Gazette of the United States & evening advertiser. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1794-03-25 00:00:00, page 3

It is utterly in vain for the Emperor to
trust to the resources of his own dominions,
for they are exhausted, and unless he is coun
tenanced in making a loan in England, his
efforts mud be feeble. The King of Prussia
does not disguise his meaning. He eith r is,
or effedls to be poor, and he fays explicitly
that he must be subsidized : and we are given
to understand that the Britiih Ministers are
resolved to go on, and that a treaty for fnbfi
dizing Pruflia is actually in negociation.
Ot the events which have palled in France
we have the molt affli&ing accounts. No
thing' can refill the impetuosity of the Re
publicans. Every where they have been fuc
cefcful. We cannot give you a perfedt idea
of the gloom that has ovcrlpread this place
Barrere then communicated the letters
of the General division d'Aout, of Boif
fet, and of the representatives of the peo
ple at eastern Pyrenees. They inform
that Bagnols, port Vendre, Callioure are
in the hands of the Spaniards. The forts
have been surrendered: The army is en
tirely routed : It is fulpe&ed that some
persons are highly criminal. It is not
known what has become of Fabre,
and Gallon is blocked up in Perpignan.
Thegreateft expedition has been used in
putting Aignes-mortes, Cette and Agde
in a Hate of defence.
The courage of a chofcn body of our
troops had retaken Villelongue, but new
treachery has surrendered places in the de
partment of the Eastern Pyrenees. Per
pignan is threatened. The treacherous
commander Datfaux surrendered the fort
St; Elme, after having fired on our troops
with cafe (hot. Thus the most ignorant
of all the fuldiers of Europe, the moll
luperilitious people in the world, have a-
Jone obtained any success on the foil of li
berty ; but orders are already given, eve
ry thing is at this moment changed, re
prcfentatives, generals, etat-major, troops,
all is regenerated : The iron of France
will overcome the gold of Mexico ; and
the (laves of Madrid will soon (brink from
the presence of the conquerors of Toulon.
If the Vendee i« deitroyed, as I have
confirmed to you by the report of the Re
presentatives of the people and generals.
If the interior parts ot the Republic are
fhortlv to be entirely eleanfed from the
filth of Royalifm and purged from thecoun
ter-revolntionary leaven, wha thavc we to
fear ? A formidable army is about to ap
pear at the foot of the Eastern Pyrenees.
We hourly expe£t happy tidings from the
Rhine. The North will feel our strength
in its turn, and the eoafts will be preserved.
?>ype, terror seized them. They entered
julon in treachery-, they kept themfelve3
"i then; like cowards, and quitted it like vil
lains. They blew up the Them.tkocles,
which, served as a prison for the patriots ;
happily the latter, except fix, found means
to escape during the fire. They burnt
ni;ie of our Ihips, and carried away three;
fifteen are referred to the republic, among
which mull be remarked the l'uberb Sans-
Barrere appeared at the tribune. Citi
zens, said he, you have heard with rap
ture the successes at Toulon, you will
learn with courage the check we have re
ceived at Perpignan. If the Mediterra
nean is free, and the Eaittrn Pyrenees are
still in (lavery, it is in the midil of vicissi
tudes that Republican minds receive a
double temper and life with renovated vi-
gour.
culottes, of 130 guns Some boats ap
proached as far as the harbor wliillt we were
in Toulon ; but two field pices placeaon
the quay, dispersed them. Four frigatgs
were already burning, wlien tl j g^|tljr
fla-ves, who are the most honell people in
Toulon, cut their cables and extinguished
the fire. The rope yard and the wood
are not damaged. Fire threaten
ing to consume the general magazine we
commanded 500 workmen to cut off the
communication. There are some frigates
'"ft/o thai the Republic dill has a refpeft
•v vy fore * here. We found provi
.l cvety kind, of which a statement
■it', 1 !i we will fend to you.
». a vengeance is displaying
.mg goes on brilkly. All
: aieers are already terminated.
public (hall be reveled in a
w'>rtUy of it! The manes of the
» Ml be'appealed.
E ! "-1 frigitc,
of the Eaglifh redoubt and, the whole pro
■pntory, and law all the heights of Pliaron
occupied by the division o: General La-
" Sahcitii, Freran, Rjcard, Robfyitrre,
Barras. "
BRUSSELS, Dec. 31.
