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in Europe are provided with an apparatus particularly
adapted to tins purpole, byt a common tobaccopipe with,
a pece ol linen over the bowl, can be advantageously
fuhflitmeh The fumes of several pipes have been injec
ted before the intention has been accomplished— therefore
t<e c/er -tion Should by no means be looked upon as un
fuccififul if no fign# of life appear after the firft or fe
canJ fumigation.
The bo^y liquid be rubbed well with -dry fine salt,
w&fra cloths, or coarse Imen towels dip'd in warm rum,
brandy or vinegar. The fait may be sprinkled upon
tooi/webed tuwos; or (according to tue method of a
Famous Poyfiikn) the clohts may be impregnated with
th 2 vapour of burning camphor. The fridion Should be
ukU to tire whole body, but more particularly along the
fp.ne or back done, and on the bread and belly.
A vein Should be opened with a large orifice in the mo
ment that tne lead tympton of re-animation appears.—
Toe jugular, or vein in the neck is the most proper on
this occalion : but if it cannot be difeovered, blood
mud be taken from the arm, leg, foot, &c observing al
wiystb let it flow thro' a large orifice, and to let the
quantity be plentiful.
Volatile medicines Should be held to the nostrils, but
mud not be given internally, until the respiration or
pulse are perceptible, or air begins to be discharged by
the mouth or fundament. Taen 30 crops of fpirirs of
hartshorn, volatile aromatic Spirit, with the fame quanti
ty of Spirit of lavender compound, in a glass of warm
wine and water, Should be pouted down the patient's
throat if poifible.
If, alter the patient is tolerably recovered, he com
plains man inclination to vomit, a pam in his head or fide,
&c. theadvice ot a Payfidas will oe immediately necef
tary.
By refohitely pursuing the foregoing directions the
most happy even b may be expe&td. Tney arc as Simple
and conode as we could frame them ; —and as titre are
Some variations in thecate of (allocation or fiupidity from
coat, let it be fuffi tent to observe, tnat the cold batn has
b^n tiled with great advantage, by Dr. Brewer of Sussex,
and related by nim in the Pnilofophical traufadious.
This, perhaps, may oe tne tuoj<& of another paper :
Bet in, eneral the met: on above recommended, will (in
Lie words of the good and great Dr. Fothergill) * " con
*' uuce to the laving 01 a great many lives; as it is pr^c
" ticabl by every one who happens to be prefect at the
" accident, without loss of am< without tx r ence, with
" Lille trouble and 1. sikid; as it :£ perhaps the only
" expedient of Welch it can be juftiy laid, that it may
" poifibly de great geon, bu: cm^et do harm,"
* See his paper on this fubjed in the Philosophical
tranfadioF.s.
PARI S, June 15.
IT is said the King of Prussia having resolved to fend to
our inlands two Ships to fetch Sugars and other produc
tions from tneuce, a French merchant at Stetin, who has
obtained leave to tend out two other lh.ps un,er the fame
flag, applied for an escort ; and that his Prussian M-.jJiy
refufed it, laying that he would be anfwerabie fur tee
whole, in catenis fl tg Should be intuited by the EO
-
June 19. According to tetters from Cadiz, the batteries
varied againd Gibraltar were to play only by way of di
version, in order to favour the fiat bottomed boat, which
are cfeitmed to burn the Panther man of mar and a frigate,
left there by Admiral Rodney, and which have not been
able lo ge: out.
.Narva, May 26. The inhabitants of this town had
t ^ happiness to fee, the xiP. of tuis month, the Empress
their Sovereign arrive' within their wall; her Majerty
Paid untiitheigd and then continued her journey by
PMc^w, at eight o'clock in the morning.
L O N D O N, June 12.
g A strong p-rty of iekiers, headed by Mr. Alderman
rifyfas, on Saturday iurrounded the houft of Mr Thoni
b,war pubhih roi a tcurri ous paper called the Scourge,
tor ms having feat forth nandbihs, recommending cue
Gfcmbiihg of a m&bio reticle Lord George Gordon from
,uw Tower. Tne mailer, Mr. Thompson, was anient;
tut two young men, Ins Servants, were taken into cuito
cy, add conveyed to a place of Liety.
