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that several thotn«n**s of them were com
posed of Germane, Pruulans, and other
Continental troops, taken in the late war.
The merchants ot Bourdonux have given
up all hopes ot peace with thia country;
but they were confident of a speedy ad
just ment with America.
An abstract' of the Decree for prohibit
ing paste tigers from entering France, in in
town, and is to the following purport
That uo vesael do bring passengers out of
4>r into France, without a license, signed by
the Etnperoor; if any passenger should
land without a license, he is to be arrested
by the Prefect, and sent to Paris.
Victor Hughes was lately tried at Paris
for the surrender of Cayenne to the Anglo-
Portuguese forces; it was alleged that 'he
had capitulated in order to save his own
plantations and property. He was declared
to be M>t Guilty, and was forthwith set at
liberty.
cartridges for cannon, took fire; the ex*
* ploafoo was terrible; the adjoining houses
ware blown into the air with a dreadful
Despatches wqje received on Saturday,
at the Admiralty, from our squadron off
Flushing, announcing, we understand, some
movements in the enemy’s fleet up the
river, corroborative of reports which had
reached our commanders, that they intend
to aval! themselves of the first favourable
opportunity to send a strong detachment to
aea. The number and destination of this
force is differently represented, but the re
port most credited here is, that it is intend
ed for the East-Indies.
September 20.
One of these papers hints, (alluding, we
suppose, to the mitcarriagt of the Em
jirett,) that the expectations of ail loyal
Frenchmen had been blighted by an unto
ward accident which bad befel the Em
press Ltaisa, in descending the steps of her
chariot. n a
Paris Journals to the Bth hare been re
ceived.
An article from Bayonne confirms the
statement, received from Spain, of an at
tempt, made some time since, to carry off
Joseph, and states, that, in consequence of
it, a very numerous garrison was stationed
at Madrid.
* A new plot, it is said, hostile to Bona*
parte, has been discovered in Paris; but it
is probably a plot of his own making. Ac
cording to private accounts, some persons
of distinction hate been arrested and cast
into prison. Fouche knows too many of
Napoleon's secrets, and, as he has been
the devoted friend of the Empress Jose
phine, it is thought necessary that he should
be despatched; and we shall not be sur
prised to hear that both are implicated
in some pretended conspiracy, of which
Fouche's successor, Savary, the present
Minister of the Police in Paris, will have
the management.
The moot material thing, connected with
the fall of Almeida, is the large supply of
provisions which the enemy found in the
rnagasines of that place. The contents of
these magazines consisted, according to the
returns, of 20 bushels of flour, 300,008 ra
tions of biscuits, 600 fanegas (bushels) of
corn, 700 of rye, 2000 of Turkey corn, 500
quintals of rice, 400 arrobasof salt pro
visions, 12 quintals of salt provisions in
barrels, 34 tons of wine, at 700 bottles each,
3 pipes of brandy, shout 700 bottles, 20
pipes of vinegar, 50 faaegas of beans, 2000
of barley, 3000 of bra?, 3000 quintals of
straw, 5000 of wood, and about 1000 cover
lets.
* A French gentleman hired a small boat
at Havre', under pretence of going over to
Caen for the shooting season. He embarked
his family and his moat valuable effects,
and sailed for our squadron. He re
ceived in the Niobe, and brought over to
Portsmouth a few days ago.
A shoal of about 500 whales! were lately
driven on the Island of Ronsay, in Orkney,
by the boats belonging to the place; many
of these whales measured from 25 to 30
feet.
The number of slaves in the Territory
of Orleans is 29,*74; value of all the land
16,024,447 dollars; annual tax on slaves
92,105; on land* 34,707; sales atauction
13,010.
The passengers in the Frances, from
America to France, carried iqto England,
were sent across the Channel in a cartel.
Accounts from Naples are to August 25.
The James, cartel. Captain Beer, is ex
pected to sail this evening for Morlaix,
with an American gentleman charged with
despatches.
The officers and crew of the Gascon,
French privateer, lately captured and sent
into this port, consisting of 84 men, sailed
a few days sinte in a cartel, for Morlaix,
having been liberated in consequence of
having picked up from a wreck, and treat*
ed kindly, the crew of a British vessel.
EISENACH, September 3.
The day before yesterday a calamitous
event took place here. About nine in the
evening, a convoy of ammunition was pass
ing through our town. The three first
waggons, which were mostly laden with
PLYMOUTH, September 15.
