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ANECDOT E.
&!IWel Foote, one day, when at dinner with gover
nor Johnftone, indolg d hims-ls very freely witn the
charaHer of Mr. Garrick ; and arraigned him for his
envious, narrow, contrasted mind, and for the various
littlenesses which he daily pradifed to preserve the re
putation he had acquired. The commodore grew warm,
and (wore by G—d the character of his friend Should
not be outraged in Ids pr. fence ; and said, that he be
li ved him to be possessed of as much honour as merit;
and he fhoud consider every attack upon him as a
fa fhood. Upon this Mr. Foote instantly said—l will
tell you a fiery, governor: when I came iaft from
Scotland, I saw the following words written on a pane
of glass in a tavern window: " Miss Gordon is the
fineft woman in the universe in my eyes,"—upon which
fays the wit, I took my diamond and instantly wrote
under, “ D n your eyes." The governor perceived
the force of the a pphcatioo, and burfi into a loud laugh,
apologizing for his warmth.
GAZETTE de F RA N C E.
P A R I S, Oflober 18, 1782.
Extras of a letter from the marquis de Vaulreuil,
commander of the king's fquadroo, dated Bofion
harbour, Aoguf l gtß, 1782, to the marquis de
Carries, minister and Secretary of Rate for the ma
rine department.
IH AVE the honor to fend you a particular ac
count of the taking of t e Amazone, commanded
by the vicomte de Monguyot. I had detached this
frigate to carry my orders to Cape Henry ; on the
28th of July, at five in the morning, she fa tv a frigate
to windward, bearing down upon her, and made the
proper Signals, which were not answered. At the fame
time the enemy put about fllip, and the Ampzone gave
her chafe, and manoeuvred n order to inform the
king's squadron, some vessels of which were in fight,
and to whom she made signals for an enemy's frigate,
which were not perceived, for about one o'clock they
put about, and at half after three, the Amazone loft
fight of them. She continued the chafe, but the vi
comte de Monguyot, find ng that he did not gain up
on lier, and that he was removing from the place of
his definat on, put about again. The English frigate
di the (me, and having the advantage of the wind
soon came up with the Amazone. The engagement
began at half pafl four, by a very brisk fire on both
files, within musket ffiot. The vicomte was killed
some moments after. The chevalier de I'Epine having
taken the command, two wounds which he received
in the head and shoulder, forced him to leave it to the
fi ur de Gazan, auxiliary-lieutenant. This officer
knowing that the chevalier de I'Epine was come to
himfelf, sent to inform hm, that all t'e rigging was
cut to pieces, several of the guns dismounted, and
the greatest part of the crew killed and wounded, and
cauied him to be aiked what he should do? He an
fwered, that his intention was to fight to the lafi ex
tremiry, and desired that officer to do his befl until he
cou d come upon deck; which he did a short time af
ter On coming up he found the flag flruck, by order
of the fieur de Gazan, who had been killed the fame
inflant. L fieur Oilic auxiliary officer, had received
a mortal wound ; the fieur Villeberno, auxiliary, had
his arm shot away ; and the fieur de Guillem, lieuten
ant commanding the detachment of the regiment of the
Cape, had received a musket shot in the breafl, and
eighty men were killed. There remained in the bat
tery on y the fieur Maiffounier, auxiliary officer ; the
masts were on the point of falling, and in faH did so
two hours after In this Situation the chevalier de
I'Epine, saw himfelf forced to keep the parole of the
officer who had flruck the flag; and at half past fix,
he and the other officers were carried on board the San
ta Margarita English frigate of for y four guns. The
chevalier de I'Epine in teftifying his regret for the loss
of the vicomte de Mo guyot, in whom every civil
and military virtue was united, gives the highest praise
to the officers named in this letter-
Nov. 14. The court martial, fitting at Brest, have
at last pronounced sentence upon M. de Sillans, cap
tain of the Pegafe, for the loss of that ship, which was
taken by the English. M. de Sillans is condemned to
twenty-one years imprisonment, to have the cross of
St. Louis torn from him, and to be declared incapa
ble of Serving the king.
