Gazette of the United States & evening advertiser. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1794-02-20 00:00:00, page 2

*:!i(h for the artificial tragedies of the
flags, iince the afftAing and tragic::*
h:biiiou of Providence "i this city by the
flau glilcring angels of deft- notion ; their
tender fenlibilities are not in unison, with
the farcical humours of the stage; and they
feelafecrct horTor at thecallous diiVrgnrti
of their feltifh and trifling hrethteiH M
of them are the induiinou« ikkir, who
fcave not the means of Hying from the din
gerof infeftir>rt,(hould a Itilential scourge
again chaltife lis for our fins and cfpecial
ly for our contempt of the late divine
judgement. They are a verv numerous
class of citizen-, and thev cannot but feel
indignation at the conduit of anTee'iing
men, who having provided the means, as
they suppose of retreat, in cafe of another
visit from the Peltilential fever next Sum
mer, are in the mean time, by their pro
fanenels, blasphemies, sensualities and dis
sipation* of various kinds, provoking the
wrath of Heaven, to humble the pride of
the city, and leave their brethren to
fuffer under the llroke, which in fiich cases
is always general. They are surprized at
the inconsistency of the wealthier citizens,
who tremble at every whisper of probable
danger, who appear to have provided the
means of escape, under the apprehension
of another judgment ; and vet, in the
mean while, are madly bent upon plcafures
which hnve been unanfwerablv proven to
be the deftru&ion of virtue and morals.—
It would therefore be prudent in those
who feel themselves in a disposition to in
dulge in ditfipstion at every hazard, to
beware of pushing their trinmph too far,
left they kindle a flame which will not be
cafy to extinguilh, and which may jJi ove
fatal to their schemes of pleasure.
It is often difficult to prove the designs
of i>nrty; it is however fair ground to
charge mcafurcs of the word tendency to
the word intentions. It is trying men by
their afrions, which are surer proofs than
those solemn words that ufuaSy preface
thi fouled Ichemes. Indeed such men u
sually have all their patriotism in their
months, while their hearts are full of all
manner of wickedness. On these princi
ples, the public has seen in a proper light
the war contrivances of a hired French
party in this oountry. The incendiaries
were supposed to fink under the weight
of public indignation, and the firebrands
and daggers were thought to have drop
ped from their hands. Mr. Bache's papar
is crowded with proof that this is not
true. Read the sensible and moded reso
lutions of the Democratic Society, and
r'oubt if you can, that they are vile. They
are either the work of a foreigner, or of
an American who has the heart of a rene
pado. • Such fetitiments spring from a
bosom tl-T* is alien and hodile to the peace
and honor of this country. To comment
upon them i« labor lod to him that reads
them. They speak as plain French as can
he written. It is the evil genius of a cer
tain diplomatic man of truth and decency
to do exrftly what he (hould not, to car
ry his points. He prints his inllruA.ions
People of real tale and sentiment are
not only disgusted at the filly encomiums
which are so indiscriminately publilhed
upon the ftage-conduftors lately arrived ;
but people who have fuffered the extreme
of misfortune, feel themf-lves irritated and
insulted, at the pains Tvh'ch are taken to
make an ostentatious display of feftivity
111 ciicumftantes like ours.
P. S. The players should be careful .not
to permit their juvenile and indiscreet
friends to be too lavish of encomiums upon
their ch;ira<s\er and performances, left it
Ihould induce a minute examination into
tluir merit, which might prove unfavora
ble to their cause. ■ It will readily be
conceived, that filch a p::negyi!(l as the
author < f the remarks upon the actors in
the Gazette of Tuesday, is one who has
nevfcr known much of the world, or of
1 urr,r.n nature ; he would otherwise have
known, that artificial tones and gestures,
Sue, are fir from being unrivalled or ini
mitable. He would have expe&ed that
the public Wculd sneer, at hearing of one
being " unrivalled," a second " without a
competitor," and another, " eveiy thing
that one could wish." Above all, he
might have been sure of the broadest
l: ; '.i"h of ridicule at his nonsensical jargon
of NTifp -— having " th&rified the gods."
