National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-09-04 00:00:00, page 2

TEens have a "igfct to concrr in fixing the
contribution;; to infpeit the expendi
ture of them, and to require accounts of
that expenditure.
21 Public succours are a sacred debt.
The society owes relief to unfortunate ci
tizens, either by furniihing them with
work, or by teeming the means of inbfilt
ence to those who are unable to work.
22 Inflruftion is rieceflary to all : soci
ety fhmild favour as much as poflible the
progress of public realon, and pla<e the
means of infhuilion within the leach of
every citizen.
23. The fociai compact consist; in the
endeavours of all to ailm e to each the en
joyment 3nd preservation ot his rights ;
this coropatt rclts upon the National sove
reignty.
24.- It cannot exifl unless the powers of
public functionaries are clearly deli id by
the law, and their refpou ! bility well fe
citred.
25. The sovereignty of the nation refide 1
in the people. It isindivilible, imprescrip
tible, and unalienable.
26. No portion-os the people can exer
cise the powers of the u hole people ; but
each section of the sovereignty afl'emblei
fha'il enjoy the right of cxpreffiug its jvil
with entire liberty.
27. Let any individual who should at
tempt to usurp the sovereignty be immedi
ately put to d.-ath by freemen.
28. The people have always the right
to revise, reform and change their conlti
tuticn. One generation cannot bind by it:
laws future generations.
29. Every citizen has nn equal right
to concur in making the law, and in ap
pointing his representatives and agents.
30. Public offices are essentially tempo
rary; tlicy c?nno be conlidered either a!
conferring aiilin&ion, or as rewards, but
as duties.
31. The crimes of the representative:
of the people or their agents Ihould nevet
go utvpunithed. No one has a right to af
tunie an inviolability that does not belong
to other citizens.
32.. The of presenting petition", tc
the depofftaries of public authority, can it
no cafe be prohibited, fjfpended or li
m ted.
33. Refinance to oppression is a confe
.quenee of the other rights of man.
34. Tne fociai body is opprefled, wher
one of its member; is opprefled. Each in
■dividual of the fecial body is oppreffec
when the fociai body is opprelfei
35. When the government violates the
right* of the people, infurreftion is to the
people and eadi portion of the people, the
molt faired of rights, and the moil inilif
jicnlible of duties.
[The Caujlitution in our next.~\
From the New-York Daily Adverti
ser.
Aleflrs. Ckilris ix Swaine,
The notice in paper, for the
Bon-conimiffioned officers and privates,
to meet last evening, having excited
fa ne alarm —please to insert the foilow
iM hie 1 was drafted, - and unani
jj, ufly agreed to.
New-York, Augurt 30, 1793.
May it please your Excellency,
THE no.i-cammiffioned officers and
privates of the New-York line, lateAme
r. hn arn:y, beg leave most refpe£tfully,
\ o address your Excellency, on the fubjefi
of our fufFeringscfur.ng the late war, and
t.ie m.ide ill vx hic b they have been repaid—
tha'-, having completed the revolution, we
retired to private life, to mix with our
fellow-citizens, with alfurances from your
Excellency, that we had served our coun
try faithfully, and our country would per
form all they had promjfed—bus ft'om. the
weakness of government at that time, ant
their resources being conducted by a finan
cier, we were obliged to take due-bill;
for our wages, when our diftrefl'es were
extreme, and compelled to alienate thofc
il':"-bills in the payment of public tax.es,
and private debts, at 2_/6 iii the pound, ant
made tributary to our atfigns by the fund
ing ast, inanett profitcf 12/ bin tire pound:
•and also, in the liiui of 13,250 dollars, an
nually, for offices of transfer, to" accom
modate thedealer in our due bills.
That as there remains in the hands ol
government, a small balance of the wage:
we so painfuliy earned, which we conceive
may be paid to the original creditor, with
out interfering with any system heretofore
adopted, and the documents neceflary tc
ascertain the amount of our wages, and
the sum government have paid by the fund
ing ast, and the balance that remains due,
are now, in existence.
