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BALTIMORE, JUNE 13.
Extrafl of a letter from Belfafl. April 28,1793.
“ Trade is to ally at an end i public as well
as private confidence almoit annihilated ! there
hopears to be no end co the failures in Great-
Bntain and Ireland 1 some of our firft banking
houses, have flopped payment, and thole re
maining refule to di count -the tn 'ft unexception
able paper offered them ! Where theie things
will end God only knows ! The linen, th©
fcotton, and the woollen manufacturers feel the
effefts of this stagnation of credit. Such are
the blefled cffffts of the most inglo r !ous and
unpopular war that any country ever entered
into ! a war, waged by a nation, pretending to
be free, against a people who are seeking for
Liberty f O Tempora ! O Mores !—With
public confidence and private credit, liberty
irfelf seems ready co depart their kingdoms
All men appear difeontented and gloomy, and
few dare to peak their minds in public, on
fubjedts of a political nature. Ertm flaries are
every where employed by our profl gate ad
miniftr >tion, who are well paid for giving in
formation against the few who dare to speak
their fenuments openly.
«» A pamphlet has been lately published in
England ; relative to the army ; Jufeph Cuth
her, a refpetftable taylor, living in this town,
happened to read a few extracts troni this pub
lication in preferee of lonic loldiers that be
long to a regiment quarte ed hete ; would you
believe it, this man, although neither author,
nor publisher, has been taken up, thrown into
confinement, -from his weeping family and
friends, lodged tn the common jail,, tried for
the offence, condemned bv ah ignorant jury,
(collected with indefatigable- industry, from
the most remote part of the country, and
packed toge'her lor the occasion, and not one
of them was he fuffered to object against) and
although no law in existence has ever noticed
an offence or this nature; yet has this man
been lentenced by an Irish judge, to the pillo
ty, and confinement for twelve months. The
unjuft.liable sentence has been actually put
into execution ; in the midst of an indignant
• people ; and to prove to you how fearful gov
ernment are that their arbitrary measures will
meet with the oppofidon they deserve the 55th
regiment, two troops of the line, and a compa
ny of artillery, were all under arms on the oc
casion ? a circnmftance altogether unprecedent
ed ! I should notice rtf you for the honour of
the town, thatfeveral refpeftable charafters of
fered to stand on the pillory with Cuthbert,
but were not permitted by the executioners of
the law, nor was any kind of insult offered to
him during the period of the punishment, but
on the co* 'tary, approbation and encourage,
ment from all the surrounding fpeftators !
Thus you behold the deplorable Rate in which
we are involved, without trade, without cred
it, without freedom !*For what is our so much
boasted of liberty, it men are not only prevent
ed from publishing their own len iments on
government, but likewise ptfnilhed for reading
de fentimen s of ochers 1 Happy, thrice hap
py must you‘be across the Atlantic, where lio
erty of sentiment is allowed in its full scope I
Where men and measures, legislatures and leg
islators, may be freely cricidfed upon ! Where
every man feels himfelf of fame importance in
the scale of things, & may deliver his thoughts
freely, openly and without di*guile on every
fu^jift, without being sffraid of any thing
whatever f Where enjoying a pure reprefema
nvefyftem of government, you praftically feel
its confiquences, and all men find themlelves
► individually interesting in its continuance and
welfare ! And although I have no doubt that
many amonglt you are unab!e to Ihake off an*
cient prejudices, but continue friends toa mo
narchial form of government; yet sure I am,
that feeling as every one must feel,, the happi
ness and comfort of the republican system inch
men will gradually lay alide their prejudices,
and one cay or other reprobate as I do,
those arjftbcratical and monarchial systems,
when the rich and great only enjoy privileges,
and when the poor a e trampled upon,or pun.
iihsd like Cuthbert, by the hand of arbitrary
power 1 You iftm; now why I continue to
Jive in this country,! answer that thobfands be
4je3 myfelf arc preparing to depart from i , &
Jffure yourfetf that it will not be long till I fee
you in happy America I I must not negleft
to inform you that a general fatt is this day ap
*, pointed to pray for success to the combined
arms, only nation on earth^omba-t-
A Gentleman just arrived in town from
Lexington, which place he left the 2d intt.
informs us, that on the day previous to that
of his departure, the poft.had arrived and
brought intelligence, that , 400 Indians had
crofted the Onio, some distance below Fort
St. Vincent —2co of whom were destined to
attack the frontier of Kentuckey, while the
rest (it was expected) would enter the wilder*
uefs with an intent to intercept the travellers.
MAR Y L A N D.-
AMERICAN ADVICES.