P E T ER S B UR G H, 09. 29.
We are now very busy raising recruits, which bu
siness had been suspended theft fix weeks past. It con
sists in levying the two hundredth mae among the in
habitants of this empire who are bond men. This mi
litia, accord ng to a calculation made, will amount to
45.0 o men. We are to take moreover every hundredth
man among the free peasants, which will again pro
duce a few thousand men, defined to compleat the
regiments of Huffar*. Orders are sent to a|l the offi
cers absent to join their refpe&ive regiments, under
pain of losing their employments.
VIENN A, November 9.
The emperor's edift against luxury will soon appear.
The nobieffe alone will be allowed the right of wear
ing jewels and silks, either plain or flowered, with gold
and silver ; and the women, of whatsoever rank, must
renounce their high heads.
American News.
SALE M, March 20.
A schooner, commanded by captain Thomas Bow
ditch, which failed from this port about three weeks
ago, bound to Portsmouth, was take" by the enemy,
and afterwards retaken and carried into Falmouth.
After failing for Portsmouth a second time, she was
again taken by the enemy, and carried into Bagwa
duce.
Last Thursday, about 5 o'clock in the morning a
fire broke out in the Printing-Office of Mr. John
Nycall, of Newbury-Port ; by which,that and about
it other buildings were consumed ; among them were
the dwelling houses of captain Nicholas Tracy and
Captain Rogers.
Mr. Mycall'slofs by the above accident is very
great. Brfides two printing-presses and nearly 6ooolb.
of types, he loft 12 or 14 thousand psalm books,
fpellmg books, pfalters and other books, bound and
in sheets, and a number of other articles of value.
BOSTO N, March ay.
Yeflerday was sent into port a prize brig laden with
rum, fait, &c. prize to tee schooner Refulution.
NEWPOR T, March 22.
Last Thursday arrived here the continental frigat Alli
ance, John Barry, efq ; commander, from the Havan
nah.
Yesterday returned here a flag of truce from New-
Yerk, with about ninety prisoners.
PROVIDENC E, March 15.
Saturday evening last arrived here a schooner, (late
the Hyder Ally privateer of Salem) prize to the pri
vateer Snake F°ifh, capt. Cahoon, of this port. She
was from New-York bound to Halifax, laden with
flour, bread, tobacco, &c.
H ARTFOR D, March 18.
Las t Friday one James Gibson, a young man about
t wenty-two years of age, who was convicted before the
honorable superior court, for a rape committed on the
body of a woman in Middletown, upwards of 60 years
old, received sentence of death, and is to be executed on
the 4th Wednesday in June next.
FISH- KI LL, April 3.
Between the hours of two and three last Monday
morning, the house of colonel Hay, date agent, in
Poughkeepsie, was entirely consumed by fire: before
the fire was difcovei ed it was at an irrefiflable height,
so that it was with d fficulty that Mrs. Hay and some
of the people escaped with their lives. Nothing in the
house was lived, except a few articles of furniture. A
considerable number of public pa pers were burnt, which
will, no doubt, be a loss to individuals as well as to
the public.
N EW-Y 0 R K, April 2.
Last Monday arrived in town, the right honorable
lord Charles Montague, brother to his ,ra r e the duke
of Manchester ; the ship in which his lordship was on
board, through the riling of some of the people, was
carried, with five or fix hundred hogsheads of Jamaica
rum, into North Carolina, from whence his lordship
has now happily reached his defined port.
Yesterday arrived two privateers, prizes to the Bri
tish cruizers, one said to be from Rhode-Illand, the 0-
ther from Boston.
We are informed, that the Solitaire, a French 64
gun ship, fell in with his majesty's ship Ruby, of 64
guns; after fighting bravely for forty minute, and
losing a great number of men, she flruck her colours to
captain Collins; the latter loft not a man.
