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consequence of any orders fro^ 0w reen
try. Solittle desirous were we of engag
ing with America, in any species of hos
tilities that 'he utmolt endeavors of this
Country hid been ofed for the purpose ct
fuporeffing hostilities between the Indians
and the American States.
•jTavo observations arifefrom the above
Debate —fiifl that it tuns the Portuguesegov
ernment that folicited the intervention of Bri
tain in making the truce with /Ogiers, and
that th injury of the French rajas its jole ob
jed second that Lord Dorchtfer had no in
jlrubhonsfrom the Brinjh Miniflry, to pre
dicate hisfpeecb to the Indians nvhicb now
appears to be the weak child of bis Lerd
fap's dotage. The general appearance of
the debate is favorable to peace ; but out
great complaint of filiation in the Wes In
dies, has not been mentioned —Tbe debate
being 69 days face may occafon it.
rt,>3K O<O<^< ^ooi^^y^t^csi^^o&gi
Sir Francis Baring said, that whether
that letter was or was not a forgery, it
had been ad<d upon, ard was one cir
cumstance, on account of which an em
bargo had been laid on fhipson the zsth
March.
Mr. Wilberforce said, finee that letter
Wat a forgery, instead of being productive
of any rupture between this country and
.America, it would have a contrary effect,
and produce between the two nations a
flrenger union.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, May 28.
We art sorry to fay that accounts were
yerterdav received of thirty, five of our
merchantmen, fame outward and some
homeward, being taken and the greater
part of th°m carried into B est. The loL
is climated at 80,000'.
Several letters frora the army fay that
the battle on Thursday laft,was most obsti
nately fought by the French, that then
have everv re son to believe that they wi:
return to the charge in two days, for nigh
only put anendlo the engagement, and the
irfs of rhe allies by the day's business i
at the meanest computation near 4,000
men.
It is said that an engagement was
fought on the 29th ult. at Nowemiafto.
This intelligence is alb contained in sev
eral letters from Warsaw, in which they
add, that the Ruffians, to the number of
17 000 men. had loft 2,000, men, in kit.
led and wounded, and an equal number in
prisoners.
The three principal cities of the Polish
Dutch, ofLuthuania, viz. Wilna, Grod
no, and Bremen, all rose against the
Ruffians on one and the fame day —lt
was from Grodno, that the Ruffian Gen-
The French army at Coartray, u^der
General P+chegm is made tsp oft he bes
troops of the lin? that could be collected
together in France. Should the combiner
powers succeed in vanquishing and destroy
ing thisarmy,they will weaken the Strength
of the Conventronalifts more etfc&ually,
than by the fucceffrs of several battles.
The a&inn of 23 was maintained with
greater obftinscy,and lasted longer than
any that has taken place during ;he war.
Its duration was ig hours from 6 in th^
morning till 9 at night. Picbegru di
reded the attack in person. At the com
mencement of it, the French artillery was
so well served, the fire so tremendous am
incessant, that the polls of Pick and Tem
pleave were driven in, and the advance:
guardsof the Auilrians and Hanoverians
were forced to fall back,the French silvan
ced and took pcfitffion of a village not a
league dirtant from Tourney. Os this vil
lage they maintained the peffeffion from 2
to fouro'ctock in the afternoon : during the
whole of which time, they kept up a very
heavy fire of mufquetry ; but the batteries
on the Scheldt checking their career, and
finding at length that these batteries could
not be silenced, they were compelled, a
bout five o'clock to retreat by Pick and-
Templeuve, and night put an end to the
adiop.
Kofciu&o is reported to have defeated
the Ruffians on the fhinflant, at Mow
cimafto, with the loss of 1500 killed and
2000 taken prifmers.
The Empress of Russia is marching two
Armies, one of 30 000. and the other of
Ifcodomen, into Poland ; and the King
Os Prussia is marching one of 40,000 men
—Ato / Poor Poland!
J'oret^TL JnlelU^ence.
Mijcellaneous Articles.
era! Prince Sncianoff made a timely es
cape with his troops.
In the new Navigation Aa cf the
French Republic, we remark the following
passage:
66 All Frenchmen are soldiers ; private
property is the property of the State,from
whence it f llo*s, that France can con
tinue the war as long as ihe chooses, and
can have at the commencement of each
campaign 1,200,000 men under arms.
The old debts of the Crown are difeharg
ed by the sale of the eccleGaftical poffef
fior.s, and the domains and property of the
Rebels. The new debts are provided for
by Affignats issued, and to be issued, and
thrfe affignats are secured by 600 000,
oco annual Revenues, and by fifty mill
ions cf estates, which may be at any time
fold.”
Letters from Hambugh, of the 6th
Bate that a (hip had arrived there from
Lfbon, and brought intelligence that
war had again broke out between Portu
.gal and the Dey of Algiers. The latter
demands four millions of piaders ; the
P>rtugefe Government offered to pay
one half, and wished the body of mer
chants to pa, the other, but the latter
have declined the propofat and prefer war
A squadron of eight flips of war is now
getting read to cruize agointt the Alger-
Letters from the army give various de
tails cf the late defy ra e action. Picha
chegru commanded in person. He ad
vanced in great force s far as Tryin, a
fm. 1l village, net a league from Tournay,
on the read to Tourney. The pofi ion
was very favorable to the French, both
their wings and rear belt g covered by a
wood, f) that they ccu d not be turned or
attacked by cavalry. Pichegru's front
was likewise in a great degree fhelteted by
the wood. About fun set the French were
driven from the field of battle, and pursu
ed to some distance. Night only put an
end to the pursuit.
