Alexander Hamilton & James Madison 
Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Whereas, it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherland, of the one part; and France on the other and the duty and interests of the United States require that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the beli gerent powers. I have therefore thought fit by these presents, to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those powers respectively; and to ex hort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition.