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Foreign Articles.
By the Britifb Packet, arrived at N.
York, from Falmouth.
PARIS, (18 Pluwifc') TFeb. 6.
Gen. of division, Marefcot, well
known by the ability which he dis
played at the sieges of Toulon, Duef
noy, Valenciennes, Maeflricht, and in
the dire&ion of the works in the in
vaiion of Holland, is appointed coms
mander of the engineers in the expe
dition against England. The Gene
rals of Brigade, of the fame body, are
citizens - Bofgerard, Chafelopp, chief of
artillery in the army of Italy, and
Dufalga, an officer highly esteemed
by Buonaparte, and who loft a leg in
the army of the Rhine. _
-Council of I'ive Hundred.
i 16 Pluvoife, Feb. 4.
Sant’onax being admitted to a hear
ing, refpe&ting the affairs of St. Do
/mingo, began by deploring the fatali
ty which tor years had rendered him.
the obje& of calumny, and which re
presented as detestable men those
friends of liberty who had dared to
defend its cause before the National
Tribunal.
Santhsnax then gave an account of
every thing he had done to keep the
Englith in check, to destroy their
commerce, to restore the colony to a
state of peace, to revive agriculture,
to rebuild the Cape, and the success
which had attended it. He exhibited
Rigault as the chief of the counter
revolutionifts of that country, the A
gent of Spain and England, and the
destroyer of all Republican inftitus
tions, who had trodden under foot the
Republican cockade, and hoisted the
standard of Rebellion. -
Santhonax concluded by observing,
that moderation and wisdom ought to
direc the mmeafures proper to be pur
sued in égg-ard to the colonies—he
knew only one class of men who
did not deserve pardon, and these were
the affaflins # but there had been a
multitude of people misled, and he was
of opinion that they ought to be com
prehended in the amnelty of the 3d
Brumaire. With regard to himfelf
he renounced it altogether, and he re
quelted that all the agents of govern
ment in the colonies should be except
ed also. Ordered to be printed and
sent to the Commiflion of Marine.
. LONDON, Feb. g
In the council of 500 on the Ift
of February it was decreed :
I{t, That henceforth all objets re
lative to the Marine and the army of
England shall be the great order of
the day, and have priority over all
‘others.
2. That the committee of Marine
shall employ itfelf in reporting an act
of Navigation which {hall secure the
liberty of Commerce and the rights
of Maritime Nations at the period of
a general peace. :
Various rumors are in circulation
throughout France,relative to disputes
among the directory, and new pro
jeés of change in their constitution.
FeßruarßY 12.
This morning we received French
papers up to the 7th inst. One arti
cle in them deserves particular notice,
viz. a motion made by Guillemardet,
in the Council of 500, for altering the
mode of drawing by lot for a fuc
cefflor to the member of the Execu
tive Direétory, who goes out annual
ly. The nomination of the succeed
ing member, as the law now stands;
is velted in the Legislative body,
which commences its !%tting after the
new third are chosen ; but Guille
mardet proposes that it shall be vested
in future in the Legislative Body, be.
fore that third are changed.
It appears that the Cifalpine troops
who were marching to Rome to a
venge the insult offered to the French
Republic by the death of Duphet,
have met with a small check from
some armed peasants, who attacked
them, and that between two and three
hundred of them have been killed and
wounded
Letters from Copenhagen, of the
15th ult. mention the warlike prepa
rations which were carryiug on by
the court of Denmark. The obje&
of them isftated to be the formation
of a cordon on the Elbe, in order to
preserve the Neutralicy of the Danith
poflctlions in Germany. - (2
'The floating batteries for the har
bour of Waterford, Kinfale, Limer
ick, Calway, Wexford, & other ports
in Ireland, have all arrived fafe at
their stations. Some of these are of
5o guns each, which with the nume
rous gun boats and the disposition of
the miilitary forces on or near the sea
coalt, leave no room to féar any at
tempt of an enemy’s invasion.
Lord Bridport—His Lordship a
fetv days since, talking on the subject
of the threatened invasion by the
Trench, simply observed, that they
miglt come 3s they could ; for ‘his
ownw part, he only undertook to fay,
‘that by Gad they should not comie bpaater,
Government have received intelli
gence that'fince the late revolution in
Holland, the Batavians enter more
heartily into the views and plans of
the French with refpet to the inva
sion of this country than before, in
consequence of which almost all the
veflels in Holland are taken up as
transports, and” troops have actually
begun to embark. There are several
hundred fail of ships and vessels in the
Dutch ports, admirably calculated
for transports and we have no doubt
but that the French will profit by
them in their proje&ed expedition.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 29.
The following Letter has been re
ceived here, dated from the
= ‘Admiralty-Office, fan. 05.
I am commanded by my Lords
commissioners of the Admiralty, to
acquaint you, in an answer to your
application to their Lordships of the
zoth inst. on the part of the mer
chants and manufa&ures, &c. of Li
verpool, trading to’ North America,
that a convoy for the veflels bound to
that coast is appointed to fail from
Spithead on the Ift March, and will
call off Falmouth for such trade as
may be aflembled there from Liver
pool, Glasgow and Bristol.
(Signed) EVAN NEPEAN.
Meflrs. Humble, Holland and Hur
ry, Liverpool.
VIENNA, Jan. g.
The sublime porte has represented
through their ambassador to our court
that there was printed at Vienna,in the
Greek, as well as the Turkith lan
guage, seditious writings, which were
disseminated in the Ottoman empire.
The Emperor immediately ordered
searches to be made, the result of
which has been the arrest of the ac
complices in this business.. Amongst
them the editor of the Greek Gazette
which is printed here, but as they are
subjects of the Porte, they will be de
livered up. ,
-The Turkish Courier, who passed
thro’ this capital a month ago; en his.
route to Paris, has veturned ; his mis
sion was relative to the rebellion which
broke out in Turkey. This avas the
St} courier that the Porte ever sent to
an European power. We now learn
that the Pacha de Bidden the rebel
Pas Wan QOglu has been beaten in
Seryia. :
DREADFUL" BATTLE.
"LLEGHORN, Dec. 12.
The latter end of last month a Mal
tese fleet, consisting of two frigates,
one. xebeque, and one bark, was crui
sing off between the islands of Sardi
nia:and Sicily, they fell in with three
Algerine rovers of equal force. The
former was commanded by a noble
Knight of Malta, and the latter by a
fellow called Aza, both men of un
daunted courage and great resolution,
well known in these seas for their en
mity to each other’s cause. - Aza, the
chief of the pirates, ran his thip along
fide of that which the noble Knight
himfelf commanded, and poured in a
broadside, which carried away the
mizen mast, and did considerable
damage to the after rigging ; the
charge was returned with the greatest
{pirit, and then began one of the most
desperate and resolute battles that
ever was fought in these parts. The
two commodores engaged each other
yard-arm and yard-arm for upwards
of 3 hours, which caused horrid car
na%? on both sides.
he barbarians attempted to board
seven times {word in hand, but were
as often beat off with great slaughter.
The valiant Knight was slain by a
lance in the midst of the a&ion as he
was firing off a blunderbuss, and Aza,
his daring antagonist was shot thro’
the head by a muiket ball soon after.
Notwithstanding the destruction of
these champions, the battle continued
with the utmost fury, until they both
were reduced to mere wrecks, their
malfts, fails, and rigging all gone, the
rudders shot away, and not a yard of
canvas left in either. In this disabled
state, did keep up a constant fire with
grape and partridge shot, and with
the great guns battering each other
and fwearnig bitterly never to strike.
At last the Maltese blew us with a
most tremendous explosion, and five
minutes after the chief of the pirates
funk, and not 2 man was saved.—The
other parts of the fleets were engaged
all the time with the fame obftmacy,
and reduced to near the fame condi
tion, The xebeque was funk, and one
of the pirate’s ships, which the rob
bers had lathed to one of the frigates.
The bark escaped, in a very shattered
condition, and the other rover funk
the next morning, and what remain
ed of her crew were taken up from
a raft two days after by a Tunisian
corsair and carried into Tunis. |
BT L TR g, |
- BALTIMORE, Apnl 6.
Arrived this day, schooner Ame
rica, captain Vibert, 20 days from
Jeremie, last from the Mole, which
dhe left under convoy; 17 days ago.
Gen. Williams, in his observations
~on Monday, in favour of the New
- Military Bill which proposes the
establishment of a fele& corps of young
men of the age of 18 and under the
age of 24 years; and a reserved corps
of persons of 24 ahd under the age of
40, {tated the expense attending the
| present system as far beyond what it
1s generally thought to be, and con
~ fiderably more than the fyltem pro
| posed would be. He supposes there
f are now about 600,000 men enrolled,
“who at least spend {ix days a year in
the militia service, which if reckoned
- at a dollar a day (including expences)
~amounts to 3,600,000 dollars per an
? num. By the bill now proposed, it is
{fuppofed the fele¢t.corps will consist
~of about 150,000 men, who are to be
employed twelve days in a year ; the
reserved corps, about 350,000, to be
called out only one day in the year ;
so that the difference of expence in
favour of the new {yftem, would at
least be 1,275,000 dollars. Besides,
the present system, he said, exonerates
one fifth of the people from the ser
vice, by exceptions in favour of. offi
cers of various kinds, which he deem
ed unequal and unjust. In fine, that
the present {yftem is burdensome, at
the fame time that it is inadequate to
the defence of the country, and if not
amended, would be the means of in.
troducing into this country, what is the
bane of all free governments, a stand
ing army. | i
NEW-YORK, April 10.
