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We likewise offer the following statement relative to the treatment of the Osage on the same authority; a statement which has become the more necessary from the numerous wilful falsehoods with which the federal prints teem.

On the arrival of the Osage at L'Orient, she was arrested by the custom-house officers, conformably to their general instructions, in consequence of having been spoken by a British vessel. Mr. Lewis immediately proceeded to Paris, and there without difficulty obtained her recognition as a national vessel and release.

On her arrival at Falmouth the British Excise officer seized her and took out her naval stores. in virtue of an alleged infraction of the revenue laws, which prohibits private ships from entering with more than a prescribed quantity of them. Representation was forthwith made to the government at London, and Mr. Canning's order obtained for her release, the restoration of the stores. and her treatment as a national vessel.

Thus it appears that the treatment in both countries was not substantially different; & that such difference as does exist shews the conduct of the English subaltern officers to have been more aggravated than that of the French. It is, however, sufficient for our satisfaction, that both governments on complaint promptly interposed to set affairs right.
We have received information that the stores of the Osage were seized at Falmouth by the custom house officers, and that they were not liberated till application was officially made by Mr. Pinckney to Mr. Canning. Had the French done this, there would have been no end to federal clamor. Not a syllable respecting this affair has transpired from any of our tory editors, though informed of it immediately on the arrival of the Osage.