Therefore, Sir, relying on your wifdorr
at the head of government, as we did on
your ability in the field, with a remem
brance of the confidence placed in your ho
nour during our ferviutde, and at the
diiroiution of the army, that a
fcued from impending ruin, will not leave
tjie debt of gratitude unpaid, nor so many
of our companions, worn by fatigue and
hard fighting, to solicit in the eve of lile,
the cold band of charity, in a country their
valour saved, and as the labours of the
gentleman, Mr. Madison, fecondcd by
IVlt. Jackson, \\ ho were dilinterefted, and
induced from principles of justice, in ad
vocatingtfie cstife of ?.n army, who hat!
clone and fuffered moie than any army
ever did for the freedom of the human
race, proved unfuccef.f ill : we solicit your
Excellency's advice and assistance at the
next meeting of C.ongrefs, to obtain the
remnant that remains unpaid on our cer
tificates. And 11 the mean time, subscribe
ourselves with aftVftioa and ell- c m,
Your humble servants.
His Excellency
Geo. Washington.
To be presented by Sergeant John Clark.
Signed, &c.
PHILADELPHIA.
Wednesday, September 4.
TheFrencli Republicansin formingtheii
lew Conftiiution, have net thought aPe
:laration of Rights a ftipcrfluous prelimina
ry to that work. This Declaration, 01
bill, consists of a preamble and 35 articles.
The following is a lilt of the Frencl
(hips of war that were laying ready sot
Tea in the port and department of Brest,
the latter end of Jnne - viz. lofliipsof 7.
guns —1 of 100 guns—of 11c —3 of So—
and 2 of 48, —in all 19 fail, well fitted anc
manned.
" The war of the allied powers agninfl
France (fays a letter from London) grow ;
daily more and more unpopulai. Those
powers are not likely to subdue the french :
and it is estimated that they have alread;
loft 40D,CC0 men. The failures among tit
commercial part of this kingdom are asto
nishingly great, and beyond any formei
period. Hie Brigands, or, Aristocrats, ueai
Nantz havr been completly defeated, anc
in two engagements have loft near 20,00 c
men. Al! is tranquil at Paris ; and Briflut.
and others of the Convention "who were
arretted, were treated so at their own re
quest."
A Spanidiprize fiiipfrom the Weft Indies,
with sugar and cotton is arrived at Beflon,
captured by the America, a French 74.
She is said to be worth 100.000 dollars.
When the America parted 'with her prize,
(lie went in chafe of fever al other vefiels
part of an Englifil ant) Spanifb fleet, among
which there was a profped of good pickings.
The privateer Roland, lately fitted out at
Bolion by French citizens, with a comniif
tion from the French Republic, has lent into
Bollon, her prize, the Engiifli fchoonei
Greyhound. An American was found 011
board the prize, acliniras pilot, who was
taken with a federal writ and committed
to jail for trial. The next day the priva
teer herfelf, came into Boston ; on board
of which three persons were fount!, said
to tie Americans —after examination, ihey
were also committed to jail, without bail,
to take-their trial at the next federal circuit
court, to be neid at Boflon the twelfth of
October next. The charge a Hedged ap ainft
tliefe persons is—aicli r ' and affiuing in
manning and fitting out veflels, and pira
tically and fclonioufly capturing vefTels of
nations, with whom the United Staj.es are
at peace.
Mr. P.iilas, of Peterfbnrgli, (in Russia)
has renewed the publication of Ilis Northern
Mi/ceilavy, and with a very valuable arti
cle—the voyage of t late F. G. Moller,
in the Frozen Ocean, undertaken by com
mand of the Empress, in 176 j. His ob
ject was to make the North East passage
from the ocean to the sea of Kamfchatka.