The Star, a L.ondon paper of Feb.
13, urder the head ofP Hafue, Jan.
30, states, that the Anglo American
General Eustace, has been arrested at
Rotterdam, the motives of his arrest
are not known. ,
Extrac? of a letter from Antigua, dated
| 12th March. |
“There is a great many Americans
put in, and are chafed in here, by the
Brigand boats. A ship and brig ar
rived from Philadelphia yesterday, 4
weeks out belonging to Mr. Stokes.
Flour has fell from 17 to- 12 dollars
per barrel.”? = Wi
~ . -BOSTON, Aprill7. . ./
* From LISBON, March 4.
. Capt. Leach arrived at Salem,
When ¢apt. V. arrived at the Mole :
from Jeremie, a Britith sloop of war |
was lying there, which failed from
Jamaica the day after. . She was 18
days from Cadiz, charged with dis
patches from admiral Jarvis before
that place. The information gather
ed by her arrival was, that the Span- .
ith fleet of very superior force, with ‘
200 fail of merchantmen under con
voy had put to sea ; and as their des
tination was unknown, dispatches
were f{ent to the different ports in the l
Weft-Indies, for all thips of war to
keep themselves on the look out. Ad
miral Parker, who was lying at the
Mole, with 7 fail of the line and se
veral frigates, was making vigorous
preparations for sea. |
KNOXVILLE, March 6. =
Arrived this day at Knoxville, a
veflel built in the river Nantucket,
burthen 139 tons. This piece of
naval archite@ure, has for a consi
derable time drawn the attention of
government, and its officers ; we are
warranted in faying, that the treaty
lately fan&ioned by the Executive of
the United States, and shortly to be
held with the Cherokee Indians, will
render its {tationary at this place for
some months at least.
PHILADELPHIA, April 10.
In the House of Representatives of
the United States, yesterday, the House
went into a committee of the whole
on the state of the Union, and after
postponing the consideration of the
motion which was for some days un
der debate before the late dispatches
from our Ministers at Paris were com
municated, the resolution proposing
the sum of dollars for the com
pleting and repairing of our fortifica
tions and harbors, was agreed to, al
most without debate, with the follow
ing words added as an amendment,
“And that the *Prefident of the
United States be authorized to make
such additional and other fortifications
as the common defence shall seem to
require.” . ;
‘The committee also agreed to the
resolution reported on the petition of
the N. York Chamber of Commerce
respecting the fortifications of the har
bor of that city. ~The resolutions
were confirmed by the House, and a
bill ordered to be reported according
ly. - Mr. Sewall from the committee
for the prote&ion of Commerce and
for the defence of the country, made
a farther report, proposing to autho
rife the President to raise ’
companies of Artillerifts and Engi
neers, in_additon to the present estab
lishment -5 and that . = dellars
be appropriated for the purpose of
cannon, arms and ammunition for
“the service of the United States, which
was committed to the committee of
the whole on the State of the Union.
bronght letters from Meflrs. John
Bulkeley, and Son, to a very respec
table merchant in this town, inform
ing that it was reported that a recon
“ciliation would take place between
the United Statesand the French Re
public. -
- Letters have been received in town
fromlingland, since our last, received
by .the Britith Packet, which inform
that the profpeéts -of a gereral peace
is brightening ; and that a new nego
~ciation would speedily be set on foot.
r President Apawms, like his prede
cessor, and like the pure gold of Opbhir,
*has been tried in the furnace, and has
~come forth in full weight, luftre and
- intrincicality.
[ Two firong FACTS are eftablithed
by the publication of the Papers late
1y given.—lft, That the powers giv
en to our Envoys to negociate, were
full and ample ; if the French disliked
any one or two of them, the third was
fufficient to Perform the negociation.
~2d, That Talleyrand informed Mr.
.Gerry, that the French citizen who
is designated by the name of M. Y.
