National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-10-12 00:00:00, page 2

France, being no longer protefled, are cx
pofed to any. attack, the allies may chufe
to make upon them.
Dnmourier, is (aid to have purchased an
estate near Brufiels; others fay he lias
gone to France, to propose an union of
tfie different parties. If the former was
true, he no longer hopes to fee the Low
Countries invaded. II" the Litter, iuftrad
of uniting the French, he may himfelf be
united with the guillotine.
The name of the commander of the
French fleet is Legal. He is an officer of
tried courage, and great experience in his
prufciiiun. This will readily be admitted,
when it is known that he was Suftrein's
eaptain during the late war in the East-In
dies, when that officer so gallantly fought
the British fleet under the command of Sir
Edward Hughes. ..
The National Commissioners at Corsica
have returned to France. The island has
renounced all future connexion with the
•Republic.
A letter from Hague, dated Aug. 2, fays
according to the last letters from the
camp of the king of Prussia, all the French
troops had left Mentz on the 26th ult. the
king had quitted his head quarters atßo
denheim, and established them at Kirche
im -Poland, from which it was concluded
that further operations were forthwith
to be commenced. On examination there
had been found at Mentz 220 French and
iBo German pieces of cannon and mortars,
300,0001b. of good gunpowder, and corn
and wine in abundance, and that it was
supposed the discord among-ke garrison
had caused the farrender of Mentz.
By a letter from Tournay, dated the 2d
in(l. there is intelligence that the r-ommif
{ioners of theconventioa at L'lle left that
city 011 their way to Paris, after giving
orders to move off part of the heavy artil
lery and of the garrison towards Paris;
and they are further (tripping the maga
zines of that place. This information has
given rife to a report that Lisle had offered
to furrendt-r.
A letter from Constantinople.dated June
18. favs "All the attempts of the French
y-irty have failed. M. Deforchcs only re
iiJes here as a merchant. On his firtt ar
rival, the Porte forbade any of the inter
preters to visit, or receive any visits from
Jiim. In fine, the repeated defeats fuffer
ed by his nation in the course of the lalt 6
months have determined the Divan to fol
low the example of the other courts. It is
fuopofed that the arrival of the combined
fleets in the Mediterranean has not a little
.contributed to this refolutiou on the part
-of the Sultan."
By letters from Oftend, dated the6th
instant, there is advice that the ac€ounts of
the successes of the Royalifls are con
firmed, and that moreover the Republican
-army in La Vendee is dilbanding itfelf.
That of the North is following the exam
ple.
The people at Paris sccufed Cuftine of
feeing the occasion of the surrender of
Mentz, and loudly call for his head. The
tfon of that general is arreftcd.
The removal of the Queen of France
from the Temple to the Conciergerie.took
place at midnight ; an hour, at which the
flreets of Paris are now free from almost
all paflengers,.except the nightly patroles.
One of the mod ordinary carriages, kept
for hire, was used upon the occasion, and
her majesty was not permitted to take with
her any female attendant. Henriot, the
■commandant of the national guards, St.
Andre, a commifiioner of the Convention,
and one Mecon, whose office is not fpeci
fled, rode in the carriage with her, which
wasefcorted by 150 chalfeurs. Parties of
the national guards were polled at every
avenue, at each of which the carriage was
flopped, while Henriot himfelf gave the
parole.
On the 31ft ult. between three and four
•o'clock in the afternoon, general Culline
-was conduced from the Abbaye prifon,be
fore his judges, the revolutionary tribu
nal, to undergo the firft secret interrogato
ry. An imiuenfe crowd of people attend
ed the general to the place of juflice,
■whither he was escorted by a flrong divi
sion of Parisian light horse. As soon as he
made his appearance, the blood-thirsty
mob vociferated inceflantly "To the
guillotine 1 wretch !—To the guillotine 1
According to the accounts from Poland,
-we are aflured that a New Constitution
•will be erected upon the foundations of the
Constitution of the year 1775. The fol
lowing articles have transpired :
1. The King in future lhall not be elec
ted by the whole nation, but by a new
Diet, in which the number of the members
fliall be multiplied to three times as many
as in an ordinary Diet.
2. The Diet lhall assemble every four
year 3, instead of every twe years. The
king lhall in the interval govern the na
tion, with the assistance of the Permanent
Couiicil.
3. The present king (hall employ three
millionsout of the fix millions of Poiifh
florins, which compose his rerenues, in
paying off his personal debt*.
We are further informed, that the pre
sent government has found ways and means
to raise sixteen millions of florins, in order
to supply the wants of the bcw civil lift
which has been granied.
Generals Tutolmifl and prince George
Dolgorucki, are expefled in a flioi t time
from Peterlburg, to take the government
ps the new Polilh provinces wilder the do
mination of the Empress.
