison and there being landed was carried to the new naval gate leading to minster the coffin-lid was here taken off to the spectators for a few minutes his countenance appeared not much altered but his eyes were wide open his body was however afterwards taken up by his friends and bro't to london it was on sunday lying at a house in rosemary-lane near the tower parker was about thirty-three years of age five feet ten inches high and well made his complexion eyes and hair dark his nose prominent and his countenance expressive and manly he had spent most of his life at"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-05|1|1", "date": "1797-09-05", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797090501/0351.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "rev mr atherton chaplain of the sandwich in his robes the prisoner in mourning walking with a firm deportment the ship's master of arms with his drawn cutlass captain mofs and his officers with two or three other gentlemen who were admitted on board the whole passed through a double file of marines on the starboard side to the platform erected on the cat-head with an elevated projection arriving there he knelt with the chaplain and joined in some devout ejaculations to all of which he repeated loudly amen rising again the admiral's warrant of execution addressed to captain mofs was now read by the clerk in which the sentence of the court martial order of the board of admiralty and his majesty's approbation of the whole proceedings were fully recited which the prisoner heard with great attention and bowed his head as if an assent at the close of it he now asked the capt whether he might be allowed to speak and immediately apprehending his intention might be misconceived he added i am not going sir to address the whole ship's company i wish only to declare that i acknowledge the justice of the sentence under which i suffer and i hope my death may be deemed a sufficient atonement and save the lives of others he now requested a minute to collect himself and knelt down alone about that space of time then rising up said i am ready and holding his head with considerable dignity said to the boatswain's mate take off my handkerchief of black silk which being done the marshal provost placed the halter over his head which had been prepared with grease but doing it awkwardly the prisoner said rather pettishly to the boatswain's mate do you do it for he seems to know nothing about it the halter was then spliced to the reeved rope all this being adjusted the marshal attempted to put a cap on which he refused but on being told it was indispensable he submitted requesting it might not be pulled over his eyes till he desired it he then turned round for the first time and gave a steady look at his shipmates on the forecastle and with an affectionate kind of smile nodded his head and said good bye to you he now said capt mofs is the gun primed it is is the match alight all is ready on this he advanced a little and said will any gentleman be so good as to lend me a white handkerchief for the signal after some little pause a gentleman stepped forward and gave him one to whom bowing he returned his thanks he now ascended the platform repeated the same questions about the gun evidently to gain the time he wished for the perfect completion of what he had preconceived in his own mind then the cap being drawn over his face walked by firm degrees up to the extremity of the scaffold he dropped the handkerchief put his hands in his coat-pockets with great rapidity and at the moment the fatal bow-gun fired and the reeve rope catching him run him up though not with great velocity to the yard-arm when suspended about midway by the elasticity of the rope his body appeared convulsed for a few seconds immediately after which no appearance of life remained it being tide of ebb the starboard yard-arm pointed to the isle of grain where scaffolding was erected for spectators on shore a considerable number of yachts cutters and other craft surrounded the sandwich the last time the prisoner knelt with the chaplain at the cat-head though he made his responses regularly his attention was particularly directed the whole time to the armed boats of the fleet which were plying round on duty the whole conduct of this awful ceremony was extremely decorous and impressive it was evident from the countenances of the crew of the sandwich that the general feeling for the unhappy fate of their mutinous conductor was such as might be wished not a word and scarce a whisper was heard among them the instant he was visible at the yard-arm the telegraph was put in motion to announce it to the admiralty and from the clearness of the atmosphere and quickness of working the advice must have been received in seven minutes he suffered exactly at half past nine and was lowered down after hanging at the yard-arm a full hour when the yellow flag was struck and his body instantly put into a shell that had been prepared for it with all his clothes on and soon after it was taken in one of the sandwich's boats and rowed to the east point of the garrison and there being landed was carried to the new naval burying-ground out of the red barrier gate leading to minster the coffin-lid was here taken off to the spectators for a few minutes his countenance appeared not much altered but his eyes were wide open his body was however afterwards taken up by his friends and brought to london it was on sunday lying at a house in rosemary-lane near the tower parker was about years of age five feet ten inches high and well made his complexion eyes and hair dark his nose prominent and his countenance expressive and manly he was the son of a baker at exeter and had spent most of his life at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3355, 3658], "b_span": [550, 858], "matched_words": 295, "similarity": 0.9656301145662848, "seeds": 46, "id": "M00796", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-08-28|1|2", "date": "1797-08-28", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-08-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797082801/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "preliminaries of peace offered by buonaparte to the venetians contain articles they stipulate for the payment of ducats in ready money the free maintenance of the french troops till they shall leave the venetian territory livres in naval stores six ships of the line pictures the most valuable mss in the library of st mark and several statues intelligence has arrived at the castle of dublin from lieutenant general dalrymple that in consequence of the late proclamation a discovery has been made of many soldiers in militia regiments having become engaged in the plots of the united irishmen in consequence whereof several have been apprehended the last dispatches from the directory announced the arrival of the french commissioners at lisle and added that m del campo and m cabarrus were appointed to attend the conferences on the part of spain and that commissioners were also named for the batavian republic the directory transmitted at the same time a proclamation of the municipality of lisle announcing the preparations for the congress by which it appears that they are to be received with the utmost pomp of military honor and both the english and french commissaries to be constantly attended by a guard the extreme civility of this pomp is perfectly intelligible the french seem resolved that lord malmesbury shall have no intercourse with the country star government received dispatches yesterday from rear admiral duncan stating that he was then at anchor within leagues of the dutch fleet in the texel which displayed pendants and that he had received unquestionable advice that french and dutch troops to the amount of men were cantoned and encamped on that part of the coast a few days before a considerable part of which had been embarked on board the transports the english admiral presses for an immediate reinforcement"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-05|1|1", "date": "1797-09-05", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797090501/0351.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "preliminaries of peace offered by buonaparte to the venetians contain seven articles they stipulate for the payment of ducats in ready money the free maintenance of the french troops till they shall leave the venetian territory three million livres in naval stores six ships of the line forty pictures the most valuable mss in the library of st mark and several statues intelligence has arrived at the castle of dublin from lieut general dulrymple that in consequence of the late proclamation a discovery has been made of many soldiers in militia regiments having become engaged in the plots of the united irishmen in consequence whereof several have been apprehended the last dispatches from the directory announced the arrival of the french commissioners at lille and added that m del campo and m cabarrus were appointed to attend the conferences on the part of spain and that commissioners were also named for the batavian republic the directory transmitted at the same time a proclamation to the municipality of lille announcing the preparations for the congress by which it appears that they are to be received with the utmost pomp of military honors and both the english and french commissioners to be constantly attended by a guard the extreme civility of this pomp is perfectly intelligible the french seem resolved that lord malmesbury shall have no recourse with the country star government received dispatches yesterday from rear admiral duncan stating that he was then at anchor within two leagues of the dutch fleet in the texel which displayed pendants and that he had received unquestionable advice that french and dutch troops to the amount of men were cantoned and encamped on that part of the coast a few days before a considerable part of which had been embarked on board the transports the english admiral presses for an immediate reinforcement"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2651, 2921], "b_span": [270, 542], "matched_words": 262, "similarity": 0.966789667896679, "seeds": 52, "id": "M00797", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-08-28|1|3", "date": "1797-08-28", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-08-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797082801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th ult mention that the definitive treaty of peace between austria and france was signed on the st may at montebello by the marquis di gallo and count meerfeldt on the one side and generals buonaparte and clark of the other after which count meerfeldt set off for vienna it is thought that in consequence of an arrangement agreed on between the plenipotentiaries that austrians have left the tyrol for bavaria which it is known has long been coveted by the house of austria the length of time occupied by the secret negotiations between the cabinet of vienna and the french government gave rise to some uneasiness but it is said that the emperor is certain of being amply indemnified for the cession of the low countries and of lombardy by possessions nearer home and which will render the house of austria more powerful and more formidable than ever it is in italy that the most important affairs of europe are conducted with secrecy that the fate of governments is disposed of that new republics are created and destroyed are mingled and divided again and their constitutions governments c determined on it is there that the house of austria having taken up arms to destroy the french republic has found means to employ its troops in effecting its ambitious designs we are assured that the directory has nominated as minister for foreign affairs talleyrand perigord the ex-constituent as minister of the marine l hoche the ex-minister of the republic at the court of berlin and as minister of justice desmuniers the ex-constituent it is added that the directory will keep"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-05|1|1", "date": "1797-09-05", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797090501/0351.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "th ult mention that the definitive treaty of peace between austria and france was signed on the st may at montebello by the marquis de gallow and count meerfeldt on the one side and generals buonaparte and clark of the other after which count meerfeldt set off for vienna it is tho that it is in consequence of an arrangement agreed on between the plenipotentiaries that austrians have left the tyrol for bavaria which it is known has long been coveted by the house of austria the length of time occupied by the secret negotiations between the cabinet of vienna and the french government gave rise to some uneasiness but it is said the emperor is certain of being amply indemnified for the cession of the low countries and of lombardy by possessions nearer home and which will render the house of austria more powerful and more formidable than ever it is in italy that the most important affairs of europe are conducted with secrecy that the fate of governments is disposed of that new republics are created and destroyed are mingled and divided again and their constitutions governments c c determined on it is there that the house of austria having taken up arms to destroy the french republic has found means to employ its troops in effecting its ambitious designs we are assured that the directory has nominated as minister of foreign affairs talleyrand perigord the ex-constituent as minister of the marine le hoc the ex-minister of the republic at the court of berlin and as minister of justice desmeuniers the ex-constituent it is added that the directory will keep"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [60, 2473], "b_span": [9, 2462], "matched_words": 2373, "similarity": 0.9753390875462392, "seeds": 466, "id": "M00798", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-29|1|1", "date": "1797-08-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797082901/0347.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "james monroe and timothy pickering secretary of state concluded from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july th sir i have received and attended to your official letter of the th and your private of the th inst and shall now reply to both permit me to promise that in any discussion which has or may take place between us i have not nor shall i consider you in any other than your official character having yet to learn what your pretensions are to confidence as an individual citizen or the weight which your opinion ought to have as such especially in the present case i think proper now to observe that when i called upon you for your explanation of the motives of this attack upon me it was not with a view to derive any information for myself i have been too long and too well acquainted with the political conduct principles and views of the administration not to know what its motives were in that respect without any aid from you indeed knowing what my own conduct was and what your views are of which a series of facts and circumstances leaves no doubt on my mind i had no expectation of obtaining from you any thing like a candid answer on the contrary i expected an evasive one dealing in hints innuendos thrown out to divert the mind from the true object of enquiry nor have i been disappointed in my expectation for i am persuaded that no impartial person can read your several letters upon this subject without entertaining the same opinion of them i expected even a disguise of the real motives and by every possible artifice which interest or ingenuity could suggest because i knew the real motives could not be avowed and such i am persuaded will be the opinion of every impartial person who after reading your letters traces the true motives by a correct analysis of those facts and circumstances to which i allude i called upon you in that spirit of candour which i have always observed towards the administration and others and to give you an opportunity to justify your conduct by your own arguments and merely place it in the light you wished it to stand but this you have refused to do and for reasons the most extraordinary in calling upon you then i have acted consistently with my own principles and in refusing to comply you have taken a ground for which the administration is responsible i forbear to discuss again the solidity of that principle which supposes every public officer of the united states the judges excepted a menial servant to the president a principle which if established banishes from the bosom of every such officer all regard for his country every noble and patriotic sentiment and makes him dependent not upon the integrity and propriety of his own conduct but upon the personal favour of his superior if such were the case what confidence could the people of america repose in any public functionary since after he gets into office whatever may have been his character before he sinks into a machine and ceases to be a watchful centinel over the public rights and interests if such were the case the principles and practice of our own government are departed from and the most slavish governments are introduced in their stead and that such must be the case is obvious if the executive can exercise the discretionary power you contend for and without accounting for any of its acts or the motives of them in any case to a party injured the public or any person whatsoever this doctrine merits the attention of the people of america because it is a pernicious one they have provided in the constitution they have adopted a suitable mode for appointment of public officers and which supposes a due regard to be paid to the characters of those who are appointed and with a view that they may be faithfully served they pay too their public officers president and all liberally and ought to be faithfully served they have likewise provided for and with a supervision of the superior over the inferior but i trust it is their intention that the merit and character of the latter should be estimated by the standard of his integrity and public services and not by the whim caprice or any less worthy motive of those about him nor shall i discuss the solidity of the principle or the policy of the practice you have adopted of opening a door in your office for the reception of spies and informers to whose communications it appears implicit faith is given although their names their characters and even the purport of their denunciations be withheld this practice is of great antiquity and is now in use in the despotic governments of europe but i hoped never to see it transplanted to this side of the atlantic especially in the degree to which you extend it i dismiss these topics from view because they are only incidental to the main object of enquiry and involve principles in which i am not interested otherwise than in common with every other american citizen i have noticed them however that their tendency may be correctly understood but i think proper to make a few comments upon the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and with a view to place them and your conduct in making them in their true light you suggest many cases which provided they exist you say would justify the executive in the removal and censure of a public minister or other officer such for example as a defect of judgment skill or diligence the want of confidence in him by the administration his holding improper correspondences with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion his countenancing and inviting from a mistaken view of the interests of his own country a conduct in another derogatory from and injurious to those interests c the existence of any of these cases you say would justify the removal of any public minister it is not my intention to contest with you abstract principles because i will readily admit that if a public officer be incompetent to the duties of his office whether it proceed from want of judgment skill or diligence if he be the tool or partisan of another country against the honour and interest of his own or be associated with foreigners of any description whatever or with the agents or creatures of foreign powers in promoting any plan of conspiracy against insurrection in or disorganization of his own country that in any and every such case such officer whether he be employed at home or abroad ought to be dismissed and disgraced or rather severely punished for disgrace upon those who are capable of committing such enormities is no punishment at all but do you mean to apply any of these imputations to me if so why not avow it and present your proof would it not be more manly to do so than to deal in innuendo and insinuation which without making you responsible for any charge are perhaps intended to be understood as such or do you hope that we shall take these innuendos for facts without your declaring them to be so or producing any testimony to support them this might perhaps promote your views in the present case but would certainly not promote the cause of truth with respect to the clamour which is so incessantly raised and of which you seem to avail yourself in the present instance of danger to the government from the exercise of freedom of opinion in debate and writing or of your insinuation that i had improper correspondence with any such persons it is one which merits no reply i have no correspondent in whom i reposed confidence who has not given at least as strong proof of his attachment to good government and good order and who is not as much interested perhaps more so in the preservation of those blessings as yourself or any of those who make the loudest clamour on that subject nor have i had a communication with any person or persons whilst employed abroad or at any other time of a public nature but with a view to preserve the government and the union entire always seeking to counteract the disuniting disorganizing projects of those who secretly wish to subvert them do you know of any correspondence of mine exhibiting an opposite character or having an opposite tendency if you do produce it and then we will discuss this point further but till then i shall consider this innuendo like the others as being thrown out only to obscure the subject and divert the mind from the true object of enquiry and upon the point of confidence between the administration and myself with respect to the period of its commencement and termination on both sides if indeed it ever existed on theirs in the view in which i had reason to believe it did with the cause which created and destroyed it i shall say but little at present because it is a very important one and requires to be more fully illustrated than the nature of this communication will admit of this point involves in it the whole policy of the administration in my mission and recall and will i think when fully understood tend essentially to illustrate the conduct principles and views of the administration during this great and interesting crisis of human affairs i think proper however to observe here that whatever may be the opinion of the world as to the merits of the administration in these respects or of its conduct towards me through the whole of my mission i can shew in the most satisfactory manner that my political character and principles whilst a member of the american senate and whilst minister plenipotentiary of the united states with the french republic were always the same and that in both stations and through every vicissitude of affairs it was the constant and laborious effort of my life to preserve peace harmony and perfect amity between the two republics i can shew too that those efforts had produced and were still producing a good effect of which the administration had full knowledge at the very moment when it endeavored to impress the public with a belief that i had failed to do my duty the administration may perhaps find it hereafter expedient to explain why i was invited to accept that mission and confided in at that time and why that confidence was withdrawn afterwards were my political character and principles less known in the former stage than in the latter i presume not for at the time when i was invited to accept this mission to the french republic i was a member of the senate of the united states and had acted with such decision upon all topics which came before that body as to leave no doubt with any one what my political principles were was there any particular object in view depending any where at the former period and which my appointment to the republic might then promote and did the accomplishment of that object produce a change in the policy of the administration towards that republic and of what nature was that object i suggest these ideas incidentally only and without meaning to go fully into them so much i have thought proper to say in reply to the hints and innuendos contained in your letter of the th and which i presume will fully explain your motives in making them i will now proceed to another point of more importance in the present enquiry the change in the political situation of the united states is too obvious and interesting not to attract the attention and excite the sensibility of even those who are the least observant a few years past the name of america was a venerable name in the catalogue of nations it commanded the respect and drew the sympathetic attention of all powers and of all men her commerce and her agriculture flourished hand in hand and her people were happy beloved by her ancient friends and dreaded by her ancient foes there was no cloud in the political horizon to darken her prospects a coalition of tyrants it is true whose avowed object it was to extirpate liberty from off the face of the globe excited uneasiness for a while soon however the strong and potent arm of republicanism crushed its efforts and averted the storm but what a reverse has now taken place and where will the catastrophe end our national character has not only already greatly declined and our commerce and agriculture greatly suffered but we are upon the point of being involved in a war with our ancient and deserving ally now become a republic after our example and on the side of the remnants of that same coalition which was lately armed against the liberties of the world strange and almost incredible event indeed by what means has this change been produced much has been said and done by the administration not simply to exculpate itself from all blame in that respect but to criminate others and when called upon to substantiate its charges what has been the result let your letters show it is now time to close this subject and to bring into view an important question which must be decided on has the administration performed its duty to its country in these great concerns and acquitted itself to the public as it ought to have done in my judgment it has not might we not have avoided this crisis by other and obvious measures more consistent with our national honour and interest and without exposing ourselves to any real danger whatever in my judgment we might in this latter view then the subject acquires new importance and is entitled to more particular attention you will readily perceive that our fellow-citizens in general are deeply interested in the several points in discussion between us to whom it likewise belongs to estimate yours and my own conduct and i now think proper to inform you that it"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-09-04|1|1", "date": "1797-09-04", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-09-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797090401/0097.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "james monroe and timothy pickering secretary of state continued from our last from mr monroe to the secretary of state philadelphia july sir i have received and attended to your official letter of the th and your private one of the th instant and shall now reply to both permit me to premise that in any discussion which has or may take place between us i have not nor shall i consider you in any other than your official character having yet to learn what your pretensions are to confidence as an individual citizen or the weight which your opinion ought to have as such especially in the present case i think proper now to observe that when i called upon you for an explanation of the motives of the administration in making this attack upon me it was not with a view to derive any information for myself i have been too long and too well acquainted with the political conduct principles and views of the administration not to know what its motives were in that respect without any aid from you indeed knowing what my own conduct was and what your views are of which a series of facts and circumstances leaves no doubt on my mind i had no expectation of obtaining from you any thing like a candid answer on the contrary i expected an evasive one dealing in hints and innuendoes thrown out to divert the mind from the true object of enquiry nor have i been disappointed in my expectation for i am persuaded that no impartial person can read your several letters upon this subject without entertaining the same opinion of them i expected even a disguise of the real motives and by every possible artifice which interest or ingenuity could suggest because i knew the real motives could not be avowed and such i am persuaded will be the opinion of every impartial person who after reading your letters traces the true motives by a correct analysis of those facts and circumstances to which i allude i called upon you in that spirit of candour which i have always observed towards the administration and others and to give you an opportunity to justify your conduct by your own arguments and merely place it in the light you wished it to stand but this you have refused to do and for reasons the most extraordinary in calling upon you then i have acted consistently with my own principles and in refusing to comply you have taken a ground for which the administration is responsible i forbear to discuss again the solidity of that principle which supposes every public officer of the u states the judges excepted a menial servant to the president a principle which if established banishes from the bosom of every such officer all regard for his country every noble and patriotic sentiment and makes him dependant not upon the integrity and propriety of his own conduct but upon the personal favour of his superior if such were the case what confidence could the people of america repose in any public functionary since after he gets into office whatever may have been his character before he sinks into a machine and ceases to be a watchful sentinel over the public rights and interests if such were the case the principles and practice of our own government are departed from the most slavish doctrines and the most slavish government are introduced in their stead and that such must be the case is obvious if the executive can exercise the discretion you speak of in the pleasurable manner you dedicated to politics and the belles-lettres quid verum atque decens curi impartial truth and usefulness we study contend for and without accounting for any of its acts or the motives of them in any case to the party injured the public or any person whatsoever this doctrine merits the attention of the people of america because it is a pernicious one they have provided in the constitution they have adopted a suitable mode for the appointment of public officers and which supposes a due regard to be paid to the characters of those who are appointed and with a view that they may be faithfully served they pay to their public officers president and all liberally and ought to be faithfully served they have likewise provided for and with a superior over the inferior but i trust it is their intention that the merits and character of the latter should be estimated by the standard of his integrity and public services and not by the whim caprice or any less worthy motive of those above him nor shall i discuss the solidity of the principle or the policy of the practice you have adopted opening a door in your office for the reception of spies and informers to whose communications it appears implicit faith is given altho their names their characters and even their purport of the denunciations be withheld this practice is of great antiquity and is now in use in the despotic governments of europe but i hope never to see it transplanted to this side the atlantic especially in the degree to which you extend it i dismiss these topics from view because they are only incidental to the main object of enquiry and involve principles in which i am not interested otherwise than in common with every other american citizen i have noticed them however that their tendency may be correctly understood but i think proper to make a few comments upon the hints and innuendoes contained in your letter of the th and with a view to place them and your conduct in making them in their true light you suggest many cases which provided they exist you say would justify the executive in the removal and censure of a public minister or other officer such for example as a defect of judgment skill or diligence the want of confidence in him by the administration his holding improper correspondence with men known to be hostile to the government he represents and whose actions tend to its subversion his countenancing and inviting from a mistaken view of the interests of his own country a conduct in another derogatory from and injurious to those interests c the existence of any of these cases you say would justify the removal of any public minister it is not my intention to contest with you abstract principles because i will readily admit that if a public officer be incompetent to the duties of his office whether it proceed from want of judgment skill or diligence if he be the tool or partizan of another country against the honor and interest of his own or be associated with foreigners of any description whatever or with the agents or creatures of foreign powers in promoting any plan of conspiracy against insurrection in or disorganization of his own country that in any and every such case such officer whether he be employed at home or abroad ought to be dismissed and disgraced or rather severely punished for disgrace upon those who are capable of committing such enormities is no punishment at all but do you mean to apply any of these imputations to me if so why not avow it and present your proof would it not be more manly so to do than to deal in innuendo and insinuation which without making you responsible for any charge are perhaps intended to be understood as such or do you hope that we shall take these innuendoes for facts without your declaring them to be so or producing any testimony to support them this might perhaps promote your views in the present case but would certainly not promote the cause of truth with respect to the clamour which is so incessantly raised and of which you seem disposed to avail yourself in the present instance of danger to the government from the exercise of freedom of opinion in debate and writing or of your insinuation that i had improper correspondence with any such persons it is one which merits no reply i have no correspondent in whom i repose confidence who has not given at least as strong proof of his attachment to good government and good order and who is not as much interested perhaps much more so in the preservation of those blessings as yourself or any of those who make the loudest clamour on that subject nor have i had a communication with any person or persons whilst employed abroad or at any other time of a public nature but with a view to preserve the government and the union entire always seeking to counteract the disuniting disorganizing projects of those who secretly wish to subvert them do you know of any correspondence of mine exhibiting an opposite character or having an opposite tendency if you do produce it and then we will discuss this point further but till then i shall consider this innuendo like the others as being thrown out only to obscure the subject and divert the mind from the true object of enquiry and upon the point of confidence between the administration and myself with respect to the period of its commencement and termination on both sides if indeed it ever existed on theirs in the view in which i had reason to believe it did with the cause which created and destroyed it i shall say but little at present because it is a very important one and requires to be more fully illustrated than the nature of this communication will admit of this point involves in it the whole policy of the administration in my mission and recall and will i think when fully understood tend essentially to illustrate the conduct principles and views of the administration during this great and interesting crisis of human affairs i think proper however to observe here that whatever may be the opinion of the world as to the merits of the administration in these respects or of its conduct towards me through the whole of my mission i can shew in the most satisfactory manner that my political character and principles whilst a member of the american senate and whilst minister plenipotentiary of the united states with the french republic were always the same and that in both stations and through every vicissitude of our affairs it was the constant and laborious effort of my life to preserve peace harmony and perfect amity between the two republics i can shew too that those efforts had produced and were still producing a good effect of which the administration had full knowledge at the very moment when it endeavoured to impress the public with a belief that i had failed to do my duty the administration may perhaps find it hereafter expedient to explain number vii september why i was invited to accept that mission and confided in at that time and why that confidence was withdrawn afterwards were my political character and principles less known in the former stage than in the latter i presume not for at that time when i was invited to accept this mission to the french republic i was a member of the senate of the united states and had acted with such decision upon all topics which came before that body as to leave no doubt with any one what my political principles were was there any particular object in view depending any where at the former period and which my appointment to the french republic might then promote and did the accomplishment of that object produce a change in the policy of the administration towards that republic and of what nature was that object i suggest these ideas incidentally only and without meaning to go fully into them so much have i thought proper to say in reply to the hints and innuendoes contained in your letter of the th and which i presume will fully explain your motives in making them i will now proceed to another point of more importance in the present enquiry the change in the political situation of the united states is too obvious and interesting not to attract the attention and excite the sensibility of even those who are the least observant a few years past the name of america was a venerable name in the catalogue of nations it commanded the respect and drew the sympathetic attention of all powers and of all men her commerce and her agriculture flourished hand in hand and her people were happy beloved by her ancient friends and dreaded by her ancient foes there was no cloud in the political horizon to darken her prospects a coalition of tyrants it is true whose avowed object it was to extirpate liberty from off the face of the globe excited uneasiness for a while soon however the strong and potent arm of republicanism crushed its efforts and averted the storm but what a reverse has now taken place and where will the catastrophe end our national character has not only already greatly declined and our commerce and agriculture greatly suffered but we are upon the point of being involved in a war with our ancient and deserving ally now become a republic after our example and on the side of the remarks of that coalition which was lately armed against the liberties of the world strange and almost incredible event indeed by what means has this change been produced much has been said and done by the administration not simply to exculpate itself from all blame in that respect but to criminate others and when called upon to state and substantiate its charges what has been the result let your letters show it is now time to close this subject and to bring into view an important question which must be decided on has the administration performed its duty to its country in these great concerns and acquitted itself to the public as it ought to have done in my judgment it has not might we not have avoided this crisis by other and obvious measures more consistent with our national honor and interest and without exposing ourselves to any real danger whatever in my judgment we might in this latter view then the subject acquires new importance and is entitled to more particular attention you will readily perceive that our fellow citizens in general are deeply interested in the several points in discussion between us to whom it likewise belongs to estimate yours and my own conduct and i now think proper to inform you that it"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2481, 2621], "b_span": [4, 143], "matched_words": 138, "similarity": 0.989247311827957, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00799", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-08-29|1|1", "date": "1797-08-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-08-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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france that orders were ever issued to molest our trade but that they had now sunk into disgrace and the true american character began to be respected again it was generally reported and believed at rotterdam that the mutiny in the nore fleet had subsided and that they had failed to join ad duncan office of the times alexandria saturday evening aug several vessels have arrived this morning among which is the saratoga capt towers from rotterdam capt t left that place the th of june we have conversed with him and he confirms the pleasing intelligence contained in our paper of this morning that our differences with france from every appearance would be amicably settled american vessels that had lately been carried into france had been liberated this information he received from mr pinckney himself who was at rotterdam with mr adams capt t has brought dispatches to the secretary of state from"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-06|1|2", "date": "1797-09-06", "paper": "The Kentucky 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mentions that the french government disavow the capture of american vessels that it was principally owing to a pack of abandoned americans in france that orders were ever issued to molest our trade but that they had now sunk into disgrace and the true american character began to be respected again it was generally reported and believed at rotterdam that the mutiny in the nore fleet had subsided and that they had failed to join admiral duncan fed gaz the following is the copy of a hand bill published at alexandria office of the times saturday evening august several vessels have arrived this morning among which is the saratoga capt towers from rotterdam captain towers left that place the th of june we have conversed with him and he confirms the pleasing intelligence contained in our paper of this morning that our differences with france from every appearance would be amicably settled american vessels that had lately been carried into france had been liberated this information he received 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recent date from cape fran ois which makes mention that affairs in the french west-india islands begin to assume a very favorable aspect with regard to our commerce that the tribunal of admiralty do not now condemn american vessels on such frivolous pretences as heretofore and that they have lately reversed several of their condemnations and caused the captors to pay costs that a vessel belonging to new york being lately carried into the cape was immediately restored to the captain and the prize master committed to prison we are informed that captain scransbury of this port was carried into the above place where his vessel was cleared and the captor doomed to pay costs and damages which he failing to comply with captain s caused him to be committed to prison where he remained when our accounts"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [853, 927], "b_span": [7, 81], 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besides the specious one of bringing dispatches the sailor alluded to actually quitted the vessel and the other seamen were so much enraged that they menaced him with death if he attempted to return again he was yesterday seen on the road from marblehead for boston the privateer sailed from guadalupe july and has probably had a very comfortable cruise being at sea upwards of days and it is improbable she would have been thus long if employed as a dispatch-boat there is mystery too in the captain's preferring marblehead to boston a boston fisherman we are told who piloted him to the former place urged to coming in the latter but the capt"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-08-30|1|3", "date": "1797-08-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-08-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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that fixed for her husband's execution she embarked accordingly as soon as the tide would serve and got down along side the sandwich about seven the sentinels ordered the boat off she desired permission to speak with richard parker the answer was that if the boat did not put off they must fire into it in spite of her remonstrances the boatman now proceeded to sheerness assuring her that as the yellow flag was not up no execution would take place that day she instantly procured another boat from the dock stairs and as she was rowed up to blackstake she observed the fatal flag hoisted on board the sandwich her application was renewed with tenfold entreaties to get on board but to no effect and again she was taken back to sheerness the waterman having stipulated only to put her on board the sandwich and being obliged to go back for persons he was engaged to carry she hired a third vessel with no more success for just as she approached the ship she saw the fatal procession of her"}, 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left fort hamilton on the great miami the th of may last and travelled through the north-western territory to detroit that as far as he could discover the indians shewed no hostile disposition towards the united states although their minds appeared to be much agitated and many of them were moving off to the spanish side of the mississippi the spirit of defection which had prevailed amongst the american troops at detroit had considerably abated previous to his departure in consequence of energetic measures being adopted by brigadier general wilkinson great cordiality subsisted between the american and british officers in that quarter"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-12|1|2", "date": "1797-09-12", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797091201/0356.pdf", 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mafuda at sea august st after seven months blockade by the enemy i have at length escaped their vigilance the moment they reduced the number of their ships to watch my movements from twelve eight six and until within these few days five ships to one that is one ship of the line and a frigate i was determined to push out with my two frigates which i did yesterday although i saw them both to the southward of them the winds were light but we have lost sight of them in the night so ends a blockade which has cost the enemy upwards of dollars and has been of no real injury to france i hope soon to give you a good account of ourselves and was on equal terms with them in point of force"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-12|1|2", "date": "1797-09-12", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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out with my two frigates which i did yesterday although i saw them both to the southward of them the winds were light but we have lost sight of them in the night so ends a blockade which has cost the enemy upwards of dollars and has been of no real injury to france i hope soon to give you a good account of ourselves and was on equal terms with them in point of force"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092701/0106.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "august extract of a letter from commodore barney to his friend in this town dated medula at sea august st after seven months blockade by the enemy i have at length escaped their vigilance the moment they reduced the number of their ships to watch my movements from twelve eight six and until within these few days five ships to two that is one ship of the line and a frigate i was determined to push out with my two frigates which i did yesterday although i saw them both to the southward the winds were light but we have lost sight of them in the night so ends a blockade which has cost the enemy upwards of dollars and has been of no real injury to france i hope soon to give a good account of ourselves and was on equal terms with them in point of force"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2580, 3055], "b_span": [988, 1464], "matched_words": 467, "similarity": 0.982124079915878, "seeds": 87, "id": "M00820", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-01|1|2", "date": "1797-09-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the posts of the said states upon the rivers in general lakes c a manifest contradiction to the treaty concluded with spain which it seems to annul since by this last the united states declare that no nation shall navigate the mississippi without the consent of spain although the legitimacy of these motives of suspicion hath been represented with suitable candor to the congress of the united states and communicated by our orders to the commissioner for running the boundary line as well as to the commanding officer of the detachment of american troops now at natchez yet we are informed that a detachment from the army of the united states stationed on the ohio is now on its way through holstein to the natchez whilst the militia of cumberland have been warned to hold themselves in readiness to march on the shortest notice these hostile arrangements which can only relate to these provinces since the united states are now at peace with all the savage nations the recent threats of the commissioner for establishing the boundary line and of the officer commanding the american detachment at natchez the prospect and if we may credit an american gazette the commencement of a rupture between france our intimate ally and the said states all advise us to be upon our guard and ready to defend our possessions with that valour that energy which the inhabitants of this country have displayed on all occasions with that advantage and superiority which a knowledge of their local situation afford with that confidence which integrity and justice inspire if the congress of the united states entertain no hostile designs against these provinces let them leave the posts of natchez and nogales which are the only barriers between the english and lower louisiana or let them secure us against that article of the british treaty which exposes even the capital of lower louisiana to be sacked and pillaged we will then evacuate the posts and lay down those arms which they force us to assume by 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have been warned to hold themselves in readiness to march on the shortest notice these hostile arrangements which can only relate to these provinces since the united states are now in peace with all the savage nations the recent threats of the commissioner for establishing the boundary line of the officer commanding the american detachment at natchez the prospect and if we may credit an american gazette the commencement of a rupture between france our intimate ally and the said states all advise us to be upon our guard and ready to defend our possessions with that valour that energy which the inhabitants of this country have displayed on all occasions with that advantage and superiority which a knowledge of their local situation afford with that confidenc which integrity and justice inspire if the congress of the united states entertain no hostile designs against these provinces let them leave the posts of natchez and nogales which are the only barriers between the english and lower 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"normalized_excerpt": "the king of spain is arrived at cadiz with a view of quieting the minds of the merchants there and to accelerate the tardy operations of his marine the merchants have on this occasion presented a memorial to his majesty setting forth the hardships they labour under in the interruption of their commerce from the port of cadiz having been so long and so closely blockaded that no ship could sail from or enter it the king gave for answer that his admiral had received his final instructions which are supposed to be to risk an engagement the spanish fleet consists of sail of the line our's is only nine of which are however three deckers from the admirable position of our fleet and the skill and bravery of our officers and seamen the noble commander is under no anxiety of the result the whole fleet is in the highest state of subordination and has felt nothing of that feverish spirit which has pervaded some other divisions of the british navy july we this day learn that the irish parliament is actually dissolved much we understand to the disappointment of our ministers here who had dispatched an express to delay the dissolution but which express arrived a few hours too late it is fixed that parliament should be prorogued on friday se'nnight the deluded to treason in various parts of ireland still continue to give up arms take the oath of allegiance and embrace the amnesty and forgiveness held out by the leniency of government most of the misled have in this way thrown off the guilty occupation that traitorous deception had led them into july at o'clock on wednesday night mr east a king's messenger arrived in town from lord malmesbury mr east came passenger from calais in a danish packet he was only hours on his journey we understand that the mail coming from paris had been stopped and the post"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-12|1|2", "date": "1797-09-12", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", 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under no anxiety of the result the whole fleet is in the highest state of subordination and has felt nothing of that feverish spirit which has pervaded some other divisions of the british navy july we this day learn that the irish parliament is actually dissolved much we understand to the disappointment of our ministers here who had dispatched an express to delay the dissolution but which express arrived a few hours too late it is fixed that parliament should be prorogued on friday se'night the deluded to treason in various parts of ireland still continue to give up arms take the oath of allegiance and embrace the amnesty and forgiveness held out by the lenience of government most of the misled have in this way thrown off the guilty occupation that traitorous deception had led them into july at o'clock on wednesday night mr east a king's messenger arrived in town from lord malmesbury mr east came passenger from calais in a danish packet he was only hours on his journey we understand 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an answer was returned to them late last night when mr brooks and mr drellins king's messengers left town for lisle to be in waiting the paris papers received contain no other news than of the sailing of a division of the french fleet from toulon and of a very small vote of credit being granted to the minister of marine until he makes up his accounts on monday the th instant the following seven mutineers of the leopard viz dennis sullivan alexander lawson wm welch joseph fearon wm ross geo shave and thomas sterling were executed at the nore pursuant to their sentence four on board that ship and three on board the lancaster the sentences on james robertson and john habbigan recommended to mercy were"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-12|1|2", "date": "1797-09-12", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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out by the leniency of government most of the misled have in this way thrown off the guilty occupation that traitorous deception had led them into july at o'clock on wednesday night mr east a king's messenger arrived in town from lord malmesbury mr east came passenger from calais in a danish packet he was only hours on his journey we understand that the mail coming from paris had been stopped and the post boy murdered we learn that several conferences have taken place between m letourneur and lord malmesbury and that each has delivered to the other his project at the same time that lord malmesbury dispatched a courier to england the french plenipotentiary also sent a messenger to paris with the propositions made by lord malmesbury no time has been lost in replying to the dispatches received by mr east as an answer was returned to them late last night when mr brooks and mr drellins king's messengers left town for lisle to be in waiting the paris papers received contain no other news than of the sailing of a division of the french fleet from toulon and of a very small vote of credit being granted to the minister of marine until he makes up his accounts on monday the th instant the following seven mutineers of the leopard viz dennis sullivan alexander lawson wm welch joseph fearon wm ross geo shave and thomas sterling were executed at the nore"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-20|1|2", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092001/0098.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that the irish parliament is actually dissolved much we understand to the disappointment of our ministers here who had dispatched an express to delay the dissolution it is fixed that parliament should be prorogued on friday next the deluded 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papers received contained no other news than of the sailing of a division of the french fleet from toulon and of a very small vote of credit being granted to the minister of marine until he makes up his accounts on monday the instant the following seven mutineers of the leopard viz dennis sullivan alexander kawson wm welch joseph pearson wm reis geo shave and thomas sterling were executed at the nore"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [815, 894], "b_span": [522, 599], "matched_words": 70, "similarity": 0.8974358974358975, "seeds": 10, "id": "M00824", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-01|1|2", "date": "1797-09-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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named brewster who had been with marketing on board the ship hind while she lay at the fort the beginning of august this young man died vomited black matter previous to his death communicated the disease to some of his attendants according to the report of his physician dr leib and a letter to the board"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2174, 2370], "b_span": [178, 374], "matched_words": 191, "similarity": 0.9744897959183674, "seeds": 42, "id": "M00826", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-01|1|3", "date": "1797-09-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797090101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the 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and made sail for the cayes our mate observing to him that it was a shame to abuse neutral sailors as he had done he replied that we were all a parcel of yankee rascals and put the mate in irons hands and feet after giving us every possible trouble and ill treatment he was prevailed on to examine the papers after which at p m he sent us on board the brig the prize master and mate which were put on board the brig were americans and void of principle"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1157, 1333], "b_span": [1586, 1762], "matched_words": 161, "similarity": 0.9147727272727273, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00827", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-01|1|3", "date": "1797-09-01", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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extinction of the mutiny a short time before his death must have shed a benignant gleam over his latest moments and laid his aged head content in the lap of death sic"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092701/0106.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the death of edmund burke the immortal orator and statesman that great man whose vast and irresistible eloquence has so eminently contributed to preserve great britain from being overborne by that immense torrent of gothic barbarism which has broken down the feeble barriers elsewhere opposed to it and which in equal desolation and dullness the iron gladiators savoy and the mild fertile clime of the once fierce and high souled iberian all bow beneath the blast for the age of chivalry is gone and to tall down rosealike with a pine is become the fashion of these degenerate times cold is that tongue whose high wrought eloquence could keep alive in one little isle alone a fire which is now daily extinguishing in the regions round by the mighty hand of revolution and airds nor did he live to see it put out the extinction of the martyr a short time before his death must have shed a benignant gleam over his latest moments and laid his aged head consens in the lap of death sic"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1272, 1448], "b_span": [1944, 2120], "matched_words": 174, "similarity": 0.9886363636363636, "seeds": 38, "id": "M00828", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-02|1|3", "date": "1797-09-02", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", 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of the spaniards who are frenchmen in name only to encourage our allies of the united states against the arbitrary cruelties to which their property has been incessantly the victim against a system of cruising which being authorized by no law is a real piracy"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-05|1|2", "date": "1797-09-05", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797090501/0352.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "resolution relative to sending new agents of the directory to st domingo he proved that it was impossible to save this important colony without a very active government but he did not dissimulate that its fate depended entirely upon the choice which the directory should make if they are good men it may again flourish it is lost forever if they are bad he employed himself afterwards in tracing to them in some degree the route they will have to pursue to succeed in this delicate mission they should seek said he rather the general interest than local prejudices to ally mildness to firmness and convince men now habituated to a fatal independence that the bonds of society are mild and that the government is still paternal to gain the hearts of the spaniards who are frenchmen in name only to encourage our allies of the united states against the arbitrary cruizing to which their property has been incessantly the victim against a system of cruizing which being authorized by no law is a real piracy"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2422, 2605], "b_span": [500, 682], "matched_words": 176, "similarity": 0.9643835616438357, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00829", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-03|1|2", "date": 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manner la fayette and his family get what breakfast they choose five dishes and a dessert at dinner two dishes at supper hungarian wine c all the clothes and linen the marquis demands he is furnished with without the least objection the apartments are cleaned and aired with the utmost care they are attended by their own servants enjoy a good state of health receive all the books they desire and are allowed to correspond with their friends and relations"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092701/0106.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a private letter received yesterday by the hamburgh mails contains the following particulars respecting the situation of the marquis la fayette at olmutz and is extracted from an official report of the governor of that fortress la fayette and his family occupy the ground floor of the house which looks into the fields and where they occupy three different apartments every one of their servants has a room to himself their apartments raised above the fortifications enjoy the purest air and have large windows feet high they are fitted up according to the choice of their occupiers and furnished in the most decent manner la fayette and his family get whatever breakfast they choose five dishes a desert at dinner a dishes at supper hungarian wine c all the cloaths and linen the marquis demands he is furnished with without the least objection the apartments are cleaned and aired with the utmost care they are attended by their own servants enjoy a good share of health receive all the books they desire and are allowed to correspond with their friends and relations"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic 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concepcion has suffered considerable damage indeed all the best buildings of the place are destroyed none of the low buildings have received any damage at pacanga the earthquake began some time past o'clock a m and the agitation of the earth continued until o'clock p m leaving the village entirely in ruins not a building being left standing except an arch in the great square and a part of a neighboring house the people who have perished are innumerable the churches of st augustin santo domingo and la merced were crowded with people hearing mass not one of whom were saved the whole place opened into gullies out of which large quantities of water issued don francisco camacho was swallowed up and no account has been received of don antonio texado who was with him the village of st philip which is near to pacanga is swallowed up in this place there was a school with upwards of forty children who have suffered the same fate there are different reports respecting the village of ambato it is said to be likewise in ruins the famous estate of marquis de miraflores on which was a rich manufacture of all his horses and an elegant church are entirely destroyed and many lives lost calera an estate adjoining the marquis's is swallowed up and scarce the vestige of a house to be seen alaques saguahli pugili fachuchi and other consider'd villages and estates are entirely ruined machache aloaei amaguana aivay and other villages in the neighborhood of pacanga have suffered great damage not a church is left standing in either of these places the mountains of calapachi opened in several parts and issued great quantities of water a small hill near to the city threw up vast heaps of stones this earthquake is said to be much leverer than that which happened in the year to add to the general consternation at quito it was affirmed the next day that an inhabitant of guayaquil had brought accounts of english ships having arrived there certain it is that a person who came thence passed on to quinche where"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-19|1|2", "date": "1797-09-19", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797091901/0360.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "three minutes the elegant college of st fernando is in ruins the large edifice of santo domingo is considerably damaged the grand tower was broken into many pieces and a number of the cells entirely destroyed the student's school is in ruins the high church of del carmen one of the most elegant fabrics in the place is totally demolished the tower of la merced is nearly in the same state it has been ordered to be pulled down the church de la concepcion has suffered considerable damage indeed all the best buildings of the place are destroyed none of the low buildings have received any damage at facunga the earthquake began some time past seven o'clock a m and the agitation of the earth continued until two o'clock p m leaving the village entirely in ruins not a building being left standing except an arch in the great square and a part of a neighboring house the people who have perished are innumerable the churches of st augustin santo domingo and la merced were crowded with people hearing mass not one of whom were saved the whole place opened into gullies out of which large quantities of water issued don francisco camacho was swallowed up and no account has been received of don antonio texado who was with him the village of st philip which is near to facunga is swallowed up in this place there was a school with upwards of forty children who have suffered the same fate there are different reports respecting the village of anbato it is said to be likewise in ruins the famous estate of the marquis de miraflores on which was a cloth manufactory all his horses and an elegant church are entirely destroyed and many lives lost calera an estate joining the marquis's is swallowed up and scarcely the vestige of a house to be seen alaques saguali pugili fachuci and other considerable villages and estates are entirely ruined machache alacai amaguana aivey other villages in the neighborhood of facunga have suffered great damage not a church is left standing in either of these places the mountains of calopaci opened in several parts and issued great quantities of water a small hill near to the city threw up vast heaps of stones this earthquake is said to be much severer than that which happened in the year to add to the general consternation at quito it was affirmed the next day that an inhabitant of guayaquil had brought accounts of fourteen english ships having arrived there certain it is that a person who came thence passed on to quinche where"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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entirely destroyed the student's school is in ruins the high church of del carmen one of the most elegant fabrics in this place is totally demolished the tower of la merced is nearly in the same state it has been ordered to be pulled down the church de la concepcion has suffered considerable damage indeed all the best buildings of the place are destroyed none of the low buildings have received any damage at pacanga the earthquake began some time past o'clock a m and the agitation of the earth continued until o'clock p m leaving the village entirely in ruins not a building being left standing except an arch in the great square and a part of a neighboring house the people who have perished are innumerable the churches of st augustin santo domingo and la merced were crowded with people hearing mass not one of whom were saved the whole place opened into gullies out of which large quantities of water issued don francisco camacho was swallowed up and no account has been received of don antonio texado who was with him the village of st philip which is near to pacanga is swallowed up in this place there was a school with upwards of forty children who have suffered the same fate there are different reports respecting the village of ambato it is said to be likewise in ruins the famous estate of marquis de miraflores on which was a rich manufacture of all his horses and an elegant church are entirely destroyed and many lives lost calera an estate adjoining the marquis's is swallowed up and scarce the vestige of a house to be seen alaques saguahli pugili fachuchi and other consider'd villages and estates are entirely ruined machache aloaei amaguana aivay and other villages in the neighborhood of pacanga have suffered great damage not a church is left standing in either of these places the mountains of calapachi opened in several parts and issued great quantities of water a small hill near to the city threw up vast heaps of stones this earthquake is said to be much leverer than that which happened in the year to add to the general consternation at quito it was affirmed the next day that an inhabitant of guayaquil had brought accounts of english ships having arrived there certain it is that a person who came thence passed on to quinche where the president is"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092701/0106.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "february some accounts of the dreadful effects of the earthquake of quito and its neighbourhood on the th instant this dreadful calamity began at quito at half past a m and lasted from the best calculation upwards of three minutes the elegant college of st ferdinando is in ruin the large edifice of st domingo is 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quantities of water issued don francisco camacho was swallowed up and no account has been received of don antonio tocado who was with him the village of st philip which is near to facunga is swallowed up in this place here was a school with upwards of forty children who have suffered the same fate there are different reports respecting the village of anbaro it is said to be likewise in ruins the famous estate of the marquis de miraflores on which was a cloth manufactory all his houses an elegant church are entirely destroyed and many lives lost calera an estate joining the marquis's is swallowed up and scarcely a vestige of a house to be seen alagues saquial pugili fachuchi and other considerable villages and estates are entirely ruined machache aloaci amaguana aivay and other villages in the neighbourhood of facunga have suffered great damage not a church is left standing in either of these places the mountains of calopaci opened in several parts and issued great quantities of water a small hill near to the city threw up vast heaps of stones this earthquake is said to be much severer than that which happened in the year to add to the general consternation at quito it was affirmed the next day that an inhabitant of guayaquil had brought accounts of english ships having arrived there certain it is that a person who came thence passed on to quinche where the president is"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1191, 1343], "b_span": [1361, 1516], "matched_words": 141, "similarity": 0.9185667752442996, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00833", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-09-04|1|3", "date": "1797-09-04", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-09-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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fever i am satisfied that it has seldom been imported from the west indies unfortunately the reverse of this opinion is universal in philadelphia by way of postscript the doctor adds rain has a sensible influence in checking our fever occasional showers may and i hope"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [282, 390], "b_span": [2039, 2146], "matched_words": 104, "similarity": 0.9674418604651163, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00834", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-09-04|1|3", "date": "1797-09-04", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-09-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797090401/0099.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "arrangement for commencing the negotiation between 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commencing the negotiation between this country and france is now completely formed lord malmesbury is the person appointed to treat in behalf of this country and we understand that m barthelemy is the negotiator on the part of the french a cabinet council was yesterday held at lord grenville's office on the subject of lord malmesbury's credentials when it was determined that his lordship should be invested with full powers to negotiate and conclude a peace with the french republic he is expected to set out for paris on monday next accompanied by lord morpeth son to the earl of carlisle and two other gentlemen"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1569, 1658], "b_span": [2618, 2707], "matched_words": 87, "similarity": 0.9775280898876404, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00835", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-09-04|1|3", "date": "1797-09-04", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", 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gambling tables if we are persons of quality we have the right of speaking in favor of the minister and his measures we have the right of thinking upon all political subjects and we have the right of holding"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-09|1|3", "date": "1797-09-09", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797090901/0087.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "said about the rights of man of late years there are many rights which belong to us and which we have never yet seen enumerated as for example we have the right of killing the fowls of the air if we are worth l a year and pay three guineas for a licence we have the right of being officers in the army if we purchase commissions we have the right of making hair powder if we pay for a licence we have the right of eating if we have any thing to eat we have the right of keeping public gaming tables if we are persons of quality we have the right of going to law if we have money we have a right of speaking in favor of the minister and his measures we have the right of thinking on all political subjects and we have the right of holding"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [291, 366], "b_span": [999, 1111], "matched_words": 73, "similarity": 0.7807486631016043, "seeds": 9, "id": "M00838", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-09-04|1|4", "date": "1797-09-04", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-09-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797090401/0100.pdf", "source": "RevX", 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hair powder if we pay for a licence we have the right of eating if we have any thing to eat we have the right of keeping public gaming tables if we are persons of quality we have the right of going to law if we have money we have a right of speaking in favor of the minister and his measures we have the right of"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2805, 3149], "b_span": [457, 761], "matched_words": 295, "similarity": 0.9104938271604939, "seeds": 48, "id": "M00839", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-05|1|2", "date": "1797-09-05", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797090501/0352.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "i observe in your paper of the th inst a piece of news said to have been brought by me from rotterdam which has not been reported to you in its true light so far is true i had the pleasure of dining at the american consul's in company with gen pinckney i consulted him on the safety of my returning to america under american papers with my ship and cargo as the ship and principal part of the cargo was my own property i had no orders to comply with from my employers therefore thought it necessary to consult him he candidly gave me his opinion as a private man that he did not think there was any danger provided my papers were clear and i had a role d quipage and that he was in hopes the differences between america and france would be amicably settled and soon as every thing bore a more favorable aspect at present many of the vessels that had been captured and taken into france had been cleared with costs and damages to be paid by the captors and it was the general opinion of merchants in holland that the french nation did not wish to fall out with america and as a proof of it i had a part of my cargo underwrote for five per centum from rotterdam to alexandria but for me to say that gen pinckney had informed me that the executive directory had invited him to return to paris and resume his functions and that he was only waiting for fresh instructions from his government to comply with their invitation that part of the publication is erroneous gen pinckney i believe would inform no person of his secret business in public affairs you will be so good gentlemen as to give this a place in your next paper and i hope every printer who has made use of my name from a false report will do me the same favor i am dear gentlemen your most obedient humble servant john towers master"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-13|1|3", "date": "1797-09-13", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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vessels that had been captured and taken into france had been cleared with costs and damages to be paid by the captors and it was the general opinion of merchants in holland that the french nation did not wish to fall out with america and as a proof of it i had part of my cargo underwrote for five per cent from rotterdam to alexandria but for me to say that general pinckney had informed me that the executive directory had invited him to return to paris and resume his functions and that he was only writhing for fresh instructions from his government to comply with their invitation that part of the publication is erroneous general pinckney i believe would inform no person of his secret business in public affairs i am dear gentlemen your most obedient humble servant john towers master"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1314, 1459], "b_span": [753, 897], "matched_words": 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been stopped and the post boy murdered several of the ministers being out of town it was o'clock yesterday before the cabinet met to hear the dispatches read and such has been the profound secrecy observed in regard to them that nothing has transpired to us"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-20|1|2", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092001/0098.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that the irish parliament is actually dissolved much we understand to the disappointment of our ministers here who had dispatched an express to delay the dissolution it is fixed that parliament should be prorogued on friday next the deluded to treason in various parts of ireland still continue to give up arms take the oath of allegiance and embrace the amnesty and forgiveness held out by the lenience of government july letters from germany mention that the hessians had attempted to pass the line of demarcation and the french had opposed it in consequence of which a bloody battle had taken place between the two parties at o'clock on wednesday night mr kast a king's messenger arrived in town from lord malmesbury several of the ministers being out of town it was o'clock yesterday before the cabinet met to hear the dispatches read and such has been the profound secrecy observed in regard to them that nothing has transpired to us"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1483, 1631], "b_span": [2293, 2439], "matched_words": 143, "similarity": 0.9727891156462585, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00858", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-12|1|2", "date": "1797-09-12", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", 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"b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092701/0106.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "barney to his friend in this town dated medula at sea august st after seven months blockade by the enemy i have at length escaped their vigilance the moment they reduced the number of their ships to watch my movements from twelve eight six and until within these few days five ships to two that is one ship of the line and a frigate i was determined to push out with my two frigates which i did yesterday although i saw them both to the southward the winds were light but we have lost sight of them in the night so ends a blockade which has cost the enemy upwards of dollars and has been of no real injury to 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which have required your attention and for the wisdom and firmnefs whicl you hive manifefted in the new and difficult emergencies for which you had to provide fealmiaad i muft particularly express the jult sense entertained of the jalutary and-effetual provisions which you made for trengthening the reans of national defence and the measures adoptedforobviating the inconvenien ces which were to-be apprehended to redit from the temporary fofpenfion of payments in cash by the bank as well a f the promptritude vigour and effe t with which you afforded me yours afliftance and support-in fupprefling the daring and trcafona ble mutiny which broke ont in a part of my fleet and in countera ing so dangerous and pernicious an i have the fatisfacion to acquaint example e you that since the'acceflion of the pre sent emperor of ruflia the commer cial engagements between the two countries have been renewed nfuch a manner as will i doubt not materi ally conduce to their mutual interests gentleme of the rouse of commons i must return you my particular thanks for the liberal and extensive provision which you have made for the various exigencies of the public service and while i lament the neceflity which increased them to so large an amount it is a consolation to me to observe the attention you employed in distributing the h avy byrdens which they occafioned in such a manner as to render their preflure as little severe as poilible to my people pr t my lords and gentlemen the iffuc of the important nego tiation in which i am engaged is yet uncertain but whatever may be the event niothing will have been wanting on my part to bring it to fuccefshil termination on such con ditions s niay be confifkent with the ecurity honor and effential interests of my dominions o ln the mean time hothing can so much tend to forward the attain ment of peace as the continuance of that zeal exertion and public spirit of which my subjects have given fich confpicuous and honorable proofs and of which the 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malmesbury the different papers affect to be variously informed some stating it to be favorable and others not so respecting the demands of the directory being high we have no doubt as also that the british government are not disposed to accede to all their terms we shall not dispute but what conclusion can be drawn from this not any for the information itself is nothing neither in france nor england has a syllable on the subject of the negotiation been suffered to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-19|1|3", "date": "1797-09-19", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797091901/0361.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the numbers of french and dutch privateers that at present infest the north sea are incredible and they have done a great deal of 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london wednesday evening july o'clock the cabinet council which was held this morning on the last dispatch received from lord malmesbury on sunday last determined by a considerable majority on a prosecution of the war rather than submit to the unreasonable demands of the french directory mr pitt lord grenville and mr dundas were the only advocates for peace the parliament is expected"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [412, 689], "b_span": [2401, 2679], "matched_words": 265, "similarity": 0.954954954954955, "seeds": 48, "id": "M00873", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-13|1|3", "date": "1797-09-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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transpires of what is passing that can be depended on and i should not wish to mislead you to prove to you with how much secrecy the negotiation is conducted i must inform you that even the french plenipotentiaries do not see each other but at the time and place of their sittings that when they meet they communicate their ideas and observations in writing to one another and receive the answers in the same manner which at the close of the sitting are sealed up and the plenipotentiaries withdraw this is all we know of the negotiation and consequently it is utterly impossible that any public print should give the least information on this head which can be relied on lord malmesbury and le tourneur never see each other but on matters of business when a note is always previously"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-04|1|2", "date": "1797-10-04", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-04/ed-1/", 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prince william henry william wake master of london we both ran a shore on the north-side of a reef of coral rocks and sand where we continued until next day noon at which time the weather being very clear we saw two small islands of sand bearing w by n or miles distant and from our topgallant-mast-head we saw the shoal extending e s e southerly round to w s w but how far we were not able to determine keep the lat n and this shoal will not be seen joseph"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "discovery in lat n long w from london on my passage from the sandwich islands to china the d of sept at midnight in company with the 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entirely ruined machache alacai amaguana aivey other villages in the neighborhood of facunga have suffered great damage not a church is left standing in either of these places the mountains of calopaci opened in several parts and issued great quantities of water a small hill near to the city threw up vast heaps of stones this earthquake is said to be much severer than that which happened in the year to add to the general consternation at quito it was affirmed the next day that an inhabitant of guayaquil had brought accounts of fourteen english ships having arrived there certain it is that a person who came thence passed on to quinche where"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-09-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797092701/0106.pdf", 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la merced were crowded with people hearing mass not one of whom were saved the whole place opened into gullies out of which large quantities of water issued don francisco camacho was swallowed up and no account has been received of don antonio tocado who was with him the village of st philip which is near to facunga is swallowed up in this place here was a school with upwards of forty children who have suffered the same fate there are different reports respecting the village of anbaro it is said to be likewise in ruins the famous estate of the marquis de miraflores on which was a cloth manufactory all his houses an elegant church are entirely destroyed and many lives lost calera an estate joining the marquis's is swallowed up and scarcely a vestige of a house to be seen alagues saquial pugili fachuchi and other considerable villages and estates are entirely ruined machache aloaci amaguana aivay and other villages in the neighbourhood of facunga have suffered great damage not a church is left standing in either of these places the mountains of calopaci opened in several parts and issued great quantities of water a small hill near to the city threw up vast heaps of stones this earthquake is said to be much severer than that which happened in the year to add to the general consternation at quito it was affirmed the next day that an inhabitant of guayaquil had brought accounts of english ships having arrived there certain it is that a person who came thence passed on to quinche where"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1613, 1761], "b_span": [3432, 3579], "matched_words": 146, "similarity": 0.9898305084745763, "seeds": 33, "id": "M00883", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-19|1|3", "date": "1797-09-19", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-19/ed-1/", 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indictment and to stand committed until sentence be so"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "which commenced on thursday last against jethro hufley albert gardner wm coffin james barker and randal rice citizens of nantucket charged with robbing the bank of that town closed on tuesday evening and yesterday morning the jury gave in their verdict the first were acquitted and randal rice found guilty we hear the court have suspended his sentence until the next term upon his recognizing himself to the president and directors of the nantucket bank in treble the value of the money stolen being dollars with sufficient surety or sureties in the same sum to the satisfaction of the directors of said bank to respond the treble damages that may be awarded against him also to the commonwealth in dollars himself as principal with sureties in the same sum to appear next term to receive sentence on said indictment and to stand committed until sentence be so"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [793, 951], "b_span": [2102, 2271], "matched_words": 150, "similarity": 0.9174311926605505, "seeds": 23, "id": "M00884", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-19|1|3", "date": "1797-09-19", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797091901/0361.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "hear has left the city on a visit to gen white of new brunswick before he left town we understand a gentleman in office presented him with a land warrant to which he was entitled by his services and intimated there was a sum of money due to him for his services in the cause of this country we also understand that the general signified that whilst fortune smiled upon him at home he had no intention of receiving any pecuniary reward from the united states but that in his present circumstances he should not decline the acceptance of what appeared to be his due we believe that with principal and interest his pay will not amount to less than or dollars as the general entered into the service as a colonel of engineers in october and remained till the end of the war the land warrant we are told of the name of thomas who was a"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-09-27|1|2", "date": "1797-09-27", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", 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october and remained till the end of the war the land warrant we are told the general presented to a welch farmer of the name of thomas who was a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [472, 538], "b_span": [965, 1031], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.9696969696969697, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00885", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-19|1|3", "date": "1797-09-19", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797091901/0361.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the cabinet council which was held this morning on the last dispatch received from lord malmesbury on sunday last determined by a considerable majority on a prosecution of the war 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still is to re-establish the system of terror the council pursue their inquiries on this interesting subject and the new minister of war is employed in ascertaining from whom proceeded those orders which authorized the troops to pass the limits prescribed by law for strange as it must appear after all the communications that have taken place between the administration and the legislative body and after the close investigation of a special committee this essential point still re mains unexplained the executive directory have not been idle during these transactions they have evi dently exerted all their influence with the troops who have as we expected given them assurance of implicit obedience to their commands an address to the directory from the division under the orders of gen massena has not only been received but published altho it is one of the most atro cious and inflammatory papers that has appeared since the revolution it contains a gross libel on the legislative body whom it accuses of having violated the constitution degraded the government afforded protection to emigrants and priests rebels to the laws and sanctioned the murder of upright republicans it holds out the most direct and positive menaces and threatens"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101401/0126.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in our paper of this day further details from the paris papers which we received on saturday the debate of the councils and the conduct of the directory of france give a color to the supposition that some violent explosion will ultimately ensue the council of five hundred continue to reproach the directory with an intent to influence their decisions and to overawe their deliberations by the presence of an armed force they declare the explanations which they have received from the government to be evasive unsatisfactory and false the facts they adduce in support of their affirmation not only demonstrate their justice but prove in our apprehension that the object of the directory was and perhaps still is to overthrow the existing constitution and to re stablish the system of terror the council pursue their enquiries on this interesting subject and the new minister of war is employed in ascertaining from whom proceeded those orders which authorized the troops to pass the limits prescribed by law for strange as it must appear after all the communications that have taken place between the administration and the legislative body and after the close investigation of a special committee this essential point still remains unexplained the executive directory have not been idle during these transactions they have evidently exerted all their influence with the troops who have as we expected given them assurance of implicit obedience to their commands an address to the directory from the division under the orders of general massena has not only been received but published although it is one of the most atrocious and inflammatory papers that has appeared since the revolution it contains a gross libel on the legislative body whom it accuses of having violated the constitution degraded the government offered protection to emigrants and priests rebels to the laws and sanctioned the murder of upright republicans it holds out the most direct and positive menaces and threatens"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4738, 4807], "b_span": [840, 906], "matched_words": 60, "similarity": 0.8888888888888888, "seeds": 8, "id": "M00891", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|2", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of 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the minds of the troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed through the armies the friend of the laws and the centinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen kering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regularity citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to deliberate the council adopted these propositions and ordered the report to be printed london"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-26|1|3", "date": "1797-09-26", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797092601/0365.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "august delarue i come in the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information that i have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of the sambre and meuse instead of as was stated by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st dennis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expence incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers in the departments and particularly that of morne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie that forced requisitions were levied for want of billets and considerable depredations committed the minds of these troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed throughout the armies the friend of the law and the centinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops still continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen fering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regimentals citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to deliberate the council adopted these propositions and ordered the report to be printed london"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2316, 2546], "b_span": [605, 838], "matched_words": 222, "similarity": 0.958963282937365, "seeds": 40, "id": "M00893", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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offered rewards to such seamen as gallants gen massifado has offered piastres to those who shall sink or take a british chaloupe tartanes have been armed with pounders and furnaces for red hot balls the spaniards are preparing for sea cadiz july at last the british who bombarded this town have been forced to retreat after having lost two of their armed chaloupes their fleet was commanded by commodore nelson we yet fear a new attack it appears that the object of this terrible bombardment is to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-26|1|3", "date": "1797-09-26", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797092601/0365.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "since our last very little is said in them upon the subject of the negotiation a rumour however prevailed at paris that the conferences at lille had been suspended till the different plenipotentiaries receive instructions as to some questions of a different nature the directory it is surmised have got the army to deliberate upon the jarrings which have taken place at paris between them and the two councils massena's division has lately addressed the directory in very strong terms and threaten to march to paris to put their enemies to death let them tremble say they yes let these conspirators tremble the swords which have exterminated the armies of kings are still in the hands of the conquerors of the rhine of the sambre and meuse and of italy the bombardment of cadiz is still carried on the spanish merchants have offered rewards to such seamen as act gallantly general massaredo has offered piastres to those who shall sink or take a british chaloupe tartanes have been armed with pounders and furnaces for red hot balls the spaniards are preparing for sea cadiz july earl st vincent at last the british who bombardment this town have been forced to retreat after having lost two of their armed chaloupes their fleet was commanded by commodore nelson we yet fear a new attack it appears that the object of this terrible bombardment is to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1806, 2189], "b_span": [1293, 1665], "matched_words": 357, "similarity": 0.9456953642384106, "seeds": 60, "id": "M00894", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information we have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of the sambre and meuse instead of as was said by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st denis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expenditure incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers in the departments and particularly that of marne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie that several requisitions were levied for want of billets and considerable depredations committed the minds of the troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed through the armies the friend of the laws and the centinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen kering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regularity citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|1", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information that we have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of sambre and meuse instead of as was stated by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st dennis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expense incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers in the departments and particularly that of marne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie the minds of these troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed through the army the friends of the laws and the sentinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops still continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen faring who received a counter order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regiments citizen lesage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they have promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [23, 451], "b_span": [470, 879], "matched_words": 398, 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statement given by the directory of the march of the troops towards the metropolis was totally false instead of nine thousand men said to be detached from the army of the sambre and meuse the detachment amounted to between twenty-five and twenty-seven thousand men nor was this force intended as the directory affirmed for any naval expedition but it was selected as we supposed for the express purpose of over-awing if not of dissolving the legislative body the soldiers indeed whose minds had been poisoned by emissaries from paris and by the jacobin journals which were the only papers they were permitted to read openly proclaimed the object of their march and uttered the grossest calumnies against the two councils and notwithstanding the order received from the minister of war to return to the station which they had left they continued their march to paris in obedience to the commands of their general hoche who has by this act openly hoisted the standard of rebellion our readers will recollect that we stated some time since that hoche and his army known to be determined jacobins were the instruments on which the directory chiefly relied for perpetuating their own despotic power and for carrying into effect their own unconstitutional designs the directory also appear to have effectually secured the protection of the army of italy addresses have been received from two more divisions of that army which breathe the rankest spirit of jacobinism now implicit obedience not to the constitution but to the directory and devote their enemies to instant destruction these addresses though the very act of deliberation by which they were preceded was a direct violation of a constitutional provision have been published by the directory who have in consequence been called on by the council of five hundred to account for their conduct meanwhile a formidable force supposed to amount to men has arrived at paris in small parties so that there can be little doubt but that the directory 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men said to be detached from the army of the sambre and meuse the detachment amounted to between and men nor was this force intended as the directory affirmed for any naval expedition but it was selected as we supposed for the express purpose of overawing if not of dissolving the legislative body the soldiers indeed whose minds had been poisoned by emissaries from paris and by the jacobin journals which were the only papers they were permitted to read openly proclaimed the object of their march and uttered the grossest calumnies against the two councils and notwithstanding the order from the minister at war to return to the station which they had left they continued their march to paris in obedience to the commands of their gen hoche who has by this act openly hoisted the standard of rebellion our readers will recollect that we stated some time since that hoche and his army known to be determined jacobins were the instruments on whom the directory chiefly relied for perpetrating their own despotic power and for carrying into effect their own unconstitutional designs the directory also appear to have effectually secured the protection of the army of italy addresses have been received from two more divisions of that army which breathe the rankest spirit of jacobinism vow implicit obedience not to the constitution but to the directory and devote their enemies to instant destruction these addresses though the very act of deliberation by which they were preceded was a violation of a constitutional provision have been published by the directory who have in consequence been called on by the council of five hundred to account for their conduct meanwhile a formidable force supposed to amount to thousand men has arrived at paris in small parties so that there can be little doubt but that the directory will let the legislative body at defiance and effectually triumph"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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cobourg orders have been given for cutting the wheat in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "st ult says that the suburbs of that city are occupied even to the very gates by grenadiers and prussian chasseurs the hussars are in cantonment in the neighboring villages although the barracks had been evacuated by the prussians their sentinels still remained there according to letters from kissingen of the d ult a courier had passed through that place on his way to the duke of meinigen at bruchena with intelligence of prussians having marched for the environs of magdeburg of which were destined for the country of meinigen more for that of hildesheim and the remainder for the principality of cobourg orders have been given for cutting the wheat in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1235, 1374], "b_span": [20, 160], "matched_words": 137, "similarity": 0.982078853046595, "seeds": 28, "id": "M00898", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "repair thither in a day they can at pleasure starve it by stopping the subsistence we can say nothing on their remaining there as it is out of the constitutional circle we should not have known of its arrival if by an unlucky routine they had not entered that important circle the only thing which will become an object of enquiry if the two powers shall not soon come to a good understanding for the public good and that their hostility is not brought to a conclusion is how they have dared to strip the army of the sambre and meuse of part of its force and to suffer to take this menacing power against the central city and legislative body of the republic without the consent of the minister at war and the president of the directory to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "repair thither in a day they can at pleasure starve it by stopping the subsistence we can say nothing on their remaining there as it is out of the constitutional circle we should not have known of its arrival if by an unlucky routine they had not entered that important circle the only thing which will become an object of enquiry if the two powers shall not soon come to a good understanding for the public good and that their hostility is not bro't to a conclusion is how they have dared to strip the army of the sambre meuse of that part of its force and to suffer it to take this menacing power against the central city and legislative body of the republic without the consent of the minister at war and the president of the directory to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3028, 3325], "b_span": [1451, 1751], "matched_words": 282, "similarity": 0.9447236180904522, "seeds": 43, "id": "M00899", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "state of the negotiation relative to the american and spanish limits was last evening handed us by a gentleman who left new orleans the th ult about the middle of june the inhabitants of natchez becoming impatient of the delay on the part of the spaniards in delivering up the posts formed a regular military force of about ten companies and invaded the house of governor gayoso although mr elliott used every exertion to restrain them from proceeding to offensive operations this attack which was made with a view of forcing the spaniards to abandon the natchez ended however by mr elliott's amicable interference who prevented the threatened hostilities and obtained from the gov a promise to suspend the military government of that district and that the inhabitants should be considered in a state of neutrality until the posts were formally delivered up governor gayoso and mr elliott were during these proceedings and have ever since been on the most friendly footing about the th july governor gayoso received notice of his promotion to the government of louisiana and of the appointment of mons grandpre to succeed him at natchez accordingly the former arrived in new orleans on the th ult and took possession of his government at the period of the commotions at the natchez and ever since governor gayoso reiterated his promises of a speedy evacuation of natchez and mr elliott appeared to entertain hopes of succeeding without much further delay but our correspondent conceives that those hopes were very delusive and that the posts will not be delivered up before a general peace takes place unless the main obstacle viz the grant of the navigation of the mississippi to great britain in consequence to the treaty between spain and the united states is previously"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "state of the negotiation relative to the american and spanish limits was last evening handed us by a gentleman who left new orleans the th ult about the middle of june the inhabitants of the natchez becoming impatient of the delay on the part of the spaniards in delivering up the posts formed a regular military force of about ten companies and invested the house of gov gayoso although mr ellicott used every exertion to restrain them from proceeding to offensive operations this attack which was made with a view of forcing the spaniards to abandon the natchez ended however by mr ellicott's amicable interference who prevented the menaced hostilities and obtained from the governor a promise to suspend the military government of that district and that the inhabitants should be considered in a state of neutrality until the posts were formally delivered up gov gayoso and mr ellicott were during these proceedings and have ever since been on the most friendly footing about the th of july gov gayoso received notice of his promotion to the government of louisiana and of the appointment of mons grandpres to succeed him at the natchez accordingly the former arrived in new orleans on the th ult and took possession of his government at the period of the commotions at the natchez and ever since governor gayoso reiterated his promises of a speedy evacuation of the natchez and mr ellicott appeared to entertain hopes of succeeding without much further delay but our correspondent conceives that those hopes were very illusory and that the posts will not be delivered up before a general peace takes place unless the main obstacle viz the grant of the navigation of the mississippi to greatbritain in contravention to the treaty between spain and the united states is previously"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1, 602], "b_span": [880, 1480], "matched_words": 591, "similarity": 0.984179850124896, "seeds": 112, "id": "M00900", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "his observations to the north of the texel when the english fleet is stationed to the south of that river yesterday at one o'clock we received by express paris journals to the th instant inclusive we immediately stopped the press to communicate the substance of their contents which our readers will find fully detailed in our paper of this day the contents of these papers which are extremely important justify all the reflections which we have lately had occasion to make on the internal state of france and the views of the different parties in that distracted country it appears from the debates of the councils that the statement given by the directory of the march of the troops towards the metropolis was totally false instead of nine thousand men said to be detached from the army of the sambre and meuse the detachment amounted to between twenty-five and twenty-seven thousand men nor was this force intended as the directory affirmed for any naval expedition but it was selected as we supposed for the express purpose of over-awing if not of dissolving the legislative body the soldiers indeed whose minds had been poisoned by emissaries from paris and by the jacobin journals which were the only papers they were permitted to read openly proclaimed the object of their march and uttered the grossest calumnies against the two councils and notwithstanding the order received from the minister of war to return to the station which they had left they continued their march to paris in obedience to the commands of their general hoche who has by this act openly hoisted the standard of rebellion our readers will recollect that we stated some time since that hoche and his army known to be determined jacobins were the instruments on which the directory chiefly relied for perpetuating their own despotic power and for carrying into effect their own unconstitutional designs the directory also appear to have effectually secured the protection of the army of italy addresses have been received from two more divisions of that army which breathe the rankest spirit of jacobinism now implicit obedience not to the constitution but to the directory and devote their enemies to instant destruction these addresses though the very act of deliberation by which they were preceded was a direct violation of a constitutional provision have been published by the directory who have in consequence been called on by the council of five hundred to account for their conduct meanwhile a formidable force supposed to amount to men has arrived at paris in small parties so that there can be little doubt but that the directory will set the legislative body at defiance and effectually triumph over the constitution another message was delivered to the council on the d instant on the subject of the finances which are again stated to be in a most deplorable situation it seems indeed that the directory are either anxious to impute this distress to the inefficient proceedings of the council or by a repetition of messages on a subject so important to divert their attention from those vigorous measures which they evince a disposition to adopt for confining the government within the bounds prescribed by the constitution every circumstance combines to sanction the supposition that some dreadful explosion is on the eve of taking place a number of foreigners have crowded to the capital and the terrorists from the different departments have joined them in short that devoted city now wears the very same appearance which it has invariably exhibited previous to every public commotion or massacre since the year"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-11|1|2", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101101/0122.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "his observations to the north of the texel when the english fleet is stationed to the south of that river yesterday at one o'clock we received by express paris journals to the th instant inclusive we immediately stopped the press to communicate the substance of their contents which our readers will find fully detailed in our paper of this day the contents of these papers which are extremely important justify all the reflections which we have lately had occasion to make on the internal state of france and the views of the different parties in that distracted country it appears from the debates of the councils that the statement given by the directory of the march of the troops towards the metropolis was totally false instead of nine thousand men said to be detached from the army of the sambre and meuse the detachment amounted to between twenty six and twenty seven thousand nor was this force intended as the directory affirmed for any naval expedition but it was selected as we suppose for the express purpose of overthrowing if not of dissolving the legislative body the soldiers indeed whose minds had been poisoned by emissaries from paris and by the jacobin journals which were the only papers they were permitted to read openly proclaimed the object of their march and uttered the grossest calumnies against the two councils and notwithstanding the order received from the minister of war to return to the station which they had left they continued their march to paris in obedience to the commands of their general hoche who has by this act openly hoisted the standard of rebellion our readers will recollect that we stated some time since that hoche and his army known to be determined jacobins were the instruments on whom the directory relied for perpetuating their own power and for carrying into effect their own unconstitutional designs the directory also appear to have effectually secured the protection of the army of italy addresses have been received from two more divisions of that army which breathe the rankest spirit of jacobinism vow implicit obedience not to the constitution but to the directory and devote their enemies to instant destruction these addresses though the very act of deliberation by which they were proceeded was a direct violation of a constitutional provision have been published by the directory who have in consequence been called on by the council of five hundred to account for their conduct meanwhile a formidable force supposed to amount to men has arrived at paris in small parties so that there can be little doubt but that the directory will set the legislative body at defiance and effectually triumph over the constitution another message was delivered to the council on the d instant on the subject of the finances which are again stated to be in a most deplorable situation it seems indeed that the directory are either anxious to impute this distress to the inefficient proceedings of the council or by a repetition of messages on a subject so important to divert their attention from those vigorous measures which they evince a disposition to adopt for confining the government within the bounds prescribed by the constitution every circumstance combines to sanction the supposition that some dreadful explosion is on the eve of taking place a number of foreigners have crowded to the capital and the terrorists from the different departments have joined them in short that devoted city now wears the very same appearance which it has invariably exhibited previous to every public commotion or massacre since the year"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2316, 2499], "b_span": [11, 194], "matched_words": 175, "similarity": 0.9562841530054644, "seeds": 31, "id": "M00901", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "since our last very little is said in them upon the subject of the negotiation a rumour however prevailed at paris that the conferences at lille had been suspended till the different plenipotentiaries receive instructions as to some questions of a difficult nature the directory it is furnished have got the army to deliberate upon the jarrings which have taken place at paris between them and the two councils massena's division has already addressed the directory in very strong terms and threaten to march to paris to put their enemies to death let them tremble say they yes let these conspirators tremble the swords which have exterminated the armies of kings are still in the hands of the conquerors of the rhine of the sambre and meuse and of italy the bombardment of cadiz is still carried on the spanish merchants c have offered rewards to such seamen as gallants gen massifado has offered piastres to those who shall sink or take a british chaloupe tartanes have been armed with pounders and furnaces for red hot balls the spaniards are preparing for sea"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-11|1|2", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101101/0122.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "since our last very little is said in them upon the subject of the negotiation a rumour however prevailed at paris that the conference at lille had been suspended till the different plenipotentiaries receive instructions as to some questions of a difficult nature the directory it is surmised have got the army to deliberate upon the jarrings which have taken place in paris between them and the two councils massena's division has already addressed the directory in very strong terms and threaten to march to paris to put their enemies to death let them tremble say they yes let these conspirators tremble the swords which have exterminated the armies of kings are still in the hands of the conquerors of the rhine of the sambre and meuse and of italy the bombardment of cadiz is still carried on the spanish merchants have offered rewards to such seamen as act gallantly general massaredo has offered piasters to those who shall sink or take a british chaloupe tartanes have been armed with pounders and furnaces for red hot balls the spaniards are preparing for sea"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [603, 729], "b_span": [909, 1036], "matched_words": 122, "similarity": 0.9644268774703557, "seeds": 25, "id": "M00902", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "unused to contradiction has expressed his displeasure in strong terms at the refusal of the swiss to grant a passage to his troops through their territory and he has even threatened to procure by force what entreaties have failed to obtain mallet du pan to his honor be it spoken is pursued with unrelenting animosity by the french government he has been compelled to leave morat for fribourg and it is supposed will be ultimately obliged to seek refuge in england reports prevailed at paris that the negotiation at eisle was suspended from the exorbitant pretensions of the directory who are even said to have openly declared that the royalist faction alone is desirous of a peace with england what foundation there is for such a"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101401/0126.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "unused to contradiction has expressed his displeasure in strong terms at the refusal of the swiss to grant a passage to his troops through their territory and he has even threatened to procure by force what entreaties have failed to obtain mallet du pan to his honour be it spoken is pursued with unrelenting animosity by the french government he has been compelled to leave morat for fribourg and it is supposed will be ultimately obliged to seek for refuge in england reports prevail at paris that the negotiation at lille was suspended from the exorbitant pretensions of the directory who are even said to have openly declared that the royalist faction alone is desirous of a peace with france what foundation there is for such a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1554, 2199], "b_span": [1048, 1687], "matched_words": 624, "similarity": 0.9719626168224299, "seeds": 109, "id": "M00903", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-20|1|3", "date": "1797-09-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "hundred sitting of august a message was read from the directory it announces that it has given orders for the issue of the expenses of the first decade of thermidor which amount to twenty millions the produce of the receipt in the departments amounts only to six millions leaving a deficit of fourteen millions without including in that sum the expenses of growing interest the receipts of the whole month of thermidor will only amount to twenty-three millions and these facts continues the directory prove the insufficiency of the present means we have commissioned the minister of finance to lay before us a report on the revenue and expenditure of the state and on the means of establishing a just balance between them we annex this to our message and request you to take it into consideration the council ordered the message and the report to be printed and to be referred to a committee after being read the president announced to the council that an infinity of very important objects claimed their attention and that the sitting of the next day would open at noon sitting of august the central administration of the department of the rhone denounces to the councils in conformity with the terms of the constitution the order of the directory relative to the commune of lyons by which the commandant of that place is authorised to put it in a state of siege referred to the committee on that subject sitting of august delarue i come in the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information we have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of the sambre and meuse instead of as was said by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st denis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expenditure incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers in the departments and particularly that of marne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie that several requisitions were levied for want of billets and considerable depredations committed the minds of the troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed through the armies the friend of the laws and the centinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen kering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regularity citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to deliberate the council adopted these propositions and ordered the report"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101401/0126.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "hundred sitting of august a message was read from the directory it announces that it has given orders for the issue of the expenses of the first decade of thermidor which amount to twenty millions the produce of the receipt in the departments amounts only to six millions leaving a deficit of fourteen millions without including in that sum the expenses of growing interest the receipts of the whole month of thermidor will only amount to twenty-three millions all these facts continues the directory prove the insufficiency of the present means we have commissioned the ministers of finance to lay before us a report on the revenue and expenditure of the state and on the means of establishing a just balance between them we annex this to our message and request you to take into consideration the council ordered the message and the report to be printed and to be referred to a committee after being read the president announced to the council that an infinity of very important objects claimed their attention and that the sitting of the next day would open at noon sitting of august the central administration of the department of the rhone denounces to the councils in conformity with the terms of the constitution the order of the directory relative to the commune of lyons by which the commandant of that place is authorised to put it in a state of siege sitting of august delarue i come in the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information that we have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of the sambre and meuse instead of as was stated by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st dennis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expence incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers of the departments and particularly that of marne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie that forced requisitions were levied for want of billets and considerable depredations committed the minds of these troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body rebels are dispersed through the armies the friend of the laws and the centinel are the only journals that reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops still continue their march towards paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen fering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regimentals citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the 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yarmouth to cruxhaven it had on board a courier charged with dispatches and passengers the privateer intrepid of nantes has taken a ship under american colors from liverpool to philadelphia with a cargo of salt coals tin and copper sheathing for three frigates the privateer le decide of bourdeaux capt lausone has taken and carried into corunna the portuguese ship the duke of praganza of tons laden with cotton rice coffee cocoa c from maraganal to lisbon the privateer le chasseur basque capt dariban has carried into bayonne a fine english brig called the jean from quebec"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3986, 4096], "b_span": [458, 566], "matched_words": 103, "similarity": 0.944954128440367, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00905", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-21|1|2", "date": "1797-09-21", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": 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who regret the old government and there are others no doubt who have a partiality to the revolutionary government so favourable to their malignant passions and their insatiable avarice but these sectaries of despotism and anarchy form but a small party in the republic and even supposing the number of them greater than it is the royalists have shown the feebleness of their policy the anarchists the cruelty of their disposition too much to suffer us to fear that they will ever again be able to muster with success against the defenders of the constitution if the directory would see the objects as they really are and not attempt to represent the political horizon as charged with clouds which have blown over us they would be convinced that the great majority of the country is devoted to them who then are the persons who favour one or other of these opinions are they those who first attack the power of ministers when armed with letters de cachet and arbitrary power to act as they pleased are these the persons who in different public assemblies have proclaimed and developed the principles of liberty and of representative government it is this incalculable number of administrators of judges and of public functionaries who have entailed upon themselves the hatred of those who only wish for laws that they may profit by them or of those who hope for advantage by the non-existence of the laws can it be from our victorious soldiers who have seen the constitution rise cemented by the blood of their brethren who have perished in dangers in which they have partaken it is from them that we are to expect measures that are incompatible with the safety of the constitution let the directory frankly unite with the legislative body let it derive its power from its true source let them be convinced that there is a cessation of government when there is a cessation of harmony between the supreme powers that authority however extensive is not sufficient for governing if it is not supported by confidence and that confidence is the prize given by public opinion that ministers without esteem are ministers without influence and that they will meet with obstacles where others would have found assistance that peace which is the common object of all our wishes can only be obtained whatever talents the negotiator may possess by the strict coalition of all the first authorities that generals crowned with laurels that soldiers and citizens having the most glorious prospect before them the life of pompey and the old age of timoleon will never consent to sacrifice their brilliant destinies"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|1", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the future and fearful of relying on the support of the power which has been entrusted to them on the exercise of its lawful means they endeavor to appear apprehensive of an attack on the constitution but instead of retreating into a fortress and defending it they have recourse to arms which the constitution should break there are doubtless men in france who regret the old government and there are others no doubt who have a partiality to the revolutionary government to favorable to their malignant passions and their insatiable avarice but these sectaries of despotism and anarchy form but a small party in the republic and even supposing the number of them greater than it is the royalists have shewn the feebleness of their policy the anarchists the cruelty of their despotism too much to suffer us to fear that they will ever again be able to muster with success against the defenders of the constitution if the directory as they really are and not attempt to represent the political horizon as charged with clouds which have blown over us they would be convinced that the great majority of the country is devoted to them who then are the persons who favor one or the other of these opinions are they those who first attacked the power of ministers when armed with letters de cachet and arbitrary power to act as they pleased are these the persons who in different public assemblies have proclaimed and developed the principles of liberty and of representative government is it this incalculable number of administrators of judges and of public functionaries who have entailed upon themselves the hatred of those who only wish for laws that they may profit by them or of those who hope for advantage by the non existence of the laws can it be from our victorious soldiery who have seen the constitution rise cemented by the blood of their brethren who have perished in dangers in which they have partaken is it from them that we are to expect measures that are incompatible with the safety of the constitution let the directory frankly unite with the legislative body let it derive its power from its true source let them be convinced that there is a cessation of harmony between the supreme powers that authority however extensive is insufficient for governing if it is not supported by confidence and that confidence is the prize given by public opinion that ministers without esteem are ministers without influence and that they will meet with obstacles where others would have found assistance that peace which is the common object of all our wishes can only be obtained whatever talents the negotiator may possess by the strict coalition of all the first authorities that generals crowned with laurels that soldiers and citizens having the most glorious prospect before them the life of pompey and the old age of timoleon will never consent to sacrifice their brilliant destinies"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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vessel of tons laden with cotton tobacco c and valued at livres the intrepid of dunkirk has taken an english brig laden with heavy pieces of cannon the cheri and confidence of nantes have taken an english vessel named the lively from antigua with rum and sugar the dragon has sent to paimpol a vessel said to be an american laden with sugar coffee and cotton"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|2", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0368.