of Guadaloupe. Claimed an indemnity for the detention and effects plundered of 737 dollars 10 cents.

125. Brig Thomas, captain John Salter. Claimed the payment of the freight from Martinico to France, for transporting a number of French sailors and soldiers.

126. Schooner Alice, captain Joseph Gould, owned by John Bullock, of Providence, Rhode Island; captured and carried into St. Lucie, and there condemned. Claimed the value of the vessel and cargo, and an indemnity.

127. Brig Gayoso, captain Joseph Graisbury, owned by Messrs. Reed and Ford, of Philadelphia, plundered by the French privateer Little Democrat. Claimed 2,386 dollars 90 cts. agreeably to the account.

128. Brig William, captain Benjamin Henderson, owned by William Gray, jun. of Salem, plundered by the French privateer Citizen Genet. Claimed the amount of the effects plundered and an indemnity; not determined.

129. Schooner York, captain Andrew Burk, owned by Mr. Nicholas Cruger, of New York, captured at Port-auPrince both vessel and cargo condemned. Claimed the value of the whole, and an indemnity.

130. Ship Indian Chief, captain Swail, captured and carried into Cherbourg. An arreté orders the payment of an indemnity; but the award of the arbitrators is in assignats, which by the considerable depreciation, cannot be received. I am soliciting the payment of it in specie.

131. The John, captain Clarke, captured and carried into Cherbourg. In the same situation as the Indian Chief.

132. The Jerusha, capt. Ebenezer Giles, captured by the French, re-captured by the British.-Claimed an indemnity for damages sustained whilst in the possession of the French.

133. Brig Hope, capt. Joseph Poole :

134. Sloop Rainbow, capt. Isaac Mackie :-Messrs. Edward Dunant and Joshua Gilpin.-Claimed for them the payment of their accounts of flour delivered at Cape Francois, &c. &c. cargoes of the two above vessels.

135. Schooner Juno, capt. Archibald Maxwell.-Claimed for William Lynch, the payment of the cargo of flour, beef, pork, &c. delivered at Cape Nichola Mole.

136. Schooner Sally, capt. William Edgar :

137. Ship Robin, capt. John Broock of Philadelphia.Claimed for Philip Care, the payment for the cargoes of the two above vessels, as also the value of his effects, burnt and destroyed in the stores of Messrs. Creven Jeune and Co. at the Cape.

138. Schooner James, captain Dallstrandt-Christopher Lewis Lente, of New York.-Claimed for him 125 half Johannes freight and 2000 dollars indemnity for the loss of his vessel.

139. John Burrows, master of the sloop Lark, of Philadelphia.-Claimed for him the payment of 5 colonial bills of Guadaloupe, on the French minister near the United States, on the protests of the said bills: it would have been well that the first had been transmitted to my office.

140. Sloop Confidence, of Newburyport, capt. Bradbury.-Claimed the value of that part of the cargo that was condemned at Port de la Liberté, island of Guadaloupe, and an indemnity.

141. Schooner Success, capt. John Watson: George Brock, a passenger.-Claimed for him the effects plundered by the boat of the French frigate Concorde.

142. Danish ship Krageroe, capt. Hans P. Kinck: James Muschett.-Claimed for him his part of the cargo of tobacco, the said vessel being captured and carried into Brest.

143. Brig Eunice, capt. Benj. Carleton: John Norris, John Barr and James Barr, owners.-Claimed an indemnity for being embargoed at Brest.

144. Messrs. Cruger and Co. of New York.-Claimed for them the prayment of two original drafts of the administration of Port-au-Prince, on Citizen Genet, the one No. 19, for liv. 10,951: 17: 9, and the other, No. 20, for liv. 8,308: 17. I wish they had been protested, and the protest transmitted to my office.

145. Ship Commerce, capt. Enoch Preble: Claimed for Messrs. Smith, De Saussure, and Darrell, the price of four casks of indigo, taken by the captain of the French privateer Tyger, of St. Malo.

146. British brig Mary Ann, captain John Simpson: Archibald Gracie. Claimed for him the tobacco he had on board, as it was shipped before the time allowed by the treaty to take notice of hostilities.

147. Dutilh and Wachsmuth.-Their claim for an ordonnance from Port Republicain, island of St. Domingo, for 12,980 liv. specie, and that for a bond of 5,744 liv. 12 sous, 6 den. signed Bonevane, cannot be supported for want of original papers and vouchers.

148. Paul Siemen.-His claim for supplies of flour and gin. cannot be supported for the same reasons.

149. Dutilh, of Philadelphia.--Several of his claims, to the amount of liv. 9,445, for supplies furnished at St. Domingo, cannot be supported for the same reasons.

150. Peter La Maigre, of Philadelphia :-There are a number of copies of colonial drafts and ordonnances, the payment of which cannot be claimed for want of original papers; also some original colonial bills, which the government pay in assignats, at their nominal value, and which I have not thought proper to receive till authorized to that effect, by the executors of La Maigre, deceased.