He did not make the paflage, or reach quite
so far north as 80 ; but received accounts
of neighbouring parts, and gave an inter
efling description of his encounter with
plains of ice and storms of snow in the
middle of July : with rigging iced, so that
it could scarcely be handled, and under
clouds, which the fun seldom penetrated,
to fljew the whole circuit of the dreadful
horizon. Lond. Pap.
We hear, Mr. Wigneli's new company
of Comedians, for th<? new Theatre in
this city, were to fail from London in the
fliip George Barclay, Capt. Collett, 011 or
about the 15th of July.
Letters from France fay that the taking
of Mentzand Valenciennes and the fuccef
of the royaiifts in France, were the whole
dependence of the combined powers, for
effecting a conntci-revolution this year
in the French Republic. The two former
events seemed extremely doubtful when
the last accounts can it way, and thole
who have been in the two places aifert
their capture to be impra£ticable, unless the
besieged themselves lend a helping hand.
The insurgents had-been every where de
feated, and ftattered ; and it was judged
that before October there would not be an
avowed royalist in the whole 84 depart
ments. <
According to Baltimore papers, the Bri
tifli 74 gun ship Orion is arrived at Hamp
ton road, Virginia, with the Fiench fii
vatecr schooner Sans Culottes, her prize.
We learn that Citizen Genet, ow ing to
the diflurbances on board the Jupiter, lias
ifftied a proclamation, ordering the crew,
with a few exceptions, 1 to leave the fliip
and repair to quarters provided for them
on fliore. This many did.
An attempt was made on the life of Ad
miral Cam bis, (not of Citizen Genet as
has been reported)in wMch he was wound- 1
ed in.the hand. The attempt was made 1
by feme of Hie crew of the Jupiter, a few
of which number have been apprehended.
General Galbaud efsaped from on bo-ard
the Jupiter on Friday )aft, and-took i-lie
rout to Philadelphia, efcorterl by a feu
of the crew of the Jupiter. A considera
ble number of" this crew, who were order
ed by the representative of the French na
tion, to repair to their quarters on shore
are travelling in a body armed towards Phi
ladelphia. i
It was currently reported when our in
formant left New-York. Saturday last
that Capt. Bompard would be appointee
commander of the Jupiter.
The Cerf, a tender of the French fleet
has taken into New-York a brig, as a prize
ioaded with rum.
Three hundred paJTengers are arrived it
the Ann from Londonderry. There is an
other passenger ship, we underhand in the
river.
Extract of a letter from Liverpool, datee
the 7th of July.
" On the firlV of June I failed from Bour
:leaux, on board the Ariel, captain Deca
tur, of Philadelphia, bounsl for St. Tho
mas's, in the Welt-Indies. On the iitl
of Jane, we were ttken by the brig Union,
i privateer of Liverpool, and carried intc
::.is port, where we arrived on the 24th.
They think to make a prize of the cargo,
but I think they cannot, as it belongs tc
the veilel. I hope it will not be long before
the ship will be clear—we have already loft
26 days to no purpose. So much for Neu
trality \"
Died, about the beginning of June lift
the celebrated Dr. Wdiiam Uobertjon
Principal of the Univeriity of Edinburgh
and one of the firft historians of the age
Ke died in his 72c! vear.
At Ainfterdam (lays a London paperlfoui
foreign loaus have lately been made. Out
of five millions of Dutch florins for Pi ufli!
—one of fix for the Emprefs —one of tue
for the Emperor—and one of three for the
United States of America, all at the intere!
of 6 pi" cent, f-'.ccpt tlr.a for America, foi
which fix and a half is f'.ipulated, during r
period of ten years, besides a premium o:
one per cent.
Mr. John Churchman is arrived in Lon
:lon, with recommendatory letters to tin
British government, from persons in theft
slates, refpefting hisfcheroe of the iViagre
tic- Variation, &c. It was feared his pro
posals cnuld not be attended to, the cause
of science, at present, being faciified tc
that of war.
