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to fiVtfter purposes hy the delicti'ng, and
commonly leads to dcfpottfin, in the f.ims
manner as excefive miftruil le«ds to anar
chy."
Extract of a\letter from New-York, Oft. i •
" I have not met with a (ingle person a
mong those denominated anti-federalifts by
American aristocrats, title Imnters, & mo
narchy-men, who has expressed a wilh that
the United States (hould take any part in
the present European w.irs, or be involved
in their politics. This pretext of abnfe is
nevertheless continually made use of by
wealthy paper jobbers, and their tools, in
order to depreciate the republicans of this
country, and reprefeiit them as patrons oi
anarchy. The war, however, that the high
federanfts have so mm ii deprecated will
certainly come upon them, and a little of
their ill gotten hoard mull be parted with.
The weltern countrv miift either be given
:ip or defended. The late determination
at the treaty, certainly involves us in a Bri
ti(h and Indian war (as 1 am informed
from Canada) unless the Ohio is mads tile
fixed boundary."
The following card appeared in a New-
York paper of lalt Monday :—" It will be
very plealing to the greatefl part of a con
gregation, if the pastor wijl not let them
know his political sentiments. at a time
and place when a more rerious fubjecl
should be at hand ; for be allured, Rev.
Sir, while your great exertions are mad<
to enlarge your flock, fnch conduct wil
only tend to dim'nifh it, if a liiutenefit upot
this head is not to take place."
According to Ariofto (in his Orlando Fu
rioio) Alloito, a knight errand, was on ;
certain occalion carried to the nioori. H<
was surprised, on his arrival, to find it;
world like ours; to fee rivers, seas, moun
tains, cities, forefts, &c. as wirh us. Anion;
an infinity of animals there, he difcoverei
man ; but he was a creature of an ibferioi
order, and not much regarded The rutin;
Order diftingliilied him by the name of th<
hoard ! ng animal, as being constantly em
ployed in amafling pravifions, &c. to an a
jnount far beyond what the natural limit o
iiislife would evcrpoflib!y allow hint tomaki
life of.—Quere, whether full asjuft a defi
nition would not have been, the lelfifli ani
mall—Certain recent tranf.iftions on out
earth seem to render the latter definitior
at least as applicable as the former.
Extra£t of a letrer from Liverpool, Au
gllft IJ.
" It is impossible that the Americans cat
much longer submit to the insults of th<
English on their trade. Every port in thi:
part of the kingdom swarms with Ameri
can vefl'els, taken and brought in by Britilli
rniiferj. 1 have attended several trials at
DaCtors Conlmons 4 where I have been
ihocked to fee the unaccountable conduct
of both captors and judges." Bribes are
frequently offered, from 5001. to 10061. to
the captains and mates of the prizes, Jo
f\vear against their fliips ; and, lorry Jam
<0 fayj some of them have received the
bribes, and on others the bribes have been
proved, and the vefiels (till detained. No
American veifel is allowed to pass to France
■with any cargo, except Tobdcto, nor is ad
mitted from thence but in ballall. From
what I fee of the wretched ftute of this
country, the Americans have the means of
redress in their own hands, and by acting
with a proper degree of spirit a war may
be prevented. But if the Americans remain
quiet, there is no doubt but this country will
offer Itill greater insults, and they will at
lift be under the rteceltity of taKingup arms.
The best plan for tlie p.-efent, would be to
come into a non-importation agreement
of every article manufactured in Bri
tain. The English and Scotch manufacto
ries (already in the lalt ltage of distress)
would then be wholly at a Hand, and the
many thousands that now fublift by the
American trade, would be reduced to the
greatest extremities. Manchester has at
this time upwards of twenty thousand of
their workpeople maintained by fubferip
tion ; and every manufacturing town in
the country is in the f;ime deplorable con
dition. One cloth manufactory discharged
twelve hundred workmen in one day.—
The other day in Leeds market, upwards
of 10,000 pieces of cloth were put up for
sale, and not 30 fold. Should the United
States (top the trade with Britain, there is
no doubt but the inhabitants would instant
ly refufe any further fubmillion to the folly
of their tyrannic rulers, and would compel
the minister to change his conduCt towards
the Americans. Thus would a war be pre
vented, which mud otherwise soon involve
both countries in ruin."
