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DUBLIN, (Ireland) May if.'
On .he lit inti a moll deipeiate q barrel
took p ace near Ennis, between tome perlons
who were painert,in a lot of ground near
Alye, in the pailh of Fraclc : The comba
tants were, on each fide, a father and four
lons ; and ihe action hid took pl ice between
thefather and four fonsjaguatt two brother ,
one of whom was killed on the pot, and the
other so desperately mingled that he is tince
dead ; the fatherofthe two unfortunate men
Coming up, with bis remaining two tons,
werea^acked with m dl lavage brutality by
by the murderers o< his children, who nat
content with having one ot them a orpfe
before their eyes, and ,ue o her drawing his
lad breath the poor father and his tuviving
fans, wh m they aifo left weltering in their
blood, and so defperate'y wounded as to leave
their recovery doubtful. The murderers
immediately absconded, and have not uncc
been heard o?.
Sunday feronight be remains of the largest
prefon eve ktown io th, ktog I>m o? le
land, at least since ihediysof Phil. Macoul,
the famous I rih giant, were interred in the
church yard ot Kofeunaiis. The c ffin,
with its contents, weighed forty .fix (lone,
which wants but ony fix stone of fix
hundred. It was baroe on a very long bier
by thirty strong men, who were relieved at
intervals. — The name of this extraordina y
perlon is said to have been R ger Cyrne,
and is reported to hive died of no other
disease but a luffocirion, occafi ned by an
extremity of tat ha ft ipped the pby ot his
lungs and put a period o bis life iiibe 54 h
yar of h.s age. H was leven (tone heavier
fuan the noted Er gin, ot Ma'den, who
weighed 33 flooe, mne p^u: ds, and whole
waistcoat i^clofed t-v^n large men.
LONDO N. June 9 .
We learn from Copenhagen, that on the
9th of April, 0 e q art^r of the town of
Christiana wadelir yd by fire—ihe iofs is
est ma ed at 10,000 tix dollars.
The univerlal attention now paid to com
merce, by tried.ffere >t potenfttesof Eunpe,
La p^.af -~6he faper ; rr whdni a J policy
or modern times. To turn (words into
ploughlhires, and fe r t; work the 1 >om, and
different manula&orie„ are measures of great
u iliu, and mud red .41 id to national benefit.
If proof of ih^ imm:ofe advantages refusing
from growing commerce were necessary, they
might be ealily enumerated ; but the promo
ttoo of trade, which is tho prefect object of
the English, and other cabinets, renders such
enumeration unncc ffiry.
The King ot Prussia has sent notice to the
Dutch, that it they d not restore his relation
the Stadtho'der, to his rights and privileges,
be will immediately fend 20,000 m.n into
Holland to protest him. The States have
ordered this mefftge 0 be taken in?o confi
dera ion ; but from the prevent violent ani
mosities that have ftken place, it is impof
fible to conjeftu e w>at steps they will pur
ine. It is generally im gined that much
more blood must be fired before tra quality
can be restored : The filcers of the Du ch
navy in general, take part with the Siad
tho'der
ExtrcEl of a letter from Cloves, May 25.
' A body 01 troop (Pruflians) to the num
ber ot 9-co men, now^ine the frontiers of
thri prn cipamy, on the fide of Holland ;
Nn eguen, where the Prince resides, being
adjni^g to this Duchy, of which Frede
rick IV. is sovereign. The troubles among
th. Du'ch increase to a great height. Some
of the belt families are leaving their resi
dences to be out of the way of turbulence
and con ufion. The Smdiholder has aug
mented the guard round his perlon, and his
fr ends are ready to give affiftence, if it
ill u d become necessary."
Extract of a letter from Gibralter, via Spain,
May 25.