ExtraSs rf Foreign European News ; t
July 5. [From London Papers
" Mr. Pitt lias proposed a tax upnr
knives and forks,"in order to help to sup
port the expenlive war the English natioi
is now engaged is. He has been warmh
nppofed, upon the principle that it will hoi
e productive,knives and forks being al
110ft out of demand in England, the people
laving nothing left to eat."
'tjohn Frost, I'.fq; an attorney at law
'ias been sentenced in the court of king':
bench, to fix months imprifoi.ment in New
gate, to ftaxd in the pi Lory one hour, ar,c
10 find surety for good behaviour tor five
years.—This man's crime, as stated in the
indictment, was faying—' lam for equa
lity; I'fee no reason why one man Ihoule
not be upon a footing with another —it i;
every man's birthright ; and that the Ei-g
---lifli constitution was a bad one, in faddlinj
the nation with a king."
" A treaty has taken place between the
kings of England and Sardinia, whereby
they agree to make a common cause ir
the war with France—the kingof Sardini:
to keep on foot an army of 5.0,000 l-.itn
during the war ; the king of England to
fend into the Mediterranean a fleet.to as;
as circuuiftances dire£t ; and to furniih the
king of Sardinia with 200. cool, a year,
while/aid" war lasts—the king of England
not to make peace with France without
refiiurtion of- that par; e>!' the Sardinian
tlomiuions, (Savoy,) now pofl'eil'ed by the
French, «1c.."
The following is from a Livefpool paper
of July 4.
" Hanover, "June 5.
" The States of Holland leave charged
their amballadors to propofo to the com
billed powers rtgociatious fur a peace.—
Their refohrion taken on tile 21 nil- pur
ports. that'their high inightineiies flattei
ihemfeivcs, to give the lneift convincing
proof ot their detire and readiness to ope
rate in th'ofe measures which are to he
taken by the belligere nt powers agaii)fl the
common enemy ; that at the fame time
they will also take care nut to involve
themselves more than their strength will
allow ; that tor this reatbn, they wifli ioi
the formation of a congress, to i.gree both
011 the measures which the future effective
operations of the war may require l , anel tc
fce«nse to a right undei (landing with regarel
to the proposals and overtures that inigh:
be made by France to accomplifn a termi
nation of the war."
' General Dumourier, on his arrival :;
Oflcnd, was arreflcd by the express ordei
of the Prince de Cobourg, 011 account ot
the vindication eif the Revolution of i"/80,
which he had publiihed at lii ullcls.
' The mot> finding, for ti c firfi time, tfia£
tlieir enmity againfi: this > fficer w as fanfli.
oned irotn authority, would have torn him
to pieces, if he hud not thrown himfeH ot>
the generous protection of two British offi
cers of the 37th regiment
' The liege of Mcntz commenced the
16th of June. On the night of that day, jeeo
workmen were employed in entrenching,
covered by Soco Hoc ps; but unfortunately
owing to the darknefx of the night, one co
lumn of t!«eAti!lrians fired upon another, I y
which f.xty men were killed on both fide.-,
and tin- wlu;!e retreated in confufton. On
the night of the 17th, however, the work
ing sri the trenches was renewed, ansl
without any material interruption front
the garrison.
' The mistake committed at the opening
of the trenches before Mentz, by two Au
(irian regiments, firing upon each other, it
is (aid, lias so disgusted his I r ruffian ma
ieftv, that he i« preparing to take a journey
10 Berlin; and tine D like of Brunlwick is
going to set off for Poland, to superintend
the new divilion of teriitory in that coun
try.'
' The National Convention, on the
of June, appointed" Citizen Alexander
Beauharnais, commander in chief oi the'
army of the Rhine, to be minister of war*
Citizen Deftottrnelles to be minister of
public contributions ; and approved of the
nomination, by the executive council, cf
general Houchard to lucceed gen. Beau
harnais in the army of the Rhine!