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sent into that port a portuguese ship called the bento of tons from st salvador to oporto laden with sugar coffee c the privateers the constance and cheri of nantes have taken and sent into minden the betsey of yarmouth of tons the sauvage of boulogne has carried into that port an english lugger laden with geneva the adventure of bourdeaux has taken and sent into that port la sainte therese a portuguese vessel of tons laden with cotton tobacco c and valued at livres the intrepid of dunkirk has taken an english brig laden with heavy pieces of cannon the cheri and constance of nantes have taken an english vessel named the lively from antigua with rum and sugar the dragon has sent to paimpol a vessel said to be an american laden with sugar coffee and cotton"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2908, 2993], "b_span": [2738, 2824], "matched_words": 84, "similarity": 0.9824561403508771, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00908", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-21|1|3", "date": "1797-09-21", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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"1797-09-21", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "has just given the second decision on the urgent payment to be made in the second decade of thermidor the demands originating from the most pressing wants amounted to about twenty millions in order to maintain the public service it was necessary to consider the presumptive receipt of the departments during the last decade and that of the national treasury during the present as funds actually to be disposed of the sum total of these funds it has not been possible to rate higher than at livres which have been distributed in such manner as appeared most conformable to subsisting laws and the support of the public service under the difficult circumstances wherein we are placed there remains a deficit of about millions for the next decade to which is to be added the expense of the ten following days whatever calculations may be made citizens representatives it must be evident to you that our present means are not sufficient from the statements transmitted to you a few days since by the national treasury it is clear that we cannot expect to receive millions of specie during the month of thermidor with means so feeble it will be impossible to maintain the public service and the difficulties it labours under renders its situation worse every day the state of things deserves your attention the more as it might be altered by making use of the resources which the republic has yet left the persuasion citizen representatives that these resources still exist has hitherto supported our courage and animated our hope but it is time to improve them the minister of finances has pointed out some of them in the report annexed to this message the directory has met with frequent opportunities to invite you to examine into these resources and the danger of the present moment obliges them to repeat the request from a conviction that the adoption of proper measures for restoring public credit would produce the most fortunate change the directory sincerely wishes that you may take them into"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "has just given the second decision on the urgent payments to be made in the second decade of thermidor the demands originating from the most pressing wants amounted to about millions in order to maintain the public service it was necessary to consider the presumptive receipt of the departments during the last decade and that of the national treasury during the present as funds actually to be disposed of the sum total of these funds it has not been possible to rate higher than at livres which have been distributed in such manner as appeared most conformable to subsisting laws and the support of the public service under the difficult circumstances wherein we are placed there remains a deficit of about millions for the next decade to which is to be added the expense of the ten following days whatever calculations may be made citizens representatives it must be evident to you that our present means are not sufficient from the statement transmitted to you a few days since by the national treasury it is clear that we cannot expect to receive millions of specie during the month of thermidor with means so feeble it will be impossible to maintain the public service and the difficulties it labours under render its situation worse every day this state of things deserves your attention the more as it might be altered by making use of the resources which the republic has yet left the persuasion citizen representatives that these resources still exist has hitherto supported our courage and animated our hope but it is time to improve them the minister of finances has pointed out some of them in the report annexed to this message the directory has met with frequent opportunities to invite you to examine into these resources and the danger of the present moment obliges them to repeat this request from a conviction that the adoption of proper measures for restoring public credit would produce the most fortunate change the directory sincerely wish that you may take them into"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [533, 637], "b_span": [248, 351], "matched_words": 99, "similarity": 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orders to remain in cantonments in the departments of the marne while the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the st of july the following is the order of the day which however may be changed to night for the utmost variation and uncertainty prevails in the movements of the troops the cantonment of men is not to take place the troops have received orders to retrograde the four regiments of chasseurs had likewise been ordered to retrograde but last night they received new orders to remain one at the rheims the second at epernay the third at chalons and the fourth at vitry why have those horse received orders to remain in cantonments in the 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conclusion of the treaty it is even looked upon as impossible if the directory do not abate the pretensions which it has advanced what are we to expect if it be true as we have reason to believe that a member of government has been heard to say it is only the royalist faction which is desirous of a peace with england according to private letters from italy the negotiation there meets with many difficulties and that which appears most insuperable is the clause stipulating the integrity of the germanic body the manner in which the emperor has taken possession of the germanic body has offended our government and the conferences have been on the point of being broken off and hostilities re-commencing fortunately this resolution was not carried into effect and the negotiation still continues the project which has been suggested to be entertained of dissolving the national representation by force while it gave our enemies hopes of witnessing an internal commotion re-animated their"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "report of the suspension of the negotiations at lisle gains ground the negotiators they say have shewn much confidence esteem and reciprocal cordiality in their conferences but bound by their instructions they are very far at present from drawing towards the conclusion of the treaty it is even looked upon as impossible if the directory do not abate the pretensions which it has advanced what are we to expect if it be true as we have reason to believe that a member of government has been heard to say it is only the royalist faction which is desirous of a peace with england according to private letters from italy the negotiation there meets with many difficulties and that which appears most insuperable is the clause stipulating the integrity of the germanic body the manner in which the emperor has taken possession of the germanic body has offended our government and the conferences have been on the point of being broken off and hostilities recommencing fortunately this resolution was not carried into effect and the negotiation still continues the project which has been suspected to be entertained of dissolving the national representation by force while it gave our enemies hopes of witnessing an internal commotion re-animated their"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1171, 1272], "b_span": [365, 461], "matched_words": 93, "similarity": 0.9441624365482234, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00912", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-21|1|3", "date": "1797-09-21", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the directory the extract from the report of piechegru in which he addresses himself to the armies of the republic has been posted up with the greatest success in the department of marne and the soldiers have appeared to hear with satisfaction the voice of him who so often led them to victory and who has always shown himself sparing of the blood of frenchmen in short those who have sent for the troops if they are well acquainted with the circumstances which have attended the march of the different corps may now learn that their attempt would have failed"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to the directory the extract from the report of pichegru in which he addresses himself to the armies of the republic has been posted up with the greatest success in the department of marne and the soldiers have voice of him who has so often led them to victory and who has always shewn himself sparing of the blood of frenchmen in short those who have sent for the troops if they are well acquainted with the circumstances which have attended the march of the different corps may now learn that their attempt would have failed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2915, 2993], "b_span": [1187, 1265], 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"sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "council when a message arrived from the indians who were lately hostile to our government informing that the spaniards were sending amongst all the indians requesting they would unite with them which the message desired the six nations would not do the message was taken into consideration and the council determined they would not have any thing to do with the business similar messages are gone to the indians about canada and i hope may meet the same"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2906, 2975], "b_span": [844, 913], "matched_words": 68, "similarity": 0.9855072463768116, "seeds": 13, "id": "M00914", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-22|1|2", "date": "1797-09-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092201/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "july the english had blockaded cadiz by sea and had even thrown some bombs into the town we have however just learnt by a courier extraordinary which arrived yesterday that the english have been compelled to abandon the attack and to cut their cables in order to escape our squadron composed of ships of the line well manned have failed in pursuit of them and we have reason to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-26|1|3", "date": "1797-09-26", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", 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"paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092201/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the columbian mirror gentlemen in your paper of the th inst is inserted a paragraph taken from another paper which states that the differences in the western country betwixt spain and the united states were settled that the commissioners had proceeded to run the line and that the spaniards had a force of men in the province you very justly observe that this information does not agree with the spirit of the proclamation which you annexed and the probability of its truth is further to be questioned by its being stated that the same person who gave the information brought dispatches to philadelphia from the representatives of two different powers a thing in itself absurd however leaving the wide field of conjecture i will come to the facts i am but this moment arrived from the spanish dominions by the way of natchez which place i left about the middle of july and i assure you that then there was no more probability of the differences being settled than there was before things remained in the same state they had done for some time in fact some short time since there was not so much as an appearance of a pacific disposition for the inhabitants of the district of the natchez enraged at the delay of the spaniards in not delivering up the forts rose en masse and kept the governor close confined in the fort for the space of days and he was afraid then to venture out until he had signed articles of capitulation drawn up by the inhabitants in which they secured to themselves many valuable privileges until the differences between the two powers should be settled these articles were sent down to the baron de carondelet for confirmation and the dispatch bringing the ratifications arrived at natchez the day i left it with respect to the forces of the spaniards in that quarter they are precisely this at new madrid the first settlement on entering the mississippi from the ohio there are between and men without any fort at chickasaw bluffs there is a sergeant and men at the walnut hills i cannot precisely tell the number as i did not stop there at natchez there are between and and at new orleans there are so few as not to be able to do the duty of the garrison so that the inhabitants are called upon to perform that service a task of which they complain bitterly these are the mighty forces which the spaniards have on that river however i can easily conceive how the information came if i am not mistaken it was brought by one thomas power who has brought dispatches lately into the united states but for whom no one knew when he left the natchez he is the same person who was stopped on the ohio about months ago by lieutenant steele by command of the late general wayne and his papers seized he was suspected of coming with a design to alienate the affections of the inhabitants of the western countries from the union and to attach them to spain it is supposed that this second trip to our country has in it something of a similar design he might have political views in representing the strength of the spaniards much greater than it really is as to the present amicable disposition of the spaniards and their wish to carry the treaty into effect i will give you two recent instances mr mcclure of washington in washington county pennsylvania lately went down the mississippi with a cargo of flour at walnut hills when he went ashore to shew his passport the commandant of the place told him that he wanted the flour that was in his boat mr mcclure told him that if he would give him dollars per barrel or the rise of the orleans market for three months he might have it the commandant returned for answer that the flour was there and he must and would have it and with respect to the price he mr mcclure must settle that with the proper officers at new orleans and immediately sent down some soldiers to seize the boat in direct violation of the th article of the treaty which declares that the subjects or citizens of each of the contracting parties their vessels or effects shall not be liable to any embargo or detention on the part of the other for any military expedition or other public or private purpose whatever when he came to new orleans he procured certificates from the different merchants of the price of flour being dollars per barrel and he presented these to the proper officers expecting to receive that sum but what was his surprise when contrary to every principle of honor and honesty and in open violation of a solemn treaty he found they would only give him dollars in vain did he remonstrate on the occasion in vain did he plead the treaty or his being an american citizen he discovered too late that the common principles of rectitude were not to be found in the bosom of a spaniard and all the satisfaction he had if a satisfaction it may be called was that he was not the only one by many who had been duped in the same manner the other case respected myself one joseph vidal the secretary of the government was indebted to me a sum of money of which when i went to demand the payment he tendered me as a discharge some spanish certificates which bore an enormous discount there being no money at that time in the treasury these certificates are a species of paper money drawn by the commandants of the different forts on the treasury at new orleans and paid away to workmen c for wages and are received by the merchants at a rate proportionable to the degree of confidence they can put in them vidal wanted me to receive them at their nominal value i refused and as he would not pay me in the current coin of the country i brought the case before gayoso the governor he who has so often assured mr elliott that it is the sincere wish of spain to carry the treaty into effect this same man decreed contrary to the knowledge of every inhabitant of the place that it was the custom of that country to receive the certificates as cash and that even depreciated as they were they were a legal tender i rested myself on the treaty and begged that agreeable to the provision made in the th article the case might be decided according to the authority of law only and not according to the custom of the country with which as a stranger i was not supposed to be acquainted and further that the law if there were any which would affect the case in point might be pointed out to me on which our friend gayoso pointing to his own breast had the effrontery to tell me that he was the law and that as he said the law was to be decided as the governor had none but his own sycophants about him when he made use of this assertion i thought it necessary to call in some one to be witness to so extraordinary a declaration and as an authority for so doing i pleaded the th art of the treaty which declares that the citizens and subjects of both parties shall be allowed to employ such advocates solicitors notaries agents and factors as they may judge proper in all their affairs and in all their trials at law in which they may be concerned before the tribunals of the other party and such agents shall have free access to be present at the proceedings in such causes and at the taking of all examination and evidence which may be exhibited in the said trials but even this this very evident privilege was refused by the same evasive answers and every avenue to obtain justice completely shut up from these circumstances it is evident there is no greater security in navigating the mississippi since the treaty than before it nor will there ever be till that nest of harpies who prey upon the american citizens is completely rooted out what dependance can be placed in a treaty which the whim or caprice favor or folly of a petty commandant of a spanish garrison is able to set aside and to substitute his own will as the law which is to govern a free citizen risking his property under the faith of solemn treaties representations of these two cases have been forwarded"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|2", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0368.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the columbian mirror gentlemen in your paper of the th inst is inserted a paragraph taken from another paper which states that the differences in the western country betwixt spain and the united states were settled that the commissioners had proceeded to run the line and that the spaniards had a force of men in the provinces you very justly observe that this information does not agree with the spirit of the proclamation which you annexed and the probability of its truth is further to be questioned by its being stated that the same person who gave the information brought dispatches to philadelphia from the representatives of two different powers a thing in itself absurd however leaving the wide field of conjecture i will come to the facts i am but this moment arrived from the spanish dominions by the way of natchez which place i left about the middle of july and i assure you that then there was no more probability of the differences being settled than there was before things remained in the same state they had done for some time in fact some short time since there was not so much as an appearance of a pacific disposition for the inhabitants of the district of the natchez enraged at the delay of the spaniards in not delivering up the forts rose en masse and kept the governor close confined in the fort for the space of days and he was afraid then to venture out until he had signed articles of capitulation drawn up by the inhabitants in which they secured to themselves many valuable privileges until the differences between the two powers should be settled these articles were sent down to the baron de carondelet for confirmation and the dispatch bringing the ratifications arrived at natchez the day i left it with respect to the forces of the spaniards in that quarter they are precisely this at new madrid the first settlement on entering the mississippi from the ohio there are between and men without any fort at chickasaw bluffs there is a serjeant and men at the walnut hills i cannot precisely tell the number as i did not stop there at natchez there are between and and at new-orleans there are so few as not to be able to do the duty of the garrison so that the inhabitants are called upon to perform that service a task of which they complain bitterly these are the mighty forces which the spaniards have on that river however i can easily conceive how the information came if i am not mistaken it was brought by one thomas powers who has brought dispatches lately into the united states but for whom no one knew when he left the natchez he is the same person who was stopped on the ohio about months ago by lieutenant steele by command of the late general wayne and his papers seized he was suspected of coming with a design to alienate the affections of the inhabitants of the western counties from the union and to attach them to spain it is supposed that this second trip to our country has in it something of a similar design he might have political views in representing the strength of the spaniards much greater than it really is as to the present amicable disposition of the spaniards and their wish to carry the treaty into effect i will give you two recent instances mr m'cluney of washington in washington county pennsylvania lately went down the mississippi with a cargo of flour at walnut hills when he went ashore to shew his passport the commander of the place told him that he wanted the flour that was in his boat mr m'cluney told him that if he would give him dollars per barrel or the rise of the orleans market for three months he might have it the commandant returned for answer that the flour was there and he must and would have it and with respect to the price he mr m'cluney must settle that with the proper officers at new orleans and immediately sent down some soldiers to seize the boat in direct violation of the th article of the treaty which declares that the subjects or citizens of each of the contracting parties their vessels or effects shall not be liable to any embargo or detention on the part of the other for any military expedition or other public or private purpose whatever when he came to new orleans he procured certificates from the different merchants of the price of flour being dols per bbl and he presented these to the proper officers expecting to receive that sum but what was his surprise when contrary to every principle of honor and honesty and in open violation of a solemn treaty he found they would only give him dols in vain did he remonstrate on the occasion in vain did he plead the treaty or his being an american citizen he discovered too late that the common principles of rectitude were not to be found in the bosom of a spaniard and all the satisfaction he had if a satisfaction it may be called was that he was not the only one by many who had been duped in the same manner the other case respected myself one joseph vidal the secretary of the government was indebted to me a sum of money for which when i went to demand the payment he tendered me as a discharge some spanish certificates which bore an enormous discount there being no money at that time in the treasury these certificates are a species of paper money drawn by the commandants of the different forts on the treasury at new orleans and paid away to workmen c for wages and are received by the merchants at a rate proportionable to the degree of confidence they can put in them vidal wanted me to receive them at their nominal value i refused and as he would not pay me in the current coin of the country i brought the case before gayoso the governor he who has so often assured mr ellicott that it is the sincere wish of spain to carry the treaty into effect this same man decreed contrary to the knowledge of every inhabitant of the place that it was the custom of that country to receive the certificates as cash and that even depreciated as they were they were a legal tender i refused myself on the treaty and begged that agreeable to the provision made in the th article the case might be decided according to the authority of law only and not according to the custom of the country with which as a stranger i was not supposed to be acquainted and further that the law if there were any which would affect the case in point might be pointed out to me on which our friend gayoso pointing to his own breast had the effrontery to tell me that he was the law and that as he said the law was to be decided as the governor had none but his own sycophants about him when he made use of this assertion i thought it necessary to call in some one to be witness to so extraordinary a declaration and as an authority for so doing i pleaded the th art of the treaty which declares that the citizens and subjects of both parties shall be allowed to employ such advocates solicitors notaries agents and factors as they may judge proper in all their affairs and in all their trials at law in which they may be concerned before the tribunals of the other party and such agents shall have free access to be present at the proceedings in such causes and at the taking of all examinations and evidences which may be exhibited in the said trials but even this this very evident privilege was refused by the same evasive answers and every avenue to obtain justice completely shut up from these circumstances it is evident there is no greater security in navigating the mississippi since the treaty than before it nor will there ever be till that nest of harpies who prey upon the american citizens is completely rooted out what dependance can be placed in a treaty which the whim or caprice favor or folly of a petty commandant of a spanish garrison is able to set aside and to substitute his own will as the law which is to govern a free citizen risking his property under the faith of solemn treaties representations of these two cases have been forwarded"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4859, 5032], "b_span": [502, 675], "matched_words": 169, "similarity": 0.976878612716763, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00916", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-22|1|2", "date": "1797-09-22", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092201/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "addresses from all the divisions we may be able to form some opinion of the spirit which will prevail in that of the division of angereau from the speech of that general on the celebration of the federation of the th july in which is the following remarkable passage may says he to the soldiers of his division may a spark of the sacred fire which animates you warm the souls of these young sybarites who have neither virtue nor patriotism and in whom effeminacy and egotism have extinguished the voice of honor and you my comrades persevere always in the sentiments which associate you to their glory if rash fashions have dared to attempt our rights if the constitution you have chosen has been violated if your victorious bands have been threatened with chains if their audacity has been carried so far as to attempt to raise again either the scaffold or the throne you soldiers know your duty there will be nothing remaining for you but the alternative of liberty or"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|2", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0368.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "addresses from all the divisions we may be able to form some opinion of the spirit which will prevail in that of the division of angereau from the speech of that general on the celebration of the federation of the th july in which is the following remarkable passage may says he to the soldiers of his division may a spark of the sacred fire which animates you warm the souls of those young sebarites who have neither virtue nor patriotism and in whom effeminacy and egotism have extinguished the voice of honor and you my comrades persevere always in the sentiments which associate you to their glory if rash factions have dared to attempt our rights if the constitution you have chosen has been violated if your victorious hands have been threatened with chains if their audacity has been carried so far as to attempt to raise again either the scaffold or the throne you soldiers know your duty there will be nothing remaining for you but the alternative of liberty or"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4305, 4461], "b_span": [495, 650], "matched_words": 152, "similarity": 0.977491961414791, "seeds": 29, "id": "M00917", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-22|1|2", "date": 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of an insurrection on the spanish main and that the insurgents had taken the fort at leguira their object it seems is to obtain a free trade upon a similar footing with other ports belonging to european powers their plan is extensive has been long in agitation and is well digested captain rogers has no doubt of the above intelligence for he conversed with several gentlemen on the subject who were on the main at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1, 363], "b_span": [128, 490], "matched_words": 354, "similarity": 0.9779005524861878, "seeds": 65, "id": "M00926", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-23|1|3", "date": "1797-09-23", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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disgrace from state to state constantly driven before our republican phalanxes reduce us under the yoke if this idea be disgusting to every citizen who has but once in his life been stimulated by the love of his country how much more must it be to the old soldiers of the republic volunteers of the army of the interior the same men whom you so often repulsed on the banks of the rhine whom you so completely humbled at quiberon are now at paris and in the departments they form an army in the presence of our own firm to your principles obey the voice of the directory be faithful to your glory make a rampart of your bodies around the constitution which you have sworn to maintain and rely upon victory in the full conviction that the never will forsake the republican colours in the address from gen serrurier's division the following passage is remarkable speak citizens directors speak and instantly the miscreants who pollute the soil of the republic shall cease to exist to annihilate them it 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congratulate themselves in their speeches the cries of death the dreadful howlings of the journalists of louis xviii and you will have the mournful picture of the rising counter-revolution what comrades shall we have shed so much blood for the prosperity and glory of our country and yet see it replunged again into the disorders of anarchy into the fury of civil wars shall the odious capet who for six years has carried his disgrace from state to state constantly driven before our republican phalanxes reduce us under the yoke if this idea be disgusting to every citizen who has but once in his life been stimulated by the love of his country how much more so must it be to the old soldiers of the republic volunteers of the army of the interior the same men whom you so often repulsed on the banks of the rhine whom you so completely humbled at quiberon are now at paris and in the departments they form an army in presence of our own firm to your principles obey the voice of the directory be 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serious apprehensions had been entertained of their being attacked by the western indians influenced by the spaniards and french capt guion with two companies who had been sent down the mississippi to occupy the posts to be delivered up by the spaniards by treaty instead of being allowed to perform that service was when the account came away in a fort of confinement by the spaniards neither being allowed to proceed or return another detachment had met with the same fate the garrison of niagara expects an immediate reinforcement from west-point the british are not without apprehensions of an attempt on canada by the french and spaniards but expect a large body of troops from england they had received orders in upper canada to build immediately three twenty-gun ships on lake ontario the british troops in upper canada consist of a new regiment of volunteers and the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": 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the british are not without apprehensions of an attempt on canada by the french and spaniards but expect a strong body of troops from england they had received orders in upper canada to build immediately three twenty gun-ships on lake ontario the british troops of upper canada consist of a new regiment of volunteers and the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2568, 2780], "b_span": [2631, 2840], "matched_words": 203, "similarity": 0.9643705463182898, "seeds": 34, "id": "M00929", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-25|1|3", "date": "1797-09-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092501/0003.pdf", 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all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are as the royal printing offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses at oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|4", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2568, 2783], "b_span": [1202, 1414], "matched_words": 204, "similarity": 0.955503512880562, "seeds": 37, "id": "M00931", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-25|1|3", "date": "1797-09-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to the undertaking isaiah"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0139.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the bible have now passed through the press of the proprietor of this paper viz folio with fifty copperplate representations of scripture history royal quarto with and without concordance large demy octavo with and without apocrypha and demy mo or the common small bible this last is just issued from the press the types for which were procured at a great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen years to compleat them they are now all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing-offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to the undertaking isaiah"}, "profiles": 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the press the types for which was procured at a very great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen four years to complete them they are now all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are as the royal printing offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses at oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to the undertaking isaiah"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|3", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0143.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the bible have now passed through the press of the proprietor of this paper viz folio with fifty copperplate representations of scripture history royal quarto with and without concordance large demy octavo with and without apocrypha and demy mo or the common small bible this last is just issued from the press the types for which were procured at a great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen years to compleat them they are now all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing-offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to the undertaking isaiah"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4, 196], "b_span": [1009, 1203], "matched_words": 186, "similarity": 0.9637305699481865, "seeds": 33, "id": "M00933", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-25|1|3", "date": "1797-09-25", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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to desist from such unlawful proceedings under the severe penalties prescribed by law likewise commanding all officers both civil and military to apprehend and bring to justice such offenders without delay the other part of the message from his excellency was a plan of apportionment to each county within this state of the quota required in the detachment agreeable to an act of congress passed for that"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-04|1|3", "date": "1797-11-04", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110401/0151.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a notice of his excellency the governor the council of state convened at the city of raleigh on tuesday the th day of august last when was nominated and appointed the hon major thomas brown president and robert williams jun secretary we learn that the council proceeded immediately on the message of his excellency on that part thereof relative to certain communications from the secretary of the united states requiring the executive to make use of every measure to apprehend certain persons within the limits of the state who were arming and equipping themselves contrary to the good order and peace of society and the laws of the united states the council thought proper to recommend to his excellency to issue a proclamation commanding all persons to desist from such unlawful proceeding under the severe penalties prescribed by law likewise commanding all other officers both civil and military to apprehend and bring to justice such offenders without delay the other part of the message from his excellency was a plan of apportionment to each county within this state of the quota required in the detachment agreeably to an act of congress passed for that"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2128, 2192], "b_span": [1677, 1740], "matched_words": 61, "similarity": 0.9606299212598425, "seeds": 11, "id": "M00934", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-09-26|1|2", "date": "1797-09-26", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-09-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797092601/0364.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "baltimore sept we have the yellow fever worse here than philadelphia when i say here i mean the point on wednesday died on thursday saturday and i believe about in different parts of the city who caught the disease at the point i know of yesterday and of who took it on thursday by going to see the frigate launched knowing the danger i"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-07|1|2", "date": "1797-10-07", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797100701/0118.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "baltimore sept we have the yellow fever worse than philadelphia when i say here i mean the point there on wednesday died on thursday saturday and i believe about in different parts of the city who caught it at the point i know of yesterday and of who took it on thursday by going to see the frigate launched knowing the danger i"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [12, 394], "b_span": [1293, 1665], "matched_words": 355, "similarity": 0.9416445623342176, "seeds": 61, "id": "M00935", "a": {"key": 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the sum of livres in specie that forced requisitions were levied for want of billets and considerable depredations committed the minds of these troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed throughout the armies the friend of the law and the centinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops still continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen fering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regimentals citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|1", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", 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proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to deliberate the council adopted these propositions and ordered the report"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101401/0126.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "august delarue i come in the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information that we have procured that from to men have been 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hip of ai gum supposed bound to france and had a on board with hhn general toufkint has tlie chief command of the army arid had sent for gen rigaud to thp cape where he was hourly expefled raimond and leblanc have the chief civil authority a prize englift fchoonir wa fitting out at the cape to carry another deputa tion to france and was to fail in a few day capt cowper further informs that about ftil of americans were laying at st ja go fail at port-au-paix and fail at mente christie all of whom were waiting for trial the brig abigail anderfon of thil port was taken hetween the mole and cape may outward bound to jamaica and"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "informs that santhonax failed on the th aug in a ship of guns supposed bound to france and had a black representative on board with him general toussaint has the chief command of the army and had sent for gen rigaud to the cape where he was hourly expected raimond and le blanc have the chief civil authority a prize english schooner was fitting out at the cape to carry another deputation to france and was to sail in a few days capt cowper further informs that about fail of americans were laying at st jago fail at port-au-paix and fail at monte christe all of whom were waiting for trial the brig abigail anderson of this port was taken between the mole and cape may outward bound to jamaica and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [295, 389], "b_span": [1973, 2061], "matched_words": 83, "similarity": 0.9120879120879121, "seeds": 12, "id": "M00940", "a": {"key": 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displayed the french colors a detachment from the army are now on their way to that quarter a small plundering party of indians have endeavoured to make themselves masters of fort recovery they were drove out of the fort with the loss of one indian killed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1964, 2052], "b_span": [1004, 1092], "matched_words": 84, "similarity": 0.9545454545454546, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00943", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-29|1|3", "date": "1797-09-29", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797092901/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the commanding officer of fort fayette from the commandant at presqu'isle dated the th inst last evening ensign callender arrived here with dispatches from the commander in chief it appears that the inhabitants at the natchez are in open rebellion and have displayed the french colours a detachment from the army are now on their way to that quarter a small plundering party of indians have endeavoured to make themselves masters of fort recovery they were drove out of the fort with the loss of one indian killed"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the commanding officer of fort fayette from the commandant at presq isle dated th inst last evening ensign callender arrived here with dispatches from the commander in chief it appears that the inhabitants at the natchez are in open rebellion and have displayed the french colors a detachment from the army are now on their way to that quarter a small plundering party of indians have endeavoured to make themselves masters of fort recovery they were driven out of the fort with the loss of one indian killed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3161, 3815], "b_span": [623, 1276], "matched_words": 633, "similarity": 0.9686304514154552, "seeds": 117, "id": "M00944", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-09-30|1|2", "date": "1797-09-30", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-09-30/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797093001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "five nations gives the following remarkable instance of savage courage and perseverance in pursuit of revenge an indian named piskaret one of the captains of greatest fame among the adirondacks with four other captains set out for trois-rivieres in one canoe each of them being provided with three muskets which they loaded with two bullets apiece joined with a small chain ten inches long they met with five canoes in sorel river each having ten men of the five nations on board piskaret and his captains as soon as those of the five nations drew near pretended to give themselves up for lost and sung their death song then suddenly fired upon the canoes which they repeated with the arms that lay ready loaded and tore those birch vessels betwixt wind and water the men of the five nations were so surprised that they tumbled out of their canoes and gave piskaret and his companions the opportunity of knocking as many of them on the head as they pleased and saving the others to feed their revenge which they did by burning them alive with the most cruel torments this however was so far from glutting piskaret's revenge that it seemed rather to give a keener edge to it for he soon after undertook another enterprise in which none of his countrymen durst accompany him he was well acquainted with the country of the five nations and set out about the time the snow began to melt with the precaution of putting the hinder part of his snow shoes forward that if any should happen upon his footsteps they might think he was gone the contrary way and for further security went along the ridges and high grounds where the snow was melted that his track might be often lost when he came near one of the villages of the five nations he hid himself till night and then entered a cabin while every body was fast asleep murdered the whole family and carried their scalps into his lurking place the next day the people of the village searched for the murderer in vain the following night he murdered all he found in another cabin the inhabitants next day searched likewise in vain for the murderer but the third night a watch was kept in every house piskaret in the night bundled up the scalps he had taken the two former nights to carry as the proof of his victory and then stole privately from house to house till at last he found an indian nodding who was upon the watch in one of the houses he knocked this man on the head but as this alarmed the rest he was forced immediately to fly he was however under no great concern from the pursuit being more swift of foot than any indian then living he let his pursuers come near him from time to time and then would dart from them this he did with design to tire them out with the hopes of overtaking him as it began to grow dark he hid himself and his pursuers stopped to rest they not being apprehensive of any danger from a single man soon fell asleep and the bold piskaret observing this knocked them all on the head and carried away their scalps with the rest such stories as these are told among the indians as extraordinary instances of the courage and conduct of their captains the indians will often travel thus three or four hundred miles singly or two or three in company and lurk about their enemy's borders for several weeks in hopes to revenge the death of a near relation or dear friend indeed they give themselves so very much up to revenge that this passion seems to gnaw their souls and gives them no rest till they satisfy it it is this delight in revenge that makes all barbarous nations"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-23|1|2", "date": "1797-12-23", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797122301/0212.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "five nations gives the following remarkable instance of savage courage and perseverance in pursuit of revenge an indian named piskaret one of the captains of the greatest fame among the adrondacks with four other captains set out for trois rivieres in one canoe each of them being provided with three muskets which they loaded with three bullets apiece joined with a small chain ten inches long they met with five canoes in sorel river each having ten men of the five nations on board piskaret and his captains as soon as those of the five nations drew near pretended to give themselves up for lost and sung their death song then suddenly which they repeated with the arms that lay ready loaded and tore those birch vessels between wind and water the men of the five nations were so surprised that they tumbled out of their canoes and gave piskaret and his companions the opportunity of knocking as many of them on the head as they pleased and saving the others to feed their revenge which they did by burning them alive with the most cruel torments this however was so far from gratifying piskaret's revenge that it seemed rather to give a keener edge to it for he soon after undertook another enterprize in which none of his countrymen durst accompany him he was well acquainted with the country of the five nations and set out about the time the snow began to melt with the precaution of putting the hinder part of his snow-shoes forward that if any should happen upon his footsteps they might think he was gone the contrary way and for further security went along the ridges and high grounds where the snow was melted that his track might be often lost when he came near one of the villages of the five nations he hid himself till night and then entered a cabin while every body was fast asleep and murdered the whole family and carried their scalps to his hiding place the next day the people of the village searched for the murderer in vain the following night he murdered all he found in another cabin the inhabitants next day searched likewise in vain for the murderer but the third night a watch was kept in every house piskaret in the night bundled up the scalps he had taken the two former nights to carry as a proof of his victory and then stole privately from house to house till at last he found an indian nodding who was on the watch in one of the houses he knocked this man on the head but as this alarmed the rest he was forced immediately to fly he was however under no great concern from the pursuit being more swift on foot than any indian then living he let his pursuers come near him from time to time and then would dart from them this he did with a design to tire them out with the hopes of overtaking him as it began to grow dark he hid himself and his pursuers stopped to rest they not being apprehensive of any danger from a single man soon fell asleep and the bold piskaret observing this knocked them all on the head and carried away those scalps with the rest such stories as these are told among the indians as extraordinary instances of the courage and conduct of their captains the indians will often travel thus three or four hundred miles singly or two or three in a company lurk about their enemies borders for several weeks in hopes to revenge the death of a near relation or dear friend indeed they give themselves so very much up to revenge that this passion seems to know their souls and gives them no rest till they satisfy it it is this delight in revenge that makes all barbarous nations"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [10, 112], "b_span": [2123, 2225], "matched_words": 97, "similarity": 0.9509803921568627, "seeds": 16, "id": "M00945", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-02|1|3", "date": "1797-10-02", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797100201/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from a gentleman at nantes to a respectable house in this city dated june the certainty which the executive directory of france has had that many english vessels failed under american colours and that many american vessels failed with the greater part of their crews english has provoked the decree of the executive directory of the th ventose th year d march which prescribes that all american vessels shall be captured and condemned as good prizes which have not a role d'equipage or even having one if the captain or any officer or supercargo or one third of the crew should be"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0373.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from a gentleman at nantes to a respectable house in n york dated july the certainty which the executive directory of france has had that many english vessels failed under american colors and that many american vessels failed with the greater part of their crews english has provoked the decree of the executive directory of the th ventose th year d march which prescribes that all american vessels shall be captured and condemned as good prizes which have not a roll d'equipage or even having one if the captain or any officer or supercargo or one third of the crew should be"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3351, 3662], "b_span": [1300, 1610], "matched_words": 299, "similarity": 0.9629629629629629, "seeds": 51, "id": "M00946", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-02|1|3", "date": "1797-10-02", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797100201/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "whereas i have received information that a certain ezekiel polk john johnston and others of mecklenburg county in this state not regarding their duty as citizens nor the peace order and good government of this and the united states of their own mischievous minds and imagination and in contempt of the laws authorities of the said states did lately in the county of mecklenburg aforesaid and parts adjacent sit on foot and prepare for carrying on a military expedition for the invasion of and taking into their possession the territory of the indians on the tennessee with suborn the united states are at peace and for the above nefarious purposes by themselves and others did conspire incite and stir up many persons in the said county of mecklenburg and elsewhere to enlist and equip themselves as soldiers and did actually cause such enlistments and equipment to be made wherefore to prevent such daring and illegal proceedings in future and to bring the said ezekiel polk john johnston and others principal offenders to justice i do by and with advice of the council of state issue this proclamation strictly charging and requiring all officers of justice and others to apprehend secure and bring to justice the said ezekiel polk john johnston and other principal delinquents if to be found in this state and i hereby prohibit under the severest penalties of the law all such illegal preparations and proceedings in future and i caution all the good citizens of the state against the illusive representation and promises which may be held forth to them to engage them in such unwarrantable enterprises that will finally involve them in great difficulty and ruin given under my hand and seal at emb at raleigh the first day of sept a d and in the d of american independence samuel ashe by command roger moore private"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "whereas i have received information that a certain ezekiel polk john johnston and others of mecklenburg county in this state not regarding their duty as citizens nor the peace order and good government of this and the united states of their own mischievous minds and imagination and in contempt of the lawful authorities of the said states did lately in the county of mecklenburg aforesaid and parts adjacent set on foot and prepare for carrying on a military expedition for the invasion of and taking into their possession the territory of the indians on the tennessee with whom the united states are at peace and for the above nefarious purposes by themselves and others did persuade incite and stir up many persons in the said county of mecklenburg and elsewhere to enlist and equip themselves as soldiers and did actually cause such enlistments and equipments to be made wherefore to prevent such daring and illegal proceedings in future and to bring the said ezekiel polk john johnston and others principal offenders to justice i do by and with the advice of the council of state issue this proclamation strictly charging and requiring all officers of justice and others to apprehend secure and bring to justice the said ezekiel polk john johnston and other principal delinquents if to be found in this state and i hereby prohibit under the several penalties of the law all such illegal preparations and proceedings in future and i caution all the good citizens of the state against the illusory representations and promises which may be held forth to them to engage them in such unwarrantable enterprizes that will finally involve them in great difficulty and ruin given under my hand and seal at raleigh the first day of september a d and in the d of american independence samuel ashe by command roger moore private"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [584, 725], "b_span": [367, 512], "matched_words": 135, "similarity": 0.9440559440559441, "seeds": 17, "id": "M00947", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|1", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0367.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the following is a true copy of what yet remains unpaid are committed to me to collect by the selectmen of bath with warrants to collect the same which taxes are assessed upon the lots as numbered in their respective ranges according to a charter of said town bearing date march this is therefore to notify all the non-resident and other owners of unimproved lands in said town of bath that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as therein set forth should be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling-house in said bath on or before monday the th day of december next said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of stephen couch in said bath on monday"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the following is a true copy of what yet remains unpaid are committed to me to collect by the select men of bath with warrants to collect the same which taxes are affected upon the lots as numbered in their respective ranges according to a charter of said town bearing date march th this is therefore to notify all the nonresident and other owners of unimproved lands in said town of bath that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as therein set forth should be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in said bath on or before monday the th day of december next said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of stephen cough in said bath on monday"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [305, 491], "b_span": [1092, 1279], "matched_words": 180, "similarity": 0.9651474530831099, "seeds": 34, "id": "M00948", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|2", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0368.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "is the substance of it when a peace has arrived to put an end to our labors it is our duty to look towards our country what a heart-rending picture does it present the constitution violated the government degraded the emigrants returning the priests rebels to the laws protected and honored the faithful and upright republicans proscribed and murdered the poignards of the royalists stained with the blood of the defenders of their country what do these monsters imagine that years of sacrifices of battles and of fatigue have exhausted our courage do they imagine we have not enough left to defend the constitution we have sworn to maintain let them tremble yes let these conspirators tremble we will keep this formidable oath the swords which have exterminated the armies of kings are still in the hands of the conquerors of the rhine of the sambre and meuse and of italy does the road to paris present more obstacles than that to vienna no it will be opened to us by the republicans who have remained faithful to liberty united we shall defend it and our"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|1", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "is the substance of it when a peace has arrived to put an end to our labours it is our duty to look towards our country what a heart rending picture does it present the constitution violated the government degraded the emigrants returning the priests rebels to the laws and honoured the faithful and upright republicans proscribed and murdered the pignards of the royalists stained with the blood of the defenders of their country what do these monsters imagine that eight years of sacrifice of battles and of fatigue have exhausted our courage do they imagine we have not enough left to defend the constitution we have sworn to maintain let them tremble yes let these conspirators tremble we will keep this formidable oath the swords which have exterminated the armies of kings are still in the hands of the conquerors of the rhine of the sambre and meuse and of italy does the road to paris present more obstacles than that to vienna no it will be opened to us by the republicans who have remained faithful to liberty united we shall defend it and our"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2745, 2824], "b_span": [1187, 1265], "matched_words": 78, "similarity": 0.9936305732484076, "seeds": 18, "id": "M00949", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|2", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0368.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "council when a message arrived from the indians who were lately hostile to our government informing that the spaniards were sending amongst all the indians requesting they would unite with them which the message desired the six nations would not do the message was immediately taken into consideration and the council determined they would not have any thing to do with the business similar messages are gone to the indians about canada and i hope may meet the same"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "council when a message arrived from the indians who were lately hostile to our government informing that the spaniards were sending amongst all the indians requesting they would unite with them which the message desired the six nations would not do the message was taken into consideration and the council determined they would not have any thing to do with the business similar messages are gone to the indians about canada and i hope may meet the same"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2515, 2633], "b_span": [299, 376], "matched_words": 72, "similarity": 0.7384615384615385, "seeds": 9, "id": "M00950", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-03|1|2", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797100301/0368.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "havannah is the partner of santhonax in most of the privateers from that place capt paul from curraoa informs that an insurrection of a very serious nature had been plotted at laguire which was upon the point of a successful completion when the government acting with all the energy and impetuosity of the french character marched out a superior force and after a very obstinate and bloody engagement made many prisoners a large party were however still embodied in the country who had demanded the release of their companions before they would lay down their arms capt paul further informs that no american vessel is permitted to remain at laguire more than five days and no person from"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|1", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0101.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "havannah is the partner of santhoax in most of the privateers from that place capt paul from curraacoa informs that an insurrection of a very ferocious nature had been plotted at lagira which was upon the point of a successful completion when the government acting with all the energy and impetuosity of the french character capt paul further informs that no american vessel is permitted to remain at lagira more than five days and no person from"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1723, 1786], "b_span": 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odyssay of homer the isles of zante cephalona and st maure have the same desires and express the same wishes and the same sentiments for liberty the tree of liberty is planted in every village municipalities govern every commune and these people hope under the patronage of a great nation to recover those sciences arts and commerce which they had lost under the tyranny of the olygarcs the isle of corcyra was according to homer the country of the princess nausic citizen arnaud who deservedly enjoys a great reputation for his knowledge of the belles lettres informs me that he is about to embark in order to plant the tricoloured flag on the ruins of the palace of ulysses the chief of the maniotes the true descendents of the spartans and who occupy the peninsula on which the cape malpan is situated has sent one of the chiefs of the country to me to express his strong desire to see some french ships in his port and to be useful to the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": 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between the councils and the directory shall be restored upon the same topic of the republican francois a respectable journal deemed half official says as to peace all that is known on the subject is that the negotiations which have been suspended at lisle and montebello have been resumed and through the exertions of the new minister m"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0138.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a letter from that place dated the th and inserted in l'eclair of the th says the conferences lately suspended for days have been renewed this day and some hopes yet remain for them it appears certain however that the peace will not take place until a proper 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many places the inhabitants are in insurrection against the government and stile themselves sovereign people buonaparte affects to condemn their conduct and threatens to march against them on the th ult the diet had a meeting at ratisbon in which the greater part of the deputies delivered their opinion that the political and geographical integrity of the empire ought to be insisted upon in the negotiation for peace"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [509, 586], "b_span": [1542, 1619], "matched_words": 75, "similarity": 0.974025974025974, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00966", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-03|1|3", "date": "1797-10-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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and the house of austria cannot be expected easily"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic tho it was at first stipulated to be given to austria on the part of the french it is said that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly accede to the cession of mantua for which he receives a sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties 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conference it was remarked that neither the marquis nor the persons about the court had very pleasant countenances the negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties in their further progress the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic though it was stipulated in the preliminaries that the city should be restored to austria on the part of the french it is said on the other hand that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly accede to the cession of mantua for which he receives a sufficient indemnification in iliria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily to abandon its great interests in italy we are not without our fears that hostilities may again recommence his imperial majesty intends going about the end of the month to stein where he will review the army of the hungarian levy as there is no danger of hostilities on the bohemian frontiers the emperor has ordered that the fourteen battalions of reserve in that kingdom shall march immediately for the army in italy general mack who has been sent with strong reinforcements to the italian army is already arrived at gortz on the th inst the first dalmatian ship of guns sailed from zara"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|2", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0142.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the morning the marquis de gallo arrived here and immediately after repaired to fingenlorf where he had a long conference with the emperor on his return to this city he went to the minister 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having been concluded without the interference of our cabinet and in opposition to its views it indicated a feeling of national degradation truly humiliating the funds of course experienced a considerable fall"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0372.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "a dispatch from paris announcing the fatt of a treaty of peace having been concluded hetween the french re public and the court of lisbon and early this morning mr brooks the meflenger arrived with dispatches from lord malmefbury respecting the fame event and the effec it has had on the state of the negotiations at lisle no communication is al lowed between the veflel that brought over mr broeks and the people on vfligre lord sr vincents fleet lord st vincents fleet is still off cadiz the four spanith ships which were taken in the last battle are manned and repaired and make a most refpe table figure in the british between france and portugal having been concluded without the interfer ence of our cabinet and in cppofi tion to its views it indicated a feel ing of national degradation truly humiliating the funds of course experienced a considerable fall"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2709, 2843], "b_span": [935, 1069], "matched_words": 128, "similarity": 0.9552238805970149, "seeds": 24, "id": "M00975", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-04|1|3", "date": "1797-10-04", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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stipulated this money shall be placed under the direction of the president of the united states and the interest annually"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [757, 1489], "b_span": [1629, 2320], "matched_words": 676, "similarity": 0.9501054111033029, "seeds": 137, "id": "M00976", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-04|1|3", "date": "1797-10-04", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797100401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a dispatch from paris announcing the fact we laid before our readers of a treaty of peace having been concluded between the french republic and the court of lisbon and early this morning mr brooks the messenger arrived with dispatches from lord malmesbury respecting the same event and the effect it has had on the state of the negotiations at lisle no communication is allowed between the vessel that brought over mr brooks and the people on shore it is impossible to convey any adequate idea of the effect produced upon the public mind by the intelligence of this treaty having been concluded without the interference of our cabinet and in opposition to its views it indicated a feeling of national degradation truly humiliating the funds of course experienced a considerable fall the three per cents left off yesterday at and opened this morning at it is vain to speak of the ingratitude of this last of our allies as we have spoken of the ingratitude of all who have previously deserted us self-preservation is the first law of nations as well as of individuals and this act of the court of portugal is a proof that england is no longer capable of giving protection to her friends it is a bitter cup but we must drink it we have courted the rod and we must submit to the chastisement the extracts which we have given from the french papers are of considerable importance they open a scene of contention the result of which it is impossible to anticipate the directory has at length given its answer to the message of the councils in which though it explains with candour the suspicious circumstances of the event of the march of the troops it addresses the assembly in language so significant and unequivocal on their late proceedings that instead of the compromise which was expected from the prudence if not from the patriotism of the two sides it is a provocation to hostility on the question at issue between them the debate in the council of five hundred shews the impression the answer made on the legislature what the result of this conflict will be we again say it is not easy to conjecture the directory invested with all the executive power of the immense territory of the republic with all her armies cordially attached to its sway with all the attractive charms of an incessant career of aggrandizement in which a single week is never suffered to pass without adding some new kingdom to the empire either by conquest or treaty or breaking off from the league of their enemies some important power with the recommendation of having procured abundance and restored luxury to paris with all the force of the country obedient to its command and the multitude indifferent to its acts and opposed to a legislature broken into factions in which the very virtues of the good have been surprised into an alliance with the passions of the wicked certainly stands fair for triumph in the contest but on the other side it is to be considered that opinion transitory in all climates is peculiarly so in france and how long the people and armies shall continue firm against the battery of the press the skill intrigue and force of which were never exerted with more variety nor more cunning of attack in any age than now in the republic it is impossible to say at no period of the revolution has the crisis been more interesting nor presented more curiosity to the accurate observer it shall be our task to watch the progress with the most vigilant care and to state the occurrences with the most rigid impartiality the stocks yesterday felt a depression of per cent the quantity of exchequer bills thrown into the market by the goldsmiths antrobus c together with the very unfavorable appearance of the negotiation are said to have been the causes of this fall should lord malmesbury return unsuccessful from his present mission parliament will be convened almost immediately for the purpose of voting twenty-five millions sterling more for the continuance of the war this accounts for the new power of convening parliament at so short a notice formerly the public money was modestly drawn for by ministers at a few days grace now it is done more sweepingly by bills at sight"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0138.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a dispatch from paris announcing the fact we laid before our readers of a treaty of peace having been concluded between the french republic and the court of lisbon and early this morning mr brooks the messenger arrived with dispatches from lord malmesbury respecting the same event and the effect it has had on the negotiations at lisle no communication is allowed between the vessel that brought over mr brooks and the people on shore it is impossible to convey any adequate idea of the effect produced upon the public mind by the intelligence of this treaty having been concluded without the interference of our cabinet and in opposition to its views it indicated a feeling of national degradation truly humiliating the funds of course experienced a considerable fall the three per cent left off yesterday at and opened this morning at a it is in vain to speak of the ingratitude of this last of our allies as we have spoken of the ingratitude of all who have previously deserted us self preservation is the first law of nations as well as of individuals and this act of the court of portugal is a proof that england is no longer capable of giving protection to her friends it is a bitter cup but we must drink it we have courted the rod and we must submit to the chastisement the extracts which we have given from the french papers are of considerable importance they open a scene of contention the result of which it is impossible to anticipate the directory has at length given its answer to the message of the councils in which though it explains with candor the suspicious circumstances of the event of the march of the troops it addresses the assembly in language so significant and unequivocal on their late proceedings that instead of the compromise which was expected from the prudence if not from the patriotism of the two sides it is a provocation to hostility on the question at issue between them the debate in the council of five hundred shews the impression the answer made on the legislature what the result of this conflict will be we again say it is not easy to conjecture the directory invested with all the executive power of the immense territory of the republic with all her armies cordially attached to its way with all the attractive charms of an incessant career of aggrandizement in which a single week is never suffered to pass without adding some new kingdom to the empire either by conquest or treaty or breaking off from the league of their enemies some important power with the recommendation of having procured abundance and restored luxury to paris with all the force of the country obedient to its command and the multitude indifferent to its acts and opposed to a legislature broken into factions in which the very virtues of the good have been surprized into an alliance with the passions of the wicked certainly stands fair for triumph in the contest but on the other side it is to be considered that opinions transitory in all climates is peculiarly so in france and how long the people and armies shall continue firm against the latter of the two the still inuendo and force of which were never exerted with more variety nor more cunning of attack in any age than now in the republic it is impossible to say at no period of the revolution has the crisis been more interesting nor presented more curiosity to the accurate observer it shall be our task to watch the progress with the most vigilant care and to state the occurrences with the most rigid impartiality should lord malmesbury return unsuccessful from his present mission parliament will be convened almost immediately for the purpose of voting twenty five millions sterling more for the continuance of the war this accounts for the new power of convening parliament at so short a notice formerly the public money was modestly drawn for by ministers at a few days grace now it is done more sweepingly by bills at sight"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1724, 1793], "b_span": [2321, 2390], "matched_words": 69, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 15, "id": "M00977", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-04|1|3", "date": "1797-10-04", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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from cadiz and madrid confirm the intelligence of the english having been forced to raise the blockade of cadiz that they had cut their cables and been obliged to retreat in great disorder and that the spanish squadron consisting of sail of the line had got out and put forth in pursuit of them it is added that confidence had revived at cadiz and it was hoped that before fifteen days should expire public credit would revive and commerce"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1775, 2482], "b_span": [65, 761], "matched_words": 675, "similarity": 0.962223806129722, "seeds": 125, "id": "M00979", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-05|1|3", "date": "1797-10-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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evening of the th when all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire on them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by adm nelson and capt bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues that led to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without being injured to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbour which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not serving in any expedition against the canary islands for months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one-tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trowbridge zealous hood leander thompson emerald waller sea-horse freemantle terpsichore bowen fox cutter lieut gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|2", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101701/0376.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning of the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their 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the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side ordered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not serving in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on 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placed cannon in the streets and avenues that led to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without being injured to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbour which they erroneously supposed worth or"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning the d july the town of santa 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landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbour which they erroneously supposed worth or"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2145, 2482], "b_span": [3, 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who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one-tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trowbridge zealous hood leander thompson emerald waller sea-horse freemantle terpsichore bowen fox cutter lieut gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for 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peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one-tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trowbridge zealous hood leander thompson emerald waller sea-horse freemantle terpsichore bowen fox cutter lieut gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manila ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not serving in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theyus vice adm nelson calladen capt miller 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second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commands the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board captain bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into 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every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one-tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trowbridge zealous hood leander thompson emerald waller sea-horse freemantle terpsichore bowen fox cutter lieut gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0139.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c roomy an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the islands the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property 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held in the district of virginia to which a final decision is referred before the same court mr robert hamilton of this town was examined on a charge not very dissimilar to the above the only evidence adduced in this case was his own voluntary confession sunday morning mr hamilton meeting several gentlemen on his wharf he desired that they would step into his counting room where he observed to them that understanding a report was in circulation that he had been concerned in a privateer fitted out of the united states was desirous of representing the matter in its true light in order that they might contradict any misrepresentation which the tongue of rumour would probably originate"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|2", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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in this case was his own voluntary confession on sunday morning mr hamilton meeting several gentlemen on his wharf he desired that they would step into his counting room where he observed to them that understanding a report was in circulation that he had been concerned in a privateer fitted out of the united states was desirous of representing the matter in its true light in order that they might contradict any misrepresentation which the tongue of rumour would probably originate"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1699, 1784], "b_span": [1430, 1514], "matched_words": 80, "similarity": 0.9467455621301775, "seeds": 14, "id": "M00987", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-06|1|2", "date": "1797-10-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797100601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "corroborated in stating the prevailing opinion at guadalupe of perry's being understood as part owner and agent for this privateer after a full and candid hearing of evidence and the respective counsel employed upon the occasion the court were of an unanimous opinion that perry's case came under cognizance of a law of congress passed in which subjects citizens of the united states guilty of the offence for which he was indicted to imprisonment of not more than three years and a fine not exceeding dollars the court admitted perry to bail on his giving security in the sum of dollars for his appearance at the federal court to be held in the district of virginia to which a final decision is referred before the same court mr robert hamilton of this town was examined on a charge not very dissimilar to the above the only evidence adduced in this case was his own voluntary confession sunday morning mr hamilton meeting several gentlemen on his wharf he desired that they would step into his counting room where he observed to them that understanding a report was in circulation that he had been concerned in a privateer fitted out of the united states was desirous of representing the matter in its true light in order that they might contradict any misrepresentation which the tongue of rumour would probably originate"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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in this case was his own voluntary confession sunday morning mr hamilton meeting several gentlemen on his wharf he desired that they would step into his counting room where he observed to them that understanding a report was in circulation that he had been concerned in a privateer fitted out of the united states was desirous of representing the matter in its true light in order that they might contradict any misrepresentation which the tongue of rumour would probably originate"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [694, 845], "b_span": [1485, 1658], "matched_words": 123, "similarity": 0.7592592592592593, "seeds": 25, "id": "M00989", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-06|1|3", "date": "1797-10-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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of have displayed the standard of the french"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-11|1|2", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101101/0122.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the extract of a letter published in our last under the pittsburgh head which mentions that the inhabitants at the natchez are in open rebellion and have displayed the french colours is a mistake it is the people of kaskaskias which is within the government of the north western territory where the laws of the united states have been in force for several years particulars we have not yet heard but have no doubt that some of citizen adet's spies are among them it is to be wished that if any of them should fall into the hands of general wilkinson he will grace a pole with their heads instead of a french liberty cap mr scull the information in your last paper of an insurrection among the inhabitants at natchez is not correct it is at kaskaskias and in the neighbourhood of that place that the french settlers have been instigated by spanish and french emissaries to throw off their allegiance to the united states and erect the standard of the french"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1766, 1860], "b_span": [1088, 1180], "matched_words": 90, "similarity": 0.967741935483871, "seeds": 21, "id": "M00990", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-06|1|3", "date": "1797-10-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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quantity of french wines since portugal accords a diminution of the duties on importation it may be farther remarked how much we are favored in many other respects the treaty obliges portugal to admit no more than six ships of war into the port of lisbon and in her smaller ports only three ships of war belonging to each of the belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who send ships into those parts this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in those seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engages to admit no prizes taken by ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so far as to prohibit the sale of merchandise that is captured on board a ship nothing can be more favorable and encouraging to the national industry than the article which promises a kind of premium an extraordinary diminution of duty in favor of articles imported from europe by either of the contracting parties into the dominions of the other provided the cargoes belong to merchants of the nation that imports and are imported in ships of that nation we may see by the secrecy with which this negotiation was conducted and the rapidity with which it was concluded that the spirit which so abruptly broke off the preceding negotiation no longer presides over our diplomatic system it was certainly fortunate and useful thus to leave england to herself and cut off the last branches of the coalition l'esprit according to perlet the treaty consists of articles which stipulate for the exclusion of all of all privateers and their prizes from the ports of portugal for a cession of a part of the portuguese territory in america to the french for a commercial intercourse between the two countries highly advantageous to the republic and a private article it is said for the payment of or millions of livres to france nothing official appears in the prints on the subject though the treaty has been read in the council of five hundred the french journalists argue from the rapid manner in which this treaty has been concluded a speedy issue to the negotiations at lisle and udine we are not furnished through their channel with any information from either place which can lead to a conjecture on"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "step is made towards the general pacification one ally taken from england one branch of the coalition cut off one additional motive for believing that the negotiations at lisle will be successful or at least that their progress will be more rapid in short a treaty of peace has been concluded between the french republic and portugal this treaty appears to be very advantageous to france among many articles relating to a trade of which france had never yet partaken since she is treated better than the most favored nation since every thing favors reciprocal imports and the balance is all in favor of france who drinks none of the wines of portugal while portugal consumes a considerable quantity of french wines since portugal accords a diminution of the duties on importation it may be farther remarked how much we are favored in many other respects this treaty obliges portugal to admit no more than six ships of war into the port of lisbon and in her smaller ports only three ships of war belonging to each of the belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who send ships into those parts this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in those seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engages to admit no prizes taken by ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so far as to prohibit the sale of merchandise that is captured on board a ship nothing can be more favorable and encouraging to the national industry than the article which promises a kind of premium an extraordinary diminution of duty in favor of articles imported from europe by either of the contracting parties into the dominions of the other provided the cargoes belong to merchants of the nation that imports and are imported in ships of that nation we may see by the secrecy with which this negotiation was conducted and the rapidity with which it was concluded that the spirit which so abruptly broke off the preceding negotiation no longer presides over our diplomatic system it was certainly fortunate and skilful thus to leave england to herself and cut off the last branches of the coalition l'eclair according to perlet the treaty consists of articles which stipulate for the exclusion of all privateers and their prizes from the ports of portugal for a cession of a part of the portuguese territory in america to the french for a commercial intercourse between the two countries highly advantageous to the republic and a private article it is said for the payment of or millions of livres to france nothing official appears in the prints on the subject tho the treaty has been read in the council of five hundred the french journalists augur from the rapid manner in which this treaty has been concluded a speedy issue to the negotiations at lille and udine we are not furnished thro their channel with any information from either place which can lead to a conjecture on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": 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detachment of federal troops to suppress the insurgents these wicked french emissaries are also endeavouring to persuade the indians into another war with us and a party of the savages has actually attempted to get possession of fort recovery but were defeated with the loss of two or three killed it gives us great uneasiness to learn that three frenchmen who passed through this place some weeks ago have been addressing themselves to cornplanter's indians and telling them that they were oppressed by the united states and would never be happy till their old friends the french were in possession of the country again it is said the indians listen to these speeches with great attention and there is reason to fear the incendiaries who are now among the western tribes will be too successful in their endeavours to kindle the flames of another bloody war"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-11|1|2", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", 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frenchmen who passed through this place some weeks ago have been addressing themselves to cornplanter's indians and telling them that they were oppressed by the united states and would never be happy until their old friends the french were in possession of the country again it is said the indians listened to these speeches with great attention and there is reason to fear the vile incendiaries who are now among the western tribes will be too successful in their endeavours to kindle the flames of another bloody war"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3139, 3516], "b_span": [355, 735], "matched_words": 366, "similarity": 0.9669749009247027, "seeds": 73, "id": "M01001", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-07|1|2", "date": "1797-10-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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this contest be well affected towards america common sense sound policy and our national interest forbid such a hazardous choice mr scull the information in your last paper of an insurrection among the inhabitants at natchez is not correct it is at kaskaskias and in the neighbourhood of that place that the french settlers have been instigated by spanish and french emissaries to throw off their allegiance to the united states and erect the standard of the french republic general wilkinson on his march with a strong detachment of federal troops to suppress the insurgents these wicked french emissaries are also endeavouring to persuade the indians into another war with us and a party of the savages has actually attempted to get possession of fort recovery but were defeated with the loss of two or three killed it gives us great uneasiness to learn that three frenchmen who passed through this place some weeks ago have been addressing themselves to cornplanter's indians and telling them that they were oppressed by the united states and would never be happy till their old friends the french were in possession of the country again it is said the indians listen to these speeches with great attention and there is reason to fear the incendiaries who are now among the western tribes will be too successful in their endeavours to kindle the flames of another bloody war"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "communication when we are in the utmost hazard of open war with the french when their spies are out among us viewing our frontier forts and attempt to rouse the indians against us when all frenchmen are daily abusing our government and telling us that we will be humbled under the all powerful arm of the terrible republic shall we be so mad as to elect a frenchman one of our representatives in this country would they do such an act in france did they not drive paine out of the national convention because he was not a native of france although he was an american shall we be so little careful in this trying crisis as to trust our dearest interests to a man who can hardly speak our language and who if he has any attachment to his native country cannot in this contest be well affected towards america common sense sound policy and our national interest forbid such a hazardous choice mr scull the information in your last paper of an insurrection among the inhabitants of the natchez is not correct it is at kaskaskias and in the neighborhood of that place that the french settlers have been instigated by spanish and french emissaries to throw off their allegiance to the united states and erect the standard of the french republic gen wilkinson is on his march with a strong detachment of federal troops to suppress the insurgents these wicked french emissaries are also endeavoring to persuade the indians into another war with us and a party of the savages have actually attempted to get possession of fort recovery but were defeated with the loss of two or three killed it gives us great uneasiness to learn that three frenchmen who passed through this place some weeks ago have been addressing themselves to cornplanter's indians and telling them that they were opposed by the u states and would never be happy till their old friends the french were in possession of the country again it is said the indians listened to the speeches with great attention and there is reason to fear the vile incendiaries who are now among the western tribes will be too successful in their endeavors to kindle the flames of another bloody war"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; 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circumstance which makes us apprehensive that the negotiations at lisle are not in such forward state as all france wishes them to be in spite however of these hostile appearances we still preserve the hope that peace is not far off august one more step is made towards the general pacification one ally taken from england one branch of the coalition cut off one additional motive for believing that the negotiations at lisle will be successful or at least that their progress will be more rapid in short a treaty of peace has been concluded between the french republic and portugal this treaty appears to be very advantageous to france among many other articles relating to a trade of which france has never yet partaken since she is treated better than the most favored nation since every thing favors reciprocal imports and the balance of all in favor of france who drinks none of the wine of portugal while portugal consumes a considerable quantity of french wines since portugal accords a diminution of the duties on importation it may be farther remarked how much we are favored in many other respects the treaty obliges portugal to admit no more than six ships of war into the port of lisbon and in her smaller ports only three ships of war belonging to each of the belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who send ships into those parts this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in those seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engages to admit no prizes taken by ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so far as to prohibit the sale of merchandise that is captured on board a ship nothing can be more favorable and encouraging to the national industry than the article which promises a kind of premium an extraordinary diminution of duty in favor of articles imported from europe by either of the contracting parties into the dominions of the other provided the cargoes belong to merchants of the nation that imports and are imported in ships of that nation we may see by the secrecy with which this negotiation was conducted and the rapidity with which it was concluded that the spirit which so abruptly broke off the preceding negotiation no longer presides over our diplomatic system it was certainly fortunate and useful thus to leave england to herself and cut off the last branches of the coalition l'esprit according to perlet the treaty consists of articles which stipulate for the exclusion of all of all privateers and their prizes from the ports of portugal for a cession of a part of the portuguese territory in america to the french for a commercial intercourse between the two countries highly advantageous to the republic and a private article it is said for the payment of or millions of livres to france nothing official appears in the prints on the subject though the treaty has been read in the council of five hundred the french journalists argue from the rapid manner in which this treaty has been concluded a speedy issue to the negotiations at lisle and udine we are not furnished through their channel with any information from either place which can lead to a conjecture on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "august it appears certain that men from the army of the sambre and meuse who were to have arrived at rheims yesterday are going to breist other detachments are repairing thither by other routes these movements appear to announce the execution of the long projected maritime expedition is at hand a circumstance which makes us apprehensive that the negotiations at lisle are not in such a forward state as all france wishes them to be in spite of these hostile appearances we still preserve the hope that peace is not far off one more step is made towards the general pacification one ally taken from england one branch of the coalition cut off one additional motive for believing that the negotiations at lisle will be successful or at least that their progress will be more rapid in short a treaty of peace has been concluded between the french republic and portugal this treaty appears to be very advantageous to france among many articles relating to a trade of which france had never yet partaken since every thing favors reciprocal imports and the balance is all in favor of france who drinks none of the wines of portugal while portugal consumes a considerable quantity of french wines since portugal accords a demission of duties on importation it may be further remarked how much we are in favor in many other respects this treaty obliges portugal to admit no more than six ships of war into the port of lisbon and in her smaller ports only three ships of war belonging to each of the belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who sends ships into these ports this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in these seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engaged to admit no prizes taken by the ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so far as to prohibit the sale of merchandise that is captured on board a ship nothing can be more favorable and encouraging to the national industry than the article which promises a kind of premium an extraordinary diminution of duty in favor of articles imported from europe by either of the contracting parties into the dominions of the others provided the cargoes belong to merchants of the nation that imports and are imported in ships of that nation we may see by the secrecy with which this negotiation was conducted and the rapidity with which it was concluded that the spirit which so abruptly broke off the preceding negotiation no longer presides over our diplomatic system it was certainly fortunate and skilful thus to leave england to herself and cut off the last branches of the coalition eclair according to perlet the treaty consists of eight articles which stipulate for the exclusion of privateers and their prizes from the ports of portugal for a cession of a part of the portuguese territory in america to the french for a commercial intercourse between the two countries highly advantageous to the republic and a private article it is said for the payment of or millions of livres to france nothing official appears in the prints on the subject tho the treaty has been read in the council of five hundred the french journalists augur from the rapid manner in which this treaty has been concluded a speedy issue of the negotiations at lisle and udina we are not furnished thro their channel with any information from either place which can lead to a conjecture on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4450, 4568], "b_span": [1026, 1145], "matched_words": 112, "similarity": 0.9451476793248945, "seeds": 16, "id": "M01004", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-07|1|2", "date": "1797-10-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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act as commissioners for the purpose of relieving the indigent by donation and employment with the stipulated sum of ten thousand dollars granted by the legislature and we presume it was generally believed at that time to be more than sufficient arising from an expectation that the disease would soon abate and that our absent friends would return and give employment to those whose resources were cut off by their leaving the city but alas how are we disappointed in our expectation for our city yet continues in the same desolated gloomy state and consequently all means of employment for the industrious mechanic and labourer are still suspended add to this the numerous body of females that procured a livelihood by washing ironing needle work c who are left destitute of their usual means of subsistence besides a number who are aged and infirm that used to obtain relief from the bounty of their more able friends and relations as well as many seamen's wives who depend on the merchant for part of their husband's monthly pay and who are now deprived of relief from that source in this deplorable situation we found not less than three thousand people including children when we undertook to execute the trust reposed in us the number of these have since greatly increased and they still remain in the same suffering condition with this difference then they had the comforting reflection that the commissioners had ten thousand dollars ready to meet their exigencies but now it is expended and lamentable for us to be obliged to inform them we know not where to send you or what to advise you to do our money is gone we have to acquaint you we cannot promise your small pittance one week longer we feel for you we suffer with you we know your distresses what can we do we can only promise you we will make your situation known to our"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|3", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", 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to those whose resources were cut off by their leaving the city but alas how are we disappointed in our expectation for our city yet continues in the same desolated and gloomy state and consequently all means of employment for the industrious mechanic and laborer are still suspended add to this the numerous body of females that procured a livelihood by washing and ironing needle work c who are left destitute of their usual means of subsistence besides a number who are aged and infirm that used to obtain relief from the bounty of their more able friends and relations as well as many seamen's wives who depend on the merchant for part of their husband's monthly pay and who are now deprived of relief from that source in this deplorable situation we found not less than three thousand people including children when we undertook to execute the trust reposed in us the number of these has since greatly increased and they still remain in the same suffering condition with this difference then they had the consoling reflection that the commissioners had ten thousand dollars ready to meet their exigencies but now it is expended and lamentable for us to be obliged to inform them we know not where to send you or what to advise you to do our money is gone we have to acquaint you we cannot promise your small pittance one week longer we feel for you we suffer with you we know your distress what can we do we can only promise you we will make your situation known to our"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4577, 4655], "b_span": [2029, 2108], "matched_words": 72, "similarity": 0.9171974522292994, "seeds": 12, "id": "M01006", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-07|1|2", "date": "1797-10-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797100901/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a schooner belonging to messrs stewart and armstead of that place captain bofman was captured on his homeward bound passage by a french privateer who took all the hands out of the schooner except the captain mate and supercargo and put five of our dear sansculotte allies on board having no french colours they transformed the american into french and with the fragments decorated the unfortunate captain round whom they danced the carmagnole by way of condolence they then seized a hog on board which they called king george and after cutting off his head again danced the carmagnole and played other republican gambols alamo de paris the sagacious and intrepid captain did not let these man uvres pass unobserved but taking a good opportunity seized the fellow at the helm whom he soon secured and gaining possession of the arm chest with the assistance of his mate and supercargo a manly and spirited quaker of bertie county the others were immediately mastered the privateer was at this time only at a small distance they therefore proceeded on the course directed until the privateer got to a proper distance when they altered their course committed our dear allies to a leaky boat in which they might either sing the carmagnole ca ira or any other republican song hale or sink proceeded on their voyage and these gallant brave men had the good fortune to reach their destined port without again encountering any of these merciless pirates it is supposed the frenchmen got safe to land as one of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": 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called king george and after cutting off his head again danced the carmagnole and played other republican gambols alamo de paris the sagacious and intrepid captain did not let these man uvres pass unobserved but taking a good opportunity seized the fellow at the helm whom he soon secured and gaining possession of the arm chest with the assistance of his mate and supercargo a manly and spirited quaker of bertie county the others were immediately mastered the privateer was at this time only at a small distance they therefore proceeded on the course directed until the privateer got to a proper distance when they altered their course committed our dear allies to a leaky boat in which they might either sing the carmagnole ca ira or any other republican song hale or sink proceeded on their voyage and these gallant brave men had the good fortune to reach their destined port without again encountering any of these merciless pirates it is supposed the frenchmen got safe to land as"}, "b": 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the sagacious and intrepid captain did not let these marchevres pass unobserved but taking a good opportunity seized the fellow at the helm whom he soon secured and gaining possession of the armed chest with assistance of his mate and supercargo a manly and spirited quaker of burtie county the others were immediately secured the privateer at this time was only at a small distance they therefore proceeded on the course directed until the privateer got to a proper distance when they altered their course committed them to a leaky boat in which they might either sink in carmagnole ca ira or any other republican city bale or sink proceeded on their voyage and these gallant brave men had the good fortune to reach their destined port without again encountering any of these mercenary pirates it is supposed the frenchmen got safe to land as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": 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the purpose and he was to sail on the th inst that american vessels were arriving in great numbers at the havannah and condemned as soon as they arrived and the cargoes taken and sold to the highest bidders it makes no odds where they were bound to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the brig fox anchored yesterday off fort johnson we have the following information that previous to his failing from the havannah a packet arrived from cadiz with dispatches to the governor to prepare themselves to carry on the war with the utmost vigor fresh preparations were making there that santhomax our friendly ally had arrived at the havannah from the cape to demand a convoy to carry him to france a frigate was granted him for the purpose and he was to sail on the th inst the american vessels were arriving in great numbers at the havannah and condemned as soon as they arrived and the cargoes taken and sold to the highest bidder it made no odds where they were bound to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2101, 2275], "b_span": [2658, 2838], "matched_words": 158, "similarity": 0.8926553672316384, "seeds": 20, "id": "M01010", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-09|1|3", "date": "1797-10-09", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797100901/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in salem dated aug at the request of mr king the american ambassador signified to the committee of american merchants they have applied to the admiralty for convoy for the fall ships clear of all danger from cruisers on this coast which is complied with and we presume many will avail themselves of it they are done at guineas to return per cent for partial convoy or guineas without returns tobacco appears now to have seen its highest the price is rather giving way coffee and cotton are both brisk and sugar has not experienced any depreciation since the arrival of the leeward island fleet this year's import of all these articles from the west indies promises to be but small new-england rum sold at to jamaica rum from america at to according to the strength and in case of peace will be much lower most articles are heavy as the buyers only purchase from hand to mouth while the issue of the negotiation is in suspense and the secrecy with which that is"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0372.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "in salem dated aug at the request of mr king the american ambaflador fignified to the committee of american mer chants they have applied to the ad miralty for convoy for the fall thips clear of all danger from cruisers on this coast which is complied with and we presume many will avail themselves of it they are done at guineas to return per cent for partial convoy or guineas without returns tobacco appears now to have seen its highest the price is rather giving way coffee and cotton are both brisk and sugar has not expe rienced any depreciation since the arrival of the leeward island fleet this year s import of all the'fe arti cles from the welt-indies promises to be but small new-england ram fold at to jamaica rum from america at to g according to the strength and in case of peace will be much lower most articlez are heavy as the buyers only pur chase from hand to mouth while the issue of the negotiation is in fufpence and the secrecy with which that is"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1293, 1665], "b_span": [1292, 1677], "matched_words": 358, "similarity": 0.9458388375165125, "seeds": 60, "id": "M01011", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|1", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0001.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information that we have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of sambre and meuse instead of as was stated by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st dennis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expense incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers in the departments and particularly that of marne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie the minds of these troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body libels are dispersed through the army the friends of the laws and the sentinel are the only journals which reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops still continue their march to paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen faring who received a counter order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regiments citizen lesage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they have promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101401/0126.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the name of your committee of inspectors to make the report which you required on the march of the troops it results from the information that we have procured that from to men have been detached from the army of the sambre and meuse instead of as was stated by gen hoche that this force directed its march towards paris that a formidable train of artillery followed this force which was to be encamped at st dennis etampes and the circumjacent places that the extraordinary expence incurred by this march had exhausted the funds of the receivers of the departments and particularly that of marne whence they exacted the sum of livres in specie that forced requisitions were levied for want of billets and considerable depredations committed the minds of these troops have been misled and seduced all the soldiers and officers prefer the most absurd and the most injurious accusations against the legislative body rebels are dispersed through the armies the friend of the laws and the centinel are the only journals that reach them notwithstanding the order to make a retrograde movement a great number of troops still continue their march towards paris by order of gen hoche and in spite of the opposition of gen fering who received a counter-order from the minister of war the legion called the franks which was formed in contradiction to the law has disbanded itself and dispersed about the country the corps who received orders to retreat repair to paris in small parties and without regimentals citizen lefage appears to have taken a great part in all these manoeuvres at chartres banditti have been provided with arms and ammunition paris is filled with foreigners who are thirsting for blood and pillage the armies deliberate correspond with each other pass resolutions and issue proclamations with which all france is inundated what has the government done to prevent all these abuses the reporter without entering into long reflections proposed to send a message to the directory to ask them whether they have received the particulars which they promised of the march of the troops they shall be called upon to give an answer in three days what measures they have taken to stop the violation of the th article of the constitution which forbids the armed force to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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invites you to take it into your consideration signed carnot president legarde secretary government received yesterday a despatch from paris announcing the fact of a treaty of peace"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0372.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "of peace concluded yesterday the d of the present month august with por tugal negociated in the name of the french republic by citizen charles dzracroix minister plenipotentia ry invelted with powers to this effe by a decree dated oth meflidor last and in the name of her faithful ma jesty the queen of portugal by m p ara jo invelted with full powers signed at the palace of quelun june the diretory has trans mitted to vou this treaty in execu tion of the d article of the consti tution and invites you to take it into vour consideration signed carnot president egarde secretary peace with portugal the directory have announced to the council of a treaty of peace"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [172, 232], "b_span": [1420, 1480], "matched_words": 60, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01013", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to sanction the supposition that some dreadful explosion is on the eve of taking place a number of foreigners have crowded to the capital and the terrorists from the different departments have joined them in short that devoted city now wears the very same appearance which it has invariably exhibited previous to every public commotion or massacre since the year"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-11|1|2", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101101/0122.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to sanction the supposition that some dreadful explosion is on the eve of taking place a number of foreigners have crowded to the capital and the terrorists from the different departments have joined them in short that devoted city now wears the very same appearance which it has invariably exhibited previous to every public commotion or massacre since the year"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [470, 879], "b_span": [902, 1329], "matched_words": 395, "similarity": 0.9449760765550239, "seeds": 62, "id": "M01014", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797101001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "one o'clock we received by express paris journals to the th inst inclusive we immediately stopped the press to communicate the substance of their contents the contents of these papers which are extremely important justify all the reflections which we have lately had occasion to make on the internal situation of france and the views of the different parties in that distracted country it appears from the debates of the council that the statement given by the directory of the march of the troops towards the metropolis was totally false instead of men said to be detached from the army of the sambre and meuse the detachment amounted to between and men nor was this force intended as the directory affirmed for any naval expedition but it was selected as we supposed for the express purpose of overawing if not of dissolving the legislative body the soldiers indeed whose minds had been poisoned by emissaries from paris and by the jacobin journals which were the only papers they were permitted to read openly proclaimed the object of their march and uttered the grossest calumnies against the two councils and notwithstanding the order from the minister at war to return to the station which they had left they continued their march to paris in obedience to the commands of their gen hoche who has by this act openly hoisted the standard of rebellion our readers will recollect that we stated some time since that hoche and his army known to be determined jacobins were the instruments on whom the directory chiefly relied for perpetrating their own despotic power and for carrying into effect their own unconstitutional designs the directory also appear to have effectually secured the protection of the army of italy addresses have been received from two more divisions of that army which breathe the rankest spirit of jacobinism vow implicit obedience not to the constitution but to the directory and devote their enemies to instant destruction these addresses though the very act of deliberation by which they were preceded was a violation of a constitutional provision have been published by the directory who have in consequence been called on by the council of five hundred to account for their conduct meanwhile a formidable force supposed to amount to thousand men has arrived at paris in small parties so that there can be little doubt but that the directory will let the legislative body at defiance and effectually triumph"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-11|1|2", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101101/0122.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "one o'clock we received by express paris journals to the th instant inclusive we immediately stopped the press to communicate the substance of their contents which our readers will find fully detailed in our paper of this day the contents of these papers which are extremely important justify all the reflections which we have lately had occasion to make on the internal state of france and the views of the different parties in that distracted country it appears from the debates of the councils that the statement given by the directory of the march of the troops towards the metropolis was totally false instead of nine thousand men said to be detached from the army of the sambre and meuse the detachment amounted to between twenty six and twenty seven thousand nor was this force intended as the directory affirmed for any naval expedition but it was selected as we suppose for the express purpose of overthrowing if not of dissolving the legislative body the soldiers indeed whose minds had been poisoned by emissaries from paris and by the jacobin journals which were the only papers they were permitted to read openly proclaimed the object of their march and uttered the grossest calumnies against the two councils and notwithstanding the order received from the minister of war to return to the station which they had left they continued their march to paris in obedience to the commands of their general hoche who has by this act openly hoisted the standard of rebellion our readers will recollect that we stated some time since that hoche and his army known to be determined jacobins were the instruments on whom the directory relied for perpetuating their own power and for carrying into effect their own unconstitutional designs the directory also appear to have effectually secured the protection of the army of italy addresses have been received from two more divisions of that army which breathe the rankest spirit of jacobinism vow implicit obedience not to the constitution but to the directory and devote their enemies to instant destruction these addresses though the very act of deliberation by which they were proceeded was a direct violation of a constitutional provision have been published by the directory who have in consequence been called on by the council of five hundred to account for their conduct meanwhile a formidable force supposed to amount to men has arrived at paris in small parties so that there can be little doubt but that the directory will set the legislative body at defiance and 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is still off cadiz the four spanith ships which were taken in the last battle are manned and repaired and make a most refpe table figure in the british between france and portugal having been concluded without the interfer ence of our cabinet and in cppofi tion to its views it indicated a feel ing of national degradation truly humiliating the funds of course experienced a considerable fall the per cents left off"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [360, 479], "b_span": [1229, 1346], "matched_words": 97, "similarity": 0.8220338983050848, "seeds": 8, "id": "M01017", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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of l about only had been paid after the cabinet meeting on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "peace between portugal and france will accelerate peace between us and the republic having no allies to attend to we may certainly hope for overtures more according with the disposition and interest of our own government this peace appears extraordinary as the court of portugal gave fervent assurance of remaining with us it had not however got the last subsidy of l about only had been paid after the cabinet meeting on"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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better than the most favored nation since every thing favors reciprocal imports and the balance is all in favor of france who drinks none of the wines of portugal while portugal consumes a considerable quantity of french wines since portugal accords a diminution of the duties on importation it may be farther remarked how much we are favored in many other respects this treaty obliges portugal to admit no more than six ships of war into the port of lisbon and in her smaller ports only three ships of war belonging to each of the belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who send ships into those parts this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in those seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engages to admit no prizes taken by ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so far as to prohibit the sale of merchandise that is captured on board a ship nothing can be more favorable and encouraging to the national industry than the article which promises a kind of premium an extraordinary diminution of duty in favor of articles imported from europe by either of the contracting parties into the dominions of the other provided the cargoes belong to merchants of the nation that imports and are imported in ships of that nation we may see by the secrecy with which this negotiation was conducted and the rapidity with which it was concluded that the spirit which so abruptly broke off the preceding negotiation no longer presides over our diplomatic system it was certainly fortunate and skilful thus to leave england to herself and cut off the last branches of the coalition l'eclair according to perlet the treaty consists of articles which stipulate for the exclusion of all privateers and their prizes from the ports of 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belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who sends ships into these ports this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in these seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engaged to admit no prizes taken by the ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so far as to prohibit the sale of merchandise that is captured on board a ship nothing can be more favorable and encouraging to the national industry than the article which promises a kind of premium an extraordinary diminution of duty in favor of articles imported from europe by either of the contracting parties into the dominions of the others provided the cargoes belong to merchants of the nation that imports and are imported in ships of that nation we may see by the secrecy with which this negotiation was conducted and the rapidity with which it was concluded that the spirit which so abruptly broke off the preceding negotiation no longer presides over our diplomatic system it was certainly fortunate and skilful thus to leave england to herself and cut off the last branches of the coalition eclair according to perlet the treaty consists of eight articles which stipulate for the exclusion of privateers and their prizes from the ports of portugal for a cession of a part of the portuguese territory in america to the french for a commercial intercourse between the two countries highly advantageous to the republic and a private article it is said for the payment of or millions of livres to france nothing official appears in the prints on the subject tho the treaty has been read in the council of five hundred the french journalists augur from the rapid manner in which this treaty has been concluded a speedy issue of the negotiations at lisle and udina we are not 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us apprehensive that the negotiations at lisle are not in such a forward state as all france wish them to be in spite however of these hostile appearances we still preserve the hope that peace is not"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "were to have arrived at rheims yesterday are going to breist other detachments are repairing thither by other routes these movements appear to announce the execution of the long projected maritime expedition is at hand a circumstance which makes us apprehensive that the negotiations at lisle are not in such a forward state as all france wishes them to be in spite of these hostile appearances we still 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mantua be united with the cifalpine republic though it was at firft ftipu lited to be given to aultria on the part of the french it is said that the emperor having given his con ent'to the establishment of a new republic m italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortrefs the emperor there fore must tacitly accede to the ceflion of mantua for which he receives a fuflicient indemnification in iftria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the heufe of austria cannot be expedted easily to abandon its great interests in italy we are not without our fears that hostilities may again commence gen mack who has been sent with strong reinforcements to the italian army is already arrived at"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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expected easily to abandon its great interests in italy we are not without our fears that hostilities may again commence gen maek who has been sent with strong reinforcements to the italian army is already arrived at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1680, 1831], "b_span": [1629, 1758], "matched_words": 92, "similarity": 0.6571428571428571, "seeds": 6, "id": "M01023", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0372.