September 19.
cnsh. The fire eaught both sides of the
Street, called the Monnengasse, which was
wholly destroyed. Thirty-eight persons
have perished.
spent most of their time alone, almost enJ
tire strangers to the joys of social life, and
seldom went abroad, but to be spectators
of such publick diversions and amusements
as the fashions of the times would counte
nance. Francis I. was the first who intro
duced women on publick days to Court.—
Before this time nothing was to be seen at
any Court of Europe but grey headed poli
ticians, plotting the destruction nf the rights
and liberties of mankind, and warriours
clad In complete armour, ready to put their
plots into execution. In the 13th and 14th
century, elegance had scarcely any exist
ence, and even cleanliness was hardly con
sidered as laudable. The use of linen was
not known, and the most delicate of the
fair sex, in those days, wore woollen shifta
In the time of Henry VIII. Peers of this
realm brought their wives behind them on
horseback when they come to town, and
in the same manner took them back to
their country seats, with hoods of waxed
linen over their heads, wraprtn mantles of
doth, to secure them from the cold. And
in Paris,, fluring the reign of Francis the
Fair, to ride in a two wheeled cart along
the dirty streets, was reckoned a grandeur
of so enviable a nature, that he prohibited
the wives of Hi citizens from enjoying it;
and at that time wine was only to be had
at the shops of apothecaries, where it was
sold as a Cordfol.
pire to the 14th and 15th century, wom<
Z <o* TH* *HOD«-I*LAM • AM**I*AN.
TULLIUS....No. IV-
TO JUS EXCELLENCY THI OOVEBMOUB
•• May it fiteate your Excellency,"
Once more the exigency of the times, the
publick feelings at a novel and unwarranta
ble departure from immemorial usage, and
the alarm so natural upon an assumption
of power, unprecedented in the annals of
our government, call for that discussion
which may not be shackled by the behest
of B GUBERNATORIAL DICTATOR. « The
session of the Assembly is past. The inor
dinate cupidity of the three-beaded mon
ster, who would devour if possible the
loaves and fishes of the present, past and
future times, is stayed; to satiate it is im
possible. Mr. Howell, first Senator of
the State, Notary Publick, Justice of the
Peace, Tide-waiter to the Custom-House,
See. flee, son of the District Attorney, and
brother-in-law of the Marshal, is chosen a
Senator of the United State* by ms own
vote and your Excellency's usurpation of
power. This usurpation is entirely without
precedent in the annals of the State. In
the Senate of the United States, which is
similar to our own Senate, the President
has only the catting vote, when the mem
bers are equally divided on any question ;
and, as in all deliberative attembliee, the
chairman or moderator has only the catt
ing vote, the assumption by your Excel
lency of the power of voting in the first in
stance, is a manifest breach of the privi
leges of the Assembly. This breach of
privilege, glaring as it was, Sir, was but the
prelude to one, if possible, greater. The
Lieutenant-Govemour was protected from
an answer to one of bis vulgar sarcasms by
a mandate from you; a freeman, speak
ing the voice of seven thousand of his
fellow-citisens, and defending their rights
from the inroads of Executive usurpation,
was commanded, in a tone which would
better befit Napoleon, or an eastern despot,
than the first Magistrate in a free State,
to “sit down.” That Mr. Hun tex was
in order, when he replied to the Lieuten
ant-Governour’s observation, your Excel
lency cannot deny. It was his right, it was
his duty to reply. What then, let me ask
your Excellency, induced the peremptory
command ? Was it a regard for decorum ?
Yourself, Sir, had offended against decorum
in several instances during the debate, and,
Sir, a regard for decorum ought to have
prompted you to silence Mr. Wilbour,
who was the aggressor. No,' Sir, it was
not this that drew from you the undignified
mandate ; it was the manly opposition of
Mr. Hunter to your usurpation, which
kindled your wrath and elicited this rocket
of ungovernable passion. The people. Sir,
must decide for themselves, whether their
majesty, and the freedom of deliberation,
shall be thus outraged with impunity. The
candidate in wbose,behalf y6u thus depart
ed from custom, was opposed by a gentle
man mcond to none in the State for litera
ry acquirement* and forensick knowledge;
and yet, Sir, you gave your vote for a
man whose vacuity of acquirements is al
most proverbial; into whose almost imper
vious cranium the rigid pedagogue bad me
chanically, (that is, by birch and ferule,)
conveyed some faint recollection* of qui.
quae, quod i or o, e, to, and who was in
debted to the brain of a near relation for
hi* college exercises, la preference to a
man whose talent* have been for many
year* conspicuous, and whose integrity and
patriotism were never called in question.
Your official conduct, Sir, excites no won-
CHANGE OE TIMES.