Chr.rlejion, Aug. 15.-The brig Thomas,
enj t. Pi yrinant. of 1 demon, Jj. C. arri
ved hi re vci'erday. in 17 days?from Cape
Francois. In her tame one hundred w hue
palfengers (among whom are M. D'Afias.
colonel of the n gin ent of tie Cape, find
M. de Graife; foil of the late admiral de
Grafle) and Ifervants.- On the3othr.lt.
the bi ig was boarded by the prirateer (loop
Sufasu.-.h, capc. Tucker, of New-Provi
dence. After having piratically plnnderf <!
thife til fated ;t::flergers, but jnfl cfcaped
fn 111 iiiaflacre and the de!lruclive elfint • t,
of me. ey and plate to the value of fo,oco
crowns and upwards, together with 35
prime (laves, tiiefe base icbhers difmil'td
the brig to proceed on her voyage.
fl/Jtim&re, Augtdt 2°. The French
frigate the Aftren, and the armed French
brig tlie Expedition, (arrived in this
port yeOerddy) having cinifed for a long
time oft the Gonaives, have facilitated
the entry of that bay to many American
vessel; ; and hive, 011 (heir paUitge to this
continent, re captured an American vefi I,
which has lince reached her place of desti
nation. She had fix Englifl'inen 011 board,
who were made pi doners. The Aflre.i
has aifo taken an European fliip, in b; Haft,
which fi:e broi?; lit into this port. Kcr
< rew, tw elvc in numbei, afe kept pr ifoi.ci s
on board the A Urea and Expedition.
'The Britifli fli-p Quern, r.f t)8 ; nr.r, the
Orion, and another - ; 4 with three frigates
and a Hoop of war, : re craifirg cfl'thc j.e
lawareand Chetapsake hay cud. heildes
tie privateec Stirs C Unites. the Orion las
taken the Induflry, a French privateer,
fitted out at Baltimore.'
Accounts from the weflward pr some
colour to information lately received frcm
Niagara, by way of Albany, that there is
every reason to foppofe the treaty new in
agitation, will not take place, nr-lef- the
An ei icar. commifitoners 1 onfent to the Ohio
being the tcu enry line. it. 1.. a tic , m »
great degree elUblili ccj. that the Bfttilh
are prcji iiinjr'to fettle a new pr< lince oil
the north-w ell of the Ohio, and • I r cna
niards une.her on the fonth-weft, with New
Madrid to be,the capital.
_The following Anecdote is broiifht by
one of our nefiU from the \V. Indies: —
That Gapt. Prince of Boston failed irom
Guadaloupe in company with a French pi i
vateer brie—that he was afterwards met
by a Britilli privateer, w ho, began to exa
mine him, and overhauj his cargo, for
Frendl'propeity; ti: pt. Prince afiurcd the
I eopie mat he had none, and tl.at inflead.
of detaining then'.(elves with him, they
might find a valuable prize/ In a hrij! v hie In
he pointedour to them, which h' knew to
be French property, both veli'el and cargo
—that on this the privateer emitted him,,
and made lor the 1 renchmar— thai a }harp»
conflict erifued, in which several w ere kil
led and wounded on both fides, bvt that
in the end the Frenchman carried his anta
gonist into Guadaloupe. Captain Prince
was afterwards carried into St. Kitts by
another privateer.
A hurricane took p'ace .at Sr. Fuflatius
and at St. Kitts oit Monday evening the
12tli of lalt month, and continued until
nine the next morning with unabated and
violent fury, fve vef.els went on 11 ore at
St. Eufiatius, a fid tifieen at St. Kitt . mo(t
iy American?. Ihe h.ip Liberty. Captain
Miller, and fliip Aurora, Captain In rjie,
belonging to this pert, ire amongthe lum
ber. We hi ar 110 lives v ere 1011. Captain
Amory's two infamous privateei* were
bloy.i; off: others lay, wiecktd.
The f<'-'owing extract cf a letter front
New \ ork may be depended en au
thentic—
'• Galbaud, after having made ttfe of
the bsli.lt u.cat.i, in corrupting tite trc\y