[From a CorreJpondcnt.~\
To the public:—lt has been remarked by
several citizens that a great number of
lioufes in this city have been doled during
the present contagious and baneful fever,
whereby the air confined in them has be
come stagnant, which is well known to a£t
injuriously to the health of the body. Pure
air is abfelutely neceflary to wholefomere
fpiration, in which the country abounds
where those now are whose houses are clos
ed. I would therefore recommend to
tfcetn, if they have the welfare of their
fellow citizens in Philadelphia at heart,
that they would exert their endeavours,
by some means or other to have their
lioufes daily well aired, whereby many
lives might be f.ived ; for if this precauti
on be not attended to, it certainly will be
followed with fatal confluences. The)
might confide the care of their houses tc
some trusty persons of their acquaintance,
who are yet remaining in the city, during
their absence, for the purpose of airin{
the apartments, whereby the otherwise
probable fatality may be prevented."
A Citizen.
Madame Galbiu, the lady of genera
Galbau, is to fail frum New-York in e
few days, with her family, for old France.
On Tluirfday arrived here tile prize (hip
Golden Age, of Liverpool from Ja/iaica.
She was taken on her pafl'.ige to Liverpool
near the Banks of Newfoundland by the
privateer Ihip Le Citoyen Francois, ol
Bourdeaux. Tile Golden Age (hews ter
ports of a iide, but mounts not more thar
J2 guns. Her cargo is valuable, confut
ing offugar, coffee, cotton, hides,&c. &c.
Several other veilels are arrived in the
Delaware since our lalt, molt ofwhich are
detained below fort Mifflin for inlpeitlor
by the health officer.
Arrived it Nantucket, 2oth ult. (hipFa
voiirite, captain David Folger, from the
coast of Brazil ; who was intended foi
Dilnkirk : But hearing of war, in the
mouth of the Englilh channel, thoughi
belt to fteerforNaiitucket. He has broughi
in goo barrels of whale oil, half his cre\%
down with the scurvy when lie arrived—
having been more than 12 months at sea.
THE Committee for providing reliel
for the sick of this city, have received s
letter from Dr. George Logan, in whicl
he informs them that he has very recentlj
paid a vilit to the hospital at Btilh Hill, anc
found the hoiife perfectly clean, withoui
any offenfive finell : that the sick are wel
accommodated, and every attention givei
to render their lituation easy and comfort
able, by citizens Gerard and H«lme—tha
the viliting physicians are patiently atten
tive to the complaints of each individual o:
the fick—t|ieir practice appeared rational :
anil that he was informed a free and eafj
nfe of blilters had been attended with the
nioft teneticial cffects. Dr. Logan recom
mends it as in indispensable duty, todif
patch persons to the hospital in th« earliefl
Itage of the disorder ; and that the prac
tice of some, in not fending their friends
till they are palt all medical assistance,
has probably been the cause of many deaths
which by a more early attention niighl
have been prevented. On his return from
Bulh-Hill, Doctor Logan met a man con
veying thither, that was breathing his last.
