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Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, OCT. 16.
FROM Marseilles we learn that a
ship from Africa has lately
brought over two Albions, a species
of men very weak, and very timid,
who were found in the intcriour
parts of Africa, and of whom the ne
groes are very fond. Their complex
ion, instead of partaking of a reddilh
or brown colour, resembles that of
linen, or blanched wax ; their hair
and eye-brows are of a texture of the
fofteft and moll beautiful silk ; their
±yes instead of resembling th)fe of
men, look rather like those of pa
tridges. In their ihape they resem
ble the Laplanders ; but the farm of
their heads lefembles those of no o
ther people, as their hair, their eyes
and their ears, are of a different kind
■—and they possess scarcely any thing
in common with men but their fla
ture, with their faculty arid thought;
though in a degree greatly inferior
to oars. They will probably be feat
to Paris.
PARIS, OCT, 26;„
Progress of the French Coun
, ter-Revolution.
THE Marquis de Bouille
galloping with adrawii
[word in his hand; and a
very long pair of spurs at
his heels, from capital to
Capital of the northern
Kingdoms of the continent,
voting vengeance, & put
ting much cayen into the
soup wherever he flops to
dine. :
Mons. Cahnne, not gal
loping, but creeping from
court to court in five hun
dred diftuifes, and talking
to every body he meett by
nods and winksi
An hundred thoufahd
men, with large whifkefy;
from nobody knows wliete,
quartered at a little village?
on the frontiers of France?
The army following the
Princes, an excellent army
—in officers^ if it had but
men! -
All the kings of Europe"
met in Congress some where
or other, dressed in the dii
guife ofthe witches in Mae
heth, bailing up toil and
trouble for Mons. 4 la Fay-
MF. PRINTER,
I SAW a piece in your paper on
der the Ggtature of Aleender, re
prefencing the great Parent of the
Universe to be & author of fin ; that £
being the case, the great God mart
of conference be the firft fioner—
and as all dinners mull be punished,
- and God is the ruler and governor of'
all things, from whence is he to re
ceive his punishment ? or with what
propriety can he inflict punishment
on an, of the human race for fin ?
Awful! horrid idea this ! I should
not think strange .if the Almighty
God ffiould inftandy strike those of
such a pernicious principle dead, and
fend them to in eternal state of mis
ery, if there be any such ftae, grant
ing there is, I mud conclude its inha
bitants will be chiefly Hopkintoni
ans.
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 29.
Extraa of a letter from a gentleman in
Tortola dated Dec. 9.
.'' MY fixation On this Island, has
enabled me to remark upon an ap
pearance in nature, far which I do
not knoty that any rational cause has
everbea aligned ; 1 have.generally
observed, thaf far several days before
a fevers hurricane (the weather beiag
at such times calm and moderate) the
sea is neverthclcfs la a great commo
tion, pot qniy near, the shore, but al
so at a toofiderable distance off. It
knot reafanable to imagine that this
motion is communicated by the oce
an, agitated by high winds in other
places < for the motion of the wind
being naturally quicker than any
that could be communicated by the
sea at such a diflance, it is plain the
wind must firft arrive. I am there
fore inclined to suppose— that, in all
probability, these violent convulsions
of the atmosphere, called hurricanes,
do not originate in the clouds, as has
bten rimagined, but rather arise from
the bottom of the deep. What seems,
la fame ffieafure, to confirm this idea,
it, thhtprevious to a hurricane on
find, there is common], heard a
hollow rumbling found in deep wells
and pits, attended "'with a ftrbng
farell of-falpher. J offer this bqly, as
a conje&ure;, but the fabjsa seems
worthy of philosophical di/quifitioo."
ette. Bouille as Hecate.—
" Every one shall share of
the gains !"
~ the five Ex-princes writ
ing a protefl against the new
Constitution upon a very
inflammatpry paper, manu
fa^ured on purpole, with
which they mean to steal by
night, and let fire to Paris.
—"Five le Roi !" Finis.
BALTIMORE, JAN. 20.
Extraa of a Letter fromMr,jo(epb H.
Nicholfon./c bis friend in this town,
dated at Ranelagh, (thefeat of Ben
jamin Ntcholibn Est. about 18
”"'" from Baltimore) dated on Mon
day last.