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "a dispatch from paris announcing the fatt of a treaty of peace having been concluded hetween the french re public and the court of lisbon and early this morning mr brooks the meflenger arrived with dispatches from lord malmefbury respecting the fame event and the effec it has had on the state of the negotiations at lisle no communication is al lowed between the veflel that brought over mr broeks and the people on vfligre lord sr vincents fleet lord st vincents fleet is still off cadiz the four spanith ships which were taken in the last battle are manned and repaired and make a most refpe table figure in the british between france and portugal having been concluded without the interfer ence of our cabinet and in cppofi tion to its views it indicated a feel ing of national degradation truly humiliating the funds of course experienced a considerable fall"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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with strong reinforcements to the italian army is already arrived at"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|2", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0142.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly submit to the cession of mantua for which he receives sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily to abandon its great interests in italy we are not without fears that hostilities may again re-commence his imperial majesty intends going about the end of the month to stein where he will review the army of the hungarian levy as there is no danger of 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bhave no other harbours in those seas while rance has thofe of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal enga g fifs to'admit no prizes taken by the ihips of war or privateers into her ports they even go so"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of war into the port of lisbon and in her smaller ports only three ships of war belonging to each of the belligerent powers it may be seen that as england has no allies who sends ships into these ports this article is very advantageous to france since six french six dutch and six spanish ships may be at lisbon at the same time against six english it is also known that the english have no other harbours in these seas while france has those of spain thus it was of great consequence to insert the article by which portugal engaged to admit no prizes taken by the ships of war or privateers into her ports they even go so"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1076, 1355], "b_span": [3612, 3891], "matched_words": 258, "similarity": 0.9247311827956989, "seeds": 41, "id": "M01027", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0373.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "interesting news from cadiz addressed to citizen lanusse at bourdeaux july the enemy has not incommoded us since our last of the th yesterday in the morning a vessel bilanders and obuliers vessels in all approached with an intention to batter the place but the valour of our armed vessels was such as not to suffer their approach and the enemy retired without doing any mischief you cannot think my friend how much we have laboured here this week and the last the forces of the light squadron such as chalopes cannoniers and lanchons have been increased to four times their former number the merchants have given millions of reaux for the urgent expences of the present moment and gratuities to the marines the crew of the chalope which chased a bombarder have received thousand dollars for their bravery and that which chased a chalope of the enemy and took it has received thousand dollars the contempt they hold the english in has given so much valour to our marines that they labour like lions yesterday it was wished to change or renew the seamen of the whole light squadron but they all chose to remain three days longer not finding themselves fatigued the city has all armed some tartanes for hot balls all is under the direction of the mazaredo the english squadron is very discontented it is in a state of insurrection the seamen are not willing to come in their chalopes to attack this place because of the multitudes which they have already lost besides there is not much prospect of pillage commerce is absolutely in stagnation the greater part of the inhabitants have quit the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-12|1|2", "date": "1797-10-12", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101201/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "interesting news from cadiz addressed to citoyen lanusset bourdeaux july the enemy has not incommoded us since our last of the th yesterday in the morning a vessel blunderers and obusiers vessels in all approached with an intention to batter the place but the valour of our armed vessels was such as not to suffer their approach and the enemy retired without doing any mischief you cannot think my friend how much we have laboured here this week and the last the forces of the light squadron such as chaloups coullers and lanchons have been increased to four times their former number the merchants have given four millions of reaux for the urgent expenses of the present moment and gratuities to the marines the crew of the chaloupe which chased a bombardier have received thousand dollars for their bravery and that which chased a chaloupe of the enemy and took it have received six thousand dollars the contempt they hold the english in has given so much valour to our marines that they labor like lions yesterday it was wished to change or renew the seamen of the whole light squadron but they all chose to remain days longer nor finding themselves fatigued the city has also armed some tarsans for hot balls all is under the direction of admiral mazaredo the english squadron is very discontented it is in a state of insurrection the seamen are not willing to come in their chaloups to attack this place because of the multitudes which they have already lopt besides there is not much prospect of pillage commerce is absolutely in flagration the greater part of the inhabitants have quit the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1779, 1882], "b_span": [892, 995], "matched_words": 100, "similarity": 0.970873786407767, "seeds": 23, "id": "M01028", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rumaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter safe spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mere begging them to be honourable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took some crockery ware one safe razors one pair dividers the captain's quadrant which he set great store by the mate's daily assistant and sundry other articles striking the mate on the breast and pointing their swords at him if he offered to resist they likewise took out of the brig one bbl beef do bread casks water coils rope coil ratline bundle points hammer plain hand pump gimblets nails of different kinds several blocks several hooks and thimbles royal fleering-sail boom bails of spun-yarn lamp-black fire-wood c c they robbed capt kennard's people of some sea stores and cloaths such piratical proceedings these villains were guilty of by this time it growing dark they ordered the remaining crew on board the brig to assist them in hoisting out the long-boat threatening them with instant death if they offered to refuse they unbent the brig's main top-mast stay-sail and put it in the boat together with all their plunder at o'clock in the evening they gave capt k his two people and he came on board his vessel in a distressing situation the last compliments from them was damn your president congress and all america for making a treaty with great-britain capt k hoisted in his boat with a deal of trouble and proceeded on his passage to lament his"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-16|1|3", "date": "1797-10-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat n and long w september th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket-book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rummaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter cafe spouts about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mate begging them to be honourable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took some crockery ware one cafe razors one pair dividers the captain's quadrant which he set great store by the mate's daily assistant and sundry other articles striking the mate on the breast and pointing their swords at him if he offered to resist they likewise took out of the brig one bbl beef do bread casks water coils rope coil ratline bundle points hammer plain hand pump gimblets nails of different kinds several blocks several hooks and thimbles royal steering-fail boom balls of spun-yarn lamp-black fire-wood c c they robbed capt kennard's people of some sea-tobacco and clothes such piratical proceeding these villains were guilty of by this time it growing dark they ordered the remaining crew on board the brig to assist them in hoisting out the long-boat threatening them with instant death if they offered to refuse they went out the brig's main top-mast stay-sail and put it in the boat together with all their plunder at o'clock in the evening they gave capt kennard his two people and they came on board his vessel in a distressing situation the last compliment from them was damn your president congress and all america for making a treaty with great britain capt k hoisted in his boat with a deal of trouble and proceeded on his passage to lament his"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [65, 619], "b_span": [1751, 2306], "matched_words": 534, "similarity": 0.9630297565374211, "seeds": 100, "id": "M01030", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0373.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of this month a most terrible battle was fought about twelve leagues from the point of messina between an algerine cruiser of guns full of men and a ship of nine and pounders belonging to the king of the two sicilies the conflict began at seven in the morning and lasted till near three in the afternoon the algerine received the first broadside which carried away the starboard main chains and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and run along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarians making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigates foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those ruffians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four into one nevertheless this desperate crew persisted to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the kings force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": 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constant and well directed fire in to the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to steer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's fore mast was carried away close to the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had departed company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those russians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hell and rigging that she could be hardly kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four in one nevertheless this desperate crew disdained to strike kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the insidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi bider a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out in purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2474, 2952], "b_span": [970, 1435], "matched_words": 437, "similarity": 0.926829268292683, "seeds": 70, "id": "M01031", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rumaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter safe spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mere begging them to be honourable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took some crockery ware one safe razors one pair dividers the captain's quadrant which he set great store by the mate's daily assistant and sundry other articles striking the mate on the breast and pointing their swords at him if he offered to resist they likewise took out of the brig one bbl beef do bread casks water coils rope coil ratline bundle points hammer plain hand pump gimblets nails of different kinds several blocks several hooks and thimbles royal fleering-sail boom bails of spun-yarn lamp-black fire-wood c c they robbed capt kennard's people of some sea stores and cloaths such piratical proceedings these villains were guilty of by this time it growing dark they ordered the remaining crew on board the brig to assist them in hoisting out the long-boat threatening them with instant death if they offered to refuse they unbent the brig's main top-mast stay-sail and put it in the boat together with all their plunder at o'clock in the evening they gave capt k his two people and he came on board his vessel in a distressing situation the last compliments from them was damn your president congress and all america for making a treaty with great-britain capt k hoisted in his boat with a deal of trouble and proceeded on his passage to lament his cruel usage nath'l kennard master attested hiram coffin mate wm cole"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", 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took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to ransaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter case spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt kennard had the mate begging them to be honorable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took some crockery ware one case razors one pair dividers the captain's quadrant which he set great store by the mate's daily assistant and laundry other articles striking the mate on the breast and pointing their swords at him they likewise took out of the bag one bbl beef do bread talks water coils rope coil rigging bundle points hammer plain hand pump gimbets nails of different kinds several blocks several hooks and thimbles royal steering sail boom coil of sun yard lamp-black fire wood c c they robbed capt kennard's people of some sea stores and cloths such piratical proceedings these villains were guilty of by this time it growing dark they ordered the remaining crew on board the brig to assist them in hoisting out the long-boat threatening them with instant death if they offered to refuse they unbeat the brig's main top-mast stay-sail and put into it in the boat together with all their plunder at o'clock in the evening they gave capt kennard his two people and he came on board his vessel in a distressed situation the last compliments from them was damn your president congress and all america for making a treaty with great-britain capt kennard hoisted in his boat with trouble and proceeded on his passage to lament his cruel usage nath'l kennard master attest hiram coffin mate wm cole"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries 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returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and run along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarians making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigates foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those ruffians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four into one nevertheless this desperate crew persisted to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the kings force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of this month a most terrible battle was fought about leagues from the point of messina between an algerine cruiser of guns full of men and a ship of nine and twelve pounders belonging to the king of the two sicilies the conflict began at in the morning and lasted till near in the afternoon the algerine received the first broadside which carried away the starboard main chains and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and ran along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those ruffians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation as was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water was obliged to be towed out of action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover that she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port-holes knocked three and a port-town and fortress of italy on a bay of the tylian sea miles n w of rome the pope's galleys are stationed here a port-town of sicily a populous rich place abounding in silk oil fruit wine and furnishes italy with corn into one nevertheless this desperate crew disdained to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [782, 870], "b_span": [183, 270], "matched_words": 84, "similarity": 0.96, "seeds": 14, "id": "M01033", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0373.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter to the editor dated hamilton district state of tennessee aug th we are in a confused state the commissioners are ascertaining the boundary line between this state and the indians there is not less than fowls that will fall into the indian hands and must move off shortly i have my doubts that there will be some difficulty as the people are very obstinate the th regiment is at knoxville and in case those people refuse to move off they will march in the course"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter to the editor dated hamilton district state of tennessee aug we are in a confused state the commissioners are ascertaining the boundary line between this state and the indians there is not less than souls that will fall into the indian lands and must move off shortly i have my doubts that there will be some difficulty as the people are very obstinate the th regiment is at knoxville and in case these people refuse to move off they will march in the course"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [632, 779], "b_span": [168, 315], "matched_words": 140, "similarity": 0.9523809523809523, "seeds": 27, "id": "M01034", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0373.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "cowper from cape francois which he left the st september capt cowper informs that santhonax failed on the th august in a ship of guns supposed bound to france and had a black representative on board with him general toussaint has the chief command of the army and had sent for general rigaud to the cape where he was hourly expected raimond and le blanc have the chief civil authority a prize english schooner was fitting out at the cape to carry another deputation to france and was to sail in a few days capt cowper further informs that about sail of americans were laying at st jago sail at port-au-paix and sail at monte chrifte all of whom were waiting for trial the brig abigail anderson of this port was taken between the mole and cape may outward bound to jamaica and carried to st jago"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", 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"strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2474, 2722], "b_span": [1968, 2216], "matched_words": 243, "similarity": 0.9798387096774194, "seeds": 51, "id": "M01035", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-10|1|3", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101001/0373.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat north and long west sept th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rumaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter safe spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mere begging them to be honourable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat n and long w sept th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rumaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter case spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mate begging them to be honorable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [65, 619], "b_span": [5, 558], "matched_words": 540, "similarity": 0.975609756097561, "seeds": 101, "id": "M01036", "a": {"key": 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the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarians making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigates foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those ruffians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four into one nevertheless this desperate crew persisted to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the kings force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-08|1|2", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110801/0154.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of this month a most terrible battle was fought about leagues from the point of messina between an algerine cruiser of guns full of men and a ship of nine and twelve pounders belonging to the king of the two sicilies the conflict began at seven in the morning and lasted till near three in the afternoon the algerine received the first broadside which carried away the starboard main chains and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and ran along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their part so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet these russians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and most beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her mast yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four into one nevertheless this desperate crew displayed to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found that they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christians captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage 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non-resident and other owners of unimproved lands in said town of bath that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as therein set forth should be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling-house in said bath on or before monday the th day of december next said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of stephen couch in said bath on monday"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the following is a true copy of what yet remains unpaid are committed to me to collect by the select men of bath with warrants to collect the same which taxes are affected upon the lots as numbered in their respective ranges according to a charter of said town bearing date march th this is therefore to notify all the nonresident and other owners of unimproved lands in said town of bath that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as therein set forth should be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in said bath on or before monday the th day of december next said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of stephen cough in said bath on monday"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3312, 3703], "b_span": [2807, 3202], "matched_words": 386, "similarity": 0.9821882951653944, "seeds": 75, "id": "M01038", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-10|1|2", "date": "1797-10-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & 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would soon abate and that our absent friends would return and give employment to those whose resources were cut off by their leaving the city but alas how are we disappointed in our expectation for our city yet continues in the same deplorable gloomy state and consequently all means of employment for the industrious mechanic and labourer are still suspended add to this the numerous body of females that procured a livelihood by washing ironing needle work c who are left destitute of their usual means of subsistence besides a number who are aged and infirm that used to obtain relief from the bounty of their more able friends and relations as well as many seamen's wives who depend on the merchant for part of their husband's monthly pay and who are now deprived of relief from that source in this deplorable situation we found not less than three thousand people including children when we undertook to execute the trust reposed in us the number of these have since greatly increased and they still remain in the same suffering condition with this difference then they had the comforting reflection that the commissioners had ten thousand dollars ready to meet their exigencies but now it is expended and lamentable for us to be obliged to inform them we know not where to send you or what to advise you to do our money is gone we have to acquaint you we cannot promise your small pittance one week longer we feel for you we suffer with you we know your distress what can we do we can only promise you we will make your situation known to our"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|3", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0385.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the commissioners for alleviating the distresses of the citizens of philadelphia c to the inhabitants of said city and its vicinity permit us to address you at this awful crisis and to lay before you a brief statement of the distressing situation of our suffering fellow citizens it is known to you that on the first day of september we accepted of the appointment from the governor to act as commissioners for the purpose of relieving the indigent by donation and employment with the stipulated sum of ten thousand dollars granted by the legislature and we presume it was generally believed at that time to be more than sufficient arising from an expectation that the disease would soon abate and that our absent friends would return and give employment to those whose resources were cut off by their leaving the city but alas how are we disappointed in our expectation for our city yet continues in the same desolated and gloomy state and consequently all means of employment for the industrious mechanic and laborer are still suspended add to this the numerous body of females that procured a livelihood by washing and ironing needle work c who are left destitute of their usual means of subsistence besides a number who are aged and infirm that used to obtain relief from the bounty of their more able friends and relations as well as many seamen's wives who depend on the merchant for part of their husband's monthly pay and who are now deprived of relief from that source in this deplorable situation we found not less than three thousand people including children when we undertook to execute the trust reposed in us the number of these has since greatly increased and they still remain in the same suffering condition with this difference then they had the consoling reflection that the commissioners had ten thousand dollars ready to meet their exigencies but now it is expended and lamentable for us to be obliged to inform them we know not where to send you or what to advise you to do our money is gone we have to acquaint you we 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kaskaskias which is within the government of the north western territory where the laws of the united states have been in force for several years particulars we have not yet heard but have no doubt that some of citizen adet's spies are among"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "head which mentions that the inhabitants at the natchez are in open rebellion have displayed the french colours is a mistake it is the people of kaskaskias that is within the government of the northwestern territory and where the laws of the u states have been in force for several years particulars we have not yet heard but some of citizen adet's spies are among"}, 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wilkinson is on his march with a strong detachment of federal troops to suppress the insurgents these wicked french emissaries are also endeavouring to persuade the indians into another war with us and a party of the savages has actually attempted to get possession of fort recovery but were defeated with the loss of two or three killed it gives us great uneasiness to learn that three frenchmen who passed through this place some weeks ago have been addressing themselves to cornplanter's indians and telling them that they were oppressed by the united states and would never be happy until their old friends the french were in possession of the country again it is said the indians listened to these speeches with great attention and there is reason to fear the vile incendiaries who are now among the western tribes will be too successful in their endeavours to kindle the flames of another bloody war"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", 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great uneasiness to learn that three frenchmen who passed through this place some weeks ago have been addressing themselves to cornplanter's indians and telling them that they were opposed by the u states and would never be happy till their old friends the french were in possession of the country again it is said the indians listened to the speeches with great attention and there is reason to fear the vile incendiaries who are now among the western tribes will be too successful in their endeavors to kindle the flames of another bloody war"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1203, 1451], "b_span": [2807, 3059], "matched_words": 245, "similarity": 0.98, "seeds": 46, "id": "M01041", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-11|1|3", "date": "1797-10-11", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", 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whose resources were cut off by their leaving the city but alas how are we disappointed in our expectation for our city yet continues in the same desolated gloomy state and consequently all means of employment for the industrious mechanic and labourer are still suspended add to this the numerous body of females that procured a livelihood by washing ironing needle work c who are left destitute of their usual means of subsistence besides a number who are aged and infirm that used to obtain relief from the bounty of their more able friends and relations as well as many seamen's wives who depend on the merchant for part of their husband's monthly pay and who are now deprived"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|3", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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how are we disappointed in our expectation for our city yet continues in the same desolated and gloomy state and consequently all means of employment for the industrious mechanic and laborer are still suspended add to this the numerous body of females that procured a livelihood by washing and ironing needle work c who are left destitute of their usual means of subsistence besides a number who are aged and infirm that used to obtain relief from the bounty of their more able friends and relations as well as many seamen's wives who depend on the merchant for part of their husband's monthly pay and who are now deprived"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4037, 4156], "b_span": [406, 505], "matched_words": 97, "similarity": 0.8899082568807339, "seeds": 17, "id": "M01042", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-12|1|2", "date": "1797-10-12", "paper": "Gazette of the United 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free and accepted masons in new-hampshire a gentleman who not only shone eminent in his profession but also for his philanthropy and private virtues ye sons of science and of freedom mourn relentless death from you a gem has"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|1", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0101.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brilliant his knowledge profound his practice extensive his success uncommon and his diligence and benevolence unbounded on the death of hall jackson esq a distinguished physician and grand master of the society of free and accepted masons in new-hampshire a gentleman who not only shone eminent in his profession but also for his philanthropy and private virtues ye sons of science and of freedom mourn relentless death from you a gem has"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3045, 3600], "b_span": [45, 600], "matched_words": 536, "similarity": 0.9657657657657658, "seeds": 104, "id": "M01044", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-12|1|2", "date": "1797-10-12", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101201/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "every parent will say of his son he is a genius why because from a very natural and innocent prejudice he believes he is an extraordinary boy if genius met with sufficient encouragement and your son happened to be one of those rare birds it might be well to assist him in his flights it is not never lead him into a fatal error i seldom spend an evening at my neighbour meanwell's but he employs one half his time in praising the uncommon talents of darling sammy he is called upon to speak a number of declamations he has learned at school his oratory has just as much merit as his parrot's his writing and ciphering books are shown as prodigies of improvement they prove that he has had an attentive master and is a very carelesse scholar the fond father believes him to be a natural poet true he is fond of reading ballads has been taught to repeat a number of hymns by heart and like most children is fond of the tinkling of rhyme he has proceeded so far as to compose a few couplets that would be a sufficient antidote to the poetic mania his little tricks are related as the marks of sagacity or flights of genius i am tired of hearing them he is neither more nor less than other boys and his father is like many other men tis a pity a lad should be made a fool because he happens to be thought a genius how often is a lad sent to college because he is unfortunately mistaken for an uncommon youth a father who has not spare dollars enough to bring up his son at college would do well never to force him from the beaten tract of honest industry it has peace and plenty on the right hand and on the left a good common education and the habit of industry are worth more to a young man than the dear bought and ill merited a m many may flutter on the artificial wings of genius but few can soar above their fellow creatures a real genius is a very rare thing not to be seen in every family except by the eye of dote or ignorance if a boy from the production of his leisure hours that his mates devote to play can produce a masterly specimen of mechanical genius encourage his exertions and let him follow the bent of his mind if he discover an early propensity to study will be industrious in the field and forfeit the past times of youth for the entertainment of his books becomes master of his pile and a proficient in philosophy and history let him drink his fill at the pierian spring he will be a scholar but if he is distinguished for nothing but his flights of fancy love of poetry novels and plays tie him to the tail of the plough rather than send him to college fancy without judgment is a fine ship without a rudder it had better lie at anchor in a safe harbour than be let adrift on the ocean a genius without application and economy is a mere ignis fatuus while it promises to guide the bewildered object to the temple of fame it leads to the vale"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|4", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112801/0016.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "every parent will say of his son he is a genius why because from a very natural and innocent prejudice he believes he is an extraordinary boy if geniuses met with sufficient encouragement and your son happened to be one of these rare birds it might be well to assist him in his flight if he is not never lead him into a fatal error i seldom spend an evening at my neighbor meanwell's but he employs one half his time in praising the uncommon talents of his darling sammy he is called upon to speak a number of declamations he has learned at school his oratory has just as much merit as the parrot's his writing and ciphering books are shown as prodigies of improvement they prove that he has an inattentive master and is a very careful scholar the fond father believes him to be a natural poet true he is fond of reading ballads has been taught to repeat a number of hymns by heart and like most children is fond of the tickling of rhyme he has proceeded so far as to compose a few couplets that would be a sufficient antidote to the poetic mania his little tricks are related as the marks of sagacity or flight of genius i am tired of hearing them he is neither more nor less than other boys and his father is like many other men tis a pity a lad should be made a fool because he happens to be thought a genius how often is a lad sent to college because he is unfortunately mistaken for an uncommon youth a father who has not spare dollars enough to bring up his son at college would do well never to force him from the beaten tract of honest industry it has peace and plenty on the right hand and on the left a good common education and the habit of industry are worth more to a young man than the dear bought and ill merited a m many may flutter on the artificial wings of genius but few can soar above their fellow creatures a real genius is a very rare thing not to be seen in every family except by the eye of dorge or ignorance if a boy from the production of his leisure hours that his mate devote to play can produce a masterly specimen of mechanical genius encourage his exertions and let him follow the beat of his mind if he discover an early propensity to study will be industrious in the field and forfeit the pastimes of youth for the entertainment of his books becomes master of his pike and a proficient in philosophy and history let him drink his fill at the pierian spring he will be a scholar but if he is distinguished for nothing but his flights of fancy love of poetry novels and plays tie him to the tail of the plough rather than send him to college fancy without judgment is a fine ship without a rudder it had better lie at anchor in a safe harbor than be let adrift on the ocean and genius without application and economy is a mere ignis fatuus while it promises to guide the bewildered object to the temple of fame it leads to the vale"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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half his time in praising the uncommon talents of darling sammy he is called upon to speak a number of declamations he has learned at school his oratory has just as much merit as his parrot's his writing and ciphering books are shown as prodigies of improvement they prove that he has had an attentive master and is a very carelesse scholar the fond father believes him to be a natural poet true he is fond of reading ballads has been taught to repeat a number of hymns by heart and like most children is fond of the tinkling of rhyme he has proceeded so far as to compose a few couplets that would be a sufficient antidote to the poetic mania his little tricks are related as the marks of sagacity or flights of genius i am tired of hearing them he is neither more nor less than other boys and his father is like many other men tis a pity a lad should be made a fool because he happens to be thought a genius how often is a lad sent to college because he is unfortunately mistaken for an uncommon youth a father who has not spare dollars enough to bring up his son at college would do well never to force him from the beaten tract of honest industry it has peace and plenty on the right hand and on the left a good common education and the habit of industry are worth more to a young man than the dear bought and ill merited a m many may flutter on the artificial wings of genius but few can soar above their fellow creatures a real genius is a very rare thing not to be seen in every family except by the eye of dote or ignorance if a boy from the production of his leisure hours that his mates devote to play can produce a masterly specimen of mechanical genius encourage his exertions and let him follow the bent of his mind if he discover an early propensity to study will be industrious in the field and forfeit the past times of youth for the entertainment of his books becomes master of his pile and a proficient in philosophy and history let him drink his fill at the pierian spring he will be a scholar but if he is distinguished for nothing but his flights of fancy love of poetry novels and plays tie him to the tail of the plough rather than send him to college fancy without judgment is a fine ship without a rudder it had better lie at anchor in a safe harbour than be let adrift on the ocean a genius without application and economy is a mere ignis fatuus while it promises to guide the bewildered object to the temple of fame it leads to the vale"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797122001/0207.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "every parent will say of his son he is a genius why because from a very natural and innocent prejudice he believes he is an extraordinary boy if geniuses met with sufficient encouragement and your son happened to be one of these rare birds it might be well to assist him in his flights if he is not never lead him into a fatal error i seldom spend an evening at my neighbour meanwell's but he employs one half his time in praising the uncommon talents of his darling sammy he is called upon to speak a number of declamations he has learned at school his oratory has just as much merit as the parrot's his writing and ciphering books are shown as prodigies of improvement they prove that he has had an inattentive master and is a very careless scholar the fond father believes him to be a natural poet true he is fond of reading ballads has been taught to repeat a number of hymns by heart and like most children is fond of tinkling of rhyme he has proceeded so far as to compose a few couplets that would be a sufficient antidote to the poetic mania his little tricks are related as the marks of sagacity or the flights of genius i am tired of hearing them he is neither more nor less than other boys and his father is like many other men tis a pity a lad should be made a fool because he happens to be thought a genius how often is a lad sent to college because he is unfortunately mistaken for an uncommon youth a father who has not spare dollars enough to bring up his son at college would do well never to force him from the beaten tract of honest industry it has peace and plenty and on the right hand and on the left a common education and the habit of industry are worth more to a young man than the dear bought and ill merited a m many may flutter on the artificial wings of genius but few can soar above their fellow creatures a real genius is a very rare thing not to be seen in every family except by the eye of doteage or ignorance if a boy from the production of his leisure hours that his mates devote to play can produce a masterly specimen of mechanical genius encourage his exertions and let him follow the bent of his 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hon gen white and the hon mr stuart late speaker of the house of representatives the troops of cavalry citizens in files we are happy to say that mr blount has received on his journey through this state the most flattering and hearty welcome from every description of citizens a welcome justly due from a grateful people to the father friend and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2502, 2875], "b_span": [1427, 1800], "matched_words": 360, "similarity": 0.9651474530831099, "seeds": 63, "id": "M01047", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-13|1|2", "date": "1797-10-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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their friends where they are to find them in case of emergency wretched will those be who shall allow themselves to be directed by such guides who shudder at the phantoms of their own imagination has formed and who in compassing their own destruction are calculated to destroy every thing the circumstances are without doubt very critical but when it becomes necessary to walk between precipices we cannot extricate ourselves from the danger which surrounds us by gales of passion wisdom and not rage is essential to each party to enable it to thin the midships which menace all the parties in a nearly equal degree paris we are assured that the directory has received the original order of march given to the troops by the war commissioner le sage we just learn that the directory has decided that the territory of liege shall not be considered as an integral part of the empire but shall remain united to the french republic it is added that this decision has occasioned the negotiations with the emperor to be broken off ibid we are assured yesterday that pichegru had set out for rheims for the purpose of conferring with the commanders of the army and of obtaining that by perfidious which it would be extremely dangerous for the two parties to commit to the fate of arms ibid"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "very moderate conclusions in the report made yesterday to the council of five hundred by the commission of inspectors relative to the march of the troops have surprised many persons who expected to hear that a proposition would be made for a decree of accusation against the three members who compose the majority of the directory these persons have been altogether mistaken and perhaps will be so for a long time to come perles we cannot be too much on our guard against the croakers petreux who augment the mischief by their violent and unceasing exaggerations and who if we were to listen to them would hurry us instantly into a civil war on pretext of seeing clear of it they call on us to fly to arms without giving themselves the trouble to enquire whether we are provided with the necessary weapons and without pointing out to their friends where they are to find them in case of necessity wretched will those be who shall allow themselves to be directed by such guides who shudder at the phantoms that their own imagination has formed and who in compassing their own destruction are calculated to destroy every thing the circumstances are without doubt very critical but when it becomes necessary to walk between precipices we cannot extricate ourselves from the danger which surrounds us by gusts of passion wisdom and not rage is essential to each party to enable it to shun the mischiefs which menace all the parties in a nearly equal degree perles we are assured that the directory has received the original order of march given to the troops by the war commissioner lbsage we just learn that the directory has decided that the territory of liege shall not be considered as an integrant part of the empire but shall remain united to the french republic it is added that this decision has occasioned the negotiations with the emperor to be broken off ibid we were assured yesterday that pichegru had set out for rheims for the purpose of conferring with the commanders of the army and of obtaining that by persuasion which it would be extremely dangerous for the two parties to commit to the fate of arms ibid"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2257, 2421], "b_span": [2832, 2997], "matched_words": 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member of the philosophical society of philadelphia he was a man of great circumspection apparent coldness and restrained intercourse but on a closer acquaintance he discovered deep knowledge mildness and moderation of mind and especially an unblemished impartiality that made him loved and respected by all his countrymen his remains were on thursday attended to the catholic burying-ground attended by the british and spanish consuls and a number of frenchmen and inhabitants of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797102501/0381.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and lately at baltimore he was born at le mans in france had formerly been admitted a doctor in physics in the 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inspectors relative to the march of the troops have surprised many persons who expected to hear that a proposition would be made for a decree of accusation against the three members who compose the majority of the directory these persons have been altogether mistaken and perhaps will be so for a long time to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|2", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0142.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "we have every reason to think that the report of the resumption of hostilities in italy between the republicans and austrian troops is entirely without foundation in our opinion there is still every prospect of peace with the house of austria notwithstanding the negotiations are at this time so much protracted the very moderate conclusions in the report made yesterday to the council of five hundred by the commission of inspectors relative to the march of troops have surprised many persons who expected to hear that a proposition would be made for a decree of accusation against the three members who composed the majority of the directory these persons have been altogether mistaken and perhaps will be for a long time to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2757, 2875], "b_span": [1515, 1630], "matched_words": 105, "similarity": 0.9012875536480687, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01050", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-13|1|2", "date": "1797-10-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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of troops equipage provisions cannon and stores by either of the routes suggested if either could have been taken without violating the territory of the u states these were circumstances abundantly sufficient to discredit naked suspicion and the declaration of mr linton in the note of the th of june was mentioned only as confirming the justness of the opinion which i had at first formed"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [513, 608], "b_span": [2480, 2634], "matched_words": 94, "similarity": 0.7550200803212851, "seeds": 20, "id": "M01054", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-13|1|3", "date": "1797-10-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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february you mentioned to me the raising of men at montreal"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1694, 1890], "b_span": [280, 455], "matched_words": 166, "similarity": 0.894878706199461, "seeds": 26, "id": "M01055", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797101401/0126.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the first respectability who arrived on the th ult from niagara has favoured us with the following interesting intelligence that great part of the american garrison at niagara had sailed for detroit to reinforce the garrison in the north western territory where serious apprehensions had been entertained of their being attacked by the western indians influenced by the spaniards and french captain guion with two companies who had been sent down the mississippi to occupy the posts to be delivered up by the spaniards by treaty instead of being allowed to perform that service was when the account came away in a fort of confinement by the spaniards neither being allowed to proceed or return another detachment had met with the same fate the garrison of niagara expects an immediate reinforcement from west-point the british are not without apprehensions of an attempt on canada by the french and spaniards but expect a strong body of troops from england they had received orders in upper canada to build immediately three twenty gun ships on lake ontario the british troops in upper canada consist of a new regiment of volunteers and the queen's rangers which are in"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", 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british are not without apprehensions of an attempt on canada by the french and spaniards but expect a strong body of troops from england they had received orders in upper canada to build immediately three twenty gun-ships on lake ontario the british troops of upper canada consist of a new regiment of volunteers and the queen's rangers which are in"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [927, 1928], "b_span": [2987, 3988], "matched_words": 966, "similarity": 0.965034965034965, "seeds": 160, "id": "M01056", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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spanish governors for postponing the running of the boundary line and evacuating the posts merit the name of reasons or of pretences governor gayoso being informed of mr ellicott's descending the mississippi wrote to him on the th of february desiring him to leave his post at bayou pierre miles above the natchez yet the treaty prescribed a military escort on each side to attend the commissioners in running the boundary line and the natchez as the place of their first meeting the chief reason offered for this request was that if the troops of the two nations were brought together misunderstandings might arise between them yet the treaty required their coming together to attend the commissioners when they were jointly running the boundary line and the only reason the governor assigned for not evacuating the posts was the want of vessels but which he expected would soon arrive on the th of february governor gayoso and mr ellicott fixed on the th of march to proceed down the river to clarkeville near which it was supposed the boundary line would commence on the th of march governor gayoso informed mr ellicott that the baron de carondelet could not attend the running of the line in person and that the whole business had devolved on him the governor but he feared he should not be ready on the th and then he endeavoured to draw mr ellicott from his proper station at the natchez by proposing a visit to the baron at new orleans march th the governor again endeavoured to draw mr ellicott from the natchez and recommended lofus cliffs near clarkeville as the point of re-uniting and by way of inducement said that the geometer and other officers to be employed on the boundary line would stop at clarkeville on the th of march the principal part of the artillery was taken out of the fort and every appearance made of a speedy evacuation but on the d they were carried back to the fort and immediately remounted a similar movement took place at the latter end of april after the arrival of lieutenant pope and his troops at the natchez the evacuation says he appeared to be going on with great life when all at once the military stores were ordered back their troops busily engaged all night taking back and remounting the cannon here he very naturally expresses his surprise this kind of conduct says he appears strange march d the governor mentions that orders had been given by the general in chief of the province to demolish the post at the walnut hills because their treaty with the indians required it but as he gayoso had since been informed of their unsettled dispositions he had sent counter-orders to prevent the fortifications being injured suggesting at the same time that the moving of the stores c was suspended only until the arrival of the american troops to take possession of the post in this letter the governor informs mr ellicott that lieutenant colonel guillemand was far on his way up and on his arrival the running of the boundary line should begin the governor adds this assurance that there is nothing that can prevent the religious compliance with the treaty on the th and th of march governor gayoso issued two proclamations both bearing date the th taking new ground for retaining the posts viz until the right of the inhabitants to the real property is ascertained the governor is pleased to say that a negotiation was then carrying on between the king of spain and the united states to secure to the inhabitants of the natchez the right to their real property that that right could not be secured but by an additional article to the late treaty and that he should keep possession of the country until that article should be officially communicated to him and until they were sure that the indians would be pacific this last reason particularly warrants my assertion that the governors meant for an indefinite period to avoid the evacuation of the posts for while a tribe of indians existed in that quarter the governors could not be sure that they would be pacific and as to their real property seeing the great body of the inhabitants appear not to desire the patronage of the spanish government to secure it as the government of the united states must be at least as anxious as that of spain to protect the inhabitants in their rights when become citizens of the united states i believe there can be no difficulty in deciding whether this is a reason or a pretence besides the negotiation mentioned by the governor about the real property of the inhabitants has never existed nor even been proposed or hinted either to or by the government of the united states i hope therefore it will not be deemed harsh or unbecoming in a letter of this kind to say that this motive for suspending the evacuation of the posts that a negotiation was then on foot to secure the real property of the inhabitants does not merit"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|1", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110801/0387.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the th paragraph of your letter you say that after having discussed the history of these transactions with all the force and accuracy which result from these observations i assert with a very ill grounded confidence that upon a view of the whole it appears that his majesty's governors of the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the evacuation of the posts i must here also complain of misrepresentation i did not in my report draw my conclusions from the history of these transactions that is of the transactions which you have previously mentioned in your letter and which i have already noticed in this answer but upon a view of the whole correspondence then and before submitted to the president this correspondence i will now examine to see whether the causes assigned by the spanish governors for postponing the running of the boundary line and evacuating the posts merit the name of reasons or of pretences gov gayoso being informed of mr ellicott's descending the mississippi wrote to him on the th feb desiring him to leave his escort at bayonne pierre miles above the natchez yet the treaty prescribed a military escort on each side to attend the commissioners in running the boundary line and the natchez as the place of their first meeting the chief reason offered for this request was that if the troops of the two nations were brought together misunderstandings might arise between them yet the treaty required their coming together to attend the commissioners when they were jointly running the boundary line and the only reason the governor assigned for not evacuating the posts was the want of vessels but which he expected would soon arrive on the th of february governor gayoso and mr ellicott fixed on the th of march to proceed down the river to clarkeville near which it was supposed the boundary line would commence on the th of march governor gayoso informed mr ellicott that the baron de carondelet could not attend the running of the line in person and that the whole business devolved on him the governor but he feared he should not be ready on the th and then he endeavored to draw mr ellicott from his proper station at the natchez by proposing a visit to the baron at new orleans march th the governor again endeavored to draw mr ellicott from the natchez and recommended lofus cliffs near clarkeville as the point of re-uniting and by way of inducement laid that the geometer and all other officers to be employed on the boundary line would stop at clarkeville on the th of march the principal part of the artillery was taken out of the fort and every appearance made of a speedy evacuation but on the d they were carried back to the fort and immediately remounted a similar movement took place at the latter end of april after the arrival of lieut pope and his troops at the natchez the evacuation says he appeared to be going on with great life when all at once the military stores were ordered back their troops busily engaged all night taking back and remounting the cannon here he very naturally expressed his surprise this kind of conduct says he appears strange march d the gov mentions that orders had been given by the gen in chief of the province to demolish the post at the walnut hills because their treaty with the indians required it but as he gayoso had since been informed of their unsettled dispositions he had sent counter orders to prevent the fortifications being injured suggested at the same time that the moving of the stores c was suspended only until the arrival of the american troops to take possession of the post in this letter the governor informs mr ellicott that lieut col guillemard was far on his way up and on his arrival the running of the boundary line should begin the governor adds this assurance that there is nothing that can prevent the religious compliance with the treaty on the th and th of march gov gayoso issued two proclamations both bearing date th taking new ground for retaining the posts viz until the right of the inhabitants to the real property is ascertained the gov is pleased to say that a negotiation was then carrying on between the king of spain and the u s to secure to the inhabitants of the natchez the right to their real property and that right could not be secured but by an additional article to the late treaty and that he should keep possession of the country until that article should be officially communicated to him and until they were sure that the indians would be pacific this last reason particularly warrants my assertion that the governors meant for an indefinite period to avoid the evacuation of the posts or while a tribe of indians existed in that quarter the governors could not be sure that they would be pacific and as to their real property seeing the great body of the inhabitants appear not to desire the patronage of the spanish government to secure it as the government of the u s must be at least as anxious as that of spain to protect the inhabitants in their rights when become citizens of the u states i believe there can be no difficulty in deciding whether this is a reason or a pretence besides the negotiation mentioned by the governor about the real property of the inhabitants has never existed nor even been proposed or hinted either to or by the government of the u s i hope therefore it will not be deemed harsh or unbecoming in a letter of this kind to say that his motive for suspending the evacuation of the posts that a negotiation was then on foot to secure the real property of the inhabitants does not merit"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and 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states immediately on their arrival as this information did not remove suspicions mr ellicott wrote the governor on the st of march stating divers circumstances which still kept those suspicions alive the governor answered on the same day in direct contradiction to the information given by the gentlemen his agents to mr ellicott and confirming the declarations made in his proclamations he added also a new motive for retaining the posts viz that the treaty left it doubtful whether when the posts should be evacuated the works were to be left standing or to be demolished concerning which the governor general found himself obliged to consult his catholic majesty and had given the governor positive orders to suspend the evacuations of the posts until the matter should be amicably settled between the two governments on the st of may another motive is assigned for retaining the posts the envoy of his catholic majesty in the united states had informed the governor general of an attack proposed against the spanish part of illinois the upper part of louisiana by the british from canada and therefore the posts at the walnut hills and the natchez must be kept for the defence of lower louisiana this last motive is also offered as a reason why the running of the boundary line is postponed as all their attention was drawn towards the defence of the province against an invasion which as i have already shown was never contemplated to all these facts i have to add the declaration of general wilkinson in his letter of june d to the secretary of war i have says he information through a confidential channel that it was determined as early as september last as september last not to give up the posts on the mississippi if this information be correct no other proof is necessary to show that all the reasons from time to time suggested for not evacuating the posts were mere pretences i have now brought into one view the most material facts relating to the question between us which are scattered throughout the reports made by me to the president of the united states on the th of june and d july and by the secretary of war on the th of june and the documents accompanying them as they have been published and from this brief recital it evidently appears as i have said in my report that the governors of his catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the territory of the united states and that after repeated overtures promises and appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both these respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they meant to avoid doing either you controvert this conclusion only on one ground you say that the treaty stipulated merely that the spanish garrisons should be withdrawn not that fortifications which might one day be prejudicial to the king's subjects should be delivered up and hence you infer that the necessity urged by the two governors of delaying to withdraw the garrisons until this question is decided between the two governors is not a pretence but a substantial reason here i must observe that the governors had already demolished the post at the chickasaw bluff and it appears in the foregoing recital that they were going to demolish the post at the walnut hills and the reason assigned is that the treaties with the indians required the demolition and governor gayoso assigns but one motive for suspending that operation that he had been informed of the unsettled disposition of the indians yet afterwards this reason that their treaties with the indians required the demolition of the posts is forgotten and their destruction or their delivery with all the fortifications and other works standing is by the governors made to depend entirely on the issue of a negotiation between the governments of spain and the united states can any farther proof be wanting to justify me in calling this a pretence but you seem to rely on this your construction of the treaty relative to the posts you have urged it in your letter to me of the th of june and therefore i will consider it the d article of the treaty having described the boundaries between the territories of the united states and spain thus proceeds and it is agreed that if there should be any troops garrisons or settlements of either party in the territory of the other according to the above mentioned boundaries they shall be withdrawn from the said territories within the term of six months after the ratification of this treaty or sooner if it be possible and that they shall be permitted to take with them all the goods and effects which they possess but to justify your retention of the posts you say that the demarcation of the boundary line should precede the withdrawing of the garrisons yet you suppose it probable and his catholic majesty's governors well know that the chickasaw bluff the walnut hills and the natchez are within the territory of the united states governor gayoso speaks of the boundary line as being near clarkeville a place many miles below the natchez and he also knew the result of mr ellicott's astronomical observations on the spot which ascertained the natchez to be about thirty nine miles north of the south boundary of the united states there being then not a shadow of doubt with respect to the position of these posts that they are all within the territory of the united states there was no necessity previously to run and mark the boundary line which besides if set about in good earnest it would take at least a year to accomplish through a wilderness of many hundred miles in extent and therefore it never could have been contemplated as necessary to precede the evacuation of the posts which was to be effected in six months or sooner if possible yet fifteen months have elapsed and you still keep possession but you suggest that it is at least doubtful whether by the treaty it was intended to leave the fortifications standing when the garrisons should be withdrawn you say it is not to be presumed that it could ever have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which besides that they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the effect of political vicissitudes be one day prejudicial to his subjects i feel much reluctance to attempt the refutation of a construction so obviously erroneous it is probably the first time that to withdraw or retire from a place has been imagined to intend its destruction if at the formation of the treaty the demolition of the posts had been intended it would assuredly have been expressed but doubtless the idea never occurred until it was found convenient to make it a pretence for holding the posts the phrases to withdraw a garrison to evacuate a post or country have as determinate a meaning as any in the english language and their meaning is ascertained by frequent use in treaties and to destroy a country or a fortified place from which it was stipulated to withdraw an army or a garrison would be such an act of barbarism as ought never to take place among civilized nations one of the latest treaties made by the united states that with great britain has the same phrase his majesty will withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines assigned by the treaty of peace to the united states this evacuation shall take place on or before the first day of june and these expressions are used in the same treaty as equivalent to the delivery of the said posts the british treaty was in this manner accordingly carried into effect the british troops were withdrawn and the works left standing the british officers were even careful not to expose the works to accidental destruction for as the american troops did not reach the posts by the first of june small british guards were left to preserve the works from injury until the american troops arrived by the treaty concluded at versailles the d of september between great britain and spain it was agreed that the king of great britain should cause east florida to be evacuated three months after the ratification of that treaty or sooner if it could be done the evacuation took place but no demolition of fortifications in the preliminary articles of peace between england france and spain signed the d of november it was stipulated that as soon as possible after the ratification of these preliminaries france should evacuate cleves wesel and guelders and generally all the countries belonging to the king of prussia were those places demolished or the country laid waste when the troops withdrew or were there any subsequent negotiations to remove any doubts on the subject but i have dwelt too long on a point that really required no elucidation"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|1", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0391.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "soon as the governor discovered that his proclamations instead of quieting the minds of the inhabitants produced a contrary effect he sent two gentlemen of the settlement to inform mr ellicott that he the governor had received directions from the baron de carondelet to have the artillery and military stores expediently removed from the forts which were to be given up to the troops of the u s immediately on their arrival as this information did not remove suspicions mr ellicott wrote the governor on the th of march stating divers circumstances which still kept those suspicions alive the governor answered on the same day in direct contradiction to the information given by the gentlemen his agents to mr ellicott and confirming the declarations made at his proclamation he added also a new motive for retaining the posts viz that the treaty left it doubtful whether when the posts should be evacuated the works were to be left standing or to be demolished concerning which the gov gen found himself obliged to consult his catholic majesty and had given the gov positive orders to suspend the evacuation of the posts until the matter should be amicably settled between the two governments on the first of may another motive is assigned for retaining the posts the envoy of his catholic majesty in the u s had informed the governor general of an attack proposed against the spanish part of illinois the upper part of louisiana by the british from canada and therefore the posts at the walnut hills and the natchez must be kept for the defence of lower louisiana this last motive is also offered as a reason why the running of the boundary line is postponed as all their attention was drawn towards the defence of the province against an invasion which as i have already shown was never contemplated to all these facts i have to add the declaration of gen wilkinson in his letter of june d to the secretary of war i have says he information through a confidential channel that it was determined as early as sept last not to give up the posts on the mississippi if this information be correct no other proof is necessary to show that all the reasons from time to time suggested for not evacuating the posts were mere pretences i have here brought into one view the most material facts relating to the question between us which are scattered throughout the reports made by me to the president of the u s on the th of june and d of july and by the secretary of war on the th of june and the documents accompanying them as they have been published and from this brief recital it evidently appears as i have said in my report that the governors of his catholic majesty on the mississippi have on various pretences postponed the running of the boundary line and the withdrawing of his troops from the posts they occupied within the territory of the u s and that after repeated overtures promises appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations in both these respects their conduct demonstrates that for an indefinite period they meant to avoid doing either you controvert this conclusion only on one ground you say that the treaty stipulated merely that the spanish garrisons should be withdrawn not that fortifications which might one day be prejudicial to the king's subjects should be delivered up and hence you infer that the necessity urged by the two governors of delaying to withdraw the garrisons until this question is decided between the two governors is not a pretence but a substantial reason here i must observe that the governors had already demolished the post at the chickasaw bluff and it appears in the foregoing recital that they were going to demolish the post at the walnut hills and the reason assigned is that the treaties with the indians required the demolition and gov gayoso assigns but one motive for suspending that operation that he had been informed of the unsettled disposition of the indians yet afterwards this reason that their treaties with the indians required the demolition of the posts is forgotten and their destruction or their delivery with all the fortifications and other works standing is by the governors made to depend entirely on the issue of a negotiation between the governments of spain the u s can any farther proof be wanting to justify me in calling this a pretence but you seem to rely on this your construction of the treaty relative to the posts you have urged it in your letter to me of the th of june and therefore i will consider it the d article of the treaty having described the boundaries between the territories of the u s and spain thus proceeds and it is agreed that if there should be any troops garrisons or settlements of either party in the territory of the other according to the above mentioned boundaries they shall be withdrawn from the said territories within the term of six months after the ratification of this treaty or sooner if it be possible and that they shall be permitted to take with them all the goods and effects which they possess but to justify your retention of the posts you say that the demarcation of the boundary line should precede the withdrawing of the garrisons yet you suppose it probable and his catholic majesty's governors well know that the chickasaw bluff the walnut hills and the natchez are within the territory of the u s gov gayoso speaks of the boundary line as being near clarkeville a place many miles below the natchez and he also knew the result of mr ellicott's astronomical observations on the spot which ascertained the natchez to be about thirty-nine miles north of the south boundary of the u s there being then not a shadow of doubt with respect to the position of these posts that they are all within the territory of the u s there was no necessity previously to run and mark the boundary line which besides if set about in good earnest it would take at least a year to accomplish through a wilderness of many hundred miles in extent and therefore it never could have been contemplated as necessary to precede the evacuation of the posts which was to be effected in six months or sooner if possible yet months have elapsed and you still keep possession but you suggest that it is at least doubtful whether by the treaty it was intended to leave the fortifications standing when the garrisons should be withdrawn you say it is not to be presumed that it could ever have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which besides that they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the effect of political vicissitudes be one day prejudicial to his subjects i feel much reluctance to attempt the refutation of a construction so obviously erroneous it is probably the first time that to withdraw or retire from a place has been imagined to intend its destruction if at the formation of the treaty the demolition of the posts had been intended it would assuredly have been expressed but doubtless the idea never occurred until it was found convenient to make it a pretence for holding the posts the phrases to withdraw a garrison to evacuate a post or country have as determinate a meaning as any in the english language and their meaning is ascertained by frequent use in treaties and to destroy a country or a fortified place from which it was stipulated to withdraw an army or a garrison would be such an act of barbarism as ought never to take place among civilized nations one of the latest treaties made by the u s that with g britain has the same phrase his majesty will withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines assigned by the treaty of peace to the u s this evacuation shall take place on or before the first day of june and these expressions are used in the same treaty as equivalent to the delivery of the said posts the british treaty was in this manner accordingly carried into effect the british troops were withdrawn and the works left standing the british officers were even careful not to explode the works to accidental destruction for as the american troops did not reach the posts by the first of june small british guards were left to preserve the works from injury until the american troops arrived by the treaty concluded at versailles the d of sept between great britain and spain it was agreed that the king of g britain should cause e florida to be evacuated in three months after the ratification of that treaty or sooner if it could be done the evacuation took place but no demolition of fortifications in the preliminary articles of peace between england france and spain signed the d of nov it was stipulated that as soon as possible after the ratification of these preliminaries france should evacuate cleves wesel and guelders and generally all the countries belonging to the king of prussia were those places demolished or the country laid waste when the troops withdrew or were there any subsequent negotiations to remove any doubts on the subject but i have dwelt too long on a point that really required no elucidation"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2487, 2603], "b_span": [49, 180], "matched_words": 106, "similarity": 0.8582995951417004, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01058", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-14|1|2", "date": "1797-10-14", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-14/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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suppose it probable and his catholic majesty's governors well know that the chickasaw bluff the walnut hills and the natchez are within the territory of the united states governor gayoso speaks of the boundary line as being near clarkeville a place many miles below the natchez and he also knew the result of mr ellicott's astronomical observations on the spot which ascertained the natchez to be about thirty nine miles north of the south boundary of the united states there being then not a shadow of doubt with respect to the position of these posts that they are all within the territory of the united states there was no necessity previously to run and mark the boundary line which besides if set about in good earnest it would take at least a year to accomplish through a wilderness of many hundred miles in extent and therefore it never could have been contemplated as necessary to precede the evacuation of the posts which was to be effected in six months or sooner if possible yet fifteen months have elapsed and you still keep possession but you suggest that it is at least doubtful whether by the treaty it was intended to leave the fortifications standing when the garrisons should be withdrawn you say it is not to be presumed that it could ever have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which besides that they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the effect of political vicissitudes be one day prejudicial to his subjects i feel much reluctance to attempt the refutation of a construction so obviously erroneous it is probably the first time that to withdraw or retire from a place has been imagined to intend its destruction if at the formation of the treaty the demolition of the posts had been intended it would assuredly have been expressed but doubtless the idea never occurred until it was found convenient to make it a pretence for holding the posts the phrases to withdraw a garrison to evacuate a post or country have as 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posts by the first of june small british guards were left to preserve the works from injury until the american troops arrived by the treaty concluded at versailles the d of september between great britain and spain it was agreed that the king of great britain should cause east florida to be evacuated three months after the ratification of that treaty or sooner if it could be done the evacuation took place but no demolition of fortifications in the preliminary articles of peace between england france and spain signed the d of november it was stipulated that as soon as possible after the ratification of these preliminaries france should evacuate cleves wesel and guelders and generally all the countries belonging to the king of prussia were those places demolished or the country laid waste when the troops withdrew or were there any subsequent negotiations to remove any doubts on the subject but i have dwelt too long on a point that"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-11-20|1|1", "date": 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boundaries between the territories of the united states and spain thus proceeds and it is agreed that if there should be any troops garrisons or settlements of either party in the territory of the other according to the abovementioned boundaries they shall be withdrawn from the said territories within the term of six months after the ratification of this treaty or sooner if it be possible and that they shall be permitted to take with them all the goods and effects which they possess but to justify your retention of the posts you say that the demarcation of the boundary line should precede the withdrawing of the garrisons yet you suppose it probable and his catholic majesty's governors well know that the chickasaw bluff the walnut hills and the natchez are within the territory of the united states governor gayoso speaks of the boundary line as being near clarksville a place many miles below the natchez and he also knew the result of mr ellicott's astronomical observations on the spot which ascertained the natchez to be about thirty nine miles north of the south boundary of the united states there being then not a shadow of doubt with respect to the position of these posts that they are all within the territory of the united states there was contemplated as necessary to precede evacuation of the posts which was to be effected in six months or sooner if possible yet fifteen months have elapsed and you still keep the garrisons but you say that it is doubtful whether the garrisons were intended to leave the fortifications standing when the garrisons should be drawn you say it is not to be supposed that it could ever have been intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which though they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the political vicissitudes become a present to his subjects i feel much reluctance to attempt the refutation of a position so obviously erroneous but probably the first time that to draw or retire from a place has been imagined to intend its destruction the posts had been intended it is assuredly have been expressed doubtless the idea never occurred it was found convenient to make it a pretence for holding the posts the word to withdraw a garrison to evacuate a post or country have as determined meaning as any in the english language and their meaning is ascertained by frequent use in treaties and to evacuate a country or a fortified place from the army or a garrison would be an act of barbarism as ought never to be placed among civilized nations the latest treaty made by the united states that with great britain required the british to evacuate and draw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundaries assigned by the treaty of paris to the united states this evacuation was to take place on or before the first of june all these expressions are used in the same treaty as equivalent to the delivery of the said posts the british treaty was in this manner effectually carried into effect the troops were withdrawn and the posts left standing the british officers were even careful not to expose the works to accidental destruction for as the british troops did not reach the posts until the first of june small british garrisons were left to preserve the works for the jury until the american troops arrived by the treaty concluded at versailles the d of september between great britain it was agreed that the king of great britain should evacuate east florida to be evacuated months after the ratification of that treaty sooner if it could be done the evacuation took place but no demolition of fortifications in the preliminary articles of the treaty between england france spain signed the d of november it was stipulated that as soon as possible after the ratification of these preliminary articles france should evacuate cleves and guelders and generally all countries belonging to the king of spain were those places demolished or the country laid waste when the troops 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every effort to debauch toussaint from his allegiance santhonax an abandoned villain who has enriched himself on the plunder of the unfortunate colonists who were too honest to join him in his villainies would doubtless will to throw himself out of the reach of the french government and make himself the petty despot of that island but if he supposed he could maintain the independence of that colony in opposition to the power of france he is as weak as he is wicked the constituted authorities of the french government or rather despotism in st domingo consisted of a motley crew santhonax born in france where he has a father still living raimond a mulatto and toussaint a black man military commander in chief it appears however that these officers who have african blood in their veins are infinitely the least criminal raimond and toussaint are spoken of by the americans as men of more honor and integrity than santhonax and men on whose word some dependence can be placed since santhonax was sent away the supreme authority in st domingo devolves on julien raimond this man has issued a pompous proclamation addressed to the people in which he declares his attachment and inviolable faith to the french republic that as he has both french and african blood in his veins the real french and the people of other colours have nothing to fear from him all shall be protected in their rights he says that he has constantly endeavoured to soften down the recriminations of the different parties to calm animosities and to inspire a love of labour of order and of peace to revive cultivation which alone can bring back prosperity in this he has so far succeeded as he states that the plantations in the north of the island have resumed a smiling aspect and become productive he promises to rectify the enormous abuses introduced into the imports by santhonax whose distribution of the public money was shamefully unequal unjust in this proclamation raimond has said nothing in particular about the american trade he says in general that the french merchants and strangers are witnesses of the protection given to commerce and of the efforts of the administration to fulfil its engagements he speaks of his ardent desire to unite all the inhabitants in one family and attach them to france and also to encourage cultivation protect commerce"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797111501/0162.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "by the report of general toussaint louverture it appears that santhonax has long been attempting to detach hispaniola from its dependence on france and has used every effort to detach toussaint from his alleged allegiance santhonax an abandoned villain who has enriched himself on the plunder of the unfortunate colonists who were too honest to join him in his villainies would doubtless wish to throw himself out of the reach of the french government and make himself the petty despot of that island but if he supposed he could maintain the independence of that colony in opposition to the power of france he is as weak as he is wicked the constituted authorities of the french government or rather despotism in st domingo consisted of a motley crew santhonax born in france where he has a father still living raimond a mulatto and toussaint a black man military commander in chief it appears however that these officers who have african blood in their veins are infinitely the least criminal raimond and toussaint are spoken of by the americans as men of more honor and integrity than santhonax and men on whose word some dependence can be placed since santhonax was sent away the supreme authority in st domingo devolves on julien raimond this man has issued a pompous proclamation addressed to the people in which he declares his attachment and inviolable faith to the french republic that as he has both french and african blood in his veins the real french and the people of other colors have nothing to fear from him all shall be protected in their rights he says that he has constantly endeavored to listen down the resentments of the different parties to calm animosities and to inspire a love of labor of order and peace to revive cultivation which alone can bring back prosperity in this he has so far succeeded as he states that the plantations in the north of the island have resumed a smiling aspect and become productive he promises to rectify the enormous abuses introduced into the imposts by santhonax whose distribution of the public money was shamefully unequal and unjust in this proclamation raimond has said nothing in particular about the american trade he says in general that the french merchants and strangers are witnesses of the protection given to commerce and of the efforts of the administration to fulfil its engagements he speaks of his ardent desire to unite all the inhabitants in one family and attach them to france and also to encourage cultivation protect commerce"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [946, 1336], "b_span": [1161, 1550], "matched_words": 379, "similarity": 0.9730423620025674, "seeds": 68, "id": "M01061", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-16|1|2", "date": "1797-10-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "time piece fools will be meddling at a time when the wife and prudent are exerting every nerve and every friend to human nature is throwing in his mite to preserve peace and good will among mankind and prevent this country from being harried by that scourge of nations war the interested and the designing are busy in blowing up the embers of discord this spirit has at length found its way into colleges and academies of science into those institutions which ought to be the repositories of philosophy where youth are or ought to be trained up to become the lights of the world and qualify themselves to forward that great principle of humanizing civilizing and harmonizing a race too naturally prone to discord and to render each other's situation uneasy on this earth in several late college exhibitions in the different states the pupils have spoken their sentiments perhaps of their tutors with unqualified acrimony against that enlightened nation which founding heroism on the principles of philosophy has extended its benevolent idea of government into every quarter of the world and thereby opened the way for that great and philanthropic political system without the prevalence of which on this globe the whole of nature's sublunary work is an insolvable riddle which daily prompts the fool to say in his heart there is no god it is in vain for these gentlemen to hope at the present crisis of things to set the american nation at enmity with france the republican spirit is peace harmony and good will among men the sentiment of america must operate congenially with that of france in order to confront the demon of monarchy and drive him to his native obscurity ye preceptors ye fathers of colleges who possess sentiments unfriendly to the rights of man insult not the public mind wound not the feelings of your audiences by making innocent youth the organs of your malice and as far as lies in your power widening the breach already too far effected by the arts of designing men between the american and gallic republics our chain of unity although not bright will not easily be broken and british property taken by the french during the time of war under the protection of a neutral flag without a reciprocal privilege allowed to france is too"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-11|1|3", "date": "1797-11-11", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-11/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797111101/0159.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "time piece fools will be meddling at a time when the wise and prudent are exerting every nerve and every friend to human nature is throwing in his mite to preserve peace and good will among mankind and prevent this country from being harrased by the scourge of nations war the interested the designing are busy in blowing up the embers of discord this spirit has at length found its way into colleges and academies of science into those institutions which ought to be the repositories of philosophy where youth are or ought to be trained up to become the lights of the world and qualify themselves to forward that great principle of humanizing civilizing and harmonizing a race too naturally prone to discord and to render each other's situation uneasy on this earth in several late college exhibitions in the different states the pupils have spoken their sentiments perhaps of their tutors with unqualified acrimony against that enlightened nation which founding heroism on the principles of philosophy has extended its benevolent idea of government into every quarter of the world and thereby opened the way for that great philanthropic political system without the prevalence of which on this globe the whole of nature's sublunary works is an involvable riddle which daily prompts the tool to say in his heart there is no god it is in vain for these gentlemen to hope at the present crisis of things to set the american nation at enmity with france the republican spirit is peace harmony and good will among men the sentiment of america must operate congenially with that of france in order to confront the demon of monarchy and drive him to his native obscurity ye preceptors ye fathers of colleges who possess sentiments unfriendly to the right of man insult not the public mind wound not the feelings of your audiences by making innocent youth the organs of your malice and as far as lies in your power widen the breach already too far effected by the arts of designing men between the american and the gallic republics our chain of unity although not bright will not be easily broken and british property taken by the french during the time of war under the protection of a neutral flag without a reciprocal privilege allowed to france is too"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, 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the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket-book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rummaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter cafe spouts about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mate begging them to be honourable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took some crockery ware one cafe razors one pair dividers the captain's quadrant which he set great store by the mate's daily assistant and sundry other articles striking the mate on the breast and pointing their swords at him if he offered to resist they likewise took out of the brig one bbl beef do bread casks water coils rope coil ratline bundle points hammer plain hand pump gimblets nails of different kinds several blocks several hooks and thimbles royal steering-fail boom balls of spun-yarn lamp-black fire-wood c c they robbed capt kennard's people of some sea-tobacco and clothes such piratical proceeding these villains were guilty of by this time it growing dark they ordered the remaining crew on board the brig to assist them in hoisting out the long-boat threatening them with instant death if they offered to refuse they went out the brig's main top-mast stay-sail and put it in the boat together with all their plunder at o'clock in the evening they gave capt kennard his two people and they came on board his vessel in a distressing situation the last compliment from them was damn your president congress and all america for making a treaty with great britain capt k hoisted in his boat with a deal of trouble and proceeded on his passage to lament his"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat north and long west september th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage-gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt kennard which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to ransaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter case spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt kennard had the mate begging them to be honorable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took some crockery ware one case razors one pair dividers the captain's quadrant which he set great store by the mate's daily assistant and laundry other articles striking the mate on the breast and pointing their swords at him they likewise took out of the bag one bbl beef do bread talks water coils rope coil rigging bundle points hammer plain hand pump gimbets nails of different kinds several blocks several hooks and thimbles royal steering sail boom coil of sun yard lamp-black fire wood c c they robbed capt kennard's people of some sea stores and cloths such piratical proceedings these villains were guilty of by this time it growing dark they ordered the remaining crew on board the brig to assist them in hoisting out the long-boat threatening them with instant death if they offered to refuse they unbeat the brig's main top-mast stay-sail and put into it in the boat together with all their plunder at o'clock in the evening they gave capt kennard his two people and he came on board his vessel in a distressed situation the last compliments from them was damn your president congress and all america for making a treaty with great-britain capt kennard hoisted in his boat with trouble and proceeded on his passage to lament his"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2301, 2548], "b_span": [1968, 2216], "matched_words": 241, "similarity": 0.9737373737373738, "seeds": 49, "id": "M01063", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-16|1|3", "date": "1797-10-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat n and long w september th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket-book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rummaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and 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pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rumaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter case spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mate begging them to be honorable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article 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returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side ordered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but failing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb sketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favoured the views of the english and between and landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording 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spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from ad nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus culloden zealous s leander emerald sea horse terpsichore fox cutter with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they rendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not sending in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded or more and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cove that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish gen caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be that too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition they are vice admiral nelson captain miller culoden troubridge zealous hood leander thomson emerald waller sea-horse frementle terpsichore bower fox cutter lieutenant gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route 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addressed the fountain of mercy in a pertinent pathetic prayer after a short conversation between the rev gentlemen and the culprit dr thatcher at his request addressed the numerous crowd which the awful occasion had collected desiring them to be warned by the fate of the criminal assured them that he conceived his trial fair forgave all who ever had injured him and died at peace with the family of mankind after a lengthy pause the gentlemen of the clergy having retired smith addressed himself to sheriff allen mr hartshorne as jailer and mr lewis a constable and thanked them for their particular attention and kindness to him the last moment drew near the halter was put round the culprit's neck the white cap drawn over his eyes and after an instant's pause which he appeared to devote to fervent though silent prayer he was led to the scaffold the supporting line unstaitened and the malefactor launched into eternity after hanging about half an hour he was cut down and"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "stephen smith convicted of burglary left the jail for the place of execution he was proceeded by sheriff allen and his deputies messrs hartshorn symmes and bell on horseback accompanied by the rev doctors stiman and thatcher on foot at o'clock the procession reached the place of execution which was at the bottom of the common the sheriff read the warrant which authorized the prisoner's execution doctor thatcher then addressed the fountain of mercy in a penitent and pathetic prayer after a short conversation between the rev gentlemen and the culprit dr thatcher at his request addressed the numerous crowd which the awful occasion had collected desiring them to be warned by the fate of the criminal assuring them that he conceived his trial fair forgave all who ever had injured him and died at peace with the family of mankind after a lengthy pause the gentlemen of the clergy having retired smith addressed himself to sheriff allen mr hartshorn as jailer and mr lewis as a constable and thanked them for their particular attention and kindness to him the last moment drew near the halter was put round the culprit's neck the white cap drawn over his eyes and after an instant's pause which he appeared to devote to fervent the silent prayer he was led to the scaffold the supporting line unfixed and the executioner launched into eternity after hanging about half an hour he was cut down and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2775, 3151], "b_span": [1451, 1827], "matched_words": 359, "similarity": 0.9547872340425532, "seeds": 58, "id": "M01067", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|2", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101701/0376.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lat n long w was boarded by a french privateer brig from guadalupe under english colors the particulars of the treatment which capt d received is thus recorded by him the capt of this privateer came on board with five of his crew and demanded my papers after examination ordered all my trunks and chests to be opened and took from them all the money they contained with the letters which he opened he took all our stock and cabin stores with all the spare running rigging sails and blocks and cut one studling-fall from the yard he also took one cask of rum belonging to the cargo and a case that belonged to capt haynes who was to have come passenger contents unknown after plundering us of the above articles he suffered his people to rob us of what they pleased and so fully devoted were they to the business of thieving that they took every article they could find even to the knives forks spoons and tumblers and in fact every article remaining in the cabin he then put two seamen on board that were taken a few days before from the brig favorite sisson of baltimore master and mr taylor supercargo with a cargo of dollars the capt of the privateer wished to put capt sisson and mr taylor on board my vessel but they insisted on staying aboard the privateer and demanded to know the fate of their property which spirited behaviour produced on the commander of the privateer a conduct unworthy a man for on their refusal to quit the privateer he inhumanly flogged them besides capt sisson there were several other american masters and seamen on board the privateer names except one not to be ascertained this individual's name was john barnes of marblehead a few hours previous to our being boarded the privateer took a sloop from rhode-island capt briggs bound to cape francois who he said was a good prize to add insult to our misfortune this inhuman pirate threatened to take me on board his vessel and inflict an ignominious punishment on me and finished his brutal behaviour by dismissing me with a curse on my country and a declared determination to rob every american vessel he"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lat n long w was boarded by a french privateer brig from guadaloupe under english colours the particulars of the treatment which capt d received are thus recorded by him the capt of this privateer came on board with five of his crew and demanded my papers after examination ordered all my trunks and chests to be opened and took from them all the money they contained with the letters which he opened he took all our stock and cabin stores with all the spare running rigging sails and blocks and cut one fludding sail from the yard he also took one cask of rum belonging to the cargo and a cask that belonged to capt hayoc who was to have come passenger contents unknown after plundering us of the above articles he suffered his people to rob us of what they pleased and fully devoted were they to the business of thieving that they took every article they could find even to the knives forks spoons and tumblers and in fact every article remaining in the cabin he then put two seamen on board who were taken a few days before from the brig favorite siffon of baltimore master and mr taylor supercargo with a cargo of dollars the capt of the privateer wished to put capt siffon and mr taylor on board my vessel but they insisted on staying aboard the privateer and demanded to know the fate of their property which spirited behaviour produced on the commander of the privateer a conduct unbecoming a man for on their refusal to quit the privateer he inhumanly fluted them besides capt siffon there were several other american masters and seamen on board the privateer names except one not to be ascertained this individual's name was john barns of marsthead a few hours previous to our being boarded the privateer took a sloop from rhode-island captain briggs bound to cape francois who he said was a good prize to add insult to our misfortune this inhuman pirate threatened to take me on board his vessel and inflict an ignominious punishment on me and finished his brutal behavior by dismissing me with a curse on my country and a declared determination to rob every american vessel he"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [875, 1457], "b_span": [1430, 2010], "matched_words": 570, "similarity": 0.9810671256454389, "seeds": 115, "id": "M01068", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|2", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101701/0376.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "court was held for the examination of john perry charged with being concerned in fitting out and arming a vessel within the united states for the purpose of cruising against the subjects of a nation with whom we are at peace c the most material evidence for the prosecution was captain willis whose testimony was in substance as follows that in the month of january last on his homeward bound passage from guadalupe he spoke a new copper-bottomed schooner from norwich in connecticut called the uncas with mules upon her deck that on his returning to guadalupe some time after he found that this schooner had been converted into a privateer and had taken some prizes particularly a ship called the betsey of glasgow that in a conversation he had with perry he said he was on board the schooner when spoken by him in january and further acknowledged that he was then interested in said schooner as a privateer that perry was publicly spoken of at guadalupe as part owner and agent for the privateer which was then called the victorious mr murray's testimony corroborated in stating the prevailing opinion at guadalupe of perry's being understood as part owner and agent for this privateer after a full and candid hearing of evidence and the respective counsel employed upon the occasion the court were of an unanimous opinion that perry's case came under cognizance of a law of congress passed in which subjects citizens of the united states guilty of the offence for which he was indicted to imprisonment of not more than three years and a fine not exceeding dollars the court admitted perry to bail on his giving security in the sum of dollars for his appearance at the federal court to be held in the district of virginia to which a final decision is referred before the same court mr robert hamilton was examined on a charge not very dissimilar to the above the only evidence adduced in this case was his own voluntary confession on sunday morning mr hamilton meeting several gentlemen on his wharf he desired that they would step into his counting room where he observed to them that understanding a report was in circulation that he had been concerned in a privateer fitted out of the united states was desirous of representing the matter in its true light in order that they might contradict any misrepresentation which the tongue of rumour would probably originate he then stated that in the year a friend in baltimore without his knowledge or advice purchased a part in a privateer that he was first informed of this circumstance by letter stating also that he was considered as interested in a third part of the purchase that he accordingly gave his friend who was indebted to him credit for that proportion of the share he bought in the privateer as he shewed by his books amounting to s that he afterwards received through him dollars as a dividend of a prize made by said privateer since which he had not heard further of her than a report that she was captured and destroyed by the enemy the attorney remarked that a prosecution would not lie inasmuch as it was required by law that it should be commenced in two years after the commission of the offence but that the court might demand security against the repetition of it the court 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considered as interested in a third part of the purchase that he accordingly gave his friend who was indebted to him credit for that proportion of the share he bought in the privateer as he showed by his books amounting to that he afterwards received through him dollars as a dividend of a prize made by said privateer since which he had not heard further of her than a report that she was captured and destroyed by the enemy the attorney remarked that a prosecution would not lie inasmuch as it was required by law that it should be commenced in two years after the commission of the offence but that the court might demand security against the repetition of it the court coincided with the attorney in regard to the point of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [65, 758], "b_span": [322, 1016], "matched_words": 666, "similarity": 0.9603460706560922, "seeds": 129, "id": 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last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side ordered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not serving in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers suppose between and drowned in the cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from ad nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus culloden zealous s leander emerald sea horse terpsichore fox cutter with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following on the morning of the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but failing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between and o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the guns instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and capt bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed canon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manila ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not serving in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theyus vice adm nelson calladen capt miller zionous troubridge laander hood emerald thamson sea-horse waller terpsichore freemanile fox cutter bowen lt gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [65, 453], "b_span": [2396, 2786], "matched_words": 381, "similarity": 0.9794344473007712, 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repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side ordered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0138.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick gorran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning of the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but sailing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commands the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board captain bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo 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and the officers suppose between and drowned in the cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from ad nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus culloden zealous s leander emerald sea horse terpsichore fox cutter with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0139.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c roomy an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the islands the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trubridge zealous hood leander thompson emerald waller sea horse freemantle terpsichore bowen fox cutter lieut gibson with ten pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 2840], "b_span": [1893, 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at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse or fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|4", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [736, 901], "b_span": [4684, 4862], "matched_words": 148, "similarity": 0.8629737609329446, "seeds": 16, "id": "M01073", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|3", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101701/0377.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the commission delegated by the french government to the leeward islands seeing a petition presented to the commission on the th of last frimaire by hughes willon commander and owner of the schooner anna-maria of baltimore in consequence whereof augustus love capt of the privateer la verte of l'anse veau is accused of having ill-treated the petitioner of having captured his vessel disposed thereof as well as of the cargo without a previous judgment pronouncing the validity of the prize seeing a letter directed on the th floreal last to the commission by the consul-general of the french republic near the united states of america by which it appears that said augustus love commits in the seas of hispaniola the most horrid piracies under divers flags considering that the bulk of informations given to the commission or which they collected themselves about augustus love is equivalent to public notoriety of the excesses by him committed against 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letter directed on the th flo real last to the commission by the consul general of the french republic near the united states of america by which it ap pears that said augustus love commits in the seas of hispaniola the most horrid pi racies under divers flags considering that the bulk of information given to the commission or which they have collected themselves about augustus love is equivalent to public notoriety of the ex cesses by him committed against the rights of nations and individuals considering that"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [910, 1036], "b_span": [5, 131], "matched_words": 123, "similarity": 0.9761904761904762, "seeds": 25, "id": "M01074", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|3", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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and indivisible signed on the records of verbal process the commissioners of the french"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 2840], "b_span": [1202, 1411], "matched_words": 202, "similarity": 0.9665071770334929, "seeds": 35, "id": "M01075", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|3", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101701/0377.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the bible have now passed through the presses of the proprietor of this paper viz folio with fifty copperplate representations of scripture history royal quarto with and without concordance large demy octavo with and without apocrypha and demy mo or the common small bible this last is just issued from the press the types for which were procured at a very great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen four years to complete them they are now standing and are to be kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse or fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0139.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the bible have now passed through the press of the proprietor of this paper viz folio with fifty copperplate representations of scripture history royal quarto with and without concordance large demy octavo with and without apocrypha and demy mo or the common small bible this last is just issued from the press the types for which were procured at a great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen years to compleat them they are now all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing-offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2631, 2840], "b_span": [2064, 2273], "matched_words": 202, "similarity": 0.9665071770334929, "seeds": 35, "id": "M01076", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|3", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|3", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0143.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the bible have now passed through the press of the proprietor of this paper viz folio with fifty copperplate representations of scripture history royal quarto with and without concordance large demy octavo with and without apocrypha and demy mo or the common small bible this last is just issued from the press the types for which were procured at a great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen years to compleat them they are now all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing-offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "profiles": 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owners of unimproved lands in said town of bath that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as therein set forth should be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling-house in said bath on or before monday the th day of december next said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of stephen couch in said bath on monday"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the following is a true copy of what yet remains unpaid are committed to me to collect by the select men of bath with warrants to collect the same which taxes are affected upon the lots as numbered in their respective ranges according to a charter of said town bearing date march th this is therefore to notify all the nonresident and other owners of unimproved lands in said town of bath that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as therein set forth should be paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in said bath on or before monday the th day of december next said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of stephen cough in said bath on monday"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1021, 1086], "b_span": [74, 139], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.9846153846153847, "seeds": 11, "id": "M01078", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-17|1|4", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797101701/0378.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following scheme of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation scheme prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are subject to a deduction of per cent this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the st"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|1", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121901/0025.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following schems of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation scheme prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are subject to a deduction of per cent this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the st"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [749, 965], "b_span": [943, 1162], "matched_words": 211, "similarity": 0.9701149425287356, "seeds": 44, "id": "M01079", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-17|1|3", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from england that he had received the letters from our government to lay before lord grenville requesting it is supposed the release of the olive branch and her cargo of arms tents field pieces and camp equipage now he says the people of vermont will be supplied with arms we rejoice that our brave fellow-citizens of vermont are likely to be supplied but as the lighting men in that state cannot much exceed the number of and it is to be presumed that most of them have excellent guns already as they are hunters where will ira allen find purchasers for muskets with bayonets and cartridge boxes who in vermont will buy brass field pieces tents and camp kettles when mr allen wrote his letter from england he could not have known of the conviction and execution of mclean in canada much less could he have known that it was proved on his trial that the insurgents destined to take quebec by storm were to be supplied with arms from vermont but if our vermont brethren should not want allen's arms and camp equipage possibly he may find a market for them in other states the low price and long credit given by the french government will enable him to sell them cheap and the speculation"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0384.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from england that he had received the letters from our government to lay before lord grenville requesting it is supposed the release of the olive branch and her cargo of arms tents field pieces and camp equipage now says he the people of vermont will be supplied with arms we rejoice that our brave fellow citizens of vermont are like to be supplied but as the fighting men in that state cannot much exceed the number of and it is to be presumed that most of them have excellent guns already as they are hunters where will ira allen find purchasers for muskets with bayonets and cartridge boxes who in vermont will buy brass field pieces tents and camp kettles when mr allen wrote his letter from england he could not have known of the conviction and execution of m c lean in canada much less could he have known that it was proved on his trial that the insurgents destined to take quebec by storm were to be supplied with arms from vermont but if our vermont brethren should not want allen's arms and camp equipage possibly he may find a market for them in other states the low price and long credit given by the french government will enable him to sell them cheap and the speculation"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2478, 2871], "b_span": [562, 936], "matched_words": 363, "similarity": 0.9465449804432855, "seeds": 63, "id": "M01080", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-17|1|3", "date": "1797-10-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the th inst was committed by the city council to the federal jail in this city robert plogbright of the privateer brig campbell capt wilson of nassau n p mounting guns and owned by richard coppinger of that place he was put on board the schooner nancy of philadelphia commanded by capt burnett which was retaken by the captain and his mate as mentioned before and brought by them in here as prize master the charge against him is that he had no copy of a commission which all privateers legally commissioned give that he lately commanded an american vessel from alexandria in virginia to the west-indies and that he is a citizen of the united states on monday the th inst were arrested by a warrant from john glen esq mayor of this city joseph moffay of the state of maryland and william cowell of the state of north carolina citizens of the united states who were picked up at sea with three other whites and thirty-five blacks by capt callaghan of the schooner exuma and having been on board the british armed ship general nichols of grenada they were brought before doctor john love one of the aldermen of this city for examination when it appearing joseph moffay had shipped himself voluntarily on board the said armed ship he was committed to the federal jail for his trial but it appearing that william cowell on the oath of two of the crew of said armed ship was picked up at sea in a boat with capt ewing late master of the schooner grace of washington north carolina mr armour the owner an apprentice boy edward potter of north-carolina and charles langley a boy of boston with two blacks that capt michael morrison of the said armed ship had permitted the captain owner apprentice and the two blacks to go on board of an american schooner but had detained by compulsion the said william cowell edward potter and charles langley on board and that at nassau on his arrival there he placed a number of blacks to guard the said cowell and langley to prevent them from getting away from his ship for potter had jumped into the boat of the quebec frigate at sea after exchanging a shot first with her by mistake at night he was in consequence discharged by"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0384.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the th inst was committed by the city council to the federal jail in this city robert ploughwright of the privateer brig campbell capt wilson of nassau new-prudence mounting guns and owned by richard lappinger of that place he was put on board the schooner nancy of philadelphia commanded by capt burnet which was re-taken by the captain and mate as mentioned before and brought by them in here as prize master the charge against him is that he had no copy of a commission which all privateers legally commissioned give that he lately commanded an american vessel from alexandria in virginia to the west-indies and that he is a citizen of the united states on monday th inst were arrested joseph moffay of the state of maryland and william cowell of the state of north-carolina citizens of the united states who were picked up at sea with three other whites and thirty-five blacks by capt gallaghan of the schooner exuma having been on board the british armed ship general nichols of grenada they were brought before doct john love one of the aldermen of this city for examination when it appearing joseph moffay had shipped himself voluntarily on board the said armed ship he was committed to the federal jail for his trial but it appearing that william cowell on the oath of two of the crew of said armed ship was picked up at sea in a boat with capt ewing late master of the schooner grace of washington north-carolina mr amour the owner an apprentice boy edward potter of north-carolina and charles langley a boy of boston with two blacks that capt michael morrison of the said armed ship had permitted the captain owner apprentice and the two blacks to go on board an american schooner but had detained by compulsion the said william cowell edward potter and charles langley on board and that at nassau on his arrival there he placed a number of blacks to guard the said cowell and langley to prevent them getting away from the ship for potter had jumped into the boat of the quebec frigate at sea after exchanging a shot first with her by mistake at night he was in consequence discharged by"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [39, 412], "b_span": [1445, 1818], "matched_words": 356, "similarity": 0.9544235924932976, "seeds": 61, "id": "M01081", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-18|1|3", "date": "1797-10-18", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-18/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101801/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to patriotism yesterday the citizens of new-york exhibited a splendid proof of attachment to the federal government by their honorable reception of the president of the united states agreeable to previous arrangements captain lovell and lamb's troops of horse proceeded early in the morning to harlem-bridge where they met the president and escorted him to town on their approach the several uniformed corps formed at the bull's head tavern and joining the procession moved forward in the following order captain lovell's troop of horse captain lamb's do captain duryee's company of grenadiers new-york rangers commanded by lieutenant laight band of music captain ardent's independent rangers captain hulet's new-york volunteers captains richardson and wolfe's companies of infantry military officers on horseback the president in his coach and four attended by a detachment of the cavalry citizens in carriages and on horse-back the route was from the bull's head thro bowery-lane chatham-street broadway beaver-street into broad-street the military advanced up to garden-street wheeled and formed a line from mr avery's hotel to beaver-street the president then left his coach and walked uncovered to his lodgings at mr avery's accompanied by generals morris and hughes and a number of other gentlemen of distinction while the procession was moving down broadway the bells of trinity church commenced ringing a federal salute was fired by captain ten eyck's company of artillery from the battery and another by the garrison in governor's island fort the british frigate thistle fired a royal salute a mark of attention on the part of captain hardy which reflects great honor on his character as an officer and gentleman it is but justice to say that the whole business was conducted by the military in the most proper manner and that their good order soldierly appearance and behaviour and the promptitude and correctness with which they performed the various evolutions did them much credit the crowd of citizens which attended was immense all appeared equally anxious to behold the first magistrate of a free people and by repeated shouts announced the general satisfaction with one of their most early zealous tried friends whose past services are too great too deeply impressed ever to be forgotten by the existing generation or obliterated from the faithful"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0384.