xxud yehAhay Mr.. Moore, the reputed author of the
Thunderer, Scourge, and otxer productions ot the like
u/ure, together wit his wife, arm two apprentices of the
printer of thole writings, underwent an examination of
Several hours before Mr Aiderman Wdkes, at the Globe
taytro, Fleet Street. Warrants were Issued by the Privy
Council pn Frid y night, to apprehend, the author and
[rim% in confequruce .fthe publication of handbills,
incited, " England in blood," and promoting the late
outrageous disturbances. But the print r has hithe:toef
; caped. The Alderman remanded the omers to tue Tow
er under a guard of Soldiers. • ,
Cumber and-Haufe, June 9. This day the Marquis de
Cordon, Envoy Fxiraordmary from the King 01 dardi
uta) the Chevalier de Pinto, Envoy Extraordinary and
. Plenipotentiary from the King of Portugal ; Monsieur de
Dreyer, Envoy Ektrodioaty from the King of Den
mark; Monsieur de Simulia, Manlier Plenipotentiary
;from the Empress oi Russia ; Munfitur de Cavalli,. Re
fident from Venice; and the Baron de Kutzleben,'-Mi-
Hdler from the Landgrave of Hesse Caflel, had private
- audiences refptdivei, of his Royal Highness tne Duke of
Cumberland.
June 19. The Common Council of the city of London
having yefierday voted their thanks to be presented in a
gold box to judge Gould, for having given his opinion in
. opposition to tue interference ot the military, during the
late tumult, without whose alßhauce the lives and pro.
pertiex of all the inhabitants would have been Soon in the
g-reateft danger, from the weeknefs of their police and the
timidity of ther magistracy. It may b^ remarked, that
this measure it perie&y confident with the political wis
dom usually displayed by ihis great commercial city ;
nor is it without almack of their ceconomy, the box be
ing the fame which was purchased and intended to have
been given to Sir Fletcher Norton on a late occasion, but
refufed by him ; it is now therefore to be offered to this
other great patriotic luminary of the law.
Sunday last a messenger arrived express at the Admi
ralty, from Admiral Geary, with accounts of the grand
feet having fell in with Several Dutch vessels, laden with
naval Stores, bound to a port in Spain, which he sent un
der convoy for Falmouth,
Extract of a letter from Rear Admiral Drake to Mr. Ste
phens, dated in the Downs, June 17, 1780.
" You will please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, th^t his Majesty's Ihip Apollo is jult
returned to the Downs, having been in a very smart ac
tion with a French frigate, which She drove on Shore near
Offend.”.
Yefierday morning his Majesty reviewed in Hyde Park
the 3d regiment of dragoons, who performed all the ma
nual exercise to the fatufaaioh of his Majesty and several
General Officers prefect.
Extract of a letter from Cork, June 27.
" The Catherine, Murdock, from Glafcow to Jamaica,
of 20 guns and 48 men; the Venus, M'Donald, from
•Glafcow to Georgia, of 12 guns, and 25 men ; two brigs,
one bound to New- York and the other to Georgia, were
all taken by a French man of war of 64 guns, on the 23d,
off Cape Clear. The Harrier bound toNew-York, was
in company with the above Ships, but escaped, being a
good sailor, and is arrived in this port."
WILLIAMSBUR G, Sept. 2.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Richmond,
dated August 30, 1780.
" Since my lafl, advice is received trom General Gates,
informing that our loss of officers is but Small, and up
wards of 500 men made their escape. Very few of Sump
ter's party nave fuffered ; our greatest loss is the baggage
and stores. The greatest honor is due to the Maryland
and Delaware brigades ; they killed and wounded up
wards of 50 , of the enemy, and made their r treat good.
De Kalb is mortally wounded, and Rutherford taken."
BALTIMOR E, September iz.
Four Ships of the line and 0000 troops are: supposed
to be on their way from Brett to Rhode Illaod. The ce
lebrated Mouheur B mgainvdle, who has hoisted his flag
on board the Languedoc of 80 guns, commands the
Squadron.''-
On the firft of June lad, several transports with troops
from Geemauy, arrived at Portsmouth in England.
A gentlemen jult arrived Torn Richmond, m Virginia,
hath favored us with tne lolloping paragraph:
“ The M. ryiand and Del :ware troops have dooe them
selves eternal nonor in tne late action in South Caroli
na. Alter being deserted by the Virginia and North Ca
rolina Militia, taey iou,,d tneir way through the enemy,
made a good retreat, and brought oh nine held pieces.—
In doing Gii, according to the belt accounts, they kil
led about 500 or the enemy. Their loss is near 300 ,no
General officer except Baron de Kalb. G^erals Small
wood and Gilt are both late. The brave troops above
meaujned, are now at Hillfb rough, where they have
< ;betted about 300001 the M^itia once more, and 'tis
to be hoped they wid not run a feeond time."
BOSTO N, September 7.
By the lalf accounts from Europe, the national.debt of
Britain, funded and unfunded, amounted to two hundred
and twenty millions.
