National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-04-20 00:00:00, page 3

dnri - t the Air.? "lean war, if t hey bad had
Loni;'i i England they would luve (erved
ii ill ii thev did M. de Lainot, tor lending
form tr.-tiin* information into Oltend, a
neutr d cou itry.
•' Ycllerday arrived from Calcutta, af
ter apaffaije of tour montus and 15 days,
the finp America, Captain Bright*
Bythis arrival we have received accounts,
thai Tippoo Saib has so far complied with
the requisitions of the treaty, as tu pay two
pagodas of the three which lie was to pay
F.ng 1 ill; Tippoo j two lons a,..
Hill remaining at Calcutta.
It ape irs that the fticcefs of the Englilr
a-raimt' nvpoo,-waspnucipally attributed
to the bravery ot jtMTie Americans (about
60 :-i":)-«tiber),-\vho were officers in the
army of Lord Conjwallis. These Ameri
ca 1■; ware taken dur.mg the late war 111 A
inVrica, fen over to London as prii'oners,
"iid from thence, sent to the East Indies as
pivate '.oldiers; where, by their good con
duit they were promoted.
It was fnppofed in India, when the Ame
rica came away, that Tippoo certainly
would mke another attempt 011 the Eng
- li a t -.eh 'ft favourable opportunity. 1 his
re'We" i nhitions man appears tar from
b1 fatistied with the late treaty, and it
■ fVgnch were to thinly ot an attack up
on the- j lilh fettlepVents in India, Tip
bo-> nould be a powerful friend to thein,
I) l,<\ tbe fatal to the!: a fph.
A number of American vtiiels had r_ilec
for O i?nd, laden with fugir, when the
America came away.
The Am ric.i's cargo consists almost en
tirely of sugar.
Extract of a letter to a rcfpeitable mer
"e\'iitile house in this city, dated Fal
mouth, Feb. Ij, via Philadelphia.
The Enclifh governme it havn' lately gi
ven i'i per barrel for flour, and in pro
port' 5 " 1 or wh£at, to'Sie landed in Greai
Britain, (b u omy by American bottom*
tiiey , intinne to parchafe thereat and the
French agents alio. We are la.idirtg her,
so ne cargoes fold to our government, anc.
others we are about to forward to France,
by order of our orre^ondents; prices keej:
lip in S,l lin and Portugal. so that we think
the cargoes expected, will lell wel., unlel.
our eoverjinient ihoukl.ceaft to purchase.
We fold a few d-iys since, a cargo ot 2 c
ton i of flour, at 345. per barrel, (uperfine,
aid vs tine. If the war continues we ex-
D-d American vslL-lswiU get good flight,
v , emb -.r-ro is laid 0:1 all Enghlh veli-U.
20th Feb. Li said that our government
hope to buy under 34s per barrel "
PHILADELPHI A.
Apr.ii- 20.
It is said the State of Delaware is to be
invited to an union with Pennfylvama ant
Mar/iand, for the purpose ot removing the
obftrttfiioiis in the Sufquehan.ia, and ren
d-ring that river navigable through its le
ver irbrancbes to the tide water ot the
Chefapeke ; and of opening a communica
tion between the bay of Chefapeke and the
river Delaware, by means ofa canal, whicl
it i, faid,ne«,ds scarcely exceed eight mile:
in length to accomplilh so important a.,
object.
In our paper of January 26, under the
Philadelphia bead, mention was made of
the brig A. B. C. Capt. Bartlett, (bound
from Cape Fear to the Chefapeke) having
ftriuk Oil Cape Lookout Shoals, 011 the e
vening of the Bth of December lalf, and in
that lit Ition being abandoned by her ere w,
who with difficulty, saved themselves in the
boat, and arrived fate on the main beach,
to or 11 miles iiorthweftward ot theipot
where the misfortune happened.—lt since
appears, tnat the brig, alter being deserted
by' her crew, drifted from th« flioal 111U1
deep water, upon the riling of the tide,
without having received any damage i and
was soon after met with 40 leagues eatt
ward of the continent, by an EiifiMb vetiel,
who put a mailer and 5 or 6 feainen 011
board. She has since arrived fate at the
i[land ofGueriifevin the Englilh channel.m
good condition, with 275 lilids. ot tobacco
on board, a quantity of hides, indigo, &c.