GEORGETOWN, JUNE 22.
ed him at the eleflion. Maj. Lamberton
not being at home when Mr. Poftekhwait.
called at his house with the. challenge, he
hunted him from plate to place until he ac
la(t found him in a friend’s house fpeoding an
hour after the bufmefs of the day in social
converse, he called him out & delivered him
the fatal message verbally, which Maj. Lam
berton neither accepted nor declined, but
went home to his houfe—,thc other followed
and delivered it again in writing, allowing
5 minutes to return an answer, or be deem
ed a coward in public ellimation; .He ac
cordingly accepted the challenge. This
morning at the appointed hour, they met on
the ground—after cheating their seconds, it
w.as agreed that they fiiould measure out 8
paces—a score be made in the centre from
which the parties Ihould Hart back to back,
face about at the word to be given b> on<
the seconds, march up th each other and
reserve their .fire ,as long as they chose ;
J^ut neither to cross tfie^^enterj|^^^— —
A DUEL.
Extraß of a letter from Garijle, dated funt zz.
“ I have to relate co you a most melancho
ly event which will both fbrpiiie and dis
tress. On Thursday taft an election was held
at the Court-House, in this borough for field
officers. Several persons difeovpred the fame
active zeal to carry their refpeftive tickets
which have been often witnefied in this
place—accordingly some fdiart altercations
took place refpeding the legal qualifications
of the voters —among others, Maj. James
Lamberton, and John Duncan exchanged
some words which had like to come to blows
on the fpor, but, by the interference of the
fpeftators, the affair was hushed, and (here
were no more of it at that time, nor all the
next day (Friday). The latter however con
ceiving his honor hart, had retained it in his
mind, and Friday evening sent his brother
in-law J. Poftelthwait,witba challenge to the
former, the purport, of which was, to meet
him the next morning vyith pi Hois in the
commons by rhe works, to give him fatisfac
tion for (what he corifrdered) the insult ofter-
Tuefday lalt a gentleman in this city receiv
ed a letter from Briftoi, bv the ship Orange,
Capt. Jamilon, arrived at New Yoik, which
fays, that the fituatron of that country is truly
alarming, by the numerous melancholy failures
amongst the mercantile men throughout the
kingdom. Seven veflels were preparing to
fail from Bristol, chiefly chartered by peflen
gers, who were anxious to get to America.
The artifices which are made use of to ex
cite lufpicions against the general government
are equally calculated to furprile and dilguft.
Os this a letter, laid to be written by a gentle
man in the Treasury, department to his inend
in Hanover, dated May, 4th, which has ap
peared inieveralof the public papers,is a ipeci
men. It is impoflible but that this letter most
be a mifehievous fabrication. It is well known
that the Viicount de Noaillei is here, as a pri
vate gentleman, without any public character
whatever, and with views ot settlement in this
country, produced by the peculiarity of his fit
uation.wich regard to his own ; having differed
in his political creed and conduft, from the
emigrant nobility, on the one hand ; and from
the present ruling party on the other ; in short
having been one of the framers of the govern
ment established by the constituent assembly
and overturned by the revolvtion ot the toihof
August.
As there often happens ?o be fame circum
flance, which gives rile to ftorics ot this kind,
j thought it might not be amiss to enquire
whether any such exilled in the prelent cale ;
in consequence of which I have lea.nt —that
the Vjfcount de Uoeulleiy on the evening of the
day cf his arrival, (which happened to.be a
public evening of Mrs. Wajhington} called on
the President, under whom he had lerved at
the head of a French regiment during the
late American war ; that there happened to
be prelent, when he came in, Mr, fernant,
then Minister of France; that he staid about
fifteen or twenty minutes, converging on in
different fubjefts, and went off either at the
fame time with^or a little before Mr. Ttr
rant.
June 26.
In cbnfequence of an application from the
Executive of the United States, to the Gover
nor, as Commander in Chief of the Militia of
Pennsylvania, a party of the militia was on Sa
turday lafo? put on board the ship William,
now in this port, as a prize to the Citizen Ge
net, for the purpose of detaining her, until, by
negociatron, it is decided, whether she is a le
gal prize ; the court, ot admiralty for this
Diftriift having pronounced the case not within
its jurifdidfion.
The President left town last Monday, on a
visit to Mount Vernon.
1 have alfolearnt that theVifcount de Noail
les never goes to the President’s hou e, but on
the edablifhed public days, and then, rarely,
from motives of delicacy relatively to his lit na
tion.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 24.
four feet, has been found On a hill in the
town of Troy, New-York. The tooth is
completely petrified ; and it is not yet dis
covered to what species of animal it could
belong. .