151. Fair American, capt. Rt. Gillet.-Claimed for Messrs. Vanuxem and Lambaert, the amount of the cargo abandoned at Cape Francois, at the time of its destruction, amounting to liv. 143,855: 12: 7.-Claimed at the same time, for the same owners, liv. 35,695, for flour delivered at Port Republicain, in 1793.-Claimed likewise, for the same, liv. 19,470 for 500 bbls. of flour, sold to the administration of Port-au-Prince. Those three claims rejected for want of original papers and vouchers.

152. James Gamble, of Philadelphia.-Claimed for him the payment of liv. 14,576: 8, for the amount of a colonial draft on citizen Genet.-Rejected, and the papers delivered back to Mr. Monroe.

153. Brig Kitty, capt. William Waters, owned by Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia; condemned at Basseterre, Guadaloupe: Having no official paper, not even a legal copy of the judgment, I have wrote to Mr. Girard, for the necessary papers and vouchers to support the claim.

154. Schooner Atalanta, of Washington, in North Carolina, (formerly the Washington) capt. Hugh Huston, captured, condemned, and sold at Basseterre, Guadaloupe. No official copy of the condemnation; no other paper but the captain's protest, which is insufficient to present a claim upon.

155. Ship Favourite, supercargo, Samuel Montgomery Brown, of Philadelphia: Ship and cargo were con

demned at Port-au-Prince, for having not declared all the produce on board.-Not a single official paper to support the fact; only relations of it by the supercargo.

156. Messrs. James M'Currach & Co. of Philadelphia : -Two copies of drafts from Port Republicain, on citizen Genet. There should have been at least certified, two copies, by the French consul at Philadelphia, and they should be under a certificate of the said consul, that the originals were deposited in his office.

157. Walter Stewart, of Philadelphia.-His claim for liv. 90,344: 18, for supplies to the French government of St. Domingo, proceeding from the cargo of the brig Active, capt. Aaron Welch, and his other claim for liv. 32,450, for flour delivered at St. Marc, are only supported by copies of ordonnances certified by a publick notary, which is not sufficient.

158. Bartholomew Sarrazin, of Philadelphia.-His claim for property destroyed at the Cape, is not supported by affidavits of indifferent persons, of the amount and value of it, or by any other testimony than his own.

159. Brig Brothers, capt. John Baptist Smith, owned by James Barry, of Philadelphia :-There is only the captain's protest of his being taken by a French letter of marque, the Ca Ira, capt. Paris, fitted out at Charleston, and carried into St. Bartholomew, whence the captain fled before condemnation. No claim can be supported without the assistance of some other evidence.

160. Sloop Matsey, capt. Frederick King-no other paper but the protest, to prove that the cargo, left in the hands of Michael Levy, Aux-Cayes, was taken by the orders of the commissary Polverell, and not paid for.

161. Messrs. Nicholas Cruger, George Codwise and Joseph Roose.-The copies of three ordonnances of Guadaloupe, on citizen Genet, not sufficient to obtain payment.-Claims suspended for want of vouchers, original papers, or copies authenticated.

162. Schooner Polly, captain Matthew Price, captured by the French privateer Narbonnaire, and carried into Port-au-Prince, where the cargo was condemned.

163. Messrs. Petit and Bayard, of Philadelphia: Copy of an ordonnance from Port Republicain, on citizen Genet, on account of pork, proceeding from the cargo of the schooner Industry, and oil, of the schooner Franklin, de

livered at the Cape, and on account of property left at the Cape at the time of its destruction; but no pieces of evidence or vouchers to support any part of the claim.

164. John Mayben, of Philadelphia: several copies of ordonnances from the French West India islands; but no original paper to support a demand of payment.

165. Sloop Mary Anne, of New Haven, capt. William Brentnall.-Nothing but the copy of a declaration on oath, of the mate and one of the hands, that the said vessel was plundered by the French, and then captured by the British.

166. Schooner Polly, of Washington, in North Carolina, captain Nathaniel Willis.-Freight and cargo plundered by a French privateer.-No other paper to ground a demand upon the protest.

167. Schooner Lucy, captain Loudon Bailey.-The captain's account of what the administration of Port-auPaix, island of St. Domingo, allowed him for his cargo, and what it would have fetched at the current price.-No evidence to support the fact.

168. Schooner Betsey, captain John Murphy.-Mr. William Patterson, of Baltimore, has transmitted an account of the cargo belonging to him, taken by the municipality of Point-a-Petre; but no evidence to support the demand of payment.

169. James Saddler-Claimed his part of the cargonot determined.

170. Messrs. Talbot, Allum and Lee-Claimed their part of the cargo.-Property released by arreté of 26th April, 1795-Invoices wanted to recover the value.

In witness of the foregoing being a true statement of the one hundred and seventy American claims, as therein respectively described, and as will appear to be supported upon the various documents deposited in the chancery of my office, I have hereunto affixed my name and seal of office, at Paris, this 20th day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and of American independence the twentieth.

FULWAR SKIPWITH, [L. s.] Consul General of the United States of America, near the Republick of France.