Frdrn the subversion of the Roman
Political.
der, though some speculation. The prima
ry within whose attraction you walk your
“ splendid round,” attracts the glance of
publick scorn; while bis satellite calls
forth naught but commiseration. Let tome
folks deny it if they will,. Sir, Jambs Al
paicn gdbrnsthe Tammaxy party and
Qhe State. ’ ” This cut purse*' of New-Eng*
Hand is the political Dsgon, before whom
all other idols of the order of St. Tamms
ny tremble like aspen leaves; and the dif
ferent sects of Wheatonites, Elleryites,
Smithites, Fennerites and Hazardites de
rive their offices from him ; he makes and
hb unmakes them; in his awful presence
the clangour of competition is silent ; his
word is the fiat, to which every thing must
bend. Who, Sir, can wonder at your Ex
cellency's conduct during the last session of
the Assembly ? No one who is acquainted
with these circumstancy. It would not ex
cite our wonder, if the next charter to the
National Bank, should be granted by Con- ,
gross, ou the conditions that he be made its
President, to reward him for his services
to Robert Smith- He would then have
a chance of playing more largely at his fa
vourite game of swindling; instead of half
a million, he might cheat the people out of
fifteen or twenty millions; and Congress
would protect him fe hia villany. How de
grading to the State is it that such a man
should possess so much power! “ When
the wicked rule the>Mgple tremble.”—
While Aldrich rules* Mil may we trem
ble ! The publick swindler, the pollutor
of female innocence, the political dema
gogue, if for the present he escapes the
accumulating wrath of heaven, win yet be
blasted by the matedictions, the execra
tions of society. Experience has evinced
to the world, Sir, that you are inseparably
attached to this monster of depravity; that
your every political act is dictated or ap
proved by him, and, that so long as you
continue in the Chair, he, your evil genius,
will be at your elbow. Four years. Sir,
have you been his passive machine, and
held the reins of govemmentwithout judge
ment, and without firmness. Once more,
Sir, I speak the voice of thousands, who
will, I trust, speak more audibly at the
Spring Election—Retire from a station,
where every new act places your name
higher in the page of infamy; and, may
the people be more fortunate in filling your
place, than they were in filling that va
cated by the “ dignified retirement'* of the
sage of Monticello. TULLIUS.
NEW-ORLEANS, September 24.
A PIRATE.
The ship Miser, from Boston, on her
passage to this port, was boarded off the
east end of Cuba by a large copper bot
tomed schooner, with a crew of one hun
dred and five men, chiefly French; only
one gun mounted on deck. v They informed
A gentleman who was a passenger in the
ship, and who spoke French, that they had
upwards of 20 guns, which by stress of
weather they had been obliged to put be
low a few days before. The ship was in
ballast, which those pirates examined care
fully for money; not finding any, they took
two 6-pound gun carriages, five or six
pieces of canvass, and several other arti
cles, for which they returned by way of
compliment, a few pieces of English Nan
keens and some cotton stockings. They
would not tell where they were from nor
to what nation they belonged. When they
fired they were under British colours,
which were immediately hauled down—
Our informant 'adds, he is of opinion that
he had seen several of the men in this city,
one of them knew him, and conversed with
him, but would not tell what they were, nor
where they were from.
WASHINGTON, (Kent.) October 13.
AWFUL CASUALTY.
A fatal misfortune happened in thia town,
in a thunder storm, about two hours after
cmr paper went to press on Saturday last.
One so melancholy scarcely ever occurred
before in this place. The stone house, on
the west jide of opposite the
Court-House, last in the occupation of Dr.
Johnston, and now of Mr. Fristoe, was
struck with lightning. It appears, from
several circumstances, that the lightning
descended, not in one entire track, but di
vided io three parts; one of which struck
the top of a small brick pillar on the south
east corner of the house; the
chimney next the pillar; and the third the
top of the sign-post; which descending,
killed a horse belonging to Mr. David A.
Dougherty. The lightning might not, how
ever, have descended in three parts. If
it came in a horizontal direction, It might
have been undivided until it struck the top
of the chimney; from which it might have
run in the same direction to the brick pil
lar and the sign-post; descending a little
to the latter.
That part, we suppose, which struck
the brick pillar, (which was probably the
beet conductor of any thing contiguous,)
descending to the second story, and made
its first appearance in the window next
the corner. Miso Jane Rawls, aged about
nineteen years, a grand-daughter to Mr.