" A new feene is on the point of opening
in A rica, no lets than a war among the
Barbery States, who have quarrel ed with
e^ch other,and are on the eve o' commence
i' g hnftilities very serious. This is a most
cunfeguential bufluefs to the Europeans, who
would find it well worth their interest to
b'ow up the flame, that thele Barbarians,
being employed in tearing one another to
pieces, might have lets tenure for ccm.nit
ti g depredations on the Europeans io the
Mediterranean. The Emperor 01 M rocco
has eight or ten capital (h ps at Mogador,
and a number ot galies, &c. at Lorache
and Te tian, which are intended to go a
grind A giers, :at lead to attack the Dey's
fl g wherever they meet it. ADtnifh mm
ot war. La M fl nd n, of 32 guns, has just
anch ,red here trom A gie^s, by whrm we
have the above intelligence."
A oeign print mentions the difeovery of
a medicine which creates, in him that takes
it an averfi nto every kind of fpiritous li~
qu >rs, in a moral view of what infinite im
p rtance wuuli such a m dicine be in this
c entry — But in a poll.leal view, what would
bcme of the Brilin uutidery ?
I< is currently repored at Barcelona, that
the Dey of Algiers has declared war against
the Emperor of Morocco ; and that one of
his cruisers has lately taken a Sallee Rover,
after ^obfiinate refinance, arid brought her
into Algiers. It is lurthe - fai 3, the Captain
and crew were treated in a very cruet manner,
b.caufe they did not strike immediately af
ter the Algerine Clpt. commanded them.
June 12. Late on Sunday evening dis
patches were received from Holland, which
occ fioned a Cabinet Council to be im
mediately held. The following is dated
to be thepurport of the intcilig nee receiv
ed :— That in cons quence ot a declaration
ot the Prince ot Orange being pubri&d,-a
counter madeflo was drawn up by the
faction in opp firion to his Highness ; and,
from Utricht, the city where n it o^ginaud,
it was circulated with rapidity through the
dff rent provinces. The contents of this
manifeßo are frd, a p^fitive denial of mdft
of the afferrions contained in the declaration
of his Highness the Stadtholder, secondly, a
direct crimination f his Highness as the tele
cause of the present dissensions, aid, by
implication, arranging him as the enemy
of his country ; thirdly, an appeal to the
people of the Several pr vinces in favor of
the meafurcs already taken, which are aver
cd to have been abfolu^ely neceflary for the
preservation of iheir liberty ; fourthly, an
invitation to every weli-vrifher to the United
Provinces to come forward in the present
crisis of affairs, and effectually lend their
assistance ; and, lately, the manilcfto, an
nounces a folemo del:rm nation to persist,
even to blood, in what is ©nied the cause of
liberty, and againit iheusurpations, as they
are deemed, ot his H.ghneis the Stadtholder,
whom the faction have the indecency to
brand with the appelbion of a tyrant.
Such is, in tubflance, the counter manifeflo
of a desperate cabal, whole cendua, pro
ceeding tr< ci bad to worse, wril inevitably
occafionthe worst of evils which can beta!
any country—a civil war.
ROYAL BON MOT.—When the late
Chief Biron 'kynner was rewarded with a
pei.fi m, his Majesty expreff^d hi^ will, that
D great a man fhou'd be m : d. a Privy Conn
feller. M- Put happened to fay in the pre
tence ot his Sovereign, on this occasion, that
it was fomewhn extraordinary to make Mr.
Skynner, who was both blind and deaf, and
who retired on account of these infirmities,
a privy Counleilor. Poh—poh—poh —fays
his majefly, in his ufu.il quick way—any
miniftero mine wh^wifhe^o keephis place,
sh u 3 never have aprivy councilor thatcould
ei her fa or hear, left his secrets should be
devalued, and his deeds discovered.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) Aug. 6 1787.
Bya gentleman lately arrived from S uth-
America, we have authentic informa ion,
that the kingdom of Mexico is at this infant
involved in the most violent infurre&tons.
The Indians headed hv a drfeendant of the
Celebrated MONTEZUMA, have already
defeated the Spa p iaids in a pitched battle.