- was his confidential agent ; and that
} whatever he said to the Envoys might
be relied on. The public are in pos
t feflion of the bribes, loans, recanta
tions, and retributions demanded by
' this said M. Y. 1!! Here are fads
| which none can deny !
! The American-Frenchmen have a
- long time growled at the epithets giv
en by the true Americans to the.
French Directory ; Lut did the latter
_ ever compare them, to “ Alserines”
- and ¢ fndians ?’—To savages and
\ barbarians ? as they themselves do !
l The French Directory, having the
. full command of the poft-offices and
| prefles in France, it is an hundred to
t one, if the dispatches of our Commis
sioners ever reaches the ears, or eyes,
' ‘of the French people.
‘ T own-Meetings.
A meeting of the town of Ipswich
" has been called, for the fubje& of a
petition about arming. The citizens
met, and after reprobating the mea
sure intended, and exprefling the ut
most confidence in the Executive of
' the Union, they voted by a very great
* majority to dissolve the meeting. Af
ter which they gave in their votes for
Governor ; and of 114 votes given
i in, Gov. Sumner had 104 !—How
! more honoiable to the American cha
; rater in such condud, than the pu
. fillanimous proceedings of some towns
, we could mention.
’ The Senate of the State of New-
York, has requested Gov. Jay, to de
| liver for the use of the United States,
thirty twenty-four pound cannon, cast
at Salisbury, belonging to that State,
under the aflurance that others of like
i dimensions, and cast, thall be returned
! as soon as they can be made. '
Unhappy Accident,
As the Amherst Stage was on its
return home on Thursday last, from
this town, in attempting to cross a
causeway within three miles of Am
herst, which was overflowed by the
river Souhegan, in the late frefhet,
was instantly {wept off out of the
main road, and four horses drowned,
fortunately there was no passengers
in the stage, and it was with difficul
ty the driver saved himfelf, by climb
ing a tree. Considerable property
was loft out of the stage.
Marine Intelligence.
April 14. Arrived {ch. Mark and
Mary, M’Cobb, from St. Martins, 24
days. Left at Point Petre (Guad.)
March 11, thip Charlotte, to fail for
New-York ; sloop Almana, Hawk{on,
to fail for St. Bartholomews ; Lucy,
Knapp, for Newport ; sch. Howard,
for Cape-Ann, in 8 days ; brig Three
Friends, Allen, for Cape-Ann ; sch.
Alin, from Bourdeaux, for do ; brig
William and Thomas, Nutter, for
Wifcaflet. Condemned, ship Two-
Sifters, Hilton, of Wifcaflet ; brig
Endeavor, Winchester, Norwich—
Chryfites, Hutchins, of New-York ;
Fell’s Point, of Baltimore ; the brig
Friendship, Otis, of Wiicaffet, tried
and cleared ; the brig Batcheldor,
Peck, of New-Haven, under-adjudica
tion ; with several others. Left at
Basseterre, {ch. Harriot, Lobdell, dif
chargix;_g cargo ; a sch. Capt. Mer
chant, from Cafco Bay, under adjudi
cation. - Left at St. Martins, 21f
March, brig Vaulture, Lambert, of
Salem, under adjudication at Guada
loupe ; brig Betsy, Weaver, under do.
The brig Nancy, Webber, of New-
York, wastaken under the lee of Saba,
and being chafed by an Englith fri
gate, the prize master run her ashore
the weft end of St. Martins, veflel loit,
cargo saved ; the Franklin, Morris,
of Philadelphia, under adjudication.
ArriL 15. - Arrived fch’r Juno,
Peas, from Kinglton, (Jam.) 29 days.
Left there ship William, of Newbury=
Port, and {ch’x Commerce, Wilds, of
Boston, both to fail soon. March 3,
in the Gulph, spoke fch’r Betsy, of
Falmouth, from Jamaica, bound te -
Boston, out § days. - :
JApriL 16. Arrived {ch’r Lydia,
Bartlett, frém St. Bartholomews, 28
days. Left a number of Americans,
names not afcertamned. Capt. Gray, -
in a brig of Salem, had fold part of
his cargo, and failed for windward
islands, to barter the remainder.
March 18, was boarded by a, Britilh
cruiser, treated well and diimifled.
March 31, lat. 35. N. long. 66. W.
{poke brig-Nancy, of Salem, outward
bound. _—
The sloop Citizen, M’ Lillon, of Bos
ton, was at Port-au-Paix, March 17.
Capt. Wheatland, of Salem, has ur
rived at New-York, from Canton, aftct
a very fuccefstul voyage.