London, Aug. ij. It is worriiy of remark
that Llie Gazette account oi the capitula
tion of Metitz omits the signatures; no
names, and consequently no defci iptions of
parties fighting appear. Was this a paltry
artifice to conceal f'omething that looked
like an acknowledgment of the French
Republic by the king ©f Pruflia ?
The illuminations recommended by the
treasury papers, are no doubt meant to en
able us to fee the great advantages we gain
by taking towns in Flanders, for the empe
ror and king. An honeit citizen was allied,
why he illuminated on the joyful news of
the surrender of Valenciennes, to whom
he answered, I think.there never wa« more
occasion, for 1 am i'ure we are all in the
dark relative to the matter.
It is liippofed, on a moderate calculati
on, that illuminations in this country, in
conlequence of our victories ill America,
during the late war, did not toft less than
ioo,cool. ..
The experience of last campaign afford
ed a llrong presumption of the elfeft that
the taking of Valenciennes and Condr
will have upon the French. Till the lols
of Longwy Veiduii they seemed to (hew
a torpid indifference as to the events of
the war ; bat 110 sooner did those places
fall, than the whole nation rushed to arms.
The Marquis De la Fayette, made an
observation at the memorable period of
the American war, which applies molt
tiro ugly to the projected invasion offrance.
" The Englilh (laid he) are mad: They
march through a country, and they think
that by so doing; they may conquer it 1"
In the Netherlands the a.htd armies
have gained very great arid unexpected
(lores of ammunition by the caplure of
Valenciennes.
Lille has long been almost ftirrounded,
and it fecms reasonable to expert, that the
blockade will now be rendered complete,
as the general (Lamorliere) who has hi
therto commanded in that town, is carried
prisoner toParis, accused of having negleif
ed to provide the means of defence. But
among the principal operations of the re
mainder of the campaign, that which is
spoken of with the greatest probability, i»
the intended liege oi Dunkirk, by the Bri
tifli,Hanoverian and Hellian forces ; while
the Prince of Saxe Coboui'g, after taking
Maubeuge, Boucliaiu, and possibly Cam
bray, will be able effectually to cover the
beliegers from any attack in the field, and
to pursue the advantages ef the war as fait
as they may open. To dijplay the utility
or importance of this great project, would
lead us back into half the history of all our
wars with France since the Revolution ;
but its immediate benefit will be the fecti
rity of Oftend, during the winter, so ne
cessary to the debarkation of our forces,
provisions and ammunition.
The arrival of the Weft-India home
ward bound fleet, is ainongft the fortu
nate events of the war.
From the Mediterranean we have in
telligence, that the French National Corn
millioners are returned or expelled from
Corsica : but we know not yet under what
atifpices general Paoli willfet up his stan
dard : whether the independency of his
native island is to be once more asserted,
or whether the ueceflity of foreign suc
cours and protection, exaggerated benefits,
and ambitious alliances, will not prove
fatal to the visionary liberty of a country
which has neither internal resources nor
piiyfical means of felf defence, or the pow
er, perhaps, of dispensing with the dange
rous guaranty of some despotic benefaifor.
PITTSBURGH, Oaober 5.
By Mr. Achefon who arrived at Wash
ington on Friday tie 27th ult. from head
quarters in 18 days, we are informed, that
the army is said to be about 3000, in good
health, good spirits, and in a hijli slate of
discipline. Thehorfe about 300 —in good
plight, and cr.pable of any service. The
road to Fort Jefferton well made, and im
proved since the last campaign.—Sixty
thousand bushels of corn were raised in the
neighbourhood of Fort Jefferfon this sum
mer, by the garrison. Waggons had been
biilily employed in drawing out the stores,
until orders came to defilt, left ujfibrage
fliould be given to the Indians, and the
treaty fliould be disturbed. But 011 the
express arriving from the President of the
United States, announcing the result of the
treaty, and giving orders to prepare to car
ry on a campaign, the Kentucky volunteers
were called, and it was expected the army
would be ready to move in four days.—
General Wayne had appointed the Colonels
of the volunteers; the Colonels appointed
the Majors ; the Majors the Captains ; the
Captains the Subalterns ; and also chose
and nominated the soldiers whom they
wished to accompany them ; in which cafe
it was a point of honor not to refufe.
Piomingo, or the Mountain Leader, the
Chickafaw chief, was 011 his way with 20c
warriors, 15 had arrived at the camp ; 5c
were at Lexingtau, &c-
PHILADELPHIA.
Saturday, Otiober 12.