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to patriotism yesterday the citizens of new-york exhibited a splendid proof of attachment to the federal government by their honorable reception of the president of the united states agreeable to previous arrangements capt lovell and lamb's troops of horse proceeded early in the morning to haerlem-brigde where they met the president and escorted him to town on their approach the several uniformed corps formed at the bull's head tavern and joining the procession moved forward in the following order capt lovell's troop of horse capt lamb's do capt duryee's company of grenadiers new-york rangers commanded by lieut laight band of music captain arden's independent rangers capt hulett's new-york volunteers capt richardson's and wolfe's companies of infantry military officers on horseback the president in his coach and four attended by a detachment of the cavalry citizens in carriages and on horseback the route was from the bull's head through bowery-lane chatham-street broadway beaver-street into broad-street the military advanced up to garden-street wheeled and formed a line from mr avery's hotel to beaver-street the president then left his coach and walked uncovered to his lodgings at mr avery's accompanied by generals morris and hughes and a number of other gentlemen of distinction while the procession was moving down broadway the bells of trinity church commenced ringing a federal salute was fired by capt ten eyck's company of artillery from the battery and another by the garrison in governor's island fort the british frigate thibee fired a royal salute a mark of attention on the part of capt hardy which reflects great honor on his character as an officer and gentleman it is but justice to say that the whole business was conducted by the military in the most proper manner and that their good order soldierly appearance and behavior and the promptitude and correctness with which they performed the various evolutions did them much credit the crowd of citizens which attended was immense all appeared equally anxious to behold the first magistrate of a free people and by repeated shouts announced the general satisfaction with one of their most early zealous tried friends whose past services are too great too deeply impressed ever to be forgotten by the existing generation or obliterated from the faithful"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4319, 4742], "b_span": [1066, 1489], "matched_words": 409, "similarity": 0.966903073286052, "seeds": 82, "id": "M01082", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-19|1|2", "date": "1797-10-19", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797101901/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "learn one every one need not be a mechanic but let every body have some honest employment understand their business stick to their trade and let other people's affairs alone this is the way to grow rich and live happy when i go into a barber's shop and hear mr tonfor whose information extends but little beyond the end of his sign-pole prate politics pull the french directory and legislate for the american congress i say to myself every one to his trade a wig and a constitution are very different things a man may be quite a connoisseur in one and very ignorant of the other tonfor's tongue proves this as fully as a strong argument chain the industrious farmer or mechanick who are not content with small and sure gain should remember a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush after they have tried their dear experiments in merchandise horse jockeying or land speculation they will have reason to lament their not adhering to my text any trade is good if well followed a man may make more at journey-work in a poor trade that he is master of than by an apprenticeship in better business than he is unacquainted with the 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"Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797102001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "upbraid me with shewing to the british minister a degree of candour and confidence which you insinuate he does not deserve and which you seem to think i have withheld from you yet sir all the declarations made to me by that minister verbally and in writing touching the points in controversy between you and me have been verified as i have already said you declared to me that you had just reasons for suspecting that an expedition was preparing on the lakes by the english in order to attack upper louisiana the british minister in the first instance assured me that he had no knowledge of it and his subsequent inquiries enabled him further to assure me that no such expedition had been or was intended by the british government and i have in another place offered other reasons which confirm the truth of these assurances yet you tell me that the assurance given me by the british minister but without any signature did not inspire the servants of his catholic majesty with the same blind confidence which it produced in me i shall take no other notice of this remark than to put you right in point of fact the note of the british minister containing the assurance to which you refer is not without a signature this like other official notes from that minister has his signature his name written with his own hand at the head of it you declared to me that you knew to a certainty that the english had made propositions to general clarke of georgia in order to avail themselves of his influence in that state together with some other persons for making a diversion or serious attack against florida the british minister informed me that although he knew nothing of general clarke or his expedition from georgia a proposition had been made to him the british minister for an expedition against the floridas but that he told the projector that he had no power to authorize it and besides that there were among other objections to the plan two of great weight one that the indians were to be employed the other that it would violate the neutral rights of the united states the british minister has since shown me an original letter from lord grenville dated the th of last april in which he informs the minister that if there were no other objections to the plan the two mentioned by him viz that it could not be executed without employing the indians and without violating the rights of the united states would be sufficient to induce the british government to reject it this proves sir that mr linton's declarations on this point were not vague and unauthentic as you pronounce them but in strict conformity with truth as to general clarke of georgia the british minister declared he had never even heard of him and the extract of the letter from mr jackson the district attorney of georgia respecting gen clarke and any expedition forming there in behalf of the english against the floridas will incline every candid inquirer at least to doubt whether such a project has ever been proposed to him we shall afterwards see that mr blount's plot does not appear to have any connection with an expedition under general clarke thus you see sir that i have not blindly placed a confidence in the british minister for aught that has yet appeared he was entitled to the credit he has received i return to your letter you mention your communications to the baron de carondelet respecting the intended expedition from canada from that moment you say imperious necessity and the great principle of self-defence made his catholic majesty's officers turn their thoughts to objects of a more urgent nature than running the boundary line and here you introduce mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy as evincing how far their conduct in this respect was necessary it is wonderful sir that you should attempt to make it be believed that mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy had any connection with the expedition which you suggested was preparing on the lakes of canada against upper louisiana all that is yet discovered of mr blount's project or conspiracy proves that it was to have been formed in one of the states south of the river ohio and that it was designed against the floridas and perhaps lower louisiana i therefore feel myself for this and the other reasons before exhibited ill warranted in considering the suspected canada expedition among the pretexts for delaying to evacuate the posts and to run the boundary line and consequently that your charge that i have in this instance palpably attempted to make groundless and unfair impressions on the public mind is alike unfounded and unbecoming your public character to suggest in your next paragraph you thus address me nor do you ill-founded insinuations stop here sentiments and expressions still more violent flow from that same hasty pen this passage is in perfect correspondence with the general strain of your letter whether your charge is correctly made is now to be examined i am ready to confess that my report this stigmatized was from the paucity of business written in haste but a revision of it satisfies me nevertheless that it is not inaccurate in its statements you quote the passage in my report which has called forth this reproach it is in these words that there is but too much reason to believe mr elliott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the united states and then you say that i mention the source of these dreadful conjectures to be a private letter from mr sargent secretary of the north western territory here you are extremely incorrect as usual when you undertake to recite my conclusions and the facts and circumstances upon which they are formed it is from a view of the whole correspondence referred to in my reports of the th of june and th of july on the intelligence received by the secretary of war and the private letter from colonel sargent that i drew the conclusion you have quoted mr elliott formed his suspicions on the spot from what was passing before him and he is not a careless or un discerning observer general wilkinson says letters from all quarters announce the discontented and menacing aspect of the savages two white men have been recently murdered on the ohio below the cumberland and the savages beyond the mississippi and those who pass massac make no hesitation to avow their purpose for war and then he refers to a letter from colonel hamtramck who commands the united states troops at detroit in which the colonel says i am pretty sure that both the french and spaniards have emissaries among the indians i have it from indubitable authority that a large belt by which is meant a speech from the spaniards is now traveling through the different nations meaning the nations within the territories of the united states colonel sargent writes it is true a private letter but it is to a public officer and his situation as secretary and governor for the time of the north western territory would render it his duty to be vigilant for its safety and his character vouches for the accuracy of his information and you do not question the truth of any part of his"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|1", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0391.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "upbraid me with shewing to the british minister a degree of candor and confidence which you insinuate he does not deserve and which you seem to think i have withheld from you yet sir all the declarations made to me by that minister verbally and in writing touching the points in controversy between you and me have been verified as i have already said you declared to me that you had just reasons for suspecting that an expedition was preparing on the lakes by the english in order to attack upper louisiana the british minister in the first instance assured me he had no knowledge of it and his subsequent inquiries enabled him further to assure me that no such expedition had been or was intended by the british government and i have in another place offered other reasons which confirm the truth of these assertions yet you tell me that the assurance given me by the british minister but without any signature did not inspire the servants of his catholic majesty with the same blind confidence which it produced in me i shall take no other notice of this remark than to put you right in point of fact the note of the british minister containing the assurance to which you refer is not without a signature this like other official notes from that minister has his signature his name written with his own hand at the head of it you declared to me that you knew to a certainty that the english had made propositions to gen clarke of georgia in order to avail themselves of his influence in that state together with some other persons for making a diversion or serious attack against florida the british minister informed me that although he knew nothing of gen clarke or his expedition from georgia a proposition had been made to him the british minister for an expedition against the floridas but he told the projector that he had no power to authorize it and besides that there were among other objections to the plan two of great weight one that the indians were to be employed the other that it would violate the neutral rights of the u s the british minister has since shown me an original letter from lord grenville dated the th of last april in which he informs the minister that if there were no other objections to the plan the two mentioned by him viz that it could not be executed without employing the indians and without violating the rights of the u s would be sufficient to induce the british government to reject it this proves sir that mr linton's declarations on this point were not vague and unauthenticated as you pronounce them but in strict conformity with truth as to gen clarke of georgia the british minister declared he had never heard of him and the extract of the letter from mr jackson the district attorney of georgia respecting gen clarke and any expedition forming there in behalf of the english against the floridas will incline every candid inquirer at least to doubt whether such a project has ever been proposed to him we shall afterwards see that mr blount's plot does not appear to have any connection with an expedition under gen clarke thus you see sir that i have not blindly placed a confidence in the british minister for aught that has yet appeared he was entitled to the credit he has received i return to your letter you mention your communication to the baron de carondelet respecting the intended expedition from canada from that moment you say imperious necessity and the great principle of self-defence made his catholic majesty's officers turn their thoughts to objects of a more urgent nature than running the boundary line and here you introduce mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy as evincing how far their conduct in this respect was necessary it is wonderful sir that you should attempt to make it be believed that mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy had any connection with the expedition which you suggested was preparing on the lakes of canada against upper louisiana all that is yet discovered of mr blount's project or conspiracy proves that it was to have been formed in one of the states south of the river ohio and that it was designed against the floridas and perhaps lower louisiana i therefore feel myself for this and the other reasons before exhibited still warranted in considering the suspected canada expedition among the pretences for delaying to evacuate the posts and to run the boundary line and consequently that your charge that i have in this instance palpably attempted to make groundless and unfair impressions on the public mind is alike unfounded and unbecoming your public character to suggest in your next paragraph you thus address me nor do your ill-founded insinuations stop here sentiments and expressions still more violent flow from that same hasty pen whether your charge is correctly made is now to be examined i am ready to confess that my report thus stigmatized was from the pressure of business written in haste but a revision of it satisfies me nevertheless that it is not inaccurate in its statements you quote the passage in my report which has called forth these words that there is too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that an undue influence has been exercised over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the u s and then you say that i mention the source of these dreadful conjectures to be a private letter from mr sargent secretary of the n w territory here you are extremely incorrect as usual when you undertake to recite my conclusions and the facts and circumstances upon which they are formed it is from a view of the whole correspondence referred to in my report of the th of june and d of july on the intelligence received by the secretary of war and the private letter from col sargent that i drew the conclusion you have quoted mr ellicott formed his suspicions on the spot from what was passing before him and he is not a careless or undiscerning observer gen wilkinson 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a diversion or serious attack against florida the british minister informed me that although he knew nothing of general clarke or his expedition from georgia a proposition had been made to him the british minister for an expedition against the floridas but that he told the projector that he had no power to authorize it and besides that there were among other objections to the plan two of great weight one that the indians were to be employed the other that it would violate the neutral rights of the united states the british minister has since shown me an original letter from lord grenville dated the th of last april in which he informs the minister that if there were no other objections to the plan the two mentioned by him viz that it could not be executed without employing the indians and without violating the rights of the united states would be sufficient to induce the british government to reject it this proves sir that mr linton's declarations on this point were not vague and 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"minister has his signature his name written with his own hand at the head you declared to me that you knew a certainty that the english had made positions to general clark of geor in order to avail themselves of his in that state together with other persons for making a di or serious attack against flori the minister informed me that he knew nothing of general clark his expedition from georgia a pro had been made to him the minister for an expedition a the floridas but that he told the that he had no power to au it and besides that there were other objections to the plan two great weight one that the indians to be employed the other that could violate the neutral rights of the states the british minister shown me an original letter lord gr nville dated the th of april in which he informs the min that if there were no other ob to the plan the two mentioned viz that it could not be ex-ecut without employing the indians and not violating the rights of the u states would be sufficient to in the british government to reject it proves that mr linton's declara on this point were not vague or authentic as you pronounce them in strict conformity with truth to general clark of georgia the bri minister declared he had never even him and the extract of the letter jackson the district attorney of respecting general clark and any against the floridas will incline ev and inquirer at least to doubt whether project has even been proposed to him all afterwards see that mr blount's does not appear to have any connection expedition under general clark you see sir that i have not blindly confidence in the british minister that has yet appeared he was enti the credit he has received turn to your letter you mention communications to the baron de respecting the intended from canada from that you say imperious necessity the great principle of self-defence the catholic majesty's officers their thoughts to objects of a more nature than running the boun and here you introduced blount's letter and the late de conspiracy as evincing how far conduct in this respect was neces it was wonderful sir that you attempt to make it believed that blount's letter and the late detected had any connection with the which you suggested was pre on the lakes of canada against louisiana all that is yet dis of mr blount's project or con proves that it was to have been in one of the states south"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [987, 1545], "b_span": [596, 1160], "matched_words": 505, "similarity": 0.9001782531194296, "seeds": 64, "id": "M01086", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-20|1|2", "date": "1797-10-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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quarters announce the discontented and menacing aspect of the savages two white men have been recently murdered on the ohio below the cumberland and the savages beyond the mississippi and those who pass massac make no hesitation to avow their purpose for war and then he refers to a letter from colonel hamtramck who commands the united states troops at detroit in which the colonel says i am pretty sure that both the french and spaniards have emissaries among the indians i have it from indubitable authority that a large belt by which is meant a speech from the spaniards is now traveling through the different nations meaning the nations within the territories of the united states colonel sargent writes it is true a private letter but it is to a public officer and his situation as secretary and governor for the time of the north western territory would render it his duty to be vigilant for its safety and his character vouches for the accuracy of his information and you do not question the truth of any part of his statement after mentioning that the spaniards were re-inforcing their upper posts on the mississippi that upwards of three hundred men had arrived at st louis and were erecting formidable works he adds it likewise appears through various channels that they are inviting a great number of indians of the territory meaning of the united states north west of the ohio to cross the mississippi and for this express purpose mr loramie an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time several indians have been sent on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of delawares passed down white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain sent them from st louis lieutenant pope in his letter of may th to the secretary of war says there have been several attempts made to draw on the indians upon my troops i have fully ascertained this fact and demanded of the governor to have a principal actor immediately brought to punishment or sent out of the country he has been sent for and is now on board one of the gallies which is now about descending the river and sir if you enquire you will find that this"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-11-20|1|2", "date": "1797-11-20", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-11-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797112001/0106.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "exercised over the indians by the officers of his catholic majesty to prepare them for a rupture with the united states and you say that i mention the sources these deadful conjectures to be private letter from mr sargent sec tary of the north western territory here you are extremely incorrect as usual when you undertake to receive my conclusions and the facts and circum stances upon which they are formed is from a view of the whole corre pondence referred to in my reports of the th june and the d of july the intelligence received by the sec tary of war and the private let from colonel sargent that i drew conclusion you have quoted mr ellicott framed his suspicion on the spot from what was passing be fore him and he is not a careless or discerning observer general wilkinson says i from all quarters announce the discom tents and menacing aspect of the savag es two white men have been recently murdered on the ohio below the cu berland and the savages beyond the mississippi and those who pass miss make no hesitation to avow their pur pose for war and then he refers to a letter from colonel hamtramck who commands the united states troops at detroit in which the colonel says i am pretty sure that both the french and spaniards have emisseries among the indians i have it from indubitable au thority that a large belt by which meant a speech from the spaniards is now travelling through the different nations meaning the nations within the territories of the united states colonel sargent writes it is true a private letter but it is to a public of ficer and his situation as secretary and governor for the time of the north western territory would render it his duty to be aliant for its safety and character his information and you do not ques tion the truth of any part of this state ment after mentioning that the spaniards were reinforcing their upper posts on the mississippi that upwards of three hundred men had arrived at st louis and were erecting formidable works he adds it likewise appears thro various channels that they are inviting a great number of indians of the terri tory meaning of the united states northwest of the ohio to cross the mis sissippi and for this express purpose mr loraine an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time sev eral indians have been sent on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of the delawares passed down white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain which was sent them from st louis lieutenant pope in his letter of may th to the secretary of war says there have been several attempts made to draw on the indians upon my troops i have fully ascertained this fact and demanded of the governor to have a principle actor immediately brot to punishment or sent out of the coun try he has been sent for and is now on board of one of the gallies which is now about descending the river and sir if you enquire you will find that this"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1318, 2545], "b_span": [101, 1325], "matched_words": 1169, "similarity": 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several indians have been sent on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of delawares passed down white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain sent them from st louis lieutenant pope in his letter of may th to the secretary of war says there have been several attempts made to draw on the indians upon my troops i have fully ascertained this fact and demanded of the governor to have a principal actor immediately brought to punishment or sent out of the country he has been sent for and is now on board one of the gallies which is now about descending the river and sir if you enquire you will find that this principal actor rapels by name was one of governor gayoso's agents these sir are the grounds on which i expressed the opinion that there was but too much reason to believe mr elliott's suspicions well founded that the officers of spain had exercised an undue influence over the indians to prepare them for a rupture with the united states this detail sir strikingly shews how little you have understood and how entirely you have misrepresented my reasoning on this subject i leave you to reconcile your reflections on the british minister and his nation for their inhumanity in employing the indians in the american war with your justification of the spanish officers at this time in securing the aid of the indians in your war with the british the spaniards you say have fortified st louis and availed themselves of every means of defence which the country afforded meaning by the ingenious expression every means of defence which the country afforded the employing of the indians you are pleased next to charge me in your customary style with falling into the most glaring inconsistency because i remark that although it may be difficult to say whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the united states has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens yet it is certain that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interests of the united states and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointments the chief of which is to preserve peace having quoted this passage from my report you ask how is it possible to reconcile such evident contradictions on the one hand the spanish officers are those who excite the southern indians against the united states and on the other you quickly follow presuming with sufficient foundation in my opinion that it may be some citizens of the united states allow me sir to ask you turn how it was possible for you not to see that there is no contradiction is it not very possible that the spanish officers might be counting the chickasaws who live above the natchez with large presents and be preparing the chactaws who dwell along the natchez district and the delawares shawanees miamis and other tribes dwelling in the territory north-west of the ohio for war against the united states while mr blount and his agents were detaching the southern tribes of cherokees and creeks from the interests of the united states and eventually to aid the british in an enterprize against the floridas the cherokees and creeks you might have seen were the only indian nations mentioned in governor blount's letter and is it not very possible if these two nations should thus be led to war against the spanish possessions that they might not be excited to direct hostilities against the united states and therefore that although mr blount might contemplate the former he might abstain from the latter and is it not then my cautious manner of speaking of this latter perfectly correct i am happy to arrive at your last observation and i with it was not like the rest exceptional and incorrect these are your words respecting the last article of your report i have only to observe that altho you have constantly assured me that government had not the least information respecting the subject of my representations and although the letter of mr jackson of georgia appears to coincide with your ideas nevertheless time has shewn that i have complied with my duty by not reposing on such assurances the plot is discovered and nobody any longer doubts the expedition was to have taken place the expression that you complied with your duty in not reposing on such assurances may mean that you thought the assurances deceitful and therefore not meriting belief perhaps you did not intend this perhaps you meant no more than that the government had been remiss in its duty in not pursuing with eagerness the trains of your various suspicions but i must shew you that here as in all other instances your criticisms are void of foundation in either point of view the last article of the report respects general clarke of georgia to whom you said you knew of a certainty that the english had made propositions in order to avail themselves of his influence in that state with some other persons for making a diversion or serious attack against florida and you add that you do not doubt that in consequence of your information the executive government will take the proper steps that georgia also should not infringe the laws of neutrality here you confine your requests to georgia that she might not infringe the laws of neutrality and my letter to charles jackson esquire the district attorney of that state shews that the government took prompt measures to defeat the project of general clarke and his associates if such a project existed i suppose none did exist you acknowledge that the letter from mr jackson coincides with my ideas your certain knowledge of an intended expedition in favor of the english from georgia against florida under general clarke you have never supported by a shadow of evidence if you possessed any evidence of the fact it would be easy to produce it what you call your certain knowledge could rest only on information or the testimony of others which might be as false or as vague and inconclusive as the information about the canada expedition which i hope i have proved to your conviction never to have existed even in idea yet you declared to me that you had just reasons for suspecting that expedition was preparing on the lakes and hence how can i avoid concluding that your certain knowledge in one case like your just reasons in the other were"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|1", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0395.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "after mentioning that the spaniards were reinforcing their upper posts on the mississippi that upwards of three hundred men had arrived at st louis and were erecting formidable works he adds it likewise appears through various channels that they are inviting a great number of indians of the territory meaning of the u s north-west of the ohio to cross the mississippi and for this express purpose mr loramie an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time several indians have been sent on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of the delawares passed down white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain sent them from st louis lt rope in his letter of may th to the sec of war says there have been several attempts made to draw on the indians upon my troops i have fully ascertained this fact and demanded of the governor to have a principal actor immediately brought to punishment or sent out of the country he has been sent for and is now on board of one of the galleys which is now about descending the river and sir if you enquire you will find that this principal actor rapelic by name was one of gov gayoso's agents these facts are the grounds on which i expressed the opinion that there was but too much reason to believe mr ellicott's suspicions well founded that the officers of spain had exercised an undue influence over the indians to prepare them for a rupture with the u s this detail sir strikingly shews how little you have understood and how entirely you have misrepresented my reasoning on this subject i leave you to reconcile your reflections on the british minister and his nation for their inhumanity in employing the indians in the american war with your justification of the spanish officers at this time in securing the aid of the indians in your war with the british the spaniards you say have fortified st louis and availed themselves of every means of defence which the country afforded meaning by the ingenious expression every means of defence which the country afforded the employing of the indians you are pleased next to charge in your customary style with falling into the most glaring inconsistency because i remark that it may be difficult to say whether this plan of exciting the indians to direct hostilities against the u s has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens yet it is certain that one or more of those citizens have proposed and taken measures to detach the southern indians from the interest of the u s and to destroy the influence of the public agents over those nations and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointment the chief of which is to preserve peace having quoted this passage from my report you ask how is it possible to reconcile such evident contradictions on the one hand the spanish officers are those who excite the southern indians against the united states and on the other you quickly follow presuming with sufficient foundation in my opinion that it may be some citizen of the u s allow me sir to ask in my turn how it was possible for you not to see that here there is no contradiction is it not very possible that the spanish officers might court the chickasaws who live above the natchez with large presents and be preparing the choctaws who dwell along the natchez district and the delawares shawanese miamis and other tribes dwelling in the territory north west of the ohio for war against the u s while mr blount and his agents were detaching the southern tribes of cherokees and creeks from the interests of the u s and eventually to aid the british in an enterprise against the floridas the cherokees and creeks you might have seen were the only indian nations mentioned in gov blount's letter and is it not very possible if their two nations should thus be led to war against the spanish possessions that they might not be excited to direct hostilities against the u s and therefore that although mr blount might contemplate the former he might abstain from the latter and is it not then my cautious manner of speaking of this latter perfectly correct i am happy to arrive at your last observation and i wish it was not like the rest exceptional and incorrect these are your words respecting the last article of your report i have only to observe that although you have constantly assured me that government had not the least information respecting the subject of my representations and although the letter of mr jackson of georgia appears to coincide with your ideas nevertheless time has shewn that i have complied with my duty by not reposing on such assurances the plot is discovered and no body any longer doubts the expedition was to have taken place the expression that you complied with your duty in not reposing on such assurances may mean that you thought the assurances deceitful and therefore not meriting belief perhaps you did not intend this perhaps you meant no more than that the government had been remiss in its duty in not pursuing with eagerness the trains of your various suspicions but i must show you that here as in all other instances your criminations are void of foundation in either point of view the last article of the report respects gen clarke of georgia to whom you said you knew of certainty that the english had made propositions in order to avail themselves of his influence in that state with some other persons for making a division or serious attack against florida and you add that you do not doubt that in consequence of your information the executive government will take the proper steps that georgia also should not infringe the laws of neutrality here you confine your requests to georgia that she might not infringe the laws of neutrality my letter to charles jackson esq the district attorney of that state shows that the government took prompt measures to defeat the project of gen clarke and his associates if such a project existed i suppose none did exist you acknowledge that the letter from mr jackson coincides with my ideas your certain knowledge of an intended expedition in favor of the english from georgia against florida under gen clarke you have never supported by a shadow of evidence if you possessed any evidence of the fact it would be easy to produce it what you call your certain knowledge could rest only on information or the testimony of others which might be as false and inconclusive as the information about the canada expedition which i hope i have proved to your conviction never to have existed even in idea yet you declare to me that you had just reasons for suspecting that expedition was preparing on the lakes and hence how can i avoid concluding that your certain knowledge in one case like your just reasons in the other were"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2556, 4936], "b_span": [106, 2497], "matched_words": 2341, "similarity": 0.9813456298469923, "seeds": 442, "id": "M01088", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-20|1|2", "date": "1797-10-20", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797102001/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and nobody any longer doubts that the expedition was to have taken place strange remark just the reverse of it should have been made for although there is a discovery of mr blount's plot its extent is by no means ascertained and far from nobody doubting probably every body doubts whether the projected expedition was to have taken place it was not to be undertaken but in conjunction with a british force and on the proposal of the expedition to the british government it was totally rejected even mr blount who if the project was adopted expected to be at the head of it ventures no farther than to say he believed that the plan would be attempted but if attempted that it would not be till the fall and consequently your zeal in march and april for which at the expence of decency towards the american government you take to yourself so much credit had then no just object this zeal of yours is displayed in the information you gave to the baron de carondelet in march or april of the expedition supposed to be preparing in canada against upper louisiana yet you would now attempt to justify this zeal by the plot of mr blount although this plot and the canada expedition were wholly distinct and unconnected i shall conclude this long letter with your eleven positions which you state with as much serious formality as if they were all of them important and all of them supported by facts or just reasoning but the details i have given demonstrate that these positions are either unfounded or simple propositions of not the smallest consequence these are your positions addressed to me in your own words that on the th of february i gave you sufficient particulars respecting the intended expedition to have attracted the attention of this government answer i have offered reasons to prove that you gave me no particulars but only mentioned your suspicions and that you promised to give me your representations in writing for which of course it was proper for me to wait that altho to this verbal communication i added another in writing on the d of march the president had not the least knowledge of it on the th of the same month and that without doubt you must have had very powerful motives to prevent you from communicating it to him answer i have accounted for the delay in a satisfactory manner i have shewn that i had abundant reason to conclude your suspicions to be wholly unfounded and for attaching no sort of consequence to them the event demonstrates that i was right and that instead of very powerful motives none were needed for a delay of only four or five days or for a much longer period and that to notice your naked suspicions at all was not an act of necessity but of complaisance i might with justice complain of your delay to answer my letter of the th of march on a subject of very high importance to the united states i mean the evacuation of the posts i will not say that you were negligent or remiss but i will say that for a whole month you omitted to give me your short and unsatisfactory answer the indisposition which you assign as the cause of the delay did not prevent you from writing on other subjects nor long from going abroad that it does not appear by the documents presented by the secretary of war that government had given orders to the military commanders to cause the territory and neutrality of the united states to be respected answer i have shown that none were necessary to be given that you made to the english minister a communication which in my opinion you ought not and that even if you thought it necessary you delayed doing it for two months that is from the th of february to the th of april although it respected a most urgent and important object answer on the th of april i informed you by letter that i had communicated to the british minister your suspicions of an expedition preparing by the english against upper louisiana and as for upwards of two months you expressed no dissatisfaction on account of this communication i might well conclude you did not think it improper nay in your letter of july th which i am now answering you refer with apparent approbation to this very communication connected with the declaration which accompanied it to the british minister that the president could not consent to the march of any troops either british or spanish through the territory of the united states and you consider it as a determinate disposition of the american government on this point i have also shewn that admitting this communication to mr linton to be proper i did not delay doing it for two months nor two weeks altho it respected at best but an imaginary project that the baron de carondelet could very well have received my letters without its necessarily following that his had come to hand answer i have shown that you did not understand my reasoning on this point which went to prove that your answer of the th of april to my letter of the th of march about the evacuation of the posts was wanting in candour that the baron did not represent mr elliott's not writing to him officially as a complaint but as an observation and that in fact he never has done it in those terms answer i have shown that whether the baron's assertion should have been called a complaint or an observation was perfectly immaterial i meant to shew it was unfounded and this you yourself admit that the proofs you allege to exculpate mr elliott respecting his intentions of taking the fort of natchez by surprise are purely negative answer i offered them only as negative proofs yet when one compliant or assertion against mr elliott was known and acknowledged not to be true the negative testimony of gentlemen likely to be well informed would be deemed sufficient to bring another and in its nature very improbable complaint or assertion of the same person into discredit that it is not merely pretences but very powerful reasons which have impeded the evacuation of the posts and the running of the boundary line answer the point of view in which i have now exhibited the conduct of the spanish governors relative to the evacuation of the posts and the running of the boundary line i should suppose might convince you that the causes which they have offered for the delay are mere pretences the american citizens to whom you have appealed have been convinced only by reading the printed documents without any comments that the insinuations with which you are willing to persuade the american people that our arming is directed against them are unjust as well as unfounded as by mr blount's letter it is clearly demonstrated to be a precaution for the mere purpose of defence answer the grounds of my suggestions which you call insinuations are detailed in this letter and embrace too many facts and circumstances to be abridged permit me to desire you to review them i shall only repeat that nothing is more certain than that mr blount's letter has not the remotest reference to the suspected canada expedition which is your only pretence for reinforcing the posts in upper louisiana for calling the indians to your aid for holding the posts at the natchez and walnut hills and for delaying to run the boundary line that you evidently contradict yourself when on one hand you are pleased to attribute to us the movements of the indians and in the very next paragraph you shew it might proceed from american citizens as it actually does according to mr blount's letter and that he acted with the knowledge and intelligence of the very same british minister in whose private notes without signature and perhaps not of his own handwriting you place such implicit confidence answer i have shown that there is not a shadow of contradiction in my observations on this subject and your assertion to the contrary must proceed only from your not understanding them you say that mr blount acted in this matter with the knowledge and intelligence of the british minister this is not likely to be true it is in proof by other evidence than the british minister's notes that he did not and could not authorize the projected expedition against the floridas and particularly that one of his strong objections against it was that it contemplated the employing of the indians although he thought it proper to submit the project to the consideration and decision of his government nobody therefore will believe that he authorized mr blount or was even privy to his measures for preparing the indians for war besides doctor romayne who may be presumed to be well acquainted with mr blount's plot suggests that it is not the project offered to mr linton by chisholm these are his words mr blount is totally unknown to mr linton and so are all his views and there is a passage in mr blount's letter which countenances the doctor's assertion and indicates that although chisholm and blount had some communications with each other yet that their views were not precisely the same mr blount in his letter to carey says where captain chisholm is i do not know i left him in philadelphia in march and he frequently visited the minister and spoke upon the subject but i believe he will go into the creek nation by way of south-carolina or georgia he gave out he was going to england but i did not believe him these last words afford a pretty strong proof that they were not acting wholly in concert probably mr blount endeavoured to persuade chisholm that he would co-operate in the prosecution of his scheme while at the same time he might have another of his own or in concert with doctor romayne and stand ready in the event of things to make his advantage of either whichever should offer the best prospect of success doctor romayne you see says that mr blount is totally unknown to mr linton but it is well known that mr blount was your frequent guest and intimate companion and that he was on this intimate footing with you during the whole time that you were representing to the government your suspicions of british expeditions yet after the discovery of the conspiracy was made public you formally requested the american government to punish him for so scandalous a crime but seeing that mr blount was a citizen of the united states and not a subject of spain it would have been decent in you to have left him with his own government without interposing your advice but especially when you knew that the president had laid his letter before congress and the two houses were deliberating on the mode of punishing him when the investigation had proceeded so far that a committee of the senate had reported a resolution to expel mr blount from the senate and a committee of the house had reported a resolution that he should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors for you then to interfere was singularly improper and it was such an ostentatious display of zeal as under all the known circumstances suggests more than one interpretation that although in all your official communications you have always manifested to me that the american government knew of nothing which indicated any foundation for my suspicions mr blount's letter clearly proves that i was perfectly in the right answer this remark is perfectly inconsequential for your communications exhibited your suspicions of projected expeditions only from canada and georgia and i have shown that mr blount's letter has no relation to either i thought i had reached the end of your criticisms but in your concluding paragraph you accuse of an unjust partiality meaning no doubt towards the british minister and his nation the details i have given in this letter i trust will abundantly prove that this charge is as unfounded as it is indecent those details verify the representations of the conduct of certain spanish officers which are given in my report of the d of july to the president if the truth has excited any unpleasant sensations those only are to blame whose injudicious acts obliged me plain to declare instead of this task i should have been happy to execute the grateful office of stating to the president the good faith and amicable manner in which the officers of his catholic majesty had executed the treaty of friendship limits and navigation between our two nations you think also that my report to the president is not calculated to strengthen the bonds of friendship which unite spain and america friendship sir cannot subsist without mutual confidence and confidence springs from sincerity but the proceedings of the spanish officers which are the subject of this correspondence have shaken the confidence of the government and of the citizens of the united states and my report to the president only exhibits a summary of those proceedings or rather the plain and obvious conclusions from the authentic facts and circumstances detailed in the documents then and before presented to his view and i dare venture to say that every independent american has from the same premises drawn the same conclusions nothing sir will give truer satisfaction to the government and citizens of the united states than to see such a change in the proceedings of the spanish officers as will restore confidence the change would be easy and the effect certain let them withdraw their troops and garrisons from the territories of the united states let them commence and prosecute the running of the boundary line let them cease to stop control or regulate the passage of our citizens on the mississippi feeling that they have a right to navigate it with perfect freedom and let them cease to send agents or enissaries among the indians residing within"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-29|1|1", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112901/0399.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and nobody any longer doubts that the expedition was to have taken place strange remark just the reverse of it should have been made for although there is a discovery of mr blount's plot its extent is by no means ascertained and far from nobody doubting probably every body doubts whether the projected expedition was to have taken place it was not to be undertaken but in conjunction with a british force and on the proposal of the expedition to the british government it was totally rejected even mr blount who if the project was adopted expected to be at the head of it ventures no farther than to say he believed that the plan would be attempted but if attempted that it would not be till the fall and consequently your zeal in march and april for which at the expence of decency towards the american government you take to yourself so much credit had then no just object this zeal of yours is displayed in the information you gave to the baron de carondelet in march or april of the expedition supposed to be preparing in canada against upper louisiana yet you would now attempt to justify this zeal by the plot of mr blount although this plot and the canada expedition were wholly distinct and unconnected i shall conclude this long letter with your eleven positions which you state with as much serious formality as if they were all of them important and all of them supported by facts or just reasoning but the details i have given demonstrate that these positions are either unfounded or simple propositions of not the smallest consequence these are your positions addressed to me in your own words st that on the th of february i gave you sufficient particulars respecting the intended expedition to have attracted the attention of this government answer i have offered reasons to prove that you gave me no particulars but only mentioned your suspicions and that you promised to give me your representations in writing for which of course it was proper for me to wait nd that although to this verbal communication i added another in writing on the d of march the president had not the least knowledge of it on the th of the same month and that without doubt you must have had very powerful motives to prevent you from communicating it to him answer i have accounted for the delay in a satisfactory manner i have shown that i had abundant reason to conclude your suspicions to be wholly unfounded and for attaching no sort of consequence to them the event demonstrates that i was right and that instead of very powerful motives none were needed for a delay of only four or five days or for a much longer period and that to notice your naked suspicions at all was not an act of necessity but of complaisance i might with justice complain of your delay to answer my letter of the th of march on a subject of very high importance to the united states i mean the evacuation of the posts i will not say that you were negligent or remiss but i will say that for a whole month you omitted to give me your short and unsatisfactory answer the indispotion which you assign as the cause of the delay did not prevent you from writing on the other subjects nor long from going abroad rd that it does not appear by the documents presented by the secretary of war that government had given orders to the military commanders to cause the territory and neutrality of the united states to be respected answer i have shown that none were necessary to be given th that you made to the english minister a communication which in my opinion you ought not and that even if you thought it necessary you delayed doing it for two months that is from the th february to the th of april altho it reflected a most urgent and important object answer on the th of april i informed you by letter that i had communicated to the british minister your suspicions of an expedition preparing by the english against upper louisiana and as for upwards of two months you expressed no dissatisfaction on account of this communication i might well conclude you did not think it improper nay in your letter of july th which i am now answering you refer with apparent approbation to this very communication connected with the declaration which accompanied it to the british minister that the president could not consent to the march of any troops either british or spanish through the territory of the united states and you consider it as a determinate disposition of the american government on this point i have also shown that admitting this communication to mr linton to be proper i did not delay doing it for two months nor two weeks altho it reflected at best but an imaginary project th that the baron de carondelet could very well have received my letters without its necessarily following that his had come to hand answer i have shown that you did not understand my reasoning on this point which went to prove that your answer of the th of april to my letter of the th of march about the evacuation of the posts was wanting in candor th that the baron did not represent mr ellicott's not writing to him officially as a complaint but as an observation that in fact he never had done it in those terms answer i have shown that whether the baron's assertion should have been called a complaint or an observation was perfectly immaterial i meant to show it was unfounded and this you yourself admit th that the proofs you allege to exculpate mr ellicott respecting his intentions of taking the fort of natchez by surprise are purely negative answer i offered them only as negative proofs yet when one complaint or assertion against mr ellicott was known and acknowledged not to be true the negative testimony of a gentleman likely to be well informed would be deemed sufficient to bring another and in its nature very improbable complaint or assertion of the same person into discredit th that it is not merely pretences but very powerful reasons which have impeded the evacuation of the posts and the running of the boundary line answer the point of view in which i have now exhibited the conduct of the spanish governors relative to the evacuation of the posts and the running of the boundary line i should suppose might convince you that the causes which have been offered for the delay are mere pretences the american citizens to whom you have appealed have been convinced only by reading the printed documents without any comments th that the insinuations with which you are willing to persuade the american people that our arming is directed against them are unjust as well as unfounded as by mr blount's letter it is clearly demonstrated to be a precaution for the mere purpose of defence answer the grounds of my suggestions which you call insinuations are detailed in this letter and embrace too many facts and circumstances to be abridged permit me to desire you to review them i shall only repeat that nothing is more certain than that mr blount's letter has not the remotest reference to the suspected canada expedition which is your only pretence for reinforcing the posts in upper louisiana for calling the indians to your aid for holding the posts at the natchez and walnut hills and for delaying to run the boundary line th that you evidently contradict yourself when on one hand you are pleased to attribute to us the movements of the indians and in the very next paragraph you shew it might proceed from american citizens as it actually does according to mr blount's letter and that he acted with the knowledge and intelligence of the very same british minister in whose private notes without signature and perhaps not his own hand-writing you place such implicit confidence answer i have shown that there is not a shadow of contradiction in my observations on this subject and your assertions to the contrary must proceed only from your not understanding them you say that mr blount acted in this matter with the knowledge and intelligence of the british minister this is not likely to be true it is in proof by other evidence than the british minister's notes that he did not and could not authorize the projected expedition against the floridas and particularly that one of his strong objections against it was that it contemplated the employing of the indians although he thought it proper to submit the project to the consideration and decision of his government nobody therefore will believe that he authorised mr blount or was even privy to his measures for preparing the indians for war besides dr romayne who may be presumed to be well acquainted with mr blount's plot suggests that it is not the project offered to mr linton by chisholm these are his words mr blount is totally unknown to mr linton and so are all his views and there is a passage in mr blount's letter which countenances the doctor's assertion and indicates that although chisholm and blount had some communications with each other yet that their views were not precisely the same mr blount in his letter to carey says where capt chisholm is i do not know i left him in philadelphia in march and he frequently visited the minister and spoke upon the subject but i believe he will go into the creek nation by way of south carolina or georgia he gave out he was going to england but i did not believe him these last words afford a pretty strong proof that they were not acting wholly in concert probably mr blount endeavored to persuade chisholm that he would co-operate in the prosecution of his scheme while at the same time he might have another of his own in concert with doctor romayne and stand ready in the event of things to make his advantage of either which ever should offer the best prospect of success doctor romayne you see says that mr blount is totally unknown to mr linton but it is well known that mr blount was your frequent guest and intimate companion and that he was on this intimate footing with you during the whole time that you were representing to the government your suspicions of british expeditions yet after the discovery of the conspiracy was made public you formally requested the american government to punish him for so scandalous a crime but seeing that mr blount was a citizen of the united states and not a subject of spain it would have been decent in you to have left him with his own government without interposing your advice but especially when you knew that the president had laid his letter before congress and the two houses were deliberating on the modes of punishing him when the investigation had proceeded so far that a committee of the senate had reported a resolution to expel mr blount from the senate and a committee of the house had reported a resolution that he should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors for you then to interfere was singularly improper and it was such an ostentatious display of zeal as under all the known circumstances suggests more than one interpretation th that although in all your official communications you have always manifested to me that the american government knew of nothing which indicated any foundation for your suspicions mr blount's letter clearly proves that i was perfectly in the right answer this remark is perfectly inconsequential for your communications exhibited your suspicions of projected expeditions only from canada and georgia and i have shown that mr blount's letter has no relation to either i thought i had reached the end of your criticisms but in your concluding paragraph you accuse me of an unjust partiality meaning no doubt towards the british minister and his nation the details i have given in this letter i trust will abundantly prove that this charge is as unfounded as it is indecent those details verify the representations of the conduct of certain spanish officers which are given in my report of the d of july to the president if the truth has excited any unpleasant sensations those only are to blame whose injudicious acts obliged me to declare it instead of this task i should have been happy to execute the grateful office of stating to the president the good faith and amicable manner in which the officers of his catholic majesty had executed the treaty of friendship limits and navigation between our two nations you think also that my report to the president is not calculated to strengthen the bonds of friendship which unites spain and america friendship sir cannot subsist without mutual confidence and confidence springs from sincerity but the proceedings of the 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which was hollow nearly through from one end and carried it home for his evening fire his wife and children as is usually the case in the country had retired to rest in one corner of the room and he was set down at the fire and nearly overpowered with sleep when he perceived an enormous snake of the kind above mentioned sliding softly out of the corner just before him although powerfully impelled by fear to attempt its immediate destruction he knew it would be dangerous to move lest the snake should spring at him he therefore remained quiet and only followed the motion of the serpent with his eyes which with an erect head and a noise resembling the cluck of a hen for chickens glided backward and forward across the room while a cat followed the windings of his tail and frequently laid her paw upon it without being noticed by the reptile at length the serpent approached the fire again and re-entered the wood which the negro perceiving he immediately formed the aperture and kindled up a 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0.9827586206896551, "seeds": 22, "id": "M01095", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gallo has this moment arrived here from udine the negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic though it was at first stipulated to be given to austria on the part of the french it is said that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly accede to the cession of mantua for which he receives a sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gallo has this moment arrived here from udina the negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic tho it was at first stipulated to be given to austria on the part of the french it is said that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly accede to the cession of mantua for which he receives a sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1751, 2306], "b_span": [567, 1156], "matched_words": 527, "similarity": 0.9213286713286714, "seeds": 90, "id": "M01096", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of this month a most terrible battle was fought about leagues from the point of messina between an algerine cruiser of guns full of men and a ship of nine and pounders belonging to the king of the two sicilies the conflict began at seven in the morning and lasted till near three in the afternoon the algerine received the first broad side which carried away the starboard main chains and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and run long side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire in to the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to steer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's fore mast was carried away close to the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had departed company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those russians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hell and rigging that she could be hardly kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four in one nevertheless this desperate crew disdained to strike kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the insidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi bider a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out in purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "b": {"key": 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ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those ruffians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation as was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water was obliged to be towed out of action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover that she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port-holes knocked three and a port-town and fortress of italy on a bay of the tylian sea miles n w of rome the pope's galleys are stationed here a port-town of sicily a populous rich place abounding in silk oil fruit wine and furnishes italy with corn into one nevertheless this desperate crew disdained to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2488, 2840], "b_span": [322, 669], "matched_words": 339, "similarity": 0.9699570815450643, "seeds": 61, "id": "M01097", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but failing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb sketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favoured the views of the english and between and landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following on the morning of the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but failing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between and o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the guns instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and capt bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed canon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2488, 2840], "b_span": [2396, 2750], "matched_words": 345, "similarity": 0.9773371104815864, "seeds": 62, "id": "M01098", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but failing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb sketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favoured the views of the english and between and landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0138.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick gorran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following defeat of the british at teneriffe on the morning of the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but sailing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commands the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board captain bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1601, 1743], "b_span": [72, 279], "matched_words": 133, "similarity": 0.7621776504297995, "seeds": 17, "id": "M01099", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic though it was at first stipulated to be given to austria on the part of the french it is said that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly accede to the cession of mantua for which he receives a sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily to abandon its great interests in italy we are not without our fears that hostilities may again commence gen maek who has been sent with strong reinforcements to the italian army is already arrived at"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|2", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0142.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties in their further progress the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic though it was stipulated in the preliminaries that the city should be restored to austria on the part of the french it is said on the other hand that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly submit to the cession of mantua for which he receives sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily to abandon its great interests in italy we are not without fears that hostilities may again re-commence his imperial majesty intends going about the end of the month to stein where he will review the army of the hungarian levy as there is no danger of hostilities on the bohemian frontiers the emperor has ordered that the fourteen battalions of reserve in that kingdom shall march immediately for the army in italy gen mack who has been sent with strong reinforcements to the italian army is already arrived at"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1751, 2306], "b_span": [5, 558], "matched_words": 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determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and run long side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire in to the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to steer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's fore mast was carried away close to the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had departed company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those russians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hell and rigging that she could be hardly kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four in one nevertheless this desperate crew disdained to strike kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the insidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi bider a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out in purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-08|1|2", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110801/0154.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of this month a most terrible battle was fought about leagues from the point of messina between an algerine cruiser of guns full of men and a ship of nine and twelve pounders belonging to the king of the two sicilies the conflict began at seven in the morning and lasted till near three in the afternoon the algerine received the first broadside which carried away the starboard main chains and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and ran along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their part so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet these russians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and most beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her mast yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four into one nevertheless this desperate crew displayed to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found that they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christians captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1354, 1431], "b_span": [2341, 2418], "matched_words": 77, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 16, "id": "M01101", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|2", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0102.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "balzac in his aristippus gives an account of a judge of one of the parliaments who was of true robespierrean principles and condemned to decapitation every one who was unfortunate enough to fall under his judicature having dropt asleep one day the president awakened him to ask his opinion cut off his head said the drowsy lawyer his head said the president you mistake the question relates to a meadow why then mow it replied the judge"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-25|1|3", "date": "1797-11-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797112501/0175.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "balzac in his aristippus gives an account of a judge of one of the parliaments who was of true robespierrean principles and condemned to decapitation every one who was unfortunate enough to fall under his judicature having dropt asleep one day the president awakened him to ask his opinion cut off his head said the drowsy lawyer his head said the president you mistake the question relates to a meadow why then mow it replied the judge"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [684, 955], "b_span": [741, 1007], "matched_words": 242, "similarity": 0.9013035381750466, "seeds": 33, "id": "M01102", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sept last week arrived at plymouth in this state capt levin bosman in a schooner belonging to messrs stewart and armfield of that place capt bosman was captured on his homeward bound passage by a french privateer who took all the hands out of the schooner except the captain mate and supercargo and put five of our dear fans as cullies on board having no french colours they transformed the american into french and with the fragments decorated the unfortunate captain round whom they danced the carmagnole by way of condolence they then seized a hog on board which they called king george and after cutting off his head again danced the carmagnole around him and played on the republican gambols alamode de paris the magnificent and intrepid captain did not let these manoeuvres pass unobserved but taking a good opportunity seized the fellow at the helm whom he soon secured and gaining possession of the arm chest with the assistance of his mate and supercargo a manly and spirited quaker of bertie county the others were immediately mastered the privateer was at this time only at a small distance they therefore proceeded on the course directed until the privateer got to a proper distance when they altered their course committed our dear allies to a leaky boat in which they might either sing la carmagnole caria or any other republican ditty bale or sink proceeded on their voyage and these gallant brave men had the good fortune to reach their destined port without again encountering any of these merciless pirates it is supposed the frenchmen got safe to land as"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "sept last week arrived at plymouth in this state capt bosman in a schooner belonging to messrs stuart and armstead of that place capt bosman was captured on his homeward bound passage by a french privateer who took all the hands out of the schooner except the capt mate and supercargo and put five of her crew on board having no french colours they transformed the american into french and with the fragments decorated the unfortunate captain round whom they danced the carmagnole by way of condolence they then seized a bog on board which they called king george and after cutting off his head again danced the carmagnole round him and played other republican gambols a la mode de paris the sagacious and intrepid captain did not let these marchevres pass unobserved but taking a good opportunity seized the fellow at the helm whom he soon secured and gaining possession of the armed chest with assistance of his mate and supercargo a manly and spirited quaker of burtie county the others were immediately secured the privateer at this time was only at a small distance they therefore proceeded on the course directed until the privateer got to a proper distance when they altered their course committed them to a leaky boat in which they might either sink in carmagnole ca ira or any other republican city bale or sink proceeded on their voyage and these gallant brave men had the good fortune to reach their destined port without again encountering any of these mercenary pirates it is supposed the frenchmen got safe to land as"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3, 339], "b_span": [684, 1016], "matched_words": 314, "similarity": 0.9401197604790419, "seeds": 62, "id": "M01103", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they rendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not sending in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded or more and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cove that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish gen caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be that too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition they are vice admiral nelson captain miller culoden troubridge zealous hood leander thomson emerald waller sea-horse frementle terpsichore bower fox cutter lieutenant gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon condition of marching out with their arms and not serving in any expedition against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theyus vice adm nelson calladen capt miller zionous troubridge laander hood emerald thamson sea-horse waller terpsichore freemanile fox cutter bowen lt gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [970, 1209], "b_span": [1968, 2216], "matched_words": 232, "similarity": 0.9527720739219713, "seeds": 45, "id": "M01104", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat north and long west september th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage-gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt kennard which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to ransaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter case spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt kennard had the mate begging them to be honorable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "brothers capt kennard in days from grenada who has handed us the following for publication capt kennard of the brig brothers on his passage from grenada to portsmouth n h in lat n and long w sept th was boarded by a small privateer schooner of one carriage gun men whites the rest coloured under english colours but afterwards hoisted french they immediately carried capt kennard with two of his people on board the schooner there the capt of the pirates for he can call them no better ordered two negroes to strip capt k which they did even to his shirt while the rest stood with naked swords at his breast if he offered to make the least resistance they robbed him of his pocket book containing bills of exchange to the amount of l and several other papers of considerable value took his watch from his pocket but that they returned with great reluctance abusing him to the last degree telling him that they would set fire to his brig if he did not tell where his money was while that was doing about or of the pirates fell to rumaging the brig they plundered every necessary article they could put their hands on took from the cabin or dozen of wine and porter case spirits about lb sugar and some coffee which was all capt k had the mate begging them to be honorable enough to leave part but to no purpose they also took"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [35, 342], "b_span": [6, 315], "matched_words": 288, "similarity": 0.935064935064935, "seeds": 55, "id": "M01105", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded or more and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cove that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish gen caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be that too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition they are vice admiral nelson captain miller culoden troubridge zealous hood leander thomson emerald waller sea-horse frementle terpsichore bower fox cutter lieutenant gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102501/0139.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms were killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c roomy an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the islands the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trubridge zealous hood leander thompson emerald waller sea horse freemantle terpsichore bowen fox cutter lieut gibson with ten pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards of men on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [364, 676], "b_span": [73, 385], "matched_words": 301, "similarity": 0.9647435897435898, "seeds": 65, "id": "M01106", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "about miles from the african coast the all belong to the spaniards except madeira which is in the hands of the portuguese they are supposed to contain about inhabitants teneriffe one of the canaries is in the form of an obtuse triangle whose base is eleven leagues in length and its height leagues its land is high and mountainous its towns are larraga on the west side with a safe harbour surrounded by steep branches a place of considerable commerce santa cruz on the eastern shore in a sandy plain has a tolerable harbour commanded by two small forts along the shore are placed a few small batteries but the town is without walls and is defended only by two small forts it consists of or houses of three stories built of stone it has a church six convents and a charming hermitage laguna the capital of the island is about two leagues from santa cruz on a small eminence which commands a delightful prospect around it is a plain covered with vineyards and terminated with rocks its houses are of brown stone covered with tile and adorned with gardens palm-trees or terraces and alloys lined with orange and lemon-trees three kinds of wine are made in teneriffe canary wine which is said to be from a vine which was brot from the borders of the rhine malmsey a most delicious wine from a grape transported from canada and the green wine which is more strong and harsh but mellows by transportation the peak of teneriffe is one of the highest mountains in europe said to be a league from its base and is discoverable at sea at the distance of miles with such an island as this the english have no business and they had better keep at home or on board their ships than to alarm and plunder the peaceful"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|1", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0383.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "about miles from the african coast they all belong to the spaniards except madeira which is in the hands of the portuguese they are supposed to contain about inhabitants teneriff one of the canaries is in the form of an obtuse triangle whose base is eleven leagues in length and its height leagues its land is high and mountainous its towns are larotava on the west side with a safe harbor surrounded by steep branches a place of considerable commerce santa cruz on the eastern shore in a sandy plain has a tolerable harbor commanded by two small forts along the shore are placed a few small batteries but the town is without walls and is defended only by two small forts it consists of or houses of three stories built of stone it has a church six convents and a charming hermitage laguna the capital of the island is about two leagues from santa cruz on a small eminence which commands a delightful prospect around it is a plain covered with vineyards and terminated with rocks its houses are of brown stone covered with tile and adorned with gardens paterres or terraces and alleys lined with orange and lemon-trees three kinds of wine are made in teneriff canary wine which is said to be from a vine which was brought from the borders of the rhine malmsey a most delicious wine from a grape transported from candia and the green wine which is more strong and harsh but mellows by transportation the peak of teneriff is one of the highest mountains in europe said to be a league from its base and is discoverable at sea at the distance of miles with such an island as this the english have no business and they had better keep at home or on board their ships than to alarm and plunder the peaceful"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2471, 2809], "b_span": [1397, 1739], "matched_words": 296, "similarity": 0.8705882352941177, "seeds": 35, "id": "M01107", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of chelwick alias apthorp alias littleton and dalton in said county who are delinquent in paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the general court of said state on the first day of january and an act in addition to said act passed on the th day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted for the purpose of making roads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all intervening charges to us the subscribers at littleton aforesaid on or before the eighteenth day of december next so much of said lands will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at ten of the clock in the forenoon of said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax and costs the names of the grantees of chelwick are as follows to wit james avery jeremiah clement benadab gallop alias galloso nathan gallop william gallop humphrey avery jun william avery solomon avery samuel avery lathan avery james avery palms avery christopher avery weymull avery isaac avery william billings bernard farnard ruben lockwood joseph lockwood ebenezer lockwood benjamin giles elijah morgan thomas powars amos mead abraham weed nathaniel weed francis smith lemuel smith joseph smith isaac smith solomon morgan john baldwin john franchier john franchier jun william franchier john ambler theophilus rogers uriah rogers joseph williams thomas premice gallop ebenezer gallop asa jones henry gallop humphrey avery theodore atkinson esq mark h wentworth esq james nevens his excellency benning wentworth esq a tract equal to two of the above shares the grantees of apthorp are as follows to wit moses little jun moses little israel morey alexander phelps proprietors as mentioned in the charter benning wentworth esq theodore atkinson esq and mark h wentworth esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carter benjamin harties tristram dalton and samuel adams"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|1", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0383.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of chebwick alias apthorp alias littleton and dalton in said county who are delinquent in paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the general court of said state on the first day of january and an act in addition to said act passed on the th day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted for the purpose of making roads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all interest charges to us the subscribers at littleton aforesaid on or before the th day of december next so much of the said lands will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at o'clock in the forenoon on said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax and costs the names of the grantees of chebwick are as follows to wit james avery jeremiah clement benadam gallop alias gallops nathan gallop william gallop humphrey avery jr william avery solomon avery samuel avery lathan avery james avery palmer avery christopher avery weightstill avery isaac avery william billings barnard farnsworth reuben lockwood joseph lockwood ebenezer lockwood benjamin giles elijah mogan thomas powers amos meads abraham weed nathaniel weed francis smith lemuel smith joseph smith isaac smith solomon morgan john baldwin john franchier john franchier jr william franchier john ambley theophilus rogers uriah rogers joseph williams thomas prentice gallop ebenezer gallop asa jones henry gallop humphrey avery thomas atkinson esq mark h wentworth esq james nesbitt esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carker benjamin harris tristram dalton and samuel adams four hundred acres each the grantees of apthorp are as follows to wit moses little jr moses little israel moser alexander phelps proprietors as mentioned in the charter benning wentworth esq theodore atkinson esq and mark h wentworth esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carker benjamin harris tristram dalton and samuel adams"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2471, 2809], "b_span": [1165, 1501], "matched_words": 318, "similarity": 0.9436201780415431, "seeds": 45, "id": "M01108", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of chelwick alias apthorp alias littleton and dalton in said county who are delinquent in paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the general court of said state on the first day of january and an act in addition to said act passed on the th day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted for the purpose of making roads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all intervening charges to us the subscribers at littleton aforesaid on or before the eighteenth day of december next so much of said lands will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at ten of the clock in the forenoon of said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax and costs the names of the grantees of chelwick are as follows to wit james avery jeremiah clement benadab gallop alias galloso nathan gallop william gallop humphrey avery jun william avery solomon avery samuel avery lathan avery james avery palms avery christopher avery weymull avery isaac avery william billings bernard farnard ruben lockwood joseph lockwood ebenezer lockwood benjamin giles elijah morgan thomas powars amos mead abraham weed nathaniel weed francis smith lemuel smith joseph smith isaac smith solomon morgan john baldwin john franchier john franchier jun william franchier john ambler theophilus rogers uriah rogers joseph williams thomas premice gallop ebenezer gallop asa jones henry gallop humphrey avery theodore atkinson esq mark h wentworth esq james nevens his excellency benning wentworth esq a tract equal to two of the above shares the grantees of apthorp are as follows to wit moses little jun moses little israel morey alexander phelps proprietors as mentioned in the charter benning wentworth esq theodore atkinson esq and mark h wentworth esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carter benjamin harties tristram dalton and samuel adams"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|4", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110801/0390.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of chebwick alias apthorp alias littleton and dalton in said county who are delinquent in paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the general court of said state on the first day of january and an act in addition to said act passed on the th day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted for the purpose of making roads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all intervening charges to us the subscribers at littleton aforesaid on or before the th day of december next so much of the said lands will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at o'clock in the forenoon on said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax and costs the names of the grantees of chebwick are as follows to wit james avery jeremiah clement benadum gallop alias galloso nathan gallop william gallop humphrey avery jr william avery solomon avery samuel avery lathan avery james avery palmes avery christopher avery weightstill avery isaac avery william billings barnard farnard reuben lockwood joseph lockwood ebenezer lockwood benjamin giles elijah mogan thomas powars amos mead abraham weed nathaniel weed francis smith lemuel smith joseph smith isaac smith solomon morgan john baldwin john franchier john franchier jr william franchier john ambler theophilus rogers uriah rogers joseph williams thomas prentice gallop ebenezer gallop asa jones henry gallop humphrey avery theodore atkinson esq mark h wentworth esq james nevens his excellency benning wentworth esq a tract equal to two of the above shares the grantees of apthorp are as follows to wit moses little jr moses little israel mossey alexander phelps proprietors as mentioned in the charter benning wentworth esq theodore atkinson esq and mark h wentworth esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carter benjamin harris tristram dalton and samuel adams"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2471, 2629], "b_span": [2408, 2571], "matched_words": 131, "similarity": 0.8161993769470405, "seeds": 6, "id": "M01109", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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tax"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|4", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0394.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to a l the proprietors ahd owners of lands in the townthip of chefwick alias ap thorp alias littleton and dalton in aid county who are delinquent ity paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the getieral court of said state on tlie firlt day of januaty and an a in addition to said act passed on the gth day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted or the purpose of making toads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all in tervening charges to us the fubferi bers at littleton aforefaid on eor before the th day of december next so much of the said lands will be fold at public vendue to the high elt bidder at o clock in the fore noon on said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2471, 2809], "b_span": [89, 425], "matched_words": 317, "similarity": 0.9406528189910979, "seeds": 44, "id": "M01110", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|3", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0103.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of chelwick alias apthorp alias littleton and dalton in said county who are delinquent in paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the general court of said state on the first day of january and an act in addition to said act passed on the th day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted for the purpose of making roads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all intervening charges to us the subscribers at littleton aforesaid on or before the eighteenth day of december next so much of said lands will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at ten of the clock in the forenoon of said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax and costs the names of the grantees of chelwick are as follows to wit james avery jeremiah clement benadab gallop alias galloso nathan gallop william gallop humphrey avery jun william avery solomon avery samuel avery lathan avery james avery palms avery christopher avery weymull avery isaac avery william billings bernard farnard ruben lockwood joseph lockwood ebenezer lockwood benjamin giles elijah morgan thomas powars amos mead abraham weed nathaniel weed francis smith lemuel smith joseph smith isaac smith solomon morgan john baldwin john franchier john franchier jun william franchier john ambler theophilus rogers uriah rogers joseph williams thomas premice gallop ebenezer gallop asa jones henry gallop humphrey avery theodore atkinson esq mark h wentworth esq james nevens his excellency benning wentworth esq a tract equal to two of the above shares the grantees of apthorp are as follows to wit moses little jun moses little israel morey alexander phelps proprietors as mentioned in the charter benning wentworth esq theodore atkinson esq and mark h wentworth esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carter benjamin harties tristram dalton and samuel adams"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|4", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0398.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "given by us the subscribers to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of chebwick alias apthorp alias littleton and dalton in said county who are delinquent in paying a tax of three cents per acre granted by the general court of said state on the first day of january and an act in addition to said act passed on the th day of december on all lands in said littleton and dalton public rights excepted for the purpose of making roads and bridges in said towns that unless they pay said tax with all intervening charges to us the subscribers at littleton aforesaid on or before the th day of december next so much of the said lands will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at o'clock in the forenoon on said day at the dwelling house of mr james williams in said littleton as will pay said tax and costs the names of the grantees of chebwick are as follows to wit james avery jeremiah clement benadiah gallop alias galloso nathan gallop william gallop humphrey avery jr william avery solomon avery samuel avery lathan avery james avery palus avery christopher avery weightfill avery isaac avery william billings barnard farnard reuben lockwood joseph lockwood ebenezer lockwood benjamin giler elijah mogan thomas powars amos mead abraham weed nathaniel weed francis smith lemuel smith joseph smith isaac smith solomon morgan john baldwin john franchier john franchier jr william franchier john ambler theophilus rogers uriah rogers joseph williams thomas prentice gallop ebenezer gallop asa jones henry gallop humphrey avery theodore atkinson esq mark h wentworth esq james nevens his excellency benning wentworth esq a tract equal to two of the above shares the grantees of apthorp are as follows to wit moses little jr moses little israel mosey alexander phelps proprietors as mentioned in the charter benning wentworth esq theodore atkinson esq and mark h wentworth esq five hundred acres each george apthorp nathaniel carter benjamin harris tristram dalton and samuel adams"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5, 163], "b_span": [4, 158], "matched_words": 140, "similarity": 0.8974358974358975, "seeds": 19, "id": "M01111", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was i right or was i not was i right or was i not tell me girls and tell me true you i can see who've husbands got was i wrong to do so too no i'm sure to die a maid never will i mean to be my lot hy-er call'd and i obay'd was i right or was i not when the youth that own'd my mind told his love in language sweet could i see him fond and kind sigh and languish at my feet no no no it was in vain frowns and threats were quite forgot soon at church i eas'd his pain was i right or was i not this i know a single life never was so sign'd for me no no no twas naught but trife that you surely will a gree girls get married that's your plan cupid will assist the plot there like me secure your man was"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|4", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0144.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was i right or was i not was i right or was i not tell me girls and tell me true you i mean who've husbands got was i wrong to do so too no i'm sure to die a maid neyer was meant to be my lot hymen call'd and i obey'd was i right or was i not when the youth that pleas'd my mind told his love in language sweet could i see him fond and kind sigh and languish at my feet no no no it was in vain frowns and threats were quite forgot soon at church i read his pain was i right or was i not this i know a single life never was design'd for me no no no tis nought but strife that you surely will agree girls get married that's your plan cupid will assist the plot then like me secure your man was"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5, 163], "b_span": [1728, 1882], "matched_words": 139, "similarity": 0.8910256410256411, "seeds": 18, "id": "M01112", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was i right or was i not was i right or was i not tell me girls and tell me true you i can see who've husbands got was i wrong to do so too no i'm sure to die a maid never will i mean to be my lot hy-er call'd and i obay'd was i right or was i not when the youth that own'd my mind told his love in language sweet could i see him fond and kind sigh and languish at my feet no no no it was in vain frowns and threats were quite forgot soon at church i eas'd his pain was i right or was i not this i know a single life never was so sign'd for me no no no twas naught but trife that you surely will a gree girls get married that's your plan cupid will assist the plot there like me secure your man was"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|4", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112801/0016.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was i right or was i not was i right or was i not tell me girls and tell me true you i mean who are husbands got was i wrong to do so too no i'm sure to die a maid no'er was meant to be my lot hymen call'd and i ob'd was i right or was i not when the youth that pleas'd my mind told his love in language sweet could i see him fond and kind sigh and languish at my feet no no it was in vain frowns and threats were quite forgot soon at church i eas'd his pain was i right or was i not this i know a single life never was design'd for me no no no tis naught but strife that you surely will agree girls get married that's your plan capid will assist the plot then like me secure your man was"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [837, 918], "b_span": [59, 144], "matched_words": 75, "similarity": 0.9036144578313253, "seeds": 12, "id": "M01113", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following scheme of the third class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the twenty-fifth day of february next and when com pleted a list of prizes will be im mediately published and the prizes paid on demand jonathan"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-12|1|1", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121201/0021.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following scheme of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation s c h e m e prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the st day of february next and when completed a list of prizes will be immediately published and the prizes paid on demand jonathan"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [837, 918], "b_span": [74, 161], "matched_words": 74, "similarity": 0.8809523809523809, "seeds": 9, "id": "M01114", "a": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-10-23|1|4", "date": "1797-10-23", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "4", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-10-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797102301/0104.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following scheme of the third class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the twenty-fifth day of february next and when com pleted a list of prizes will be im mediately published and the prizes paid on demand jonathan"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|1", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121901/0025.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following schems of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation scheme prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are subject to a deduction of per cent this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the st day of february next and when completed a list of prizes will be immediately published and the prizes paid on demand jonathan"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1683, 1800], "b_span": [1515, 1630], "matched_words": 108, "similarity": 0.9310344827586207, "seeds": 15, "id": "M01115", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "are assured that the directory has received the original order of march given to the troops by the war commissioner lbsage we just learn that the directory has decided that the territory of liege shall not be considered as an integrant part of the empire but shall remain united to the french republic it is added that this decision has occasioned the negotiations with the emperor to be broken off ibid we were assured yesterday that pichegru had set out for rheims for the purpose of conferring with the commanders of the army and of obtaining that by persuasion which it would be extremely dangerous for the two parties to commit to the fate of arms ibid"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|2", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0142.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "are assured that the directory have received the original order of march given to the troops by the vice-commissioner lefage we just learn that the directory has decided that the territory of lege shall not be considered an integrant part of the empire but shall remain united to the french republic it is added that this decision has occasioned the negotiations with the emperor to be broken off we were assured yesterday assured that pichegru had sat out for rheims for the purpose of concerting with the commanders of the army and of obtaining that by persuasion which it would be extremely dangerous for the two parties to commit to the fate of arms ibid"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1814, 1921], "b_span": [72, 190], "matched_words": 100, "similarity": 0.8888888888888888, "seeds": 12, "id": "M01116", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic tho it was at first stipulated to be given to austria on the part of the french it is said that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly accede to the cession of mantua for which he receives a sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|2", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0142.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "negotiations for peace in italy meet with great difficulties in their further progress the french require that mantua shall be united with the cisalpine republic though it was stipulated in the preliminaries that the city should be restored to austria on the part of the french it is said on the other hand that the emperor having given his consent to the establishment of a new republic in italy its very existence depended on having mantua for a frontier fortress the emperor therefore must tacitly submit to the cession of mantua for which he receives sufficient indemnification in istria and dalmatia as these and many other difficulties have arisen and the house of austria cannot be expected easily"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [567, 1156], "b_span": [5, 558], "matched_words": 534, "similarity": 0.9352014010507881, "seeds": 96, "id": "M01117", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|1", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0005.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of this month a most terrible battle was fought about leagues from the point of messina between an algerine cruiser of guns full of men and a ship of nine and twelve pounders belonging to the king of the two sicilies the conflict began at in the morning and lasted till near in the afternoon the algerine received the first broadside which carried away the starboard main chains and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and ran along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant and well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention and killed a vast number of men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their parts so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state dangerous situation the pirate was in yet those ruffians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation as was astonishing and almost beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water was obliged to be towed out of action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover that she was totally disabled her masts yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port-holes knocked three and a port-town and fortress of italy on a bay of the tylian sea miles n w of rome the pope's galleys are stationed here a port-town of sicily a populous rich place abounding in silk oil fruit wine and furnishes italy with corn into one nevertheless this desperate crew disdained to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christian captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not 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and much damaged the standing rigging the salute was immediately returned and the fight commenced with the utmost resolution each party seemed determined to conquer or die the pirate hoisted the bloody flag and ran along side the frigate in a situation ready for boarding and had nearly grappled her but she kept up such a constant well directed fire into the rover that entirely frustrated their intention killed a vast number of their men yet this success did not prevent the barbarian making another attempt which also failed with great loss this obliged them to sheer off for a short time but they soon renewed the combat when a most tremendous cannonade began on both sides which lasted upwards of two hours without intermission unfortunately the frigate's foremast was carried away close by the board and fell upon the deck which did a considerable deal of damage besides killing and wounding a number of men notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance the brave christians whose courage was not in the least damped kept fighting on fully determined to sink the robbers during this time a sloop of war of guns and a cutter of who had parted company from the above ship two days before luckily came up and played their part so well that in a short time the pirate was all in flames but by the exertions of the crew the fire was got under notwithstanding the crippled state and dangerous situation the pirate was in yet these russians fought with such an uncommon degree of desperation that was astonishing and most beyond description at this juncture the frigate was so much shattered both in hull and rigging that she could hardly be kept above water and was obliged to be towed out of the action in the mean time the sloop and cutter kept up such an incessant and well directed fire into the rover till she was totally disabled her mast yards and rigging utterly destroyed her guns dismounted and her port holes knocked three and four into one nevertheless this desperate crew displayed to strike and kept a constant fire with small arms from which many of the balls were chewed at last when they found that they could not resist the king's force any longer they set fire to the magazine and blew themselves up together with a number of christians captives they had on board who all perished with the infidels p s the pirate was commanded by sidi beder a fellow of invincible courage very bold and daring this man was a great terror to the spaniards in their late war with spain he has not only sunk and captured several ships which were fitted out on purpose to take him but would often land upon their coast in open day with his crew in spite of all resistance carry off the inhabitants and ravage whole"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1157, 1420], "b_span": [145, 409], "matched_words": 242, "similarity": 0.9184060721062619, "seeds": 34, "id": "M01118", "a": 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reason for believing that blank condemnations are sent in there from the cape to render proceedings short a boat of about tons burthen with latin sails arrived at barraco in days passage from cadiz which she left on the of august she brought dispatches for both the governors of havannah and la vera crux which were forwarded to them over land great secrecy was observed very little intelligence had transpired it was supposed that it was not of a very agreeable nature at any rate as all the money that could be collected at both places was ordered to be immediately sent to spain likewise all the uncoined prepared ore and in case there should not be a sufficiency of money and ore to send even the images from the churches from the above information the time of this dispatch boat having left cadiz it is not unlikely that these urgent demands are to satisfy earl st"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily 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proceedings short a boat of about tons burthen with sixteen men arrived at barracoa in days passage from cadiz which the left on the d of august she brought dispatches for both the governors of havana and la vera cruz which were forwarded to them over land great secrecy was observed and very little intelligence had transpired it was supposed that it was not of a very agreeable nature at any rate as all the money that could be collected at both places was ordered to be immediately sent to spain likewise all the uncoined prepared ore and in case there should not be a sufficiency of money and ore to send even the images from the churches from the above information and at the time of this dispatch having left cadiz it is not unlikely that the french demands are to satisfy earl st"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1157, 1420], "b_span": [845, 1113], "matched_words": 258, 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obtaining their condemnation from cape francois there is however strong reason for believing that blank condemnations are sent in there from the cape to render proceedings short a boat of about tons burthen with latin sails arrived at barraco in days passage from cadiz which she left on the of august she brought dispatches for both the governors of havannah and la vera crux which were forwarded to them over land great secrecy was observed very little intelligence had transpired it was supposed that it was not of a very agreeable nature at any rate as all the money that could be collected at both places was ordered to be immediately sent to spain likewise all the uncoined prepared ore and in case there should not be a sufficiency of money and ore to send even the images from the churches from the above information the time of this dispatch boat having left cadiz it is not unlikely that these urgent demands are to satisfy earl st"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797102501/0380.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "who arrived at savannah on friday last in the sloop cleopatra which left the havannah the th instant we have been favored with the following information french piracies the number of american vessels which have been carried into the havannah by french privateers and condemned there exceeds one hundred nine american vessels were sent in there in one day by one french privateer and three or four of a day are common upon their arrival at the havannah the masters and crews are turned on shore the vessels and cargoes are sold upon a sham security given for obtaining their condemnation from cape francois there is however strong reason for believing that blank condemnations are sent in there from the cape to render proceedings short a boat of about tons burthen with faint sails arrived at barraco in days passage from cadiz which she left on the d of august she brought dispatches for both the governors of havannah and la vera cruz which were forwarded to them over land great secrecy was observed and very little intelligence had transpired it was supposed that it was not of a very agreeable nature at any rate as all the money that could be collected at both places was ordered to be immediately sent to spain likewise all the uncoined prepared ore and in case there should not be a sufficiency of money and ore to send even the images from the churches from the above information and the time of this dispatch boat having left cadiz it is not unlikely that these urgent demands are to satisfy earl st"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [71, 173], "b_span": [55, 156], "matched_words": 93, "similarity": 0.916256157635468, "seeds": 11, "id": "M01120", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|2", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0006.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is said to be fact that the naval secret expedition at brest so much talked of is not a mere raff de guerre but that of hache's men are going shiver to embark if this be fact we have little to expect from lile like a speedy peace romish revolution at rome it is affirmed a revolution has been effected that the people have chosen a senate that exercises the government and the pope is considered no other than as an ecclesiastical officer this is asserted by the monitor and other papers and contradicted by the redacteur which however admits that"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "it is said to be fact that the naval secret expedition at breist so much talked of is not a mere ru de guerre but that of hoche's men are going thither to embark if this be fact we have little to expect from lisle like a speedy peace at rome it is affirmed a revolution has been effected that the people have chosen a senate which exercises the government and that the pope is considered no other than as an ecclesiastical officer this is asserted by the moniteur and other papers and contradicted by the redacteur which however admits that"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [322, 703], "b_span": [2396, 2786], "matched_words": 371, "similarity": 0.9623865110246433, "seeds": 65, "id": "M01121", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "gentleman passenger in the danish ship christian haven capt patrick corran arrived yesterday in days from teneriffe we have received the following on the morning of the d july the town of santa cruz was alarmed at the appearance of british ships lying off and armed boats that ranged across the harbor it seemed evidently their intention to have landed in town before day but failing in that attempt they returned to the shipping at o'clock about men were landed and posted themselves upon the summit of a second ridge of mountains on the n e while the spaniards were stationed on the first ridge which commanded the entrance into the town by a narrow passage some trifling firing ensued without loss on either side at night the english re-embarked and the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between and o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the guns instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and capt bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board capt bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed canon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manila ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposal and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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english re-embarked the ships stood off and on until the evening of the th when they all came to anchor a bomb ketch commenced a partial fire on a distant fort by way of attracting the attention of the spaniards which was warmly returned between one and two o'clock the town was alarmed by the approach of boats and the forts instantly commenced a heavy and incessant fire upon them the darkness of the night favored the views of the english and between and o'clock landed in two parties on each side of the castle one small party of men commanded by admiral nelson and captain bowen landed on the mole the first lost his right arm and immediately returned on board captain bowen with most of his little party was killed advancing to the charge the other party penetrated into the town assaulted the castle were repulsed and at last took refuge in a convent thither they were pursued by the spaniards who by this time had placed cannon in the streets and avenues leading to it the english finding themselves surrounded on every side offered terms to the general in which they proposed to march out without doing injury to the town upon condition of being delivered the money in the public treasury and the cargo of a manilla ship in the harbor which they erroneously supposed to be worth or millions the spanish general was fired with indignation at the proposals and was about giving the signal for massacre when they surrendered upon"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [716, 1016], "b_span": [6, 312], "matched_words": 286, "similarity": 0.9438943894389439, "seeds": 55, "id": "M01122", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-10-24|1|3", "date": "1797-10-24", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-10-24/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797102401/0007.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "against the canary islands for twelve months the loss of the english was about killed and wounded on shore and the officers supposed between and drowned in a cutter that was sunk and from their boats in landing the spaniards under arms killed and wounded together with some private persons who were imprudently in the streets among whom was mr c rooney an irish gentleman known for his humanity to the distressed and generous assistance and attention to foreigners who visit the island the capitulation being signed and the prisoners collected on the mole the spanish general caused bread and wine to be given to every man ordered every assistance to the wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury the cargo of the manila ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theyus vice adm nelson calladen capt miller zionous troubridge laander hood emerald thamson sea-horse waller terpsichore freemanile fox cutter bowen lt gibson with pieces of artillery sunk by the fort and upwards"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-25|1|3", "date": 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wounded and humanely offered to take those under his care who should be thought too ill to be carried on board he received a very handsome letter from admiral nelson in which was expressed unbounded gratitude for his humanity adding that he would take the first opportunity of communicating it to his sovereign the british officers very honorably declared that their intention was not to have kept possession of the island had they taken it as they supposed that peace was at that time concluded but only to require the money in the treasury and the cargo of the manilla ship it was not unreasonable in their enemies to presume that as that requisition would not have amounted to one tenth of the sum they expected it would have been raised from their private property the persons who composed the expedition were sailors the crews of the different vessels the following are the ships engaged in this expedition theseus vice a nelson capt miller culloden capt trubridge zealous hood leander thompson 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and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-10-28|1|3", "date": "1797-10-28", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-10-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797102801/0143.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the bible have now passed through the press of the proprietor of this paper viz folio with fifty copperplate representations of scripture history royal quarto with and without concordance large demy octavo with and without apocrypha and demy mo or the common small bible this last is just issued from the press the types for which were procured at a great expense are exceedingly well executed and employed a number of workmen years to compleat them they are now all standing and are to be so kept ready at all times for the press in the same manner as they are at the royal printing-offices in london and edinburgh and the university printing houses of oxford and cambridge in england a constant supply of coarse and fine copies bound or in sheets and in any quantity will be kept for sale by the editor at the worcester bookstore as the execution of the plan on which this small bible is printed in order to make the price proportionably low to those imported from scotland and england has been attended with a very heavy expense to the undertaker and employed a larger capital than any work issued from an american press he hopes suitable encouragement will be given to"}, 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the instruments of tyrants and you shall be governed by reason your own judgment instead of my severity shall correct your faults it shall be my part to request and yours to comply you berry good master i tanka you master says sambo with a low bow i like your resolution says edward the oldest son who had long fished for liberty that's your fort cried master billy clapping his hands miss betsey courtesyed the wife whose claim to equality was already established was pleased with the anticipation of something more all was joy and complacency a civic dinner ensued a little dispute arose about the propriety of sambo's sitting at the table none showed resentment or used high words but betsey and her ma'am who insisted that liberty and equality were never made for negroes edward could not see why black and white might not sit as well together round a table as round a woman's head and observed that these colours with almost every other had often been good companions on his ma'am's head-dress ned was a shrewd fellow he foresaw sambo would soon rule the roast and wished to secure his favor the good man settled the dispute by a conciliatory proposition the family were to wait on themselves and sambo to relinquish his equal right of setting at the table with them excessive good nature is often the introduction to quarrels after dinner the master wished to ride out of town sambo was requested to fiddle the horse and brush his boots the horse was prepared but when the boots were called for sambo was blacking his own shoes he waited patiently till they were ready then went out to mount his horse none to be found ned understood the doctrine of equal rights had ridden off his father's horse and left him in the lurch he begins to suspect that his new doctrine which seemed an angel in theory would be the devil in practice like hasty converts he soon becomes an apostate the next day a number of his friends were invited to dine with him and discuss his new principles sambo had pitched on the same time to convene his companions the footy tribe had taken possession of the kitchen just before his master's party entered the parlour he thought himself lord of the kitchen had reserved a few of the best pieces for his own table and was handing round the second bottle in celebration of his independence when the maid related his proceedings to the mistress she talked loudly on the subject the master blushed for shame stepped into the kitchen and invited sambo to tend the table at the same time reprimanding him for the freedom he had taken sambo was too much intoxicated with the spirit of liberty and westindia to fear or obey but not enough to forget the overtures of the day before he answered abruptly he must be excused for the present the master thought it time to resort to the old fashioned instrument of commands and punishments or rather without stopping to think began to use them high words and hard blows ensued the noise reached the parlour every white face reddened with blushes and resentment and liberty and equality were echoed from each corner of the kitchen by the blacks i need not relate the sequel the gentleman never hears liberty and equality pronounced without shaking his head he has often declared he had rather have the old boxers castor and pollex in his house and that he believed if they were allowed to run at large in our country they would do more mischief than sword and famine he deals in extremes liberty uncontrolled experience proves to be one of the worst of tyrants accompanied with good order and good laws as she was one of the first settlers in this country may she be found among its last inhabitants i do not pretend to write for nations my pen is employed for family use if you are a father and your boy begins to prate about equality take off his hat hang it up as high as you can reach and bid him do the same with yours if he says he is not tall enough bid him say no more about equality till he is of equal stature"}, "b": 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excessive good nature is often the introduction to quarrels after dinner the master wished to ride out of town sambo was requested to saddle the horse and brush his boots the horse was prepared but when the boots were called for sambo was brushing his own shoes he waited patiently till they were ready then went out to mount his horse none to be found ned understood the doctrine of equal rights had ridden off his father's horse and left him in the lurch he begins to suspect that his new doctrine which seemed an angel in theory would be a devil in practice like hasty converts he soon becomes an apostate the next day a number of his friends were invited to dine with him and discuss his new principles sambo had pitched on the same time to convene his companions the footy tribe had taken possession of the kitchen just before his master's party entered the parlour he thought himself lord of the kitchen had reserved a few of the best pieces for his own table and was handing round the second bottle in celebration of his independence when the maid related his proceedings to the mistress she talked loudly on the subject the master blushed for shame stepped into the kitchen and invited sambo to tend the table at the same time reproached him for the freedom he had taken sambo was two much intoxicated with the spirit of liberty and west-india to fear or obey but not enough to forget the overtures of the day before he answered abruptly he must be excused for the present the master thought it time to use the old fashioned instruments of commands and punishments or rather without stopping to think began to use them high words and hard blows ensued the noise reached the parlor every white face reddened with blushes and resentment and liberty and equality were echoed from each corner of the kitchen by the blacks i need not relate the sequel the gentleman never hears liberty and equality pronounced without shaking his head he has often declared that he had rather have the old boxers castor and pollux in his house and that he believed that if they were allowed to run at large in our country they would do more mischief than sword and famine liberty uncontroll'd experience proves to be one of the worst of tyrants accompanied with good order and good laws as she was one of the first fetters of this country may she be found among its last inhabitants i do not pretend to write for nations my pen is employed for family use if you are a father and your boy begins to prate about equality take off his hat hang it up as high as you can reach and bid him do the same with yours if he says he is not tall enough tell him to say no more about equality till he is of equal stature"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [145, 409], "b_span": [845, 1113], "matched_words": 249, "similarity": 0.9360902255639098, "seeds": 40, "id": "M01126", "a": {"key": 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case-francois there is however strong reason for believing that blank condemnations are sent in from the cape to render proceedings short a boat of about tons burthen with sixteen men arrived at barracoa in days passage from cadiz which the left on the d of august she brought dispatches for both the governors of havana and la vera cruz which were forwarded to them over land great secrecy was observed and very little intelligence had transpired it was supposed that it was not of a very agreeable nature at any rate as all the money that could be collected at both places was ordered to be immediately sent to spain likewise all the uncoined prepared ore and in case there should not be a sufficiency of money and ore to send even the images from the churches from the above information and at the time of this dispatch having left cadiz it is not unlikely that the french demands are to satisfy earl st"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The New 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in there from the cape to render proceedings short a boat of about tons burthen with faint sails arrived at barraco in days passage from cadiz which she left on the d of august she brought dispatches for both the governors of havannah and la vera cruz which were forwarded to them over land great secrecy was observed and very little intelligence had transpired it was supposed that it was not of a very agreeable nature at any rate as all the money that could be collected at both places was ordered to be immediately sent to spain likewise all the uncoined prepared ore and in case there should not be a sufficiency of money and ore to send even the images from the churches from the above information and the time of this dispatch boat having left cadiz it is not unlikely that these urgent demands are to satisfy earl st"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2749, 2836], 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wholesomeness of victuals and drink but the salubrity of our clothing depends upon the purity of the water we use it is essential that our linen and other clothes which apply to the skin should be washed in pure water otherwise the effluvia will not be sweet or healthful the difference in the smell of linen washed in pure water and that washed in the putrid rain water which has been confined in a cistern will prove the superiority of the former it is also of consequence that the face and hands should be washed in pure water that all the particles absorbed by the pores"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-26|1|2", "date": "1797-10-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797102601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "on the means of preserving health in populous places this town possesses in the advocate the most effectual means for preserving the health of its inhabitants as they are thereby supplied with good water kept pure and wholesome by constant motion while the still water in wells rendered more unwholesome by the putrescent and filthy matter in yards stables c continually soaking in them in old and populous towns is a means of producing putrid fevers and every species of chronic diseases not only the wholesomeness of victuals and drink but the salubrity of our clothing depends upon the purity of the water we use it is essential that our linen and other clothes which apply to the skin should be washed in pure water otherwise the effluvia will not be sweet or healthful the difference in the smell of linen washed in pure water and that washed in the putrid rain water which has been confined in a cistern will prove the superiority of the former it is also of consequence that the face and hands should be washed in pure water that all the particles absorbed by the pores"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2779, 2896], "b_span": [2021, 2144], "matched_words": 114, "similarity": 0.95, "seeds": 19, "id": "M01129", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-10-25|1|2", "date": "1797-10-25", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-10-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797102501/0380.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "approach was made known the volunteer troop of cavalry commanded by john lavender esq and a large concourse of citizens hastened to receive him and met him eight miles from this place where after refreshment he was conducted into town in the following order a detachment of the troop of cavalry the honorable mr blount accompanied by the honorable mr stuart late speaker of the house of representatives the troop of cavalry citizens in files we are happy to say that mr blount has received on his journey through this state the most flattering and hearty welcome from every description of citizens a welcome justly due from a grateful people to the father friend and protector of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797110101/0146.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "approach was made known the volunteer troop of cavalry commanded by john lavender esq and a large concourse of citizens hastened to receive him and met him eight 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from each other on this subject the first lays whenever peace takes place the fort with all the ships in the harbour of toulon shall be restored to france and the stores of every kind agreeable to the schedule delivered his majesty declares when monarchy shall be restored in france and a treaty of peace concluded stipulating in favour of his majesty and his allies the restitution of all conquests made by france during the war and a just indemnification for the losses and expenses thereby incurred and a proper security for the future his majesty will cause the town forts and harbour of toulon together with the ships and stores therein to be restored according to the engagement entered into by the said vice-admiral his lordship also in his proclamation of august declares that he holds toulon only in trust for louis xvi if the french insist on the preliminary declaration of lord hood it opens a wide field indeed for restitution if they refer to his majesty's declaration the promise is 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in italy from nuremberg it is remarkable that it is impossible to divine the objects of the austrian movements and that they continue to buy up all the hay c that they can meet with the french troops under gen grenier have again taken possession of the bridgehead at niewed this is understood as a certain indication of approaching hostilities the letters from the hague received yesterday reach down to the th of august and contain communications of the last importance the new constitution so strongly recommended by noel was on the th inst rejected by a"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797111501/0162.