I wi(h Mr. — may not be thought next to
love electrified those who are sometimes
focliftily enough called goddefTes.
For th; G/izr i ts. of thi United'
Mi. Fenno,
CR[TO.
The Imperial Ruffian Ambaflador Lieu
tenant General Kutufow, made on the
7th in ft. his entry into this capital with
a splendor which surpassed even the me
morable entry of Prince Repnin.
Immediately after his arrival, the am
bassador manifefted his wiih to the Tur
kilh ministry, that the French, with the
three-coloured cockade, might not be met
with by the people in his suite, which
might produce disturbances. Orders were
given ill consequence, and many of the
French there were obliged to acknow
ledge Louis XVII. for their king, which
procured them the protection of the other
foreign ministers. Fanton, the key-bea
rer of the office of she French embafly,
put himfelf under the prote&ion of the
reis effendi, after having reGgned his of
fice.
Poperingue at last is delivered from the
hands of the French, after having expe
rienced great ravages. The Audrians
took this town last night by assault, by
moon-light; 600 of the French were cut
to pieces ; the streets were strewed with
their dead. Fifty prisoners of them have
been conducted hither. We took from
them on this occasion four pieces of can
non of large caliber.
The aflemblage of a numerous body of
French in the mountains, againd the
troops under the Duke of Brunfwick, was
the cause of the interruption of the bom
bardment of Landau ; but at present they
are entirely driven back, and the Prus
sians are again before that town, at lead
6000 lhells were thrown into that fortrefs
during the present week.
1 ft. The General of the Republic,
commanding on the frontiers, (hall permit
the entrance into the dominions of Poland
to no Frenchman, unlefa he b« provided
with authentic certificate*, proving that
he il no Jacobin.
to undeceive all his dupes, and to disarm
iii hia champions. By that act, he threw
diigrace, and what is attrayi worse for a
party, 1 ridictilc upon all the solemn and
circumftaritial falsehoods which impu
dence had piled up, like a rampart, for his
defence. He furnilhed. fails,and coming
horn an enemy, facts that lilenccd for a
time even the hired clamor of impudence.
On the authority of his own duc.iments,
the people now know that the vigilance
and firmnefs of their firft magistrate pre
vented the most pernicious Ichemes by nip
ping them in the bud. The iilgheft praiie
on the wisdom of the government, lelults
from the printed evidence of its disturber.
While the plot was ripening in darkness,
it turns out that more prudent lleps to
baffle it could not have been taken if the
whole had then been as well known as it is
at this day.
The resolutions alluded to very impru
dently censure measures and events which
are at this moment the fubjeft of exulta
tion with every true hearted American.
Our peace is the prize which the forefight
and firmnefs of the chief magistrate secur
ed to our nation. To arraign that conduct
is only to refrefh the sense of public gra
titude and approbation. We have little
to fear from incendiaries while their efforts
are thus directed more to insult than to
inflame the people.
The French royalists there have appli
ed to M. Chalarin, to assume the title of
envoy from monsieur, regent of France :
but no resolution has yet been taken with
rcfpeft to such a measure.
2d. All vagabond Frenchmen, having
no paflport, (hall be arrcfted.
3d. All Frenchmen, inhabiting Poland,
(hall abjure the present ruling principles
of France. They (hall take an oath that
they acknowledge the royal dignity of
Louis XVII. and promise not to keep
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
IST THE BRITISH PACKET.
The Austrian General, de Vina, with
a body of 10,000 troops, advanced about
8 leagues into the French territories, and
rendered himfelf matter of several places
on the frontiers of Provence.
In the fitting of the Diet of Grodno,
of the 6th inft. the following Ordinance
was ilfued:—
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov 10.