By accounts from the Weft Indies, we are informed,
that his majesty's ship Refinance, captain James King,
a new coppered 44, off 1 urk's Island, had taken a fine
French frigate. Admiral Pigot was at Gros-Iflet, in
St. Lucia, with 25, and rear-admiral Hood, at Jamai
ca, with 20 fail of the line.
On Monday information arrived of the taking the
coppered ship Julius Caesar, of 18 nines, (belonging to
Boston, bound for a lading of tobacco in Chefapeak)
by his majefly's ship Aftrea, capt. Mathew Squires.
On Sunday evening ca me up the privateer schooner
E gle, captain Bennifon, of this port, and brought in
with her the sloop Hope, from Hispaniola, bound for
Rhode Island, which she captured on the 6th ult.
The WHOLE STOCK in TRADE of ROBERT
SONS, MILLS, and HICKS, (Printers) will be fold
upon very reasonable terms, as they intend to leave
this city very soon.
CHATHA M, March 26.
Monday last a lieutenant of one of the provincial
corps, deferred the enemy and came to Elizabeth town.
Query. Would it not be judicious in the authority
to fend him back.
Two men were unfortunately drowned last Friday in
Rahway river, and a third narrowly escaped. They
had been an oyflering, and loaded their boat so heavy
that she funk.
RICHMON D, (Virginia) March 29
A difeovery has lately been made of a number of
counterfeited tobacco notes on one of the ware houses
of this place, being in circulation One of the principal
hands who as been detected in passing them, is secur
ed, and it is thought there are many others concerned,
who will, in a short time, be brought to light ; when,
no doubt, they will fuffer the punishment they several
ly deserve.
Last Wednesday arrived here, the beautiful and faft
failing brig Parfey, captain £aflwood, after a short
paffag Irom St. Kitt's, with a very valuable cargo on
board She brings no further accounts than those that
we have already received.
The noted John Purcell, was lately apprehended in
Caroline county, and las lWednefday evening fafely
lodged in the public goal in this city, for counterfeit
ing Morris's notes, and committing other forgeries.
Arrivals in this port, Since our lafl. Ship Robin
hood, captain Smith, (belonging to Boflon) schooner
Plunket, captain Campbel, and schooner Somerset,
captain Norter, of this port, from Havanna.
Several British (hips of war, New-York and Bermu
dian privateers, are now cruiSing of the capes of De
laware and Chefa peak.
ANNAPOLIS, April 3.
Receipt of continental taxes from the state of Ma
ryland.
For the month of March, 1783, received 1200 dol
lars. BENJAMIN HARWOOD, receiver
of continental taxes for Maryland.
BALTIMORE, April 4.
Philadelphia; April 8.
By the United States in Congress Assembled,
April 4, 1783.
Refolded, That the several Bates be required to suspend
all enlistments, for any regiment or corps io the arm,
of the united Bates, until the further order of congress.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
By accounts from New York, we learn, that a ves
sel arrived there on Thursday morning last from Lis
bon, after fix weeks passage, which brought advice of
the negociations at Paris having happily concluded in
a general peace, on the 20th of January. Letters from
Elizabeth town fay, that their accounts agree with
those received by the Triumph sloop of war, captain
Duquefne, lately arrived here, and add, that the fleet
fitting out under the count d'Eßaing had been in con
sequence Separated, and the fllips distributed through
out the different sea-ports; and that the Spanish am
bassador had given a grand entertainment to the French
and English ambassadors on the reception of the news,
which arrived at Lilbon a few days before the failing of
the above vessel, when the queen of Portugal had by
proclamation opened her ports to the vessels of the u
nited Bates.
The Blips Duke de Chartres and Aftrea arrived from
a cruise at New-York last Thursday, with a prize brig
of 16 guns. The name, &c. not mentioned.
The schooner Surprize also returned to New-York,
with a prize brig of 8 guns and 21 men, from Oftend
for Chefapeak, laden with dry goods, brandy, fait,
&c. &c.