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "august yesterday letters of intelligence were 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"night a regular series of the paris papers up to wednesday last the most material article of intelligence brought by this conveyance is a letter from the commander in chief of a battalion of bernadotte's division upon the subject of the treaty between the emperor and the french republic which announces the ratification of the conditions of peace by his imperial majesty on the th ult this letter is dated udina the seat of negotiation july st and the following is a literal translation of it may my letter announce to you sufficiently soon the happy news which i have just learned a courier that arrived last night from vienna dispatched by the marquis di gallo announces that the emperor has ratified the conditions of peace such as they were presented to him all the world rejoices i hasten to close my letter that it may"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|2", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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they had first received there had happily been contradicted and that they hoped to appease the spirit of discontent by prudence and reconciliation no doubt this spirit has been fomented by malicious misrepresentations similar to those repeatedly made use of by a certain faction to impede every measure adopted by government for the defence of the country against her destroying enemies on friday a cartel arrived with english prisoners from france but in consequence of the resolution of our government not to exchange any more prisoners till sir sidney smith is released the cartel"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-25|1|2", "date": "1797-11-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797112501/0174.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "received on saturday at the office of his royal highness the commander in chief from scotland stating that some dissatisfactions had been expressed at mr dundas's plan for extending the militia to that kingdom and that in consequence alarming riots had taken place these however there is reason to believe had been greatly exaggerated as letters from edinburgh state the accounts which they had first received there had happily been contradicted and that they hoped to appease the spirit of discontent by prudence and reconciliation no doubt this spirit has been fomented by malicious misrepresentations similar to those repeatedly made use of by a certain faction to impede every measure adopted by government for the defence of the country against her destroying enemies on friday a cartel arrived with english prisoners from france but in consequence of the resolution of our government not to exchange any more prisoners till sir sidney smith is released the cartel"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": 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gibraltar and also from earl st vincent who remains off cadiz with the fleet apparently meditating fresh attempts by sea and land at gibraltar they at length have indications from what passes within the spanish lines that the dons mean soon to annoy them as they are building fresh mortar batteries and collecting ammunition on which occasion the garrison is removing from the town to the south preparatory to operations gen o'hara has nearly completed the new works all the magazines are treble bomb-proof the works at land port are nearly completed a new fosse feet deep has been cut out of the solid rock from the inundation through the causeway to forbes's barrier and a bridge on a new model is prepared to be flung over the peterell sloop with the transports having on board the irish artillery for the west-indies failed the th of july the nina frigate of guns now called hamadryad captain stanhope had arrived to repair after an engagement with three french men of war off cartagena it was 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inviolate the treaties existing with great britain mr walpole has also received from the cabinet of lisbon unequivocal proofs of entering into no terms derogatory to their connexions with this country letters from madrid of the d inst mention the national finances to be in a state of the greatest embarrassment the new minister was about to negotiate a loan of one hundred millions of reals the court having prolonged their residence in the capital beyond their accustomed time left it the th for st idephonse the prince of peace has received some fresh instances of the affection of his sovereign the spaniards speak with confidence of the safety of cadiz from any future attempts of the british fleet the el rosario spanish prize brig of guns commanded by lieut hubert is arrived at portsmouth with dispatches from gibraltar and also from earl st vincent who remains off cadiz with the fleet apparently meditating fresh attempts by sea and land at gibraltar they at length have indications from what passes within the spanish lines that the dons mean soon to annoy them as they are building fresh mortar batteries and collecting ammunition on which occasion the staff is removed from the town to the south preparatory to operations general o'hara has nearly completed the new works all the magazines are treble bomb proof the works at land port are nearly completed a new fosse feet deep has been cut out of the rock from the inundation through the cause way to forbes's barrier and a bridge on a new model is preparing to be flung over the peterill sloop with the transports having on board the irish artillery for the west indies failed th of july the nina frigate of guns now called the tremadryad capt stanhope had arrived to repair after an engagement with three french men of war off cartagena it was reported and believed at gibraltar that a bombardment of malaga was intended when the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying 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moreau for the purpose of prevailing on him to participate in the proceedings of the army of the sambre and meuse and to engage him to unite against the counter-revolutionists the following answer is said to have been made by general moreau the constitution prohibits the armies from deliberating or interfering in the affairs of the interior and i consider it my duty to obey it"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3207, 3297], "b_span": [2457, 2547], "matched_words": 86, "similarity": 0.9555555555555556, "seeds": 16, "id": "M01161", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-26|1|2", "date": "1797-10-26", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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what a generous soul and will ye not turn in ye wavering fools but still push on heels over head in pursuit of lands in the moon and the shadow of phantoms do glittering bubbles still deceive him that travelleth at noon-day come in then ye who lack understanding whose brains are like a reed shaken by the wind and your repast shall be as the manna of heaven which will ennoble human nature and restore man to the likenesses of the deity your drink will be wine drawn from the fountain of perfection and pressed from grapes plucked in the garden of paradise by the spirit of insanity they have all passed by on the other side as if some infernal fiend was seeking to devour them except a few poor wretches without a shirt to their backs and a miserable gray-headed jew who is limping to the grave with a large pack of fins and spoilt wares on his back while john is hunting for the almanac we will just inform those poor shirtless wretches that wisdom hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine 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spendthrift and groaning debauchee turn to her and i will pour oil and wine into your wounds give you riches more durable than time and maidens whose pleasures increase with possession what a generous soul and will ye not turn to her ye wayward fools but still push on heels over head in pursuit of lands in the moon and the shadow of phantoms do glittering bubbles will deceive him that travelleth at noon-day and are the great men of the earth still disputing about non-entities and quiddities while the rich feast of fair-a-maiden is past and neglected come in ye who lack understanding whose brains are like a reed shaken by the wind and your repair shall be as the manna of heaven which will ennoble human nature and restore man to the likeness of the deity your drink will be wine drawn from the fountain of perfection and pressed from grapes plucked from the garden of paradise which will purify the soul and elevate the heart to ameliorate the passions and operate on the bodily eye that the 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themselves from the carriage but fortunately the adventure ended with a little injury to the carriage alone died at bridge-water the th inst nathan kingman eldest son of capt ezra kingman aged years his death was oc casioned by attempting to get out of the forward part of the cart when the team he was driving was moving quick down a descending piece of land he unfortunately fell under the wheel which passed over the middle of his body which fearful accident he survived about hours in great distress and"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|2", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0384.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "on saturday afternoon a sailor fell from the foretop of the ship packet lying at the longwharf whither he had gone to indulge himself with a nap he received but little injury but was carried to the alm's house to lodge till his complete recovery on friday while the providence stage was on the road from this to that town the steps getting loose the driver jumped from his box and while employed in fastening them up the horses started herun and caught hold of the reins of the horses next the coach but not being able to stop them was thrown down and the horses and carriage passed over him after running about a quarter of an hour the hinder horses fell and the others necessarily stopped in a few minutes the driver came up to the carriage to the great joy of the passengers not having received any injury the passengers were much alarmed not being able to extricate themselves from the carriage but fortunately the adventure ended with a little injury to the carriage alone at bridgewater the th inst nathan kingman eldest son of capt ezra kingman aged years his death was occasioned by attempting to get out of the forward part of the cart when the team he was driving was moving quick down a descending piece of land he unfortunately fell under the wheel which passed over the middle of his body which forsooth accident he survived about hours in great distress and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1014, 1158], "b_span": [90, 186], "matched_words": 93, "similarity": 0.775, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01178", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-31|1|3", "date": "1797-10-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797103101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of a letter from niagara dated september the only news we have here is the sale of the lands lying on the other side of the river to mr morris by the senecas there are about three millions of acres out of which they have retained in dif ferent places the terms we do not yet know as the indians are not yet returned from the sale which was effected at geneseo we may now expect to see the other side settling fast it is a very fine country and no doubt will sell in lots very high the americans have appointed a new commanding officer here since his arrival the troops have been under arms every night you'll ask for fear of what strange to tell for fear of the indians although there are none nearer than eighty miles being as quiet as"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-11-09|1|3", "date": "1797-11-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-11-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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them were daily arriving good accounts were received at the isle of france of an english squadron to the number of eight or ten ships fitting in madras roads for some secret expedition reported to be destined against manila but the french seemed to mistrust that their intention was to pay them a visit they talked lightly of it as they thought their island proof against the whole naval force that the english had in the east-indies they seemed to be under some apprehension for their sister colony of bourbon the generality of the people appeared to be quite aristo cratical in their principles and talked very loud against the present government of france without the least reserve as to time or place they pay great respect to the american flag and the government in its dealings behaved very honorably paper money was depreciated to a very low ebb but there appeared to be plenty of coin in circulation they had heard from europe that the governments of france and ameri ca laboured under some misunderstanding which they seemed much to regret there was news circulating and generally credited that the english in india were at war with some of the country powers a number of french vessels were daily arriving from batavia with rice a danish company ship had arrived from canton dismasted and a da nish ship was standing trial supposed to be english property captain coffin left in the isle of france two brigs from salem and one bark all bound to bengal the ships bellerophon and ocean had failed about ten"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0392.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of france days a ship under danish colors supposed to be the republican from bremen took a pilot on board yesterday to the southward of the bar capt coffin from the isle of france informs that perfect tranquility reigned there and the slaves under the strictest subordination that the produce of the colonies was exceeding high and american produce as low in proportion that many american vessels have touched there from bourdeaux and proceeded on to bengal nine french frigates and fifteen privateers were out upon the different coasts of india cruising against the english and a number of valuable prizes taken by them were daily arriving good accounts were received at the isle of france of an english squadron to the number of eight or ten ships fitting in madras roads for some secret expedition reported to be destined against manilla but the french seemed to mistrust that their intention was to pay them a visit they talked lightly of it as they thought their island-proof against the whole naval force that the english had in the east-indies they seemed to be under some 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ship was standing trial supposed to be english property the english had destroyed the french settlement at madagascar and taken the garrison prisoners which had arrived at the isle of france in an english cartel for exchange capt coffin left in the isle of france two brigs from salem and one bark all bound to bengal the ships bellarius and ocean had failed about ten"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3206, 3487], "b_span": [26, 329], "matched_words": 270, "similarity": 0.9246575342465754, "seeds": 50, "id": "M01180", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-10-31|1|3", "date": "1797-10-31", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-10-31/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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sister colony of bourbon the generality of the people appeared to be quite aristo cratical in their principles and talked very loud against the present government of france without the least reserve as to time or place they pay great respect to the american flag and the government in its dealings behaved very honorably paper money was depreciated to a very low ebb but there appeared to be plenty of coin in circulation they had heard from europe that the governments of france and ameri ca laboured under some misunderstanding which they seemed much to regret there was news circulating and generally credited that the english in india were at war with some of the country powers a number of french vessels were daily arriving from batavia with rice a danish company ship had arrived from canton dismasted and"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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they seemed to be under some apprehension for their sister colony of bourbon the generality of the people appeared to be quite aristocratical in their principles and talked very loud against the present government of france without the least reserve as to time or place they pay great respect to the american flag and the government in its dealings behaved very honourably paper money was depreciated to a very low ebb but there appeared to be plenty of coin in circulation they had heard from europe that the governments of france and america laboured under some misunderstanding which they seemed much to regret there was news circulating and generally credited that the english in india were at war with some of the country powers and likewise that there had been an engagement between two english seventy-four and french frigates in the straits of malacca but it was not decisive a number of french vessels were daily arriving from batavia with rice a danish company ship had arrived from canton 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person who was absent during the war in the british dominions and which continued to be due to him the sentiments then delivered by the court will bear the test of the severest discus sions and did great honor to the judges who sat in the cause they concurred in the judg ment that interest was not demandable for the period of the war it is a great blessing to our country that mr pendleton who has passed his seventy fifth year still manifests the same perspi cuity vigour of mind comprehension and power of argument for which he has al ways been distinguished long may he and his illustrious fellow-labourer in juris prudence wythe be exceptions as they now are to the supposition contained in the constitution of new-york that after the age of sixty-years no man can be fit for a seat on"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-25|1|3", "date": "1797-11-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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comprehension and power of argument for which he has been always distinguished long may he and his illustrious fellow labourer in jurisprudence wyth be exceptions as they now are to the supposition contained in the constitution of new-york that after the age of sixty years no man can be fit for a seat on"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2287, 2360], "b_span": [74, 139], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.927536231884058, "seeds": 9, "id": "M01182", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|1", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0383.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following scheme of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation scheme prizes dollars dollars of is of are of of of of of of of tickets at dollars are subject to a deduction of per cent this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the st"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|1", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121901/0025.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "class fourth the managers of dartmouth college lottery request the attention of the public to the following schems of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation 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not personal description the dialogue is panned in the best style of o'keefe its railery does not descend to invective its wit ap pears to originality the stage should be the brief chronicle of the times and it is of no less im portance to the success of the american theatre to have authors of our own than to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2445, 2631], "b_span": [4038, 4225], "matched_words": 168, "similarity": 0.900804289544236, "seeds": 22, "id": "M01185", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|3", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110101/0385.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lat long spoke ship columbus cook days from lisbon for new-york sept lat long spoke ship betsey barker days from boston for londonderry aug lat long was boarded from a french privateer and treated very politely the day after by two english frigates and treated well thursday oct arrived snow fanny kilham days from st peterburgh and from elsinour sept lat long spoke brig davis of newbury-port days from virginia for liverpool oct lat long spoke fchr isabella crow days from boston for havre oct lat long fell in with the wreck of a ship which appeared to be american built about tons fine varnished sides stanchion round her waist similar to those of her quarter a small figure woman head painted white with a black turban round her head a small shield with a large star in it on her left arm her mast and bowsprit gone a large part of the wreck of her spars hanging to leward of her her stern black with yellow carved work and seven cabin windows she was just swimming level with the surface of the sea fresh breezes"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-03|1|3", "date": "1797-11-03", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-03/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lat long spoke ship columbus cook days from lisbon for new-york sept lat long spoke ship betsey barker days from boston for london derry aug lat long was boarded from a french privateer and treat ed very politely the day after by two eng lish frigates and treated well arrived from faany kilham days from st peter's and from elsinour sept lat long spoke brig davis of newburyport days from virginia for liverpool oct lat long spoke schr isabella crow days from boston for havre oct lat long fell in with the wreck of a ship which appeared to be american built about tons fine varnished sides staun chion round her waist similar to those of her quarters a small figurehead painted white with a black timber round her head a small shield with a large star in it on her left arm her mast and bowsprit gone a large part of the wreck of her spars hang ing to leeward of her her stern black with yellow carved work and seven cabin windows she was just swimming level with the surface of the sea fresh breezes"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [936, 1036], "b_span": [716, 816], "matched_words": 96, "similarity": 0.96, "seeds": 15, "id": "M01186", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-01|1|3", "date": "1797-11-01", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-01/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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"seeds": 41, "id": "M01189", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-04|1|3", "date": "1797-11-04", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-04/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110401/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "o'clock she captured the ship pallas hunter from glasgow belonging to this port and at o'clock at night the brig maria lybert from london bound to savannah which vessels she sent for cape francois capt hunter and two men were detained on board the pallas mr stuart and mr harvey passengers and the remainder of the crew were put on board the humbergh ship betty which arrived yesterday from bourdeaux the crew of the ship maria was put on board the ship flora allen which arrived from turks island the pallas at the time of her being captured was in fathoms water leagues to the eastward of the light-house mr turner the pilot whom the privateer took out of the ship aracabessa was also put on board the ship betty he was informed while on board the privateer that he had captured before he came to our bar an english ship from jamaica belonging and bound to liverpool she mounted guns and was coppered capt bell the master of the english ship was killed before she was taken capt allen who brought in the crew of the ship maria had got within the bar when the privateer fortitude came along side of him the captain then compelled him to return to sea in doing which he ran a considerable risk of losing his vessel when he had got without the bar again six men belonging to the maria were put on board of him the privateer then permitted him to return into port"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|2", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0396.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "o'clock she captured the ship pallas hunter from glasgow belonging to this port and at o'clock at night the brig maria lybert from london bound to savannah which vessels she sent for cape-francois the crew of the ship maria was put on board the ship flora allen which arrived from turks-island the pallas at the time of her being captured was in fathoms water leagues to the eastward of the light-house mr turner the pilot whom the privateer took out of the ship arracabessa was put on board the betty he was informed while on board the privateer that she had captured before she came to our bar an english ship from jamaica belonging and bound to liverpool she mounted guns and was coppered capt bell the master of the english ship was killed before she was taken capt allen who brought in the crew of the brig maria had got with in the bar when the privateer fortitude came along side of him the capt then compelled him to return to sea in doing which he ran a considerable risk of losing his vessel when he had got without the bar again six men belonging to the maria were put on board of him the privateer then permitted him to return into port"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1419, 1762], "b_span": [1390, 1736], "matched_words": 329, "similarity": 0.9550072568940493, "seeds": 51, "id": "M01190", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|2", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the th the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of at the thuilleries at midnight general lemoine others say moulin appeared at the gate of the pont-tournant which leads into the garden of the thuilleries from the square of the revolution at the head of a considerable detachment and demanded admittance which was refused him by ramel commander of the guard of the legislative body but upon the general's ordering two pieces of cannon to advance and the grenadiers at the same time declaring against their commander the gate was opened and ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the man ge where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru willot and several others all of which he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed and it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barthelmy was arrested at the directory but carnot had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution the avenues leading to the thuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general angereau repaired to the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they all answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets and then marched to offer their services to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|3", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0393.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the d the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of the five hundred at the thuilleries at midnight general le moine others say moulin appeared at the gate pont-tournant which leads into the garden of the thuilleries from the square of the revolution at the head of a considerable detachment and demanded admittance which was refused him by ramel commander of the guard of the legislative body but on the general's ordering two pieces of cannon to advance and the guard at the same time declaring against their commander the gate was opened and ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the manege where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru and willot and several others all of whom he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barthelemy was arrested at the directory but caty not had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution and the avenues leading to the thuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general angereau repaired in the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they all answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets and then marched to offer his services to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1419, 1762], "b_span": [2017, 2362], "matched_words": 328, "similarity": 0.9534883720930233, "seeds": 54, "id": "M01191", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|2", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & 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grenadiers at the same time declaring against their commander the gate was opened and ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the man ge where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru willot and several others all of which he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed and it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barthelmy was arrested at the directory but carnot had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution the avenues leading to the thuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general angereau repaired to the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they all answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets and then marched to offer their services to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112101/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the d the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of the hundred at the tuilleries at midnight ger lemoine others say moulin appeared at the gate pont-rouinant which leads into the garden of the tuilleries from the square of the revolution at the head of a considerable detachment and demanded admittance which was refused him by ramel commander of the guard of the legislative body but on the general's ordering two pieces of cannon to advance and the guard at the same time declaring against their commander the gate was opened and ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the man ge where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru and willot and several others all of whom he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barth lemy was arrested at the directory but carnot had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution and the avenues leading to the tuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general angereau repaired to the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they all answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets c then marched to offer his services to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1056, 2164], "b_span": [6, 1098], "matched_words": 1062, "similarity": 0.9654545454545455, "seeds": 188, "id": "M01192", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|2", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "duty of detailing the extraordinary event that occurred on monday last in paris with emotions which it is not easy to describe it is a proceeding which in every view either of gigantic interest in its consequences or of audacious character in its design has scarcely a parallel since the commencement of the revolution itself and it is impossible to speak of it in the language which applies to ordinary events it may be asserted that there are occasions in the political as well as the physical combinations of life when all principles must yield to imperious necessity and when all the rules of moral conduct are set at defiance the admission of this axiom is all that the most odious tyranny demands for the justification of every excess and it is certain that it is sufficient to take from the most settled society every assurance that it can frame for its own independence with this short observation we preface the narrative of the new revolution in france we shall faithfully lay before our readers every thing that the triumvirate has said in justification of the measure it so secretly contrived and vigorously carried into execution our readers will thereby be able to decide whether the circumstances of the republic were such as to create the pretended necessity which supercedes all law or whether it was merely a cabal of personal interests in which a struggle for ascendancy is exalted into a shock for the deliverance of the people the genuine friends of liberty in every country of the world who are the steady and impartial spectators of this astonishing scene and a severe posterity free from all the passions which blind the performers will pronounce judgment on the act it is for us to furnish the materials the blow was struck between three and four o'clock on monday morning the th september the confusion of dates from their new division of the year made our correspondent call the th fructidor the th when it should have been the d of september we yesterday morning received the following letters up to the st fructidor or thursday last the th inclusive paris fructidor sept the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the th the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of at the thuilleries at midnight general lemoine others say moulin appeared at the gate of the pont-tournant which leads into the garden of the thuilleries from the square of the revolution at the head of a considerable detachment and demanded admittance which was refused him by ramel commander of the guard of the legislative body but upon the general's ordering two pieces of cannon to advance and the grenadiers at the same time declaring against their commander the gate was opened and ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the man ge where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru willot and several others all of which he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed and it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barthelmy was arrested at the directory but carnot had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution the avenues leading to the thuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general angereau repaired to the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they all answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets and then marched to offer their services to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were conveyed in six or seven carriages to the temple at in consequence of an advertisement posted on the doors of both councils the council of assembled at the odeon the ancient french theatre near the director and the elders at the school of surgery not far from thence the faubourg st antoine well armed evidently by preconcert came and offered their services to the directory and both councils they were thanked and invited to repair to their respective occupations before they returned home they drew up in the rues des francs bourgeois where gen angereau passed along the line and was received with the loudest acclamations they afterwards retired very peaceably during the whole day the bridges and chief posts were guarded by the troops the streets especially about the directory and the councils were crowded with incredible numbers of inquisitive persons who seemed to be guided by no other motive than curiosity not the least outrage was committed and the utmost order and tranquillity reigned in every quarter of the city at in the evening the directory answered the message of the council of five hundred by sending papers relative to the conspiracy these papers we have already mentioned during the night the commission of five made report on the measures to be adopted in the present conjuncture and proposed a project of a resolution which you will find in the moniteur the only uneasiness now entertained is from the friends of the constitution of or if you will the mountaineers but it is assured that the directory has positively refused to join them the barriers still remain shut it is presumed that there are or thousand troops at paris while all the issues from that city are completely blocked up by men distributed around at the distance of leagues so that it is impossible for any person to escape no news hitherto of carnot some say he has shot himself while others pretend he was killed by some people who attempted to arrest him it is now one o'clock every thing is remarkably quiet from the stinelle a gun-smith rue croix-des-petits champs has been arrested this villain has confessed on his examination that the royal commissioners of louis xviii had purchased from him muskets on bono signed with the initial letters r the whole has been seized and confiscated and the proofs and papers are now at the bureau central"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-29|1|2", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797112901/0178.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "duty of detailing the extraordinary event that occurred on monday last in paris with emotions which it is not easy to describe it is a proceeding which in every view either of gigantic interest in its consequences or of audacious character in its design has scarcely a parallel since the commencement of the revolution itself and it is impossible to speak of it in the language which applies to ordinary events it may be asserted that there are occasions in the political as well as physical combinations of life when all principles must yield to imperious necessity and when all the rules of moral conduct are set at defiance the admission of this axiom is all that the most odious tyranny demands for the the justification of every excess and it is certain that it is sufficient to take from the most settled society every assurance that it can frame for its own independence with this short observation we preface the narrative of the new revolution in france we shall faithfully lay before our readers every thing that the triumvirate has said in justification of the measure it so secretly contrived and vigorously carried into execution our readers will thereby be able to decide whether the circumstances of the republic were such as to create the pretended necessity which supercedes all law or whether it was merely a cabal of personal interests in which a struggle for ascendancy is exalted into a shock for the deliverance of the people the genuine friends of liberty in every country who are the steady and impartial spectators of this astonishing scene and a severe posterity free from all the passions which blind the performers will pronounce judgment on the offenders the blow was struck between three and four o'clock on monday morning the th of september the confusion of dates from their new division of the year made our correspondent call the th fructidor the th when it should have been the rd september we yesterday morning received the following letters up to the st fructidor or thursday last the th inclusive paris th fructidor sept the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the th the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of the at the thuilleries at midnight general moulin appeared at the gate of the pont-tournant which leads into the garden of the thuilleries from the square of the revolution at the head of a considerable detachment and demanded admittance which was refused him by ramel commander of the guard of the legislative body but upon the general's ordering two pieces of cannon to advance and the grenadiers at the same time declaring against the commander the gate was opened ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the manege where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru willot and several others all of whom he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barthelemy was arrested at the directory but carnot had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution the avenues leading to the thuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general ange-reau repaired to the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets and then marched to offer their service to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were conveyed in six or seven carriages to the temple at twelve in consequence of an advertisement posted on the doors of both councils the council of five hundred assembled at the odeon the ancient french theatre near the directory and the elders at the school of surgery not far from thence the faubourg st antoine well armed evidently by preconcert came and offered their services to the directory and both councils they were thanked and invited to repair to their respective occupations before they returned home they drew up in rue des frances bourgeois where general angereau passed along the line and was received with the loudest acclamations they afterwards retired very peaceably during the whole day the bridges and posts were guarded by the troops the streets especially about the directory and the councils were crowded with incredible numbers of inquisitive persons who seemed to be guided by no other motive than curiosity not the least outrage was committed and the utmost order tranquillity reigned in every quarter of the city at six in the evening the directory answered the message of the council of five hundred by sending papers relative to the conspiracy during the night the commission of five made report on the measures to be adopted in the present conjuncture and proposed a project of a resolution which you will find in the moniteur the only uneasiness now entertained is from the friends of the constitution of or if you will the mountaineers but it is assured that the directory has positively refused to employ them the barriers still remain shut it is presumed that there are twelve or fifteen thousand troops at paris while all the issues from that city are completely blocked up by men distributed around at the distance of five leagues so that it is impossible for any person to escape no news hitherto of carnot some say he has shot himself while others pretend he was killed by some people who attempted to arrest him it is now one o'clock every thing is remarkably quiet from the sentinelle one peroteau a gun smith rue croix-des-petits has been arrested this villain has confessed on his examination that the royal commissioners of louis xviii had purchased from him muskets on bonds signed with the initial letters r the whole has been seized and confiscated and the proofs and papers are now at the bureau central"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3700, 4354], "b_span": [2201, 2862], "matched_words": 630, "similarity": 0.9581749049429658, "seeds": 115, "id": "M01193", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|2", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the legislative body to the french nation sept the council of five hundred taking into consideration the extraordinary and critical circumstances in which the republic is placed and deeming it the duty of the legislative body to make known to the french people the plots which have been formed for the purpose of enslaving them and subverting the republican constitution of the third year to declare its own sentiments and hopes and at the same time to put the nation on its guard against the manoeuvres which may be attempted to mislead it by the accomplices of the conspirators has therefore agreed to the following resolution article i the legislative body concurs in an address to the armies and departments the purport of which is as follows frenchmen it is incumbent on us to declare the truth to you and we proceed to acquaint ourselves of that duty a conspiracy which had for its object the establishment of a throne in france and of privileges and grievances a thousand times more odious than those which had been abolished by your will a conspiracy always unmasked but never destroyed had again brought the republic to the brink of ruin the government by its wisdom and firmness baffled the execution of it at the very moment that it was on the point of breaking out but one night more and our country would have been plunged into eternal mourning but one night more and arbitrary despotism would have raised her hideous head and erected her usurpation on the carcass of those who more or less had served the cause of liberty men who had thirsted for the popular power with the false view of exercising it again the people were for a long time engaged in planning the execution of that execrable project the greater part chiefs of the insurgents of vend me emboldened by impunity had resumed their plots they corresponded more actively with the agents of the pretended louis xviii the confessions of one of these agents duverne de presle prove it their letters seized at venice their communications with the emigrants and the principal rebels prove it all the documents are made public the means by which they promised to execute their designs were the annihilation of all public and national spirit the assassination of every one whom they treated as suspected of patriotism and impunity to be granted to the assassins by tribunals sold to royalty the extinction of the financial resources of the state the abatement of the government and republican institutions a civil war lighted up in different parts of the republic the destruction of internal security and the interception of all communication through the country the distress of the landholder the mechanic and the soldier a vigorous fabrication of all laws subversive of the constitution this object and these means will not surprise when you shall learn by the authentic pieces which have been found that their appointments previously ordered and regulated by counter-revolutionary officers in almost every department proceeded from a general plan formed and organized under the name of the society of legitimate children a society one of whose laws was the most absolute and the blindest devotion on the part of its members to the orders of their unknown chief we will not remind you citizens of the deplorable success which has resulted from their combinations in april a peace an honorable and solid peace smiled on our wishes it is removed to a greater distance could it have been raised on a land convulsed and ready to cover itself with blood and ruins the national credit began to acquire consistency the public creditors were on the point of being paid there were no arrears due to the armies when suddenly misery and penury returned and spread themselves over france the stockholder was in despair the inscriptions at livres fell to the armies were without"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-06|1|2", "date": "1797-12-06", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797120601/0186.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the legislative body to the french nation moved for by gen jourdan the council of five hundred taking into consideration the extraordinary and critical circumstances in which the republic is placed and deeming it the duty of the legislative body to make known to the french people the plots which have been formed for the purpose of enslaving them and subverting the republican constitution of the third year to declare its own sentiments and hopes and at the same time to put the nation on its guard against the manoeuvres which may be attempted to mislead it by the accomplices of the conspirators has therefore agreed to the following resolution article the legislative body concurs in an address to the armies and the departments the purport of which is as follows frenchmen it is incumbent on us to declare the truth to you and we proceed to acquit ourselves of that duty a conspiracy which had for its object the establishment of a throne in france and of privileges and grievances a thousand times more odious than those which had been abolished by your will a conspiracy always unmasked but never destroyed had again brought the republic to the brink of ruin the government by its wisdom and firmness bailed the execution of it at the very moment that it was on the point of breaking out but one night more and our country would have been plunged into eternal ruin but one night more and arbitrary despotism would have raised her hideous head and erected her usurpation on the carcasses of those who more or less had served the cause of liberty men who had thirsted for the popular power with the sole view of exercising it against the people were for a long time engaged in planning the execution of that execrable project the greater part chiefs of the insurgents of vendemaire imboldened by impunity had resumed their plots they corresponded more audaciously than ever with the agents of the pretended louis xviii the confession of one of these agents duverne de presle prove it their letters seized at venice their communications with the emigrants and the principal rebels prove it all the documents are made public the means by which they proposed to execute their designs were the annihilation of all public and national spirit the assassination of every one whom they treated as suspected of patriotism and impunity to be granted to the assassins by tribunals sold to royalty the extinction of the financial resources of the state the abatement of the government and republican institutions a civil war lighted up in different parts of the republic the destruction of internal security and the interception of all communication thro the country the distress of the land holders the mechanics and the soldiers the vigorous fabrication of all laws subversive of the constitution this object and these means will not surprise when you shall learn by the authentic pieces which have been found that their appointments previously ordered and regulated by private counter-revolutionary officers in almost every department proceeded from a general plan formed and organized under the name of the society of legitimate children a society one of whose laws was the most absolute and the blindest devotion on the part of its members to the orders of their unknown chiefs we will not remind you citizens of the deplorable success which has resulted from their combinations in april a peace an honourable and solid peace failed on our wishes it is removed to a greater distance could it have been raised on a land convulsed and ready to cover itself with blood and ruins the national credit began to acquire consistency the public creditors were on the point of being paid there were no arrears due to the armies when suddenly misery and paupery returned and spread themselves over france the flockholder was in despair the inscriptions at livres fell to the armies were without"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4365, 4855], "b_span": [1, 490], "matched_words": 466, "similarity": 0.9519918283963228, "seeds": 78, "id": "M01194", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|2", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "shameful and sorrowful reflection compelled to submit either by requisitions or by the prodigal of their courage and yet a hideous laugh escaped from the lips of the partisans of the counter-revolution they every day saw the embarrassments of the government increase and they every day increased it themselves the most far-fetched explanations and the most impudent perfidy were deemed good means for the attainment of their end the adherents of fanaticism were recalled a shameful and public traffic of the creature of emigrants was declared the citizens terrified at their proceedings met together but that right was prohibited arms were distributed poignards made several were seized with rallying orders and registers for enrolling names were opened o country o sweet and noble sentiment of liberty generous incentives of honor and of national pride what became of you o names so often proclaimed of justice morality humanity of social and public virtues where did you take refuge they existed with the armies the address after stating the facts resulting from the inference of the armies with the transactions of the th inst and entreating the public opinion not to be misled with respect to the conduct of the directory which it asserts has finally established the constitution of the third year and put a period to the revolution concludes in the following manner with respect to you frenchmen it depends on your union and on your confidence to encourage us to proceed relaxed shortly to our customary labors all our cares shall be employed in making breaches which it was the business of our enemies to widen the restoration of the finances of commerce of industry and agriculture the relief of the indigent classes of the hospitals and the creditors or the state the debts due to the immortal defenders of our country shall claim our first attention peace also that consoling peace obtained by victory will also come we hope to consolidate all our triumphs and repair all our losses but if on the contrary the enemy should persevere in accelerating his own destruction let the union of all good citizens and their attachment to the constitution of the third year produce in him despair and prove the pledge of his approaching ruin frenchmen the unity of action is re-established between the two great powers not that kind of unity which might result from the dependence of the one upon the other but that which is produced by the harmony of reciprocal wishes we have laid before you our conduct and our principles our lives are wholly devoted to the maintenance of the republic we shall not tell you that we are ready to lose them in combating every fashion but we solemnly swear to you that we will overcome them article ii the law of the th shall be annexed to this resolution and proclaimed with it in all the departments and in the armies of the republic"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-06|1|3", "date": "1797-12-06", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797120601/0187.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "shameful and sorrowful reflection compelled to subsist either by requisition or by the product of their courage and yet a odious laugh escaped from the lips of the partisans of the counter-revolution they every day saw the embarrassment of the government increase and they every day increased it themselves the most far-fetched explanations and the most impudent perversity were deemed good means for the attainment of their end the adherents of fanaticism were recalled a shameful and public traffic of the craft of emigrants was declared the citizens terrified at their proceedings met together but that right was prohibited arms were distributed poiniards made several were seized with rallying orders and registers for enrolling were opened o country o sweet and noble sentiment of liberty generous incentives of honor of national pride what became of you o name so often profaned of justice morality humanity of social and public virtues where did you take refuge they existed with the armies the address after stating the effects resulting from the interference of the armies with the transactions of the th inst and intreating the public opinion not to be misled with respect to the conduct of the directory which it asserts has finally established the constitution of the third year and put a period to the revolution concludes in the following manner with respect to you frenchmen it depends on your union and on your confidence to encourage us to proceed restored shortly to our customary labours all our care shall be employed in closing those wounds which it was the business of our enemies to widen the restoration of the finances of commerce of industry and agriculture the relief of the indigent classes of the hospitals and the creditors of the state the debts due to the immortal defenders of our country shall claim our first attention peace also that consoling peace obtained by victory will also come we hope to consolidate all our triumphs and to repair all our losses but if on the contrary the enemy should persevere in accelerating his own destruction let the union of all good citizens and their attachment to the constitution of the third year produce in him despair prove the pledge of his approaching ruin frenchmen the unity of action is re-established between the two great powers not that kind of unity which might result from the dependence of the one upon the other but that which is produced by the harmony of reciprocal wishes we have laid before you our conduct and our principles our lives are wholly devoted to the maintenance of the republic we shall not tell you that we are ready to loose them in combating every faction but we solemnly swear to you that we will overcome them article ii the law of the th shall be annexed to this resolution and proclaimed with it in all the departments and in the armies of the republic"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1451, 1709], "b_span": [202, 458], "matched_words": 251, "similarity": 0.9766536964980544, "seeds": 46, "id": "M01195", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|3", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "already stated are merlin of douay and francois de neufchateau the former of whom after having been privy to most of the massacres which have stained the revolution in the true hypocritical cant of a cromwell assumes the character of humility in his address to the directory on accepting his new office and says i cannot approach the duties of it without a religious trembling what ought to be my anxiety and fear in being placed so near to you citizen directors around whom the beams of glory shine with such transcendent splendor in the redacteur of the th is a letter signed moreau addressed to barthelemy which the directory has sent to the two councils to render it the more public this letter is dated starbrough sept and incloses some pretended correspondence found in the trunks of the austrian general klinglin many months since in which general pichegru's name is mentioned as being in the league with the prince de conde and other emigrants as this secret has been long in moreau's possession we can only account for his having published it at the period he did in order to save himself at the expense of his friend pichegru who he might have heard was arrested we must leave it to future historians to account for a man of moreau's acknowledged bravery meanly attempting to save his own existence by sacrificing his bosom friend we have inserted the letter at length as it is extremely fit to be bound up with the pretended correspondence of the chev"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|3", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112101/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "already stated are merlin of douay and francois de neuchateau the former of whom after having been privy to most of the massacres which have stained the revolution in the true hypocritical cant of a cromwell assumes the character of humility in his address to the directory on accepting his new office and says i cannot approach the duties of it without a religious trembling what ought to be my anxiety and fear in being placed so near to you citizen directors around whom the beams of glory shine with such transcendent splendor in the redacteur of the th is a letter signed moreau addressed to barthlemi which the directory has sent to the two councils to render it the more public this letter is dated strasbourg sept and incloses some pretended correspondence found in the trunks of the austrian general klinglin many months since which gen pichegru's name is mentioned as being in league with the prince de conde and other emigrants as this secret had been long in moreau's possession we can only account for his having published it at the period he did in order to save himself at the expense of his friend pichegru who he might have heard was arrested we must leave it to future historians to account for a man of moreau's acknowledged bravery meanly attempting to save his own existence by sacrificing his bosom friend we have inserted the letter at length as it is extremely fit to be bound up with the pretended correspondence of the chev"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1291, 1440], "b_span": [625, 772], "matched_words": 144, "similarity": 0.972972972972973, "seeds": 26, "id": "M01196", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|3", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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the priests and the agents of louis xviii at lyons which has constantly been the hot bed of superstition and of royalty it is probable that the th of september will be considered in all the departments as an epoch which consolidates the true interest of the republic and rescues the constitution from the chains with which it was"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2637, 2781], "b_span": [1220, 1364], "matched_words": 141, "similarity": 0.9791666666666666, "seeds": 27, "id": "M01197", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|3", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "advertiser the emperor or his britannic majesty do not appear to be implicated in any league with the late overthrown party and yet the abrupt departure of lord malmesbury from lisle would lead us to suppose certainly that the events in paris were unfavorably viewed in accounts of a prior date to this circumstance we notice that it was believed in paris that ch de la croix was again to be brought into action and from the complexion of his former intercourse with lord m in his capacity as secretary for foreign affairs the english editors had begun to apprehend consequences equally unfavorable lord st vincent was still off cadiz and admiral duncan off the texel six ships of the line are ordered to reinforce the former under the command of admiral sir john orde vice admiral nelson who has retired upon a pension"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-02|1|3", "date": "1797-12-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", 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on the spot this motion being agreed to the members who were present ascended the tribune and swore hatred against royalty and anarchy and fidelity and attachment to the constitution of the d year the ex-general jourdan added i swear it on my sword sitting of september guyvernier made a report in the name of a special commission at the end of which he presented the following project art no ci-devant noble shall perform any legislative administrative municipal or judiciary function nor hold the place of a director till four years after the conclusion of a general peace art every ex-noble holding any of the above places shall resign it within hours from the publication of this resolution on pain of being banished the republic and his property sequestrated art excepted from this law are the ci-devant nobles who were members of the first legislative assembly or of the convention or obtained their places before the vendemiaire of the fourth year ordered to be printed"}, "b": {"key": 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perform any legislative administrative municipal or judiciary function nor hold the place of a director until four years after the conclusion of a general peace every ex-noble holding any of the above places shall resign it within hours from the publication of this resolution on pain of being banished the republic and his property sequestered excepted from this law are the ci-devant nobles who were members of the first legislative assembly or of the convention or obtained their places before the st vendemiaire of the th year ordered to be printed"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [16, 552], "b_span": [2329, 2867], "matched_words": 512, "similarity": 0.9534450651769087, "seeds": 95, "id": "M01199", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-07|1|3", "date": "1797-11-07", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-07/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797110701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "about or letters of his correspondence those of voltaire were among them but they were the least important many of them were in cypher they shall all be deciphered but this will take much time no one goes in this correspondence by his true name so that several frenchmen who correspond with klinglin comte wickham d'enghein and others cannot easily be detected however we are in possession of such informations as will let us discover many of them i was determined not to give publicity to this correspondence since peace being likely to be concluded no danger could arise from thence for the republic and besides no one being named but little could be proved by these letters but seeing at the head of the parties which do so much mischief to our country a man placed in an eminent station and enjoying the utmost confidence who is much compromised in this correspondence and desired to act a prominent part in the restoration of the pretender i have thought it my duty to inform you of it that you may not be deceived by his pretended republicanism but on the contrary watch his conduct and ward off the misfortunes he may bring over our country since a civil war cannot but be the aim of his projects i confess citizen director that it is a painful task for me to acquaint you with this treason since the man whom i unmask to you was my friend and would fain be so if i did not know him i allude to the representative of the people pichegru he has been prudent enough not to write himself he only communicated by word of mouth with those who were entrusted with the correspondence who stated his projects and received his answers he gave herby several names and among others that of baptiste a chief of brigade called baillouill was attached to him and went by the name of coen this man was one of the couriers employed by him as well as by his correspondents you will recollect to have seen him often at paris their great movement was to take place at the beginning of the campaign of the th year they relied on disorders happening on my arrival at the army which indignant at its defeat was to demand back its former commander who then would have acted pursuant to the instructions he had received the sum of livres d'or was to be paid him for the journey he made to paris at the time of his dismissal this naturally accounts for his having refused the embassy to sweden i rather suspect the family of lajolais was implicated in this intrigue nothing but the great confidence i place in your patriotism and wisdom has induced me to give you this intelligence the proofs on which it is founded are as clear as day but i doubt whether they would do in a court of justice i request you citizen director to guide me for your advice in this arduous business it is hitherto known but by five persons namely generals defa s and reignier one of my aid-de-camps and an officer entrusted with the secret department of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-09|1|2", "date": "1797-12-09", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797120901/0190.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "about or letters of his correspondence those of villeribach were among them but they were the least important many of them were in cyphers they shall all be decyphered but this will take much time no one goes in this correspondence by his true name so that several frenchmen who correspond with klinglin conde wickham d'englien and others cannot easily be detected however we are in possession of such information as has led us to discover many of them i was determined not to give publicity to this correspondence since peace being likely to be concluded no danger could arise from thence for the republic and besides no one being named but little could be proved by these letters but seeing at the head of the parties which do so much mischief to our country a man placed on an eminent station and enjoying the utmost confidence who is much compromised in this correspondence and destined to act a prominent part in the restoration of the pretender i have thought it my duty to inform you of it that you may not be deceived by his pretended republicanism but on the contrary watch his conduct and ward off the misfortunes he may bring over our country since a civil war cannot but be the aim of his projects i confess citizen director that it is a painful task for me to acquaint you with this treason since the man whom i unmask to you was my friend and would still be so if i did not know him i allude to the representative of the people pichegru he has been prudent enough not to write himself he only communicated by word of mouth with those who were entrusted with the correspondence who stated his projects and received his answers he goes here by several names and among others by that of baptiste a chief of brigade called badouville was attached to him and went by the name of coco this man was one of the couriers employed by him as well as by his correspondents you will recollect to have seen him often at balle their great movement was to take place at the beginning of the campaign of the th year they relied on disorders happening on my arrival at the army which indignant at its defeat was to demand back its former commander who then would have acted pursuant to the instructions he had received the sum of louis d'ors was to be paid him for the journey he made to paris at the time of his dismissal this naturally accounts for his having refused the embassy to sweden i rather suspect the family of lajolais was implicated in this intrigue nothing but the great confidence i place in your patriotism and wisdom has induced me to give you this intelligence the proofs on which it is founded are as clear as day but i doubt whether they would do in a court of justice i request you citizen director to guide me by your advice in this arduous business it is hitherto known but to five persons namely generals desaux and reighnier one of my aides-camps and an officer entrusted with the secret department of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4000, 4065], "b_span": [74, 139], "matched_words": 64, "similarity": 0.9846153846153847, "seeds": 11, "id": "M01200", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|1", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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request the attention of the public to the following schems of the fourth class which they presume from the large proportion of valuable prizes will meet their approbation scheme prizes dollars dollars of is are tickets at dollars are subject to a deduction of per cent this class will commence drawing at concord on wednesday the st"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [534, 619], "b_span": [771, 856], "matched_words": 84, "similarity": 0.9882352941176471, "seeds": 18, "id": "M01201", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|2", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110801/0388.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at paris that a revolution has taken place in the ecclesiastical states and that the pope has abdicated his sovereignty on a pension three directors of the bank of vienna have it is said been arrested and are to be brought to trial on a charge of having lowered the public credit by stock jobbing the above papers contain nothing upon the subject of the negotiation at lisle worthy of remark they were brought to dover by a danish packet with passengers but no king's"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797111501/0162.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at paris that a revolution has taken place in the ecclesiastical states and that the pope has abdicated his sovereignty on a pension three directors of the bank of vienna have it is said been arrested and are to be brought to trial on a charge of having lowered the public credit by stock jobbing the above papers contain nothing upon the subject of the negotiations at lisle worthy of remark they were brought to dover by a danish packet with passengers but no king's"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [664, 750], "b_span": [1370, 1456], "matched_words": 83, "similarity": 0.9651162790697675, "seeds": 17, "id": "M01202", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|2", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797110801/0388.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "malmesbury at lisle is likely to be of longer duration than was at first expected his lordship has taken a house there for himself and his retinue the hamburgh mail due on sunday last arrived this day the intelligence from italy relates to the troubles in piedmont and to the distresses at venice paris remains in a state of perfect tranquillity notwithstanding which the military preparations are continued with much activity two more regiments of cavalry are arrived and the champ de mars is filled with"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797111501/0162.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "malmesbury at lisle is likely to be of longer duration than was at first expected his lordship has taken a house there for himself and his retinue the hamburg mail due on saturday last arrived this day the intelligence from italy relates to the troubles in piedmont and to the distresses at venice paris remains in a state of perfect tranquility notwithstanding which the military preparations are continued with much activity two more regiments of cavalry are arrived and the champ de mars is filled with"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [250, 537], "b_span": [879, 1166], "matched_words": 280, "similarity": 0.975609756097561, "seeds": 50, "id": "M01203", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-08|1|3", "date": "1797-11-08", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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that he would immediately proceed to the legislative body inform it of what had passed and make at length known to the nation those members of the directory who wished for peace this firm and intrepid conduct intimidated barras and rewbel the resolution was repealed and the treaty of peace was signed we are assured that the peace has been signed by the emperor it is added in support of this important intelligence that the courier who brought the account arrived two days ago and that the directory immediately assembled that three of the directory refused to ratify the treaty that the courier was on the point of setting off with the order for re-commencing hostilities when the two other directors required their protest to be inserted in the register of the deliberations this demand terrified the three others who caused the departure of the courier to be suspended it is not"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-11-09|1|2", "date": "1797-11-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley 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result from this determination he declared that the protest of his colleague as well as his own should be inserted in the minutes and that he would immediately proceed to the legislative body inform it of what had passed and make at length known to the nation those members of the directory who wished for peace this firm and intrpid conduct intimidated barras and rewbel the resolution was repealed and the treaty of peace was signed august we are assured that the peace has been signed by the emperor it is added in support of this important intelligence that the courier who brought the account arrived two days ago and that the directory immediately assembled that three of the directory refused to ratify the treaty that the courier was on the point of setting off with the order recommending hostilities when the two other directors desired their protest to be inserted in the register of the deliberations this demand terrified the three others who caused the departure of the courier to be 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the staff is removing from the town to the south preparatory to operations gen o'hara has nearly completed the new work all the magazines are treble bomb proof the works at land port are nearly completed a new fosse feet deep has been cut out of the solid rock from the inundation through the causeway to forbes's barrier and a bridge on a new model is prepared to be flung over the peter's sloop with the transports having on board the irish artillery for the west-indies failed the th of july the nimpf frigate of guns now called hamadryad captain stanhope had arrived to repair after an engagement with three french men of war off carthagena it was reported and believed at gibraltar that a bombardment of malaga was intended when the necessary reinforcements from england"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-25|1|2", "date": "1797-11-25", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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a spanish vessel had arrived there from barcelona bringing advice that admiral jervis's fire ships had succeeded in burning the spanish fleet in cadiz harbor consisting of ships the english fleet afterwards entered the port made themselves masters of the city after a short bombardment and had landed twenty two thousand men a great number of letters from leghorn received immediately after the arrival of the spanish vessel confirm this intelligence so infinitely prejudicial to spain and the consequences of which is impossible to calculate"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [944, 1021], "b_span": [1460, 1536], "matched_words": 74, "similarity": 0.9673202614379085, "seeds": 12, "id": "M01223", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-11-09|1|3", "date": "1797-11-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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falmouth and the lizard they should have had more authentic information on that subject on the th or the d sept than at london on the th of"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-22|1|2", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797112201/0170.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the shore off the lizard who informed that peace was concluded and that they had read it in the papers the day before same day capt newell saw a government lugger board a ship of war then standing to the westward the ship immediately after put about and flood in for the land captain newell supposes the lugger to have been dispatched for the purpose of communicating the above intelligence to the british cruisers the above report deserves no credit and is in all probability a mere repetition of the london fabrication the conclusion of peace between france and england was announced in a london print of august the same report might have reached falmouth on the st september but it is not likely that in the vicinity of falmouth and the lizard they should have had more authentic information on that subject on the st or the d september than at london on the th of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [952, 1021], "b_span": [633, 702], "matched_words": 68, "similarity": 0.9855072463768116, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01225", "a": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-11-09|1|3", "date": "1797-11-09", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-11-09/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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drawing to a close whether a permanent peace which humanity wishes and philosophy prescribes will take place is a problem of difficult solution it is rather to be presumed that while a remnant of monarchy or the monarchical principle exists among mankind the miserable system of blood and warfare will prevail in an exact ratio to the continuance of that absurd scheme of governing"}, "profiles": ["broad"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [582, 894], "b_span": [1720, 2030], "matched_words": 301, "similarity": 0.9678456591639871, "seeds": 58, "id": "M01226", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-10|1|3", "date": "1797-11-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "following article from the times of sept we believe to deserve notice because the editor of that paper appears to have authority for what he publishes our readers will have observed that hitherto we have been silent on the subject of the pending negotiation because we did not consider ourselves authorized to announce any facts on which the public could rely we now think we can state the following circumstances respecting the early stage of the negotiation without running the risk of compromising ourselves they are the propositions made by m lelourneur in his contre projet delivered to lord malmesbury as the basis upon which france would consent to a peace with great britain for herself and her allies spain and holland france demanded the restitution of all the places taken from her the reformation of the ships taken and the value of those destroyed at toulon the abandonment of the use of the title of king of france an alteration of the navigation act in the course of conversation m lelourneur made some observations respecting the independence of ireland which france wished to guarantee for spain france demanded the restitution of whatever might be conquered from her during the war together with the restoration of gibraltar for holland france demanded the restitution of ceylon the cape of good hope and all other conquests made from her the restitution of all ships of war and compensation for all ships and merchandise stopped and brought into port under the proclamation of his majesty it is necessary to be understood that by treaties now existing with spain and holland france is bound not to leave any place belonging to either in the hands of the english and that the directory have very recently made declarations to those powers of their steadfast intention not to do any thing by any peace contrary to the constitution"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|3", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0397.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "following article from the times of sept we believe to deserve notice because the editor of that paper appears to have authority for what he publishes our readers will have observed that hitherto we have been silent on the subject of the pending negotiation because we did not consider ourselves authorized to announce any facts on which the public can rely we now think we may state the following circumstances respecting the early stage of the negotiation without running the risk of compromising ourselves they are the propositions made by m letourneur in his contre-project delivered to lord malmesbury as the basis upon which france would consent to a peace with great-britain for herself and her allies spain and holland france demanded the restitution of all the places taken from her the restoration of the ships taken and the value of those destroyed at toulon the abandonment of the use of the title of king of france an alteration of the navigation act in the course of conversation m letourneur made some observations respecting the independence of ireland which france wished to guarantee for spain france demanded the restitution of whatever might be conquered from her during the war together with the restoration of gibraltar for holland france demanded the restitution of ceylon the cape of good hope and all other conquests made from her the restitution of all ships of war and compensation for all ships and merchandise stopped and brought into port under the proclamation of his majesty it is necessary to be understood that by treaties now existing with spain and holland france is bound not to leave any place belonging to either in the hands of the british and that the directory have very recently made declarations to those powers of the steadfast intention not to do any thing by any peace contrary to the constitution"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1727, 2209], "b_span": [85, 566], "matched_words": 477, "similarity": 0.9906542056074766, "seeds": 100, "id": "M01227", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-10|1|3", "date": "1797-11-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "following letter we received this morning edinburgh sept i have this morning received a letter from a gentleman who lives at tranent and on whose veracity i can rely giving an account of a dreadful massacre committed by some english cavalry upon the unarmed inhabitants of that village the following is an extract tranent august i would have wrote you last night but i waited till this morning in order to obtain fuller information of the mournful tale of which you wish to know the particulars we distinctly heard the firing of the cavalry with their pistols which was uninterruptedly for at least twenty minutes there has been a dreadful business going on here and the military have behaved with a cruelty the most shocking only three men and two women were killed in the town the rest ran off and were hunted in various directions into the fields and single men were shot at the distance of a mile from the town several suffered at the village of waiminow and near mr dodd's house being almost two miles to the eastward of tranent one young man was pursued by two of the cavalry he ran through a field of corn and was wounded by one of them and fell he rose but was soon shot dead by the other i have heard of people having been found dead in the fields last night and this morning and a great many more are yet expected to be found in the corn fields one man had heard that his wife was at tranent he went to fetch her out but was shot in making the attempt in short it is almost impossible to relate the cruelties which have been perpetrated a poor highlander and his wife travelling from the north to assist at the harvest were met on the road by some of the cavalry who had by this time received orders to scour the country the poor man was instantly cut down by their sabres and his wife in attempting to support her dying husband got with an inhuman stroke one of her arms cut off the man is since dead one resolute fellow who flew for shelter to his house-top continued to assail his opponents with stones and after an arm was shot away perished in defending himself with the other declaring that he was determined to die in the cause of liberty until after having withstood at least fifteen shot one or two of which took effect he was brought down and when in the act of falling one of these humane defenders of their country at one stroke severed his head from his body several of the people after they were killed were plundered of what property they had at the time i shall make further enquiry to-morrow the cinque port cavalry commanded by lord hawkesbury had a principle"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-02|1|3", "date": "1797-12-02", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-02/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797120201/0183.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "following letter we received this morning edinburgh september i have this morning received a letter from a gentleman who lives at tranent and on whose veracity i can rely giving an account of a dreadful massacre committed by some english cavalry upon the unarmed inhabitants of that village the following is an extract tranent august i would have wrote you last night but i waited till this morning in order to obtain fuller information of this mournful tale of which you wish to know the particulars we distinctly heard the firing of the cavalry with their pistols which was uninterrupted for at least twenty minutes there has been a dreadful business going on here and the military have behaved with a cruelty the most shocking only three men and two women were killed in the town the rest ran off and were hunted in various directions into the fields and single men were shot at the distance of a mile from the town several suffered at the village of wacminow and near mr dodd's house being almost two miles to the eastward of tranent one young man was pursued by two of the cavalry he ran through a field of corn and was wounded by one of them and fell he rose but was soon shot by the other i have heard of people having been found dead in the fields last night and this morning and a great many more are yet expected to be found in the corn fields one man had heard that his wife was at tranent he went to fetch her out but was shot in making the attempt in short it is almost impossible to relate the cruelties which have been perpetrated a poor highlander and his wife travelling from the north to assist at the harvest were met on the road by some of the cavalry who had by this time received orders to scour the country the poor man was instantly cut down by their sabres and his wife in attempting to support her dying husband got with an inhuman stroke one of her arms cut off the man is since dead one resolute fellow who flew for shelter to his house-top continued to assail his opponents with stones and after an arm was shot away perished in defending himself with the other declaring that he was determined to die in the cause of liberty until after having withstood at least fifteen shot one or two of which took effect he was brought down and when in the act of falling one of these humane defenders of their country at one stroke severed his head from his body several of the people after they were killed were plundered of what property they had at the time i shall make further enquiry to-morrow the cinque port cavalry commanded by lord hawkesbury had a principle"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1412, 1508], "b_span": [97, 234], "matched_words": 94, "similarity": 0.8068669527896996, "seeds": 19, "id": "M01228", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-10|1|3", "date": "1797-11-10", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-10/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111001/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "letters and papers which we have received this morning from edinburgh and other parts of scotland give the most distressing accounts of the situation of that country produced by the attempts made to put in execution the militia act at dumfries at moffatt and various other places the same discontent prevails in the county of which the duke of hamilton is the lord lieutenant his grace has deemed it prudent not to put the act in force the parish of monkland and some other parishes have assembled and voted him thanks for adopting this prudent line"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-13|1|2", "date": "1797-12-13", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797121301/0194.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "letters and papers which we have received this morning from edinburgh and other parts of scotland give the most distressing accounts of the situation of that country produced by the attempts made to put in execution the militia act at tranent a small town about miles from edinburgh it appears from the accounts published in a scotch newspaper that the cavalry charged the people in the streets who were assembled to oppose the act and that a horrid carnage consequently ensued at dumfries and moffatt and various other places the same discontent prevails in the county of which the duke of hamilton is lord lieutenant his grace has deemed it prudent not to put the act in force the parish of monkland and some other parishes have assembled and voted him thanks for adopting this prudent line"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [6, 331], "b_span": [1082, 1405], "matched_words": 310, "similarity": 0.9567901234567902, "seeds": 55, "id": "M01229", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-13|1|3", "date": "1797-11-13", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-13/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111301/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "turks island we can from the best authority inform the public that salt can be purchased at turks island lower at present than has ever been remembered since our division with great-britain the french privateers have interrupted almost every vessel bound there from the windward islands which has reduced the inhabitants to the greatest scarcity both of money and provisions a more favorable salt season has never been remembered than the present which added to the large quantities of last year's crop kept up by speculator's for a high market has occasioned this rapid fall in the price on the th of august last the ship edward of providence r i owned by edward diller merchant there and commanded by john pattis arrived with about bushels of corn a dozen barrels of flour and or barrels of beef and pork he carried no cash and was obliged to sell as much corn at shillings per bushel as would pay his tonnage duty and fees the remainder he put up at vendue payable in salt at the nominal market price which was eighteen pence his corn brought thirty shillings per bushel his flour beef and pork in proportion so with that trifling adventure he loaded his own ship and left a surplus of salt behind sufficient to load two more such vessels which he will send for on his arrival had he carried cash he might have purchased his cargo at five pence per bushel there are four measurers appointed in the island and the bushel tub measuring wine quarts is stamped by an inspector so that the usual deficiency on salt cargoes is not much to be apprehended there is also a new regulation in the boating which enabled captain pattis to load his ship in four hours americans are treated with the utmost kindness and attention the island of grand key has been lately fortified since which the inhabitants have been principally governed by"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|3", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0397.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "turks island we can from the best authority inform the public that salt can be purchased at turks-island lower at present than has ever been remembered since our disunion with great-britain the french privateers have interrupted almost every vessel bound there from the windward-islands which has reduced the inhabitants to the greatest scarcity both of money and provisions a more favorable salt season has never been remembered than the present if you added to the large quantities of last year's crops kept by speculators for a high market has occasioned this rapid fall in the price on the th of aug last the ship edward of providence r i owned by edward dister merchant there and commanded by john pattis arrived with about bushels of corn a dozen barrels of flour and or barrels of beef and pork he carried no cash and was obliged to sell as much corn at shillings per bushel as would pay his tonnage duty and fees the remainder he put up at vendue payable in salt at the nominal market price which was eighteen pence his corn brought thirty shillings per bushel his flour beef and pork in proportion so with that trifling adventure he loaded his own ship and left a surplus of salt behind sufficient to load two other such vessels which he will send for on his arrival had he carried cash he might have purchased his cargo at five pence per bushel there are sworn measurers appointed in the island and the bushel tub measures wine quarts is stamped by an inspector so that the usual deficiency on salt cargoes is not much to be apprehended there is also a new regulation in the boating which enabled capt pattis to load his ship in four hours americans are treated with the utmost kindness and attention the island of grand key has been lately fortified since which the inhabitants have been principally governed by"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1913, 2207], "b_span": [733, 1025], "matched_words": 276, 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power against which sad experience has taught us if we continue to make war inevitable utter ruin to this country must be the result year after year has mr pitt carried on this cruel conflict in which some of the best blood of europe has unhappily been shed though at the commencement of each campaign he has invariably found himself in a worse situation than that which preceded it and yet what is our situation what are our resources how are we to carry on our schemes of warfare against a victorious nation whose energy in arms does not seem to be affected by its domestic disorders a debt insupportable in any country an exhausted treasury taxes in productive manufactures decaying but why should we attempt to portray the wretched situation of this once flourishing country ere long it will be presented by mr pitt himself in colours sufficiently striking for he will soon have to lay before the public a sketch at least of the expenses that must necessarily be incurred by the continuance of the war and a list of the new taxes which he may deem it necessary to impose on the suffering inhabitants of this country for the purpose of opposing"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-06|1|3", "date": "1797-12-06", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797120601/0187.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "was in consequence of an intimation from the french plenipotentiaries that lord malmesbury has thus quitted lille without having accomplished the object of his mission whether this be the cause or not and whatever might have been the object of lord malmesbury's second journey to france no event that has taken place during the eventful period of the last three years has tended so much to depress the spirits of the people of every class so much as the return of our noble negotiator without having made peace with a power against which sad experience has taught us if we continue to make war inevitable utter ruin to this country must be the result year after year has mr pitt carried on this cruel conflict in which some of the best blood has unhappily been shed though at the commencement of each campaign he invariably found himself in a worse situation than in that which preceded it and yet what is our situation what are our resources how are we to carry on our schemes of warfare against a victorious nation whose energy in arms does not seem to be affected by its domestic discords a debt insupportable in any country an exhausted treasury taxes unproductive manufactures decaying but why should we attempt to portray the wretched situation of this once flourishing country ere long it will be presented by mr pitt himself in colours sufficiently striking for he will soon have to lay before the public a sketch at least of the expences that 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baron de carondelet to a gentleman in office there acquainting him of his having received by the last courier from the havana orders from his court to put into full execution the treaty between spain and the united states of america for which purpose he had forwarded dispatches to the commandants of the forts on the mississippi to deliver up the posts and evacuate the fortifications with all convenient dispatch that by the same courier governor gayoso's appointment of the governor-generalship in the floridas and louisiana had arrived and that previous to his closing that letter governor gayoso had reached the capital and was about to enter on the duties of his office baron de carondelet was to leave new orleans on the th of september for quito on the spanish main on board of a frigate which was then fitting"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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generalship in the floridas and louisiana had arrived and that previous to his closing that letter gov gayoso had reached the capital and was about to enter on the duties of his office baron de carondelet was to leave n orleans on the th of sept for quito on the spanish main on board of a frigate which was then fitting"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [646, 762], "b_span": [49, 180], "matched_words": 106, "similarity": 0.8582995951417004, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01236", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|1", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0391.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "on one ground you say that the treaty stipulated merely that the spanish garrisons should be withdrawn not that fortifications which might one day be prejudicial to the king's subjects should be delivered up and hence you infer that the necessity urged by the two governors of delaying to withdraw the garrisons until this question is decided between the two governors is not a pretence but a substantial reason here i must observe that the governors had already demolished the post at the chickasaw bluff and it appears in the foregoing recital that they were going to demolish the post at the walnut hills and the reason assigned is that the treaties with the indians required"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-11-20|1|1", "date": "1797-11-20", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-11-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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territory of the u s gov gayoso speaks of the boundary line as being near clarkeville a place many miles below the natchez and he also knew the result of mr ellicott's astronomical observations on the spot which ascertained the natchez to be about thirty-nine miles north of the south boundary of the u s there being then not a shadow of doubt with respect to the position of these posts that they are all within the territory of the u s there was no necessity previously to run and mark the boundary line which besides if set about in good earnest it would take at least a year to accomplish through a wilderness of many hundred miles in extent and therefore it never could have been contemplated as necessary to precede the evacuation of the posts which was to be effected in six months or sooner if possible yet months have elapsed and you still keep possession but you suggest that it is at least doubtful whether by the treaty it was intended to leave the fortifications standing when the garrisons should be withdrawn you say it is not to be presumed that it could ever have been the intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which besides that they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the effect of political vicissitudes be one day prejudicial to his subjects i feel much reluctance to attempt the refutation of a construction so obviously erroneous it is probably the first time that to withdraw or retire from a place has been imagined to intend its destruction if at the formation of the treaty the demolition of the posts had been intended it would assuredly have been expressed but doubtless the idea never occurred until it was found convenient to make it a pretence for holding the posts the phrases to withdraw a garrison to evacuate a post or country have as determinate a meaning as any in the english language and their meaning is ascertained by frequent use in treaties and to destroy a country or a fortified place from which it was stipulated to withdraw an army or a garrison would be such an act of barbarism as ought never to take place among civilized nations one of the latest treaties made by the u s that with g britain has the same phrase his majesty will withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines assigned by the treaty of peace to the u s this evacuation shall take place on or before the first day of june and these expressions are used in the same treaty as equivalent to the delivery of the said posts the british treaty was in this manner accordingly carried into effect the british troops were withdrawn and the works left standing the british officers were even careful not to explode the works to accidental destruction for as the american troops did not reach the posts by the first of june small british guards were left to preserve the works from injury until the american troops arrived by the treaty concluded at versailles the d of sept between great britain and spain it was agreed that the king of g britain should cause e florida to be evacuated in three months after the ratification of that treaty or sooner if it could be done the evacuation took place but no demolition of fortifications in the preliminary articles of peace between england france and spain signed the d of nov it was stipulated that as soon as possible after the ratification of these preliminaries france should evacuate cleves wesel and guelders and generally all the countries belonging to the king of prussia were those places demolished or the country laid waste when the troops withdrew or were there any subsequent negotiations to remove any doubts on the subject but i have dwelt too long on a point that really required no elucidation on this as well as on another occasion you upbraid me with shewing to the british minister a degree of candor and confidence which you insinuate he does not deserve and which you seem to think"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-11-20|1|1", 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boundaries between the territories of the united states and spain thus proceeds and it is agreed that if there should be any troops garrisons or settlements of either party in the territory of the other according to the abovementioned boundaries they shall be withdrawn from the said territories within the term of six months after the ratification of this treaty or sooner if it be possible and that they shall be permitted to take with them all the goods and effects which they possess but to justify your retention of the posts you say that the demarcation of the boundary line should precede the withdrawing of the garrisons yet you suppose it probable and his catholic majesty's governors well know that the chickasaw bluff the walnut hills and the natchez are within the territory of the united states governor gayoso speaks of the boundary line as being near clarksville a place many miles below the natchez and he also knew the result of mr ellicott's astronomical observations on the spot which ascertained the natchez to be about thirty nine miles north of the south boundary of the united states there being then not a shadow of doubt with respect to the position of these posts that they are all within the territory of the united states there was contemplated as necessary to precede evacuation of the posts which was to be effected in six months or sooner if possible yet fifteen months have elapsed and you still keep the garrisons but you say that it is doubtful whether the garrisons were intended to leave the fortifications standing when the garrisons should be drawn you say it is not to be supposed that it could ever have been intention of his catholic majesty to deliver up fortifications which though they have cost him considerable sums of money may by the political vicissitudes become a present to his subjects i feel much reluctance to attempt the refutation of a position so obviously erroneous but probably the first time that to draw or retire from a place has been imagined to intend its destruction the posts had been intended it is assuredly have been expressed doubtless the idea never occurred it was found convenient to make it a pretence for holding the posts the word to withdraw a garrison to evacuate a post or country have as determined meaning as any in the english language and their meaning is ascertained by frequent use in treaties and to evacuate a country or a fortified place from the army or a garrison would be an act of barbarism as ought never to be placed among civilized nations the latest treaty made by the united states that with great britain required the british to evacuate and draw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundaries assigned by the treaty of paris to the united states this evacuation was to take place on or before the first of june all these expressions are used in the same treaty as equivalent to the delivery of the said posts the british treaty was in this manner effectually carried into effect the troops were withdrawn and the posts left standing the british officers were even careful not to expose the works to accidental destruction for as the british troops did not reach the posts until the first of june small british garrisons were left to preserve the works for the jury until the american troops arrived by the treaty concluded at versailles the d of september between great britain it was agreed that the king of great britain should evacuate east florida to be evacuated months after the ratification of that treaty sooner if it could be done the evacuation took place but no demolition of fortifications in the preliminary articles of the treaty between england france spain signed the d of november it was stipulated that as soon as possible after the ratification of these preliminary articles france should evacuate cleves and guelders and generally all countries belonging to the king of spain were those places demolished or the country laid waste when the troops were drawn or were there any substantial negotiation to remove any doubt on the subject but i have dwelt too long on a point that required no elucidation on this as well as on another question you have that fit to be raised with shewing to the british ministry a degree of candor and confidence that you insinuate he does not deserve which you seem to think"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1935, 2479], "b_span": [52, 523], "matched_words": 392, "similarity": 0.7724137931034483, "seeds": 22, "id": "M01238", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-15|1|1", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797111501/0391.pdf", "source": 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objections to the plan the two mentioned by him viz that it could not be executed without employing the indians and without violating the rights of the u s would be sufficient to induce the british government to reject it this proves sir that mr linton's declarations on this point were not vague and unauthenticated as you pronounce them but in strict conformity with truth as to gen clarke of georgia the british minister declared he had never heard of him and the extract of the letter from mr jackson the district attorney of georgia respecting gen clarke and any expedition forming there in behalf of the english against the floridas will incline every candid inquirer at least to doubt whether such a project has ever been proposed to him we shall afterwards see that mr blount's plot does not appear to have any connection with an expedition under gen clarke thus you see sir that i have not blindly placed a confidence in the british minister for aught that has yet appeared he was entitled to the credit he has received i return to your letter you mention your communication to the baron de carondelet respecting the intended expedition from canada from that moment you say imperious necessity and the great principle of self-defence made his catholic majesty's officers turn their thoughts to objects of a more urgent nature than running the boundary line and here you introduce mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy as evincing how far their conduct in this respect was necessary it is wonderful sir that you should attempt to make it be believed that mr blount's letter and the late detected conspiracy had any connection with the expedition which you suggested was preparing on the lakes of canada against upper louisiana all that is yet discovered of mr blount's project or conspiracy proves that it was to have been formed in one of the states south of the river ohio and that it was designed against the floridas and perhaps lower louisiana i therefore feel myself for 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for an expedition a the floridas but that he told the that he had no power to au it and besides that there were other objections to the plan two great weight one that the indians to be employed the other that could violate the neutral rights of the states the british minister shown me an original letter lord gr nville dated the th of april in which he informs the min that if there were no other ob to the plan the two mentioned viz that it could not be ex-ecut without employing the indians and not violating the rights of the u states would be sufficient to in the british government to reject it proves that mr linton's declara on this point were not vague or authentic as you pronounce them in strict conformity with truth to general clark of georgia the bri minister declared he had never even him and the extract of the letter jackson the district attorney of respecting general clark and any against the floridas will incline ev and inquirer at least to doubt whether project has even been proposed to him all afterwards see that mr blount's does not appear to have any connection expedition under general clark you see sir that i have not blindly confidence in the british minister that has yet appeared he was enti the credit he has received turn to your letter you mention communications to the baron de respecting the intended from canada from that you say imperious necessity the great principle of self-defence the catholic majesty's officers their thoughts to objects of a more nature than running the boun and here you introduced blount's letter and the late de conspiracy as evincing how far conduct in this respect was neces it was wonderful sir that you attempt to make it believed that blount's letter and the late detected had any connection with the which you suggested was pre on the lakes of canada against louisiana all that is yet dis of mr blount's project or con proves that it was to have been in one of the states south of the ohio and that it was destined a the 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force that the english had in the east-indies they seemed to be under some apprehension for their sister colony of bourbon the generality of the people appeared to be quite aristocratical in their principles and talked very loud against the present government of france without the least reserve as to time or place they pay great respect to the american flag and the government in its dealings behaved very honorably paper money was depreciated to a very low ebb but there appeared to be plenty of coin in circulation they had heard from europe that the governments of france and america laboured under some misunderstanding which they seemed much to regret there was news circulating and generally credited that the english in india were at war with some of the country powers and likewise that there had been an engagement between two english seventy-fours and four french frigates in the straits of malacca but it was not decisive a number of french vessels were daily arriving from batavia with rice a danish company ship had arrived from canton dismasted and a danish ship was standing trial supposed to be english property the english had destroyed the french settlement at madagascar and taken the garrison prisoners which had arrived at the isle of france in an english cartel for exchange capt coffin left in the isle of france two brigs from salem and one bark all bound to bengal the ships bellarius and ocean had failed about ten days for the same place came passenger in the canton capt john boit of boston wilmington n c oct a gentleman who arrived in town on sunday last from new-providence via the havannah has favored the printer with the following information on the authenticity of which he places the greatest confidence that on the th august the day he left pensacola he saw an official letter from baron de carondelet to a gentleman in office there acquainting him of his having received by the last courier from the havannah orders from his court to put into full execution the treaty between spain and the united states of america for which purpose he had forwarded dispatches to the commandants of the forts on the mississippi to deliver up the posts and evacuate the fortifications with all convenient dispatch that by the same courier governor gayoso's appointment to the governor generalship in the floridas and louisiana had arrived and that previous to his closing that letter governor gayoso had reached the capital and was about to enter on the duties of his office baron de carondelet was to leave new orleans on the th of september for quito on the spanish main on board of a frigate which was then fitting for his reception a spanish"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the authenticity of which he places the greatest confidence that on the th of august the day he left pensacola he saw an official letter from baron de carondelet to a gentleman in office there acquainting him of his having received by the last courier from the havannah orders from his court to put into full execution the treaty between spain and the united states of america for which purpose he had forwarded dispatches to the commanders of the forts on the mississippi to deliver up the posts and evacuate the fortifications with all convenient dispatch that by the same courier gov gayoso's appointment to the governor generalship in the floridas and louisiana had arrived and that previous to his closing that letter gov gayoso had reached the capital and was about to enter on the duties of his office baron de carondelet was to leave n orleans on the th of sept for quito on the spanish main on board of a frigate which was then fitting for his reception a spanish"}, "profiles": ["broad", 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to distract europe and foment troubles on the continent the emperor thwarts the will of his states and that of his court he resists the peace of which his subjects are in need and confines himself exclusively to preparations for war his armaments apprise us of what we ourselves have to do if the generous loyalty which urged us to subscribe to the articles of leoben is abused if speaking constantly of peace nothing is breathed but war the french nation which merely speaks of war because it is desirous of peace must put itself in a condition to support its dignity and the valor of its armies must recover its advantages it is more especially essential fully to convince the enemy that there is no longer in france but one and a sole party but one sentiment but one interest that of a sovereign nation which is sensible of its greatness and which wishes to preserve its liberty the executive directory is swayed by no other motives than these the constitutional law authorizes us to provide for the safety of the state it is pleased to make you the judges of the reasons which determine it to employ this sacred right your enemies who are not able to resist your courage have endeavored to subdue you by stratagem they deceived you by the show of negotiation if they had been sincerely desirous of what they appeared to seek peace would be now concluded the executive directory hastened to stop the progress of the french armies it gave itself up with sincerity to the hope of the good understanding which dazzled its sight and enjoyed in idea the means it was about to possess of causing liberty to be beloved and of procuring for france as great a proportion of happiness in peace as she had acquired of glory in war but after having obtained this interruption in the progress of our victories what did our enemies wish to gain time to foment among you intestine divisions and to take the advantage of what would result from them to cause frenchmen to massacre each other until they should be enabled to fall on the remnant of population to divide among themselves the shreds of a country thus divided and to blot out france from the list of nations republican good faith could not have suspected this snare of the policy of courts you must however have seen citizens whether this plan was not faithfully followed up the majority of your public functionaries composed the auxiliary army which fought in the bosom of france for your most cruel enemies they had called hither swarms of those barbarous emigrants who are bent on tearing in pieces the vitals of their country and of those fanatical priests who are skilled in kindling up every where the murderous zeal of homicidal piety the national tribute no longer resounded unless with the voices of the deputies of austria and england calumniating your defenders insulting your generals employing themselves in paralyzing your government and reducing it gradually to the absolute nullity which corresponded to well with their royal instructions and with the views of their constituents at length the veil is torn off the partisans of the foreign courts are no longer the organs of the national will the helm of the republic is in the hands of the republicans and the people of france have french representatives citizens in these circumstances what course ought your magistrates to pursue animated by a sincere desire to give to france a peace worthy of her that is to say a solid peace agreeable to her interests and conformable to her engagements how are they at this time to repulse the pretensions and elude the frauds of the cabinet of london how are they to put an end to the indecisions of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria herself from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode since your enemies in feigning to negotiate hold themselves in a hostile state their example forces you again to take up arms and absolves you by anticipation from all the calamities which in their territories are about to be the inevitable result of the rupture of the truce ah if war be a scourge which cannot be too much detested but the horror of which fall on those by whom it was provoked if humanity revolts against those who shed blood who plunder cities and lay provinces waste without a necessity if the author of an iniquitous war be responsible for the death of the men who are killed for the destruction of the cottages which are burned for the loss of commerce which ensues for the provisions which are destroyed for the violences disorders and crimes which are committed with arms in the hand if those who feed on the horrors of war entered into without pretext and without reason are ferocious monsters unworthy of the name of men nor merely enemies of the countries which they cause to be laid waste but of the whole human race you who have for six years been forced to fight for your independence you on whom certain perfidious men endeavored to bestow the fatal gift of a civil war you who conquerors and triumphant laid down your arms to propose and hear the words of peace you will not have to dread the imprecations the legitimate anathemas which nature and justice address to your enemies in returning against your will to the bloody contest from which you had drawn yourselves you may protest in the face of the whole world what your intentions have been and call on heaven to witness the justice of the cause you are about to defend thus then citizens again take up your arms without ceasing to be desirous of peace your government perseveres in offering it on the conditions which appear to it to be meet and compatible perhaps the war-like appearance you are about to resume will suffice to obtain a consent to these conditions but if they should be refused you will maintain the honor and the laws of the republic it is in the name of the nation it is to fulfil its will to secure its rights and to preserve its glory that the executive power recalls to their 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foment among you intestine divisions and to take the advantage of what would result from them to cause frenchmen to massacre each other until they should be enabled to fall on the remnant of the population to divide among themselves the threads of a country thus divided and to blot out france from the list of nations republican good faith could not have suspected this snare of the policy of courts you must however have seen citizens whether this plan was not faithfully followed up the majority of your public functionaries composed the auxiliary army which fought in the bosom of france for your most cruel enemies they had called hither swarms of those barbarous emigrants who are bent on tearing in pieces the vitals of their country and of those fanatical priests who are skilled in kindling up every where the murderous zeal of homicidal piety the national tribune no longer resounded unless with the voices of the deputies of austria and england calumniating your defenders insulting your 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appointment of gen hoche to the post of generalissimo of the two armies of the rhine is positive an order to this effect has been issued from the war department if contrary to all appearance say the letters from milan hostilities with the emperor should be renewed the piedmontese troops will join the french army this point is decided it is even reported that they will form a body of men venice will furnish the cisalpine republic and the army of kellerman amounting to a reinforcement of for the army of italy which will be under the command of massena bernadotte c bid there is the strongest reason to believe that the courier dispatched by the directory on the night of the d and d complimentary day sept and carried to buonaparte the orders to renew hostilities with the emperor at the very moment when the courier set off a courier arrived from lille with the intelligence that lord malmesbury had quitted that city and had set out for london his departure which so soon succeeded the arrival 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army this point is decided it is even reported that they will form a body of men venice will furnish the cisalpine republic and the army of kellerman amounting to a reinforcement of for the army of italy which will be under the command of massena bernadotte c ibid letters from brussels state that camille jordan and two others had passed thro anvers it was discovered too late who they were and that they intended to quit the french territory there is the strongest reason to believe that the courier dispatched by the directory on the night of the d and d complementary day sept and carried to buonaparte the orders to renew hostilities with the emperor at the very moment when the courier set off a courier arrived from lisle with the intelligence that lord malmesbury had quitted that city and had set out for london his departure which so soon succeeded the arrival of treillard and bonnier was the result of the first conversation with the new negotiators have you power said treillard to lord 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sensible of its greatness and which wishes to preserve its liberty the executive directory is swayed by no other motives than these the constitutional law authorizes us to provide for the safety of the state it is pleased to make you the judges of the reasons which determine it to employ this sacred right your enemies who are not able to resist your courage have endeavored to subdue you by stratagem they deceived you by the show of negotiation if they had been sincerely desirous of what they appeared to seek peace would be now concluded the executive directory hastened to stop the progress of the french armies it gave itself up with sincerity to the hope of the good understanding which dazzled its sight and enjoyed in idea the means it was about to possess of causing liberty to be beloved and of procuring for france as great a proportion of happiness in peace as she had acquired of glory in war but after having obtained this interruption in the progress of our victories what did our 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defenders insulting your generals employing themselves in paralyzing your government and reducing it gradually to the absolute nullity which corresponded to well with their royal instructions and with the views of their constituents at length the veil is torn off the partisans of the foreign courts are no longer the organs of the national will the helm of the republic is in the hands of the republicans and the people of france have french representatives citizens in these circumstances what course ought your magistrates to pursue animated by a sincere desire to give to france a peace worthy of her that is to say a solid peace agreeable to her interests and conformable to her engagements how are they at this time to repulse the pretensions and elude the frauds of the cabinet of london how are they to put an end to the indecisions of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria herself from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode since your enemies in feigning to negotiate hold themselves in a hostile state their example forces you again to take up arms and absolves you by anticipation from all the calamities which in their territories are about to be the inevitable result of the rupture of the truce ah if war be a scourge which cannot be too much detested but the horror of which fall on those by whom it was provoked if humanity revolts against those who shed blood who plunder cities and lay provinces waste without a necessity if the author of an iniquitous war be responsible for the death of the men who are killed for the destruction of the cottages which are burned for the loss of commerce which ensues for the provisions which are destroyed for the violences disorders and crimes which are committed with arms in the hand if those who feed on the horrors of war entered into without pretext and without reason are ferocious monsters unworthy of the name of men nor merely enemies of the countries which they cause to be laid waste but of the whole human race you who have for six years been forced to fight for your independence you on whom certain perfidious men endeavored to bestow the fatal gift of a civil war you who conquerors and triumphant laid down your arms to propose and hear the words of peace you will not have to dread the imprecations the legitimate anathemas which nature and justice address to your enemies in returning against your will to the bloody contest from which you had drawn yourselves you may protest in the face of the whole world what your intentions have been and call on heaven to witness the justice of the cause you are about to defend thus then citizens again take up your arms without ceasing to be desirous of peace your government perseveres in offering it on the conditions which appear to it to be meet and compatible perhaps the war-like appearance you are about to resume will suffice to obtain a consent to these conditions but if they should be refused you will maintain the honor and the laws of the republic it is in the name of the nation it is to fulfil its will to secure its rights and to preserve its glory that the executive power recalls to their standards all the soldiers of the country who have withdrawn from them on any cause whatever the executive directory accordingly enjoins its commissioners stationed in the departments to cause to be executed without delay and without restriction the laws of frimaire and nivose of the fourth year together with the resolutions of ventose and the subsequent ones and to cause all the soldiers and requisitions whatever who are now at their homes to join by the th vendemiaire oct frenchmen it is necessary that at this epoch your armies should be complete that they should be ready to march and that their awful and terrible aspect should instantly command that glorious peace which for six months past ought to have been the fruit of their triumphs the executive directory resolves that the above proclamation shall be printed solemnly published and fixed up in all the communes of the republic by its commissioners stationed at the central departmental administrations and the war minister shall take all the necessary measures for its speedy execution of which he shall give an account every three days to the directory signed reveillere lep aux president legade secretary general paris sept the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the d the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of the five hundred at the thuilleries at midnight general le moine others say moulin appeared at the gate pont-tournant which leads into the garden of the thuilleries from the square of the revolution at the head of a considerable detachment and demanded admittance which was refused him by ramel commander of the guard of the legislative body but on the general's ordering two pieces of cannon to advance and the guard at the same time declaring against their commander the gate was opened and ramel arrested the general then proceeded to the manege where the members were deliberating and found there rovere bourdon de l'oise pichegru and willot and several others all of whom he immediately arrested pichegru and willot made some resistance but were immediately seized and disarmed it is even said that pichegru is grievously wounded at the same time barthelemy was arrested at the directory but caty not had contrived to make his escape before the execution of this blow the directory had taken care to have all the bridges the square of the revolution and the avenues leading to the thuilleries and the most considerable posts of the city occupied by strong detachments of troops with cannon in the mean while general angereau repaired in the barracks where the grenadiers of the legislative body were quartered and having assembled them asked them if they would follow him to which they all answered with one voice yes they then demanded to see their ci-devant commander ramel and degraded him by pulling off his epaulets and then marched to offer his services to the directory the walls were covered with different papers posted up by order of the directory copies of which you will find in the inclosed redacteur at seven the arrested deputies were conveyed in carriages to the temple it is presumed there are or troops at paris while all the issues from the city are completely blocked up by men distributed around at the distance of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112101/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "directory proclamation of the executive directory to the french nation to the end that the french armies may be complete and ready to march by the th vendemaire next o s the th fructidor sept imposed silence on the orators of london who were stationed in paris after that very memorable day the english ambassador pressed to explain himself in a positive manner as to the first object of his legation set off on return for england on her side austria suffers herself to be directed by the cabinet of st james's which labors incessantly to distract europe and foment troubles on the continent the emperor thwarting the wish of his states and that of his court he resists the peace of which his subjects are in need and confines himself exclusively to preparations for war his armaments apprise us of what we ourselves have to do if the generous loyalty which urged us to subscribe to the articles of leoben is abused if speaking constantly of peace nothing is breathed but war the french nation which merely speaks of war because it is desirous of peace must put itself in a condition to support its dignity and the valour of its armies must recover its advantages it is more especially essential fully to convince the enemy that there is no longer in france but one and a sole party but one sentiment but one interest that of a sovereign nation which is sensible of its greatness and which wishes to preserve its liberty the executive directory is swayed by no other motives than these the constitutional law authorizes us to provide for the safety of the state it is pleased to make you the judges of the reasons which determine it to employ this sacred right your enemies who are not able to resist your courage have endeavored to subdue you by stratagem they deceived you by the show of negotiation if they had been sincerely desirous of what they appeared to seek peace would be now concluded the executive directory hastened to stop the progress of the french armies it gave itself up with sincerity to the hopes of the good understanding which dazzled its sight and enjoyed in idea the means it was about to possess of causing liberty to be beloved and of procuring for france as great a proportion of happiness in peace as she had acquired glory in war but after having obtained this interruption in the progress of our victories what did our enemies wish to gain time to ferment among you intestine divisions and to take the advantage of what would result from them to cause frenchmen to massacre each other until they should be enabled to fall on the remnant of population to divide among themselves the threads of a country thus divided and to blot out france from the list of nations republican good faith could not have suspected this snare of the policy of courts you must however have seen citizens whether this plan was not faithfully followed up the majority of your public functionaries composed the auxiliary army which fought in the bosom of france for your most cruel enemies they had called hither swarms of those barbarous emigrants who are bent on tearing in pieces the vitals of their country of those fanatical priests who are skilled in kindling up every where the murderous zeal of homicidal pity the national tribune no longer resounded unless with the voices of the deputies of austria and england calumniating your defenders insulting your generals employing themselves in paralyzing your government and reducing it gradually to the absolute nullity which correspond so well with their royal instructions and with the views of their constituents at length the veil is torn off the partizans of the foreign courts are no longer the organs of the national will the helm of the republic is in the hands of the republicans and the people of france have french representatives citizens in these circumstances what course ought your magistrates to pursue animated by a sincere wish to give to france a peace worthy of her that is to say a solid peace agreeable to her interests and conformable to her engagements how are they at this time to repulse the pretensions and elude the frauds of the cabinet of london how are they to put an end to the indecisive tardiness of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria herself from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode since your enemies in feigning to negotiate hold themselves in an hostile state their example forces you again to take up arms and absolves you by anticipation from all the calamities which in their territories are about to be the inevitable result of the rupture of the truce ah if war be a scourge which cannot be too much detested but the horror of which fall on those by whom it was provoked if humanity revolts against those who shed blood who plunder cities and lay provinces waste without a necessity if the author of an iniquitous war be responsible for the death of the men who are buried for the loss of commerce which ensues for the provisions which are destroyed for the violences disorders and crimes which are committed with arms in the hand if those who feed on the horrors of war entered into without pretext and without reason are ferocious monsters unworthy of the name of men not merely enemies of the countries which they cause to be laid waste but of the whole human race you who have for six years been forced to fight for your independence you on whom certain perfidious men endeavored to bestow the fatal gift of a civil war you who conquerors and triumphant laid down your arms to propose and hear the words of peace you will not have to dread the imprecations the legitimate anathemas which nature and justice address to your enemies in returning against your will to the bloody contest from which you had drawn yourselves you may protest in the face of the whole world what your intentions have been and call on heaven to witness the justice of the cause you are about to defend thus then citizens again take up your arms without ceasing to be desirous of peace your government perseveres in offering it on the conditions which appeared to it to be meet and compatible perhaps the warlike appearance you are about to resume will suffice to obtain a consent to these conditions but if they should be refused you will maintain the honor and the laws of the republic it is in the name of the nation it is to fulfil its will to secure its rights and to preserve its glory that the executive power recalls to their standards all the soldiers of the country who have withdrawn from them on any cause whatever the executive directory accordingly enjoins its commissioners stationed in the departments to cause to be executed without delay and without restriction the laws of the frimaire and nivose of the fourth year together with the resolutions of the th ventose and the subsequent ones c to cause all the soldiers and citizens whatever who are now at their homes to join by the th vendemaire o s frenchmen it is necessary that at this epoch your armies should be complete that they should be ready to march and that their awful and terrible aspect should instantly command that glorious peace which for six months past ought to have been the fruit of their triumphs the executive directory resolves that the above proclamation shall be printed solemnly published and fixed up at all the communes of the republic by its commissioners stationed at the central departmental administrations and the war minister shall take all the necessary measures for its speedy execution of which he shall give an account every three days to the directory signed reveilliere lepaux president lecard sec gen paris sept the explosion has at last taken place the events of yesterday are of the greatest importance i am going to relate them in order as they happened during the night of the d the commission of inspectors with several members of both councils had assembled in the hall of the hundred at the tuilleries at midnight ger lemoine others say moulin appeared at the gate 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notorious that the english carry on three fourths of their trade by means of american vessels and as the dress the manners the language and the habits of the two nations are perfectly alike it is evident that it was difficult to distinguish therefore the directory acted justly and conformably to principles and to fact when they adopted the resolution which orders the capture of american vessels not conformable to the articles of the treaty of i move that the council declare that there is no room to deliberate on the proposition made by passetore in the sitting of the d messidor and that they repeal the decree naming a committee the members of which were passetore boissy d'anglas camille jourdan bailly and herman of the lower rhine decreed and the speech of riou ordered to be printed the council determined not to sit"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-16|1|2", "date": "1797-12-16", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the council declare that there is no room to deliberate on the proposition made by pastoret in the sitting of the d messidor and that they repeal the decree naming a committee the members of which were pastoret boissy d'anglas camille jourdan bailly and hermand of the lower rhine decreed and the speech of rion ordered to be printed the council determined not to sit"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3460, 3574], "b_span": [1301, 1413], "matched_words": 110, "similarity": 0.9734513274336283, "seeds": 24, "id": "M01257", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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their trade by means of american vessels and as the dress the manners the language and the habits of the two nations are perfectly alike it is evident that it was difficult to distinguish therefore the directory acted justly and conformably to principles and to fact when they adopted the resolution which orders the capture of american vessels not conformable to the articles of the treaty of i move that the council declare that there is no room to deliberate on the proposition made by passetore in the sitting of the d messidor and that they repeal the decree naming a committee the members of which were passetore boissy d'anglas camille jourdan bailly and herman of the lower rhine decreed and the speech of riou ordered to be printed the council determined not to sit"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|2", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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no room to deliberate on the proposition made by pastoret in the sitting of the d messidor and that they repeal the decree naming a committee the members of which were pastoret boissy d'anglas camille jourdan bailly and herman of the lower rhine the council determined not to sit"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3787, 3897], "b_span": [436, 545], "matched_words": 108, "similarity": 0.9863013698630136, "seeds": 21, "id": "M01259", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-15|1|2", "date": "1797-11-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111501/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "september many addresses of felicitation september an annuity is decreed to the widow of general marceau of l pons of verdun no one is ignorant of the influence which the criminal tribunals had on the last conspiracy i could cite a number of proofs of this if it was necessary but it is not notorious that every where the accomplices of the royal conspirators have been acquitted would it not be well to take measures to replace the presidents and attorneys general of these tribunals the constitution does not oppose it for it does not settle the duration of their functions i merely suggest these observations and move that the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797122001/0207.