National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-04-10 00:00:00, page 3

reft terms, the confederacy against France
0:i the 22(1 January the French conven
tion decreed, that 500,000 livres fliould be
immediately issued to the pensioners of
Louis, and that permanent proviiion fliould
be made for their support —Roland, mini-
Iter of the home department, had rriigned.
Mr. Fox hasaddrefled to hisconftituents
a letter, in vindication of his motion in the
ho life of commo is, that an ambassador
ihonld be sent to treat with the executive
council of France, in which he coniiders
the obje&ion to that measure.
Sundry letters received by the packet
ftate, that on the lecond of February
France declared-war against Creat Britain
and Holland ; that sundry vessels had been
captured, and carried into Calais and other
ports of France ; that many vessels laden
with grain or flour (British) were prohibi
ted from failing, without security that
their cargoes Qiould not be landed in
France ; but that American veflels were at
liberty to proceed with their cargoes whi
thersoever they plealed.
Prosecutions for seditious libels are in
stituted in almost every part of Great Bri
tain—press warrants had been ifl'ued, and
dispatched to the several ports.
The Dutch, to prevent the French armies
from making an irruption, have laid part
of their country under water, and the
dikes are ordered to be cut at the fir!t lig
nal to inundate other parts, to hinder, i
pollible, the French from penetrating tc
Amsterdam.
In the accounts by the February packet,
not a word is said of the execution of the
queen of France. This, however, doe
not amount to a contradiction of the ac
counts previouily brought.
A Brig from Cape-Francois arrived here
on Sunday. In virtue of the declaratior
of war, several Britilh and Dutch vefl'el;
jhat lay in that psrt, were seized.
European papers mention that the gram 1
Duke of Tufcany iias received with nianj
marks of esteem, M. de la Flotte, as reli
dent at his court from the French republic
In the grand Duke's note 011 this fubjet"
he promises the moll perfeit neutrality
and a desire to maintain a friendly under
standing with the French nation.'
When the last accounts left the continent
of Europe, the Duke of Brunfwick lay ill
of a bilious fever. His brother. Prince
Frederick was to succeed him in com
mand. The plan of the French general'
appeared to be an instant incuifion into
Holland. " General Miranda was to ad
vance tho' Gueldres, and general Duinou
lier thro Gorkumjthe two armies to unite
in the province of Utrecht, where the peo
ple ate ripe for a revolt from the Stadt
holder."
We hear from Providence, Rhode 1(1
anil, that on the day of ihe confirmation
of what they called the murder of I.oui
the XVlth, the inhabitants of that towr
fell into an immediate date,of deje£ti'on,am;
in the evening et all the bells of the
charches a tolling. It is added, that man>
of them have put on mourning, as a token
ct the lincerity of their grief for the fall ol
the " Lord's anointed."
" This royal death provok'd a thoufanc
fight,
" While tears, unafli'd for tumb lee
from their eyes."
On the 11 th of January a comet wasfirfl
seen inthe-Conftellation Cepheus. It pal
fed rapidly from thence, through Cuffiopea
Andromeda, the Triangle and Aries, into
the Whale, where it disappeared. On the
nth and nth. it wai superior in brightnef
to a liar of the 2d magnitude, when seer
by the nakel eve; but through the tele
scope, it appeared an ill defined spot o!
faint light, occupying 10 or 12 minutes,
and brigliteft in the centre; though neithei
nucleus nor tail could be perceived. Ii
grew fainter from the firft evening it wa
discovered ; and the last time it was seen.
\va« on the Bih ofFebruary. January 1 7th
it was very near the firit liar of Aries, anc
on the 2 ill. a little below Flamfteed':
84th of she Whale, not far ftom whence
it was 101 l fight of. It does not seem to be
any one of about 60, whose orbits have
been heretofore determined by aOrono
uiers.
A bill has parted the Senate of Mafia -
hufetts, allowing a theatre to be erectec
in Bolton, under certain limitations anc
reftri&ions.
, j Isaac Coles is elcfled representative ir
Congress for Halifax diftrUt, Virginia
and not Matthew *'iay, as mentioned ir
our paper of last Wednesday.