NEW HA M P S HI R E.
CONCORD, JUNE 24.
The excellent Sentiments exprefed tn the follow
ing Extrafl of a letter from a Gentleman in
Portland, to his friend in this town, ref efl
Honor on a true Republican.
"June t. 1 cannot forbear expressing my
grief at the check which the French arms have
lately met with ; and as an aggravation to my
pain, accounts now fay (and they must be true)
that Dumourier has left the army, and escaped
to the enemy. But all this does hot discou
rage me. It was amaxfm with theold Romans^
“ Never to defpalr of the Commonwealth.”
, The salvation of theßepublick does not depend
-jjpPMQmay: ^ 01^ rh p
at the word, flepped up to each other with
the most seeming undaunted firmnefs, each
reserving his fire until they came co the mark
in the centre ; when the bullet from Major
Lamberton’s pistol unhappily entered Mr.
Duncan's head just above the right eye and
went through his brains. He fell in a mo
ment with his pistol in his hand and never
moved again or difeovered the smallest fymp
tomsof life. Thus ended this unhappy ca
tastrophe which has, thrown two families in
the most pitiable feene ofdiftrefs-”
JUNE 29.
The militia gaurd, which had been put
on board the prize (hip IVAl; am, was on
Tuefday fall removed, and the veflel deliver
ed up to the captors ; the President of the
United States having, it is said, pjevioufly
decided the question. relative to her capture.
arrived a Balt, more from Havre 4e Grace.
“ Since mv last, ot ihe 24 h of Feb. our
armies have been obliged to 1 etreat befoie
our enemies in Fiandeis, by the treason ot
our Generals ; But that check has not dis
heartened the nation, which has since dis,
played more energy than ever ; 60c,0u0
men have enhfteo in lets than a month ; .he
patriotism ot our tyaiional Guards is aoove
all expreflion, never wa- iuch an emulation ;
fathers dispute with their lons the honour of
marening to the frontiers ; my two Clerks
have gone as cheerfully as if they had been
going to ball ; 1 would have already march
ed mylelf, was I not affi.ded with that cru-.
el gravel, which torments, me more and.
more—-There a e.fome partial infurrettions.
in B i.anny, Fomented by the Emigrant* and
the non-juring Prielh, Out as we hear eve
ry day that the inLrgents. are driven
from every quarter^ we have great hopes
that tranquility will Coon be restored.
“ Our city had the reputation of being A
riftocraticaf, but we have to well expelled
from our walls the enemies of Liberty and
Equality , that not only have we regained
tne elteem of the other departments, bet we
enjoy the grra est tranquility.
“ The price of provisions is high, when
compared with the usual prices,but not high
er than in the years 1768 and White
bfead is fix sous per pound, middling four
sous and a half, common th r ee sous : W v eat
fells from 10 livres and iodous, to II livres
per bushel : Meat 8 and 9 sous per pouad :
Wine costs 70 and 80 livres a and its
high price is owing to the badness ot the
last crop. \
** Trade is neither bad nor good—but ge
nerally dull.”
♦
■_A todth, measuring 14 inches in circum
ference, and a th'gh bo^e of the length of
Caps. 0..£/, in the (hip Fortitude, amved
here yefteroay, in 51 days from Oilend, Ey
him we iearh that the French, at Pans, and in
the country, were in high Ipints ; appeared
determined to. defend their country to the last
extremity ; and that there was not the appear
ance of want, io the Republic :—That there
were reports of a batde, in which the Austri
ans and British were defeated, with the Us of
1200 mVn That a body of 1000 British
Dragoons, marched from Offend, to join the
combined forces’, the day dc/ore he laded
That a body o' Engi.fh land forces had arri
ved, and tome mo e were expected— I he of?,
cers ot th' te arrived, expected, they (aid, the
French would fight with more firmnets than
in any former wars ;—That ail communica.
tion with France was cut off ar the timS of his
lai ing :—And that on his pafTage he Ipoke
the French frigate Bayonne, or 36 guns, that
eight days before had fought a frigate of su
perior force, and had Lil the Captain, ano 40
men.
Col. Hichb'rn, of this town, pafled through
Oiieud from Par’s, for London, a few days be
fore Cape. Q^Tfailed.
ExtraS of aie ter from Lyons. (France) tn a
gentleman in this toven, dated the 10th of
Aprif 1793, and received by aves el lately
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, JULY 3.