—I* rom all which it that the
crew, by whom (lie was abandoned, fut
fercd themselves to be frightened befoic
they were hurt.
From the result of several curious expe
riments made by i\lr. Blanchard in h;s as
cent on the 9th of January bit, it appears,
thUt when he was at the height oi 5812 feet
from the furface of the earth, he found,
from the mean result ol several obferva
> tinns, 02 jn; Isa lions of the as teries in lac
space of a minute; whereas, on the ground
f>»nly 88 were bbfervable in the fame time.
—With a Ipadttone, which on the earth
raffed five pounds and an half weight, a
voirdupoife, Mr. B!anchard,at the height
:;t)Ove mentioned, found its power scarcely
-fufficicnt to raise 4 ounces. —The highefl
elevation in this aerial voyage was 968 fa
thoms 4 feet ; or i mile 532 leet.
An Alexandria paper gives a particular
detail of the improvements made and ma
king in the navigation of the Potowmack,
above the tide water. 4t Boats are now
xoiuinuaiiy palling from Cumberland to
and from the interior fe.tdementS; and it is
computed that f rom l'ii:(?en to twenty lho»i
---fanci barrels of Hour, besides iron, tobacco,
arid wheat, will be brought down the Po
towniack, through its improved navigation,
•ii the courfs ol the prcfert year. The
town of Cumberland ii said to be rapidly
growing, and the country about it iucx'eal
mg fait 111 inhabitants."
The public works carrying on in the city
of Wafhiiigton now employ iio men ; and
about as many more are occupied in erect
ing private dwelling Jioufcs, mills, &c. and
making other improvements in the vicinity.
Do£tpr Samuel Ho'.ten, is elected fede
ral representative from the State ofMaf
fachufetts.
We hear from the eaftvvaril, that Petes
Colt, Kiq. treasurer of the date of Con
necticut, is appointed fnperintendant of the
manufactory at Paterfon, New-Jenfey, with
i salary of two thoul'and dollars a year ;
which appointment he has accepted.
"The plan of a New Confiitution for the
Republic of France, we are informed, was
to have been laid before the French' N
ational Convention oil the 15th ofFebruary.
On Monday the sßth of January, Lord
Seorge Gordon appeared in the EngitO)
:ourt of kings bench, for the purpose of giv
[iig bail for his good behaviour for the term
us 14 years (according to his sentence in
17 38 ;) the bail he offered proving infuffi
cient (neither of them being worth more
than 100 I.) his lordship was remanded to
Newgate till futiicient bail could be had.
There is a report current (said to have
arrived frpm the V\ eft Indies, by way of
New-London) that the inhabitants of
Guadaloupe and Martinique had surren
dered those islands to the Englith, and that
Britilh flags were displayed on the forts of
both islands.
Opt. Dixon, a celebrated Englilh sea
comm uider, and well known for his cir
cumnavigator)' voyages, upon a late vilit
to Bermuda, fixed the latitude of St.
Georpe's, in tnat island, from the mean
refult"of a number of accurate observati
ons to 32 deg. 22 min. 20 seconds, N. and
longitude 64 deg. 33 min. W.—He advi
les navigators steering in a parallel of la
titude for Bermuda, to prefer 32 dcg. 8
mill, inllead of 32.25. as generally laid
down in the printed tables.
The Earl of Dorchelter (Sir Guy Carle
ton) is the person mentioned as appoifted
ambafi'idor from the Englilh court to the
United States, and maybe daily expe£ted.