Fristoe, who bad gone up stairs when the
gust first came up, and was la the act of
2&p tjje JBailH.
shutting dowbtatMt
|y killed ! TMMpfflhg seemed to have
struck her m^HKrst ; It broke her comb
to pieces andmnthe teeth sticking in hei
hair. It ran th the very extremities of her
system, and, making a small hole, about as
large as if been made by a small bird shot,
through each of her slippers, about half an
inch from the toe, penetrated die floor;
and descending to the bar-room on the
lower floor, kffied Mr. Benjamin Wood,
about eighteen or nineteen years of age,
son of Mr. Benjamin Wood, of this county.
We infer that the lightning glancing to
wards a Franklin stove which stood in the
chimney, from the top of the window where
it entered the room, from the circumstance
Wood's sitting directly between the
sflPI and the Stove; and not touching either.
It made two small holes in the top of his
hat, and tore out part of the crown, leaving
few other traces of external violence—
Another branch came down in the next;
window at the same instant, and (truck
down Mr.' David A* Dougherty, and Mr.
John Pepper/whu dripe sitting in the win
dow. Bleeding wmbattempted with them
all, but succeeded only WMV Mr. Dougher
ty, who, after having laid dead, to every
human appearance, nearly an hour< was
restored to life. It is matter of surprise
that he was wot precipitated- into that
world, .• •, ,
“ From whose bourne no traveler returns."
It seems, however, that but one side of
his body was affected; the lightning pass
ed first from the facing of the window to
the crown of his bat, through which it
made several small holes, and ran down
his left side with the effects of a flame fif
fire. His cloches were considerably rent,
as was also the lining of bis hat. He was
very much hurt, but is now on the reco
very, and out of danger. Mr. Pepper was
but very slightly injured, and entirely re
covered in a few minutes.
The confusion and distress of this melan
choly scene can be more easily conceived
than described. A young fair one, in the
bloom of youth, thoughtless of danger, in an
instant, made a lifeless corpse!—Below
lays, in the arms of death, a young man—a
cousin—for whom she had the tenderest
regard, which was reciprocated. The same
fatal shaft, which swept her from this
transitory scene, laid him lifeless in the
room below! As if Divine Providence had
determined that he should not stay behind
her, called them, at the same instant, to
wing their way to the world of spirits!
Let those who have seen misfortune in
Its deepest distress, imagine the feelings
of the parents of the young man, when,
coming from the country, they beheld their
son laid out a victim of the awful storm I
Whom they.had seep in the morning in the
.youthful gaiety-, and in the pridte of life, they
now saw lifeless and cold ! “ His life was
departed from him/' and the blood no
lodger ran in his veins,—'* Therefore do I
weep death is in the world:
the spoiler is among the works of God."
' PHILADELPHIA, October 30.
THE MURDER OF MISS REEVES.
On the night of Wednesday, August 15,
1792, a murder, attended with peculiar cir
cumstances of atrocity, was committed on
the body of Miss Elizabeth Reeves, of this
city, aged 17. The sympathy which pre
vailed throughout the city for the fate of
this unfortunate girl, is still fresh in the
recollection of many of the citizens. Gov
ernour Mifflin issued a Proclamation, offer-
ing a reward of 300 dollars for the dis
covery of the murderers, but without ef
fect. Eighteen years had rolled away,
without being able to discover the perpetra
tors, the whole circumstance was fast con
signing to oblivion, and justice was ap
parently, slumbering till the Last Day,
when on a sudden light shines forth on this
deed of darkness, and a clue is given where
by to trace it
Last Saturday, Charles Breece, late a
Constable in this city, was committed to
gabi, after a hearing before the Mayor,
charged with strong suspicion of the afore
said murder, on the confession of his step
mother, then at the point of death. The'
statement she is said to have made on oath
is to the following import-T-hat on the
night on which Elisabeth Reeves was mur
dered, the accused came to his father’s
house with his clothes covered with blood,
took off his shirt, threw it into a wash tub,
and washed the blood off it. That he was
for some time afterwards very restless in
his sleep, and would often make frightful
exclamations. In the dead of the night,
soon after the murder of Miss Reeves, she,
the step-mother, heard him groan, and
went up into his room and asked him what
was the matter, and he answered, that a
young woman had just been in the room
with a lighted candle in her hand, that he
had his face towards her when she first
entered the room, but he turned his back
to her as soon as he saw her. These, and
some other occurrences, had induced her
to suspect the accused of the murder, and
she could not die in peace without divulging
what she knew respecting it. The ac
cused asserts his innocence, and says that
he can prove that he was in the Bute of
Virginia at the time Miss Reeves was mur-
was at home at the time; had read the
Governour's proclamation offering a reward
dered. He afterwards admitted that be
abyks, mutt and will be vomited up again to
appease the justice of the virtuous living"—
will strike the reader as singularly em
phatic*!.