St. Eitf!atius, Augult 30. Capt. Henr)
Ducket in the bark General Orde of Briltol.
who anchored here two days before, pu;
to sea 3 little after 8 o'clock in the evening
of the 12 tii. He had taken the precautior
to (hike all his guns below and to put hi:
vetlel in the belt possible order : the hurri
cane came on so violently that he wasforcec
to cut x'ie cable, and to fcpd before the
wind without a rag of fail about S. S- W,
till 2 o'clock oil Tuesday morning, wher
tlie wind (hifted to the southward : the bart
broached to about 11 o'clock, when Capt
Ducket thought it prudent to cut rfway the
mi?en malt; lhe again broached to abotn
1 o'clock, when pollibly they were upon the
Saba bank, as the sea ran very high and
very uneven ; it was tllen the main top-mas
cap and head of the mainmast were all car
ried away at once, the Ihip became logged
her decks being conltantly full of water
and the sea continuing so eXcessive high thai
it was impossible to bring her to ; at twt
o'clock the wind abated for a few minutes
it then got to the southward and seemed ti
blow with redoubled force ; the (liip wa:
kept before the wind as well as it was pos
sible to do, but became quite unmanageable
111 consequence of the quantity of watfi
with which her decks were always loaded.
About 12 o'clock on Tuesday land Wasdif.
covered right a head and not a quarter of s
mile off, it was not pollible to guide the
Ihip any way so as to (teer clear of it, and
equally to difcovcr if any landing could be
attempted, tho' as a lall resource, Capt.
Ducket ordered the fpritfail to be set, but
it was blown away in 5 minures. In this
extremity, without an alternative, the Ihip
llruckfeveral times, &at laftherdecks fell
in : every one now began to think of saving
himfelf if possible, tho' no one knew or had
any conception of what could be done to
effect it; some jumped overboard, others re
mained with the wreck, all were equally
uncertain of their fate. About 2 oclock,
P. M. ten of the (hip's crew, and among
them Thomas Hawkins, chief mate, found
ihemfelves alive upon land, but not one
could give an account how he got alhorfe,
as the rocks over which they clartibeivd or
were thrown by the fei, were amazingly
high, and inaccessible in ati ordinary time;
the few who were saved were much
bruised.
Of 42 negroes which Capt. Ducket had
brought with him, 13 only were found
alive, and one of them died the next day.
So little of the wreck appeared, that, but
forthefe melancholy circumfiances, itcould
not have been believed that such an acci
dent had happened ; the land proved to be
the foutli fide of" Norman's Iflind (one oi
the Virgin Islands). At a moment before
the mate quitted the fbip he stood hand in
hand by the lide of Capt. Ducket, whose
lalt word was, Hawkins save yourfelf, and
in the ieap he made to difengaje himfelf
Irom the wreck, he fnppofed Capt. Ducket
(till by his fide, till, to his infinite grief, he
found to the contrary, and that his captain
whom lie loved, and whose life was dear
to him as his own, was ;iot to be fonnd,
i>r his body distinguished, the n?xt day,
from the carcases of 30 of his comrades,
who had fallen victims 011 this melancholy
Jccafion.
Frtdet ick-tvwn, Sept. 19. The irial of
Ensign John Morgan is now going 011, ai
head-quarters, General Pofey, president
us the court-martial—Members—Majors,
Thomas Hughs, Thomas Doyle, and John
Mills — Captains—Ford, Porter. Guion,
Peters, Eaton, Jeffers, M. Campbell, B.
Price, and J. Pieue.
Alexandria, .sept. 26. The President
and Dirertofs of the Potowmack company
have juftp*bliflied leveral particulars of in
formation relative to the progress made in
clearing that river. The money expended
[ince their meeting in Augult, 1792, is
11763!. 14s. Virginia currency; the sum
:)ue frohi delinquent fubferibers 84951. 13s.
lod. ; the cash in the hands of the trea
surer amounts to 33871. 18s. 1 id. Before
winter it is experted to complete the locks
and thecanelat the little falls, and clear
!he river between the great and little falls,
"o as to render it navigable to tide-water,
and reduce the land carriage at the great
[alls to about 400 yards. Great advances
have been made the season past in opening
he river towards fort Cumberland, the
month of Cougocheague, &ic. A vafl quan
tity of produce has been brought down the
Potowmack this season ; a part of which as
far as 25 miles.above fort Cumberland. In
:he article of flour, upwards of 15000 bar
rels have been brought down. Great num
bers of mills have been eretted this feafori.