A project of a decree appears in the Pa
ris papers for facilitating the payment ol
the debt due to France from the Unitee
of America, which is, to make pay
ment in the various productions of the se
veral States, to be transported to France ir
American bottoms, and delivered at the
prime cost in the said States. It is alfc
projected in the decree,that no production
of the United States fliall be othervvife
than direitly imported into France in Ame
rican or I rench bottoms, under penalty of
conlifcation of veiled and cargo.
Upon the new eftablifiiincnt of the
French armies, the whole is to coi.lift of
196 battallions of the line, incorporated
with 392 battalions of volunteers, which
will form a 111 ass ofinfantry equal 10462,736
men ; to which when are added the artil
lery, light troops, light horse &c. the whole
will amount to 591,816 men.
Intelligence has been received here by a
late arrival from Liverpool (whi:h brings
accounts to the 21 It of February) that the
French army had entered Holland, and
defeated the Dutch and Prussian troops.
Mr. Paine, in the Natioual Convention,
was againlt the execution of Louis. In
iiis opinion given on this occalion, he pro
posed that the king and his family Ihould
bs banijhed to the United States of America.
A " Ladyin a Bcfton paper,has publilhed
her determination to wear for mourning
for Louis tlie 16th, for the period of one
month, a black roje, near the left bre.iit.
Not content with this tribute herfelf, Hie
entreats her dearly beloved livlers through
out the United States to follow her exam
ple !
The Britifli court went into mourning
for the king of France on the 2>th of Ja
mary, and :hrew it off 011 the 7th of Fe
bruary. By this we may fee that despots
and ariflocrats occasionally mourn for cacli
other, tho' the murder of a thousand men
by the connivance of a crowned ruHiart
produces not even a hgh of compaflion.—
Follies of this kind might be forgiven to the
prejudices of the European, but that the
filly American, jutt emancipated sri 111 a
tyrant, Ihould join in the whine of condo
lence, is indeed lamentably i.bfurd anc
wholly " out of order. 1 '
Extrad of a letter from St. Mary 1 s Georgic
March 33.
" This morning an express arrived Iron
Traders Hill, which is about 70 miles lroir
this place, that a tribe of Indians fuppoW 1
to be of the Chorneas nation—in mimbei
bout 30, entered the store of Cape. Ko
bert eagrove, the 1 ith inlt. and plunder
ed it of goods to the amount of 1 jool. "el
ling. 1 tiey put to death Mr. John Flem
ing, who kept the (lore, & a jVIr Moffet l > >'
the molt brutal manner, cutting and mang
ling their bodies, and then scalping the"'-
One Ann Gray who lived at the fiore wa:
severely beat and bruised, bound and thei
.hrown out, supposed intended to be m::d
iprifoner ot, but getting loose while thi
lavages were murdering the men she cfca
ped, leaving her two children behind wht
were adecp in a room adjoining the (lore
where tlicy remained without the favagc:
Lhfcovering them ; which the mothci
found at her return. Fuur men thai
were at the store with the unfortunate
Fleming and Moffett, made their escape.
The India . remained but about twe
hours, ,nd 1? 1 went over to Florida,
with tiie r hoifes which they brought witl
:hem. v'hen the news reach ?d th:« place,
which was two days after, they multerec
is many as they could and went in purfu'n
of them, but fouiid nothing of them 1
the murderers having 48 hours start o!
them.
The next day, viz. the 12th, anothei
jarty proceeded to rob another (lore, be
longing to Mr. Cafk.im at Settil ; the;
came within a few miles of it, and meetinj
a waggen loaded with goods, as th'
people were moving from the back coun
try. they fired 011 them, and ftopp'd t
waggon, the people attending it madetheii
?fcape as well as they could : One man ir
attempting to get oft with his daughter, t
:hild about 7 years old, which he had it
lis arms, they fired at them, wounded bot!
:he father let his child fall, ran a fev
rods and then fell ; they were taken up ;
few days after and buryed :• they wen
"calp'd. Nothing more was heart! con
:erning the affair when I left the place
which was the 2 1 ft- infta.nt."