Exttaft of an authentic letter.
'Jaj of our LuIU-iies hasfunkan En-
December 29.
We perceive by an advertisement in to
day's newspaper, that the citizens of Phila
delphia contemplate the cftablifhment "of a
fund to relieve and redeem our brethren who
languilh in captivity at Algiers. From mo
tives of fraternal humanity towards those un
fortunate citizens, and with a grateful fofici
tude to manifeit our relpeit for a communi
ty to whose liberality and patronage we are
so highly indebted, we beg that on behalf of
the managers and company of the New-
Theatre, you will be pleased to present to
the general meeting, summoned for this ev
ening, the offer qf contributing to the pro
The report was unammoufly adopted, and
George Latimer, John Barclay, John Su an
wir.k, Jacob Morgan, Thomas Mifflin, Geo.
Meade, Thus. M'Kean, lfrael lfrael, Alex.
Boyd, Caleb Lownes, John Dunlap, Robt.
M'Kean, and Stephen Girard were appoint
ed as the board of trustees, and were em
powered to feledl their committees for collec
tion in the several wards.
To the gentlemen of the committee appoint
ed to report a plan for the relief ot Ame
rican citizens, captured by the Algerinu.
The following letter from Messrs. Wignell
and Reinagle by order was read —
This report proposes that a committee of
five persons be appointed in each ward to so
licit donations for this benevoleut purpole—
that a board of trustees, consisting of 13
perl'ons and a treasurer, be appointed to ma
nage the buftnel's —and that the board endea
vor to procure the eftablifhmcnt of a fmiilar
fund in each of the United States:
A reportwas received from the committee
appointed at a former meeting to form a
plan to carry into execution a resolution for
eitablilhing a fund to relieve and redeem our
unfortunate fellow-citizens who, failing in
vefi'els belonging to this port have been cap
tured and euflavedby the Algerioe, or any
other piratical state.
At a meeting 6f the Citizens of the city and
county of Philadelphia, held in the State
A meflage was received by the House of
Representatives from the Prelident of the
United States, communicating two letters
from Mr. Skipwith, consul of the United
States at St. Euitatia, exhibiting a detail of
the depredations and fpoliatior.s of the Bri
tifli cruisers on the commerce auJ navigation
of the United States—lt appears from these
letters, that nearly 130 American velt'els have
been condemned in the Britilh Illanas, The
meflage and letters, on motion of Mr. Sedg
wick,, were referred to a (elect committee, to
conlider and report thereon, particularly
with refpedl to providing the means for dif
cha'rging the expences incurred by Mr. Skip
with, in supporting a large number of Ame
rican captains and seamen who have loft their
vefiels, and furnifliing them with the means
of returning to their own country.
terra net exceedii g .nifty days j and that tiie
President of the United States be authorized
and empowered, to give the necessary direc
tions to the Officers of thejlevcnne, to car
ry this resolution into effeiS.
Resolved, by the Senate and I louse of Re
presentatives, (the Senate agreeing thereto,)
that all trade be prohibited l'rom the Unked
States, to any foreign port or p'acej for a
The following re&liition in fnbftance parted
the House of Representatives of the United
States this day: By a very gre.it majority —
viz.
| by the news from Toulon, and no less dis
astrous accounts from the Rhine. No less
than 30,000 men of the combined armies of
Europe have fallen within the last fortnight.
Not less than 50,000 fouls in all have within
the last fourteen days of this diftafterous year
perished, and so far has this butcher)' been
from promoting the objetf s of the war, that
it has aknoft to a certainty secured the tri
umph of Republican!fin in France. We are
difgraceful'.y expelled from the Mediterrane
an frontier ; and letters from the Rhine fay,
that .after the fatal 24th, Wurmfer had rc
folved, by a Council of War to try the iflhe
of only one more attack, to retrograde with
all the force, and to resume the strong por
tion at Weiflembourg, here to make his last
delperate stand. On the 24th, according to
daily custom, he was attacked by 30,000
Frenchmen, though he had been reinforced
by the troops of the Palatinate and by the
Prince de Conde, and fought the whole day
with his usual courage and obstinacy, his line
was broken. His left wing in part composed
by the troops of the Palatinate, was by the
enemy, charged, and routed towards the
evening; and nothing but the night saved
them from total ruin. Their loss was con
siderable. The Emigrants alio left 500 on
the field—and the whole army is so extenu
ated, and reduced by those daily attacks, so
harraifing as well as so murderous, that we
have loft all hopes of the capture of Landau,
or of being able to continue in France.
