Gazette Of The United States

FROM THE NEW-YORK DIARY.

Gentlemen,

AN Officer of the Jupiter has it in command from me to hand you this denial of certain passages which have lately appeared in your gazette.

I owe it to truth—to myself—to the error into which certain French republicans have been drawn—and finally, to the honor of the service of the French Republic, which shall never perish in my hands, through want of zeal to maintain it.

The articles are—1st. "The Company of the Jupiter have on just grounds of suspicion arrested their commander Admiral Cambis."—2d. "The men accuse Cambis of being the cause of the troubles at the Cape." See last Gazette.]

These articles are not signed Methinks, Sirs, your delicacy must have been wounded by publishing, during my scandalous confinement, reflections and sayings concerning me without at the same time exposing to public view the infamous and bad authors of these calumnies, and of the momentary deception of my companions in arms.

While American generosity will revolt at these dastardly manoeuvres, it will, I trust, applaud me for addressing you, for the last time, these few lines.

The connections which I have been under a necessity of maintaining with Galbaud, are of a nature so scandalous for a man who preserves any esteem for himself, that I am less solicitous to lay them before the public, than to verify them before the tribunals appointed to take judicial cognizance of them.

I expect from your candor, an early publication of this letter.

Rear-Admiral

CAMBIS.

Aboard the Jupiter, 23d August, 1793.

2d year of the French Republic.