On Friday last the following gentlemen
were elefled by the citizens ot' the city of
Philadelphia,and the diftrifts of the North
ern Liberties, anil Southwark—THOMAS
MIFF LI K,Croveruor. —Jacob Hiltzheimer,
George Latimer, Jolm'Swanwick, Benja
min R. Morgan, Henry Kammerer, AV
prefpntatives in the Ajfembiy.—John Lea
cock, Jeremiah Fifiier, Coroners.—George
Forepaugh, County Commifiioiter.
A brig from Derry, and schooner from
Grenada, prizes to tlie privateer Sans Cu
lottes, are arrived at Baltimore.
On the 24th lilt, arrived at Providence
(R. I.) the {hip Hope, Capt. Benjamin
Page, in five Months and ten days from
Canton. — Capt. Page failed from Provi
dence, March 12, 1792, for the Falkland
I Hands, where he was detained three
months by the severity of the weather :
from thence he went to the islands of
Triitan d'Acnnha, Cape of Good-Hope,
and New-Holland : thence through the
Friendly Iflrinds, visited the Island of Yi
nian, and arrived at Canton the ljth oi
March follow ing; he departed from Cantot;
the isthof April,and touched at St. Helena
the 1 ft of Aug. where he met a French India
man, froui Pondidierry, taken by the Pow
erful, an English 74 gun fliip. — Capt. Page
on this coast fell in with the brig Dolphin,
Capt. Thomas Bolton, from Virginia,
bound to Cadiz, in a very leaky condition,
and oomlufted her sale ini» Newpoit.
The following letter, rfgned by fix gen
tlemen, inhabitants of Elkton, to a person
in this city, dated October 4, breathes too
high a fpii it of philanthropy to be omit
ted. Its republication may also tend to
foften the treatment of the neighbouring
tort us towards our fugitive inhabitants. —
" Dear Sir-,
" On hearing your latter by this
polt read, it deeply iniprelied us with the
alarming and dangerous situation of jcrnr
felf and a number of our Philadelphia
friends; we have therefore briefly to pro
pose, that yourfelf and family, with ftich
of our friends as you may choose to call
upon, with our proportion, may leave your
distressed city without delay—we would
not wish to confine you to numbers—from
20 to 60 could be accommodated among!!
lis —such fare as our village affords, would
be cheerfully disposed of to render your
rime agreeable. We consider business a
secondary object, when your own and fa
mily's health is at (take—we would suggest
a plan which we think might eahly be ef
fected, viz—yourfelf and family, and such
others of our friends as would incline to
join you, might supply youifelves with ne
cefTaries, and take a house in the country
for lix or seven days, which would come
within our regulation of quarantine, then
to move down among us, where we fliould
cheers ully dispose ot you. Should any car
riages or horses be wanting for vour ac
commodation to bring you to this place,
please mention it to us, and we shall cheer
fully fend them on to you—do leave the city.
Your allured friends, in behalf of the
citizens of Elkton and its vicinity.
Signed by fix inhabitants of Elkton.
Extract of a letter from the Territory
South ot the Ohio, Sept. 4.
" Times here wear but a gloomy afpefl.
The frontier is daily hariaffed by thelndi
ans. On the 28th of August, a party, con
lilting of about 300, killed Lieut. James
Tedford, of the United States troops, and
a Mr Jackson, as they were gathering corn
in a field tor their horses, near Henry's Na
tion —They have lately burnt many homes
011 Nine Mile, and destroyed a prodigious
quantity of wheat, rye and corn. We
hope Governor Blourit, on his return tc
this territory, will be invested with power
to destroy these barbarous tribes."
From the fame, dated Sept. 1.4.
" On the 30th of August, some Indians
killed one young woman and scalped an
other in Washington county ; and, 011 the
y.h inft. a party of them wounded four
perrons, and scalped one, about nine miles
from Green court-house ; a house was also
attacked by them, but they were forced to
retreat by the owner thereof and one of
his daughters, who fired several rounds,
and wounded some of them. On the 16th,
another party of the lavages killed a wo
man and child, on Nine Mile."
Theßritidi packet Duke of Cumberland
arrived at New-York on Friday the 4th
instant. She brings little or nothing of later
intelligence than by the arrivals in the De
laware. Some of the London papers by
her obliquely report. That the French at
Valenciennes, after having delivered up
the fortrefs, by the springing of a mine,
had effected a dreadful' (laughter among
the combined army. Such an event, how
ever improbable, may have happened, as
it is certain that subterraneous works
for some time engaged a department of
the besieged.
On Saturday lafl failed from New-York,
oh a ci'uife, (evoral Frsnch fkipi of war,
antler the command of Admiral Sercy;
viz. L'Eole, flag iliip, of 74 gnus, Admiral
Sercy, commander—Le Jupiter, 74, Capt.