The fliughterwasgeneral arid indiscriminate,
and the remembrance of Spanish barbari y to
their progenit ns on this occasion, operated 10
their progress and fuccels, Tais gentleman
The MONITO R.
IHad concluded upon my luhje&, and
began the Miscellany, when my atten
tion was engaged by a little fly, trudge g
across my paper. It was of the fmaJert
kind : its wing, though closed, was in an
e;e& posture, which gave an air of peculiar,
life to its appearance, and its ftomacu,which
was full as pcffible, denoted that its apperie
was fatiiied.— ' March on, little fly," my.
indulgence laid : "thou art happy " ima
gination added : " how is it p ti.b e you
IhoCld ever want ?" was my icaloning in
the case.—A g, ain of wheat wid afford yen
food : a particle of due will alay your th rit.
—Y u can richly support y urfeb upon that
which is two small for alm ft auy other
creature to enjoy : who would not be will
ing to lupply your necessities ? With how
much case, I was led to moralize —with how
much eale, then, can the G eat Creator fup=
ply the necessities of the children of men ?
Woat is an individual perlon, what are
families in bis light ?—All na ions before
him, are but as the drop of/hheft/, < r<he
Jmali Gust op the balance : wi,h infinite,y more
case can he lupport all flefh, than we could
relieve the wants of a fly. Why, then,
should the sons of men, be so anxious in
purging that which it is not only easy for
the Almighty to grant, but which he will
beflow ? Why fliould they be careful to
obtain that which cannot be am^ffed beyond
a certain amount and which they may b^
called to leave I dm as ih fly i^ bri sh d ir.ni
our light, whi e they regle& an inheritance
which i & immortal and is compiled of bit f
fi W which are suited to the ra ft refined
and exalted drive. Scripture commands
that we "letk jf)? the Kirgd m o' Gid and
his righ eo< Inel," aid fay, thin all other
things (ball be added: there is nothing in
wh ch mankind (how folly more, than in
reverfirg this precept, and attemptii gto
secure the world, whi'e they make heaven
bit conditionally necessary to their happi<
nels.
puffed through the greater part of our fettle
meats on the Weitern waters, and observes,
that the pedplethereoi,conceiving this period
a favorable one to open the navigation ot the
Miffifippi, have entered into a confederation
in cjukquence. —What will be the event,
God only knows.
A rt ma kable account of a deceased heart
has lately been common cated in a letter to
D Simmons, by Mr. N. Ch^v ffe, surgeon
a Wallall, and inserted in London Medical
Journal. This cu i us cate is r hu of a
clergyman. Mr. Noah J'es who d ed at
the age of sixty one years, after having for
near twenty < ne veats labour d under h nip«
tms of the atthma Hi pul rwa remark
ably fl w but the least quick eri of motion
brought on a palpitation of the heart. He
died tuddenfi, and after his death his heart
was smaller then that of a rew born in an ,
was found < flifi dto the ex ert of a (hilling,
at the lower part of the left ventricle,
and ruptured at the edge of this bony con
ere inn.
PHILADELPHIA, July 21.
The celebrated Montesquieu (peaking of
a circular g medium observes that" nothing
<ught to be 10 exempt from variation, as that
which is thee mnton measure of all. Trade
is in its own nature extremely uncertain ;
a d it is a great evil to add a new uncer
tainty to that which is founded on a nature
cf the thing "
HARTFOR D, Anguft 13.
A popofal has been made to efiabrifh a
Volunteer Troop of Cavalry in the Coun y
of Hartford, to be cl ed the Governour's
Horse Guard. As it is expelled to be com
perfed of some of the officers of the late army
and other patriotick ci zens, it is pr turned,
it may soon become as refpe&abie in ap
pearance and discipline as the corps, of a
similar co lifterCv and eflablifhment, com
manded by Col. Michael Wentworth in Pirt&
mouth, C l. Swan, in B fion, Col. Morris,
in New-York, and Col. Miles, in PhiladeN
phia.