Extract of a letter from London, dated
February 6,
" I have herewith sent you a package
of papers ; you will fee in them nothing
but mifreprcfentations of French affairs,
as all the pfepers in London are at open
\ ar witn the French, except two, viz. the
1 M6rning Chronicle,' anil the • Argus'.
You will fee in those which I have sent
you, the debate upon war with France ; it
has been carried without .1 division, and in
three days, from this date, "War againlt
France' will be declared in London. This
nicht, imprefling took place all over Eng
land, a certain forerunner of a bloody
war : We are much attached to a monar
chical government and the very idea of a
republican; sickens parliament, as well as
the low and illiterate, the latter of wljom
are very numerous here. All the enlight
ened, independent, and dilinterefted part
of the kingdom, are againlt going to war
with France, and I think very justly too ;
why Ihould England, that is called a ' free
country' with to maintain its own liberty,
and, at the fame time, endeavor to destroy
that of another country ? This T will as
sert, that there is not the smallest iota, or
the leaff veltige, of that boasted freedom
to be found in England, which is so indus
triously, and so poir.poufly, difTcminatcd
throughout the world. Some objects at a
distance, appear more desirable. than when
closely obfei ved. My de; r fir, our gov
ernment are in the greatest dread and ter
ror, left the French ll'ould be as good as
their word, that is, of landing ijo.ooo men
on our coafl, which they positively sent us
word they would do, if we should make
war, and join the combination of tyrants
ar;ainft them. I can allure you, were filch
a lircumftance to take place, they would,
in the courfeof three days, find their num
ber.! increased to 600,000, as the republi
can party in this country are very numer
ous and determined, and I hope will in a
short time follow the glorious example of
their Gallic neighbors. I think by the time
you receive this, that Dumourier will be
in poffeliion of Amlterdam, & very likely
of the seven United Provinces. Heis now
very near being at O.tend, only waiting to
hear the refill t of the British court respec
ting war—he is a brave General, a worthy
man, and the verj' quintef ence of a repub
lican. I am sorry for De la Fayette —he is
(till a clofeprifoner.—Now is the time for
America to (hew her gratitude to her
friendly ally France. Now is the.lime to
afiift iVi the (truggles for liberty. I expect
before I die. to-fee #he time, when kings
will be very ftarce in Europe."
It i: remarkable (fays a correspondent)
that the militarv successes, or misfortunes
of the Fren claret he thcrmcmeter of Ha
ttoial re ; \r". ;1 i r i this country. ' Dum fe
bene res geruut' (fays the proverb) ' inul
tos nunit'i übis amicus'. While a man is
prosperous, all the world are liis friends :
when ctherwife, all the world join in
trainpling him under foot. On the 14th
of July Lit, the anr.iveifary of the immOr
ml French revolution, fcatcely a hundred
persons could be found to meet together
to celebrate (and that in a very humble
manner t>oo) this interesting event. But
110 sooner did the news arrive of Dumour
ier's fticceffes in Flanders than toasts were
every where drank, and tons of wine puz
zled down to " the brave defenders of the
rights of men."—Now again, when the
nation hasfour,d it ' nectlfary' to cut oh
their king's head, nothing but execrati
ons againit the French are heard from the
united shrieks of a monarchical junto ir
this country ; and the political thermo
meter is fallen low, alrnoft to the freez
mg point. JBut, should ' the despotic com
bination'be again defeated, the enfm !
summer, wcMTiay expeiS the mercury w.i
rife to blood-heat ; and thus, in ail pi ba
bility a certain set will go 011, ." to follow
ilill where fortune leads the w \"—to tilt
disgrace of national chnrafter, and the re ;
publican.laurels so honourably acquired ir
the late war.
Extract of a letter Ir- m Dublin. Feb. i"
" The people here ire exceedingly dif
contented with the r representation 1
parliament, and the weight of taxes the)
are obliged to bear Indeed there is now
every appearance of m :iters coming to i
crilis—by the few papers 1 fend, you mo)
form some id-ea of the popnl ir ferment ,
li nd of the withes of the people;-! large
li' these willies are not compl 'd will:
! which I doubt) the consequence ir.av b.
fatal.