' FROM OSTEND.
policy of the Briufh cabinet, indeed seem
to lie in trying to &arve the women and
children of France^in order to conquer the
men. But while they are thus meditating
all manner of evils by fire and sword, dearth
and pestilence, tprnin the cause of liberty in
France, they^are anefted by distresses of a
touching and peculiar nature, in their own
country. .
, I: is laid in one of the English pipers that
Dumourier had depofi’ed two hundred thou
sand pounds in >h Bri ifh funds. It was ne
ver known what Ducbft, the chaplain of
Congress, received for his treachery, but Ar
nold, it was fuppo^d, got abbbt 20,000
pounds for his attempt to betray the garrison
at Weft point.
On the whale, the Ruffians ftaad aloof-— '
the Dutch are inactive as usual—the Spani
ards counting their beads, and trembling
for the Ate of their galleons—-the Pn ifians
remote, cautious,, and occupied
' European Compendium.
By the Lit accounts, tne fituauon of the
French armies, it will be remembered, was
not thorougly underilood, either upon the
Rhine,of which the cities of Men.z and La
ndau, are the principal fortifications ; or in
Fenders, of which Lisle, Valenciennes and
Condes are the g?rrifons. it was notxvea
certain, whethe* the defection of their la e
Gen. Dumourier, had not extended its
baneful influence.to these places, io as to fa
cilitate their surrendering to the Austrians,
of which the British papers had announced
the probaoility. > Nothing of this nature
however, appears to have taken effedt by the
present intelligence. On the o*hcr ■ hand,
the numbers ol the troops in either of them*
was fuppoled by the National commiflionecs,
efficient to hold along and obflinate fifge,
if not wholly to fruftrate the intemions of the
German amy^ The battalions of France
were'recruiting fall on the frontiers, and the
soldiers discovered in their daily fkirmilhing,
nnd in some actions of magnitude, the most
heroic courage. Heroic we call it—becac’e
the official accounts of the Prince of Saxe
Cobosrg, acknowledge -it to have been obftt
nate—an expression of the utmost iorce in he
snouth of an enemy. Ths French indeed,
like the Americans, have washed away the
stain of imputed cowardice, with the blootl
of their enemies. ?
< It appears tjy these papers, that the Ger
mans are - negociating by proclamations,
which changes the ground in favour of the
French, as the difficulties, in <he ssay of en
tire Lbiug^tion, augment. Whaf, for ex
ample, is more opposite than the declarations
of the D >ke of B<unfwick and Prince Co
bourg ? One was to burn and destroy Paris,
If even one of the royal family was injured.
The latter wishes for peace upon the terms
and stipulations of the firft conttitucion which
she people had adopted, and which aboiifhes
all the privileged orders, Itwas just so in
America —In the firft place, unconditional
submission was offered, thtn conditional,and
as erwards unconditional ..independence,
Pr; y heaven, the event may.bethe fame with
the French, as the happiness of the world,
perhaps the existence of civil liberty, even
here, depends upon their maintaining their
freedom. , ~ ,
In one of the Englifli papers it is said,
that the Germans have loft, by a&ion, fick
nels, deat*h and defection, at leatt a thitd of
their army, AnCe the campaign opened in Fe
bruary Jaft.
The profpe& of famine in France, with
syhich the Britiflh appear to havg felicitated
themfclves, is not now fpeken of, by which
We may c include, that all their hopes of such
a dreadful calamity are near at an e >d. Tho
. Thursday last being the Seventeenth anniverfay of
American Independence, the lame-was observed by
tne patriotic inhabitants of this town, with every
demonstration of Joyj • . The morning was ulhered
in by the difeharge oftiimon, &c.—The field pieces
in town repeated ieveral salutes in honour of tho
day,and were answered from the Indiainan now on
the Hocks, being beautifully decorated with French
and American colours.
cur to every danger I
be free ; »rd ail Europe, nay, ail the
will follow her. Perhaps yen nay thirk this is
Emhufiaim ; but it is really analogical reason
ing. The late American war was viewed, by
rhe world it hige, in a mere unfavourable
light, than the pretent French revolution ! but
yet we iucceeded, We are now the meft hap
people under heaven. Why are we ,0 ?
Because our government is a government of the
J people, who are the only true source of ail
egitimate government. Fiance opened her
eyes to this truth,and commenced a revolution
themoftimportant that hiftory Has ever recorded.
She will loon be (I trust) as happy as America ;
England, and the rest oi Europe, will gradual
ly difeover it ; and the whole civilized world
will, in time, fee about a reform ; and this
time, believe me, is not far off- It is but con
vincing the people wherein their happiness con
frtts, and they will purfueit.”
E X E T E R,
TUESDAY’JULY 9, 1793.