Prom Dunlaffa American Daily Adver
tiaer, q/ Saturday, Auguet 18, 1792.
Thursday morning the corpssMrfi young
woman was found in one of the docks near
Kensington; an inquest sat upon the body*
but we have not yet learnt their verdict.
Report is, that they brought in—
Murder by fiertone unknown. Of tlfis,
’howoven Wttiin sOon-be able to lay the
particulars before our readers. In the
mean while we cannot refrain from com
municating such intelligence as has some
within the range of our inquiry., Her name
is Elizabeth Reeves, about 17 years of age,
handsome, apprentice to a mantua-maker,
and courted by a young tradesman of the
vicinity, to whom ir was reported she Was
shortly to be espoused.
for the murderer, and did not glhly Vir
ginia until the year after. Another man,
who was with the accused at his fetfi'er'Sen
the night of the murder, and who does net
now live in this State, has likewise been ac
cused, by the same woman, of being con
cerned with him in the murder, and we Un
derstand that a stock buckle, which waff"
found in the hand of the corpse, is marked
with the initials of that man's name.
The following circumstantial account of
the murder is copied from Dunlap's Amej
rican Daily Advertiser, and cannot fail to
be interesting at this moment. The al-
most Dr°t>fletical remark of Captain Dun
lap, 4gat the time would come when the
perpetrator of this foul murder, although
hie should ** take refuge in the hollows of
the mountains, or in the bottom of the deep
In the afternoon of Wednesday, after
her work was done, she had requested
leave of her mistress to take a. walk to
market, to purchase some fruit; for which
purpose she bad Obtained liberty, and a
small sum of money from her mistress p—
who saw no more of her until yesterday ;
when, as it has been traced, a boy, being
on the fatal wharf at a very early hour, ob
served a mon heaving atonea on aomething,
which the boy aoon diacovered to be the
dead body of a man or woman, he equid
not tell which; that the inetant the man
aaw the boy, he leafied into a batteau and
fiuahed off a few yarde to -a ehaUofi, that
lay convenient, to which he made foot the
batteau, and then boarding the ahallofi,
the letter fiut off with the tide down the
river, which waa favourable to the deaign
at thia moment.
The body of a female with gold ear-rings
and some other mark* of respectability,
soon attracted the notice of. the ckisens—.
and the noise reaching the ears of her mis
tress, and aa uncle, (for the unfortunate
girl was aa orphan,) her person was soon
ascertained. A comb which she were In
her hair was found at some paces distant,
lying in contact with a man's black cravat,
which has been supposed to belong to -!
Humanity forbids oar prqceedingjn this
horrid recital, except to mentldb{4ha*.some
officers belonging to the sent
off a boat, as did several .{(ter the
shallop before mentioned. '*
Justice Coats took an active part to in
vestigate and discover the perpetrators of
this infernal deed-professional persons of
both sexes were brought to examine the
body, and4t was the opinion of the women
that the unhappy girl bad been ——,and
then murdered!! from the marks of vio*
lence on her face and other parts.
Surely the earth and sea combined could
not hide a villain of so deep a die as he
who could have committed a crime like
thia—let him take refuge In the hollows of
the mountains, or in the bottom of the deep
abyss, he must and Will be vomited up
again to appease the justice of the virtuous
living.
Jutt at thitftafier wit going to ftrett, we
received the fvllomng
On the morning of the 16|h instant, the
body of Eliasbeth Reeves was found in the
dock next to Warder's wharf; Northern
Liberties. The Jury of Inquest brought in
thelf verdict—wilfully murdered by some
person or persons unknown, and thrown in
to the river.
On Tuesday last, agreeable to the con
stitution, both Houses of the Legislature
convened in this place. The assembly
made choice of William Kennedy, Esq.
member from Sussex, Speaker, and Dan
iel Coleman, Clerk. The Council elected
Charles Clark, Esq. Vice-President, and
James Linn, Esq. Secretary.
Some progress has Been made in busi
ness, but nothing of importance decided
upon, except an adjourned session~House
to rise next Friday. After the joint meet
ing on Friday afternoon, the House ad
journed till Monday.
On Friday afternoon both Houses were
convened in joint meeting for the purpose
of choosing a Governour and other officers.
Judges Pennington and Russel, Governour
Bloomfield and Colodel Ogden were nomi
nated for the office of Governour. When
the joint meeting met, Mr. Samuel Pen
nington, Representative from Essex, de
sired leave to withdraw from the joint
meeting, which was granted. After which
the names of the two judges were succes
sively withdrawn from the nomination,
> whereupon Mr. Parker withdrew the name
TRENTON, October 29.