We have authentic information, that the Sieur Clonard,
in a French Ship of 64 guns, lately captured and carried
into franc, lour large illips from Scotland, with iup
pnes 0/ all kinds for Georgia arid South-Carolina. The
cargoes or toofe ship. swere 10 valuable and of Such a kind,
a, the loss must be Severely felt by the enemy in that
qua ter,
Capt. Charles Dyer, in a brig belonging to Plymouth,
arrived at Bedford 011 Monday last, in twenty days from
Cape-Francois, who failed with a fleet of 19 fail of tne
line, anl upwards of 200 traafports and merchantmen.
Capt. Dyer lea the fl^et in lat. 26, bound northward.
Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut Rate, has issued a
proclamation taxing off the late embargo, and granting
" free liberty and per mission to ail persons whoarr friend
ly 10, ano juoj its of, these dates, to carry or bring by
land, provisions or et er commodities to and from any of
toe United States, in such way and manner as to avoid
the fame tailing into the hands of the enemy."
Last Monday night broke gaol at Concord, where they
were confined for violating their paroles, tne imperious
Capt Sanlord, and Lieuts. Miller and Davis, of the in
iaihuub brutal, renegade Tarleton's cavalry, in tne fer
fervice of the Tyrant of Britain, now at Charleftown,
Soutn-Carolina, where he has lately evidenced the most
inhuman acts of cruelty that were ever heard of, viz. in
the massacre of the gallant, amiable Col. Buford and 170
of his corps, at Lynch'd creek, in that State; and
which Mr. Clinton congratulated ids banditti upon.
Ata Town Meeting on Monday last, the Hon. J hn
Hancock, Esq; had 858 votes out of 923, as Gover
nor of this Commonwealth.
F I S H-K I L L, September 14.
Extract of a letter trom Albany, dated September 6.
' I nave been informed as an undoubted truth, that
some day last week, a party of Indians and Tories, about
60 in Rum^% made an attempt to destroy a house and
kin (ne inhabitants, about .6 miles above Stone Arabia,
Xryon county ; ,they were beat off lour times, by the man
of i^e house, his wife and 2 children; they then went to
the barn and set it on fire; when the man took the op
portunity of pulling one wounded and one dead man in the
house, from whom he got a trefh supply of ammunition,
his own being nearly expended: The wretches made ano
ther affualt upon the house, but in vain ; tney were obli
ged to retreat with the loss of 16 killed and one wound
ed, now a prisoner, an infamous Tory, his name M Do
nald. The attack firft began at fix o'clock in the even
ing, and they left the house about midnight.
" My informant said, that the woman broke fix or se
ven guns with an ax, as they attempted to fire through a
hole He also said, that during the whole engagement,
the people were praying, so that, said lie, it was clear
that God helped toem : And his faying was evidently
true, for his divine interposition mull be acknowledged
in every deliverance ; and this was a most extraordinary
one, that deserves to be published to the world. 0! that
men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and turn
from the evil of their ways, that we might fee the Lord's
hand turned from judgment to mercy.
" There have been several other remarkable deliveran
ces since the deftroyiog of Canojoharie, which arc not so
well authenticated,"
N E W-Y OR K, September s,
The fchoner Ragged Fortune, Capt. White, with to
bacco, from Baltimore for Statia, was fnt in here last
Friday by the schooner Active, Capt. Goff, belon^e to
Messrs. Goodrich's.
A rebel privateer sloop of 12 guns, last Monday took
three sloops from Blue Point for this port, off Rockaway,
and flood with them to the eastward,
Ihereare now in the Chefapeaka French 74, and ano
ther of 64 guns, loading tobacco : They have taken out
their guns and are taking in their lading.
•.His Majesty's ihip the Iris, Capt. Dawson, run a brig
afhere at Egg-Harbour last Thursday, and the Saturday
following was left in chafe of a snow, fuppefed a rebel
privateer.
Sept. 15. Wednesday night arrived at Sandy-Hook,
Sir George Brydges Rodney, Rear Admiral of England,
with ten fail of line of battle fllips; an event which must
afford true joy to every friend of the British confuta
tion.
Wednesday an account was brought to this city, that
the three detachments under the following, commanders,
Col anti Polfom, Brigadi r General Kemble, end Colonel
Dalrymple, had e£ feed the cenqueft cf Castle St. Juan,
which commands the en'rance into Lake Nicaragua, and
consequently an immediate access to the great Pacific
Ocean; in this arduous enterprize they have een greatly
assisted by the natives of the country, who have long
aimed at a revolt fr<, Spaauh tyranny.