Stockbvidgc, Sept. 17. On the 28 th tilt -
Mr. Silas Chapin, 'of Tyringham, accom
panied bv a boyj being in pv.rfuit of some
itray (heep, discovered a rattlesnake, which
an light of them, fought a retreat between
two rocks. They immediately begun dig
ging, and in a (liort time discovered more
nakes—and at length drew out from the
-ock 110 less than twenty-feven,five of them
nld, the relt young ones. But the molt re
markable circumltance attending the tlanf
irtion, was the discovery oi one fuake witli
:wo proper heads, tws mouths, and four
;yes. The snake has been seen by num-
Ders, and is ftiil kept for the gratiticatior
»f the curious.
New-York, Oifober 3. TheSurveillante
gun French frigate, which has been foi
Tome time refitting, is at length fully read)
For sea, and, we underlfand, is intended tc
:onvey Rear Admiral Cambisto France
:hat he may appear before the Convention
111 order to appease the doubts entcrtainet
of the civifm of the French fleet at prefen
in this harbour, and clear up some myste
rious mattters relative to their conduit a
Cape Francois, during the late diftreliinj
event which took place there. ,
We hear f l*e Surveillante is to be accom
panied to France by the Kormande, a vic
tualling fliip, carrying 24 guns, who take:
a cargo of flour. Itisfuppofed they wil
botli fail in thecourfe of next week.
The committee appointed to prevent th»
introduction and fpieading of the infeftioir
disease in this city have reported that 11c
person in this city, or on the iflandj within
our knowledge, is infected with the disor
der, now prevailing 111 Philadelphia.
The military fame of Louis XIV. re
vives with the tedioufnef«, of the prefeni
cbnteft in Flanders. Not a place there bul
is indebted for fame part of its strength to
him ; and still more the country, whi.cli
160,000 men have aflailed for four months,
with no other advantage than that of tak
ing one town by famine; he entirely con
quered in three months, with an-army ne
ver exceeding forty-feven thoufsnd men !
It is generally supposed that Gafton, who
heads the loyalists 111 Brittany, is an aristo
crat, and a friend to the ancient monarchy.
—The fait is quite otherwise. Gafton is a
friend to freedom fectiredby a limited mo
narchy. He is so fat- from entertaining
principles of despotism, that lie aitfiS to
Hand on popular ground, and reft'fes to
admit the old nobility into his army. Should
Gafton prevail, the confederated nionarchs,
would n«t have great matter >f felicita
tion J the rights and privileges of the Peo
ple would l»e eftablifiied on fticli principles
as were adopted by the firft National Con
vention ; there would be a king, or firft
m;giftratp, under some other name, bul
he would only be the mod honoured servant
ot the public ; the fnpreme authority
would remain with the People.
There seems to be a conffderable degree
of resemblance between the chararter and
situation of Gafton, and thatof the renown
ed Scottiih hero, Wallace, who led on a
party of his countrymen in the paths of true
liberty and glory, 111 spite of the king of
England on the one hand, and a combina
tion of the principal Scottiih nobility on the
other. [London Paper.']
LEGISLATURE of MASSACHUSETTS'
The report t>f the committee of both
houses on the governor's speech, was com
mitted in the bouse who reported a con
currence with the senate. as taken into a
new draft : this new draft relolved, thai
at the time ot the adoption of theconftitu
tion, it was not in the contemplation of
the people to grant a power to the federal
judiciary, by which a state should be com
pellable to answer tothefuitsofindividuals
that it was unneceflary and vexatious, &
might be produflive of dangers to the free
dom and independence ot the states, and
eventually to endanger the federal conlti
tution—that the lenators in this state in
Congress be inftrutfed, and the representa
tives fequefted to use their influence to
procure a speedy alteration and amend
ment ol the constitution ; and that the go
vernor be requested to forward these reso
lutions to the several executives in the U
nited States, to be laid before their several
legillatures, on the quellion of acceptance
ot this report. The yeas and nays were
required, and Hood as follows—j eai 107—
nays, 19.