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "september many addresses of felicitation september an annuity is decreed to the widow of general marceau of l pons of verdun no one is ignorant of the influence which the criminal tribunals had on the last conspiracy i could cite a number of proofs of this if it was necessary but it is not notorious that every where the accomplices of the royal conspirators have been acquitted would it not be well to take measures to replace the presidents and attorney-generals of these tribunals the constitution does not oppose it for it does not settle the duration of their functions i merely suggest these observations and move that the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [883, 945], "b_span": [573, 635], "matched_words": 62, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 10, "id": "M01260", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-16|1|2", "date": "1797-11-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "flag of the united states a law of congress passed jan enacts that the flag of the united states be stripes alternate red and white that the union be stars white in a field blue it is said that the french have captured american vessels for want of conformity to the above description and many still sail under the thirteen striped flag"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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deserved their esteem honorable mention the republicans of chalons-sur-marne write as follows by crushing the seeds of royalism you have well deserved of the country c a member observed that an article of the law passed on the organization of the gendarmerie requires that each private shall be able to read and write correctly so rigorous a condition he observed would drive from their places a crowd of decided republicans whose families would be plunged into misery he moved that this subject be referred to the military committee agreed the subject of finances was taken up the report of a decree was adopted laying a tax on public carriages for the transportation of persons of one tenth part of the hire of such carriages when they travel at stated periods and on public carriages for the transportation of persons travelling occasionally as follows for a two wheeled carriage with two seats livres per annum for a two wheeled carriage with four seats for a four wheeled carriage with four seats for a four wheeled carriage with six seats and above a turnpike toll for the receipt of monies to be exclusively appropriated to the repair of the highways was also agreed to the receipts of each turnpike are to be rented out to the highest bidder the plan is to be put in operation on the portions of highways nearest paris and thence to be extended gradually to the frontiers in every direction the establishment of a national lottery was also decreed in the name of the committee of inspectors cales presented a report on a dress for the representatives of the people it should be remarked that the former project of decree on the subject of a costume for the legislature never became a law it was to consist in a blue coat red lining the collar and facings embroidered in gold golden button stamped with a balance and level a tricolor sash a deep red silk cloak for the elders and one rose color for the five hundred which should fall four inches lower than the coat round hat with a feather golden loop chasal conceived this costume resembled too much the military dress he offered another plan which he conceived harmonized better with that of the directory upon the motion of coupe the council ordered the printing of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|2", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797122001/0204.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the central administration of precy de done congratulates the councils that they had crushed the royalist conspirators you have declared says their address that the french armies have deserved well of their country well the whole people declare that you have well deserved their esteem honorable mention the republicans of chalons-sur-marne write as follows by crushing the seeds of royalism you have deserved well of the country c a member observed that an article of the law passed on the organization of the gendarmerie requires that each private shall be able to read and write correctly so rigorous a condition he observed would drive from their places a crowd of decided republicans whose families would be plunged into misery he moved that this subject be referred to the military committee agreed the subject of finances was taken up the report of a decree was adopted laying a tax on public carriages for the transportation of persons of one tenth part of the hire of such carriages when they travel at stated periods and on public carriages for the transportation of persons travelling as follows for a two wheeled carriage with two seats livres per annum for a two wheeled carriage with four seats for a four wheeled carriage with four seats for a four wheeled carriage with six seats and above a turnpike toll for the receipt of monies to be exclusively appropriated to the repair of highways was also agreed to the receipts of each turnpike are to be rented out to the highest bidder the plan is to be put in operation on the portions of highways nearest paris and thence to extend gradually to the frontiers in every direction the establishment of a national lottery was also decreed in the name of the committee of inspectors cales presented a report on a dress for the representatives of the people it should be remarked that the former project of decree on the subject of costume for the legislature never became a law it was to consist in a blue coat red lining the collar and facings embroidered in gold golden button stamped with a balance and level a tricolored sash a deep red silk cloak for the elders and one rose color for the five hundred which should fall four inches lower than the coat round hat with a feather golden loop chasal conceived this costume resembled too much the military dress he offered another plan which he conceived harmonized better with that of the directory upon the motion of coupe the council ordered the printing of the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [529, 1381], "b_span": [1415, 2271], "matched_words": 808, "similarity": 0.9461358313817331, "seeds": 131, "id": "M01263", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-16|1|3", "date": "1797-11-16", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111601/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of chinon congratulate the council on the events of the th fructidor the national representation say they is no longer under oppression liberty is restored for them long live the republic the administration of one of the cantons of the department of allier write that the administrators are awake and ready to march against the enemies of the republic honourable mention in the minutes jourdan of haute vienne called the attention of the council to the situation of the wounded defenders of the country and the relations of those who had expired in the field of honor and of those who still served under the banners of the republic he stated that by the fall of assignats the compensation allowed them by the existing laws was merely nominal on his motion a special committee was appointed on this subject pons of verdun proposed a decree tending to annul the prosecutions on foot against persons relative to the holding of the primary assemblies and to restore to liberty the citizens who had been thrown into prison on the occasion he moved that urgency be declared and that the decree should pass without delay philippe delville moved that it be printed and the consideration adjourned several members wished a question on the decree pons of verdun i am surprised that my colleague should wish the question adjourned does he not know that in several of the departments the republicans are groaning in fetters in the department of ni vre alone which was the head quarters of the royalists and chouans there are more than who have been thrown into dungeons these facts are certain and i hope that delville will cite others as a motive in favour of the adjournment philippe delville wished the delay because the measure was important as it went to interrupt the usual course of justice he admitted the facts brought forward by the reporter but thought a delay of hours could not be pregnant with very bad consequences sautreau was opposed to the adjournment is it not he asked a great evil to suffer citizens to remain hours in fetters in my department a multitude of artisans have been imprisoned by virtue of mandates of arrestation executed in the night time by the gendarmerie and accompanied with the most terrifying circumstances and the royalists thus conducted themselves in order to terrify the patriots prevent their attendance at the assemblies and secure the elections the vote of urgency was carried and also the decree echaffeaux the elder in the name of a special committee made a report on the elections of st domingo he concluded it by the following plan of decree which was adopted art the law which declares null the elections made by the electoral assembly held at cape-francois for the th year is repealed consequently are admitted into the legislative body and will take their seats in the council of elders the citizens brother lavaux and in the council of five hundred the citizens thomoni sonthonax perinault and barre jun the elections made by the electoral assembly held at the cape on the th germinal th year of the republic are declared valid for four members which st domingo has a right to send agreeably to the last schedule of the number of deputies apportioned to each department consequently are declared members of the legislative body and shall take their seats in the council of elders the citizens etienne mentor and james tonnelier and in the council of five hundred the citizens pierre-joseph leborgne and william-henry vergnaud to the tribunal of cassation errors and appeal citizen mirbek villiers called the attention of the council to the debt pronouncing that one third of the interest on the public debt should be paid in cash beginning with the last six months of the th year and that the other two thirds shall be paid in notes payable to bearer which notes are to be received in payment for national domains the tax on reselling droit d'enregistrement to be appropriated to the discharge of the debt third pilon du galand was averse to the plan he wished the first part of the project adopted that relating to the payment of the third in cash and the other postponed julien souhait thought the project more plausible than solid it did not place the creditors on a better footing he made this calculation supposing you give the creditors one third in cash that will be millions but they now receive a fourth millions and certificates which may be put at millions making also millions of course they are as well situated as if the project would make them he was in favour of a postponement fabre took the part of the creditors also he moved that the council should decree that the payment of the first third should be made agreeably to the plan proposed and that the tax on reselling should be appropriated for this effect and that part of the plan which relates to the two-thirds be referred back to the committee whom every member was invited to enlighten with"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|2", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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decree tending to annul the prosecutions on foot against persons relative to the holding of the primary assemblies and to restore to liberty the citizens who had been thrown into prison on that occasion he moved that urgency declared that the decree should pass without delay philippe delville moved that it be printed and the consideration adjourned several members wished a question on the decree pons of verdon i am surprised that my colleague should wish the question adjourned does he not know that in several of the departments the republicans are groaning in fetters in the department of nievre alone which was the head quarters of the royalists and chouans there are more than two hundred who have been thrown into dungeons these facts are certain and i hope that delville will cite others as a motive in favor of the adjournment philippe delville wished the delay because the measure was important as it went to interrupt the usual course of justice he admitted the facts brought forward by the reporter but thought a delay of hours could not be pregnant with very bad consequences sautreau was opposed to the adjournment is it not he asked a great evil to suffer citizens to remain hours in fetters in my department a multitude of artisans have been imprisoned by virtue of a mandate of arrestation executed in the night time by the gendarmerie and accompanied with the most terrifying circumstances and the royalists thus conducted themselves in order to terrify the patriots prevent their attendance in the assemblies and secure the election the vote of urgency was carried and also the decree delhalleraux the elder in the name of a special committee made a report on the elections of st domingo he concluded it by the following plan of decree which was adopted art i the law which declares null the elections made by the electoral assembly held at cape francois for the th year is repealed consequently are admitted into the legislative body and will take their seats in the council of elders the citizens brotier lavaux and in the council of five hundred the citizens thononi santhonax petimiaux and boiron jun ii the elections made by the electoral assembly held at the cape on the th germinal th year of the republic are declared valid for four members which st domingo has a right to send agreeably to the last schedule of the number of deputies apportioned to each department consequently are declared members of the legislative body and shall take their seats in the council of elders the citizens etienne mentor and james tonnelier and in the council of five hundred the citizens pierre joseph leborgne and william-henry vergniand to the tribunal of cassation errors and appeals citizen mirbeck villers called the attention of the council to the debt proposing that one third of the interest on the public debt should be paid in cash beginning with the last six months of the th year and that the other two thirds shall be paid in notes payable to the bearer which notes are to 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infringed if it was a slab would be given to public credit he treated as chimerical the idea of redeeming national domains the two thirds to be paid now in paper they might as well talk of the lands in california as those in st domingo which remained the property of the state villiers argued that the project did every justice to the creditor which they had in equity a right to expect and which the state was able to give he cited the example of the united states in favour of this mode of compromising with the creditors of the state you are told he observed that credit will be prostrated but how can it fall when you will present to europe a nation having no debt in comparison with england which is weighed down under the weight of hers he hoped the two parts of the subject would not be put asunder fabre said we must be just towards the citizens of france as well as to the creditors of the state to be just towards the first the legislature must decree not more taxes than the nation can pay who will assert that it is possible to require more than millions of livres which are already decreed yet this must be done if the creditors cannot be paid with the national domains and the nation cannot pay more he went on to show that the project proposed was advantageous to the creditor and all they could expect from the state the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797122001/0207.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "great desideratum on which he said the committee had agreed was that the sale of the national property should be proceeded to with great vigor it served to attach the purchasers to the republic abuses had crept into this department but the minister of finance had assured the committee that they were owing to the administrations which were composed chiefly of men who were enemies of the republic and hindered the sales but since the th fructidor the government will be able to watch effectually those administrators and things have changed their complexion retz opposed the project of decree on the ground that it did not do full justice to the creditors the contract between the state and its creditors could not without violating the first principles of justice be infringed if it was a stab would be given to public credit he treated as chimerical the idea of redeeming with national domains the two thirds to be paid now in paper they might as well talk of the lands in california as those in st domingo which remained the property of the state villers argued that the project did every justice to the creditor which they had in equity a right to expect and which the state was able to give he cited the example of the united states in favor of this mode of compromising with the creditors of the state you are told he observed that credit will be prostrated but how can it fall when you will present to europe a nation having no debt in comparison with england which is weighed down under the weight of hers he hoped the two parts of the subject would not be put asunder fabre said we must be just towards the citizens of france as well as to the creditors of the state to be just towards the first the legislature must decree not more taxes than the nation can pay who will assert that it is possible to require more than millions of livres which are already decreed yet this must be done if the creditors cannot be paid with national domains and the nation cannot pay more he went on to shew that the project proposed was advantageous to the creditor and all they could expect from the state the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": 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nursing him with scarce a covering for a space of six weeks during which time she remained unsullied by him having died her face with lime and bark the captain recovering they removed into philadelphia where as soon as he had found a clergyman to join her to him forever she appeared as herself the priest accompanying her they lived four years in a fondness that could only be interrupted by her declining health the fatigue she had undergone and the poison not properly expelled which she had imbibed from his wound undermining her constitution the knowledge he had of it and piercing regret for having been the occasion affecting him still more sensibly he died with a broken heart at john's town she lived to return and implore forgiveness of her family whom she had distressed so long by their ignorance of her destiny she died in consequence of her"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|4", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": 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herself the priest ac companying her they lived four years in a fondness that could only be in terrupted by her declining health the fatigue she had un dergone and the poison not properly expelled which she had imbibed from his wound undermining her constitution the kowledge he had of it and piercing regret for having been the occasion affecting him still more sensibly he died with a broken heart at john's town she lived to return and im plore forgiveness of her family whom she had distressed so long by their ignorance of her desti ny she died in consequence of her"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5531, 5671], "b_span": [1558, 1691], "matched_words": 112, "similarity": 0.8205128205128205, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01267", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-17|1|2", "date": "1797-11-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111701/0002.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "the armies in bohemia and aullria whatever may be the objefi of thef rr pr rat ions gen hucht on his part has givtn i order for the formation of a camp on the right l ank of the rhine and several days afterwards he added to this order th following article although the negotiations for peace are not yet broken off the army ought not to lose fight of tl is circumftancc that a numerous enemy n before them and that it is their duty to punilh them if they are guilty of a breach of faith the fame letter which brings thffc particulars adds that the archduke charles and general bellgardi are to review and exercise the imperial army of the low er hine for a fortnight or three weeks all these circumstances do not augur well for"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|1", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112101/0009.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the armies in bohemia and austria whatever may be the object of these preparations gen huche on his part has given orders for the formation of a camp on the right branch of the rhine and several days afterwards he added to this order the following article altho the negotiations for peace are not yet broken off the army ought not to lose sight of this circumstance that a numerous enemy is beset them and that it is their duty to punish them if they are guilty of a breach of faith the same letter which brings these particulars adds that the archduke charles and general belegarde are to review and exercise the imperial army of the lower rhine for a fortnight or three weeks all these circumstances do not augur well for"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5, 1354], "b_span": [667, 2010], "matched_words": 1313, "similarity": 0.975482912332838, "seeds": 255, "id": "M01268", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-17|1|3", "date": "1797-11-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-11-17/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797111701/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "directory proclamation of the executive directory to the french nation to the end that the french armies may be complete and ready to march by the th of vendemaire next oct the th fructidor sept imposed silence on the orators of london who were stationed in paris after that very memorable day the english ambassador pressed to explain himself in a positive manner as to the first object of his legation set off on return for england on her side austria suffers herself to be directed by the cabinet of st james's which labours incessantly to distract europe and foment troubles on the continent the emperor thwarts the will of his states and that of his court he resists the peace of which his subjects are in need and confines himself exclusively to preparations for war his armaments apprise us of what we ourselves have to do if the generous loyalty which urged us to subscribe to the articles of leoben is abused if speaking constantly of peace nothing is breathed but war the french nation which merely speaks of war because it is desirous of peace must put itself in a condition to support its dignity and the valour of its armies must recover its advantages it is more especially essential fully to convince the enemy that there is no longer in france but one and a sole part but one sentiment but one interest that of a sovereign nation which is sensible of its greatness and which wishes to preserve its liberty the executive directory is swayed by no other motive than these the constitutional law authorizes us to provide for the safety of the state it is pleased to make you the judges of the reasons which determine it to employ this sacred right your enemies who are not able to resist your courage have endeavoured to subdue you by stratagem they deceived you by the show of negotiation if they had been sincerely desirous of what they appeared to seek peace would be now concluded the executive directory hastened to stop the progress of the french armies it gave itself up with sincerity to the hope of the good understanding which dazzled its sight and enjoyed in idea the means it was about to possess of causing liberty to be beloved and of procuring for france as great a proportion of happiness in peace as she had acquired of glory in war but after having obtained this interruption in the progress of our victories what did our enemies wish to gain time to foment among you intestine divisions and to take the advantage of what would result from them to cause frenchmen to massacre each other until they should be enabled to fall on the remnant of the population to divide among themselves the threads of a country thus divided and to blot out france from the list of nations republican good faith could not have suspected this snare of the policy of courts you must however have seen citizens whether this plan was not faithfully followed up the majority of your public functionaries composed the auxiliary army which fought in the bosom of france for your most cruel enemies they had called hither swarms of those barbarous emigrants who are bent on tearing in pieces the vitals of their country and of those fanatical priests who are skilled in kindling up every where the murderous zeal of homicidal piety the national tribune no longer resounded unless with the voices of the deputies of austria and england calumniating your defenders insulting your generals employing themselves in paralysing your government and reducing it gradually to the absolute nullity which corresponded so well with their royal instructions and with the views of their constituents at length the veil is tore off the partisans of the foreign courts are no longer the organs of the national will the helm of the republic is in the hands of the republicans and the people of france have french representatives citizens in these circumstances what course ought your magistrates to pursue animated by a sincere wish to give to france a peace worthy of her that is to say a solid peace agreeable to her interests and conformable to her engagements how are they at this time to repulse the pretensions and elude the fraud of the cabinet of london how are they to put an end to the indecisive tardiness of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria herself from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode since your enemies in feigning to negotiate hold themselves in an hostile state their example forces you again to take up arms and absolves you by anticipation from all the calamities which in their territories are about to be the inevitable result of the rupture of the truce ah if war be a scourge that cannot be too much detested but the horrors of which fall on those by whom it was provoked if humanity revolts against those who shed blood who plunder cities and lay provinces waste without a necessity if the author of an iniquitous war be responsible for the death of the men who are killed for the destruction of the cottages which are burnt for the loss of commerce which ensues for the provisions which are destroyed for the violences disorders and crime which are committed with arms in the hand if those who feed on the horrors of war entered into without pretext and without reason are ferocious monsters unworthy of the name of men not merely enemies of the countries which they cause to be laid waste but of the whole human race you who have for six years been forced to fight for your independence you on whom certain perfidious men endeavour to bestow the fatal gift of a civil war you who conquerors and triumphant laid down your arms to propose and hear the words of peace you will not have to dread the imprecations the legitimate anathemas which nature and justice address to your enemies in returning against your will to the bloody contest from which you had drawn yourselves you may protest in the face of the whole world what your intentions have been and call on heaven to witness the justice of the cause you are about to defend thus then citizens again take up your arms without ceasing to be desirous of peace your government perseveres in offering it on the conditions which appeared it to be meet and compatible perhaps the warlike appearance you are about to resume will suffice to obtain a consent to these conditions but if they should be refused you will maintain the honor and the laws of the republic it is in the name of the nation it is to fulfil its will to secure its rights and to preserve its glory that the executive power recalls to their standards all the soldiers of the country who have withdrawn from them on any cause whatever the executive directory accordingly enjoins its commissioners stationed in the departments to cause to be executed without delay and without restriction the laws of frimaire and nivose of the fourth year together with the resolutions of ventose and the subsequent ones and to cause all the soldiers and requisitions whatever who are now at their homes to join by the th vendemaire oct frenchmen it is necessary that at this epoch your armies should be complete that they should be ready to march and that their awful and terrible aspect should instantly command that glorious peace which for six months past ought to have been the fruit of their triumphs the executive directory resolves that the above proclamation shall be printed solemnly published and fixed up all the communes of the republic by its commissioners stationed at the central departmental administrations and the war minister shall take all the necessary measures for its speedy execution of which he shall give an account every three days to the directory signed reveilliere"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112101/0010.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "directory proclamation of the executive directory to the french nation to the end that the french armies may be complete and ready to march by the th vendemaire next o s the th fructidor sept imposed silence on the orators of london who were stationed in paris after that very memorable day the english ambassador pressed to explain himself in a positive manner as to the first object of his legation set off on return for england on her side austria suffers herself to be directed by the cabinet of st james's which labors incessantly to distract europe and foment troubles on the continent the emperor thwarting the wish of his states and that of his court he resists the peace of which his subjects are in need and confines himself exclusively to preparations for war his armaments apprise us of what we ourselves have to do if the generous loyalty which urged us to subscribe to the articles of leoben is abused if speaking constantly of peace nothing is breathed but war the french nation which merely speaks of war because it is desirous of peace must put itself in a condition to support its dignity and the valour of its armies must recover its advantages it is more especially essential fully to convince the enemy that there is no longer in france but one and a sole party but one sentiment but one interest that of a sovereign nation which is sensible of its greatness and which wishes to preserve its liberty the executive directory is swayed by no other motives than these the constitutional law authorizes us to provide for the safety of the state it is pleased to make you the judges of the reasons which determine it to employ this sacred right your enemies who are not able to resist your courage have endeavored to subdue you by stratagem they deceived you by the show of negotiation if they had been sincerely desirous of what they appeared to seek peace would be now concluded the executive directory hastened to stop the progress of the french armies it gave itself up with sincerity to the hopes of the good understanding which dazzled its sight and enjoyed in idea the means it was about to possess of causing liberty to be beloved and of procuring for france as great a proportion of happiness in peace as she had acquired glory in war but after having obtained this interruption in the progress of our victories what did our enemies wish to gain time to ferment among you intestine divisions and to take the advantage of what would result from them to cause frenchmen to massacre each other until they should be enabled to fall on the remnant of population to divide among themselves the threads of a country thus divided and to blot out france from the list of nations republican good faith could not have suspected this snare of the policy of courts you must however have seen citizens whether this plan was not faithfully followed up the majority of your public functionaries composed the auxiliary army which fought in the bosom of france for your most cruel enemies they had called hither swarms of those barbarous emigrants who are bent on tearing in pieces the vitals of their country of those fanatical priests who are skilled in kindling up every where the murderous zeal of homicidal pity the national tribune no longer resounded unless with the voices of the deputies of austria and england calumniating your defenders insulting your generals employing themselves in paralyzing your government and reducing it gradually to the absolute nullity which correspond so well with their royal instructions and with the views of their constituents at length the veil is torn off the partizans of the foreign courts are no longer the organs of the national will the helm of the republic is in the hands of the republicans and the people of france have french representatives citizens in these circumstances what course ought your magistrates to pursue animated by a sincere wish to give to france a peace worthy of her that is to say a solid peace agreeable to her interests and conformable to her engagements how are they at this time to repulse the pretensions and elude the frauds of the cabinet of london how are they to put an end to the indecisive tardiness of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria herself from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode since your enemies in feigning to negotiate hold themselves in an hostile state their example forces you again to take up arms and absolves you by anticipation from all the calamities which in their territories are about to be the inevitable result of the rupture of the truce ah if war be a scourge which cannot be too much detested but the horror of which fall on those by whom it was provoked if humanity revolts against those who shed blood who plunder cities and lay provinces waste without a necessity if the author of an iniquitous war be responsible for the death of the men who are buried for the loss of commerce which ensues for the provisions which are destroyed for the violences disorders and crimes which are committed with arms in the hand if those who feed on the horrors of war entered into without pretext and without reason are ferocious monsters unworthy of the name of men not merely enemies of the countries which they cause to be laid waste but of the whole human race you who have for six years been forced to fight for your independence you on whom certain perfidious men endeavored to bestow the fatal gift of a civil war you who conquerors and triumphant laid down your arms to propose and hear the words of peace you will not have to dread the imprecations the legitimate anathemas which nature and justice address to your enemies in returning against your will to the bloody contest from which you had drawn yourselves you may protest in the face of the whole world what your intentions have been and call on heaven to witness the justice of the cause you are about to defend thus then citizens again take up your arms without ceasing to be desirous of peace your government perseveres in offering it on the conditions which appeared to it to be meet and compatible perhaps the warlike appearance you are about to resume will suffice to obtain a consent to these conditions but if they should be refused you will maintain the honor and the laws of the republic it is in the name of the nation it is to fulfil its will to secure its rights and to preserve its glory that the executive power recalls to their standards all the soldiers of the country who have withdrawn from them on any cause whatever the executive directory accordingly enjoins its commissioners stationed in the departments to cause to be executed without delay and without restriction the laws of the frimaire and nivose of the fourth year together with the resolutions of the th ventose and the subsequent ones c to cause all the soldiers and citizens whatever who are now at their homes to join by the th vendemaire o s frenchmen it is necessary that at this epoch your armies should be complete that they should be ready to march and that their awful and terrible aspect should instantly command that glorious peace which for six months past ought to have been the fruit of their triumphs the executive directory resolves that the above proclamation shall be printed solemnly published and fixed up at all the communes of the republic by its commissioners stationed at the central departmental administrations and the war minister shall take all the necessary measures for its speedy execution of which he shall give an account every three days to the directory signed reveilliere"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1361, 1613], "b_span": [729, 947], "matched_words": 211, "similarity": 0.8978723404255319, "seeds": 36, "id": "M01269", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-17|1|3", "date": "1797-11-17", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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conversation with the new negotiators have you power said treillard to lord malmesbury to restore to the french republic all her colonies no why then go home and get them administration of general police to the editor of the annales politiques reports are spread that the deputies sentenced to transportation have escaped this intelligence is false and you are desired to contradict it by the channel of your paper signed sotin minister of the general police the directory held an extraordinary meeting on the d inst to which not even the ministers were admitted its object is said to have been the necessary dispositions for opening the campaign september the commissary of the executive power in the municipal administration of police writes as follows general dutertr commander of the armed force charged with escorting to rochfort the transported members of the th fructidor arrived here the first complementary day he was arrested two days afterwards by order of the government five leagues from 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"hoche to the post of generalissimo of the two armies of the rhine is positive an order to this effect has been issued from the war department if contrary to all appearances say the letters from milan hostilities with the emperor should be renewed the piedmontese troops will join the french army this point is decided it is even reported that they will form a body of men venice will furnish the cisalpine republic and the army of kellerman amounting to a reinforcement of for the army of italy which will be under the command of malena barnadotte c there is the strongest reason to believe that the courier dispatched by the directory on the night of the d and d complementary day september and carried to buonaparte the orders to renew hostilities with the emperor at the very moment when the courier set off a courier arrived from lille with the intelligence that lord malmesbury had quitted that city and had set out for london his departure which so soon succeeded the arrival of treilhard and 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mis sissippi and for this express purpose mr loraine an officer in the pay of the crown made a tour through all this country last fall since which time sev eral indians have been sent on the same errand and generally furnished with plenty of cash to defray their expenses a large party of the delawares passed down white river about the th of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain which was sent them from st louis lieutenant pope in his letter of may th to the secretary of war says there have been several attempts made to draw on the indians upon my troops i have fully ascertained this fact and demanded of the governor to have a principle actor immediately brot to punishment or sent out of the coun try he has been sent for and is now on board of one of the gallies which is now about descending the river and sir if you enquire you will find that this principal"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|1", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire 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of may on their way to the spanish side bearing the national flag of spain sent them from st louis lt rope in his letter of may th to the sec of war says there have been several attempts made to draw on the indians upon my troops i have fully ascertained this fact and demanded of the governor to have a principal actor immediately brought to punishment or sent out of the country he has been sent for and is now on board of one of the galleys which is now about descending the river and sir if you enquire you will find that this principal"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2017, 2362], "b_span": [359, 696], "matched_words": 320, "similarity": 0.9384164222873901, "seeds": 48, "id": "M01283", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-21|1|2", "date": "1797-11-21", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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the new constitution ordains and the discharge of the old officers occasioned a formidable tumult the aristocratic party which consisted of the chief citizens had at first the advantage and became masters of the city but their triumph did not continue long the democrats united themselves and were assisted by the french troops a combat took place in which upwards of one thousand men lost their lives the french ambassador frypoul and the corsican general caffabianca it is said were at the head of the democratic party since then genoa is"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1056, 1489], "b_span": [644, 1078], "matched_words": 420, "similarity": 0.9688581314878892, "seeds": 82, "id": "M01289", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-11-22|1|3", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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"normalized_excerpt": "in this vast quarter of the globe but little present to the eye of political investigation the greater part of its inhabitants are benighted in ignorance and despotism and the same pantomime which has been in representation for ages still continues in most of its regions to tire with its repetition china has a population of three hundred and thirty-three millions it is nevertheless governed by one man and not a murmur is heard in all this immense body against his authority the attempts of the europeans to introduce embassies among them has been resisted with persevering firmness and from the late ill success of lord macartney very few more it is expected will be attempted the american flag is as highly respected in china as that of the most powerful european government in persia there have been some tumults the sultan mahomet has lately been murdered he had just concluded a peace with russia and the other neighbouring powers which a party of his court being dissatisfied with unexpectedly assailed stabbed him and exposed his head to the view of the people who testified their joy at his death it was however to-day and crucially to-morrow the ottoman empire is almost perpetually convulsed in one part or the other under the date of august st from constantinople it appears that the porte were under apprehensions of another revolt in albania macedonia and other frontier countries and that frequent councils of the sultan had been had thereon the pacha of scutari who has long been in rebellion has it is said proposed to gen buonaparte the plan to revolutionize ancient greece and the turkish provinces the pacha of belgrade has been a second time attacked and defeated by the rebels the whole of his suit with the exception of a small number of regular troops were killed on the field of battle and the dead are said to have amounted to at the moment when ali pacha was preparing to march against the rebels of romelia he received counter-orders it appears the porte recollects that this pacha has likewise been engaged in a revolt in his government and is fearful that he should join pashvan oglu on whose repentance but little reliance can be placed the spirit of liberty has strongly displayed itself in the morea and isle of candia from certain circumstances it is apparent that austria is gaining ascendancy over the porte but we learn from milan th august that a treaty between the cisalpine republic and the pacha of scutari is in agitation to counteract the intrigues of austria above three hundred french officers in the turkish service have been dismissed which has excited the dissatisfaction of the french ambassador the porte do not view with indifference the taking possession of dalmatia and corfu by the austrians and french but they appear more alarmed at the proclamations the latter have published in the morea should the war continue the ottoman cabinet must expect to be constantly assailed by the european powers a new ambassador from russia gen tamara was expected at constantinople the porte has refused to acknowledge the new order of things at venice in india the british maintain their decided superiority but few military operations were making small naval and land expeditions are occasionally fitted out to protect their commerce or to suppress the mutinies of their interior in one of the former the island of madagascar on the coast of africa has been captured and the small french garrison sent to the isle of france some movements of the powerful tippo saib had created considerable alarm at the british presidencies but the last official accounts inform they have subsided it was found that tippo on a hunting excursion had carried with him an escort of troops cavalry and infantry which occasioned the alarm tippo and the rajah of cotote having had a dispute about elephants a british detachment of men marched to settle it by treaty or arms on passing into cotote they were attacked by rajah pyche when major cameron fell at the head of his troops and the british retreated with the loss of men and a great part of their ammunition in consequence of this event gov duncan and gen stewart proceeded from bombay to tillicherry to confer with tippo's ministers on the subject africa what can we say of this quarter of the globe of its interior we know nothing and the government of the united states having secured the tranquillity of those of its powers on the mediterranean we have no tidings from thence which until lately ever have been disastrous on the atlantic side we are informed that a french squadron under com renaud remains on the coast and greatly annoys the english trade by the capture of rich prizes it has not however disturbed the settlements since its late visit to sierra leone we learn that an expedition has recently been set on foot in london to explore the unknown parts of the north of the african continent it is encouraged by many enterprising opulent men we hope not for the purposes of extending the traffic in human bodies indeed all accounts agree that the trade will scarcely reimburse the expenses attending it and a letter from the coast dated th june last says that for several months the slave trade appeared nearly suspended many of the traders having lost by the traffic the important resting place at the extremity of africa the cape of good hope though still a subject of negotiation is fortifying by the british and rear admiral christian has lately sailed with an armed force there to succeed admiral pringle the inhabitants are said to be hostile to the british garrison europe here an ample field opens which our accustomed limits will not"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|1", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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lately been murdered he had just concluded a peace with russia and the other neighboring powers which a party of his court being dissatisfied with unexpectedly assailed stabbed him and exposed his head to the view of the people who testified their joy at his death it was hoisted to day and crucified to morrow the ottoman empire is almost perpetually convulsed in one part or the other under the date of aug st from constantinople it appears that the porte were under apprehensions of another revolt in albania macedonia other frontier countries that frequent councils of the sultan had been had thereon the pacha of scutari who has long been in rebellion has it is said proposed to gen buonaparte the plan to revolutionize ancient greece and the turkish provinces the pacha of belgrade has been a second time attacked and defeated by the rebels the whole of his suit with the exception of a small number of regular troops were killed on the field of battle and the dead are said to have amounted to at the moment when atta pacha was preparing to march against the rebels of remelia he received counter-orders it appears the porte recollects that this pacha has likewise been engaged in a revolt in his government and is fearful that he should join passan-oglu on whose repentance but little reliance can be placed the spirit of liberty has strongly displayed itself in the morea and the ionian islands from certain circumstances it is apparent that austria is gaining ascendancy over the porte but we learn from milan th august that a treaty between the cisalpine republic and the pacha of scutari is in agitation to counteract the intrigues of austria above french officers in the turkish service have been dismissed which has excited the dissatisfaction of the french ambassador the porte do not view with indifference the taking possession of dalmatia and corfu by the austrians and french but they appear more alarmed at the proclamations the latter have published in the morea should the war continue ottoman cabinet must expect to be constantly assailed by the european powers a new ambassador from russia gen tamara was expected at constantinople the porte has refused to acknowledge the new order of things at venice in india the british maintain their decided superiority but few military operations were making small naval and land expeditions are occasionally fitted out to protect their commerce or to suppress the mutinies of the interior in one of the former the island of madagascar on the coast of africa has been captured and the small french garrison sent to the isle of france some movements of the powerful tippu saib had created considerable alarm at the british presidencies but the last official accounts inform they have subsided it was found that tippu on a hunting excursion had carried with him an escort of eight thousand troops cavalry and infantry which occasioned the alarm tippu and rajah of cotiote having had a dispute about elephants a british detachment of men marched to settle it by treaty or arms on passing into cotiote they were attacked by rajah pychs when major cameron fell at the head of his troops and the british retreated with the loss of men and a great part of their ammunition in consequence of this event gov duncan and gen stewart proceeded from bombay to tillicherry to confer with tippu's ministers on the subject africa what can we say of this quarter of the globe of its interior we know nothing and the government of the united states having secured the tranquility of those of its powers on the mediterranean we have no tidings from thence which until lately ever have been disastrous on the atlantic side we are informed that a french squadron under com renaud remains on the coast and greatly annoys the english trade by the capture of rich prizes it has not however disturbed the settlements since its late visit to sierra leone we learn that an expedition has recently been set on foot in london to explore the unknown parts of the north of the african continent it is encouraged by many enterprising opulent men we hope not for the purposes of extending the traffic in human bodies indeed all accounts agree that the trade will scarcely reimburse the expenses attending it and a letter from the coast dated th june last says that for several months the slave trade appeared nearly suspended many of the traders having left by the traffic the important resting place at the extremity of africa the cape of good hope tho still a subject of negotiation is fortifying by the british and rear admiral christian has lately failed with an armed force here to succeed admiral prince the inhabitants are said to be hostile to the british garrison europe here an ample field opens which our accustomed limits will not"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2415, 3070], "b_span": [3, 659], "matched_words": 639, 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negotiating peace with the french republic he will march to his assistance an army of men this is all we know of russia at present poland is no more its ancient and extensive territory divided between russia prussia and austria has assumed new names which we do not readily recollect in the interior it is said a serious insurrection of the oppressed poles has been suppressed among those who appeared on the frontiers of buckowine were several armenians who wore the tri-coloured cockade the remainder of the insurgents passed the danube at galacz and joined the army of gen buonaparte in italy this general mentions incorporating a regiment of poles with a demi-brigade of his sweden and denmark remaining neuter in the present broils of europe are rapidly advancing in wealth and power their merchantmen visit every quarter of the globe and though many spoliations have been made on them their neutrality has immensely over balanced their losses the king of sweden is visiting his dominions incognito as leipzig he lately said that kings can only see the truth when masked he appears to be much beloved prussia the manoeuvres of the monarch who governs this part of europe cannot be calculated by any common scale he readily joined in the crusade against france and as readily quitted it after having handled vast sums of british money his conduct towards poland is well known he has lately been engaged in a serious quarrel with the emperor as head of the germanic body respecting the possession of the imperial city of nuremburg and its territories but a letter from brussels dated august states that the king feeling it his interest to be on good terms with the emperor has determined for the present not to take possession of the city what direction his compass will now take we cannot conjecture the batavian republic is an object of attention its revolution has been recorded but it has not yet agreed on a constitution of government the convention lately agreed on a form and submitted it to the primary assemblies of the republic for adoption it has been rejected by a considerable majority in the provinces of overijssel and groningen it was accepted in those of holland zealand gueldres utrecht and dutch brabant it was refused the call of a new convention has been the consequence the rejection of the constitution has been variously accounted for some assert it to be a consequence of the influence of the orange party some because it was imposed on the republic by the french and others that it was too democratic it appears says an account from the hague of aug that the rejection of the constitution and the abuse lavished for some time past by the anarchists in their journals and pamphlets on the members of the convention have considerably discouraged some of them and several who have been re-elected into the new convention have already demanded their dismissal and others talk of doing the same the french retain a decided influence over the councils of the republic and the refusal of the citizens to ratify the constitution has been severely remarked on by them a very serious dispute has arisen between the commissioner of the convention on board the dutch fleet and admiral de winter in consequence of it the latter demanded a hearing or dismissal"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|2", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112801/0014.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "peace with persia remains at present tranquil tho at war since the semaris of the north has paid the debt of nature the condition of her vassals has it is believed been ameliorated by her successor the emperor paul his conduct to stanislaus and kosciusko was certainly generous and noble and it is said that in a late list of promotions he neglected suwarrow for the massacres he had been guilty of he is in alliance with austria and great britain and accounts from petersburg say if the german emperor does not conclude the negotiating peace with the french republic he will march to his assistance an army of men this is all we know of russia at present poland is no more its ancient and extensive territory divided between russia and prussia and austria has assumed new names which we do not readily recollect in the interior it is said a serious insurrection of the oppressed poles has been suppressed among those who appeared on the frontiers of buckewine were several armenians who wore the tri-coloured cockade the remainder of the insurgents passed the danube at galacz and joined the army of general buonaparte in italy this general mentions incorporating a regiment of poles with a demi-brigade of his sweden and denmark remaining neutre in the present broils of europe are rapidly advancing in wealth and power their merchantmen visit every quarter of the globe and tho many spoilsations have been made on them their neutrality has immensely over balanced their losses the king of sweden is visiting his dominions incognito at leipzig he lately said that kings can only see the truth when masked he appears to be much beloved prussia the manoeuvres of the monarch who governs this part of europe cannot be calculated by any common scale he readily joined in the crusade against fr as readily quitted it after having handled vast sums of british money his conduct towards poland is well known he has lately been engaged in a serious quarrel with the emperor as head of the germanic body respecting the possession of the imperial city of nuremburg and its territories but a letter from brussels dated aug states that the king feeling it his interest to be on good terms with the emperor has determined for the present not to take possession of the city what direction his compass will now take we cannot conjecture the batavian republic is an object of attention its revolution has been recorded but it has not yet agreed on a constitution of government the convention lately agreed on a form and submitted it to the primary assemblies of the republic for adoption it has been rejected by a considerable majority in the provinces of overijssel and groningen it was accepted in those of holland zeeland guelders utrecht and dutch brabant it was refused the call of a new convention has been the consequence the rejection of the constitution has been variously accounted for some assert it to be a consequence of the influence of the orange party some because it was imposed on the republic by the french and others that it was too democratic it appears says an account from the hague of aug that the rejection of the constitution and the abuse lavished for some time past by the anarchists in their journals and pamphlets on the members of the convention have considerably discouraged some of them and several who have been re-elected into the new convention have already demanded their dismissal and others talk of doing the same the french retain a decided influence over the councils of the republic and the refusal of the citizens to ratify the constitution has been severely remarked on by them a very serious dispute has arisen between the commissioner of the convention on board the dutch fleet and admiral de winter in consequence of it the latter demanded a hearing or dismissal"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [5, 1895], "b_span": [668, 2540], "matched_words": 1808, "similarity": 0.961190855927698, "seeds": 336, "id": "M01292", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|2", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0396.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the command of the fleet the force of admiral duncan who lies off the texel is considered so powerful as to render any attempts to engage him quixotic the transports which were prepared for a naval expedition have therefore been hauled up and the design of forcing a passage through the english fleet it is supposed is abandoned many and great complaints are made at amsterdam of the interruption of their trade by the english fleet as no vessels arrive except up the briel all vessels bound in are stopped by the fleet and acquainted if they are found making a second attempt to enter the texel they will be detained the republic has thirty-three ships of various sizes lying in the texel admiral duncan has twenty sail of the line including fifty gun ships besides frigates the victory of the directory over its enemies as it is styled in holland has lately been celebrated at amsterdam in great splendour upwards of guests were present and the toasts were every way cordial to the present ruling powers in france we hear nothing respecting the american ministers except that two of them were in holland the dutch convention has voted an address to the french government requesting not to be condemned hastily for not adopting the constitution a treaty offensive and defensive with spain was ratified the th sept it is similar to the french treaty with spain the french republic arrests the most undivided attention we have lately given our readers very ample details on the subject of the late overturn therein we shall therefore confine ourselves to a brief but we hope accurate sketch of its cause rise and progress the first legislative body under the present constitution was it will be well recollected two-thirds self-elected at the expiration of a year the people had the right of electing a new third to replace half of the above two-thirds in this election the people turned their eyes on moderate men the lovers of peace and public happiness these men did not coincide in opinion with a majority of the executive directory although they formed with others alike in sentiment a majority of the legislative councils hence arose jealousy mistrust and a struggle for ascendancy in the directory two of its members carnot and barthelemy acted in concert with the councils several acts passed the legislative bodies which the directory condemned particularly some with respect to the priests nobles and others who had fled from the republic more from terror than from enmity of sentiment they also expressed a sedulous desire for peace which the directory opposed as infringing on their prerogatives the directory represented the finances as in the most deplorable state and called on the councils to take them into consideration the legislature did so and refuted many of the charges things ripened daily to an open rupture between the contending parties the newspapers took sides on the occasion and the most flagitious and indecent charges were made against both the majority of the representatives of the people were branded as returned emigrants ex-nobles ex-priests cutthroats of lyons chouans and traitors while the directory were styled the triumvirate the catalines and tyrants who aimed at the destruction of the republic by usurpation the armies beheld this war of the interior with astonishment and as they communicated only with the directory notwithstanding pichegru addressed them in a hand-bill they generally sided with the executive addresses poured in from every division assuring the directory of the most unshaken attachment the attempt to march a column of troops to paris from hoche's army is well known but it is not so well known that great desertions took place in all the armies countenanced as was declared in the council of by the commanders these deserters unarmed repaired to paris to await the crisis which was expected the councils complained of their presence but they were not ordered to be apprehended or to retire the councils became alarmed for their safety and organized a guard of about grenadiers to protect them but they raised them with difficulty at length the crisis approached every thing had been consulted and agreed on between a party of the two councils and the three directors several military officers were displaced and new ones appointed and at day-light on the th september the blow was struck a large body of citizens was armed and marched to the halls of the two councils rame the commander of the legislative guard was arrested and his troops joined the directory's the alarm bells were rung and the members of the legislature proceeded to their posts but they were occupied by soldiers many fled and secreted themselves others attempted to meet at the houses in the vicinity while an invitation was received from the directory for the council of to meet at the odeon formerly the french theatre and the elders at the school of health both in the vicinity of the directorial palace and from which the occupiers were required by the directory to remove under pain of rebellion a small number of each council met at these places and resumed the legislative functions immediately a decree passed for banishing from the republic to guiana above fifty members of the councils two of the executive directory and several general officers the list was declared by bergoing of the council of to have been planned in concert with the government as the executive directory is styled and so precipitate was the measure that on reading it a second time it was declared to contain the names of the best of patriots and the most early and decisive friends of the republic and le normand thibaudeau doucet bailly tarbe and noguer malguy were ordered to be erased when the name of de toney was read tallien said we do not know this member i move he be struck off unless some accusation be substantiated against him no member spoke and de toney was struck off in the council of elders the constitutionality of the measures was questioned i move said laufranc since extraordinary events have not permitted us to meet in the usual place and since the constitution declares the mode in which the place shall be changed that we proceed in the constitutional form girou pouzol perhaps liberty runs great risk we must save her and not lose time in vain formalities i move we proceed to business the president declared that there were not but members present and that more were wanting to form a quorum the council however proceeded to consider the message of the council of authorizing the directory to introduce within the constitutional circle the troops necessary which was approved the council then adjourned for a few hours at midnight the elders received and approved the resolution of the returning thanks to the troops for their good conduct at seven in the morning they took up the report on the banishment of the members and annulling the elections of forty-eight departments girou pouzol said the committee on the subject have not been able to procure the original documents to serve as proofs against the conspirators nevertheless they have felt that the situation of the republic required on your part a speedy deliberation lecoultleux replied our opinions said he are required respecting individuals whom it is proposed to transport it seems to me that before we condemn them we ought to examine whether those are any proofs against them i can see none that can make us comprehend many among them in the conspiracy shall we pronounce their banishment upon the opinions we have heard them express transportation is a terrible punishment and though it is with pleasure i do justice to the manifest intention of not shedding blood yet i must say that the punishment which tears a citizen from his wife children and family to banish him leagues from his country is a punishment as terrible as death i see nothing in what has been laid before us that ought to lead us to adopt a determination marbot the question is not susceptible of much discussion we are not to examine opinions we must separate from us the chiefs of our enemies well these chiefs are the men contained in the list proposed to you are to collect proofs to examine opinions it must be known whether in your consciences you think that these are chiefs of the conspiracy if you do think so you ought to save the republic regnia conjured the council to suspend the question until noon lacombe st michel the consideration of the safety of the country ought to silence all other considerations i have heard the papers read and i see a plan of conspiracy which is not doubtful we know how bad the elections have been in the departments we know that assassination is organized in them the directory offer you the means of saving the country and if you will not adopt them they will save it without you murmurs the conspiracy of pichegru is clear he has many accomplices no benefits citizens let us think upon the obligations which the present circumstances impose upon us i move we proceed to the vote the sitting was however adjourned until noon during which time the council received a message in which the directory say this day is the th fructidor sept and the people ask you citizens representatives where the republic is and what you have done for its consolidation the moment is decisive if you allow it to pass by if you hesitate on the measures which are to be taken if you put off your decision for a moment all will be lost both you and the republic after urging the councils to a decision they conclude by saying the directory has applied itself to point out to you the means of saving france but it has to expect that you will avail yourselves of them the directory has felt a persuasion that you are sincerely attached to liberty and the republic and that the consequences of this first liberty ought not to terrify you it lays them before you and is obliged to tell you that you are placed in an unprecedented predicament and that ordinary rules cannot apply to an extraordinary case unless you are desirous to surrender yourselves to your enemies if the friends of kings have friends among you if slaves can meet with protectors in you if you wait an instant the safety of france must be despaired of the constitution will cease to be in force and the patriots may be told that the hour of royalty is proclaimed throughout the republic but if as the executive directory is fully persuaded this terrible idea afflicts and strikes you appreciate the value of the moment and embrace it be the deliverers of your country and lay the eternal foundations of its happiness and glory the message had the desired effect the resolutions were adopted and the directory requested to take measures to see them promptly executed in the united states of america inquiry will be readily made what crimes could such men as pichegru barthelemy carnot boissy d'anglais vaublanc dumolard pastoret villeret joyette and the other conspicuous statesmen generals orators and patriots"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|2", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112801/0014.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the command of the fleet the force of admiral duncan who lies off the texel is considered so powerful as to render any attempts to engage him quixotic the transports which were prepared for a naval expedition have therefore been hauled up and the design of forcing a passage thro the english fleet it is supposed is abandoned many and great complaints are made at amsterdam of the interruption of their trade by the english fleet as no vessels arrive except up the briel all vessels bound in are stopped by the fleet and acquainted if they are found making a second attempt to enter the texel they will be detained the republic has thirty three ships of various sizes lying in the texel admiral duncan has sail of the line including fifty gun ships besides frigates the victory of the directory over its enemies as it is styled in holland has lately been celebrated at amsterdam in great splendor upwards of guests were present and the toasts were every way cordial to the present ruling powers in france we hear nothing respecting the american ministers except that two of them were in holland the dutch convention has voted an address to the french government requesting not to be condemned hastily for not adopting the constitution a treaty offensive and defensive with spain was ratified the th sept it is similar to the french treaty with spain the french republic arrests the most undivided attention we have lately given the readers of the mirror very ample details on the subject of the late overture therein we shall therefore confine ourselves to a brief but we hope accurate sketch of its cause rise and progress the first legislative body under the present constitution was it will be well recollected two thirds self elected at the expiration of a year the people had a right of electing a new third to replace half of the above two thirds in this election the people turned their eyes on moderate men the lovers of peace and public happiness these men did not coincide in opinion with a majority of the executive directory altho they formed with others alike in sentiment a majority of the legislative councils hence arose jealousy mistrust and a struggle for ascendancy in the directory two of its members carnot and barthelemy acted in concert with the councils several acts passed the legislative bodies which the directory condemned particularly some with respect to the priests nobles and others who had fled from the republic more from terror than from enmity of sentiment they also expressed a sedulous desire for peace which the directory opposed as infringing on their prerogatives the directory represented the finances as in the most deplorable state and called on the councils to take them into consideration the legislature did so and refused many of the charges things ripened daily to an open rupture between the contending parties the newspapers took sides on the occasion and the most flagitious and indecent charges were made against both the majority of the representatives of the people were branded as returned emigrants ex-nobles ex-priests cut-throats of lyons chouans and traitors while the directory were styled the triumvirate the catalines and tyrants who aimed at the destruction of the republic by usurpation the armies beheld this war of the interior with astonishment and as they communicated only with the directory notwithstanding pichegru addresses them in a hand-bill they generally sided with the executive addresses poured in from every division assuring the directory of the most unhaken attachment the attempt to march a column of troops to paris from hoche's army is well known but is not so well known that great desertions took place in all the armies counteracted as was declared in the council of by the commanders these deserters unarmed repaired to paris to await the crisis which was expected the councils complained of their presence but they were not ordered to be apprehended or to retire the councils became alarmed for their safety and organized a guard of about grenadiers to protect them but they raised them with difficulty at length the crisis approached every thing had been consulted and agreed on between a party of the two councils and the three directors several military officers were displaced and new ones appointed and at daylight on the th sept the blow was struck a large body of citizens was armed and marched to the hall of the two councils r m i the commander of the legislative guard was arrested and his troops joined the directory's the alarm bells were rung and the members of the legislature proceeded to their posts but they were occupied by soldiers many fled and secreted themselves others attempted to meet at the houses in the vicinity while an invitation was received from the directory for the council of to meet at the odeon formerly the french theatre and the elders at the school of health both in the vicinity of the directorial palace and from which the occupiers were required by the directory to remove under pain of rebellion a small number of each council met at these places and resumed the legislative functions immediately a decree passed for banishing from the republic to guiana about fifty members of the councils two of the executive directory and several of the general officers the list was declared by bergoing of the council of to have been planned in concert with the government as the executive directory is styled and so precipitate was the measure that on reading it a second time it was declared to contain the names of the best of patriots and the most early and decisive friends of the republic and le normand thibaudeau doncet bailly tarbe and noguier malguy were ordered to be erased when the name of de tora was struck off in the council of elders the constitutionality of the measure was questioned i move said laussac since the extraordinary events have not permitted us to meet in the usual place and since the constitution declares the mode in which the place shall be changed that we proceed in the constitutional form girond pouzol perhaps liberty runs great risk we must save her and not lose time in vain formalities i move we proceed to business the president declared that there were not but members present that more were wanting to form a quorum the council however proceeded to consider the message of the council of authorizing the directory to introduce within the constitutional circle the troops necessary which was approved the council then adjourned for a few hours at midnight the elders received and approved the resolution of the returning thanks to the troops for their good conduct at seven in the morning they took up the report on the banishment of the members and annulling the elections of forty eight departments girond pouzol said the committee on the subject have not been able to procure the original documents to serve as proofs against the conspirators nevertheless they felt that the situation of the republic required on your part a speedy deliberation lecoulteux replied our opinions said he are required respecting individuals whom it is proposed to transport it seems to me that before we condemn them we ought to examine whether those are any proofs against them i can see none that can make us comprehend many among them is the conspiracy shall we pronounce their banishment upon the opinions we have heard them express transportation is a terrible punishment tho it is with pleasure i do justice to the manifest intention of not shedding blood yet i must say that the punishment which tears a citizen from his wife children and family to banish him leagues from his country is a punishment as terrible as death i see nothing in what has been laid before us that ought to lead us to adopt a determination marbot the question is not susceptible of much discussion we are not to examine opinions we must separate from us the chiefs of our enemies well these chiefs are the men contained in the lists proposed to you it is not now a question to collect proofs to examine opinions it must be known whether in your consciences you think that these are chiefs of the conspiracy if you do think so you ought to save the republic regnier conjured the council to suspend the question until noon lacombe st michel the consideration of the safety of the country ought to silence all other considerations i have heard the papers read and i see a plan of conspiracy which is not doubtful we know how bad the elections have been in the departments we know that assassination is organized in them the directory offer you the means of saving the country and if you will not adopt them they will save it without you murmurs the conspiracy of pichegru is clear he has many accomplices no feebleness citizens let us think upon the obligations which the present circumstances impose upon us i move that we proceed to the vote the sitting was however adjourned until noon during which time the council received a message in which the directory say this day is the fructidor sept and the people ask you citizens representatives where the republic is and what you have done for its consolation the moment is decisive if you allow it to pass by if you hesitate on the measures which are to be taken if you put off your decision for a moment all will be lost both you and the republic after urging the councils to a decision concluded by saying the directory has applied itself to point out to you the means of saving france but has to expect that you will avail yourselves of them the directory has felt a persuasion that you are sincerely attached to liberty and the republic and that the consequences of this first liberty ought not to terrify you it lays them before you and is obliged to tell you that you are placed in an unprecedented predicament and that ordinary rules cannot apply to an extraordinary case unless you are desirous to surrender yourselves to your enemies if the friends of kings have friends among you if slaves can meet with protectors in you if you wait an instant the safety of france must be despaired of the constitution will cease to be in force and the patriots may be told that the hour of royalty is proclaimed throughout the republic but if as the executive directory is fully persuaded this terrible idea afflicts and strikes you appreciate the value of the moment and embrace it be the deliverers of your country and lay the eternal foundations of its happiness and glory the message had its desired effect the resolutions were adopted and the directory requested to take measures to see them promptly executed in the united states of america inquiry will readily be made what crimes could such men as pichegru barthelemy carnot bois d'anglas vialace dumolard p storet villeret joyeuse and other conspicuous statesmen generals orators and patriots"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1906, 2213], "b_span": [6, 317], "matched_words": 297, "similarity": 0.9611650485436893, "seeds": 49, "id": "M01293", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|2", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0396.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "charged of a conspiracy against the republic by attempting to introduce monarchy but we must say that we have not seen nor heard of any proofs against any except gen pichegru and imbert colombes the former it was said had been tampered with by the prince de conde when at the head of the republican army of the north and had promised to assist in the re-establishment of monarchy in the person of louis xviii the correspondence containing these were said to be discovered by gen moreau a year ago but secreted by him the latter was said to be the treasurer of louis xviii at lyons what decree of credence to give these documents we know not they may be forgeries or they may be true if the former a deeper laid plan never was conceived by robespierre whose charge against his devoted victims was always conspiracy against the republic if the latter we may exclaim oh human nature how fallen the measures both of the directory and the residue of the councils were decisive and complete the banished members were instantly seized committed to the temple and sent in carriages under a strong guard to rochfort from thence to be transported to cayenne in south-america on the road they were ill-treated by the general who commanded the escort but the directory disapproved of his conduct and arrested him the decree which directs their arrest adds that their property shall be sequestered after the publication of the present law and they shall not be allowed to interfere with it until after an authentic return of their arrival at the place of their transportation since this event order has been restored thus has terminated a scene the most extraordinary in the annals of history note no ii we shall resume the subject which limits will not now"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|3", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The 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former a deeper laid plan never was conceived by rob spierre whose charge against his devoted victims was always conspiracy against the republic if the latter we may exclaim on human nature how then the measures both of the directory and the refusal of the councils were decisive and complete the banished members were instantly seized committed to the temple and sent in carriages under a strong guard to rochfort from thence to be transported to cayenne in south america on the road they were ill treated by the gen who commanded the escort but the directory disapproved of his conduct and arrested him the decree which directs their arrest adds that their property shall be sequestered after the publication of the present law and they shall not be allowed to interfere with it until after an authentic return of their arrival at the place of their transportation since this event order has been restored thus has terminated a scene the most extraordinary in the annals of history note to no ii we 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all those which have taken place since the federation of the numerous assembly of citizens the enthusiasm during the ceremony the best order maintained amid upwards of spectators who filled the field of mars and the vast avenues leading to it the civic songs the dances the cries of live the republic repeated on all sides the acclamations with which the brilliant procession of the directory was welcomed on its passage the fine appearance of the troops stationed on the ground as if to represent victory and lastly the general aspect of paris on this glorious day must have inspired every friend of liberty with joy and hope redacteur"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [566, 653], "b_span": [157, 243], "matched_words": 83, "similarity": 0.9595375722543352, "seeds": 18, "id": "M01299", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|3", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New 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"date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0397.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the treaty of commerce between this country and america it is agreed that in cases where our merchants cannot obtain just debts due to them or compensation for loss or damage sustained in the ordinary course of justice the united states will make full and complete compensation but this provision is only to extend to such loss as has been occasioned by lawful impediments and not to those caused by insolvency a notice to this effect appeared in the london gazette of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-27|1|3", "date": "1797-11-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", 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"id": "M01301", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-22|1|3", "date": "1797-11-22", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-22/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112201/0397.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "capt grant who arrived here yesterday in days from amsterdam we have the means of announcing from the authority of the american consul resident in that city that the three american commissioners to the republic of france had safely arrived at paris that they were received with every mark of respect and politeness and that there was not the smallest doubt of their settling the misunderstanding between the two countries to the satisfaction of the federal government capt grant from amsterdam informs that the dutch fleet consisting of sail"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-27|1|3", 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inhabitants of this city whose sufferings must have excited the sympathy of all their fellow citizens therefore after taking measures to ascertain the state and decline of the sickness i postponed my determination having hopes now happily realized that without hazard to the lives or health of the members congress might assemble at this place where it was next by law to meet i submit however to your consideration whether a power to postpone the meeting of congress without passing the time fixed by the constitution upon such occasions would not be a useful amendment to the law of one thousand seven hundred and ninety four although i cannot congratulate you on the re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the persons and properties of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea we have nevertheless abundant cause of gratitude to the source of benevolence and influence for interior tranquility and personal security for propitious seasons prosperous agriculture productive fisheries and general improvements and above all for a rational spirit of civil and religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty as well as our moral and religious principles against all open and secret attacks our envoys extraordinary to the french republic embarked on july the other early in august to join their colleague in holland i have received intelligence of the arrival of both of them in holland from whence they all proceeded on their journeys to paris about the th of september whatever may be the result of this mission i trust that nothing will have been omitted on my part to conduct the negotiation to a successful conclusion on equitable and temperate terms as may be compatible with the safety honor and interest of the united states nothing in the meantime will contribute so much to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice as a manifestation of that energy and unanimity of which on many former occasions the people of the united states have given such memorable proofs and the exertion of those resources for national defense which a beneficent providence has kindly placed within their power it may be confidently asserted that nothing has occurred since the adjournment of congress which renders inexpedient those precautionary measures recommended by me to the consideration of the two houses at the opening of your late extraordinary session if that system was then prudent it is more so now as increasing depredations strengthen the reasons for its adoption indeed whatever may be the issue of the negotiation with france and whether the war in europe is or is not to continue i hold it most certain that permanent tranquility and order will not soon be obtained the state of society has so long been disturbed the sense of moral and religious obligation so much weakened public faith and national honor have been so impaired respect to treaties has been so diminished and the law of nations has left so much of its force while pride ambition avarice and violence have been so long unrestrained there remains no reasonable ground on which to raise an expectation that a commerce without protection or defense will not be plundered the commerce of the united states is essential if not to their existence at least to their comfort their growth prosperity and happiness the genius character and habits of the people are highly commercial their cities have been formed and exist upon commerce our agriculture fisheries arts and manufactures are connected with and depend upon it in short commerce has made this country what it is and it cannot be destroyed or neglected without involving the people in poverty and distress great numbers are directly and solely supported by navigation the faith of society is pledged for the preservation of the rights of commerce and sea faring no less than of the other citizens under this view of our affairs i should hold myself guilty of a neglect of duty if i forbore to recommend that we should make every exertion to protect our commerce and to place our country in a suitable posture of defense as the only sure means of preserving both i have entertained an expectation that it would have been in my power at the opening of this session to have communicated to you the agreeable information of the due execution of our treaty with his catholic majesty respecting the withdrawing of his troops from our territory and the demarcation of the line of limits but by the latest authentic intelligence spanish garrisons were still continued within our country and the running of the boundary line had not been commenced these circumstances are the more to be regretted as they cannot fail to affect the indians in a manner injurious to the united states still however indulging the hope that the answers which have been given will remove the objections offered by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty i have judged it proper that we should continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of limits further information on this subject will be communicated in the course of the session in connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations and to excite them to actual hostilities against the united states great activity has been exerted by those persons who have insinuated themselves among the indian tribes residing within the territory of the united states to influence them to transfer their affections and force to a foreign nation to form them into a confederacy and prepare them for war against the united states although measures have been taken to counteract these infractions of our rights to prevent indian hostilities and to preserve entire their attachment to the united states it is my duty to observe that to give a better effect to these measures and to obviate the consequences of a repetition of such practices a law providing adequate punishment for such offenses may be necessary the commissioners appointed under the fifth article of the treaty of amity commerce and navigation between the united states and great britain to ascertain the river which was truly intended under the name of the river st croix mentioned in the treaty of peace met at passamaquoddy bay in october one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and viewed the mouths of the rivers in question and the adjacent shores and islands and being of opinion that actual surveys of both rivers to their sources were necessary gave to the agents of the two nations instructions for that purpose and adjourned to meet at boston in august they met but the surveys requiring more time than had been supposed and not being then completed the commissioners again adjourned to meet at providence in the state of rhode island in june next when we may expect a final examination and decision the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty met at philadelphia in may last to examine the claims of british subjects for debts contracted before the peace and still remaining due to them from citizens or inhabitants of the united states various causes have hitherto prevented any determination but the business is now resumed and doubtless will be prosecuted without interruption several decisions on the claims of citizens of the united states for losses and damages sustained by reason of irregular and illegal captures or condemnation of their vessels or other property have been made by the commissioners in london conformably to the seventh article of the treaty the sums awarded by the british government have been paid by the british government a considerable number of other claims where costs and damages and not captured property were the only objects in question have been decided by arbitration and the sums awarded to the citizens of the united states have also been paid the commissioners appointed agreeably to the twenty-fifth article of our treaty with spain met at philadelphia in the summer past to examine and decide on the claims of our citizens for losses they have fulfilled in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the subjects of his catholic majesty during the late war between spain and france their sittings have been interrupted but are now resumed the united states being obligated to make compensation for the losses and damages sustained by the spanish subjects upon the award of the commissioners acting under the fifth article of the treaty with great britain and for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects by reason of the capture of their vessels and merchandise taken within the limits and jurisdiction of the united states and brought into their ports or taken by vessels originally armed in ports of the united states upon the awards of the commissioners acting under the seventh article of the same treaty it is necessary that provision be made for fulfilling these obligations the numerous captures of american vessels by the cruisers of the french republic and of some by those of spain have occasioned considerable expenses in making and supporting the claims of our citizens before their tribunals the sums required for this purpose have in divers instances been disbursed by the consuls of the united states by means of the same captures great numbers of our seamen have been thrown ashore in foreign countries destitute of all means of subsistence and the sick in particular have been exposed to grievous sufferings the consuls have in these cases also advanced monies for their relief for these advances they reasonably expect reimbursements from the united states the consular act relative to seamen requires revision and amendment the provision for their support in foreign countries and for their return are found to be inadequate and ineffectual another provision seems necessary to be added to the consular act some foreign vessels have been discovered sailing under the flag of the united states and with forged papers it seldom happens that the consuls can detect this deception because they have no authority to demand an inspection of the registers and sea letters gentlemen of the house of representatives it is my duty to recommend to your serious consideration those objects which by the constitution are placed particularly within your sphere the national debts and taxes since the decay of the feudal system by which the public defence was provided for chiefly at the expense of individuals the system of loans has been introduced and as no nation can raise within the year by taxes sufficient sums for its defence and military operations in time of war the sums loaned and debts contracted have necessarily become the subjects of what have been called funding systems the consequences arising from the constant accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to 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the other early in august to join their colleague in holland i have received intelligence of the arrival of both of them in holland from whence they all proceeded on their journey to paris within a few days of the nineteenth of september whatever may be the result of this mission i trust that nothing will have been omitted on my part to conduct the negotiation to a successful conclusion on such equitable terms as may be compatible with the safety honor and interests of the united states nothing in the mean time will contribute so much to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice as a manifestation of that energy and unanimity of which on many former occasions the people of the united states have given such memorable proofs and the exertion of those resources for national defence which a benevolent providence has kindly placed within their power it may be confidently asserted that nothing has occurred since the adjournment of congress which renders inexpedient those 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the agreeable information of the due execution of our treaty with his catholic majesty respecting the withdrawing of his troops from our territory and the demarcation of the line of limits but by the latest authentic intelligence spanish garrisons were still continued within our country and the running of the boundary line had not been commenced these circumstances are the more to be regretted as they cannot fail to affect the indians in a manner injurious to the u states still however indulging the hope that the answers which have been given will remove the objections offered by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty i have judged it proper that we should continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of limits further information on this subject will be communicated in the course of the session in connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the 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name of the river st croix mentioned in the treaty of peace met at passamaquoddy bay in october one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five and viewed the mouths of the rivers in question and the adjacent shores and islands and being of opinion that actual surveys of both rivers to their sources were necessary gave to the agents of the two nations instructions for that purpose and adjourned to meet at boston in august they met but the surveys requiring more time than had been supposed and not being then completed the commissioners again adjourned to meet at providence in the state of rhode island in june next when we may expect a final examination and decision the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty met at philadelphia in may last to examine the claims of british subjects for debts contracted before the peace and still remaining due to them from citizens or inhabitants of the united states various causes have hitherto prevented any determinations but 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and gentlemen of the house of representatives we are met together at a most interesting period the situation of the principal powers of europe are singular and portentous connected with some by treaties and with all by commerce no important event there can be indifferent to us such circumstances call with peculiar importunity not less for a disposition to unite in all those measures on which the honour safety and prosperity of our country depend than for all the exertions of wisdom and firmness in all such measures you may rely on my zealous and"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1353, 1921], "b_span": [1887, 2451], "matched_words": 542, "similarity": 0.9575971731448764, "seeds": 105, "id": "M01303", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-11-23|1|3", "date": "1797-11-23", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", 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objections offered by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty i have judged it proper that we should continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of limits further information on this subject will be communicated in the course of the session in connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations and to excite them to actual hostilities against the united states great activity has been exerted by those persons who have insinuated themselves among the indian tribes residing within the territory of the united states to influence them to transfer their affections and force to a foreign nation to form them into a confederacy and prepare them for war against the united states although measures have been taken to counteract these infractions of our rights to prevent indian hostilities and to preserve entire their attachment 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providence in the state of rhode island in june next when we may expect a final examination and decision the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty met at philadelphia in may last to examine the claims of british subjects for debts contracted before the peace and still remaining due to them from citizens or inhabitants of the united states various causes have hitherto prevented any determination but the business is now resumed and doubtless will be prosecuted without interruption several decisions on the claims of citizens of the united states for losses and damages sustained by reason of irregular and illegal captures or condemnation of their vessels or other property have been made by the commissioners in london conformably to the seventh article of the treaty the sums awarded by the british government have been paid by the british government a considerable number of other claims where costs and damages and not captured property were the only objects 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funding systems the consequences arising from the constant accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own the national defence must be provided for as well as the support of government but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes and as little as possible by loans the estimates for the service of the ensuing year will by my direction be laid before you gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives we are met together at a most interesting period the situations of the principal powers of europe are singular and portentous connected with some by treaties and with all by commerce no important event there can be indifferent to us such circumstances call with peculiar importunity not less for a disposition to unite in all those measures on which the honour safety and prosperity of our country depend than for all the exertions of wisdom and firmness in all such measures 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directly solely supported by navigation the faith of society is pledged for the preservation of the rights of commercial and seafaring no less than of the other citizens under this view of our affairs i should hold myself guilty of a neglect of duty if i forbore to recommend that we should make every exertion to protect our commerce and to place our country in a suitable posture of defence as the only sure means of preserving both i have entertained an expectation that it would have been in my power at the opening of this session to have communicated to you the agreeable information of the due execution of our treaty with his catholic majesty respecting the withdrawing of his troops from our territory and the demarkation of the line of limits but by the latest authentic intelligence spanish garrisons were still continued within our country and the running of the boundary line had not been commenced these circumstances are the more to be regretted as they cannot fail to affect the indians in a manner injurious to the u states still however indulging the hope that the answers which have been given will remove the objections offered by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty i have judged it proper that we should continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of limits further information on this subject will be communicated in the course of the session in connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations to excite them to actual hostilities against the u states great activity has been exercised by these persons who have insinuated themselves among the indian tribes residing within the territory of the united states to influence them to transfer their affections and force to a foreign nation and to form them into a confederacy and to prepare them for war against the u states altho measures have been taken to counteract these infractions of our rights to prevent indian hostilities and to preserve entire their attachment to the u states it is my duty to observe that to give a better effect to these measures to obviate the consequences of a repetition of such practices a law providing adequate punishment for such offences may be necessary the commissioners appointed under the fifth article of the treaty of amity commerce and navigation between the u states g britain to ascertain the river which was truly intended under the name of the river st croix mentioned in the treaty of paris met at pottawatuck bay in october one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and viewed the mouths of the rivers in question and the adjacent shores and islands and being of opinion that actual surveys of both rivers to their sources were necessary gave to the agents of the two nations instructions for that purpose and adjourned to meet at boston in august they met but the surveys requiring more time than had been supposed and not being then completed the commissioners again adjourned to meet at providence in the state of rhode island in june next when we may expect a final examination and decision the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty met at philadelphia in may last to examine the claims of british subjects for debts contracted before the peace and still remaining due to them from citizens or inhabitants of the united states various causes have hitherto prevented any determinations but the business is now resumed and doubtless will be prosecuted without interruption several decisions on the claims of citizens of the united states for losses and damages sustained by reason of irregular and illegal captures or condemnations of their vessels or other property have been made by the commissioners in london conformably to the seventh article of the treaty the sums awarded by the commissioners have been paid by the british government a considerable number of other claims where costs and damages and not captured property were the only object in question have been decided by arbitration and the sums awarded to the citizens of the u s have also been paid the commissioners appointed agreeably to the twenty-first article of our treaty with spain met at philadelphia in the summer past to examine and decide on the claims of our citizens for losses they have sustained in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the subjects of his catholic majesty during the late war between spain and france the sittings have been interrupted but are now resumed the united states being obligated to make compensation for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects upon the award of the commissioners acting under the sixth article of the treaty with great britain and for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects by reason of the capture of their vessels and merchandise taken within the limits and jurisdiction of the united states and bro't into their ports or taken by vessels originally armed in ports of the u s upon the awards of the commissioners acting under the seventh article of the same treaty it is necessary that provision be made for fulfilling these obligations the numerous captures of american vessels by the cruisers of the french republic and of some by those of spain have occasioned considerable expenses in making and supporting the claims of our citizens before their tribunals the sums required for the purpose have in divers instances been furnished by the consuls of the u s by means of the same captures great numbers of our seamen have been thrown ashore in foreign countries destitute of all means of subsistence and the sick in particular have been exposed to grievous sufferings the consuls have in these cases also advanced monies for their relief for these advances they reasonably expect reimbursements for the united states the consular act relative to seamen requires revision and amendment the provisions for their support in foreign countries and for their return are found to be inadequate inefficient another provision seems necessary to be added to the consular act some foreign vessels have been discovered sailing under the flag of the u s and with foreign papers it seldom happens that the consuls can detect this deception because they have no authority to demand an inspection of the register and letters gentlemen of the house of representatives it is my duty to recommend to your serious consideration those objects which by the constitution are placed particularly within your sphere the national debt and taxes since the decay of the feudal system by which the public defence was provided for chiefly at the expense of individuals the system of loans has been introduced and as no nation can raise within the year by taxes sufficient sums for its defence and military operations in time of war the sums loaned and debts contracted have necessarily become the subject of what have been called funding systems the consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own the national defence must be provided for as well as the support of government but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes and as little as possible by loans the estimates for the service of the ensuing year will by my direction be laid before you gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives we are met together at a most interesting period the situation of the principal powers of europe are singular and portentous connected with some by treaties and with all by commerce no important event there can be indifferent to us such circumstances call with peculiar importunity not less for a disposition to use in all those measures on which the honor safety and prosperity of our country depend than for all the exertions of wisdom and firmness 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previous to which the emperor asked of him a declaration the items of the demand may be conceived from the following which was the effect declaration of gen la fayette dated olmutz aug the commission with which the marquis de chasteller is intrusted appears to relate to three points his imperial majesty wishes to ascertain the true state of our situation at olmutz i am not disposed to prefer any complaint upon the subject the detailed circumstances respecting it may be found in the letters received or sent back which were transmitted by my wife to the austrian government and if his imperial majesty is not satisfied by reading over the orders sent in his name from vienna i am willing to give the marquis de chasteller any information he may think proper to desire his majesty the emperor and king wishes to be assured that upon my release i shall immediately set out for america i have frequently signified this to have been my intention but as an answer under the present circumstances might seem to admit the right of exacting such a condition i do not judge it proper to comply with this demand his majesty the emperor and king does me the honor to signify to me that the principles which i profess being incompatible with the security of the austrian government it is his pleasure that i should not re-enter his dominions without his special permission i have duties from which i am not at liberty to withdraw myself i am under obligations of duty to the united states above all i am under obligations of duty to france and i can contract no engagement inconsistent with those rights which my country holds over me with these exceptions i can assure the general marquis de chasteller that it is my inviolable resolution never to set foot on any territory subject to his majesty the king of bohemia and hungary consequently i the undersigned engage myself to his majesty the emperor and king never at any time to enter into any of his hereditary dominions without having first obtained his special permission provided this engagement is not understood to contravene the right my country holds over me signed la fayette the directory invited general la fayette to return to france and this invitation has been renewed since the late revolution he will no doubt accept the invitation and go to paris to acknowledge the obligations that he is under for the interference of the directory in his favour but we understand he is going to spa or aix-la-chapelle to take the waters for the recovery"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|3", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112801/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "deputies under summary judgment of transportation arrived at rochfort on the st sept they were embarked the same day at noon and the wind being favorable they were expected in a few hours to be out of sight thus the execrable sentence of the directory against these men without trial is carried into effect and the wretched imitators of their tyranny in every country of the world will have to quote their example of injustice for the persecution of the men whose opinions they dread whether these men were guilty or innocent is foreign to the question it is only by a trial that justice could be satisfied la fayette was liberated aug previous to which the emperor issued of him a declaration the items of the demand may be conceived from the following which was the effect declaration of gen la fayette dated omuiz aug the commission with which the marquis de chasteller is intrusted appears to relate to three points his imperial majesty wishes to ascertain the true state of our situation at omuiz i am not disposed to prefer any complaint upon the subject the detailed circumstances respecting it may be found in the letters received or sent back which were transmitted by my wife to the austrian government and if his imperial majesty is not satisfied by reading over the orders sent in his name from vienna i am willing to give the marquis de chasteller any information he may think proper to desire his majesty the emperor and king wishes to be assured that upon my release i shall immediately set out for america i have frequently signified this to have been my intention but as an answer under the present circumstances might seem to admit the right of exacting such a condition i do not think it proper to comply with this demand his majesty the emperor king does me the honor to signify to me that the principles which i profess being incompatible with the security of the austrian government it is his pleasure that i should not re-enter his dominions without his special permission i have duties from which i am not at liberty to withdraw myself i am under obligations of duty to the united states above all i am under obligations of duty to france and i can contract no engagement inconsistent with these rights which my country holds over me with these exceptions i can assure the gen marquis de chasteller that it is my invariable resolution never to set foot on any territory subject to his majesty the king of bohemia and hungary consequently i the undersigned engage myself to his majesty the emperor and king never at any time to enter into any of his hereditary dominions without having first obtained his special permission provided this engagement is not understood to contravene the right my country holds over me signed la fayette the directory invited gen la fayette to return to france and this invitation has been renewed since the late revolution he will no doubt accept the invitation and go to paris to acknowledge the obligations that he is under for the interference of the directory in his power but we understand he is going to spa or aix la chapelle to take the waters for the 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withdraw myself i am under obligations of duty to the united states above all i am under obligations of duty to france and i can contract no engagement inconsistent with those rights which my country holds over me with these exceptions i can assure the general marquis de chasteller that it is my invariable resolution never to set foot on any territory subject to his majesty the king of bohemia and hungary consequently i the undersigned engage myself to his majesty the emperor and king never at any time to enter into any of his hereditary dominions without having first obtained his special permission provided this engagement is not understood to contravene the right my country holds over me signed la fayette the directory invited general la fayette to return to france and this invitation has been renewed since the late revolution he will no doubt accept the invitation and go to paris to acknowledge the obligations that he is under for the interference of the directory in his favour but 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revolutionary code and have annulled the free and legal elections they have determined on the transportation of fifty-two representatives among whom your deputies have the honour to be comprehended and it is by thus overthrowing the constitution that they accuse us of conspiring against them and place at the head of a ridiculous royalist conspiracy pichegru the immortal defender of the republic paris contemplates with a mournful silence these crimes which it cannot repress in a word never has military despotism been displayed with greater impudence amid a generous nation never has a greater crime of th-nation disgraced the french revolution i consider it as my duty to confirm to you all these facts of which you must have been informed by rumour i deposit with you my protest and that of the majority of the two councils against the violence by which we have been oppressed generous fellow-citizens i know your hearts repress your indignation at the recital of this dreadful news calmly consider the situation in which you are placed let your energy be tempered by prudence this is the only advice which i can give you from the retreat in which i am compelled to hide myself and where i cherish the hope of being able to serve you better than on the desert shores of guiana camille jordan p s i shall without delay address to you a faithful account of the events of the th and th you will be able to judge for yourselves of the conduct of your representatives and that of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-11-28|1|3", "date": "1797-11-28", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-11-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797112801/0015.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "deputy of the department of the rhone to all the administrations and all the citizens of his department fructidor sept th year my fellow-citizens a horrible crime has just been committed three directors have erected the standard of rebellion against the national representation they have caused the place in which our sittings are held to be invested by armed men and have driven us forcibly from thence several deputies are apprehended a great number have betaken themselves to flight they have no possible mode of communicating with each other and the national representation no longer exists an handful of deputies the slaves of the directors deliberating with guns at their breasts dare to still usurp the title they have published the terrible revolutionary code and have annulled the free and legal elections they have determined on the transportation of fifty two representatives among whom your deputies have the honor to be comprehended and it is by thus overthrowing the constitution that they accuse us of conspiring against them and place at the head of a ridiculous royalist conspiracy pichegru the immortal defender of the republic paris contemplates with a mournful silence these crimes which it cannot repress in a word never has military despotism been displayed with greater impudence amid a generous nation never has a greater crime of lezation disgraced the french revolution i consider it as my duty to confirm to you these facts of which you must have been informed by rumor i deposit with you my protest and that of the majority of the two councils against the violence by which we have been oppressed generous fellow citizens i know your hearts repress your indignation at the recital of this dreadful news calmly consider the situation in which you are placed let your energy be tempered by prudence this is the only advice which i can give you from the obscurity of the retreat in which i am compelled to hide myself and where i cherish the hope of being able to serve you better than on the desert shores of guiana camille jourdan p s i shall without delay address to you a faithful account of 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the subject the detailed circumstances respecting it may be found in the letters received or sent back which were transmitted by my wife to the austrian government and if his imperial majesty is not satisfied by reading over the orders sent in his name from vienna i am willing to give the marquis de chasteller any information he may think proper to desire his majesty the emperor and king wishes to be assured that upon my release i shall immediately set out for america i have frequently signified this to have been my intention but as an answer under the present circumstances might seem to admit the right of exacting such a condition i do not think it proper to comply with this demand his majesty the emperor king does me the honor to signify to me that the principles which i profess being incompatible with the security of the austrian government it is his pleasure that i should not re-enter his dominions without his special permission i have duties from which i am not at liberty to withdraw myself i am under obligations of duty to the united states above all i am under obligations of duty to france and i can contract no engagement inconsistent with these rights which my country holds over me with these exceptions i can assure the gen marquis de chasteller that it is my invariable resolution never to set foot on any territory subject to his majesty the king of bohemia and hungary consequently i the undersigned engage myself to his majesty the emperor and king never at any time to enter into any of his hereditary dominions without having first obtained his special permission provided this engagement is not understood to contravene the right my country holds over me signed la fayette the directory invited gen la fayette to return to france and this invitation has been renewed since the late revolution he will no doubt accept the invitation and go to paris to acknowledge the obligations that he is under for the interference of the directory in his power but we 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imperial majesty is not satisfied by reading over the orders sent in his name from vienna i am willing to give the marquis de chasteller any information he may think proper to desire his majesty the emperor and king wishes to be assured that upon my release i shall immediately set out for america i have frequently signified this to have been my intention but as an answer under the present circumstances might seem to admit the right of exacting such a condition i do not think it proper to comply with this demand his majesty the emperor and king does me the honour to signify to me that the principles which i profess being incompatible with the security of the austrian government it is his pleasure that i should not re-enter his dominions without his special permission i have duties from which i am not at liberty to withdraw myself i am under obligations of duty to the united states above all i am under obligations of duty to france and i can contract no engagement inconsistent with those rights which my country holds over me with these exceptions i can assure the general marquis de chasteller that it is my invariable resolution never to set foot on any territory subject to his majesty the king of bohemia and hungary consequently i the undersigned engage myself to his majesty the emperor and king never at any time to enter into any of his hereditary dominions without having first obtained his special permission provided this engagement is not understood to contravene the right my country holds over me signed la fayette the directory invited general la fayette to return to france and this invitation has been renewed since the late revolution he will no doubt accept the invitation and go to paris to acknowledge the obligations that he is under for the interference of the directory in his favour but we understand he is going to spa or aix-la-chapelle to take the waters for the recovery"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording 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praising the uncommon talents of his darling sammy he is called upon to speak a number of declamations he has learned at school his oratory has just as much merit as the parrot's his writing and ciphering books are shown as prodigies of improvement they prove that he has an inattentive master and is a very careful scholar the fond father believes him to be a natural poet true he is fond of reading ballads has been taught to repeat a number of hymns by heart and like most children is fond of the tickling of rhyme he has proceeded so far as to compose a few couplets that would be a sufficient antidote to the poetic mania his little tricks are related as the marks of sagacity or flight of genius i am tired of hearing them he is neither more nor less than other boys and his father is like many other men tis a pity a lad should be made a fool because he happens to be thought a genius how often is a lad sent to college because he is unfortunately mistaken for an uncommon youth a father who has not spare dollars enough to bring up his son at college would do well never to force him from the beaten tract of honest industry it has peace and plenty on the right hand and on the left a good common education and the habit of industry are worth more to a young man than the dear bought and ill merited a m many may flutter on the artificial wings of genius but few can soar above their fellow creatures a real genius is a very rare thing not to be seen in every family except by the eye of dorge or ignorance if a boy from the production of his leisure hours that his mate devote to play can produce a masterly specimen of mechanical genius encourage his exertions and let him follow the beat of his mind if he discover an early propensity to study will be industrious in the field and forfeit the pastimes of youth for the entertainment of his books becomes master of his pike and a proficient in philosophy and history let him drink his fill at the pierian spring he will be a scholar but if he is distinguished for nothing but his flights of fancy love of poetry novels and plays tie him to the tail of the plough rather than send him to college fancy without judgment is a fine ship without a rudder it had better lie at anchor in a safe harbor than be let adrift on the ocean and genius without application and economy is a mere ignis fatuus while it promises to guide the bewildered object to the temple of fame it leads to the vale"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797122001/0207.