TRENTO N, September 20.
We are informed that Admiral Rodney's fiert, which
arrived a few days ago at Sandy-Hook, coufifls of one
Ihip of 80 guns, eight of 74, one of 64, one frigate and
a brig. It is said he failed several days after a French
fleet from the fame quarter, of 12 fail of the line, and
fix frigates, supposed to be bound to Rhode-Ifod. As
Rodney's fleet had a passage of only nineteen days, it is
probable they have outs iled th it of the French,
Two days after the arrival of Rodney's fleet, 4. of the
ships put to sea, and Rood to the e^ftward.
Col John Netlfon is appointed Deputy Qiartermafter
for tris slate, in the room of Moore Furman, Esq ; re
signed. ;
Lately died at Cape May, in an advanced age, Aaron'
Learning, Esq; for many years a Representative in Ge
neral Assembly for that county.
Sunday night last, the refugees made an excursion from
Staten island to Woodbridge, and carried off Mr. Tho
mas Brown, and two other inhabitants.
Extract of a letter from Merriftown, September 17.
'< News current here is, that the second div^fion of the
French fleet is arrived at Rhode-Bland That on them
passage they fell in with and took 60 British transports
bound to New-York."
PHILADELPHIA, September 23.
On Monday last died, after a few days illness, in the
thirty-third year of her age, Mrs. ESTHER REED,
consort of His Excellency the President of this State. Pos
s ffed of every female virtue which could adorn her sex and
flation, this amiable lady lived beloved, and died la
mented by ail who had the happiness of her ftiendfhip
and acquaintance : On Tuesday her remains were inter
red in the Second Pr fbyterian burial ground in this city,
with every mark of re pe& due to her merit and charac
ter, being attended by His Excellency the President and the
Members of Congress, and of their principal Boards,
tie General Assembly and Supreme Executive Council,
officersof the army and of the Stale, and a great con-
CQurfeof numerous friends and acquaintance.
Extract of a letter from Paris.
“ Copies are circulated at the Hague, of a letter, writ
ten to M. the Prince de Gallitzin, Envoy Extraordina
ry of her Emperial Majesty of all the Ruffias, to their
High Mightinesses, by Mr. de Stachief, Envoy Extraor
dinary of tne lame Sovereign, to his Highness ; and dated
from Conftantinopie the 4th April : Which is of the
following tenor :
“ S'l R.
“ On occasion of the reports, as falfe as they are ma
'' licious, tending rethrow doubts upon the pacific fcnti
ments or the Sublime Porte towards our Court, and
which would have been of course published by the way
" of some public papers ill informed ; the Ottoman Mi
nister alter having beforehand perfectly fatiafied me in
this refpett, has thought it at the fame time cenveoi
to rtqueft all the foreign Miniflers to write to their
reipective Courts, that harmony was never so solidly e
" ftabiiihed between the Sublime Porte and our Court as
^' at prefeut, and that, far from making the least prepa
rations of war, it is on the contrary perfeHly convinc
" ed of the unanimity of the pacific sentiments which
' animate the two Courts. I shall add,'that the French
privateer Megagnos, having taken and carried to om.yr
" na, a merchant vessel of our nation, named the Prince
Conftaiitin, Mons. Le Compte de St. Priest, Ambaffa
" dor of France, upon my remonfirance and declaration,
" supported by the Sublime Porte; has forthwith and in
" tne name of the King his Master, ordered the immedi
" ate liberation of the ihip with her cargo: Which has
" been done at Smyrna, without the lead difficulty "
" It is said that they have found in the archives of the
Porte, an ancient ordinance, which regulates the limits
beyond which cannot pass either vtffels of war, or priva
teers of Powers at war, in the Ottoman seas; which
cannot but turn tathe advantage of the veffeß of Neutral
Powers.
' The intention of his Highness, is to repair the Cas
tles of the Dardanelles, which are in decay, and that there
be formed a camp of 8000 men in the neighbourhood of
Adrianople."
On the 15th instant Congress promoted Brigadier Wil
liam Smallwood, of the Maryland due, to the rank of
Major-General in the army of the United States.
Tuesday last arrived here the brig Trooper, Captain
Howell, and the brig La Fayette, Capt. Sewell, in fevtn
tcen nays from St. Buftatia.
Last week was brought in here by the ship Saratoga,
the show Sarah, Capt. M'Kinley, from Nevis for Nev-
York, with 230 puncheons of rum on board.
The fllip General Nath, of North-Carolina, hath taken
and feat into Ocracock two brigs, one of them from
Glafcow with dry goods, and the other from Jamaica
with rum, both bound to Charleftown.