In the adion cf the jEth, twelve women
belonging to the English army were taken
prif mers. O> the 31st they were all sent
tack from Lisle in covered waggons, to
within three miles of Tournay. During
their confinement, they were treated with
great kindness, and had money, and pro
visions given them.
The imperial government has been put
in peffeffion of several important fafts
through the flight of Manfieur Mongail
lard, a Member of the National Conven
tion, who foreseeing that Robespierre
yas about to hand him over to his fangui
nary Tribunal,made his escape from Paris
on the 6th inst. and had the good fortune
to reach the Austrian Netherlands in fafe
ry. This gentleman Bates that through
.he whole extent of France there are Four
Hundred and Fifty Thotfod perfonsip
4 Rate vs imprifenmeatt Th<t 68 mni^
inns of livres (upwards of 28 millions fter
ling) in fpecic are deposited in the Na
ional Treasury. He further asserts, that
seven ninths of the property of that kirg
d^m are at the difpof.j of the Committee
>f Public welfare, in confluence cf the
seizure of the effids of the clergy, the
Emigrants and other persons either guil
-IMined or imprisoned : And that Rober
fpierre exercilesz def,otic authority over
the Convention, which in his hands, i
become merely a cypher.
Government have also received certain
intelligence,(probably by Capelin Doug
a ) that a Short time ago Mr. Hamilton
Rowan landed near B"eG. At firft ht
was arrested as a spy ; but on finding wh.
he was, and what was the occasion of his
flight the Municipality received him with
the greatest h mors, and he was drawn t<
the town house by horses, decorated with
ribbons, See.
The peffeffion of Fort Marlborough
would be but of little service to the enemy,
who hid not a fufficient body of troops to
proceed into the interior part of the conn
try, as, except at the time of the compa
ny's Blips being there, Bencoolen is ar
al'mott uninhabited village—at the best,
however, it could not be an objed wor
thy of attack.—Two companies of Sepoys
are in general the garrilon of Fort M<rl
borough—the number of Europeans it
very incon6derable.
It was yeflerday reported, on the au
charity of a matter cf a foreign vessel ar
rived from India that the settlement of
Bene o!en, had fallen into the hands of
the French.
Letters received by fcveral American
houses in the city, mention that ninety
fail of French merchantmen, from Ameri
ca arrived in Brest harbour ; that Mr.
Jefferfon, the American ambassador to
the French Republic, in the room of Mr.
Morris, who is recalled, is also arrived
lat Brest ; and that a French Merchant-
Iman has been captured by Lord Howe's
Ifieet.
Accounts from Paris announce the con
demnation an execution of 31 farmers
general on the Bth for mal-praftices. A
number of ci devaat nobles were guillo
tin'd on the fame day.
The Emperor has made a requisition
to the dates for four million of florins,
(about 330,, cool, sterling ) They figni
fird to Count Metternich, who met them
, few days ago, upon the fubjed at Ghent,
that they could not raite toe money till
his m jetty had driven the French out of
Flanders.
The age of penetration and liberality
vill not it is prefumeable, fuffer luperna
ural efforts of genius to pals unnoticed, or
he creators an improvers of arts and Ici
pocee to perish without reward. Indeed the
ionttnution of these Rates encourages men
f genius to step boldly forward, and claim
he patronage of Congress, wh ch is there
by empowered" to promote the progrefi
f feience and ufeful arts, by figuring for
limited times to authors and inventors, the
exclusive rights to their refpedive writings
tnd difeoveres."
The fufponfian of the heabeaa corpus
aft is intended by his mjefty's rainifters
to be limited to a very few months ? Feb.
is said to be the utmost extent of its dura
tion.
ARTS and SCIENCES.
A certain inventative genius, having
transplanted himfelf from a foreign coun
try into this city, and affirmed the title of
indigo-planter, his of late wonderfully fa
cilitated the laborious process of railing
grt//go, and vastly increased thefa,/, com
modity of this Bate.
His plantation is said to be fitnated Come
where in Broad-street ; and, instead cf
foany a dirty acre, ncoende of ; few ,&,
f land only. No expensive gang of field
negroes is requisite to cultivate or work it ;
and in lieuol one crop a year,it is capable
of producing as many crops as there are
days. What an inexhaaftible mine of
wealth is here difeovered !
The executions in France continue with
out number. On the sth it was decreed
in the Convention, that all the ci-devant
farmers general should be sent to the Rev
olutionary Tribunal to be tried, and their
heirs prosecuted for the property they po£-
fefs. It was further decreed that all the
fine palaces & houses in France should be
converted to the public use.. Notwith
standing the number of executions the pris
ons are as crowded as ever. The number
at present in Paris hiving again reached
to seven thoufind.