\_From a correJboiident.~\
By several hints in late Boston papers, i
appears that a branch of the monarchica
lad aristocratic fattion in that tov n, exert
;d themselves to excite the feelings of th<
ignorant "in favor of a perjured king.—
The beheading of Benedict Arnold, thai
noted and known traitor, would without
rloubt touch the feelings of a few paper
made nabobs amongst us, who would fel
their country's liberties for a funding JyJ
tern.''''
" It was very pleafmg (fays the Boston ga
zette) to fee,at the moment that the mourn
ers of Louis entered liberty square, the
true spirit of liberty in a great number ot
citizens who broke down the barren head
and jaws of despotism, with the gilded
horns of monarchy from a pole lately erec
ted, and tumbled them, together with the
trunk of Louis, into thedock of oblivion,
there to remain forever ; and then deanfed
the air, that had been contaminated by the
passing of the dead trunk of monarchy,
with a liberty discharge of cannon acd three
equal huzzas !"
We hear from Boston that the choice
for federal r«*prefentative from that itate
lies between Bejamin Austin and Sam
uel Holten Esquires.
There seems io be (fays a corrfcfpondent)
a want of common national pohtenefs in
tins country towards France. As they inter
bred not in our sentencing criminals du
ring the war, what pollible light have we
to pafa a jucgment upon similar tranfacVions
in France ?
[From a Correspondent.]
Citizen GENET, who has been chosen
by the National Convention, Ambafladoi
from the French Republic to the United
States of America, is momently expected
to arrive here. This citizen is equally
distinguished for his abilities and his pat
riotism. In France, his opinion has beei:
consulted by the firft flatefmen, in the moll
difficult affairs. It is expeftedthat he will
be received with a salute of cannon, anc
by the companies of light infantry, undei
arms, as the firft mark of our attention or
his arrival; which will at once demon
ftratc the patriotic character of our fellow
citizens, and the interest they take in the
noblest of all causes, the success of oui
French allies, who are giving up all thai
is near and dear to them for the genera!
interelh of human nature. And may we
not hope that the true republicans of this
country w ill hoist the three coloured flag,
the emblem of patriotism ; and to com
plete the spectacle, that our fair Pennfyl
tanians will decorate their elegant per
fbns, and adorn their hair with patriotic
ribbands 011 the occasion ?
A Pennfylranian•
V Many persons. who \\ ifli ill to the fitc
ceC of l ie French arms in Holland, seem
to imagine that all the Dutch have to do,
is to lay their country under water to pre
vent the ir.road of Dumourier, "byway
of Utrecht." But to effe£> this, the w hole
country of lower Holland ir.uft be laid
eleven feet tinder water, which if done, it
is doubtful whether they might ever be
able to recover the land, so as to make it
pay the expences of the labour."
Letters f.om England give a deplorable
pifftire of the state of freedom of opinion
in tn tcouniry. The Portuguese inc|uili
lion does not exceed it. Every thing is a
libei, and a man can scarcely venture to
put pen to paper, 011 any political fubjett,
without the rifle of, at lcalt, Handing in
:he pillory, and being pelted to death by
:ne creatnrc,, of the court, of the king, and
lis royalJons.
Lord Howe is appointed to the command
jf the Englilh channel fleet, and lord Hood
a command their fleet in the Mediterra
nean. The duke of Clarence is created
in admiral, to serve under lord Howe.—
rile duke of York is to command the Ha
loveri in forccs, to ait in the combination
igainft France, &c.
This week the fliip George Barclay,
3apt. Collett, and several other veflels
lave arrived from England, after difagree
ible pafl'ages of eight weeks, and upwards.
The following sentiments by M. Con
lorcet, afford a hint of what might have
"aved the life of Louis the 16th : " It is
>y no means necessary to observe, that if
my one contributed voluntarily, and by a
yltem steadily pursued, of perfidious poli
ces, to ;he death of Louis, it is (him the
Icing of England) who now appears to be
wail his lol's. For, he was able to have
"evered Prulfia from Austria ; to hace de
manded the difpirfion of the emigrants,
and theabftainment from war. He could
by arecognition of the French republic,
at the end of September, have procnrec
her a fafe and honorable peace, and lefl
herat liberty to listen only to her clemency .