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "every parent will say of his son he is a genius why because from a very natural and innocent prejudice he believes he is an extraordinary boy if geniuses met with sufficient encouragement and your son happened to be one of these rare birds it might be well to assist him in his flights if he is not never lead him into a fatal error i seldom spend an evening at my neighbour meanwell's but he employs one half his time in praising the uncommon talents of his darling sammy he is called upon to speak a number of declamations he has learned at school his oratory has just as much merit as the parrot's his writing and ciphering books are shown as prodigies of improvement they prove that he has had an inattentive master and is a very careless scholar the fond father believes him to be a natural poet true he is fond of reading ballads has been taught to repeat a number of hymns by heart and like most children is fond of tinkling of rhyme he has proceeded so far as to compose a few couplets that would be a sufficient antidote to the poetic mania his little tricks are related as the marks of sagacity or the flights of genius i am tired of hearing them he is neither more nor less than other boys and his father is like many other men tis a pity a lad should be made a fool because he happens to be thought a genius how often is a lad sent to college because he is unfortunately mistaken for an uncommon youth a father who has not spare dollars enough to bring up his son at college would do well never to force him from the beaten tract of honest industry it has peace and plenty and on the right hand and on the left a common education and the habit of industry are worth more to a young man than the dear bought and ill merited a m many may flutter on the artificial wings of genius but few can soar above their fellow creatures a real genius is a very rare thing not to be seen in every family except by the eye of doteage or ignorance if a boy from the production of his leisure hours that his mates devote to play can produce a masterly specimen of mechanical genius encourage his exertions and let him follow the bent of his mind if he discover an early propensity to study will be inducious in the field and forfeit the past times of youth for the entertainment of his books becomes master of his pike and a proficient in philosophy and history let him drink his fill at the pierian spring he will be a scholar but if he is distinguished for nothing but flights of fancy love of poetry novels and plays tie him to the tail of the plow rather than send him to college fancy without judgment is a fine ship without a rudder it had better lie at anchor in a safe harbour than be let adrift on the ocean and genius without application and economy is a mere ignis fatuus while it promises to guide the bewildered object to the temple of fame it leads to the vale"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2366, 2472], "b_span": [2050, 2143], "matched_words": 75, "similarity": 0.7537688442211056, "seeds": 8, "id": "M01317", "a": {"key": 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and secret attacks we learn with satisfaction that our envoys extraordinary to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-12|1|2", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121201/0022.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the persons and properties of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea we have nevertheless abundant cause of gratitude to the source of benevolence influence for interior tranquility and personal security for propitious seasons prosperous agriculture productive fisheries and general improvements and above all for a rational spirit of civil religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty as well as our moral and 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your official character we cannot but approve of the measures you had taken to ascertain the state and decline of the contagious sickness which has so lately afflicted the city of philadelphia and the pleasing circumstance that congress is now assembled at that place without hazard to the health of its members evinces the propriety of your having postponed a determination to convene the national legislature at any other place we shall take into consideration the law of on this subject and will readily concur in any amendment which may be deemed expedient it would have given us much pleasure to have received your congratulations on the re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the person and property of our citizens from injustice by sea but though these events so desirable to our country and the world have not taken place yet we have abundant cause of gratitude to the great disposer of human events for interior tranquility and personal security for propitious seasons prosperous agriculture productive fisheries and general improvement and above all for a rational spirit of civil and religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty against all open and secret attacks we learn with satisfaction that our envoys extraordinary to the french republic had lately arrived in europe and were proceeding to the scene of negotiation and whatever may be the result of the mission we are perfectly satisfied that nothing on your part has been omitted which could in any way conduce to a successful conclusion of the negotiation upon terms compatible with the safety honour and interest of the united states and we are fully convinced that in the mean time a manifestation of the unanimity and energy of which the people of the united states have given such memorable proofs and a proper exertion of those resources of national defence which we possess will essentially contribute to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice we think sir with you that the commerce of the united states is essential to the growth comfort and prosperity of our country and that the faith of society is pledged for the preservation of the rights of commercial and sea-faring no less than of other citizens and even if our negotiation with france should terminate unfavorably and the war in europe cease yet the state of society which unhappily prevails in so great a portion of the world and the experience of past times under better circumstances unite in warning us that a commerce so extensive and which holds out so many temptations to lawless plunderers can never be safe without protection and defence and we hold ourselves obliged by every tie of duty which binds us to our constituents to promote and concur in such measures of marine defence as may convince our merchants and seamen that their rights are not sacrificed nor their injuries forgotten we regret that notwithstanding the clear and explicit terms of the treaty between the united states and his catholic majesty the spanish garrisons are not yet withdrawn from our territory nor the running of the boundary line commenced the united states have been faithful in the performance of their obligations to spain and had reason to expect a compliance equally prompt on the part of that power we still however indulge the hope that the convincing answers which have been given to the objections stated by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty will have their proper effect and that this treaty so mutually beneficial to the contracting parties will be finally observed with good faith we therefore earnestly approve of your determination to continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of partition between our territory and that of the king of spain attempts to alienate the affections of the indians to form them into a confederacy and to excite them to actual hostility against the united states whether made by foreign agents or by others are so injurious to our interests at large and so inhuman with respect to our citizens inhabiting the adjacent territory as to deserve the most exemplary punishment and we will cheerfully afford our aid in framing a law which may prescribe a punishment adequate to the commission of crimes so heinous the several objects you have pointed out to the attention of the legislature whether they regard our internal or external relations shall receive from us that attention which they merit and we will readily concur in all such measures as may be necessary either to enable us to fulfil our engagements at home or to cause ourselves to be respected abroad and at this portentous period when the powers of europe with whom we are connected by treaty or commerce are in so critical a situation and when the conduct of some of those powers towards the united states is so hostile and menacing the several branches of the government are in our opinion called upon with peculiar importance to unite and by union not only to devise and carry into effect those measures on which the safety and prosperity of our country depend but also to undecieve those nations who regarding us as a weak and divided people have pursued systems of aggression inconsistent with a state of peace between independent nations and sir we beg leave to assure you that we derive a singular consolation from the reflection that at such a time the executive part of our government has been committed to your hands for your integrity talents and firmness we place the most entire confidence to which the president was pleased to make the following reply gentlemen of the senate i thank you for this address when after the most laborious investigation and serious reflection without partial considerations or personal motives measures have been adopted or recommended i can receive no higher testimony of their rectitude than the approbation of an assembly so independent patriotic and enlightened as the senate of the united states nothing has afforded me more entire satisfaction than the coincidence of your judgment with mine in the opinion of the essential importance of our commerce and the absolute necessity of a maritime defence what is it that has drawn to europe the superfluous riches of the three other quarters of the globe but a marine what is it that has drained the wealth of europe itself into the coffers of two or three of its principal commercial powers but a marine the world has furnished no example of a flourishing commerce without a maritime protection and a moderate knowledge of man and his history will convince any one that no such prodigy ever can arise a mercantile marine and a military marine must grow up together one cannot long exist without the other john adams"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-13|1|1", "date": "1797-12-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": 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philadelphia we participate in the satisfaction which you are pleased to express that the duration of the late calamity was so limited as to render unnecessary the expense and inconvenience that would have been incident to the convention of congress in another place and we shall readily attend to every useful amendment of the law which contemplates the event of contagious sickness at the seat of government in lamenting the increase of the injuries offered to the persons and property of our citizens at sea we gratefully acknowledge the continuance of interior tranquillity and the attendant blessings of which you remind us as alleviations of these fatal effects of injustice and violence whatever may be the result of the mission to the french republic your early and uniform attachment to the interests of our country your important services in the struggle for its independence and your unceasing exertions for its welfare afford no room to doubt of the sincerity of your efforts to conduct the negotiation to a successful conclusion on such terms as may be compatible with the safety honour and interest of the united states we have also a firm reliance upon the energy and unanimity of the people of these states in the assertion of their rights and in the determination to exert upon all proper occasions their ample resources in providing for the national defence the importance of commerce and its beneficial influence upon agriculture arts and manufactures have been verified in the growth and prosperity of our country it is essentially connected with the other great interests of the community they must flourish and decline together and while the extension of our navigation and trade naturally excites the jealousy and tempts the avarice of other nations we are firmly persuaded that the numerous and deserving class of citizens engaged in these pursuits and dependent on them for their subsistence has a strong and indisputable claim to our support and protection the delay of the spanish officers to fulfil the treaty existing with his catholic majesty is a source of deep regret we learn however with satisfaction that you still indulge hopes of removing the objections which have been made to its execution and that you have continued in readiness to receive the posts disposed to perform with fidelity our national engagements we shall insist upon the same justice from others which we exercise towards them our abhorrence cannot be too strongly expressed of the intrigues of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations and to rouse them to acts of hostility against the united states no means in our power shall be omitted of providing for the suppression of such cruel practices and for the adequate punishment of their atrocious authors upon the other interesting subjects noticed in your address we shall bestow the requisite attention to preserve inviolate the public faith by providing for the due execution of our treaties to indemnify those who may have just claims to retribution upon the united states for expenses incurred in defending the property and relieving the necessities of our unfortunate fellow-citizens to guard against the laws intended to secure advantages to the navigation of our own vessels and especially to prevent by all possible means an unnecessary accumulation of the public debt are duties which we shall endeavour to keep in view and discharge with fidelity we regard with great anxiety the singular and portentous situation of the principal powers of europe it was devoutly to be wished that the united states remote from the seat of war and discord unambitious of conquest respecting the rights of other nations and desirous merely to avail themselves of their natural resources might be permitted to behold the scenes which desolate that quarter of the globe with only those sympathetic emotions which are natural to the lovers of peace friends of the human race but we are led by events to associate with these 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another place and we shall readily attend to every useful amendment of the law which contemplates the event of contagious sickness at the seat of government in lamenting the increase of the injuries offered to the persons and property of our citizens at sea we gratefully acknowledge the continuance of interior tranquillity and the attendant blessings of which you remind us as alleviations of these fatal effects of injustice and violence whatever may be the result of the mission to the french republic your early and uniform attachment to the interests of our country your important services in the struggles for its independence and your unceasing exertions for its welfare afford no room to doubt of the sincerity of your efforts to conduct the negotiation to a successful conclusion on such terms as may be compatible with the safety honor and interest of the u states we have also a firm reliance upon the energy and unanimity of the people of these states in the assertion of their rights and in their determination to exert upon all proper occasions their ample resources in providing for the national defence the importance of commerce and its beneficial influence upon agriculture arts and manufactures have been verified in the growth and prosperity of our country it is essentially connected with the other great interests of the community they must flourish and decline together and while the extension of our navigation and trade necessarily extends the jealousy and tempts the attack of other nations we are firmly persuaded that the numerous and deterring class of citizens engaged in these pursuits and dependent on them for their subsistence has a strong and indissoluble claim to our support and protection the delay of the spanish officers to fulfil the treaty existing with his catholic majesty is a source of deep regret we learn however with satisfaction that you still indulge hopes of removing the objections which have been made to its execution and that you have continued in readiness to receive the posts disposed to perform with fidelity our national engagements nothing shall be wanting on our part to obtain the justice from others which we exercise towards them our abhorrence cannot be too strongly expressed of the intrigues of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations and to rouse them to acts of hostility against the united states no means in our power should be omitted of providing for the suppression of such cruel practices and for the adequate punishment of their atrocious authors upon the other interesting subjects noticed in your address we shall bestow the requisite attention to preserve inviolate the public faith by providing for the due execution of our treaties to indemnify those who may have just claims to retribution upon the u states for expenses incurred in defending the property and relieving the necessities of our unfortunate fellow citizens to guard against evasion of the laws intended to secure advantages to the navigation of our own vessels and especially to prevent by all possible means an unnecessary accumulation of the public debt are duties which we shall endeavor to keep in view and discharge with assiduity we regard with great anxiety the singular and portentous situation of the principal powers of europe it was devoutly to be wished that the u states remote from this seat of war and discord unambitious of conquest respecting the rights of other nations and desirous merely to avail themselves of their natural resources might be permitted to behold the scenes which desolate that quarter of the globe with only those sympathetic emotions which are natural to the lovers of peace and friends of the human race but we are led by events to associate with these feelings a sense of the dangers which menace our security and peace we rely upon your assurance of a zealous and hearty concurrence in such measures as may be necessary to avert these dangers and nothing on our part 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attempted a brief sketch of the rise progress and issue of the late eruption in the french republic we shall add that after the prostration of the two directors and fifty odd legislators thirteen of whom were of the council of elders the two councils directed warrants to be issued to those departments whose elections had been declared void to fill the vacancies and the council of five hundred proceeded to elect and send up to the council of elders twenty candidates for the office of directors from whom the elders elected by ballot merlin of douai late minister of justice to supply the vacancy of barth lemy who had near five years to serve and francois of neufch teau late minister of the interior in the room of carnot who accepted and were inaugurated in form several changes in the ministry consequently took place a great part of the banished representatives were from the southern departments to guard against any effects which the measures just adopted might have in those departments the directory was invested with power to declare places in a state of siege in virtue of this power after the army of the alps was joined to that of italy the southern departments were declared to be within the limits of the command of gen buonaparte who immediately issued his proclamation to those departments informing them of his intention to march to defend his army towards the south and to extirpate monarchy at the last dates joubert's and massena's divisions had arrived in france lyons bourdeaux c were declared in a state of siege we hear little more from the interior of france on the exterior the armies held very near the same positions they did at the close of the summer campaign the head-quarters of the army of italy was at milan in the cisalpine republic and that of the rhine c at wetzlar some diversions have been made by the former on the adriatic the army of the rhine now composes all the troops which were in those of the sambre and meuse and rhine and moselle hoche was appointed generalissimo he is said to be dead his death is confirmed gen moreau who lately commanded the army of the sambre and meuse has been arrested after the explosion of the th he was invited by the directory to repair to paris on his route he was arrested at st dennis a paris writer says moreau the bosom friend of pichegru was when at the head of the army viewed by the directory with much jealousy and fear they knew that his political sentiments corresponded with those of pichegru and they dreaded his popularity among those soldiers who had refused to address the directory against the two councils of the negotiations at udina and lisle our readers are already in possession of many particulars at the former place they advanced and retrograded in strange rotation while on neither side was a single movement in the machine of war stopped or retarded after being suspended for some time the negotiations were renewed the claims of the respective negotiators at the last meeting were that the emperor should retain istria and dalmatia in the venetian territory and receive mantua and a part of venetian friuli the directory insisted that he should retain dalmatia only that istria should be given up as in the hand of the house of austria it would menace the security of the city of venice and prove injurious to the commercial relations of the new republic the emperor was offered in compensation a portion of bavaria the above we understand was the ultimatum of each party at the latest dates we have been informed that before the epoch of the th september the directory had acceded to the claims of the emperor on the persevering demands of carnot and barth lemy the prospects of peace with austria were then brightening but after the expulsion of these members the directory published the address which we laid before our readers in our last in this address are seen the harbingers of a recommencement of hostilities the directory declares that to put an end to the tardiness of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode left that of again taking up arms etc it has therefore ordered all the troops of the requisitions to join the armies by the th october we may thus conclude that hostilities between austria and france have re-commenced ere this at lisle the negotiations continued until the arrival of a new commissioner citizen treilhard who succeeded letourneur at their first meeting treilhard demanded of lord malmesbury whether he was empowered to treat with the republic on the basis of restitution of all the conquests made by great britain from france and her allies during the war to this his lordship replied that he had no such powers the places which the british government demanded to retain were the cape of good hope trinidad and ceylon in consequence citizen treilhard notified him of the order of the directory for him to quit the republic in hours and obtain such powers lord malmesbury immediately quitted france and arrived in london sept th thus the fair prospect of peace which had spread its consoling influence over half the globe is again enveloped in angry clouds which present nothing but fiery meteors portentous of war and all its concomitants when on this head it may be expected we should turn our attention to an inquiry into the disposition of the french republic as it regards the united states of america though we have fought it earnestly we have not found it reports are that the directory notified of the appointment of the extra commissioners had sent passports and given orders that on their arrival in france they should be treated with respect this is all we have heard and we have not this officially one thing we can say that all the members of the directory and councils who have advocated the justice of the claims of the u s to indemnity for spoliations on her commerce and her right as an independent nation to form whatever treaties she thought fit are amongst the recently banished statesmen we shall close this article with a short sketch of the french finances as they are presented to us in the report of fabre to the council of five aug hundred he stated the expensed expences and receipts of the year to be as follows expences franks legislative body archives c executive directory indemnity to electors war department of justice foreign affairs navy colonies c general police interior c treasury finance c c annuities pensions c unforeseen expenses total receipts forests salt-pits and canals land-tax personal tax registration stamps mortgages licences c duties on notaries customs and postage powder and salt-petre new taxes on the above contributions of foreign powers revenue of national property landed income sale of national goods c deficiencies of last year total by which there appears to be an expended deficiency of livres to make good which committees were raised to report new imposts and taxes cisalpine republic this new republic which comprehends many of the hereditary estates of the empire is completely organized it has been acknowledged by the french republic and a treaty of alliance has been formed between them citizen visconti the first plenipotentiary was received in the hall of the directory and expressed in warm terms the gratetude of his government which he said took for its model that to whose generosity"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|1", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0017.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "history of the political state of the world collected from the most authentic sources and of the latest dates multum in parvo here nothing is extenuated nor ought for down in malice the french republic in continuation in the first number we attempted a brief sketch of the rise progress and issue of the late eruption in the french republic we shall add that after the proscription of the two directors and fifty odd legislators thirteen of whom were of the council of elders the two councils directed warrants to be issued to those departments whose elections had been declared void to fill the vacancies and the council of five hundred proceeded to elect and send up to the council of elders twenty candidates for the office of directors from whom the elders elected by ballot merlin of douai late minister of justice to supply the vacancy of barthel my who had near five years to serve and francois of neufchateau late minister of the interior in the room of carnot who accepted and were inaugurated in form several changes in the ministry consequently took place a great part of the banished representatives were from the southern departments to guard against any effects which the measures just adopted might have in those departments the directory was invested with power to declare places in a state of siege in virtue of this power after the army of the alps was joined to that of italy the southern departments were declared to be within the limits of the command of gen buensparte who immediately issued his proclamation to those departments informing them of his intention to march two divisions of his army towards them to defend the constitution of the d year and to extirpate monarchy at the last dates joubert's and mass na's divisions had arrived in france lyons bordeaux c were declared in a state of siege we hear little more from the interior of france on the exterior the armies hold very near the same positions they did at the close of the summer campaign the head quarters of the army of italy was at milan in the cisalpine republic and that of the rhine c at weimar some alterations have been made by the former on the adriatic the army of the rhine now composed all the troops which were in those of the sambre and meuse and rhine and moselle hoche was appointed generalissimo he is said to be dead his death is confirmed gen moreau who lately commanded the army of the sambre and meuse has been arrested after the explosion of the th he was invited by the directory to repair to paris on his route he was arrested at st dennis a paris writer says moreau the bottom friend of pichegru was when at the head of the army viewed by the directory with much jealousy and fear they knew that his political sentiments corresponded with those of pichegru and they dreaded his popularity among those soldiers who had refused to address the directory against the two councils of the negotiations at udina and lille our readers are already in possession of many particulars at the former place they advanced and retrograded in strange rotation while on neither side was a single movement in the machine of war stopped or retarded after being suspended for some time the negotiations were renewed the claims of the respective negotiators at the last meeting were that the emperor should retain iliria dalmatia in the venetian territory and receive manua and a part of venetian friuli the directory insisted that he should retain dalmatia only that iliria should be given up as it in the hand of the house of austria it would menace the security of the city of venice and prove injurious to the commercial relations of the new republic the emperor was offered in compensation a portion of bavaria the above we understand was the ultimatum of each party at the latest dates we have been informed that before the epoch of the th of september the directory had accepted to the claims of the emperor on the persevering demands of carnot and barthel my the prospects of peace with austria were then brightening but after the expulsion of these members the directory published the address which we laid before our readers in the centinel of saturday last in this address are seen the harbinger of a commencement of hostilities the directory declare that to put an end to the tardiness of the cabinet of vienna and to free austria from english influence the only real obstacle to the peace of europe there is but one mode left that of again taking up arms c it has therefore ordered all the troops of the requisitions to join the armies by the th october we may thus conclude that hostilities between austria and france have commenced ere this at lile the negotiations continued until the arrival of a new commissioner citizen treillard who succeeded le tourneur at their first meeting treillard demanded of lord malmsbury whether he was empowered to treat with the republic on the basis of restitution of all the conquests made by g britain from france and her allies during the war to this his lordship replied that he had no such powers the places which the british government demanded to retain were the cape of good hope trinidad and ceylon in consequence citizen treillard notified him of the order of the directory for him to quit the republic in hours and obt in such powers lord malmsbury immediately quitte france and arrived in london sept th thus the fair prospect of peace which had spread its consoling influence over half the globe is again enveloped in angry clouds which are sent nothing but fiery meteors portentious of war and all its concomitants when on this head it may be expected we should turn our attention to a inquiry into the disposition of the french republic as it regards the united states of america though we have sought it earnestly we have not found it reports are that the directory notified of the appointment of the extra commissioners had sent passports and given orders that on their arrival in france they should be treated with respect this is all we have heard and we have not this officially one thing we can say that all the members of the directory and councils who have advocated the justice of the claims of the u s to indemnity for spoliation on her commerce and her right as an independent nation to form whatever treaties she thought fit are amongst the recently banished statesmen we shall close this article with a short sketch of the french finances as they are presented to us in the report of fabbe to the council of aug five hundred he stated the expected expenses and receipts of the year to be as follows expenses franks legislative body archivist c executive directory indemnity of members war department or justice foreign affairs navy colonial c general police interior c treasury finance c annuities pensions c unforeseen expenses total receipts forests salt-pits canals land tax personal tax registration brands mortgages licences c duties on notaries customs and postage powder and salt duties new taxes on the army contributions of foreign powers revenue of national property landed properties sale of national goods c deficiencies of last year total by which there appears to be an expected deficiency of livres to make good which committees were raised to report new imposts and taxes cisalpine republic this new republic which comprehends many of the hereditary estates of the empire is completely organized it has been acknowledged by the french republic and a treaty of alliance has been formed between them citizen viscony the first plenipotentiary was received in the hall of the directory and expressed in warm terms the gratitude of his government which he said took for its model that to whose generosity"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2, 400], "b_span": [1721, 2118], "matched_words": 389, "similarity": 0.9786163522012579, "seeds": 71, "id": "M01325", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-29|1|2", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112901/0400.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "liberty yes citizens directors said he we shall always be your allies what do i say allies i should have said your most faithful and most devoted friends your cause shall be ours your existence will secure that of the cisalpine republic and your prosperity shall be ours the president of the directory la reveilliere lepaux made a very lengthy and spirited reply it is said he a glorious day for the republic when it receives the envoy of a people become free through its means that is placed in the rank of powers and in the number of its allies notwithstanding the secret practices and all-disguised rancour of those who have exerted themselves so much to oblige them to abandon it to the chains and vengeance of its ancient masters this stroke was levelled at the majorities in the two councils no the cisalpine republic is not precarious and the people who compose it may be assured that it will subsist with glory and be the ally of france though the emperor has refused to receive an envoy from it the political relations of this republic are extending citizen caleppio of bergamo is appointed minister to spain and citizen magrini to the court of tuscany they are both lawyers it is not surprising says a cisalpine writer that in our republic the lawyers perform a principal part both in the interior and in foreign missions this class is here as in most other countries composed of the most enlightened citizens they were the first the most ardent propagators of the revolutionary principles to which we are indebted for our independence they have therefore the first right to our confidence this remark will hold good in all enlightened free countries the lawyers were the most powerful advocates of american independence and are now among the ablest defenders of the constitution of the united states in the cisalpine republic the most active preparations are making for furnishing the french troops with the means to renew hostilities with strength and vigour mantua which we think is within the limits of the republic is placed in a powerful state of defence and is provisioned for a year s siege an immense quantity of bread was getting ready at milan and all the rice and vegetables of piedmont are put in requisition the form of government of this new republic is a"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|1", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0017.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "liberty yes citizens directors said he we shall always be your allies what do i say allies i should have said your most faithful and most devoted friends your cause shall be ours your existence will secure that of the cisalpine republic and your prosperity shall be ours the president of the directory la reveilliere lepaux made a very lengthy spirited reply it is said he a glorious day for the republic when it receives the envoy of a people become free thro its means that is placed in the rank of powers and in the number of its allies notwithstanding the secret practices and all dissipated rancour of those who have exerted themselves so much to oblige them to abandon it to the chains and vengeance of its ancient masters this stroke we levelled at the majorities in the two councils no the cisalpine republic is not precarious and the people who compose it may be assured that it will subsist with glory and be the ally of france that the emperor has refused to receive an envoy from it the political relations of this republic are extending citizen caleppio of bergamo is appointed minister to spain and citizen magnani to the court of tuscany they are both lawyers it is not surprising says a cisalpine writer that in our republic the lawyers perform a principal part both in the interior and in foreign missions this class is here as in most other countries composed of the most enlightened citizens they were the first and the most ardent propagators of the revolutionary principles to which we are indebted for our independence they have therefore the first right to our confidence this remark will hold good in all enlightened free countries the lawyers were the most powerful advocates of american independence and are now among the ablest defenders of the constitution of the united states in the cisalpine republic the most active preparations are making for furnishing the french troops with means to renew hostilities with strength and vigour mantua which we think is within the limits of the republic is placed in a powerful state of defence and is provisioned for a year's siege an immense quantity of bread was getting ready at milan and all the rice and vegetables of piedmont are put in requisition the form of government of this new republic is a"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [403, 848], "b_span": [1, 432], "matched_words": 415, "similarity": 0.9474885844748858, "seeds": 73, "id": "M01326", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-29|1|2", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112901/0400.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of france it is divided into departments viz of the adda appennine-alps cressulo lario mountain olano panero po serio ticino and verano of which the chief towns are lodi massa reggio corris lecca milan modena cremona bergamo paria and pavesi the extent of the republic may be estimated from these particulars the directory has been installed in pomp and has been congratulated thereon by the king of sardinia and the dukes of tuscany and parma gen buonaparte appears the adviser and counsellor of all its measures several cities of the venetian terra firma have requested to be united to the cisalpine republic among them are padua vicenza bassano bellano feltre and cadore they contain near twelve hundred thousand inhabitants should they be united this republic will be respectable and powerful the city of venice has also sent citizen battaglia to declare its wish for a union with cisalpina and the directory has expressed its concurrence from the french batavian and cisalpine republic we turn to a th called the ligurian republic known heretofore by the name of genoa where the ancient orders have been abolished a provisional government established and a new constitution proposed in this new order of things the clergy take the lead forty of them distinguished for their knowledge and eloquence have undertaken the task of instructing their fellow-citizens in the principles of democracy in this mission they pursue an uniform plan digested by themselves and approved by the government they assemble the people by the bell when after a suitable prayer two of them in a dialogue illustrate some of the following subjects religion the character of a democratic government the analogy between a democratic government and the principles of the roman catholic religion the justice and evils of the ancient governments and the advantages of the new emblems of liberty patriotic and religious festivals public contributions butions the representatives of the nation and other public functionaries after this catechetical instruction accommodated to the understanding of the most ignorant one of the missionaries gives a discourse on some of the succeeding topics the concord which should prevail among citizens and the renunciation of the right of private vengeance public tranquility and confidence in government the love of country and beneficence towards fellow-citizens the vices opposite to true patriotism intolerance selfishness ambition violence c religious obedience to the laws of the republic advice regarding the election of public functionaries concluding with the oath of not suffering themselves to be corrupted by intrigues but to choose patriotic and honest men every meeting is terminated with prayers for the happy organization of the ligurian republic and with a benediction the bishop of noli takes"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|2", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0018.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of france it is divided into eleven departments viz of the adda appenine-alps crotolo lario mountain orano panero po serio ticino and verbano of which the chief towns are lodi massa reggio corio lecca milan modena cremona bergamo paris and pavia the extent of the republic may be estimated from these particulars the directory has been installed in pomp and has been congratulated thereon by the king of sardinia and the duke of tuscany and pavia gen buonaparte appears the adviser and counsellor of all its measures several cities of the venetian terra firma have requested to be united to the cisalpine republic among them are padua vicenza bassano belluno feltre and cadore they contain near twelve hundred thousand inhabitants should they be united this republic will be respectable and powerful the city of venice has also sent citizen battaglia to declare its wish for a union with cisalpine and the directory has expressed its concurrence the ligurian republic known heretofore by the name of genoa where the ancient orders have been abolished a provisional government established and a new constitution proposed in this new order of things the clergy take the lead forty of them distinguished for their knowledge and eloquence have undertaken the task of instructing their fellow-citizens in the principles of democracy in this mission they pursue an uniform plan digested by themselves and approved by the government they assemble the people by the bell when after a suitable prayer two of them in a dialogue illustrate some of the following subjects religion the character of a democratic government the analogy between a democratic government and the principles of the roman catholic religion the injustice and evils of the ancient governments and the advantages of the new emblems of liberty patriotic and religious festivals public contributions the representative of the nation and other public functionaries after this catechetical instruction accommodated to the understanding of the most ignorant one of the missionaries gives a discourse on some of the succeeding topics the concord which should prevail among citizens and the renunciation of the right of private vengeance public tranquility and confidence in government the love of country and beneficence towards fellow-citizens the vices opposite to true patriotism indolence selfishness ambition violence c religious obedience to the laws of the republic advice regarding the election of public functionaries concluding with the oath of not suffering themselves to be corrupted by intrigues but to choose patriotic honest men every meeting is terminated with prayer for the happy organization of the ligurian republic and with a benediction the bishop of noli takes"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [424, 1397], "b_span": [280, 1202], "matched_words": 907, "similarity": 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improve and strengthen the agreeable state of our internal affairs must be a pleasing employment the constitution of the state requiring that a valuation of the estates within the state shall be taken anew once in every five years at least referring to the time when the last was taken i presume it will be thought necessary in the present session to provide for a new valuation gentlemen of the house of representatives although i have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes i cannot omit asking your attention to the subject at this time considering that it is always wise in a time of peace and tranquility to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives standing armies in times of peace being burdensome to the people and dangerous to liberty a well regulated militia is wisely considered as the natural and only safe defence of republican governments under this persuasion a spirit highly patriotic has been manifested in a multiplicity of instances as it respects the militia of this state yet there is an opinion prevailing that the burthen is not equally borne as it ought to be the general regulation of the militia belongs to our national government but if in any particulars you should think proper to facilitate the business your determination will meet my ready attention connected as we are with the united states our duty and interest combine to evince the propriety of contemplating our national affairs in forming that system of government we had a share a system which i doubt not is now more generally approved than when it was first adopted notwithstanding any difference of opinion which has arisen respecting the administration of it in any particulars which respect foreign nations perfection in human affairs is not to be expected to satisfy every citizen is next to impossible but if our system of national government is generally good if it is free if we have the choice as frequently as we wish of persons to administer it if one of our fundamental and irreversible principles in a republican government is that a majority shall govern is it not proper to give a firm support to the laws and administration of such a government and for every citizen duly to consider how far clamour and opposition thereto has injured or procured or may invite or procure injuries from any foreign nation the depredations on our navigation commerce must not only be sensibly felt by the immediate individual sufferers but considered as a great injury and indignity to the nation to prevent the future and procure satisfaction for the past appertains to our national government to guard our rights and fully and candidly examine the conduct of every one whose appointment we have a voice in is a duty incumbent on every citizen but should we in any future time neglect or misuse our privileges until we find ourselves either in a state of anarchy or governed by tyrants we must then look back to the present happy state with deep regret for the loss a state which perhaps may not be regained until the blood of many citizens is shed as the price in our constitution it is expressly declared that knowledge and learning are essential to the preservation of a free government and that it shall be the duty of the legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences and all seminaries and public schools and it is also declared the legislature shall assemble for the redress of public grievances and for making such laws as the public good may require coming as you do from all parts of the state if there are any public grievances you must know them also what laws the interests of literature and the public good may require permit me to ask that a due attention may be paid to the subject of all public laws at an early period in the session that time may be given for their thorough consideration and be assured gentlemen that it is among the first wishes of my heart to be instrumental in promoting the peace and prosperity of the community john taylor gilman state of new-hampshire nov voted that mr connor mr shepherd mr j smith mr sprague and mr blalldell be a committee to draft an answer to his excellency's address and lay the same before this house adjourned to o'clock p m met accordingly voted that mr goddard mr thompson mr warner mr upham and mr butler be a committee on the part of this house to join such of the honorable senate as they may appoint to report a bill or resolve for taking a new inventory of the rateable articles within this state in order for making a new proportion of taxes voted that mr pinkerton mr waldron mr french mr a parker and mr everett be a committee on the part of this house to join such of the honorable senate as they may appoint to take under consideration the laws of this state respecting schools and report such alterations as they may judge proper"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0019.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the representatives chamber his excellency the governor came in escorted by the committee and delivered to both branches of the legislature the following address fellow citizens of the senate and of the house of representatives in meeting you at this time when tranquility general health and prosperity of the state afford so much cause for mutual congratulation may i not invite you to join me in renewed expressions of gratitude to the sovereign disposer of events for the continuation of his providential care to unite our utmost endeavors to improve and strengthen the agreeable state of our internal affairs must be a pleasing employment the constitution of the state requiring that a valuation of the estates within the state shall be taken anew once in every five years at least referring to the time when the last was taken i presume it will be thought necessary in the present session to provide for a new valuation gentlemen of the house of representatives although i have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes i cannot omit asking your attention to the subject at this time considering that it is always wise in a time of peace and tranquility to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives standing armies in times of peace being burdensome to the people and dangerous to liberty a well regulated militia is wisely considered as the natural and only safe defence of republican governments under this persuasion a spirit highly patriotic has been manifested in a multiplicity of instances as it respects the militia of this state yet there is an opinion prevailing that the burthen is not so equally borne as it ought to be the general regulation of the militia belongs to our national government but if in any particulars you should think proper to facilitate the business your determination will meet my ready attention connected as we are with the united states our duty and interest combine to evince the propriety of contemplating our national affairs in forming that system of government we had a share a system which i doubt not is now more generally approved than when it was first adopted notwithstanding any difference of opinion which has arisen respecting the administration of it in any particulars which respect foreign nations perfection in human affairs is not to be expected to satisfy every citizen is next to impossible but if our system of national government is generally good if it is free if we have the choice as frequently as we wish of persons to administer it if one of our fundamental and irreversible principles in a republican government is that a majority shall govern it is not proper to give a firm support to the laws and administration of such a government and for every citizen duly to consider how far clamour and opposition thereto have invited or procured or may invite or procure inquiries from any foreign nation the depredations on our navigation and commerce must not only be sensibly felt by the immediate individual sufferers but considered as a great injury and indignity to the nation to prevent the future and procure satisfaction for the past appertains to our national government to guard our rights and fully and candidly examine the conduct of every one whose appointment we have a voice in is a duty incumbent on every citizen but should we in any future time neglect or misuse our privileges until we find ourselves either in a state of anarchy or governed by tyrants we must then look back to the present happy state with deep regret for the loss a state which perhaps may not be regained until the blood of many citizens is shed as the price in our constitution it is expressly declared that knowledge and learning are essential to the preservation of a free government and that it shall be the duty of the legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences and all seminaries and public schools and it is also declared the legislature shall assemble for the redress of public grievances and for making such laws as the public good may require coming as you do from all parts of the state if there are any public grievances you must know them also what laws the interests of literature and the public good may require permit me to ask that a due attention may be paid to the subject of all public laws at an early period in the session that time may be given for their thorough consideration and be assured gentlemen that it is among the first wishes of my heart to be instrumental in promoting the peace and prosperity of the country john taylor gilman state of new hampshire nov voted that messrs connor shepherd j smith sprague and blafdel be a committee to draught an answer to his excellency's address and lay the same before this house voted that messrs goddard warner thompson upham and butler be a committee to report a bill or resolve for taking a new inventory of the rateable articles within this state in order for making a new proportion of taxes voted that messrs pinkerton waldron french a parker and everett be a committee to take under consideration the laws of this state respecting schools and report such alterations as they may judge proper"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2876, 2953], "b_span": [1283, 1360], "matched_words": 76, "similarity": 0.987012987012987, "seeds": 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"sn83025588|1797-11-29|1|3", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112901/0401.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "report was accepted a vote came down from the hon senate for taking under consideration the propriety of encouraging or directing the manufacture of military arms for the use of the militia of this state and to report what method shall be pursued for that purpose was read and joined voted the prayer of a petition for incorporating a social library in sanborntown in senate nov voted that messrs hale fogg blanchard m'clary and hoit be a committee of the senate to draft an answer to his excellency's address the committee reported the following answer to his excellency's address may it please your excellency with the greatest pleasure the senate have viewed your communications to both branches of the legislature and unite in the warmest gratitude to the beneficent disposer of all good for the prosperity and tranquility the state now enjoys the improvement and strengthening this pleasing state of our internal concerns will unite our exertions the constitutional mode of ascertaining the value of estates shall meet our due attention considering the importance of a well regulated militia and deprecating the burthen and danger of a standing army in time of peace we shall with alacrity unite in cherishing the patriotic spirit of the militia of this state and endeavor equitably to proportion the burthen though the general regulation of the militia may belong to the national government we esteem it our interest and it is our wishes to forward its improvement the happy effects of the system of national government we had a share in forming will be appreciated by every friend to his country convinced that our national government is formed on the surest basis of liberty that the majority ought to rule that we have an opportunity as often as we can rationally wish to change and elect our rulers we view it as the palladium of our rights and entitled to our firmest support although jealousy is a lively trait in a political character yet when very scrupulously exercised towards the administrators of government it may tend to lessen the confidence of a people in their rulers and we view with regret and indignation the faction that clamours for the destruction of our peace and government and conceive it's only source to be the dregs of successive foreign anarchy operating on the weak and vicious we most sensibly feel the private injury and national indignity suffered in the depredations on our navigation and commerce but shall cheerfully acquiesce in the mode of indemnity our national government may adopt the promotion of literature the redressing public grievances and enacting such laws as the public good may require together with the other subjects contained in your excellency's communication will meet our zealous attention the hon house of representatives answer to his excellency's address may it please your excellency the house of representatives have carefully considered your communication at the opening of the present session of the general court and most cordially unite with you in sentiments of gratitude and praise to the great parent of good as we are the agents and representatives of a free people it is our highest duty and will be our most pleasing employment to unite and exert our abilities and influence for the good of our constituents and this employment is rendered peculiarly pleasant when we contemplate your excellency's warm attachment to the interest of the state and your constant readiness to co-operate with the legislature in all measures for the public good being a part of the united states we cannot view the administration of our general government or the state of our foreign relations with indifference and unconcern as the constitution of that government was framed by our wisest and best men was adopted after a candid discussion and upon mature deliberation without violence or tumult it belongs to us to repossess proper confidence in the officers of our own choice and willingly afford effective aid to that government which we have instituted for the common good the beneficial effects of the constitution of the united states has been generally felt and acknowledged to be far greater than was at first expected a spirit of enquiry into the principles of a government and the mode of its administration pertains to a free people but when that spirit becomes intemperate and its design is to promote opposition to divide and weaken the government it may embolden foreign powers to invade our rights and embarrass the measures necessary to obtain redress wherever such a restless uneasy temper appears we will lend our firmest aid to discourage and correct it as a diversity of opinions will ever exist where learning prevails and the interest of literature is cherished we hope its effect will be to inspire all with that spirit of candor and forbearance which constitutes a large portion of social happiness and security the several subjects recommended in your address to our consideration shall be noticed with the attention which their importance demands and from past experience we fully confide in your readiness to concur with us in every legislative act which may tend to the peace"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0019.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "report was accepted a vote came down from the senate for taking under consideration the propriety of encouraging or directing the manufacture of military arms for the use of the militia of this state and to report what method shall be pursued for that purpose was read and joined in senate nov voted that messrs hale fogg blanchard m'clary and holt be a committee to draught an answer to his excellency's address the committee reported the following answer to his excellency's address may it please your excellency with the greatest pleasure the senate have viewed your communications to both branches of the legislature and unite in the warmest gratitude to the beneficent disposer of all good for the prosperity and tranquility the state now enjoys the improvement and strengthening of the present state of our internal concerns will unite our exertions the constitutional mode of ascertaining the value of estates shall meet our due attention considering the importance of a well regulated militia and deprecating the burthen and danger of a standing army in time of peace we shall with alacrity unite in cherishing the patriotic spirit of the militia of this state and endeavour equitably to proportion the burthen though the general regulation of the militia may belong to the national government we esteem it our interest and it is our wishes to forward its improvement the happy effects of the system of national government we had a share in forming will be appreciated by every friend to his country convinced that our national government is formed on the surest basis of liberty that the majority ought to rule that we have an opportunity as often as we can rationally wish to change and elect our rulers we view it as the palladium of our rights and entitled to our firmest support although jealousy is a lively trait in a political character yet when very scrupulously exercised towards the administrators of government it may tend to lessen the confidence of a people in their rulers and we view with regret and indignation the faction that clamours for the destruction of our peace and government and conceive its only source to be the dregs of successive foreign anarchy operating on the weak and vicious we must sensibly feel the private injury and national indignity suffered in the depredations on our navigation and commerce but shall cheerfully acquiesce in the mode of indemnity our national government may adopt the promotion of literature the redress of public grievances and enacting such laws as the public good may require together with the other subjects contained in your excellency's communication will meet our zealous attention answer of the house to his excellency's address may it please your excellency the house of representatives have carefully considered your communication at the opening of the present session at the gen court and most cordially unite with you in sentiment of gratitude and praise to the great parent of good as we are the agents and representatives of a free people it is our highest duty and will be our most pleasing employment to unite and exert our abilities and influence for the good of our constituents and this employment is rendered peculiarly pleasant when we contemplate your excellency's warm attachment to the interest of the state and your constant readiness to co-operate with the legislature in all measures for the public good being a part of the united states we cannot view the administration of our general government or the state of our foreign relations with indifference and unconcern as the constitution of that government was framed by our wisest and best men was adopted after a candid discussion and upon mature deliberation without violence or tumult it belongs to us to reposit proper confidence in the officers of our own choice and willingly afford effective aid to that government which we have insisted for the common good of the united states has been generally acknowledged to be far greater than was at first expected a spirit of equity into the principles of a government of the mode of its administration pertains to a free people but when that spirit becomes intemperate and its design to promote opposition to divide and weaken the government it may embolden foreign powers to invade our rights and embolden the measures necessary to maintain redress wherever such a spirit easily temper appears we will lend it our best aid to discourage and correct it as a diversity of opinions will ever exist where learning prevails and the interest of literature is cherished we hope its effects will be to inspire all with a spirit of candor and forbearance which constitutes a large portion of social happiness and security the several subjects recommended in your address to our consideration shall be noticed with the attention which their importance deserves and from past experience we fully confidence in your readiness to concur with us in every legislative act which may tend to the peace"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [418, 1244], "b_span": [1620, 2441], "matched_words": 808, "similarity": 0.9811778992106861, "seeds": 156, "id": "M01330", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-29|1|3", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-11-29/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797112901/0401.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "senate being assembled with the house in the representatives chamber his excellency the governor came in escorted by the committee and delivered to both branches of the legislature the following address fellow citizens of the senate and of the house of representatives in meeting you at this time when the tranquility general health and prosperity of the state afford so much cause for mutual congratulation may i not invite you to join me in renewed expressions of gratitude to the sovereign disposer of events for the continuation of his providential care to unite our utmost endeavors to improve and strengthen the agreeable state of our internal affairs must be a pleasing employment the constitution of the state requiring that a valuation of the estates within the state shall be taken anew once in every five years at least referring to the time when the last was taken i presume it will be thought necessary in the present session to provide for a new valuation gentlemen of the house of representatives although i have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes i cannot omit asking your attention to the subject at this time considering that it is always wise in a time of peace and tranquility to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives standing armies in times of peace being burdensome to the people and dangerous to liberty a well regulated militia is wisely considered as the natural and only safe defence of republican governments under this persuasion a spirit highly patriotic has been manifested in a multiplicity of instances as it respects the militia of this state yet there is an opinion prevailing that the burthen is not equally borne as it ought to be the general regulation of the militia belongs to our national government but if in any particulars you should think proper to facilitate the business your determination will meet my ready attention connected as we are with the united states our duty and interest combine to evince the propriety of contemplating our national affairs in forming that system of government we had a share a system which i doubt not is now more generally approved than when it was first adopted notwithstanding any difference of opinion which has arisen respecting the administration of it in any particulars which respect foreign nations perfection in human affairs is not to be expected to satisfy every citizen is next to impossible but if our system of national government is generally good if it is free if we have the choice as frequently as we wish of persons to administer it if one of our fundamental and irreversible principles in a republican government is that a majority shall govern is it not proper to give a firm support to the laws and administration of such a government and for every citizen duly to consider how far clamour and opposition thereto has injured or procured or may invite or procure injuries from any foreign nation the depredations on our navigation commerce must not only be sensibly felt by the immediate individual sufferers but considered as a great injury and indignity to the nation to prevent the future and procure satisfaction for the past appertains to our national government to guard our rights and fully and candidly examine the conduct of every one whose appointment we have a voice in is a duty incumbent on every citizen but should we in any future time neglect or misuse our privileges until we find ourselves either in a state of anarchy or governed by tyrants we must then look back to the present happy state with deep regret for the loss a state which perhaps may not be regained until the blood of many citizens is shed as the price in our constitution it is expressly declared that knowledge and learning are essential to the preservation of a free government and that it shall be the duty of the legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences and all seminaries and public schools and it is also declared the legislature shall assemble for the redress of public grievances and for making such laws as the public good may require coming as you do from all parts of the state if there are any public grievances you must know them also what laws the interests of literature and the public good may require permit me to ask that a due attention may be paid to the subject of all public laws at an early period in the session that time may be given for their thorough consideration and be assured gentlemen that it is among the first wishes of my heart to be instrumental in promoting the peace and prosperity of the community john taylor gilman state of new-hampshire nov"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-08|1|2", "date": "1797-12-08", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797120801/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "senate being assembled with the house in the representatives chamber his excellency the governor came in escorted by the committee and addressed the legislature with the following speech fellow-citizens of the senate and of the house of representatives in meeting you at this time when the tranquility general health and prosperity of the state afford so much cause for mutual congratulation may i not invite you to join me in renewed expressions of gratitude to the sovereign disposer of events for the continuation of his providential care to unite our utmost endeavours to improve and strengthen the agreeable state of our internal affairs must be a pleasing employment the constitution of the state requiring that a valuation of the estates within the state shall be taken anew once in every five years at least referring to the time when the last was taken i presume it will be thought necessary in the present session to provide for a new valuation gentlemen of the house of representatives although i have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes i cannot omit asking your attention to the subject at this time considering that it is always wise in a time of peace and tranquility to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives standing armies in times of peace being burdensome to the people and dangerous to liberty a well regulated militia is wisely considered as the natural and only safe defence of republican governments under this persuasion a spirit highly patriotic has been manifested in a multiplicity of instances as it respects the militia of this state yet there is an opinion prevailing that the burthen is not so equally borne as it ought to be the general regulation of the militia belongs to our national government but if in any particulars you should think proper to facilitate the business your determination will meet my ready attention connected as we are with the united states our duty and interest combine to evince the propriety of contemplating our national affairs in forming that system of government we had a share a system which i doubt not is now more generally approved than when it was first adopted notwithstanding any difference of opinion which has arisen respecting the administration of it in any particulars with respect to foreign nations perfection in human affairs is not to be expected to satisfy every citizen is next to impossible but if our system of national government is generally good if we have the choice as frequently as we wish of persons to administer it if one of our fundamental and irrepressible principles in a republican government is that a majority shall govern it is not proper to give a firm support to the laws and administration of such a government and for every citizen duly to consider how far clamour and opposition thereto has invited or procured or may invite and procure injuries from any foreign nation the depredations on our navigation and commerce must not only be sensibly felt by the immediate individual sufferers but considered as a great injury and indignity to the nation to prevent the future and procure satisfaction for the past appertains to our national government to guard our rights and fully and candidly examine the conduct of every one whose appointment we have a voice in is a duty incumbent on every citizen but should we in any future time neglect or misuse our privileges until we find ourselves either in a state of anarchy or governed by tyrants we must then look back to the present happy state with deep regret for the loss a state which perhaps may not be regained until the blood of many citizens is shed as the price in our constitution it is expressly declared that knowledge and learning are essential to the preservation of a free government and that it shall be the duty of the legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences and all seminaries and public schools and it is also declared the legislature shall assemble for the redress of public grievances and for making such laws as the public good may require coming as you do from all parts of the state if there are any public grievances you must know them also what laws the interests of literature and the public good may require permit me to ask that a due attention may be paid to the subject of all public laws at an early period in the session that time may be given for their thorough consideration and be assured gentlemen that it is among the first wishes of my heart to be instrumental in promoting the peace and prosperity of the community john taylor gilman state of new-hampshire nov"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3340, 3529], "b_span": [3692, 3882], "matched_words": 180, "similarity": 0.9498680738786279, "seeds": 30, "id": "M01331", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-11-29|1|3", "date": "1797-11-29", "paper": "The New Hampshire 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but power is left to time and the wise to decide there is no doubt much of mystery in most political affairs and those of france have long been deemed unfathomable like other men of common learning and understanding we can only compare what we do not perfectly know with what we do now how would it be in america in paris near sixty representatives and senators and two of the five directors are turned out and banished in half an hour to die of the yellow fever on the coast of africa how would such a thing proceed in america here a law must first be passed describing the crime and pointing out banishment as the punishment then a grand and petit jury must decide on the offence solely and plainly charged and described and if either of the said juries should decide against the wishes of the federal government the laws would lay to our rulers thus far shall we go and no farther but in france justice goes by beat of drum and much quicker now which is best american liberty or french some have 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indulgence mr williams wished the gentleman would withdraw his motion as it was trifling with the resolutions of the house to excuse any member from a compliance with them he hoped the gentleman would not persevere in his singularity though it might be the will of some of his constituents against the will of so large a majority of the house mr otis hoped the motion would not prevail he presumed no gentleman there was particularly anxious for the society of the gentleman from vermont on this occasion no doubt he would grace the procession but it would be sufficiently long without him and if he chose to remain behind he need be under no apprehensions of being called to account for his conduct it was not becoming the dignity of the house to pass the resolution in question it appeared to him that the gentleman was in full health and spirits and every way fit for business and as the house had resolved the thing should be done he had no idea of admitting the protest of an individual upon 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being a head the returned but again set sail the d and was soon out of sight the officer who commands received his orders by an extraordinary courier which he is not to open until he is at sea gen lemoine succeeds gen angereau in the command at paris the latter is gone to take the command of the armies on the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [443, 1050], "b_span": [778, 1395], "matched_words": 590, "similarity": 0.9640522875816994, "seeds": 112, "id": "M01346", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|2", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0018.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "conclude this number better than quoting the following pertinent remarks in the late new order of things in france from the dedham minerva one of the chief causes of our profiting so little by experience is that we badly comprehend its lessons indeed it is said that men never grow wise by any experience but their own because perhaps no other is well enough understood the astonishing revolution in paris of the th september will form a great article in future history we know few of its circumstances and causes but to those who will not wait long to make up a final judgment we offer the following remarks the directory consisting of five persons and the legislative councils answering to our american senates and representatives disagreed the directory having gained the armies had it in their power to decide the dispute by force and it was decided by beat of drum in half a day then was easy to obtain from the new modelled councils after one third were banished laws and resolutions to keep the beaten party down and to assure the people that their political salvation was once more accomplished which party was right or whether either scuffled for any thing but power is left to time and the wise to decide there is no doubt much of mystery in most political affairs and those of france have long been deemed unfathomable like other men of common learning and understanding we can only compare what we do now how would it be in america in paris near sixty representatives and senators and two of the five directors are turned out and banished in half an hour to die of the yellow fever on the coast of africa how would such a thing proceed in america here a law must first be passed describing the crime and pointing out banishment as the punishment then a grand and petit jury must decide on the offence formally and plainly charged and described and if either of the juries should decide against the wishes of the federal government the laws would say to our rulers thus far shall ye go and no farther but in france justice goes by the beat of drum and much quicker now which is best american liberty or french some have heretofore pretended to doubt one great line of difference and immensely important it is lies here that all power in france actually rests in the same hands it is the singleness the unity of that power that envenoms the curse of their tyranny that makes every stroke of its whip draw blood it is an electric flash that kills and consumes without warning and without redress in the united states of america the power that disposes of life and liberty is divided those who make laws are subject to them in fact as well as in name and those who submit to the laws find them a rod of iron which crushes them if they offend but a wall of brass if they are innocent in a word our liberty is in our keeping for the juries in the case of the government s desiring to prosecute private citizens is that of brass by the independence of the judicial power the government is never so feeble as when it is despotic these observations lead to the error and imperfection of the french system and ought to impress upon every reflecting mind the value of the solid and real liberty of our country in which every citizen is secure and feels so how much is this experimented security to be preferred to the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|1", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797122501/0109.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "conclude this number better than quoting the following pertinent remark in the late new order of things in france from the drabham minerva of thursday last one of the chief causes of our profiting so little by experience is that we badly comprehend its lessons indeed it is said that men never grow wise by any experience but their own because perhaps no other is well enough understood the astonishing revolution in paris of the th september will form a great article in future history we know few of its circumstances and causes but to those who will not wait long to make up a final judgment we offer the following remark the directory consisting of five persons and the two legislative councils answering to our american senates and representatives disagreed the directory having gained the army had it in their power to decide the dispute by force and it was decided by beat of drum in half a day then it was easy to obtain from the new modelled councils after one third were banished laws and resolves to keep the beaten party down and to assure the people that their political salvation was once more accomplished which party was right or whether either struggled for any thing but power is left to time and the wise to decide there is no doubt much of mystery in most political affairs and those of france have long been deemed unfathomable like other men of common learning and understanding we can only compare what we do not perfectly know with what we do now how would it be in america in paris near sixty representatives and senators and two of the five directors are turned out and banished in half an hour to die of the yellow fever on the coast of africa how would such a thing proceed in america here a law must first be passed describing the crime and pointing out banishment as the punishment then a grand and petit jury must decide on the offence solely and plainly charged and described and if either of the said juries should decide against the wishes of the federal government the laws would lay to our rulers thus far shall we go and no farther but in france justice goes by beat of drum and much quicker now which is best american liberty or french some have hitherto pretended to doubt one great line of difference and immensely important it is lies here that all power in france actually rests in the same hands it is the singleness the unity of that power that envenoms the curse of their tyranny that makes every stroke of its whip draw blood it is an electric flash that kills and consumes without warning and without redress in the united states of america the power that disposed of life and liberty is divided those who make laws are subject to them in fact as well as in name and those who submit to the laws find them a rod of iron which crochets them if they offend but a wall of brass if they are innocent in a word our liberty is in our keeping for the juries in the case of the government's desiring to prosecute private citizens is that of brass by the independence of the judicial power the government is never so feeble as when it is despotic these observations lead to the error and imperfection of the french system and ought to impress upon every reflecting mind the value of the solid and real liberty of our country in which every citizen is secure and safe how much is this experimented security to be preferred to the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2275, 2472], "b_span": [4386, 4556], "matched_words": 131, "similarity": 0.7138964577656676, "seeds": 13, "id": "M01347", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0019.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "warfare are paramount and that every exertion is making to give effect to the first encounter of the opposing general notwithstanding this appearance the negotiations at udine were not discontinued at the last dates and it is said that the french commissioners trubart and bonnier were gone again to lisse to the british government after the return of ld melmsbury to london had they patch a courier to them advices received at philadelphia from holland stated the arrival of british commissioners who failed from amiens information at the same city from the st stated that pinckney and marthland reached that capital that fauchet and adet were appointed to confer with them and treated them with much austerity a letter from paris dated oct the war will be continued in europe with renewed numbers and augmented inveteracy since the expulsion of the jacobins the jacobins and the jacobins who were certainly the friends of our country i am fearful the terms proposed on our extra-commissioners will be harder than if their arrival had been posterior to the eruption as yet they have made no progress in the negotiation and we cannot even conjecture the issue my candid opinion"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-07|1|3", "date": "1797-12-07", "paper": "Gazette of the 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inveteracy since the expulsion of barthelemy paltoret vaublan and others who were certainly the friends of our country i am fearful the terms imposed on our extra commissioners will be harder than if their arrival had been posterior to that eruption as yet they have made no progress in the negotiation and we cannot even conjecture the issue my candid opinion"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [280, 1089], "b_span": [1626, 2429], "matched_words": 791, "similarity": 0.9813895781637717, "seeds": 154, "id": "M01348", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0019.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "in the representatives chamber his excellency the governor came in escorted by the committee and delivered to both branches of the legislature the following address fellow citizens of the senate and of the house of representatives in meeting you at this time when tranquility general health and prosperity of the state afford so much cause for mutual congratulation may i not invite you to join me in renewed expressions of gratitude to the sovereign disposer of events for the continuation of his providential care to unite our utmost endeavors to improve and strengthen the agreeable state of our internal affairs must be a pleasing employment the constitution of the state requiring that a valuation of the estates within the state shall be taken anew once in every five years at least referring to the time when the last was taken i presume it will be thought necessary in the present session to provide for a new valuation gentlemen of the house of representatives although i have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes i cannot omit asking your attention to the subject at this time considering that it is always wise in a time of peace and tranquility to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives standing armies in times of peace being burdensome to the people and dangerous to liberty a well regulated militia is wisely considered as the natural and only safe defence of republican governments under this persuasion a spirit highly patriotic has been manifested in a multiplicity of instances as it respects the militia of this state yet there is an opinion prevailing that the burthen is not so equally borne as it ought to be the general regulation of the militia belongs to our national government but if in any particulars you should think proper to facilitate the business your determination will meet my ready attention connected as we are with the united states our duty and interest combine to evince the propriety of contemplating our national affairs in forming that system of government we had a share a system which i doubt not is now more generally approved than when it was first adopted notwithstanding any difference of opinion which has arisen respecting the administration of it in any particulars which respect foreign nations perfection in human affairs is not to be expected to satisfy every citizen is next to impossible but if our system of national government is generally good if it is free if we have the choice as frequently as we wish of persons to administer it if one of our fundamental and irreversible principles in a republican government is that a majority shall govern it is not proper to give a firm support to the laws and administration of such a government and for every citizen duly to consider how far clamour and opposition thereto have invited or procured or may invite or procure inquiries from any foreign nation the depredations on our navigation and commerce must not only be sensibly felt by the immediate individual sufferers but considered as a great injury and indignity to the nation to prevent the future and procure satisfaction for the past appertains to our national government to guard our rights and fully and candidly examine the conduct of every one whose appointment we have a voice in is a duty incumbent on every citizen but should we in any future time neglect or misuse our privileges until we find ourselves either in a state of anarchy or governed by tyrants we must then look back to the present happy state with deep regret for the loss a state which perhaps may not be regained until the blood of many citizens is shed as the price in our constitution it is expressly declared that knowledge and learning are essential to the preservation of a free government and that it shall be the duty of the legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences and all seminaries and public schools and it is also declared the legislature shall assemble for the redress of public grievances and for making such laws as the public good may require coming as you do from all parts of the state if there are any public grievances you must know them also what laws the interests of literature and the public good may require permit me to ask that a due attention may be paid to the subject of all public laws at an early period in the session that time may be given for their thorough consideration and be assured gentlemen that it is among the first wishes of my heart to be instrumental in promoting the peace"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-08|1|2", "date": "1797-12-08", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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it will be thought necessary in the present session to provide for a new valuation gentlemen of the house of representatives although i have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes i cannot omit asking your attention to the subject at this time considering that it is always wise in a time of peace and tranquility to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives standing armies in times of peace being burdensome to the people and dangerous to liberty a well regulated militia is wisely considered as the natural and only safe defence of republican governments under this persuasion a spirit highly patriotic has been manifested in a multiplicity of instances as it respects the militia of this state yet there is an opinion prevailing that the burthen is not so equally borne as it ought to be the general regulation of the militia belongs to our national government but if in any particulars you should think proper to facilitate the business your determination will meet my ready attention connected as we are with the united states our duty and interest combine to evince the propriety of contemplating our national affairs in forming that system of government we had a share a system which i doubt not is now more generally approved than when it was first adopted notwithstanding any difference of opinion which has arisen respecting the administration of it in any particulars with respect to foreign nations perfection in human affairs is not to be expected to satisfy every citizen is next to impossible but if our system of national government is generally good if we have the choice as frequently as we wish of persons to administer it if one of our fundamental and irrepressible principles in a republican government is that a majority shall govern it is not proper to give a firm support to the laws and administration of such a government and for every citizen duly to consider how far clamour and opposition thereto has invited or procured or may invite and procure injuries from any foreign nation the depredations on our navigation and commerce must not only be sensibly felt by the immediate individual sufferers but considered as a great injury and indignity to the nation to prevent the future and procure satisfaction for the past appertains to our national government to guard our rights and fully and candidly examine the conduct of every one whose appointment we have a voice in is a duty incumbent on every citizen but should we in any future time neglect or misuse our privileges until we find ourselves either in a state of anarchy or governed by tyrants we must then look back to the present happy state with deep regret for the loss a state which perhaps may not be regained until the blood of many citizens is shed as the price in our constitution it is expressly declared that knowledge and learning are essential to the preservation of a free government and that it shall be the duty of the legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this government to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences and all seminaries and public schools and it is also declared the legislature shall assemble for the redress of public grievances and for making such laws as the public good may require coming as you do from all parts of the state if there are any public grievances you must know them also what laws the interests of literature and the public good may require permit me to ask that a due attention may be paid to the subject of all public laws at an early period in the session that time may be given for their thorough consideration and be assured gentlemen that it is among the first wishes of my heart to be instrumental in promoting the peace"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1612, 1802], "b_span": [3692, 3882], "matched_words": 181, "similarity": 0.9526315789473684, "seeds": 32, "id": "M01349", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0019.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "convinced that our national government is formed on the surest basis of liberty that the majority ought to rule that we have an opportunity as often as we can rationally wish to change and elect our rulers we view it as the palladium of our rights and entitled to our firmest support although jealousy is a lively trait in a political character yet when very scrupulously exercised towards the administrators of government it may tend to lessen the confidence of a people in their rulers and we view with regret and indignation the faction that clamours for the destruction of our peace and government and conceive its only source to be the dregs of successive foreign anarchy operating on the weak and vicious we must sensibly feel the private injury and national indignity suffered in the depredations on our navigation and commerce but shall cheerfully acquiesce in the mode of indemnity our national government may adopt the promotion of literature the redress of public grievances and enacting such laws as the public good may require together with the other subjects contained in your excellency's communication will meet our zealous attention"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-12|1|3", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797121201/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "convinced that our national government is formed on the surest basis of liberty that the majority ought to rule that we have an opportunity as often as we can rationally wish to change and elect our rulers we view it as the palladium of our rights and entitled to our firmest support although jealousy is a lively trait in a political character yet when very scrupulously exercised towards the administrators of government it may tend to lessen the confidence of a people in their rulers and we view with regret and indignation the factious clamour for the destruction of our peace and government and conceive its only source to be the dregs of successive foreign anarchy operating on the weak and vicious we must sensibly feel the private injury and national indignity suffered in the depredation on our navigation and commerce but still cheerfully acquiesce in the mode of its demunity our national government may adopt the promotion of literature the redressing public grievances and the enacting such laws as the public good may require together with the other subjects contained in your excellency's communications will meet our zealous attention"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1955, 2075], "b_span": [3891, 4020], "matched_words": 116, "similarity": 0.9317269076305221, "seeds": 18, "id": "M01350", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797120501/0019.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "constitution of that government was framed by our wisest and best men was adopted after a candid discussion and upon mature deliberation without violence or tumult it belongs to us to reposit proper confidence in the officers of our own choice and willingly afford effective aid to that government which we have insisted for the common good of the united states has been generally acknowledged to be far greater than was at first expected a spirit of equity into the principles of a government of the mode of its administration pertains to a free people but when that spirit becomes intemperate and its design to promote opposition to divide and weaken the government it may embolden foreign powers to invade"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-12|1|3", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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o'clock the building occupied by mrs broaders and mrs welles was observed in a flame so completely had the fire attained the mastery when discovered that it was with extreme difficulty the tenants of the building escaped with their lives the alarm was first given by a person in the street when the blaze was pouring out of the windows and two people just rushing from the doors the always-alert inhabitants were soon summoned to the scene which required their exertions but notwithstanding the most spirited labour directed by the ablest judgment the voracious flames made more greedy by the high wind which prevailed consumed the building occupied by mrs broaders and welles and the houses improved by mr haggart mr evans mrs monterief mr jarret and mr farmer when the course of the conflagration was stopped the house of mr hoffman on the windward side of the fire was much injured mrs broaders had a well furnished house with accommodations for a large number of boarders and a handsome stock of seamens clothing which were mostly consumed mrs welles lost all her furniture and most of the articles in a small huckler's shop mr haggart the owner of the places tenanted by himself messrs farmer evans monterief and jarret have been the principal sufferers in this melancholy occurrence the estate might be valued at purchased with the earnings of industry and the savings of economy mr farmer preferred most of the stock of a large grocery store but owing to the hurry of removal has to regret the loss of stock worth of property he desires his most grateful thanks may be rendered to the numerous friends who assisted him the rest of the persons mentioned experienced loss in the removal of their property as did also the occupiers of houses and stores to which the flames did not extend from france on sunday arrived at plymouth capt spooner in days from bourdeaux several of our obliging friends favored us with paris papers to oct d received by this captain the prospect of the renewal of hostilities between france and germany is undiminished every preparation on each side is persevered in the last official news from the army of italy was to the d of sept at which period the emperor had not acceded to the last propositions made say the directory but the paris papers say the directors were forming a new ultimatum which they intended to submit to the emperor as their last overtures for a pacification the amies of the rhine and moselle and sambre and meuse were to be united under gen angeureau and form one army to be called the army of germany the cis-rhinian republic is organizing it is stated that the british have asked to send a new plenipotentiary to lille every branch of the french government had been occupied in doing honor to the names of hoche in the funeral procession the buff of franklin our countryman was carried nothing new is mentioned of the conspiracy the most rigorous measures were persevered in to prevent the denounced party from gaining an ascendancy again it was proposed in the legislative body that all passports anterior to that date oct should be annulled it seems that carnot boissy d'anglas portalis pastoret dumolard duplanter imbert colombes and some others condemned to transportation had been so fortunate as to escape and had reached switzerland the american consul at dunkirk inculpated as is said by some papers found at calais has been arrested by order of the directory the interior of france was considerably agitated in parts remote from the government rebellion existed and assassinations were frequent extract of a letter from paris oct two of our commissioners have arrived at paris we hope they may be able to re-establish the good understanding that once existed between the two countries and set our political and commercial relations upon the footing they ought to stand certainly it is of importance to both that amity should be restored to them captain spooner says little information is to be obtained at bourdeaux as freedom of discourse is dangerous and on account of the frequent destruction of the post-riders papers are not regularly received from paris talleyrand perigord is succeeded by one paganel as secretary for foreign affairs"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-06|1|2", "date": "1797-12-06", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797120601/0404.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "a very considerable time boston has not experienced those calamities from the fiery element which it has too often witnessed and to which from its construction it appears devoted the felicity produced by the long suspension of these distressing accidents is superceded by the most poignant grief by the event of yesterday morning fifteen minutes before two o'clock the building occupied by mrs broaders and mrs wetheren was observed in a flame so completely had the fire attained the mastery when discovered that it was with extreme difficulty the tenants of the building escaped with their lives the alarm was first given by a person in the street when the blaze was pouring out of the windows and two people just rushing from the doors the always-alert inhabitants were soon summoned to the scene which required their exertions but notwithstanding the most spirited labor directed by the nicest judgment the voracious flames made more greedy by the high wind which prevailed consumed the building occupied by mrs broaders and wetheren and the houses improved by mr hagar mr evans mrs montgomerie mr jarret and mr farmer when the course of the conflagration was stopped the house of mr hoffman on the windward side of the fire was much injured mrs broaders had a well-furnished house with accommodations for a large number of boarders and a handsome flock of seamen's clothing which were mostly consumed mrs wetheren lost all her furniture and most of the articles in a small huckster's shop mr hagar the owner of the places tenanted by himself messrs farmer evans montgomerie and jarat has been the principal sufferer in this melancholy occurrence the estate might be valued at purchased with the earnings of industry and the savings of economy mr farmer preferred most of the flock of a large grocery store but owing to the hurry of removal has to regret the loss of tool worth of property he desires his most grateful thanks may be rendered to the numerous friends who assisted him the rest of the persons mentioned experienced loss in the removal of their property as did also the occupiers of houses and stores to which the flames did not extend from france on sunday arrived at plymouth captain spooner in days from bourdeaux several of our obliging friends favored us with paris papers to oct received by this capt the prospect of the renewal of hostilities between france and germany is undiminished every preparation on each side is persevered in the last official news from the army of italy was to the d of sept at which period the emperor had not acceded to the last propositions made by the directory but the paris papers say the directors were forming a new ultimatum which they intended to submit to the emperor as their last overtures for a pacification the armies of the rhine and moselle and sambre and meuse were to be united under gen angereau and form one army to be called the army of germany this cis-rhenane republic is organizing it is said that the british have asked to send a new plenipotentiary to lille every branch of the french government had been occupied in doing honor to the remains of hoche in the funeral procession the bull of franklin our countryman was carried nothing new is mentioned of the conspiracy the most rigorous measures we persevered in to prevent the denounced party from gaining an ascendancy again it was proposed in the legislative body that all passports anterior to that date oct should be annulled it seems that carnot boissy d'anglas portalis passet dumolard duplanter imbert colombes and some others condemned to transportation had been so far been so fortunate as to escape and had reached switzerland the american consul at dunkirk inculpated as is said by some papers found at calais has been arrested by order of the directory the interior of france was considerably agitated in parts remote from the government rebellion existed and assassinations were frequent extract of a letter from paris oct two of our commissioners have arrived at paris we hope they may be able to re-establish the good understanding that once existed between the two countries and set our political and commercial relations upon the footing they ought to stand certainly it is of importance to both that amity should be restored to them capt spooner says little information is to be obtained at bourdeaux as freedom of discourse is dangerous and on account of the frequent destruction of the post-riders papers are not regularly received from paris advices received at philadelphia from holland stated the arrival of both the commissioners who failed from america information at the same city from paris stated that pinckney and marshall had reached that capital that fauchet and adet were appointed to confer with them and treated them with much courtesy the new-york paper says talleyrand perrigord is superceded by one pag nal as secretary for foreign affairs"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [410, 692], "b_span": [116, 390], "matched_words": 263, "similarity": 0.9460431654676259, "seeds": 46, "id": "M01352", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", 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chisholme having failed from philadelphia in a vessel belonging to mr wm davy they sent for mr davy and examined him his examination led to the examination of george lether and others the committee mention that the chevalier yrujo called upon them and made a communication which implicated a person of the name of mitchell they immediately wrote to major lewis on the subject he received their letter but could not find the person a second communication was made by the chevalier on the subject after stating a number of other circumstances which we were not able to collect the committee conclude their report by regretting that they have not been able to obtain more complete information on the subject but assure the house that nothing in their power has been wanting to obtain it the report being gone through mr sitgreaves said the reading of the documents"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-20|1|2", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": 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"b_span": [451, 1180], "matched_words": 708, "similarity": 0.9619565217391305, "seeds": 130, "id": "M01353", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797120501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "account of different military posts w blount's circular letter after his impeachment which has been published the deposition of dr romayne before the committee the deponent states that he had been acquainted with mr blount since that he became acquainted with chisholme whilst in treaty with mr blount in land speculations sometime after the deponent intended going to london to sell his land and the falling in price of that property prevented him at governor blount was to have procured a law passed in tennessee to enable aliens to hold land the deponent spoke of the different letters which had passed between w blount and himself on the subject of louisiana which the former regretted the english did not possess and spoke of going to england on the business he regretted the floridas did not belong to the united states it was understood between them that it was most favorable for louisiana to belong to the spaniards but that the english had much better have it than the french they agreed that it was necessary to found certain persons in philadelphia on the subject as well as in virginia and the southern states spoke of his conversation to blount about going to england but that mr blount neglecting to answer his letters he gave up the project after this evidence follows the cross-examination of the committee the letters which passed between w blount and n romayne bear date from feb to may and are chiefly on the project of going to england on the business of louisiana mr r frequently speaks with great confidence of success and often introduces in his letters the critical situation of the european powers and the improbability of peace next follows the examination of mr william davy of this city which relates to the sailing of chisholme in the brig john henderson which he chartered and which cleared out for hamburg but was bound for london on the th march that his passage was taken and paid for by r linton by means of mr thornton mr d repeats conversation which took place between them as to his business that he was to command a squadron against peninsular and a variety of other circumstances mr d also mentions several interviews with mr linton on the business he also produced a letter from his brother in london mentioning chisholme having endeavored to get money from him but before he gave him any he applied to lord grenville's office to know if he had got money from thence and finding they had supplied him largely he declined letting him have any evidence of george lether relates to chisholme's being at his house with a party of indians of his conversation about going to europe and of his business there that whilst he was at his house he was arrested for dollars and that he told him he was obliged to sacrifice a note of mr bond's for dollars at a loss of five or six dollars in the to satisfy the demand the examination of william bell refutes what is said above about sacrificing the note of dollars as he states that he gave chisholme credit from time to time and that the note of dollars was not paid at all a letter from the secretary of state to the committee stating what had passed between him and the british minister in which amongst other things it is asserted that mr linton gave chisholme no money at all that he only paid his passage to the owner and gave him an order for on his banker in london a note from mr linton to the secretary of state lord grenville's note to mr linton in which the british government declines to accede to the proposals made to them respecting the floridas c evidence of elisha b hopkins with respect to conversation held with chisholme dr charles buxton's examination relates to conversation between him and dr romayne john franklin was examined with respect to chisholme being at lether's at the same time with him spoke of his conversation respecting louisiana and florida w blount and the british minister james carey's and john rogers's evidence went to the same effect the reading of the papers having continued for more than two hours and it being three o'clock mr dent said as he observed there were yet several more papers to read he should move for the house to adjourn the motion was"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-20|1|2", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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spaniards but that the english had much better have it than the french they agreed that it was necessary to found certain persons in philadelphia on the subject as well as in virginia and the southern states spoke of his conversation to blount about going to england but that mr blount neglecting to answer his letters he gave up the project after the evidence follows the cross examination of the committee the letters which passed between w blount and n romayne bear date from feb to may and are chiefly on the project of going to england on the business of louisiana mr r frequently speaks with great confidence of success and often introduces in his letters the critical situation of the european powers and the improbability of peace next follows the examination of mr william davy of philadelphia which relates to the failing of chisholme in the brig john henderson which he chartered and which cleared out for hamburg but was bound for london on the th of march that his passage was taken and paid for by r linton by means of mr thornton mr d repeats conversation which took place between them as to his business that he was to command a squadron against pensylvania and a variety of other circumstances mr d also mentions several interviews with mr linton on the business he also produced a letter from his brother in london mentioning chisholme having endeavored to get money from him but before he gave him any he applied to lord grenville's office to know if he had got money from thence and finding they had supplied him largely he declined letting him have any evidence of george lether relates to chisholme's being at his house with a party of indians of his conversation about going to europe and of his business there that whilst he was at his house he was arrested for dollars and that he told him he was obliged to sacrifice a note of mr bond's for dollars at a loss of five or six dollars in the to satisfy the demand the examination of william bell retires what is laid above about sacrificing the note of dollars as he states that he gave chisholme credit from time to time and that the note of dollars was not paid at all a letter from the secretary of state to the committee stating what had passed between him and the british minister in which amongst other things it is asserted that mr linton gave chisholme no money at all that he only paid his passage to the owner and gave him an order for on his banker in london a note from mr linton to the secretary of state lord grenville's note to mr linton in which the british government declines to accede to the proposals made to them respecting the floridas c evidence of elisha b hopkins with respect to conversation held with chisholme dr charles buxton's examination relates to conversation between him and dr romayne john franklin was examined with respect to chisholme being at lether's at the same time with him spoke of his conversation respecting louisiana and floridas w blount and the british minister james carey's and john rogers's evidence went to the same effect the reading of the papers having continued for more than two hours and it being three o'clock mr dent said as there were several more papers to read he should move the house to adjourn the motion was"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [415, 482], "b_span": [1978, 2046], "matched_words": 65, "similarity": 0.9629629629629629, "seeds": 12, "id": "M01354", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-05|1|3", "date": "1797-12-05", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-05/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797120501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "among w blount's papers and the 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regretted the floridas did not belong to the united states it was understood between them that it was most favorable for louisiana to belong to the spaniards but that the english had much better have it than the french they agreed that it was necessary to found certain persons in philadelphia on the subject as well as in virginia and the southern states spoke of his conversation to blount about going to england but that mr blount neglecting to answer his letters he gave up the project after this evidence follows the cross-examination of the committee the letters which passed between w blount and n romayne bear date from feb to may and are chiefly on the project of going to england on the business of louisiana mr r frequently speaks with great confidence of success and often introduces in his letters the critical situation of the european powers and the improbability of peace next follows the examination of mr william davy of this city which relates to the sailing of chisholme in the brig john henderson which he chartered and which cleared out for hamburg but was bound for london on the th march that his passage was taken and paid for by r linton by means of mr thornton mr d repeats conversation which took place between them as to his business that he was to command a squadron against peninsular and a variety of other circumstances mr d also mentions several interviews with mr linton on the business he also produced a letter from his brother in london mentioning chisholme having endeavored to get money from him but before he gave him any he applied to lord grenville's office to know if he had got money from thence and finding they had supplied him largely he declined letting him have any evidence of george lether relates to chisholme's being at his house with a party of indians of his conversation about going to europe and of his business there that whilst he was at his house he was arrested for dollars and that he told him he was obliged to sacrifice a note of mr bond's for dollars at a loss of five or six dollars in the to satisfy the demand the examination of william bell refutes what is said above about sacrificing the note of dollars as he states that he gave chisholme credit from time to time and that the note of dollars was not paid at all a letter from the secretary of state to the committee stating what had passed between him and the british minister in which amongst other things it is asserted that mr linton gave chisholme no money at all that he only paid his passage to the owner and gave him an order for on his banker in london a note from mr linton to the secretary of state lord grenville's note to mr linton in which the british government declines to accede to the proposals made to them respecting the floridas c evidence of elisha b hopkins with respect to conversation held with chisholme dr charles buxton's examination relates to conversation between him and dr romayne john franklin was examined with respect to chisholme being at lether's at the same time with him spoke of his conversation respecting louisiana and florida w blount and the british minister james carey's and john rogers's evidence went to the same effect the reading of the papers having continued for more than two hours and it being three o'clock mr dent said as he observed there were yet several more papers to read he should move for the house to adjourn the motion was"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-26|1|3", "date": "1797-12-26", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797122601/0031.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "account of different military posts no the deposition of dr romayne before the committee the deponent states that he had been acquainted with mr blount since that he became acquainted with chisholme whilst in treaty with mr blount in land speculations some time after the deponent intended going to london to sell land but the falling in price of property prevented him that gov blount was to have procured a law passed in tennessee to enable aliens to hold land the deponent spoke of the different letters which had passed between w blount and himself on the subject of louisiana which the former regretted the english did not possess and spoke of going to england on the business he regretted the floridas did not belong to the u states it was understood between them that it was most favorable for louisiana to belong to the spaniards but that the english had much better have it than the french they agreed that it was necessary to found certain persons in philadelphia on the subject as well as in virginia and the southern states spoke of his conversation to blount about going to england but that mr blount neglecting to answer his letters he gave up the project after the evidence follows the cross examination of the committee the letters which passed between w blount and n romayne bear date from feb to may and are chiefly on the project of going to england on the business of louisiana mr r frequently speaks with great confidence of success and often introduces in his letters the critical situation of the european powers and the improbability of peace next follows the examination of mr william davy of philadelphia which relates to the failing of chisholme in the brig john henderson which he cleared out for hamburg but was bound for london on the th of march that his passage was taken and paid for by r liston by means of mr thornton mr d repeats conversation which took place between them as to his business that he was to command a squadron against pensacola and a variety of other circumstances mr d also mentions several interviews with mr liston on the business he also produced a letter from his brother in london mentioning chisholme having endeavored to get money from him but before he gave him any he applied to lord grenville's office to know if he had got money from thence and finding they had supplied him largely he declined letting him have any evidences of george lesher relates to chisholme's being at his house with a party of indians of his conversation about going to europe and of his business there that whilst he was at his house he was arrested for dollars and that he told him he was obliged to sacrifice a note of mr bond's for dollars at a loss of five or six dollars in the to satisfy the demand the examination of w bell relates what is said above about sacrificing the note of dollars as he states that he gave chisholme credit from time to time and that the note of dollars was not paid at all a letter from the secretary of state to the committee stating what had passed between him and the british minister in which amongst other things it is asserted that mr liston gave chisholme no money at all that he only paid his passage to the owner 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it was desirable to avoid because it would occasion much public inconvenience and a considerable public expense and add to the calamities of the inhabitants of this city whose sufferings must have excited the sympathy of all their fellow-citizens therefore after taking measures to ascertain the state and decline of the sickness i postponed my determination having hopes now happily realized that without hazard to the lives or health of the members congress might assemble at this place where it was next by law to meet i submit however to your consideration whether a power to postpone the meeting of congress without passing the time fixed by the constitution upon such occasions would not be a useful amendment to the law of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four although i cannot yet congratulate you on the re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the persons and properties of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea we have nevertheless abundant cause of gratitude to the source of benevolence and influence for interior tranquility and personal security for propitious seasons prosperous agriculture productive fisheries and general improvements and above all for a rational spirit of civil and religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty as well as our moral and religious principles against all open and secret attacks our envoy extraordinary to the french republic embarked one in july the other early in august to join their colleague in holland i have received intelligence of the arrival of both of them in holland from whence they all proceeded on their journey to paris within a few days of the nineteenth of september whatever may be the result of this mission i trust that nothing will have been omitted on my part to conduct the negotiation to a successful conclusion on such equitable terms as may be compatible with the safety honor and interests of the united states nothing in the mean time will contribute so much to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice as a manifestation of that energy and unanimity of which on many former occasions the people of the united states have given such memorable proofs and the exertion of those resources for national defence which a benevolent providence has kindly placed within their power it may be confidently asserted that nothing has occurred since the adjournment of congress which renders inexpedient those precautionary measures recommended by me to the consideration of the two houses at the opening of your late extraordinary session if that system was then prudent it is more so now as increasing depredations strengthen the reasons for its adoption indeed whatever may be the issue of the negotiation with france and whether the war in europe is or is not to continue i hold it most certain that permanent tranquility and order will not soon be obtained the state of society has so long been disturbed the sense of moral and 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following speech gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives i was for some time apprehensive that it would be necessary on account of the contagious sickness which afflicted the city of philadelphia to convene the national legislature at some other place this measure it was desirable to avoid because it would occasion much public inconvenience and a considerable public expense and add to the calamities of the inhabitants of this city whose feelings must have excited the sympathy of all their fellow citizens therefore after taking measures to ascertain the state decline of the sickness i postponed my determination having hopes now happily realized that without hazard to the lives or health of the members congress might assemble at this place where it was next by law to meet i submit however to your consideration whether a power to postpone the meeting of congress without passing the time fixed by the constitution upon such occasions would not be a useful amendment to the law of altho i cannot yet congratulate you on the re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the persons and properties of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea we have nevertheless abundant cause of gratitude to the source of benevolence influence for interior tranquility and personal security for propitious seasons prosperous agriculture productive fisheries and general improvements and above all for a rational spirit of civil religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty as well as our moral and religious principles against all open and secret attacks our envoys extraordinary to the french republic embarked one in july the other early in august to join their colleague in holland i have received intelligence of the arrival of both of them in holland from whence they all proceeded on their journey to paris within a few days of the nineteenth of september whatever may be the result of this mission i trust that nothing will have been omitted on my part to conduct the negotiation to a successful conclusion on such equitable terms as may be compatible with the safety honor and interests of the united states nothing in the mean time will contribute so much to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice as a manifestation of that energy and unanimity of which on many former occasions the people of the u states have given such memorable proofs and the exertion of those resources for national defence which a benevolent providence has kindly placed within their power it may be confidently asserted that nothing has occurred since the adjournment of congress which renders expedient those precautionary measures recommended by me to the consideration of the two houses at the opening of your late extraordinary session if that session was then prudent it is more so now as increasing depredations strengthen the reasons for its adoption indeed whatever may be the issue of the negotiation with france and whether the war in europe is or is not to continue i hold it most certain that permanent tranquility and order will not soon be obtained the state of society has so long been disturbed the sense of moral and religious obligation so much weakened public faith and national honor have been so impaired respect to treaties has been so diminished and the law of nations has lost so much of its force while pride ambition avarice and violence have been so much unrestrained there remains no"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2527, 2745], "b_span": [1135, 1353], "matched_words": 218, "similarity": 1.0, "seeds": 48, "id": "M01358", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-06|1|2", "date": "1797-12-06", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-06/ed-1/", 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that number they were all condemned and three executed the other two will share the same fate in a day or two the principal ringleader was a notorious fellow in the dreadful business of st domingo who met his fate with the greatest composure and resignation saying as he approached the place of execution that he was content to die as he had murdered many a white man in"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-12|1|2", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121201/0022.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "very providentially escaped a most hellish plot a parcel of french negroes who had been captured and sold here and who had run away from their owners entered into a conspiracy about thirty in number to burn the town and make a general massacre 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intelligence spanish garrisons were still continued within our country and the running of the boundary line had not been commenced these circumstances are the more to be regretted as they cannot fail to affect the indians in a manner injurious to the u states still however indulging the hope that the answers which have been given will remove the objections offered by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty i have judged it proper that we should continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of limits further information on this subject will be communicated in the course of the session in connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations and to excite them to actual hostilities against the united states great activity has been exerted by these persons who have insinuated themselves among the indian tribes residing within the territory of the united states to influence them to transfer their affections and force to a foreign nation to form them into a confederacy and to prepare them for war against the united states although measures have been taken to counteract these infractions of our rights to prevent indian hostilities and to preserve entire their attachment to the united states it is my duty to observe that to give a better effect to these measures and to obviate the consequences of a repetition of such practices a law providing adequate punishment for such offences may be necessary the commissioners appointed under the fifth article of the treaty of amity commerce and navigation between the united states and great britain to ascertain the river which was truly intended under the name of the river st croix mentioned in the treaty of peace met at passamaquoddy bay in october one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five and viewed the mouths of the rivers in question and the adjacent shores and islands and being of opinion that actual surveys of both rivers to their sources were necessary gave to the agents of the two nations instructions for that purpose and adjourned to meet at boston in august they met but the surveys requiring more time than had been supposed and not being then completed the commissioners again adjourned to meet at providence in the state of rhode island in june next when we may expect a final examination and decision the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty met at philadelphia in may last to examine the claims of british subjects for debts contracted before the peace and still remaining due to them from citizens or inhabitants of the united states various causes have hitherto prevented any determinations but the business is now resumed and doubtless will be prosecuted without interruption several decisions on the claims of citizens of the united states for losses and damages sustained by reason of irregular and illegal captures or condemnations of their vessels or other property have been made by the commissioners in london conformably to the seventh article of the treaty the sums awarded by the commissioners have been paid by the british government a considerable number of other claims where costs and damages and not captured property were the only object in question have been decided by arbitration and the sums awarded to the citizens of the united states have also been paid the commissioners appointed agreeably to the twenty-first article of our treaty with spain met at philadelphia in the summer past to examine and decide on the claims of our citizens for losses they have sustained in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the subjects of his catholic majesty during the late war between spain and france the fittings have been interrupted but are now resumed the united states being obligated to make compensation for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects upon the award of the commissioners acting under the sixth article of the treaty with great britain and for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects by reason of the capture of their vessels and merchandise taken within the limits jurisdiction of the u s and brought into their ports or taken by vessels originally armed in ports of the u s upon the awards of the commissioners acting under the seventh article of the same treaty it is necessary that provision be made for fulfilling these obligations the numerous captures of american vessels by the citizens of the french republic and of some by those of spain have occasioned considerable expenses in making and supporting the claims of our citizens before their tribunals the sums required for the purpose have in divers instances been disbursed by the consuls of the united states by means of the same captures great numbers of our seamen have been thrown ashore in foreign countries destitute of all means of subsistence and the sick in particular have been exposed to grievous sufferings the consuls have in these cases also advanced monies for their relief for these advances they reasonably expect reimbursements from the united states the consular act relative to seamen requires revision and amendment the provisions for their support in foreign countries and for their return are found to be inadequate and ineffectual another provision seems necessary to be added to the consular act some foreign vessels have been discovered sailing under the flag of the united states and with foreign papers it seldom happens that the consuls can detect this deception because they have no authority to demand an inspection of the register and sea letters gentlemen of the house of representatives it is my duty to recommend to your serious consideration those objects which by the constitution are placed particularly within your sphere the national debt and taxes since the decay of the feudal system by which the public defence was provided for chiefly at the expense of individuals the system of loans has been introduced and as no nation can raise within the year by taxes sufficient sums for its defence and military operations in time of war the sums loaned and debts contracted have necessarily become the subject of what have been called funding systems the consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own the national defence must be provided for as well as the support of government but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes and as little as possible by loans the estimates for the service of the ensuing year will by my direction be laid before you gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives we are met together at a most interesting period the situation of the principal powers of europe are singular and portentous connected with some by treaties and with all by commerce no important event there can be indifferent to us such circumstances call with peculiar importunity not less for a disposition to unite in all those measures on which the honour safety and prosperity of our country depend than for all the exertions of wisdom and firmness in all such measures you may rely on my zealous and hearty concurrence john adams after the president and senate retired the speech was made the order of the day for friday nov"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-12|1|3", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121201/0023.