Salem April 17. Arrived thip Colum
bia, Fletcher, from Baileterre ; brig
Three Friends, Endicott, Surrinam,
via St. Kitts ; {chs. Sally, Rea, Trinie
dad ; Sally, Leach, Lisbon.
NEWBURY-PORT, April 17.
Maring Nrws.
Yeflerday arrived brig Sally, Sinpfim,
28 days from Aux-Cayes ; brig Tryall,
Woodman, of this porty failed tawo days
before ; 16 days since left Capt. IWosi
man south of Wadlin’s island, bound ts
Baltimore, and brig Sophia, bound is
New-Haven. Capt. Simpson infirses,
that an embargs had been on alf vessels az
Aux-Cayes for 38 days previous to his
Jailing, on account of an expedition againf?
Feremie ; the night before he failed, Ri
gaud having returned, the embargo «was
taken off.
Same day, [fcb’r Hannab, Nowell, 23
days from Petit-Guave. Left there -
Capt. Remictks, pecple all sick, avenld be
ready to fail in 10 days if hands wwere
able. Capt. Toplift of Bafion, to fuil ir
10 days, 14th infl. in the south channel,
Jpoke brig ——, Capt. Tate, from Gre
naday bound to Portland. Feremie avas
‘7ot taken when Capt. Nowell left Peiit-
Guave, and it was supposed awould uot be
given up.
Same day, [chooner Peggy and Polly,
Rickardfon, 38 days from Surrinam.
Left there brig Hope, Reed, of Boflon,
Just arrived ; sloop ———, Capt. Derrifly
of this port, difmafled ; [ch’r Success, of
Gloucefler, Broawn, and flosp Difpatchy
Davis, do. to fail in 10 or 12 days. 3d
Aprily lat. 40. 12. long. 69. 50. spoke
the Commerce, Perkins, from Tortola,
bound to Kenncbunk, who left there 20th
March, brig Hannab, F. Toppan, of
this port 3 oth April spoke Jeb’r Maria,
Roach, of Portland, 16 days from Petit-
Guave, bound to Boston ; fame day spoke
a brig from Bourdeaws, bound to Neav-
York, blowing frefb could not learz
particulars ; 11th March, lat. 5. 5. N,
bong. 55. 2. W.was boarded by an Eng
lish privateer, treated politely, and di
- wmiffed. March 22, was bronght too by
- a French privateer, ordered out our boaty
i took the Caprain and all bands out,
Jearched qur chefls, and used us like an
~enenmy, threatening to give the Captaiz
- 200 at the gang-way, finally allowed s
' Same day, fcb’r Indufiry, Blanckard,
to proceed. ;
24 days from St. Martins. Left at §t.
- Barttolomeaws, March 21, brig. Mary,
- Whitham, to fail in 10 days—At St.
i Martins, 14 or 15 fail Americans ad
| judicated and under adiudication, among
them a yellow sided fehoonery from Newv
- London, bound to Guadaloupe, <vith
nulesy brought in the 20th—avas bsard
ed on the paflage by an Englifb 32 gun
Jhipy treated very bandfomely, offering to
Jupply s avith any thing avs might be in
want of. ;
Same day, brig Fanny, Stover, St
Übes 3 Ruby, Pearly, Boflon ; fchosner
Three Friends, Norton, do. ~ Same day
schooner Lucy, Knap,24 days from Point-
Perre, failed in company avith ship Chare
botte, Capt. Fredricburg, for Necwu-2ork,
and [chooner Fack, Allin, for Glonceffer.
April 3, lat. 39. 22. N. long. 68. 36.
Jpoke a brig firom Barbadves, bound &s
Kennebunt, 13 days out.
A fchoomer from Surrinam belomging
to Kennebeck, bas been taken into St
- Luflatia.
Victor Huges has ordered the capture
- of all Americans aherever bound. ~
c RSO BORRr B
Jeremiah Libbey;
At kis fore in Market-fireet,
A quantity of
Clover and Herds Grass Secd
of a superior quality.
Portsmouth, April 21, 17g8.
L R BRSO Y
At AUCTION,
At the New-Hampshire Hotel,
On Thur{day 26th inst. at 10 o’clock,
forenoon, <
S EVERAL half and quarter chests
Bohea T'ea, and sundry other ar
ticles. :
JACOB WALDEN, Au&ioncer.
Tyiacath, ApRLAE Yl O
Lift of prizes recawed.
DVENTURERS in the 4th
Z& Class of Dartmouth College
Lottery, who purchased ticKets at the
Printing-Office and Book-Store of
J: Melcher, are requested to call there
and receive their prize megey.