"1 take the liberty to inform you
of a misfortune chat happened to me,
last evening, after I left you.—
• When I had rode about fourteen
miles on the road to this place from
Baltimore in Ctfeending a hill which
leads t'o a branch, that I am told i>
known by ;he name cf the Beaver
Dam-Branch, I was very familiarly
accotted by a man on horse-back, who
Retired me to flop, and demanded my
money—l afted him what he meant ;
and was answered by his presenting
a piflol and repeating his demand-1
Hill he liiated, but he told me, in a
. very infolenc manner, that he mull
have no hesitation ; and cocked his
pittol, which he held within a foot of
my bread. I though: it high time
tfieu to give op fay purse, which 1
did, containing a Doubloon, a half
joe, and two or three collars—Not
contented with this, he told me he
must have my watch, and took it
hfmfdf out of my watch-pocket—af
ter looking at it, he returned it to me
acd told me, " damn the old thing
1 would not run the rifque of a dis
covery for it."—My watch is,indeed,
an old family piece, and not worth
much ; but lam very glad he though
it inffguißcant, for 1 valued it much
moie than my money—After this we
parted.—l had no arms, and no
weapon at all, but a small Twitch
whip. Fortunately he neither de
manded my saddle bags nor my
pocket-book, probably from his fear
ing some p^rfon of other would come
up, for it was but just dusk."
American Advices.
" the idea of civrihing the savages
is, of all things the moll ridiculous.
Not only the principles of nature, but
the expedience of all the world forbid
it. All the millenaries that Eave been
sent among" them have never been able
to inculcate a tirgle principle of com
mon honefly, far left of religion*——
Man, in a favhgl flare, is the firft of
animals but like all o^her wild ani
mals, he Cao only be fobdued Dy
force, and kept in (objection by fear.
"I ferioufl) affcre you this Rate
±Bs been 'greatly deceived in the be
nefits it expelled to enjoy from the
new government. It expeded to be
avenged of the Creeks, and that one of
the firft Reps would have been to have
driven these infcruals into the gulph
of Mexico.
" The treaty with the Creeks Teems
to held up a novel do&rine, as thcGo
vernor has observed in h s fpeeph,viz.
" The Indian tribes have some inde
feasible rights." This is nenfenfe in
the extreme; Savages among them
selves know of no right but power,
which, with them, are fyndhimous
terms; and of couifc have tab idea of
the obligations of any treaty which
they arc able to violate with impunity.
But besides this thtyhave not a Shade
of right in th^ir foil ; they -are fuffered,
to remain there during pieafgre.Con-|
fult Patti on thi§ point; He ex
plains it fully:
"I will venture to fly that the fair
eft portion of the United States is now I
pefleffed by the foutEern bloodfookers
and ref rued to them by treaties, ftr
hunting grounds, let, them, go further
back, there are lands enough intheir
'reD; andlet them Barege those ik.-
mette ce/erts ; b^tdo nOt let thefn
longer peffefs the beautiful T^afoMe
healthy and delightful regions lying
on the waters of the Jfealacbacbla,*and
and on rhe banks of the M^fffypi. ,1
am persuaded that if this Salubrious
country coukl-be krbwh, and be tn'a.
slate to receive feufers, that it would
command a higl.tr pike than any of
the uncultivated lands' of the, United
States; • . i __=____ ?' fr
FEBRUARY 11.
¥ By Capt. Clap; arrived here from
Port-au-Prince, ,we learn, that a 74
gun-ship, and'twor frigates, 'arrived
, ! h *fff', ©nrke itah Jan. with
26600 troops on board—and that the
Mulattos tad peffetidD of all the Bite
except tfoewu of Pothau.Prince,
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
The Military Eflabliftmat of the
United State, is to be augmented to
5000. The Tedion of the Bill which
provides for thb number, has been a
greed to—the oihtfJeflions are under
confederation ~
These accounts are confirmed by
others received in town, from several
gentlemen in Congress, The Bill
new before the committee of the whole
House, proposes the increase to 5000.
The pay cf the troops, we are told,
will be augmented.
A Correspondent hopes that the pay
of the Soldiers will be so far increaf
e'> as '° induce likely, enterprising
dien to enter the service of their coun^
try —and that they may take the held
so early in the fiimmtr,^ to avoid the
many inconvenitneies and Offerings
which General Sz. Clair's army en
dured—and which conspired much to
its defeat.