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "an expectation that a commerce without protection or defence will not be plundered the commerce of the u states is essential if not to their existence at least to their comfort their growth prosperity and happiness the genius character and habits of the people are highly commercial their cities have been formed and exist upon commerce our agriculture fisheries arts and manufactures are connected with and depend upon it in short commerce has made this country what it is and it cannot be destroyed or neglected without involving the people in poverty and distress great numbers are directly solely supported by navigation the faith of society is pledged for the preservation of the rights of commercial and seafaring no less than of the other citizens under this view of our affairs i should hold myself guilty of a neglect of duty if i forbore to recommend that we should make every exertion to protect our commerce and to place our country in a suitable posture of defence as the only sure means of preserving both i have entertained an expectation that it would have been in my power at the opening of this session to have communicated to you the agreeable information of the due execution of our treaty with his catholic majesty respecting the withdrawing of his troops from our territory and the demarkation of the line of limits but by the latest authentic intelligence spanish garrisons were still continued within our country and the running of the boundary line had not been commenced these circumstances are the more to be regretted as they cannot fail to affect the indians in a manner injurious to the u states still however indulging the hope that the answers which have been given will remove the objections offered by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty i have judged it proper that we should continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of limits further information on this subject will be communicated in the course of the session in connection with this unpleasant state of things on our western frontier it is proper for me to mention the attempts of foreign agents to alienate the affections of the indian nations to excite them to actual hostilities against the u states great activity has been exercised by these persons who have insinuated themselves among the indian tribes residing within the territory of the united states to influence them to transfer their affections and force to a foreign nation and to form them into a confederacy and to prepare them for war against the u states altho measures have been taken to counteract these infractions of our rights to prevent indian hostilities and to preserve entire their attachment to the u states it is my duty to observe that to give a better effect to these measures to obviate the consequences of a repetition of such practices a law providing adequate punishment for such offences may be necessary the commissioners appointed under the fifth article of the treaty of amity commerce and navigation between the u states g britain to ascertain the river which was truly intended under the name of the river st croix mentioned in the treaty of paris met at pottawatuck bay in october one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and viewed the mouths of the rivers in question and the adjacent shores and islands and being of opinion that actual surveys of both rivers to their sources were necessary gave to the agents of the two nations instructions for that purpose and adjourned to meet at boston in august they met but the surveys requiring more time than had been supposed and not being then completed the commissioners again adjourned to meet at providence in the state of rhode island in june next when we may expect a final examination and decision the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty met at philadelphia in may last to examine the claims of british subjects for debts contracted before the peace and still remaining due to them from citizens or inhabitants of the united states various causes have hitherto prevented any determinations but the business is now resumed and doubtless will be prosecuted without interruption several decisions on the claims of citizens of the united states for losses and damages sustained by reason of irregular and illegal captures or condemnations of their vessels or other property have been made by the commissioners in london conformably to the seventh article of the treaty the sums awarded by the commissioners have been paid by the british government a considerable number of other claims where costs and damages and not captured property were the only object in question have been decided by arbitration and the sums awarded to the citizens of the u s have also been paid the commissioners appointed agreeably to the twenty-first article of our treaty with spain met at philadelphia in the summer past to examine and decide on the claims of our citizens for losses they have sustained in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the subjects of his catholic majesty during the late war between spain and france the sittings have been interrupted but are now resumed the united states being obligated to make compensation for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects upon the award of the commissioners acting under the sixth article of the treaty with great britain and for the losses and damages sustained by british subjects by reason of the capture of their vessels and merchandise taken within the limits and jurisdiction of the united states and bro't into their ports or taken by vessels originally armed in ports of the u s upon the awards of the commissioners acting under the seventh article of the same treaty it is necessary that provision be made for fulfilling these obligations the numerous captures of american vessels by the cruisers of the french republic and of some by those of spain have occasioned considerable expenses in making and supporting the claims of our citizens before their tribunals the sums required for the purpose have in divers instances been furnished by the consuls of the u s by means of the same captures great numbers of our seamen have been thrown ashore in foreign countries destitute of all means of subsistence and the sick in particular have been exposed to grievous sufferings the consuls have in these cases also advanced monies for their relief for these advances they reasonably expect reimbursements for the united states the consular act relative to seamen requires revision and amendment the provisions for their support in foreign countries and for their return are found to be inadequate inefficient another provision seems necessary to be added to the consular act some foreign vessels have been discovered sailing under the flag of the u s and with foreign papers it seldom happens that the consuls can detect this deception because they have no authority to demand an inspection of the register and letters gentlemen of the house of representatives it is my duty to recommend to your serious consideration those objects which by the constitution are placed particularly within your sphere the national debt and taxes since the decay of the feudal system by which the public defence was provided for chiefly at the expense of individuals the system of loans has been introduced and as no nation can raise within the year by taxes sufficient sums for its defence and military operations in time of war the sums loaned and debts contracted have necessarily become the subject of what have been called funding systems the consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own the national defence must be provided for as well as the support of government but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes and as little as possible by loans the estimates for the service of the ensuing year will by my direction be laid before you gentlemen of the senate and gentlemen of the house of representatives we are met 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petition and legal costs within one year that the treasurer be directed to give order that no further proceedings be had on an extent issued against said hoyt agreeable to the order of the day proceeded to a hearing on petitions heard the parties on the petition of elizabeth taylor and others and on the petition of josiah sanborn adjourned friday dec voted to grant the prayer of a petition for incorporating a library in the town of cornish upon reading and considering of a petition from elizabeth m'glothland stating that her son josiah was born out of wedlock and had no surname and praying that he might have the name of carter the prayer was granted and leave given to bring in a bill voted a committee to fill up the blanks in a bill for incorporating"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|3", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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propriety of passing an act directing the appointment of a clerk to the superior court in each county reported that directing the appointment of clerks to the superior court in the several counties will at present be inexpedient which report was accepted voted a committee to consider of a petition from daniel humphreys esq voted a committee to take into consideration the expediency of encouraging artisans in each county in this state to manufacture fire arms or report any other measure to procure them that the militia of"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|3", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797122501/0111.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and vote relative to the petition of jonathan hoyt being returned by the honourable senate the following vote was passed voted that that the senate release to the said hoyt the sum due from him he paying the whole of the charges already sent on account of the extent issued by the treasurer and that the treasurer take notice and govern himself accordingly saturday december the committee to consider of the propriety of passing an act directing the appointment of a clerk to the superior court in each county reported that directing the appointment of clerks to the superior court in the several counties will at present be inexpedient which report was accepted voted a committee to take into consideration the expediency of encouraging artizans in each county in this state to manufacture fire arms or report any other measure to procure them that the militia of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2410, 2566], "b_span": [1224, 1377], 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number of articles was ordered to barbadoes for trial on her passage to barbadoes she was re-captured by a french privateer and then re-taken by another british vessel and carried into st christopher's where she was finally cleared but was obliged to dis pose of her cargo to pay the costs of salvage c one of the suits is brought for forcibly plundering the vessel of part of her cargo the"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-20|1|2", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797122001/0412.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "dec yesterday henry sinclair captain of the british letter of marque swinger now in this port was arrested and imprisoned in the county gaol on suits for damages amounting to dollars brought against him by stewart and son of baltimore the circumstances upon which the actions were grounded were the following that the ship atlantic owned by the above firm on her passage from a french port in the west-indies to baltimore was captured by the swinger and after being plundered of a number of articles was ordered to barbadoes for trial on her passage to barbadoes she was re-captured by a french privateer and then re-taken by another british vessel and carried into st christopher's where she was finally cleared but was obliged to dispose of her cargo to pay the costs of salvage c one of the suits is brought for forcibly plundering the vessel of part of her cargo the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3578, 4625], "b_span": [47, 1006], "matched_words": 902, "similarity": 0.8993020937188435, "seeds": 127, "id": "M01367", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-06|1|2", "date": "1797-12-06", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-06/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797120601/0002.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "called major grant his evidence consisted principally of conversation which had passed between him and w blount he stated that he met with him in washington county virginia on the th of april that they spoke on the subject of running the line between the united states and the indians and he seemed to wish to avoid any responsibility with respect to the indian treaty that w blount mentioned his pecu niary embarrassments but that he said he had a plan on foot which he expected would effectually relieve him he said chisholm and the indian chiefs had been with the british minister at philadelphia and that chisholm had a plan in the hand writing of the british minister which if it succeeded w blount said he should have it in his power to serve all his friends that he seemed to place great reliance upon rogers and carey and upon their influence with the indians he mentioned that an armament was to be sent from england which was to be co-operated with on the land side by him at the head of the indians the depo nent also speaks of having received letters from col king about the th of june from w blount for carey which he de livered and mentions the conversation which passed betwixt them mr sitgreaves took the chair of the clerk and laid the next document was a pa per communicated to the committee by the chevalier de yrujo in french the com mittee had not he said any formal transla tion of it but he would read it in english as perfectly as he was able which he pro ceeded to do it was the communication of a citizen mitchell who states that there had been enrolled by an english agent in the western country persons for the pur pose of attacking certain spanish posts and to go against louisiana and the two flori das that chisholm had a list of tories who were engaged to take up arms in favor of england that there were formed on the lakes regular troops canadian militia and savages to attack fort louis that chisholm had provided six pieces of cannon the same which was procured for citizen genet that the rendezvous was to be at knoxville the st of july and that after chisholm had reported the busi ness to the british minister he would set out for england to lay the project before the british government and command money and vessels for carrying it into effect the chevalier also gave to the committee a letter which mitchell had received from chisholm it was a request that mitchell and craig would be in tennessee in july with an assurance that they might rely upon every thing which he said the next papers were the evidence of john phillips ripley and thomas odiorne who were brought forward by the chev alier de yrujo j p ripley states that he is a citizen of new hampshire that he was educated with captain eaton at yale college that capt eaton had told him that several letters were found in the possession of dr romayne which proved the british minister to be con cerned in the enterprise contemplated by gov blount that these letters offered re wards to any person who would engage in the service and that they were discovered under some rubbish that many of dr ro mayne's papers were destroyed that capt eaton had told him that col pickering had reprimanded him for having mentioned any thing respecting these letters and had said that great britain was now the only friend we had that he saw a letter which capt eaton had written to col pickering on the subject on examination by the committee ripley asserted that he believed that great britain was at the bottom of the conspiracy thomas odiorne deposed that he was also at college with capt eaton and that capt eaton had told him nearly the same circum stances which j p ripley deposes to have heard from him he also says he saw the letter which the captain had written to col pickering as an apology for having mention ed any thing respecting the letters found in possession of dr romayne next follows the evidence of william ea ton taken at springfield before judge ly man he states that phillips ripley was his cotemporary at college and that he had since been acquainted with him at philadel phia but that he does not know much a bout odiorne some time after his return from new york he recollects to have told ripley that four or five original letters of wm blount were found in dr romayne's possession at the discovery of one of which he seemed a good deal embarrassed the deponent also told the said ripley that mr pickering was displeased with him for hav ing mentioned any thing about these letters until the matter was laid before the com mittee but the deponent denies that he ever told ripley or that mr pickering ever said to him that great britain was now the only friend we had the deponent believes he might have given it as his opin ion that the british minister would have en couraged the plan if it had been feasible that he had delivered every article respecting the conspiracy of mr blount which had come into his hands to the committee of en quiry captain eaton also spoke of a french engineer having been into all the sea ports of the united states in order to make plans of and observations respecting them the next paper was a communication from the chevalier de yrujo consisting of an orig inal letter from general clark of georgia to murphy esq consul of his catho lic majesty there in answer to an applica tion made to him on the subject of the con spiracy in which he states that the pecu liar nature of the proposition made to him by the british prevents him from giving that satisfaction which is required an applica tion he says had been made to him through a channel which bound him to silence he was asked whether dollars would in duce him to join the british but that he"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-27|1|2", "date": "1797-12-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797122701/0416.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "called major grant his evidence consisted principally of conversation which had passed between him and w blount he stated that he met with him in washington county virginia on the th april that they spoke on the subject of running the line between the united states and the indians and he seemed to wish to avoid any responsibility with respect to the indian treaty that w blount mentioned his pecuniary embarrassments but that he said he had a plan on foot which he expected would effectually relieve him he said chisholme and the indian chiefs had been with the british minister at philadelphia and that chisholme had a plan in the hand writing of the british minister which if it succeeded w blount said he should have it in his power to serve all his friends that he seemed to place great reliance upon rogers and carey and upon their influence with the indians he mentioned that an armament was to be sent from england which was to be co-operated with on the land side by him at the head of the indians the deponent also speaks of having received letters from col king about the th of june from w blount for carey which he delivered and mentions the conversations passed between them a paper handed to the committee by the spanish minister in the french language it was the communication of a citizen mitchell who states that there had been enrolled by a british agent in the western country persons for the purpose of attacking certain spanish posts and to go against louisiana and the two floridas that chisholme had a list of tories who were engaged to take up arms in favor of england that there were formed on the lakes regular troops canadian militia and savages to attack fort louis that chisholme had provided six pieces of cannon the same which was procured for citizen genet that the rendezvous was to be at knoxville the first of july and that after chisholme had reported the business to the british minister he would set out for england to lay the project before the british government and command money and vessels for carrying it into effect the chevalier also gave to the committee a letter which mitchell had received from chisholme it was a request that mitchell and craig would be in tennessee in july with an assurance that they might rely upon every thing which he had said the next papers were the evidence of john phillips ripley and thomas odion who were brought forward by the chevalier de yrujo j p ripley states that he is a citizen of n h that he was educated with capt eaton at yale college that capt eaton had told him that several letters were found in the possession of dr romayne which proved the british minister to be concerned in the enterprise contemplated by gov blount that these letters offered rewards to any who would engage in service and that they were discovered under some rubbish that many of dr romayne's papers were destroyed that capt eaton had told him that col pickering had reprimanded him for having mentioned any thing respecting these letters and had said that great britain was now the only friend we had that he saw a letter which capt eaton had written to col pickering on the subject on examination by the committee ripley asserted that he believed that great britain was at the bottom of the conspiracy thomas odion deposed that he was also at college with captain eaton and that circumstances which j p ripley deposes to have heard from him he also says he saw the letter which the captain had written to col pickering as an apology for having mentioned any thing respecting the letters found in possession of dr romayne next follows the evidence of william eaton taken at springfield before judge lyman he states that phillips ripley was his contemporary at college and that he had since been acquainted with him at philadelphia but that he does not know much about odion some time after his return from new-york he recollects to have told ripley that four or five original letters of w blount were in dr romayne's possession at the discovery of one of which he seemed a good deal embarrassed the deponent also told the said ripley that mr pickering was displeased with him for mentioning any thing about these letters until the matter was laid before the committee but the deponent denies that he ever told ripley or that mr pickering ever said to him that great britain was now the only friend we had the deponent believes he might have given it as his opinion that the british minister would have encouraged the plan if it had been 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"normalized_excerpt": "to be the arrest of the directory which was the occasion of lord malmesbury's returning to london arrest of september the executive directory hereby order that citizens treilhard and bonnier who are charged to negotiate a peace with england do in the first conference with lord malmesbury minister plenipotentiary of the king of england lay before his lordship a note the object of which shall be to know if that minister is vested with sufficient power to restore to france and her allies all captures c which have been taken possession of by the english since the commencement of the war the plenipotentiaries are desired to request an answer from his lordship the same day the executive directory further publish that if lord malmesbury declares himself not invested with the necessary powers to establish that basis which the rights and treaties which unite the republic render indispensable or if he does not give a peremptory answer in the time appointed he is ordered to leave lisle in hours and repair to"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797122001/0413.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "to be the arrest of the directory which was the occasion of lord malmesbury's returning to london arrest of sept the executive directory hereby order that citizens treillard and bonnier who are charged to negotiate a peace with england do in their first conference with lord malmesbury minister plenipotentiary of the king of england lay before his lordship a note the object of which shall be to know if that minister is invested with sufficient power to restore to france and her allies all captures c which have been taken possession of by the english since the commencement of the war the plenipotentiaries are desired to request an answer from his lordship the same day the executive directory further publish that if lord malmesbury declares himself not invested with the necessary powers to establish that basis which the rights treaties which unite the republic render indispensable or if he does not give a preremptory answer in the time appointed he is ordered to leave lisle in hours and repair to"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4355, 4467], "b_span": [1258, 1370], "matched_words": 110, "similarity": 0.9821428571428571, "seeds": 19, "id": "M01370", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-08|1|2", "date": "1797-12-08", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-08/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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through that city no asylum being offered in switzerland the greater part had been obliged to join the army of the prince of conde the british fleet still continued to blockade cadiz and the texel madame buonaparte had arrived at venice she occupied the palace of morelli and was received with uncommon splendor the king of spain has given the daughter of the infant don louis his uncle in marriage to the prince of peace this man a few years since was"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|3", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797122501/0111.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "of the lately transported deputies from paris have escaped and arrived in switzerland carnot the late president of the executive directory 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six fail of the line besides frigates which lately issued from toulon has joined the venetian fleet and the french are complete masters of the adriatic another republic is said to be forming on the north of france called the cisthenan but accounts from that quarter do not attach much energy or importance to the attempt piedmont the seeds of revolution sowing in italy have taken root in this principality under pretence"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1051, 1163], "b_span": [585, 695], "matched_words": 98, "similarity": 0.8828828828828829, "seeds": 17, "id": "M01378", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-12|1|1", "date": "1797-12-12", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-12/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the french general in your loyalty and your sincerity his majesty hopes that he may soon be enabled to acquaint you of the perfect re-establishment of tranquility gen buonaparte in his answer grants the liberty required and adds i have given the strictest orders to the garrisons of the different towns we occupy not to interfere in the slightest manner in the internal affairs of your country you may rest satisfied sir of the interest i shall always take in doing every thing that may be agreeable to his majesty and of the desire i feel to contribute in any shape to the tranquility of his realms in another letter the general says i am ready if his majesty is displeased with any of the generals or officers employed in his dominions immediately to displace them being informed that m ranfa was endeavouring by incendiary publications to stir up insurrection in his majesty's dominions and that he was at milan i ordered him to be taken into custody and to be confined in the castle of this city 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"source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the corn in the market and distributed the money among the populace the chevalier domiano minister to his sardinian majesty informed gen buonaparte of this insurrection requested of him not to countenance the measure add asked leave as fossano the seat of insurrection was to the left of stura and that probably it would be necessary to use force to suppress it to pass a body of sardinian troops beyond the ancient line of demarcation full of confidence says the minister to the french general in your loyalty and your sincerity his majesty hopes that he may soon be enabled to acquaint you of the perfect re-establishment of tranquillity gen buonaparte in his answer grants the liberty required and adds i have given the strictest orders to the garrisons of the different towns we occupy not to intermeddle in the slightest manner in the internal affairs of your country you may rest satisfied sir of the interest i shall always take in doing every thing that may be agreeable to his majesty and of the desire i feel to contribute in any shape to the tranquillity of his realms in another letter the general says i am ready if his majesty is displeased with any of the generals or officers employed in his dominions immediately to displace them being informed that m raus was endeavoring by incendiary publications to stir up insurrections in his majesty's dominions and that he was at milan i order him to be taken into custody and to be confined in the castle of the city in august we see a congratulation of buonaparte's that the critical situation in which piedmont has been placed in for a few moments was happily gone by italy passing down the boot of italy we may say merely that the holy father now enjoys there a suit to his years and professions his secular power which has long been on the decline is now almost annihilated and he who formerly dispensed crowns to monarchs on their knees now submits to the hard impositions of a republican 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others came down they were reprimanded in harsh terms by the captain and several of them threatened with punishment this occasioned much discontent which continued until the next evening when the mutiny broke out by throwing double headed shot c about the ship and other disorderly behaviour the first lieutenant went down to enquire what they wanted and was soon wounded in the arm with a tomahawk he retired for some time and when he returned was knocked down with a tomahawk his throat cut and thrown overboard after which the sailors proceeded to the cabin in search of the captain who had locked himself in but was soon dragged out after having wounded two or three in defending himself with his sword and experienced the fate of his unfortunate lieutenant they afterwards seized upon and murdered every officer in the ship except a master's mate and two midshipmen they then directed their course for la guira where they arrived under spanish colours and delivered the ship up to the spanish government giving out that they had turned their officers adrift in their jolly boat the spaniards have since manned the ship and sent her to sea our informant further adds that the crew of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-16|1|2", "date": "1797-12-16", "paper": "The Kentucky gazette", "lccn": "sn82014782", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014782/1797-12-16/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/kyu/batch_kyu_dachshund_ver04/data/sn82014782/print/1797121601/0198.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "about days out from cape nicola mole on a cruise part of the crew were engaged handling the mizen topail the captain speaking sharp to them two of the men fell from the yards when the others came down they were reprimanded in harsh terms by the captain and several of them threatened with punishment this occasioned much discontent which continued until the next evening when the mutiny broke out by throwing double headed shot c about the ship and other disorderly behaviour the first lieutenant went down to enquire what they wanted and was soon wounded in the arm with a tomahawk he retired for some time and when he returned was knocked down with a tomahawk his throat cut and thrown overboard after which the sailors proceeded to the cabin in search of the captain who had locked himself in but was soon dragged out after having wounded or in defending himself with his sword and experienced the same fate of his unfortunate lieutenant they afterwards seized upon and murdered every officer in the ship except a master's mate and two midshipmen they then directed their course for la guira where they arrived under spanish colours and delivered the ship up to the spanish government giving out that they had turned their officers adrift in their jolly boat the spaniards have since manned the ship and sent her to sea our informant further adds that the crew of the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", 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preserve its tranquility tho surrounded by hostile and warring powers a recent account however mentions that it is not far from experiencing a revolution similar to that of venice and genoa the council of the cantons have had a dispute with the french general kellermann respecting the navigation of the lake of lugano which after appearing to be settled broke out with fresh animosity gen buonaparte declared that the french by virtue of the rights of the lombards will insist upon a free navigation of the lake of leegano as long as they shall be in that country and that the refusal on the part of the swis was an open violation of that right i am informed says the general to the helvetic council that you have in the first instance driven the french gun-boats from the lake ill-treated the french officers who commanded them and insulted the tri-coloured flag i therefore signify to you that by my orders fresh cruisers shall take place in every direction of the lake and if the least obstacle is started to take vengeance at the head of the french army this declaration gave birth to discussions in which the helvetic deputies maintained that neither the lombards nor the french had any right to navigate the lake in question this provoked buonaparte who told the deputies that he could plainly perceive that their country was under foreign influence that several cantons continued to vent their spite against the french revolution and had granted protection to the enemies of france he particularly pointed out berne as the greatest enemy of the republic france has many other grievances against the helvetic corps concludes the general and unless you behave in a more friendly manner to your ancient and faithful ally i will send my columns into switzerland and compel you to better usage this threat from the victorious general created great consternation in all the cantons particularly berne the firmest members are proposing for resistance but the great body expect the downfall of the present system and the establishment of a down-right democracy in the interim deputations are sending to buonaparte to explain the conduct of the republic and assert its rights and the canton of berne is endeavouring to conciliate all its citizens in many parts of the cantons the revolutionary machines are in motion at st gall discontent and disorder speak in loud and menacing terms and at appenzell and zurich the spirit is far from being tranquil ancona has declared itself independent of the church and has solicited to become a part of the great italian republic its municipality is distinguished by its energy and its indefatigability to convince the people of the advantages of the revolution they have issued a proclamation in which the situation of those who still groan beneath the papal yoke is compared with the people of ancona the following passage will give a specimen of the spirit of the proclamation free citizens compare your condition with the miseries to which the slaves of the pope are subjected consider to what desperate severities the pride and the imbecility of the ecclesiastical tyrant have induced him to proceed it is not sufficient that the clergy and the laity have been compelled to make a loan to his holiness but various taxes have been imposed to supply his exhausted treasury we present you this picture that in viewing it you may contemplate with an eye of compassion your brethren who are in slavery and rejoice that you have had the happy destiny of escaping from so many miseries thanks to the liberty which has been given us by the victorious armies of france spain this nation so well calculated from its climate and immense territorial possessions to be one of the first powers of europe is considered as the most important and debased the influence which the french republic has gained in its councils is powerful and commanding the talents of charles iv are out of the first rate but the prince of peace the prime minister is said to be one of the most penetrating statesmen in europe tho at war spain has gained but few laurels its armies have threatened portugal but they have never passed the ebro river and with a navy of sail of floating castles has suffered an inferior fleet to block up and bombard the mercantile capital of the kingdom but it is said that war is not the policy of spain and that the continuation of it is wholly owing to the dictum of the french republic some preparations are however said to be making in andalusia for an attack on the rock of gibraltar but the latest accounts say that the garrison of that pillar of hercules was under no apprehensions whatever from them the spanish camps on the frontier of portugal it is expected after the british leave that kingdom will be marched to the vicinity of st roque the prince de pax is reported to be occupied in the consideration of measures for the encouragement of trade and commerce the establishment of public banks and the abolition of such taxes as bear hardest on the body of the people particularly poor mechanics he is likewise taking the necessary steps for reducing the price of provisions and preventing monopolies for encouraging foreign merchants and artists to settle in spain and his countrymen to manufacture their own raw materials instead of exporting and repurchasing them at an advanced price all protestants who settle in spain are not only to be allowed the freedom of religion but legal protection in the exercise of their duties the inquisition tho not totally abolished as reported is nevertheless greatly restricted in spain some time since three prelates were sent to rome from spain to obtain the sanction of his holiness for the reform of the holy office c they have returned after obtaining the pope's full"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|2", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", 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rights of the lombards will insist upon a free navigation of the lake of lugano as long as they shall be in that country and that the refusal on the part of the swiss was an open violation of that right i am informed says the general to the helvetic council that you have in the first instance driven the french gun boats from the lake ill-treated the french officers who commanded them and insulted the tri-colored flag i therefore signify to you that by my orders fresh cruizers shall take place in every direction of the lake and if the least obstacle is started or the most trifling insult committed i am resolved to take vengeance at the head of the french army this declaration gave birth to discussions in which the helvetic deputies maintained that neither the lombards nor the french had any right to navigate the lake in question this provoked buonaparte who told the deputies that he could plainly perceive that their country was under foreign influence that several cantons continued to vent their spite against the french revolution and had granted protection to the enemies of france he particularly pointed out berne as the greatest enemy of the republic france has many other grievances against the helvetic corps concludes the general and unless you behave in a more friendly manner to your ancient and faithful ally i will send my columns into switzerland and compel you to better usage this threat from the victorious general created great consternation in all the cantons particularly berne the firmest members are proposing for resistance but the great body expect the downfall of the present system and the establishment of a down-right democracy in the interim deputations are sending to buonaparte to explain the conduct of the republic and assert its rights and the canton of berne is endeavoring to conciliate all its citizens in many parts of the cantons the revolutionary machinery are in motion at st gall discontent and disorder speak in loud and menacing terms and at 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"normalized_excerpt": "providence dated september says we have lately very providentially escaped a most hellish plot a parcel of french negroes who had been captured and sold here and who had run away from their owners entered into a conspiracy about thirty in number to burn the town and make a general massacre of the whites they had the promise of a great many slaves to join them immediately on their beginning the horrid business their scheme could not have been planned by any set of men and would undoubtedly have occasioned an immense bloodshed had they carried it into effect but one of them who had been compelled to take the oath divulged the secret to his master a few hours before the massacre was to have begun a party of men were immediately collected and sent after the villains only a few had yet assembled five of them were taken the principal ringleaders made two of that number they were all condemned and three executed the other two will share the same fate in a day or two the 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down to enquire what they wanted and was soon wounded in the arm with a tomahawk he retired for some time and when he returned was knocked down with a tomahawk his throat cut and thrown overboard after which the sailors proceeded to the cabin in search of the captain who had locked himself in but was soon dragged out after having wounded two or three in defending himself with his sword and experienced the fate of his unfortunate lieutenant they afterwards seized upon and murdered every officer in the ship except a master's mate and two midshipmen they then directed their course for la guira where they arrived under spanish colours and delivered the ship up to the spanish government giving out that they had turned their officers adrift in their jolly boat the spaniards have since manned the ship and sent her to sea our informers further adds that the crew of the ship hermoine were"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route 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positively at an end and the german troops were marching for the fields of controversy the french armies our readers will recollect were ordered to be filed up by the th of oct thus on both sides is note of a dreadful combat given on the rhine both powers have very formidable armies and gen buonaparte on the other side of germany has a powerful chain of posts at udina belluno bassano verona c which menaces germany from the borders of austria to tyrol we know not what force the emperor has to oppose the french in this quarter but if it is not powerful the first intelligence we may receive may be his appearance under the walls of vienna or a division passing the tyrol country attack the flank of the german army on the rhine while the powerful force of angereau affails them in front those who delight in human carnage"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1433, 1663], 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and decline of the contagious sickness which has so lately afflicted the city of philadelphia and the pleasing circumstance that congress is now assembled at that place without hazard to the health of its members evinces the propriety of your having postponed a determination to convene the national legislature at another place we shall take into consideration the law of on this subject and will readily concur in any amendment which may be deemed expedient it would have given us much pleasure to have received your congratulations on the re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the persons and property of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea but though those events so desirable to our country and the world have not taken place yet we have abundant cause of gratitude to the great disposer of human events for interior"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|2", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", 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postponed a determination to convene the national legislature at another place we shall take into consideration the law of on this subject and will readily concur in any amendment which may be deemed expedient it would have given us much pleasure to have received your congratulations on the re-establishment of peace in europe and the restoration of security to the persons and property of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea but tho these events so desirable to our country and the world have not taken place yet we have abundant cause of gratitude to the great disposer of human events for interior"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2652, 2721], "b_span": [1094, 1161], "matched_words": 65, "similarity": 0.9558823529411765, "seeds": 10, "id": "M01386", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-13|1|1", "date": "1797-12-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": 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liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty against all open and secret attacks we learn with satisfaction that our envoys extraordinary to the french republic had safely arrived in europe and were proceeding to the scene of negotiation and whatever may be the result of the mission we are perfectly satisfied that nothing on your part has been omitted which could in any way conduce to a successful conclusion of the negotiation upon terms compatible with the safety honor and interest of the united states and we are fully convinced that in the mean time a manifestation of that unanimity and energy of which the people of the united states have given such striking proofs and a proper exertion of these resources of national defence which we possess will essentially contribute to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice we think sir with you that the commerce of the united states is essential to the growth comfort and prosperity of our country and that the faith of society is pledged for the preservation of the rights of commercial and seafaring no less than of other citizens and even if our negotiations with france should terminate favorably and the war in europe cease yet the state of society which unhappily prevails in so great a portion of the world and the experience of past times under better circumstances united in warning us that a commerce so extensive and which holds out so many temptations to unlawful plunderers can never be safe without protection and we hold ourselves obliged by every tie of duty which binds us to our constituents to promote and concur in such measures of marine defence as may convince our merchants and seamen that their rights are not sacrificed nor their injuries forgotten we regret that notwithstanding the clear and explicit terms of the treaty between the united states and his catholic majesty the spanish garrisons are not yet withdrawn from our territory nor the running of the boundary line commenced the united states have been faithful in the performance of their obligations to spain and had reason to expect a compliance equally prompt on the part of that power we still however indulge the hope that the convincing answers which have been given to the objections stated by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty will have their proper effect and that this treaty so mutually beneficial to the contracting parties will be finally observed with good faith we therefore entirely approve of your determination to continue in readiness to receive the posts and to run the line of partition between our territory and that of the king of spain attempts to alienate the affections of the indians to form them into a confederacy and to excite them to actual hostility against the united states whether made by foreign agents or by others are so injurious to our interest at large and so inhuman with respect to our citizens inhabiting the adjacent territory as to deserve the most exemplary punishment and we will cheerfully afford our aid in framing a law which may prescribe a punishment adequate to the commission of crimes so heinous the several objects you have pointed out to the attention of the legislature whether they regard our internal or external relations shall receive from us that consideration which they merit and we will readily concur in all such measures as may be necessary either to enable us to fulfil our engagements at home or to cause ourselves to be respected abroad and at this portentous period when the powers of europe with whom we are connected by treaty or commerce are in so critical a situation and when the conduct of some of those powers towards the united states is so hostile and menacing the several branches of the government are in our opinion called upon with peculiar importance to unite and by union not only to devise and carry into effect those measures on which the safety and prosperity of our country depend but also to undeceive those nations who regarding us as a weak and divided people have pursued systems of aggression inconsistent with a state of peace between independent nations and sir we beg leave to assure you that we derive a singular consolation from the reflection that at such a time the executive part of our government has been committed to your hands for in your integrity talents and firmness we place the most entire confidence to which the president replied gentlemen of the senate i thank you for this address when after the most laborious investigation and serious reflection without partial considerations or personal motives measures have been adopted or recommended i can receive no higher testimony of their rectitude than the approbation of an assembly so independent patriotic and enlightened as the senate of the united states nothing has afforded me more entire satisfaction than the coincidence of your judgment with mine in the opinion of the essential importance of our commerce and 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rational spirit of civil and religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty against all open and secret attacks we learn with satisfaction that our envoys extraordinary to the french republic had safely arrived in europe and were proceeding to the scene of negotiation and whatever may be the result of the mission we are perfectly satisfied that nothing on your part has been omitted which could in any way conduce to a successful conclusion of the negotiation upon terms compatible with the safety honor and interest of the u states and we are fully convinced that in the mean time a manifestation of that unanimity energy of which the people of the u states have given such memorable proofs and a proper exertion of those resources of national defence which we possess will essentially contribute to the preservation of peace and the attainment of justice we think sir with you that the commerce of the u states is essential to the growth comfort and prosperity of our country and that the faith of society is pledged for the preservation of the rights of commercial and trading no less than of other citizens and even if our negotiations with france should terminate favourably and the war in europe cease yet the state of society which unhappily prevails in so great a portion of the world and the experience of past times under better circumstances unite in warning us that a commerce so extensive and which holds out so many temptations to unlawful plunderers can never be safe without our protection and we hold ourselves obliged by every tie of duty which binds us to our constituents to promote and concur in such measures of marine defence as may convince our merchants and seamen that their rights are not sacrificed nor their injuries forgotten we regret that notwithstanding the clear and explicit terms of the treaty between the u states and his catholic majesty the spanish garrison are not yet withdrawn from our territory nor the running of the boundary line commenced the u states have been faithful in the performance of their obligations to spain and had reason to expect a compliance equally prompt on the part of that power we still however indulge the hope that the convincing answers which have been given to the objections stated by the spanish officers to the immediate execution of the treaty will have their proper effect and that this treaty so mutually beneficial to the contracting parties will be finally observed with good faith we therefore entirely approve of your determination to continue in readiness to receive the posts or run the line of partition between our territory and that of the king of spain attempts to alienate the affections of the indians to form them into a confederacy and to excite them to actual hostility against the u states whether made by foreign agents or others are to us injurious to our interests at large and to inhuman with respect to our citizens inhabiting the adjacent territory as to deserve the most exemplary punishment and we will cheerfully afford our aid in framing a law which may prescribe a punishment adequate to the commission of crimes so heinous the several objects you have pointed out to the attention of the legislature whether they regard our internal or external relations shall receive from us that consideration which they merit and we will readily concur in all such measures as may be necessary either to enable us to fulfil our engagements at home or cause ourselves to be respected abroad and at this portentous period when the powers of europe with whom we are connected by treaty or commerce are in so critical a situation and when the conduct of some of those powers towards the u states is so hostile and menacing the several branches of the government are in our opinion called upon with peculiar importunity to unite and by union not only to advise and carry into effect those measures on which the safety and prosperity of our country depend but also to deceive those nations who regarding us as a weak and divided people have pursued systems of aggression inconsistent with a state of peace between independent nations and sir we beg leave to assure you that we derive a singular consolation from the reflection that such a time the executive part of our government has been committed to your hands for in your integrity talents and firmness we place the most entire confidence to which the president replied gentlemen of the senate i thank you for this address when after the most laborious investigation and serious reflection without partial considerations or personal motives measures have been adopted or recommended i can receive no higher testimony of their rectitude than the approbation of an assembly so independent patriotic and enlightened as the senate of the u states nothing has afforded me more entire satisfaction than the coincidence of your judgment with mine in the opinion of the essential importance of our commerce and the absolute necessity of a maritime defence what is it that has drawn to europe the superfluous riches of the three other quarters of the globe but a marine what is it that has drained the wealth of europe itself into the coffers of two or three of its principal commercial powers but a marine the world has furnished no example of a flourishing commerce without a maritime protection and a moderate knowledge of man and his history will convince any one that no such prodigy ever can arise a mercantile marine and a military marine must grow up together one cannot long exist without the other john adams"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [504, 570], "b_span": [1223, 1286], "matched_words": 61, "similarity": 0.9457364341085271, "seeds": 11, "id": "M01389", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-13|1|2", "date": "1797-12-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", 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now in the possession of any per son or persons and lodge the same with the commissary-general and that the com missary-general be directed to dispose of the iron now belonging to this state and ac count with the state for the proceeds as soon as may be after the same shall be sold which report being read and considered was"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|3", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121901/0027.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "passed to be enacted voted a committee to consider a petition from joshua brackett and others praying for the liberty of a lottery c voted a committee to report what measures shall be taken by the state for recovering one hundred guns and bayonets which col j wentworth received by 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report which was that the governor's salary be twelve hun dred dollars the yeas and nays were called and were yeas and nays so that part of the report was not accepted resolved that his excellency john taylor gilman esq have and receive out of the treasury one thousand dollars as a salary from june to june and that an order issue accordingly resolved that oliver peabody esq have receive out of the treasury eight hundred dollars for a salary from june to june and that order issue accordingly which is to be considered in full for salary office hire stationary c resolved that joshua atherton esq have and receive out of the treasury three hun dred and thirty four dollars for a salary as attorney general from june to june and that an order issue accordingly resolved that george gains esq have and receive out of the treasury of this state forty dollars for a salary as commissary general from june to june and that an order"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|3", "date": "1797-12-19", 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of the treasury dollars as a salary from june to june and that an order issue accordingly resolved that oliver peabody esq have and receive out of the treasury dollars for a salary from june to june and that an order issue accordingly which is to be considered in full for salary office hire stationary c resolved that joshua atherton esq have and receive out of the treasury and dollars for a salary as attorney gen from june to june and that an order issue accordingly resolved that george gains esq have and receive out of the treasury of this state dollars for a salary as commissary gen from june to june and that an order"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2735, 2861], "b_span": [1811, 1933], "matched_words": 113, "similarity": 0.9112903225806451, "seeds": 18, "id": "M01392", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-13|1|2", "date": "1797-12-13", "paper": "The New Hampshire 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sept which inform that orders had been received there by the consul from the french government against capturing any more american vessels whose"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [4059, 4190], "b_span": [646, 779], "matched_words": 123, "similarity": 0.9318181818181818, "seeds": 15, "id": "M01393", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-15|1|3", "date": "1797-12-15", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-15/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797121501/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that you would repose from your labours on the decadi and on the republican fetes but of what avail is example on the mind of egotists on those souls that are so deeply imbued with the prejudices of the old regime who flatter themselves with the hopes of the restoration of monarchy and who look on the th fructidor as a public calamity it is by laws they ought to be repressed i move therefore that a committee be appointed to examine the question whether it may be proper to forbid the journals to put any other date at the heads of their journals than that of the republican era under pain of being suppressed and every citizen to adopt any other in their private compact under pain of their being"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-26|1|1", "date": "1797-12-26", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797122601/0029.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "that you would repose from your labors on the decads and on the republican feasts but of what avail is example on the mind of egotists on these souls that are so deeply imbrued with the prejudices of the old regime who flatter themselves with the hopes of the restoration of monarchy and who look on the th fructidor as a public calamity it is by laws that they ought to be repressed i move therefore that a committee be appointed to examine into the question whether it may be proper to forbid the journalists to put any other date at the head of their journals than that of the republican era under pain of being suppressed and every citizen to adopt any other in their private contracts under pain of their being"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2331, 2552], "b_span": [1259, 1481], "matched_words": 219, "similarity": 0.9887133182844243, "seeds": 50, "id": "M01394", "a": {"key": "sn82014782|1797-12-16|1|2", "date": "1797-12-16", "paper": "The 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in but was soon dragged out after having wounded or in defending himself with his sword and experienced the same fate of his unfortunate lieutenant they afterwards seized upon and murdered every officer in the ship except a master's mate and two midshipmen they then directed their course for la guira where they arrived under spanish colours and delivered the ship up to the spanish government giving out that they had turned their officers adrift in their jolly boat the spaniards have since manned the ship and sent her to sea our informant further adds that the crew of the"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|3", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797122501/0111.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "the captain speaking sharp to them two of the men fell from the yards when the others came down they were reprimanded in harsh terms by the captain and several of them threatened with punishment this occasioned much discontent which continued until the next evening when the mutiny broke out by throwing double headed shot c about the ship and other disorderly behaviour the first lieutenant went down to enquire what they wanted and was soon wounded in the arm with a tomahawk he retired for some time and when he returned was knocked down with a tomahawk his throat cut and thrown overboard after which the sailors proceeded to the cabin in search of the captain who had locked himself in but was soon dragged out after having wounded two or three in defending himself with his sword and experienced the fate of his unfortunate lieutenant they afterwards seized upon and murdered every officer in the ship except a master's mate and two midshipmen they then directed their course for la guira where they arrived under spanish colours and delivered the ship up to the spanish government giving out that they had turned their officers adrift in their jolly boat the spaniards have since manned the ship and sent her to sea our informers further adds that the crew of the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [988, 1179], "b_span": [653, 833], "matched_words": 153, "similarity": 0.8247978436657682, "seeds": 26, "id": "M01395", "a": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-19|1|3", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-19/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797121901/0027.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from the house of representatives of the united states with peculiar pleasure your approbation of the meeting of congress in this city and of those other measures of the executive authority of government communicated in my address to both houses at the opening of the session afford me great satisfaction as the strongest desire of my heart is to give satisfaction to the people and their representatives by a faithful discharge of my duty the confidence you put in the sincerity of my endeavors and in the unanimity of the people does me much honor and gives me great joy i rejoice in that happiness which appears in the sentiments of all the branches of the government on the importance of our commerce and our obligations to defend it as well as in all the other subjects recommended to your consideration and sincerely congratulate you and our fellow citizens at large on this appearance so auspicious to the honor and happiness of the nation john adams united states nov new hampshire legislature in house dec a bill to incorporate a company for the purpose of building a bridge over pemigwasset river"}, "b": {"key": "sn84023150|1797-12-25|1|3", "date": "1797-12-25", "paper": "The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel", "lccn": "sn84023150", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023150/1797-12-25/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn84023150/0054131474A/1797122501/0111.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "from the house of representatives of the united states with peculiar pleasure your approbation of the meeting of congress in this city and of those other measures of the executive authority of government communicated in my address to both houses at the opening of the session afford me great satisfaction to the people and their representatives by a faithful discharge of my duty the confidence you express in the sincerity of my endeavors and in the unanimity of the people does me much honor and gives me great joy i rejoice in that harmony which appears in sentiment on the importance of our commerce and our obligations to defend it as well as in all the other subjects recommended to your considerations and sincerely congratulate you and our fellow-citizens at large on this appearance so auspicious to the honor interest and happiness of the nation john adams united states nov legislature of new-hampshire house of representatives tuesday nov upon reading and considering a petition from arthur livermore esq and others praying for leave to build a bridge over pemigwasset river"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3276, 3375], "b_span": [1267, 1365], "matched_words": 95, "similarity": 0.9644670050761421, "seeds": 14, "id": "M01396", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-19|1|3", "date": "1797-12-19", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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foreign language having heard of capt chisholme's having failed from philadelphia in a vessel belonging to mr wm davy they sent for mr davy and examined him his examination led to the examination of george lether and others the committee mentioned that the chevalier yrujo called upon them and made a communication which implicated a person by the name of mitchell they immediately wrote to maj lewis on the subject he received their letter but could not find the person a second communication was made by the chevalier on the subject after stating a number of other articles which we were not able to collect the committee concluded their report by regretting that they have not been able to obtain more complete information on the subject but assure the house that nothing in their power has been wanting to obtain it the reading of the documents was then entered upon from no to were letters between dr romayne and mr blount no was written in spanish but by an american from no to were letters of blount to various persons from dr romayne to mr blount and others and one of them from robert linton to dr romayne no a paper indorsed by judge turner containing an account of different military posts no the deposition of dr romayne before the committee the deponent states that he had been acquainted with mr blount since that he became acquainted with chisholme while in treaty with mr blount in land speculations some time after the deponent intended going to london to tell land but the falling in price of property prevented him that gov blount was to have procured a few passed in tennessee to enable aliens to hold land the deponent spoke of the different letters which had passed between w blount and himself on the subject of louisiana which the former regretted the english did not possess and spoke of going to england on the business he regretted the floridas did not belong to the u s it was understood between them that it was most favorable for louisiana to belong to the spaniards but that the english had much better have it than the french they agreed that it was necessary to found certain persons in philadelphia on the subject as well as in virginia and the southern states spoke of his conversation to blount about going to england but that mr blount neglecting to answer his letters he gave up the project after the evidence follows the cross examination of the committee the letters which passed between w blount and n romayne bear date from feb to may and are chiefly on the project of going to england on the business of louisiana mr r frequently speaks with great confidence of success and often introduces in his letters the critical situation of the european powers and the improbability of peace next follows the examination of mr william davy of philadelphia which relates to the failing of chisholme in the brig john henderson which he chartered and which cleared out for hamburg but was bound for london on the th of march that his passage was taken and paid for by r linton by means of mr thornton mr d repeats conversation which took place between them as to his business that he was to command a squadron against pensylvania and a variety of other circumstances mr d also mentions several interviews with mr linton on the business he also produced a letter from his brother in london mentioning chisholme having endeavored to get money from him but before he gave him any he applied to lord grenville's office to know if he had got money from thence and finding they had supplied him largely he declined letting him have any evidence of george lether relates to chisholme's being at his house with a party of indians of his conversation about going to europe and of his business there that whilst he was at his house he was arrested for dollars and that he told him he was obliged to sacrifice a note of mr bond's for dollars at a loss of five or six dollars in the to satisfy the demand the examination of william bell retires what is laid above about sacrificing the note of dollars as he states that he gave chisholme credit from time to time and that the note of dollars was not paid at all a letter from the secretary of state to the committee stating what had passed between him and the british minister in which amongst other things it is asserted that mr linton gave chisholme no money at all that he only paid his passage to the owner and gave him an order for on his banker in london a note from mr linton to the secretary of state lord grenville's note to mr linton in which the british government declines to accede to the proposals made to them respecting the floridas c evidence of elisha b hopkins with respect to conversation held with chisholme dr charles buxton's examination relates to conversation between him and dr romayne john franklin was examined with respect to chisholme being at lether's at the same time with him spoke of his conversation respecting louisiana and floridas w blount and the british minister james carey's and john rogers's evidence went to the same effect the reading of the papers having continued for more than two hours and it being three o'clock mr dent said as there were several more papers to read he should move the house to adjourn the motion was"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-26|1|3", "date": "1797-12-26", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797122601/0031.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "and major grant gave bond for his appearance before the senate to complete the series of correspondence between mr blount and mr romayne the letter no seemed to be wanting on the th july it was received by the secretary of state under an anonymous cover in a foreign language having heard of capt chisholme's having failed from philadelphia in a vessel belonging to mr wm davy they sent for mr davy and examined him his examination led to the examination of george lesher and others the committee mentioned that the chevalier yrujo called upon them and made a communication which implicated a person by the name of mitchell they immediately wrote to major lewis on the subject he received their letter but could not find the person a second communication was made by the chevalier on the subject after stating a number of other articles which we were not able to collect the committee concluded their report by regretting that they have not been able to obtain more complete information on the subject but assure the house that nothing in their power has been wanting to obtain it the reading of the documents was then entered upon from no to were letters between dr romayne and mr blount no was written in spanish but by an american from no to were letters of blount to various persons from dr romayne to mr b and others and one of them from robert liston to dr romayne no a paper indorsed by judge turner containing an account of different military posts no the deposition of dr romayne before the committee the deponent states that he had been acquainted with mr blount since that he became acquainted with chisholme whilst in treaty with mr blount in land speculations some time after the deponent intended going to london to sell land but the falling in price of property prevented him that gov blount was to have procured a law passed in tennessee to enable aliens to hold land the deponent spoke of the different letters which had passed between w blount and himself on the subject of louisiana which the former regretted the english did not possess and spoke of going to england on the business he regretted the floridas did not belong to the u states it was understood between them that it was most favorable for louisiana to belong to the spaniards but that the english had much better have it than the french they agreed that it was necessary to found certain persons in philadelphia on the subject as well as in virginia and the southern states spoke of his conversation to blount about going to england but that mr blount neglecting to answer his letters he gave up the project after the evidence follows the cross examination of the committee the letters which passed between w blount and n romayne bear date from feb to may and are chiefly on the project of going to england on the business of louisiana mr r frequently speaks with great confidence of success and often introduces in his letters the critical situation of the european powers and the improbability of peace next follows the examination of mr william davy of philadelphia which relates to the failing of chisholme in the brig john henderson which he cleared out for hamburg but was bound for london on the th of march that his passage was taken and paid for by r liston by means of mr thornton mr d repeats conversation which took place between them as to his business that he was to command a squadron against pensacola and a variety of other circumstances mr d also mentions several interviews with mr liston on the business he also produced a letter from his brother in london mentioning chisholme having endeavored to get money from him but before he gave him any he applied to lord grenville's office to know if he had got money from thence and finding they had supplied him largely he declined letting him have any evidences of george lesher relates to chisholme's being at his house with a party of indians of his conversation about going to europe and of his business there that whilst he was at his house he was arrested for dollars and that he told him he was obliged to sacrifice a note of mr bond's for dollars at a loss of five or six dollars in the to satisfy the demand the examination of w bell relates what is said above about sacrificing the note of dollars as he states that he gave chisholme credit from time to time and that the note of dollars was not paid at all a letter from the secretary of state to the committee stating what had passed between him and the british minister in which amongst other things it is asserted that mr liston gave chisholme no money at all that he only paid his passage to the owner and gave him an order for l on his banker in london lord grenville's note to mr liston in which the british government declines to accede to the proposals made to them respecting the floridas c evidence of elisha b hopkins with respect to conversation held with chisholme dr charles boston's examination relates to conversation between him and dr romayne john franklin was examined with respect to chisholme being at lesher's at the same time with him spoke of his conversation respecting louisiana and floridas w blount and the british minister the reading of the papers having continued for more than two hours and it being three o'clock mr dent said as there were several more papers to read he should move the house to adjourn the motion was"}, 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declue charged with dispatches from the executive directory to our government with which he reached town between one and two o'clock this morning the french fleet consisting of sail of the line and seven frigates had put to sea four days since we are on the eve of great events oct the french minister m de clue who arrived yesterday morning at the house of mr canning with dispatches for lord malmesbury we find came express from udine the seat of the negotiation between the french republic and the emperor to paris he continued there but hours when he was dispatched to lisle from which place he proceeded to england on his arrival at the house of mr canning a special messenger was sent for lord malmesbury who arrived in town about noon and the french courier delivered his packet into his own hands lord malmesbury prudently recommended the frenchman to reside in the house of one of the messengers of state until his answer should be prepared for him which he said would be very soon oct three of lord st vincent's first rate ships have arrived at portsmouth from cadiz the four spanish prize line of battle ships taken by lord st vincent have arrived at plymouth the earl of mornington falls immediately for bengal in la virginie frigate oct a council of all the cabinet ministers was held yesterday morning at lord grenville's office when the answer to the dispatches from the french directory was fully determined upon the dutch sailors have lately given a proof of their attachment to the stadtholder in refusing to weigh anchor and sail out of the harbor under admiral winter the cause of the stadtholder does not by any means appear to us to be desperate though it is better to give way for a time and wait for favorable opportunities than to attempt any schemes for restoration by force of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-26|1|2", "date": "1797-12-26", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": 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seat of the negotiation between the french republic and the emperor to paris he continued there but hours when he was dispatched to lille from which place he proceeded to england on his arrival at the house of mr canning a special messenger was sent for lord malmesbury who arrived in town about noon and the french courier delivered his packet into his own hands lord malmesbury prudently recommended the frenchmen to reside in the house of one of the messengers of state until his answer should be prepared for him which he said would be very soon oct three of lord st vincent's first rate ships have arrived at por smouth from cadiz the four spanish prize line of battle ships taken by lord st vincent have arrived at plymouth the earl of mornington falls immediately for bengal in la virginie frigate oct a council of all the cabinet masters was held yesterday morning at lord grenville's office when the answer to the dispatches from the french directory was fully determined upon the dutch ships have lately given a proof of their attachment to the stadtholder in refusing to weigh anchor and sail out of the harbour under admiral winter the cause of the stadtholder does not by any means appear to us to be desperate tho it is better to give way for a time and wait for favorable opportunities than to attempt any schemes for restoration by force of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2123, 2347], "b_span": [1121, 1346], "matched_words": 218, "similarity": 0.9710467706013363, "seeds": 43, "id": "M01400", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797122001/0413.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lord who arrived at portsmouth on thursday morning last from holland in days has informed his owners in this town by express that he was the bearer of a letter from capt roberts dated at helvoetsluys the th october announcing the important intelligence of a victory being gained by the english fleet commanded by admiral duncan over the dutch fleet under the orders of admiral de winter and that ten or eleven sail had fallen in duncan's hands including two admirals and other large ships after the action one of the captured ships was stranded if the above account is authentic the event it relates is of the first importance it will give fresh spirits to the english nation and induce the monied men to come forward in liberal loans to government in support of a war which has made them masters of the ocean it will shew that the late mutiny in the fleet was not instigated with disloyalty and that the tars of england while they know how to ask for redress of grievances always know how to conquer an enemy the date of the account does not impair its authenticity but we cannot easily persuade ourselves that de winter would quit his safe moorings in the texel to combat an enemy every way his superior especially so soon after a mutiny"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-26|1|3", "date": "1797-12-26", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797122601/0031.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "lord who arrived at portsmouth on thursday morning last from holland in days has informed his owners in this town by express that he was the bearer of a letter from capt roberta dated at helvoetluys the th october announcing the important intelligence of a complete victory being gained by the english fleet commanded by admiral duncan over the dutch fleet under the orders of admiral de winter and that ten or eleven sail had fallen in duncan's hands including two admirals and other large ships after the action one of the captured ships was stranded if the above account is authentic the event it relates is of the first importance it will give fresh spirits to the english nation and induce the monied men to come forward in liberal loans to government in support of war which has made them the masters of the ocean it will shew that the late mutiny in the fleet was not tinged with disloyalty and that the men of england while they knew how to ask for redress of grievances always know how to conquer an enemy the date of the account does not impair its authenticity but we cannot easily persuade ourselves that de winter would quit his safe moorings in the texel to combat an enemy every way his superior especially so soon after a mutiny"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2585, 2719], "b_span": [972, 1108], "matched_words": 131, "similarity": 0.9703703703703703, "seeds": 23, "id": "M01401", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-20|1|3", "date": "1797-12-20", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-20/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797122001/0413.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "philad dec all our accounts from europe agree in representing the political situation of that quarter as highly interesting new scenes are daily unfolding and seem to mock the calculations of our most sagacious politicians the war which seemed frittering to a close by the successive secession of the powers engaged in it now assumes a more menacing attitude and threatens to include in its vortex poland russia the ottoman porte prussia if in the turmoil the united states can keep beyond its influence great credit will be due to those who conduct their affairs in any event we must be prepared for the worst our resources are immense and they ought to be put in a state of active preparation things as yet go on very harmoniously in congress we have more americans"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025525|1797-12-26|1|3", "date": "1797-12-26", "paper": "The Mirror", "lccn": "sn83025525", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025525/1797-12-26/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_eider_ver01/data/sn83025525/00541315822/1797122601/0031.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "philad dec all our accounts from europe agree in representing the political situation of that quarter as highly interesting new scenes are daily unfolding and seem to mock the calculations of our wisest politicians the war which seemed frittering to a close by the successive secession of the various powers engaged in it now assumes a more menacing attitude and threatens to include in its vortex poland russia the ottoman porte and prussia it in the turmoil of the united states can keep beyond its influence great credit will be due to those who conduct their affairs in any event we must be prepared for the worst our resources are immense and they ought to be put in a state of active preparation things as yet go on very harmoniously in congress we have more americans"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3, 1775], "b_span": [436, 2215], "matched_words": 1635, "similarity": 0.9208673613066741, "seeds": 274, "id": "M01402", "a": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-21|1|3", "date": "1797-12-21", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025881/1797-12-21/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_mainecoon_ver01/data/sn83025881/print/1797122101/0003.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "i dispatched the rose cutter at three p m on the th th inst with a short letter to you immediately after the action was ended i have now further to acquaint you for their lordships information that in the night of the th inst after i had sent away my letter to you of that date i placed my squadron in such a situation as to prevent the enemy from returning to the texel without falling in with them at nine o'clock in the morning of the th i got sight of capt trollope's squadron with signals flying for an enemy to leeward i immediately bore up and made the signal for a general chase and soon got sight of them forming in a line on the larboard tack to receive us the wind at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the squadron to shorten sail in order to connect them soon after i saw the land between camperdown and egmont about miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land whither they were fast approaching my signals were obeyed with great promptitude and vice-admiral onslow in the monarch bore down on the enemy's rear in the most gallant manner his division following his example and the action commenced about forty minutes past o'clock the venerable soon got through the enemy's line and i began a close action with my division on their van which lasted near two hours and a half when i observed all the masts of the dutch admiral's ship to go by the board she was however defended for some time in a most gallant manner but being over-pressed by numbers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable on looking around me i observed the ship bearing the vice-admiral's flag was also dismasted and had surrendered to vice-admiral onslow and that many others had likewise struck finding we were in fathoms water and not farther than five miles from the land my attention was so much taken up in getting the heads of the disabled ships off shore that i was not able to distinguish the number of ships captured and the wind having been constantly on the land since we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were seen going into the texel next morning it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction i make known to their lordships the very gallant behaviour of vice-admiral onslow the captains officers seamen and marines of the squadron who all appeared animated with a truly british spirit at least those that had an opportunity of seeing one of the enemy's ships caught fire in the action and drove very near the venerable but i have the pleasure to say it was extinguished and she is one of the ships in our possession the squadron has suffered much in their masts yards and rigging and many of them have lost a number of men however in no proportion to that of the enemy the carnage on board the two ships that bore the admiral's flags has been beyond all description they have had no less than men killed and wounded on board of each ship and here i have to lament the loss of capt burgees of his majesty's ship the ardent who brought that ship into action in the most gallant and masterly manner but was unfortunately killed soon after however the ship continued the action close till quite disabled the public bore left a good and gallant officer in capt burgees and i with others a sincere friend capt trollope's exertions and active good conduct in keeping sight of the enemy's fleet until i came up have been truly meritorious and i trust will meet a just reward i send this by captain fairfax by whose able advice i profited much during the action and who will give their lordships any further particulars they may wish to know as most of the ships of the squadron are disabled and several of the prizes dismasted i shall make the best of my way with them to the nore i herewith transmit you a list of killed and wounded on board such of the squadron as i have been able to collect a list of the enemy's fleet opposed to my squadron and my line of battle on the day of action i am sir your most obedient humble servant adam duncan a list of killed and wounded on board the ships of admiral duncan's squadron in an action with the dutch fleet on the th of october venerable seamen marines killed officers seamen marines wounded total monarch officers seamen killed officers seamen marines wounded total bedford midshipmen seamen marines killed lieutenant seamen marines wounded total powerful seamen marines killed officers seamen and marines wounded total his seaman marine killed officers seamen wounded total ardent officers seamen marines killed officers seamen marines boys wounded total agincourt none killed or wounded belliqueux officers seamen marines killed officers seamen marines wounded total lancaster seamen killed officers seamen marines wounded total triumph seamen marines boy killed officers seamen and marines wounded total officers killed monarch mr j p tindall and mr finley midshipmen ardent captain burgees mr michael dunn master belliqueux lieut robert webster mr james milne master's mate officers wounded venerable lieutenants clay and douglas lieutenants chambers of the marines mr stewart midshipman mr brown pilot monarch lieutenant retailik lieutenant smith of the marines mr george maffie mr benjamin clement mr daniel sherwin mr charles slade midshipman mr john chimley master's mate bedford lieutenant keenor powerful lieut jennings mr mel jones boatswain mr daniel rogers midshipman lieutenant walker of the marines his lieutenant charles rea of the marines mr simon frazer and mr john walker midshipmen ardent lieutenant james rose lieutenant john sobriel captain cuthbert of marines mr john tracy master's mate mr john airey master's mate mr thomas leopold midshipman mr john taylor captain's clerk slightly mr george killiar midshipman slightly belliqueux lieutenant robert england slightly captain james cassel of marines slightly mr james scott midshipman lancaster lieut morgan lieut sandys of the marines triumph capt effington slightly in the arm mr chapman first lieut slightly in the head mr trollope third lieut slightly in the foot mr read master slightly bruised mr jones midshipman slightly in the face adam duncan list and disposition of the dutch fleet on the th of october van vice-admiral reyntjes commander cerberus captain jacobson guns men delft capt verdoorn guns men taken jupiter vice-admiral reyntjes and rear-admiral meules guns men taken alkmaer capt kraft guns men taken haarlem capt wigger guns men taken munnikendam capt lancaster guns men taken heldin capt dumitfuisse l'esgrille guns men daphne brig lieutenant fredericks guns men centre admiral de winter commander in chief walfenaer capt holland guns men taken batavier capt souters guns men vryheid the liberty admiral de winter van rossem guns men taken states general rear-admiral story guns men leyden capt mufquier guns men mars capt kollf guns men waskenhield capt guns men minerva capt bilbracht guns men galatea brig lieut rivery guns men atlanta brig lieut piete guns men rear rear-admiral bloys commander admiral devries capt zegers guns men taken hercules capt van ryseort guns men taken brutus rear-admiral bloys guns men beschermer capt hinxt guns men gelykheid the equality capt ruyten guns men taken ambusade capt lieut huys guns men taken ajax brig lieut arkenbout guns men haasje aviso lieut hartenfeld guns men n b another line of battle ship reported to be taken name unknown disposition of the squadron in the order of battle on the th of october larboard or vice-division richard onslow esq vice-admiral of the red commander russell henry trollope captain guns men director wm bligh captain guns men montagu john knight captain guns men veteran george gregory captain guns men monarch vice-admiral onslow edward o'brien captain guns men powerful william o'brien drury captain guns men monmouth james walker captain guns men agincourt john williamson captain guns men repeaters beaulieu frigate cutters rose king george active diligent speculator luggar starboard or weather division adam duncan esq admiral of the blue and commander in chief c triumph william henry effington captain guns men venerable admiral duncan wm george fairfax captain guns men ardent richard r burgees captain guns men bedford sir thomas bayard captain guns men lancaster john wells captain guns men belliqueux john inglis captain guns men adamant william hotham captain guns men his wm mitchell cap guns men repeaters circe frigate martin sloop adam duncan venerable off orfordness oct sir in addition to my letter of the th inst containing the particulars of the action of the th and which i have not been able to send away until this day i have to acquaint you for the information of the lords commissioners of the admiralty that from the wind continuing to blow on the dutch coast the ships have had great difficulty in keeping off the shore and that we have unavoidably been separated on friday last the wind blew strong from the w s w to the w n w and continued to do so until saturday morning it then shifted to the north when i made a signal to wear stood to the westward and fortunately anchored here last evening the venerable being so leaky that with all her pumps going we could but just keep her free this morning i observed the ships named in the margin at anchor near us near the kentish knock and near holley bay the 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the wind having been constantly on the land since we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were seen going into the texel the next morning it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction i make known to their lordships the very gallant behaviour of vice-admiral onslow the captains officers seamen and marines of the squadron who all appeared animated with the truly british spirit at least those that i had an opportunity of seeing one of the enemy's ships caught fire in the action and drove very near the venerable but i have the pleasure to say it was extinguished and she is one of the ships in our possession the squadron has suffered much in their masts yards and rigging and many of them have lost a number of men however in no proportion to that of the 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make the best of my way with them to the nore i herewith transmit you a list of killed and wounded on board each of the squadrons as i have been able to collect a list of the enemy's fleet opposed to my squadron and my line of battle on the day of action i am sir your most obedient humble servant adam duncan a list of killed and wounded on board the ships of admiral duncan's squadron in the action with the dutch on the th of october venerable seamen marines killed officers seamen marines wounded total monarch officers seamen killed officers seamen marines wounded total bedford midshipman seamen marines killed lieutenant seamen marines wounded total powerful seamen marines killed officers seamen and marines wounded total seaman marine killed officers seamen wounded total ardent officers seamen marines killed officers seamen marines boys wounded total agincourt none killed or wounded belliqueux officers seamen marines killed officers seamen marines wounded total lancaster seamen killed officers seamen marines wounded total triumph seamen marines boy killed officers seamen and marines wounded total officers killed monarch mr j p tindall and mr moyle finlay midshipman ardent capt burgess and mr michael dunn master belliqueux lieut robert webster mr james milne master's mate officers wounded venerable lieuts clay and douglas lieut chambers of the marines mr stewart midshipman mr brown pilot monarch lieut retalick lieut smith of the marines mr george maffie mr benjamin clement mr daniel sherwin mr charles slade midshipman mr john chimley master's mate bedford lieutenant keenor powerful lieut jennings mr mel jones boatswain mr daniel rogers midshipman lieut wolker of the marines lieut charles rea of the marines mr simon fraser and mr john walker midshipmen ardent lieut james rose lieut john sobriel capt cuthbert of marines mr john tracey master's mate mr thomas leopold midshipman mr john taylor captain's clerk mr george kilmer flighty belliqueux lieut robert england flighty captain james caffer of marines flighty mr james scott midshipman lancaster lieut morgan lieut sandys of marines triumph capt effingham flighty in the arm mr chapman st lieut flighty in the head mr threllope nd lieut flighty in the foot mr read master flighty bruised mr jones midshipman flighty in the face adam duncan list and disposition of the dutch fleet on the th october van vice admiral reynies commander cerberus capt jacobson guns men delft capt verdoorn guns men taken jupiter vice admiral reynies and rear admiral meskes guns men taken alkmaar captain kraft guns men taken haarlem captain wigger guns men taken muidenkerkendam captain lancaster guns men taken helder captain dumitshilde p'beuille guns men daphne brig lieutenant fredericks guns men center admiral de winter commander in chief wassenaer captain holland guns men taken batavier captain souters guns men vryheid the liberty admiral de winter van roffem guns men taken states general rear admiral story guns men leyden captain mousquetier guns men mars captain koff guns men waakzaamheid captain lieut nicrop guns men minerva captain ellbratcher guns men galatea brig lieut rivery guns men atalanta brig lieut pleu guns men rear rear admiral bloys commander admiral devries captain zegers guns men taken hercules captain van ryfort guns men brutus rear admiral bloys guns men belschermer captain hinxt guns men gelykheid the equality capt ruyten guns men taken ambuscade capt lieut huys guns men taken ajax brig lieut arkenbout guns men haasje aviso lieut hartenfeldt guns men adam duncan n b another line of battle ship reported to be taken name unknown disposition of the squadron in the order of battle on the th october larboard or iee division richard onslow esq vice admiral of the red commander russel h trollope captain guns men director william bligh captain guns men montague john knight captain guns men veteran george gregory captain guns men monarch vice admiral onslow edward o'brien captain guns 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continuing to blow on the dutch coast the ships have had great difficulty in keeping off the shore that we have unavoidably been separated on friday last the wind blew strong from the w s w to the w n w and continued to do until saturday morning it then shifted to the north when i made a signal to wear stood to the westward fortunately anchored here last evening the venerable being so leaky that with all her pumps going we could but just keep her free this morning i observed the ships named in the margin at anchor near us three near the keesick knack and three in holfey bay the wind is at n w and much against the disabled ships i have therefore sent the lancaster and beaulieu out to render them assistance sir thomas williams in the endymion who joined me the day after the action i also sent inshore to keep by and assist the disabled ships and i am informed that in the course of the night he fell in with a dutch ship of the line off the texel and had engaged her but i have not heard the 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you immediately after the action was ended i have now further to acquaint you for their lordships information that in the night of the th inst after i had sent away my letter to you of that date i placed my squadron in such a situation as to prevent the enemy from returning to the texel without falling in with them at nine o'clock in the morning of the th i got sight of capt trollope's squadron with signals flying for an enemy to leeward i immediately bore up and made the signal for a general chase and soon got sight of them forming in a line on the larboard tack to receive us the wind at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the squadron to shorten sail in order to connect them soon after i saw the land between camperdown and egmont about miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land 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of them have lost a number of men however in no proportion to that of the enemy the carnage on board the two ships that bore the admiral's flags has been beyond all description they have had no less than men killed and wounded on board of each ship and here i have to lament the loss of capt burgees of his majesty's ship the ardent who brought that ship into action in the most gallant and masterly manner but was unfortunately killed soon after however the ship continued the action close till quite disabled the public bore left a good and gallant officer in capt burgees and i with others a sincere friend capt trollope's exertions and active good conduct in keeping sight of the enemy's fleet until i came up have been truly meritorious and i trust will meet a just reward i send this by captain fairfax by whose able advice i profited much during the action and who will give their lordships any further particulars they may wish to know as most of the ships of the squadron are disabled and several of the prizes dismasted i shall make the best of my way with them to the nore i herewith transmit you a list of killed and wounded on board such of the squadron as i have been able to collect a list of the enemy's fleet opposed to my squadron and my line of battle on the day of action i am sir your most obedient humble servant adam duncan"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-12-28|1|2", "date": "1797-12-28", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-12-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797122801/0262.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "i dispatched the rose cutter at three p m on the th th inst with a short letter to you immediately after the action was ended i have now further to acquaint you for their lordships information that in the night of the th instant after i had sent away my letter to you of that date i placed my squadron in such a situation as to prevent the enemy from returning to the texel without my falling in with them at nine o'clock in the morning of the th i got sight of capt trollope's squadron with signals flying for an enemy to leeward i immediately bore up and made the signal for a general chase and soon got sight of them forming in a line on the larboard tack to receive us the wind at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the squadron to shorten sail in order to connect them soon after i saw the land between camperdown and egmont about nine miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land whether they were fast approaching my signals were obeyed with great promptitude and vice-admiral orslow in the monarch bore down on the enemy's rear in the most gallant manner his division following his example and the action commenced about forty minutes past twelve o'clock the venerable soon got through the enemy's line and i began a close action with my division on their van which lasted for near two hours and a half when i observed all the masts of the dutch admiral's ship to go by the board she was however defended for some time in a most gallant manner but being overpowered by numbers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable immediately on looking around me i observed the ship bearing the vice admiral's flag was almost dismasted and had surrendered to vice admiral orslow and that many others had likewise struck finding we were in fathoms water and not farther than miles from the land my attention was so much taken up with getting the heads of the different ships off the shore that i was unable to count the number of ships captured and the wind having been constantly on the land face we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking the advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were seen going into the texel next morning it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction i have made known to your lordships the very gallant behaviour of vice admiral orslow the captains officers seamen and marines of the squadron who all appear actuated with the truly british spirit at least those that i had an opportunity of seeing one of the enemy's ships caught fire in the action and drove very near the venerable but i have the pleasure to say it was extinguished and the is one of the ships in our possession the squadron has suffered much in their masts yards and rigging and many of them have lost a number of men however in no proportion to that of the enemy the carnage on board the two ships that bore the admirals flags has been beyond all description they have had no less than killed and wounded on board of each ship and here i have to lament the loss of capt burgels of his majesty's ship the ardent who brought that ship into action in the most gallant and masterly manner but was unfortunately killed soon after however the ship continued the action close until quite disabled the public have lost a good and gallant officer in capt burgels and i with others a sincere friend capt trollope's exertions and active good conduct in keeping fight of the enemy's fleet until i came up have been truly meritorious and i trust will meet a just reward i send this by capt fairfax by whose able advice i profited much during the action and who will give their lordships any further particulars they may wish to know as most of the ships of the squadron are much disabled and several of the prizes dismasted i shall make the best of my way with them to the nore i am sir your most obedient 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the austrians on their side have spared no pains to reinforce their armies whenever the campaign shall open therefore the result must be distressing to every friend of humanity a curious paper has appeared in the redacteur of the th inst purporting to be letter written by lord malmesbury to a noble lord in england and left behind him at lille previous to his departure from that city on the rupture of the negotiation the letter is evidently supposition merely calculated to burlesque the talents of his lordship as a negotiator and the progress of the negotiation which"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-12-28|1|3", "date": "1797-12-28", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-12-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797122801/0263.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "there appear to be no official advices of hostilities having commenced in italy but we much fear that by this time the horrid seed of blood is renewed the army of buonaparte from the statement in the official journal is in the most perfect state of preparation the austrians on their side have spared no pains to reinforce their armies whenever the campaign shall open therefore the result must be distressing to every friend of humanity a curious paper has appeared in the reducteur of the th instant purporting to be a letter written by lord malmesbury to a noble lord in england and left behind him at lisle previous to his departure from that city on the rupture of the negotiation the letter is evidently suppositious merely calculated to burlesque the talents of his lordship as a negotiator and the progress of the negotiation which"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [2202, 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shot ahead the venerable then ranged up to admiral winter's ship when a very warm and contested action took place which lasted above two hours when the dutch were obliged to yield to the superiority of british skill and courage at the conclusion of the action the british fleet found themselves in the possession of nine ships of the line and two frigates a dutch brig and schooner were sunk in the action the following are the names and force of the dutch ships captured vryheid admiral de winter jupiter vice-admiral reyntjes haarlem admiral devries gelykheid walfenaer hercules delft almaer munnikendam ambuscade another line of battle ship is reported to be taken name unknown the quarter-deck of the dutch admiral's ship was completely cleared of every man the admiral himself excepted he escaped without a wound the day after the action the remnant of the dutch fleet gained the texel the wind having favored them by coming round to the westward admiral winter himself was taken as was the vice-admiral's ship on board of which were two admirals admiral duncan yesterday anchored with some of his ships and prizes off orfordness and they were expected to hollesley bay last night several of his ships are not yet arrived from having the dutch prizes to tow home the killed and wounded on board the british fleet as far as it has been ascertained is killed"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-12-28|1|3", "date": "1797-12-28", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-12-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797122801/0263.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "at the admiralty office with the official details of the victory gained by admiral duncan over the fleet of holland the two fleets were equal in numbers each having sixteen two decked ships admiral winter came out expressly for the purpose of fighting the english fleet by order of the convention they talked of having him tried by a court martial if he did not fail the dutch vice-admiral did not stand the fire of the venerable above ten minutes but dropping her fore-mast shot ahead the venerable then ranged up to admiral winter's ship when a very warmly conceived action took place which lasted above two hours when the dutch were obliged to yield to the superiority of british skill and courage at the conclusion of the action the british fleet found themselves in the possession of nine ships of the line and two frigates a dutch brigantine schooner was sunk in the action the following are the names and force of the dutch ships captured frigate admiral de winter jupiter vice-admiral repuses haerlem delft adm deupies alkmaar gelykheid monnikendam wapenaar ambassade hercules another line of battle ship is reported to be taken name unknown the quarter deck of the dutch admiral's ship was completely 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during the same period but who has applied since the peace to the study of the law and now occupies the situation of advocate-general of that state and mr gerry of massachusetts member for that state in congress where he is equally distinguished by his talents and his moderation these three men who reside more than miles from each other are scarcely acquainted the first time they ever met was at more than a thousand leagues from their country to fulfil an important mission this confidence of the american government in citizens who never were employed in diplomatic affairs for renewing the political and commercial relations of the united states with france gives us reason to presume that the government wishes rather to rely on the fidelity and candor of the french government than to seek a support from the intrigue or the finess of men skilled in the machiavellism of cabinets this nomination therefore augurs the"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic 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camperdown and egmont about nine miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land whither they were fast approaching my signals were obeyed with great promptitude and vice-admiral onslow in the monarch bore down on the enemy's rear in the most gallant manner his division following his example and the action commenced about forty minutes past twelve o'clock the venerable soon got through the enemy's line and i began a close action with my division on their van which lasted near two hours and a half when i observed all the masts of the dutch admiral's ship to go by the board she was however defended for some time in a most gallant manner but being overpressed by numbers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable on looking around me i saw the ship bearing the vice admiral's flag was also dismasted and had surrendered to vice admiral onslow and that many others had likewise struck finding we were in nine fathoms water and not farther than miles from the land my attention was so much taken up in getting the heads of the disabled ships off shore that i was not able to distinguish the number of ships captured and the wind having been constantly on the land since we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were seen going into the texel the next morning it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction i make known to their lordships the very gallant behaviour of"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-27|1|3", "date": "1797-12-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", 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that date placed my squadron in such tuation gs to prevent the enemy from re urning to the texel without my falling in ith them at nine o clock in the morn ng of the th i gat fight of capt trol ope s quadron with ggnals flying for an nemy to leeward i immed ately bore up n oon got fight of them forming n a ngamade the signal for general chace lind the larboard tack to receive us the in at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the quadron to thor ten fail in order to connett them soon after aw the land b tween camperdown and egmont about g miles to leeward of the enemy and finding theie was no time to be lolt in making the attack i made the pignal to bear up break the enemy s line nd engage them to lesward each thip her pponent by which i got between them nd the land whither they were faft ap r roaching my signals were beyed with great promptitude and vice ad onflow a the monarch bore down on the enemy s r in the most gallant manrer his division owing his example and the aftion com nced about forty minutes palt twelve lock the venerable soon got through e enemy s line and began a close ac ou with my division on their van which fled near two hours and a half when i bierved all the mafis of the dutch admii s ship go by the board she was how ver detended for some time in a most gal ant manner but being overprelled by num bers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable on looking around me i ob served the ship bearing the vice-admiral s flag was alio difmafted and had surrender ed vicc-admira onflow a d that ma ny otwers had likewise struck finding we were in mine fathoms water afd not farther tham five miles from the land my attention was o much taken up an getting the heads of the disabled ships off shore that i was not able to distinguish the number of ships captured and the wind having been conflantly on the land since we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able tn gain an exat account of them but we have taken pofleflion of eight or nine more of them had struck but taking dvantage of the night ard being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were fcen going ioto the texel the next morning it s with the greatest pleasure and fatis fatbon i make known to their lordships the very gallant behaviour of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [1783, 1959], "b_span": [1768, 1955], "matched_words": 114, "similarity": 0.628099173553719, "seeds": 8, "id": "M01412", "a": {"key": "sn84024710|1797-12-23|1|1", "date": "1797-12-23", "paper": "Virginia Argus", "lccn": "sn84024710", "edition": "1", "page": "1", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84024710/1797-12-23/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/vi/batch_vi_otters_ver02/data/sn84024710/00414184169/1797122301/0011.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "n b another line of battle ship reported to be taken name unknown disposition of the squadron in the order of battle on the th october larboard or iee division richard onslow esq vice admiral of the red commander russel h trollope captain guns men director william bligh captain guns men montague john knight captain guns men veteran george gregory captain guns men monarch vice admiral onslow edward o'brien captain guns men powerful william o'brien drury captain guns men monmouth james walker captain guns men agincourt john williamson captain guns men repeaters beaulieu frigate cutters rose king george active diligent speculator lugger starboard or weather division adam duncan esq admiral of the blue and commander in chief c triumph william henry ettington captain guns men venerable admiral duncan william george fairfax captain guns men ardent richard r burgess captain guns men bedford sir thomas byrd captain guns men lancaster john wells captain guns men belliqueux john ingles captain 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letter to you of that date i placed my squadron in such a situation as to prevent the enemy from returning to the texel without falling in with them at nine o'clock in the morning of the th i got sight of capt trollope's squadron with signals flying for an enemy to leeward i immediately bore up and made the signal for a general chase and soon got sight of them forming in a line on the larboard tack to receive us the wind at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the squadron to shorten sail in order to connect them soon after i saw the land between camperdown and egmont about nine miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land whither they were fast approaching my signals were obeyed with great promptitude and vice-admiral onslow in the monarch bore down on the enemy's rear in the most gallant manner his division following his example and the action commenced about forty minutes past twelve o'clock the venerable soon got through the enemy's line and i began a close action with my division on their van which lasted near two hours and a half when i observed all the masts of the dutch admiral's ship to go by the board she was however defended for some time in a most gallant manner but being overpressed by numbers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable on looking around me i saw the ship bearing the vice admiral's flag was also dismasted and had surrendered to vice admiral onslow and that many others had likewise struck finding we were in nine fathoms water and not farther than miles from the land my attention was so much taken up in getting the heads of the disabled ships off shore that i was not able to distinguish the number of ships captured and the wind having been constantly on the land since we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were seen going into the texel the next morning it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction i make known to their lordships the very gallant behaviour of vice-admiral onslow the captains officers seamen and marines of the squadron who all appeared animated with the truly british spirit at least those that i had an opportunity of seeing one of the enemy's ships caught fire in the action and drove very near the venerable but i have the pleasure to say it was extinguished and she is one of the ships in our possession the squadron has suffered much in their masts yards and rigging and many of them have lost a number of men however in no proportion to that of the enemy the carnage on board the two ships that bore the admirals flags has been beyond all description they have had no less than two hundred and fifty men killed and wounded on board of each ship and here i have to lament the loss of captain burgess of his majesty's ship the ardent who brought that ship into action in the most gallant and masterly manner but was unfortunately killed soon after however the ship continued the action close until quite disabled the public have lost a good and gallant officer in captain burgess and i with others a sincere friend captain trollope's exertions and active good conduct in keeping sight of the enemy's fleet until i came up have been truly meritorious and i trust will meet a just reward i send this by capt fairfax by whose able advice i profited much during the action and who will give their lordships any further particulars they may wish to know as most of the ships of the squadron are much disabled and several of the prizes dismasted i shall make the best of my way with them to the nore i herewith transmit you a list of killed and wounded on board each of the squadrons as i have been able to collect a list of the enemy's fleet opposed to my squadron and my line of battle on the day of action i am sir your most obedient humble servant adam duncan"}, "b": {"key": "sn84038410|1797-12-28|1|2", "date": "1797-12-28", "paper": "The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser", "lccn": "sn84038410", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84038410/1797-12-28/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wvu/batch_wvu_zarley_ver02/data/sn84038410/01000424529/1797122801/0262.pdf", "source": "RevX", "normalized_excerpt": "this morning with dispatches from adam duncan esq admiral of the blue commander in chief of his majesty's ships c employed in the north sea to evan nepean esq secretary of the admiralty of which the following are copies venerable at sea th october off the coast of holland sir be pleased to acquaint the lords commissioners of the admiralty that judging it of consequence their lordships should have as early information as possible of the defeat of the dutch fleet under the command of admiral de winter i dispatched the rose cutter at three p m on the th th inst with a short letter to you immediately after the action was ended i have now further to acquaint you for their lordships information that in the night of the th instant after i had sent away my letter to you of that date i placed my squadron in such a situation as to prevent the enemy from returning to the texel without my falling in with them at nine o'clock in the morning of the th i got sight of capt trollope's squadron with signals flying for an enemy to leeward i immediately bore up and made the signal for a general chase and soon got sight of them forming in a line on the larboard tack to receive us the wind at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the squadron to shorten sail in order to connect them soon after i saw the land between camperdown and egmont about nine miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land whether they were fast approaching my signals were obeyed with great promptitude and vice-admiral orslow in the monarch bore down on the enemy's rear in the most gallant manner his division following his example and the action commenced about forty minutes past twelve o'clock the venerable soon got through the enemy's line and i began a close action with my division on their van which lasted for near two hours and a half when i observed all the masts of the dutch admiral's ship to go by the board she was however defended for some time in a most gallant manner but being overpowered by numbers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable immediately on looking around me i observed the ship bearing the vice admiral's flag was almost dismasted and had surrendered to vice admiral orslow and that many others had likewise struck finding we were in fathoms water and not farther than miles from the land my attention was so much taken up with getting the heads of the different ships off the shore that i was unable to count the number of ships captured and the wind having been constantly on the land face we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking the advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of them were seen going into the texel next morning it is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction i have made known to your lordships the very gallant behaviour of vice admiral orslow the captains officers seamen and marines of the squadron who all appear actuated with the truly british spirit at least those that i had an opportunity of seeing one of the enemy's ships caught fire in the action and drove very near the venerable but i have the pleasure to say it was extinguished and the is one of the ships in our possession the squadron has suffered much in their masts yards and rigging and many of them have lost a number of men however in no proportion to that of the enemy the carnage on board the two ships that bore the admirals flags has been beyond all description they have had no less than killed and wounded on board of each ship and here i have to lament the loss of capt burgels of his majesty's ship the ardent who brought that ship into action in the most gallant and masterly manner but was unfortunately killed soon after however the ship continued the action close until quite disabled the public have lost a good and gallant officer in capt burgels and i with others a sincere friend capt trollope's exertions and active good conduct in keeping fight of the enemy's fleet until i came up have been truly meritorious and i trust will meet a just reward i send this by capt fairfax by whose able advice i profited much during the action and who will give their lordships any further particulars they may wish to know as most of the ships of the squadron are much disabled and several of the prizes dismasted i shall make the best of my way with them to the nore i am sir your most obedient humble servant adam duncan"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main", "strict"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [3799, 4087], "b_span": [2291, 2595], "matched_words": 235, "similarity": 0.793918918918919, "seeds": 16, "id": "M01414", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-27|1|2", "date": "1797-12-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "2", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": 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the event but the sea ran too high to admit of it the ship drifted directly before the wind until within a small distance of the craggy shore just below herring-cove where she foundered and terrible to relate except eleven seamen and marines and one petty officer every soul on board have perished the number of men belonging to the ship is stated to have been upwards of exclusive of which about non-commissioned officers and privates of the r n s reg mr rackum of the navy yard and we mention with peculiar regret lieut james of the n s regiment an amiable and deserving young officer who had gone on board from motives of humanity met the same fate le tribune came out with the quebec convoy she is said to have been a most beautiful frigate and was lately captured by the unicorn"}, "b": {"key": "sn83025881|1797-12-27|1|3", "date": "1797-12-27", "paper": "Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser.", "lccn": "sn83025881", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": 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afliftanee quitted the ship intending to lay under her lee and wait the event but the sea ran too high to ad mit of it the hip drifted direftly before the wind until within a small distance of the craggy fhorejuft below pier ring-cove where he foundered and terrible te relate ex cept eleven seamen and marines and one petty officer every foul on board h v pc ri he d the number of men belonging to the hip is fitted to have been upwards of exclu'gve of which ab tn ncrrt-ctrnimif honed o users and privates of the r n s reg mr rackum of the navy yard and we mention with peculiar regret lieuten ant james of the n s regiment an amia ble and deferring young oscer who had gone on board fr m motives of humanity met the fame fate la tribune cam e out with the quebec convoy he is said to have been a mod beautiful frigate and was lately captured by the unicorn"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; copying route and article boundaries unverified"}, {"a_span": [57, 641], "b_span": [1377, 1942], "matched_words": 429, "similarity": 0.7467362924281984, "seeds": 22, "id": "M01415", "a": {"key": "sn83025588|1797-12-27|1|3", "date": "1797-12-27", "paper": "The New Hampshire gazette", "lccn": "sn83025588", "edition": "1", "page": "3", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025588/1797-12-27/ed-1/", "pdf_url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/nhd/batch_nhd_avalon_ver02/data/sn83025588/00517010765/1797122701/0417.pdf", "source": "CA", "normalized_excerpt": "this morning with dispatches from dam duagcan esq admiral of the blue nd commander in chief of his majefly s ips c employed in the north sea to van nepean esq secretary of the ad iralty of which the following are copies venerable at sea th ocicher off the coafl of holland sir be pleased to acquaint the lords com missioners of the admiralty that judging ie of consequence their lordthips thould have as early n ormation as possible of the defeat of the dutch fleet under the com mand of admiral de winter i dispatched the rose cuiter at g p m on the th oft after a hort letter to you immediately fter the aftion was ended i have now urther to acquaint you for their lord hips nformation that in the night of the th aft afier had sent away my letter to you that date placed my squadron in such tuation gs to prevent the enemy from re urning to the texel without my falling in ith them at nine o clock in the morn ng of the th i gat fight of capt trol ope s quadron with ggnals flying for an nemy to leeward i immed ately bore up n oon got fight of them forming n a ngamade the signal for general chace lind the larboard tack to receive us the in at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the quadron to thor ten fail in order to connett them soon after aw the land b tween camperdown and egmont about g miles to leeward of the enemy and finding theie was no time to be lolt in making the attack i made the pignal to bear up break the enemy s line nd engage them to lesward each thip her pponent by which i got between them nd the land whither they were faft ap r roaching my signals were beyed with great promptitude and vice ad onflow a the monarch bore down on the enemy s r in the most gallant manrer his division owing his example and the aftion com nced about forty minutes palt twelve lock the venerable soon got through e enemy s line and began a close ac ou with my division on their van which fled near two hours and a half when i bierved all the mafis of the dutch admii s ship go by the board she was how ver detended for some time in a most gal ant manner but being overprelled by num bers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable on looking around me i ob served the ship bearing the vice-admiral s flag was alio difmafted and had surrender ed vicc-admira onflow a d that ma ny otwers had likewise struck finding we were in mine fathoms water afd not farther tham five miles from the land my attention 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ships c employed in the north sea to evan nepean esq secretary of the admiralty of which the following are copies venerable at sea th october off the coast of holland sir be pleased to acquaint the lords commissioners of the admiralty that judging it of consequence their lordships should have as early information as possible of the defeat of the dutch fleet under the command of admiral de winter i dispatched the rose cutter at three p m on the th th inst with a short letter to you immediately after the action was ended i have now further to acquaint you for their lordships information that in the night of the th instant after i had sent away my letter to you of that date i placed my squadron in such a situation as to prevent the enemy from returning to the texel without my falling in with them at nine o'clock in the morning of the th i got sight of capt trollope's squadron with signals flying for an enemy to leeward i immediately bore up and made the signal for a general chase and soon got sight of them forming in a line on the larboard tack to receive us the wind at n w as we approached near i made the signal for the squadron to shorten sail in order to connect them soon after i saw the land between camperdown and egmont about nine miles to leeward of the enemy and finding there was no time to be lost in making the attack i made the signal to bear up break the enemy's line and engage them to leeward each ship her opponent by which i got between them and the land whether they were fast approaching my signals were obeyed with great promptitude and vice-admiral orslow in the monarch bore down on the enemy's rear in the most gallant manner his division following his example and the action commenced about forty minutes past twelve o'clock the venerable soon got through the enemy's line and i began a close action with my division on their van which lasted for near two hours and a half when i observed all the masts of the dutch admiral's ship to go by the board she was however defended for some time in a most gallant manner but being overpowered by numbers her colours were struck and admiral de winter was soon brought on board the venerable immediately on looking around me i observed the ship bearing the vice admiral's flag was almost dismasted and had surrendered to vice admiral orslow and that many others had likewise struck finding we were in fathoms water and not farther than miles from the land my attention was so much taken up with getting the heads of the different ships off the shore that i was unable to count the number of ships captured and the wind having been constantly on the land face we have unavoidably been much dispersed so that i have not been able to gain an exact account of them but we have taken possession of or more of them had struck but taking the advantage of the night and being so near their own coast they succeeded in getting off and some of"}, "profiles": ["broad", "main"], "status": "algorithmic shared-wording candidate; 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