This new invented indigo, created bv
Man out of nothing as it were, and daily
ffered for fate about this city, may be
known by its (pacific gravity, a barrel of
it not weighing much more than a barrel of
shin bread ; and particularly by its easily
dissolving in water like flarch, it being a
mere compofrion of flour and indigo dull,
kneaded together into a dough, and then
cut into handsome square pieces, & baked
hard like brickbats.
It however wants one or two of the es
sential properties of old falhioned indigo;
one is, that it will make a die of no better
hue or tindure than mud ; and it cannot
be long preferred, as the weazel, cock
roach and other hungry vermin, devour it
like so much biscuit.
The knowing ones buy it to traffic with,
and the ignorant abide by the lofc ^ ,
The inferior quality cf this artificial in
digo excludes it from foreign Markets ; so
hat the Yankees; who have long been
famed for putting tricks upon Grangers,
seem now in a fare way of being paid in
Accounts are received of 'he loss of the
Arden: man of war in the Mediterranean.
Moil of the crew perished.
their own base coin.
It is therefore recommended to the no
them printers, for the promotion of the
trade,manofadures and commercial inter
course in general, for the benefit of their
countrymen in particular, to adverufe in
their several gazettes.
“ Indigo of an inferior quality, newly
'invented, menufadtired and fold in Char
lcftown,S. Carolina,cheap for cash, north-
From the Gbarlefoivn City Gazette.
ern produce,fence, wooden boxes, notions,
&c.”
N. B. The above is not intended as a
piece of fan to amuse the Public with ; but
it is a matter of fa&.
This trash resembles indigo in no other
refpeft, than in shape and colour ; and
is so well counterfeited as to deceive many
who have traded coufiderably % that arti
cle.
£Dom^tc Jntell^ence.
VIRGINIA
RICHMOND, July 17.
Al GENTLEMAN has favored the
Editors with the following, published in
Lexington, (Ken.) in a hand bill, on the
eleventh of last month ; it was brought by
a gentleman who arrived in Chcfter£eld cm
Monday evening.
Lexington, June \Ztb '79+
Examination of tuo Pattrwatomiet, captured
by Capt. Alexanro Gibjon on the North
1 Side of the Miami of the lake, on the fifth
day o f June 1794.
Qroy. H< w long have you been from
your na ion ?
Answer. Four days before cur capture.
^ When did you your ration receive
the invitation from the Britifh,to join them
to go to war agaiatl the Americans ?
A. On the firft of last Moon, the mes
sage was sent by three chiefs ; a Delaware,
a Shawanefe, and a Miami.
g At what time, and at what place do
the English and Indians mean to advance
against the army ?
d. About the last of this moon, er th#
beginning of next, they intend to attack
the legion at this place, Gov. Simcoe,'
the great man who lives at or near Niaga
ra, sent for the Patowatomier and orom
ifed them arms, ammunition, provifwn,
and clothing, and every thing they want
ed, on condition they would join hia, and
go to war against the Americans ; and
that he would command the whole. He
sent us the fame message last winter, and
again in the firft of last moon at Roche da
Bout. He also said he was much obliged
to us for our past fevices, and that be
would now help us to fight, and render us
all the services in his power against the A
mericaos. All the speeches that we re
ceived from him were as red as blood ;
all the wampum and feathers were
painted red ; the war pipe and hatchet
were red ; and even tobacco was painted
red.
We received four different invitations
from Governor Simcoe, inviting the Pa-
9 Whet tribes cf Indians, and what,
were their numbers at R^che de Bout, ok
the firft of May ?
A. The Cnipewas, Wyandots, Shawa
noes, Tawas, D lawares, and Miami#,
there were then colle^ed about 1000 war
riors, and were daily coming in and col
lecting from all those nations.
Q What number of warriors do you
tappofe arc actually collected at that place
at this time and whet number of Britifn
troops and militia, have promised to join
the Indians to fight this army ?
A From the latek and the best infor
mation, and from car own knowledge of
the number of warriors belonging to those
nations, there cannot be le's than two
:houfand warriors now assembled ; and
were the Pacowatomies to join agreeably
to invitation, the whcle would amount
to upwards of three thousand hoßile In
dians ; but we do not think that more
than fifty of the Patowatomies will go to
war. The British troops and militia that
will join the Indians to goto war agairft
the Americans will amount to fifteen hun
dred, agreeably to the promise of Gov.
Simcoe.
Q What was the message brought b,
thole Indian chiefs, and what number cf
British troops were at Roche de Beat oa
the firft of May ?
A That the British sent them to invite
the Patowatomics to go to war,againft the
United States ; that they (the British)
were at Roche de Boat, on their way to
war, against the Americans ; that the
number ts troops then there, was about
four hundred with two pieces <f ar
tillery, exclalivecf the Detroit Militia,
and had made a fortification nund Col.
M'Kee's house and Gores at that place, in
which they had deposited all their flores of
ammunition, arms, clo hing ar d provis
ion, in which they promrfed to supply all
the hottile Indians, in abundance, pro
vided they would join and go with them
to war.