Bompard ; La Concorde, 44, Van Dogen;
La Piecieufe 36, Vallegue ; Le Celt 18,
Bovoftiu ; brig Cornelia (late the l ittle
Democrat) 14 guns, Capt. Amiott; (loop
of war Ceres.
On the 28th tilt, the Governor of Mafia
chtifetts prorogued the Legislature of that
ftateto the 3d Wednesday of January next.
In abridging the correspondence betwetm
M. Clarkfon, Mayor of this city, and Mr.
John Broome, Chairman of the New-York
health-committee, in our last, a small in
miftake was committed thro' hurry.—
Mr. Clarkfon's answer to Mr. Broome was
precisely as follows,
" Sir, —Your letter of the 26th ult. was
not received by me until yesterday evening.
This delay was occasioned ty the general
derangement which hath taken place in this
city by reason of the prevailing malignant
disorder. I have embraced the earliest op
portunity of laying it before the committee,
who request me to inform you, thatnot
withdandingour calamitous fituation.a',l ne
ceelfaries and comforts are here to be found
in abundance ; and that hitherto the means
of obtaining them have arifeii from the en
gagements of a few individuals to the 1 * k
of North-America, whose liberality upon
the occaiion is commensurate with 01 r
wants. A re-payment of the aids which \\ e
hitherto have had and which we (hall re
ceive in future is the only matter ot im
portance about which we have the least
reason to be solicitous.
Having thus exactly defcribcd ourfitua
tiou, we refer it to the citizens of New-
York to exercise their benevolence in such
manner as to thcir.felves (hall be moll agree
able-
"Sir, your 1110 ft obedient, humble fer
vaut, Matthew Ci-akkson.
Extract of a letter from Dover, (Dela
ware) to the Editor of the Nations) Ga
zette, dated October 8.
" I 3111 fwrry you have been induced to
publish so erroneous an account, as that con
tained in your paper of the zd, instant, rcf
pe&ing the inhabitants of Milford. You
may be afi'ured that no circumstance of the
kind ever happened there, or in any other
part of this (late. I feel for the wounded
reputation of the good people of Milford
ill particular, and of this state ill general ;
and 1 think that truth and justice tequire
a conl(ydi£lion of the paragraph."
Extract of another letter from Delawrre
itate, on the fame fubjeft, dated Oft. 9.
" In reading your paper of Wednesday
last, I was not a little surprised at a cir
cumstance laid to have taken place at Mil
ford, in Delaware (late, relpefting the seiz
ins and burning a waggon and goods from
Philadelphia; the (tripping, tarring and
leathering a woman,&c—Report fays,there
was foniething not unlike this happened at
Eartoii in the itate of Maryland : but that
the woman and goods palled Milford un
ditturbed, where the waggon belonged,
and was employed to carry them to Eallon.
It is tliererore a very ill-natured relation
of the matter to palm it upon the good
people of Milford, who have taken no such
meafurei. It will therefore be well to cor
rect this matter, so far as relates to Milford
and the Delaware Hate ; and obliße a 3ub
fcriber."
"The editor of the National Gazette can
not be reasonably held responsible for the
Itriit truth of every paragraph that is com
municated for publication. All lie can <!•
n cafe of any article of intelligence prov
ing ill founded, is, (as in tiie"prefent in-
Lance) to seize the earlieit opportunity to
i*et the public right, by contradicting lalfe
iood, from such authentic documents as
nay be handed to liim.Jj
Extract of a letter£from London to a Mer
chant in New-"i ork, dam' Aug. ytli, 1:93.
" We have the pleasure to allure you,
that commercial credit is almolt rcflured
in this city; and although the war cramps
trade a good deal, 110 failures of any con
"equence have happened lately, nor are
any dreaded.—Six per cents are at par—3
aer cents 56—deferred 59—National Bank
liares 11 jl. flerling."
■ibftraft of the proclamation iltiied by Le
ger Felicite Santhonax, Civil Commis
sary of the French Republic, delegated
to the Islands to re-eltab'ilh order and
tranquility, dated Auguft29- 1793.
The preamble informs the slaves that a
lew order of things will arise, and their
former servitude (hall disappear— but that
:hey mult not think that ths liberty they
are to enjoy will be a state of (loth and
■ dlenefs. Sonthonaxthus addressed them:
" In France every one is free, but all
work for their living —At St. Domingo,
fubjeft to the fame laws, you (hall lollow
the fame example.; return 40 your work
or to your former owners. You (hail re
ceive wages for your labor—you (hall be
110 longer fubjeftcd to the humiliating pu
nifliHients whicli w ere formerly inflificd on
you—you lhall no longer be the property
of anoiher, your own (hall be sacred to
you, and y«u (hall live happy. Liberty
draws you out of r«>n-entity into existence
—Shew yourselves worthy of it—abjure
forever indolence and thelt— have tl.e cou