WHILE the Secretary at War, is
mace the target at which the oppofers
of an Indian War, direct all their ar.
rows ; the fame officer, for his endear
vours to eftfi treaties with the hostile
jibes, has been made the butt of the
mofl indecent aborts of several Geor
gian Geniuses. Ore of these, in 4
late letter has among others, the fol
lowing paragraphs:
'With relpe& to the War with The
Indians, it appears to be the uhiverfal
f^nciment either ''to foeatbe tbe j<wdrd;
or fling away the scabbard."
" Envy will merit afits fade putfa."
BOSTON, FEB. 8.
'X^X^JL^^f, 'S''
1 he Editor of the Federal Gazette,
fa daily paper,printed at Philadelphia)'
copied the following extrad-from a
l ,,? ai 'd Edington, N.Caroli&a.
December.,' & ~
''A vefe| from France arrived here
''l v 3 ' i.^.by vbhich we learn that
the King ot France has made another
,P, cnt f and is now '&lly"fe '
Pruffia.'''
NEWBURYPORT, FEB. I.
° n f. even ' D g kll week, as a couple
of Ladies of Pleafore j n (his tcwn ,
were returning from the Dcrior\a L d
having with them a b o itl e c f Brandy,
,ongly impregnated with Corr
,ulft, which they had proceed
for tec purpefe ofreftoriog their taint
ed carcases to a st a te suitable to re-
L, f "°" ite p^i^, looking
behind, found they were puifued by a
\" P '°L of !°"£ fellows, on which
" m . c ^ proper to deposit
their bottle, in what they feppoied a
private and secure place, by she fide
the street—but, being noticed by
their followers, inflead cf continuing
the puifuit, they repaired to the place
above mentioned, where they found
the prize-bottle, and soon Fallowed
ail its contents, supposing it to be no
thing more than genuine Brandy ; but
such was their fixation the next day,
that :n order to obtain relief they very
candidly difelofed the whole affair to
a phjfician, being heartily' tired of
that new kind of chafe which was oc
cafoned by the precceding evening's
draught.
❖^^^^^^^^^^xq^q
ALL persons are hereby
, L tafyed against pfoafr of'
Joseph Gordon of,Exeter, ; cord
a note for /^,, fbify
•.nd froen „#«, signed by me, as It
Q fraudulently brined—and! ara
determined not to pay it.
DANIEL .smith.
K%oo# b Feb. loth, |,9„
A irfpeftable regular force for the
protection of the frontiers will molt
assuredly be raised by the General
Government, and the F a y of the
troop, will be iotreafed.'
— = t_,
LARGE flbG.:
The 16th ult. William Putnam,
Elq. of Sterling,killed a Hog, which
weighed dzzlbsi including call and
rough sty ,which ^ere zr^oufids.
PORTLAND; JAN. 19.
Mr. Jonathan Ilfcy, an inhabitTpt
of Falmouth, a person between forty
and fifty years of age,was fiezed with
a fit of melancholly, . which gradually
increased until it produced ^ total
suspension of fpc^ch, and almcft en
tirely the necessary adion of the body
for the execution of those offices w hith
are essential to the preservation cf
life. In this torpid fiate of b^v. he
has.continued more than fear years, 6
until within a few days pft, whsu
the organs of ipeech inAamhibufly,
and voluntarily affu^edtheir wanted
tone, even to a degree of volubility
surprising to those who beheld him.
The refloration of vigor to the limbs,
was more gradual, and not as yet
perfectly restored. His family a t so
boexf^ed and almost miraculous'a
change licod mute with aftenifhmenc
—But suppressed the external 'marks
of it as much as poffiule, to prevent
a relapse, which they were apprehen
sive of from the weak state of body
Le was then in. What is meft extra
ordinary, Mr. Juicy has a perfect re
membrance of the meft mjnute cir
cumstances that occurred during the
abovt mentioned period ; and hi 3 mind
has been continually employed in
making curious calculations in Ariih
keiick, in forming ex.enhte ideas
of building, architeaure, &c. '<
He is new in this town, and we
hope will soon recover so far as to
relume his former occupation.