House Yard, the 2zd mil
Gentlemen,
PHILADELPHIA,
ABSTRACT.
MARCH 25.
Wehave, in myopinion, ftillontmortduty
to do, which is to join our efforts in other
friendly measures to obtain redress as long
as we have the means of keeping possessi
on of our vefTels; then in the cause of fai
lure, we lhal! be jullified towards ourselves,
our famil:» i, and "our country; for the a
I have received your letter of this inft.
and note your remonstrances. I lincerely
with I had the means of relieving your
present situation as Consul of the United
States. I have exhausted every means of
conciliatory negotiation with the supreme
executive authority now in this depart
■ment, and I have regularly communicated
our situation in my correspondence to our
Miniiler Plenipotentiary at Paris, "without
receiving any positive assurances of a spee
dy redress of our grievances. lam ftiU
prepared \o adopt and execute with that
celerity our critical situation demands, any
other measures confident with-my situa
tion, that may be thought for the public
good. If the measures we have hereto
fore pursued, have not been produ&ive
of that jullice we, as friends to the French
nation, ire entitled to, I have done my
duty, and not neglected the important in
terelt my country has placed under my
care, which my correfpondeiice will clear
ly manifeft j and as to you, gentlemen, I
am equally allured, that your general
conduct has been such, as to leave <10
ground or even colour of reproach, for the
long and rigorous detention we have ex
perienced here.
WE, the subscribers, exhausted by dai
ly application! on the iuhjedt of our fitna
tions, and finding not only otn future
pvofpefts defeated, but extreme misery
ftaiing us in the fkce—we do now, All of
us, call upon you as our organ to speak
through, to demand of the Representa
tives of the people, whether we are to be
couiidcrcd as friends or enemies: if the
former, you are then to claim the fulfil
ment of the treaties existing between the
two Republics—if the latter, you will
thou demand a futficient number of ships
to carry us and our people home, and we
will without delay, abandon our veflels and
p opeities, and seek that jultice from our
own government, which is denied u> here.
We also obforvt(witli aikunilhment, that
partialities are going forward, and that
particular interests are gratified without a
ny reason forfo doing, that will bear day
light. Sir, it is your duty, asCohfulof
the United States, and it is becoming you
as a man, to look into these transactions,
and if the representatives have been de
ceived, to set them right; for it is obvious
to all of us, that since their arrival, the
eld regime has been overthrown, which
dealt out jobbj and favors to particular in.
dividuals at the expence of the many; and
as Americans, we are all equal, and there
ought to be no preferei ce.
We make not these observations from
jealousy against our fellow-citizens who
have got away and are now going; but
for the lake of truth and juflice, which it
is your duty to do us, and your duty to
the repiVentatives to make known. And
we further add, Sir, that your personal
character will be implicated, if you do not
fulfil our wiflieson this head.
[Signed}>y Thirtj-Seven.~\
Bourdeaux, Dcc. 27, I 793.
To all the Captains, and other Americans
Bourdeaux, December 26, 1794.
Jofcph Fcnwick, Elq.
*** The trustees above named are re
queit.-d to meet this evening at 5 o'clock P.
M. at the City Hall.
Rtfrlved, That the benevolent contribu
tion meditated by MelTrs. Wignell and Rein
agle's letter, as above be accepted, that their
beneficent communication with the proceed
ings of this meeting be publiftied, and that
the thanks of this meeting bf prcfented tc
.Mcflrt. Rcinagle, on behalf of the managers
and company of the New Theatre, for their
truly charitable interposition*
posed fundtbe profits of one night's enter
taiuin nt at the Theatre.
We are with refpeft,
Gentlemen,
Jacob Morgan, Chairman.
Robert M'Kean, Secretary,
March 22.
By this Day's Mail.