" Trade and bufinefsj of every kind are
llmoftir: rely put a flop to. Banks and
Honied men are afraid of a revolution,
jnd will not discount the very bell l>THi
:hat are produced to them. The confe
rence i that fever: 1 very
louses have ■nd will be l'ged to ii'o' l
payment.—The con 'trypeople are'making
no remittances; exp :ting, I suppose,
oon to pay their debts in an ea ; manner-
Such, my friend, arc tlie lament ble effects
if a government u hich reft , for
lot on the many, but the ft w ; a govern
ment. under which the great lass of the
people have been long fubje-cted to every
ippreflion an.l indignity that aristocratic
nfoience could impoie upon them. Wher
uch a people are driven to th. 1 last defpe
raterefource of the wretched, to burst
:heir bands by force, how horrible the con
sequences that must eufye.
" Revenge of accumulated wrongs can
not fail, on fiich oocafions, to hurry an ig
norant multitude far beyond those bounti
ivithin which.. in the eye of reason and
noderation, they ought to confine them
"elvps. tt is strange that men in power
will not forefee these confequencas, and
juard againfi them, by making it the inte
: eft of the people to 'iipport the govern
ment untler which they live."
By accounts f rom Holland, the natural
deftnee of that country is to be applied to
in cafe of invasion. Great trails of the
lands of the states general were already
laid under water, and precautions taken
for the fame purpose, 011 the rivers and
different states of Zeland. On or about
the middle of February, the Dutch patri
ots and their adherents who have been in
a ltate of banishment ever since the year
1787, assembled at Antwerp, where they
formed into a legion called the Dutch le
gion, meant to attend C.en. Dumourier in
his attack upon Holland.
Upwards of three tiioufand pieces of
larL;e cannon have been shipped from Eng
land into Ireland during the late winter,
with the greatefl train of field artillery
eyerfent to that country since the expedi
tion of king William. These, with 50,000
troops, it was thought would be fufficient
to secure the dependence of Ireland upon
Great-Britain.
According to letters from England, the
government was buying up American fu
perfine fiour the middle of February, at 345.
Ilerlingper barrel ; and a price in propor
tion for wheat, to~be landed only in A me
rican bottoms."—Fine flout/was at the fame
time felling at 325. the barrel. In Spain
and Portugal the price of these articles was
alio kept up.
The fame letters mention great commo
tions in the north of Ireland. As their last
peaceable measure, the people were ap
pointing delegates to draw up and present
a petition to the king, to be relieved f rom
fuudry grievances and opprefiions.
It is slated in a letter from Port au
Prince (March 13) that owing to diflenti
011s in the army, and the continual deser
tions that were taking place, the negroes
were again getting pofleflion of the plains
in thot neighbourhood, and it was thought
would put the finishing stroke to the pro
perty left in that quarter. A demand had
b en made 011 all maflers of vefiels in the
harbour tofurnifh one third of their crews
to go out against. tlie insurgents ) which
was not complied with, and in revenge no
Vessel was si life red to leave the harbour-
It is stated in a letter from Cette, in the
south of France, that an embargo was laid
on the flipping of all nations in that port,
on the jtfi of February . Tli.?rc were tl.etr /
iix Eoglilh and twelve ptitch trading vef-
Pels.in Cette harbour, and upwards el _ic.o
fail weri> in several adjacent ports, ail of
u liich it was thought would he ftiitd, in
consequence of the declaration of war.
" We learn from good authority (fays a.
letter from Madrid, dated Jan. 27) that a
treaty ps neutrafity was this day iigiied
between France and Spain.—The court
went into.mourning'for the death of Lonis,
to continue three months."—lt was the
general opinion at Cadiz about t:.e li; It c.i
March, that if Spain took an • >e p irt ii»
the w ar,it would be I; - : favourof the l'i ciitb,
as the Spaniards w ere confident their forte
was not fufiicient -to oppose the progress of
:he French to the very capital, it invaded
oy iand. The body of the Spanish nation
was so inimical to England, as to induce a
relief, that if the king of 1 pain declarec!
ivar, it would cost him his herd.' Twelve
ail of the line were in cominifr.on at Ca
:liz, but few or no sailors could be pfocu
td to ma:j them, and the court did not
jare toifiue press-warrants.