He has not done all th.s, and therefore
could not but look upon the fall and death
of Louis as an even; ui'tful to his fecrei
designs. Now, what are those dtfigus
It is not difficult to divine their. Ht
wifhetl no; t ie confolidarion of conftitnti
oast royalty in France, because he dread
ed in a powerful nation, so near him, the
example of a king having lejs ptwer thai,
him/elf"
Marrif.d, on Sunday evening last, b)
the Rev. Mr. Smith, Mr. Archibald
Woodruff, Printer, of Elizabeth-Tow n
(New-Jersey) to the amiable Mils CA
thArine Summers, of this city.
To those Concerned in MILLS in tit
United Statu.
OLIVER EVANS, late of the state ol
Delaware, informs the public, that he
has removed to Philadelphia, No. 437,
North Second-street, where he will thank
fully receive any applications for the tifcof
his Patent Improvements on Mills, and the
art of manufacturing flour. He will fur
nifli those who are not fnfliciently acquain
ted with the principles of his improve
ments, with drawings and descriptions,
that will enablj them to erect ail the
different machines r.ecefiary to perforin the
operations of cleaning, grinding,
and ofbonltinp over the middlings or coarse
meal, and grinding it over with the grain,
Io as ro finifh all together, thereby milking
the grcan-ft quantity offupei nns flour, thAi
the grain wiil produce atone operation- —
He has been at much expense in colle i'.ir
the different and molt approved conflrnc
tions of mills anil plans for boultiug. and
the quality, size, and manner of the mill
f'cones, suitable to the power of the mill,
and quality of the arain : and will afHit in
planning rnles from the foundation, hnd
make drawings thereof, if required. He
has for sale, boultin.g cloths and mill-stones
of the firft quality, at the lowelt prices,
which he will war rant. If theftones prove
not good, they will be received -gain. and
the colt of carriage paid Those who ap
ply for either (tones or cloths, wi.l pleale
to mention the power of the mill, size of
the bonlting-reels, qualify of the grain,
and oil what bulinefs it is to run. Orders
by post, or otherwise, u ill be as punctually
attended to as if the parties were present.
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I Have claims to about two hundred and
fifty thousand acres of LAND in the Hate of
Kentuckey, in different parts of that country,
some of which 1 know to be equal to any ; all
of which J am inclined to dispose of, either by
T.tire sale, or by admitting one, or two partners,
to whom the agency on the whole will be com
mitted. »
One fourth of the contra# will be required in
hand, either in cafli, merchandize, or such aflcts
as may be converted to active ule, the residue
may be apportioned in convenient irllalments.
The pure hafers to give fecunty, on the land,
or otherways,as suits them.
Knowing that there is a prejudice against the
titles of land in that slate, which is more general
than just, J am willing to stipulate in the con
tract, that a discount, or d>:du£ion, fl*«ll be
made, where any land may be loft, by reason of a
defective title.
Any person inclining to such a purchase, is re
quested to write to me by pott, jn answer to
whom, more particular information will be given.
17 EN R Y BANKS.
Richmond March 2c, 1793. 2a w tf.
WAS LOST,
YES'I ERDAY on the Y ik road, betwixt
Philadelphia and the Crooked Biilet, a
BOND, Irom Jfaac Lewis, to the fubfciiber, for
the lum of two hundred pounds, payable the fiift
ttf April 1793- —Any perfen finding the (oir.e,
and delivering it to John Moore, Esq. fcnkiji
town, William M'Calh, Abingdon, Thomas
H >uj.h, at the Crocked-Billet, or to the fubfori
6er, (hall be handsomely regarded.
JOSEPH HART.
April 2 x 79- 3 r 2aw
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By JOSEPH CRUKSHANK, in Mar
ketJlrett,
LETTERS
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states, {hewing the neceflity 0/confining the pub
ic revenue to a fixed proportion of the net pro
luce of the land, and the bad policy and injuttice
>f everv species of indirect taxation and comnjei*
ia I regulations .
BY A FARMER.
Also, may be haci at the fame place, a few co.
.ies of the FARMER'S LETTERS, containing
J&rvations on the. dangerous fchnne of Governor
)uer and Mr, Secretary Hamiltoh to eltablilh
National Manula&ures.
Feb. 22. 3t. law
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