Gentlemen,
S I R,
On motion,
NEW-YORK, March 22,
at Bourdeaux
AUTHENTIC.
\ our most ob'dt. fervanta,
WIGNELL & REfNACLE,
*»* Tntbe •! Curd" <f Mr. S. publijhed
yefterda: the dijburfements on the "John"
Jhould have been stated at 900/.fler. inft.ad
of 9000/— which is a typographical error.
LaiFes,
Jack) Mr. Francis
NedHaulyard fwitbannu foygj Mr.Dar
jutt.
Meflrs. Wanell, Bliffet,
Warrell. jun.Lee,Baf_n
and De Moulin.
Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.
Bates, Mifi. Rawiba, St
Miii. Wiilor. j . '
Landlady, Mr. Rowfoa
Orange Girl, Mrs. De M»rquc*
To conclude with a double HORNPIPE
6y Mr. Francis and Mrs. 6e Marque.
To which will be added,
A FARCE, called
Catharine & Petruchio,
OR
running rigging, &c.
Saved from the wreck of the brig Betsey,
Captain Chafe, from the island of Jamaica,
101 l on the ill and of Cuba.
EDWARD FOX. Au3ioneer y
March 25.
Sailors,
At 12 o'clock,
TO-MORROW,
Oa Walnut fircet wharf, will be fold on ac
count of the Underwriters,
The cables, fails, Handing and
O* The memorial of the Merchants of
Charleston, South-Carolina, was prcfent
ed to the House of Representatives yester
day by Mr. Pickens—through mifinform
ation, Mr. Smith was inserted.
T ° taJ 3i 9 0 7 »
(O* Letters for the Brig Nancy, bound
to Falmouth (England) will be received
at the Polt-Oifice till 7 o'Clock to-morrow
morniug.
Condemned
Libelled
. ... _ [Valued at Do.hrt.
ship Sidney, Porter, Baltimore, (ooco
Snow Ntj tune, Town, Bolton, i coo
WindJor . Connecticut, 6100
bally, Birchmore, Salem, jocoo
Diana, Gardner, New-York, a Soo
Bethiah, Lanthorp, Boston,' 1? 1: .1
Stork, Holland, Newburyport, 1763,
William Troado, do. a 7 700
Martha & Mary, Stanbury, Baltimore, »
Kitty, Suihvan, Philadelphia, 17
Elfeguido, Glover, Norwich, 154x8
Schooners Lucy, Grant, Bo(t V n, 40cc
Atlantic, Marfliall, do. Bqco
Sally, Crowninfliield, Salem, 9600
Sally, Gray, do. *
Nelly, Wailis, Alexandria, gooo
Dolphin, Crampton, Rhode-Island, 8000
Commerce, Fairfield, licit on, lO o 4J
Alethia, Spraig, Providence, 6S-0
Ceres, Robinson, New-York, 10500
Betsey, Freeman, Portland, 4000
Swallow, Fitch, Norwich, 4 g oo
Dove, Iliac Baltimore, Jc , ooo
Sloops Dove, Harmftead Weathers
field,
Union, Wormer, Hertford,
fanny, Hoit, New-Haven,
Sal'.y, Telleton, New-York,
Sally, Col'-y, SaljJbury,
The Taming of the Shrew.
The following is a lift of American VeKU
condemned on the 24th «//. at St. Kittz
by Captal. Sullivan of the Brig Kh:', nf
Ph:ladtlprna y viz :
NEW THEATRE.
March 26,
Will be performed,
_ A TRAGEDY, called
The Fair Penitent.
End of the Tragedy, a chararteriftic
Pantomimical DANCE, called
The Sailor s Landlady
OR,
bvidon-'ng our vefTels, and seeking my o.
t'ie# mode of living, and returning ho Ac,
that our circumttances and prudence may
dictate. I therefore propose to vou,
that we aflemhle three times a week, (fay
every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
evening) to concert mcafures of redrefj,
and that as ourcafe is important and prcf
fing, we begin tlii* evening, at 5 o'clock,
at the Hotel of the Uuiud States, for
that purpose.
I am refpedlfully,
Gentlemen,
TO-MORROW EVENING,
SALES.
Jack in. Distress.
Your obedient tenant,
(Signed)
JOSEPH FENWICX.
SHIP NEWS.
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