Address of the National Convention to the
People of France, resetting fallified co
pies of the New Constitution.
THE National Convention is informed,
I'lfi !i?i encm ' es of I'berty have already
tjie conftitutioHal ast, an d are using
every perfidious effort to circulate inprofu
fion copies of it disgraced by lies.
Th* 13 tG discover their intention,
fhey wifli to prevent the people from
knowmg and appreciating the real labours
ot their mandatories. They with to cor
rupt and divide, by anticipation, the public
•pimon-they will, to ftifle that general as,
° the natl T- read y lo burst forth, anct
tv . n e L er / ,a ' ba( ' s of , libe ' ty and equa
lity , they behold only with despair the ap
o^utl^ rt r g !' ° f ( ' ,e law; hasten
•L rr t^f nire,v «. by moral anarchy, with
-onitit.lt- esand misfortunes of which the
-onititutioii is about to deprive them.
"r V W f r and foo| ifii are these corrup
"s P H . bllc '"52(011, who imagine that.
>y obfeunng it for, Tome days, it will never
n?har 'r" ' > the Pe ° ple could be miftakea
n that relpea ; and as if the treft, which
10r y r W ! r e '? :i ? ake their accomplice, will
lot confound them by conveying ,0 the
ntTl thoughts of their Conflitu-
Such attempts of modern aristocracy were
jnknown to the ancients. If the power
Jt printing was wanting to them they
were at least ignorant of its rtimes. They
.ommitted llieir laws only to incorruptible
Srals, or to the pure remembrance of
children : and they did not behold them
slatted 111 their infancy bv that invention
which ought to consecrate and diffufe
them.
It Utherefore anew obligation imposed
an the legislator, to watch over, and as one
may fay, to follow his own work, until it
arrive in full purity at the most diftanc
cottage. It is also a new duty for a revo
lutionary people, who, by the nobJeft
means, are approaching the term of their
regeneration, to guard, with the utmolt
vigilance, against thole base calumniators
ot the conftitutioHal monument—thole IW
cret enemies 01 the nation, why wifti to
annihilate all its rights, and to blast even
its hopes, by breaking the anchor which
the legislators have throwri aniidft the
Itorni.
Among the Athenians the haw inflicted
death on every stranger ivho introduced
himfeli into she popular aftembly, becanfe
he ulurpfttf the sovereignty. Among the
French, become free, let him who fhaU
introduce himlelf into the thoughts of the
legislators, 10 misrepresent the result of
them, fall under the sword of the law.
I he National Convention invites all the
friends of liberty to search out with dili
gence these fabricators offalfe laws. It
recofhmeiulsto all citizens nnt to pass fen
tcnce, not to express their will, but on au
thentic copies, addressed dlreflly by the ex
ecutive council to communes, and the con
stituted authorities.
Frenchmen, yoyr pj»t:iotlfn) tvili eal'ily
defeat those manoeuvres. Every grand
epoth of the revolution has always excited
one crimfc more of aristocracy and royal
ifm. We had reafbri to espktf, that all
their crimes and efforts would be united at
the moment when the constitution was a
bout to appear : but these efforts them
selves will eiifure to Joti the success of {f
work, which thev would have altered,
had it been hurtful to the people ; and in<-
favonrahle to their rights. These impo
tent efforts will conduce to eflablifh the
republican constitution, as calumny has
always conduced to the triumph of Vir
tue.
Decree passed in the National Conventiori
on the firlt of July.
Every person wl)o fl.all cause to be print
ed, fold, or rfiftributed, one or more altered
orfalfified copies of the declaration of tfir
rights of men and citizens, and «f the coti
ftitutional ail, the wording-os which w at
decreed 011 the 24th of June i 793,>and pre
sented afterwards, fev the National Con
vention, for the acceptance of the French
ftople, fliallbe pnuiflied vt it'll dtath,