Last Friday morning the Amazon flag ship failed
from this port for Charleftown. In her went passen
gers a number of the virtuous citizens of South Caro
lina, who were banished from their country by the
Britifli commanders, during their temporary success in
the foufhern Bates.
Extract of a letter from San Juan de Puerto Rico, dated
March 4, 1783, to a gentleman in this city,
" By late letters from Cadiz, we are informed that
the king hath entirely abolilhed the tribunal of the ho
ly office, otherwise called the inquisition.—The Jews are
now allowed to live in Spain on the fame footing asin
France.—His majefly has also abolished the order of
Carthufian friars.—This appears to be but a prelude to
farther and Bill more important reformations.—Thena
tion seems to be at last emerging from that Gothic mist,
which has darkened our horizon for so many ages.—•
God grant that this glorious purpose may be soon entire
ly effeaed, and that the light of reason and true philo
sophy may shine upon us for ever and ever, Amen."
Another fleet of merchant ships, confining of near 60
fail from Jamaica, bound to Europe, has been dispersed
by tempestuous weather; and the Ardent of 64 guns,
one of the convoying ships of war, has, a second time
been Blattered, and obliged to put back, with fix feet
water in her hold.—A brig belonging to this convoy,
was seen foundering in the gale.
HINTS for improving the art of restoring Suspended
Animation, also for administering Dephlogißicated
Air, in certain diseases. By A. Fothergill,
M. D. Taken from Dr. Hawes's Address to the
King and Parliament of Great-Britain, lately pub
lished.
(Continued from our Paper of Tuesday, March 11.)
IN all cases of suspended animation, the grand inten
tion ought to be, to excite the latent principle of
irritability, on which the motion of the vital organs
immediately depends. Although this principle re
mains a considerable time after the lungs are quies
cent, ye: it can never be reflored t its activity till that
organ is again put in motion. But experience shews
that this can be often effected by blowing air into the
windpipe: and that renewing pulmonary adion is one
great Bep towards restoring the energy of the heart,
the brain, and arterial (y stem; and, consequently, of
the other subordinate springs of the animal machine.
" I have frequently observed, fays your worthy
colleague, (Dr. Cogan) the heart and arteries to beat:
Prong while this process was carried on in children
Bill-born, but that' all pulsation has ceased upon dis
continuing this in order to try other experiments,
which has returned upon repeating the operation."
From this, and other weighty arguments, I concur
with the ingenious writer, that inflating the lungs is,
probably, one of the most efficacious methods of re-
Boring animation, but that air contaminated by hav
ing been already respired, or that even common atmos
pheric air is heft adapted for this purpose, may now be
jully doubted. The former is known to be highly
noxious to breathing animals, and the latter is com
monly debased by an admixtureof phlogiflon, and other
heterogeneous matters. To obtain that fubtile prin
ciple from the common mass, which is the true pabu
lum vitae, and which has so long eluded the search of
phyhologifts, is the great desideratum in the present
case. This I conceive to be no other than that pure
fluid, which now passes under the term >f dephlogifii
cated air, and which so greatly surpasses tnat of the
common atmosphere In consequence of its superior
purity, it supports the flame of a burning taper with a
degree of splendor and brilliancy, altogether incredible
to those who have not been present at the experiment.
When it is respired, inßead of common air, its compa
rative excellence is no less sensibly felt in communicat
ing frefh life and vigour to the fyfiem. It is moreover
the grand corre&or, which nature so liberally ,dispen
ses from every part of the vegetable kingdom, to puri
fy the atmosphere, that is so liable to be contaminated
by noxious exhalations arising from burning bodies
and an infinite variety of animal and vegetable fub
flances continually verging to putrefaction. Without
this providential provision, populous cities would per
haps Scarce y be inhabitable.
As the means of exciting flame, and supporting respi
ration are so intimately allied, does it no r prove that de
phlogißicated air is peculiarly adapted for restoring
the vital spark when nearly extinguished? With this
vivifying principle, therefore, might not the collapsed
lungs of such unfortunate persons be more properly