UPPER-RHINE, Nov. 12,
CONTINUATION OF
WARSAW, Nov. 17,
YPRES, Nor. 27.
ITALY, Nov. 5.
any torrefpondence with the Republicans
ot that country. AUthofe that ihall re
fill"* to take the above oath, ihall immedi
ately be forced to quit the territories ot
Poland; and those who in future (hall
transgress that oath, (hall be driven from
the territories of the Republic of Poland
and lose their honor, as well as their pro
perty ; and the latter ihall be contifcated
to the crown.
The above ordinance against: the French
has been moved for, ever since the fecor.d
inft. by M. Myaczynflcy, Deputy of
Lublin to the Diet, and brother to the
General of that name lately beheaded by
the guillotine at Paris—but the Diet came
to no resolution on that fubjeft, fintil in
vited to it by a note from the Ruffian
Ambassador, Count Sievers, dated the
9th instant.
4th. The circulation of all new French
Books, and Journals, is prohibited; as
well as the publication of any other sedi
tious book, under penalty of fix thousand
florins,
A regulation, respecting Luxury, is
upon the carpet, and will be determined
on before the prorogation of the Diet,
which is to takp place on the 28th inft.
The houlhold of his Majesty is expect
ed to experience a limitation, the number
of chamberlains is to be reduced from
twelve to five.
The winter quarters of the Pruflians
have been determined upon ; the head
quarters will be at Pirmafens, and the
troops will be cantoned in the neighbour
hood at Winzeln, Rappertfwieller, Krop
pen, Peter/burgh, Claufen, Mawfweiler,
&c. &c.
The allied trops are at last preparing
to take their winter cantonments.
The grand Imperial army, under Prince
Cobourg, will enter into cantonments in
the neighbourhood of Le Quei'noi, Valen
ciennes and Conde, the head-quarters will
be in the latter fortrefs.
The English troops, under command
of the Duke of York, have already en
tered into cantonments, in the neighbor
hood of Tournay, in order to defend
that of our Frontiers, and the Dutch
troops, having advanced into the interior
part of Flanders, took up their canton,
ments in the Walloon country, having
their head-quarters at Nivelles.
The bulletin of Gen. Wurmfer con
tains an official account of the surrender of
Fort Louis. The garrison, who arc pri
fdners of war, confills of 4000 men.—
There are no pieces of cannon in the for
trefs.
The commandant of this city has sent
a letter to all the commonalties and dif
tri&s, requesting them to treat the French
prisoners not as enemies, but men, and to
meliorate their fate by every means in their
power. "We will not (fays he) treat
our prisoners as the enemies treat our bre
thren in arms, as it is not in cruelty, but
bravery, that we wilh to surpass them."
The unfortunate city of Stralburgh has
become a prey to carnage and plunder.—
The deputies of the Convention, under
the guile of Representatives of the people,
exercise their tyranny of so sanguinary a
nature, as the two lad centuries cannot
afford an example of. Under the pretext
of purging the city and army of all those
whom they deem counter-revolutionists,
individuals are put to death daily. They
have charged three members of the Jacobin
Society to distribute civic vouchers to all
those whom they consider {launch citizens;
and those who are unprovided with such
vouchers are banished; of the latter, 1300
have already been sent to Balfort All
the administrative corps of that great com
monality having been declared suspicious
persons, have also been baniihed, the May
or and three members of the department
excepted. The rich have been obliged
to pay heavy fines; the bankers, Franch
and Dieterich have been forced to pay
300,000 livres each, to punifli (as they
term it) their incivifn ; and they may think
themselves happy if they escape with thtir
lives. Amongst the maflacre, the officers
of the army of the Rhine have not been
exempted : Gen. Ifambert, the Col. of
the regiment of cavalry formerly that of
the dauphin, a Capt. of Grenadiers, and
EDINGHOVEN, Nov. 7.
HAGUENAU, Nov. 12,
MANHEIM, Nov. 17.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 15.