EXTR A C T S
From French papers, to Feb. 5, i
Paris, Jan. 28. It is to be be wifhe'd
:liat periect tranquility may soon be re
lercet within our wails. An apparent
'lni is now prevalent, : ~'Se ft . dfi 01
ear and disquiet. People are coilftantly
,n lear of feeing a repetition of thedread
ill Iceues of the 10th of August a".d tile
dos September, when the i inr ' To-c •
cignty oi the people 1 wreakc .evince
ipon the lia\eo oi lift.n.;rchy 1 rr.,nc.':il'i
y,' however, feerns to bf on t'<e ..in ' T
land, but our relative fit:;:-o 'i ■. ~
3f.Eurl.pe is riot .1 little fieri on h v -
nid-i le preparations of F: 0 hj»
•ei rptiou Ihe has 31 vtto the eld minifier
Sreteuil, GemTrtl m-in ie, aiul the ci-cO;-
• ahtbifliopof Sc. Pol la Maiche j the ne-
Sociatior.s between the courts of London
11 -d Vienna ; and a number of other Cir
mftances fully prove that a" prodigi; 1 s
'ttulion of human blood, both 011 iaoel aiul
ea, will be one of the confequences'of tl.a
■ rench revolution. Piepar.tion ai'. "ov.'
joing on vigorously in ail our pvrt . 1
in iinmenfe land elfabiifliment is set oa
out tor J/93, no lefatha 502,000 men, of
.vhich 55,000 are to be cavalry and 20.-ccx>
irtiilery. We count touch u| c:: he latter,
• ■ it has hitherto, and w ill probably always •
*ive us a dei i r. e superiority Over oar c:>
;mies. who put their confidence principal*
y in their cavalry, which certainly merit..
:he highelt praises.—The means of fup
3orting and providing for fiuh an iminei.fo
'orce as France propose-to put on loot,
will occasion some deliberation. It ban
ieen proposed in the Convention to i - d
General Dumouricr so thetJ.lnifter Facte
11 the department of war, and Collot u'
Me.'boU to succeed Roland, ill the Vnteri
>r, whilst Cambon is named as financier-
Jen. Dumourier left this capital Tall
■veiling on a vilit to the wf'fiem frontier
jf Flanders,-ami to arrange his army for
:he ensuing campaign. The Austrian for
es are affembiing in great numbers on
:he fide of Cologne, and have joined tile
irmy under Gen. Clairfavt. Tiie Pruffia'll
irrny, wlnch is now on its march, ij to
:o-operate with troops that aretobefenc
rom England, to make a defcont on Flan
ders, with a view to reconquer the Auflri
-311 low countries, the inhabitants oi which
rre rather soured againfl the French fliice
the decree of the 15th of December. To
oppose the combined attack of so many
powers, and at the fame time maintain
our own superiority, troops have been
:lifpatched daily, for several weeks part,
m great numbers to the Belgic provinces :
but while this qnarter is well secured, the
the tipper Rhine is left, in a maimer, de
fencelefs.
2. It is very certain that Spain it deter •
mined to art agaiiilf us. Twenty ship,.-, of
the line and ten frigates are already luted
out ill her ports ; and from the connexi
ons that subsist between the Spanifli and
Engliflicourts, there is no doubt but f nr.
land v\ ill be added to the coalesced pow
ers. To make head againd so iinmenfe'a
combination as that which now threatens
us.it is proposed to fend every fifth 11 „n
in France to the defence of bis country
It is-even aliened that the municipalities
have received orders to postpone all mar
riage licenses, that a national militia im.y
be r.iifeel with the ntmort promptitude
The realon given for such violent mealurcs
are the fafety of the nation, which is the
supreme law ; and that to attain the tem
ple of liberty the temple of war mult fn ft
be pa fled l 1
tfi THE Contributors to the Public
School house of Cermantown are hereby .
notified that an annual ] leclion of Trui
ters for f.iid school, agreeable to charter
will be held 011 Monday theiixth of May
next. ''
JOSEPH FERR !;l, Sec.
April 18, 1793. ?
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