VIENNA, Nov. 12
two soldiers, have been fr.ct under vsr:cu»
pretences.
garrilon we imagine, are prisoners of war.
It consists of about 4000 or 5000 men,
300 of whom are cavalry. It is supposed
that in Fort Alsace and Fort Louis, there
are 120 pieces of cannon. The capture
of this place is very important for the al
lies, as it secures them winter-quarters,
and will enable them, if the patriots do
not defend their canjp at Cliarleroy, to
besiege Stialburgh.
Proclamation ordered on Wednefdav at
St. James's, at the council was yeflerday
ilTued, proroguing the parliament which
was to meet the loth instant, from that
day to Tuesday the 2ill of January.
The mail from Flanders brought us this
day intelligence from Paris as recent as
the 9th infl. Our cotemporarieshfive re
ceived no Paris papers of a later date than
the 7th.
Our Ofiend correspondent (late 3 that
the French have extremely harraiTed the
allies upon the frontiers of Flanders. Tiie
retaking of Poperingne, and recent ope
rations against other frontier places, seem
to encourage a supposition that the French
do not mean to go into winter quarters.
This intelligence, which we have re
ceived thus fpeedily.informs us of the con
demnation of Madame du Barre ; the de
feat of the Royalists in an attempt upon
the city of Angers ; and the capture of
an English trnnfport belonging to Guern
sey.
General D .igomier writes on the ]ft
Dec. that on the joth Nov. the Engliih
made a vigorous sally. They hadalready
seized rhe advanced posts and had taken a
redoubt; but the French charged them
with fucli impetuosity that the enemy ev
ery wliere beaten, was forced to re-enter
Toulon, after the loss of above 1200 kil
led and wounded. Among the prifoneri
is General O'Hara, Commandant at Tou-
Dugemier adds, that a whole camp of
the enemy has been taken by the French
tents and baggage.
Certain information is received, that
since the battles between the duke of
. Brunfvvick and the French in Deux Porrts
Gen. Wurmfer had defeated the republi
can troops in three successive engagements
and has put the whole French army in Al
sace to the rout.
In the session of the National Conven
tion of the 29th Nov. the assembly receiv
ed with the utmost applause a denunciati
on against the Englilh nation by the admi
nistrators of the department of Gard.—
The infamous Pitt, as they term him,was
jJarticularly included in this denunciation,
the origin of which proceeded from the
mafTacre of 300 Frenchmen, who they
said, had been killed by the English at
Genoa. They infilled on the deflru£lion
of London, and assured the convention
that they had only to decree it, and the
fans culottes would leap over the space
which separates the two countries, and
London would soon be no more. They
further requested that the name of English
should be proscribed in France, and the
moll barbarous name substituted for it, to
perpetuate the remembrance of the hor
rid mafTacre at Genoa.
The convention ordered it to be insert
ed in the bulletin with honorable mention
but ilTued no decree refpe&ingit.
By the fire at Mr. Woodfall's printing
office in Paternoster Row, the whole im
pression of the firlt and second volumes of
Mr. Monk's Agricultural Dictionary and
the MS. of the third were unfortunately
dellroyed.
By a letter received last night from E«
dinburgh, we are informed, flfefTrs. Ge
rald, Sinclair, Margarot,Brown, Kaftic,
&c. delegates to the convention held in
that city, for promoting a reform in par
liament were committed to prison on
Thursday morning last, in consequence
of the a&ive part which they hail taken
in pursuit of the ohje& fpr which they
were delegated. The lord provost in his
chara&er of high conftablp, went to the
convention, and took Citizen President
by the collar, and turned Jiim out. The
reft of h's brethren following.
The Flanders mail of day brings
an account of a confideraole advantage
gained by the Prufiian general Count dtf
Kalkreuth on the 17th ult. On that day
RASTADT, Nov. 14.
Fort Louis surrendered yeftcrday
Sortie from Toulon,
December 26.'
[Loud applauses.]
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