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twice the number of rations to which
they should ^thetwife be entitled.
And be ft traded, That the majors be
entitled to receive four rations per day
for their daily fubfifterce.
And be it further evaded. That to
each commissioned officer, who may
have been deranged under the aft ''to
afeertain and fix the military eftabtifh
ment of the United States,",here (hall
be paid the amount, of fix months' pay
and fuhfittenee*
Approved, Match 3, 1,97.
GEO. WASHINGTON,
,Prefdent of the United States.
PARIS, MARCH 10.
Genuine Portrait of Victor Hugues,
'drawn by himfelf. -"
" Minute nomine; dete fabulahsrratur."
Declaration of the Commiffoners to the
Windward Iflandsjo all the ventral Nil
• <@f trading wnb the said Iflandt. Da
•red 20. teb. 1795.
"7he vile fatenities of George, that
English pilfering Horde, those infa
mous promoters and supporters of all
kinds of robbery, unable to resist a gen
erous enemy, endeavour to farisfy their
initiate avidit, by plundering under fri
volous pretexts, neutral vessels. N^y they
exhaeft all the refotirces of craft and
perfidy in order to rob them with impu
nity. But rob the; mis ; that is the
GREAT PRINCIPLE of their military fer
^ke. In such a corrupt government
no preferment can be obtained
but for money, and money must
be had; no matter by what means ; If
they cannot get. it fiom their enemies
they are base enough to turn pirates
AND RANSACK NEUTRAL VESSELS
which are not able to defend themselves.
From this iketch of their sordid inten-.
ticns, the dignity and independence
cf the neutral powers require that they
should be nfeon their guard, bad provide a
gbfi the perfidies vexation cf thir trade.
We on our fide, declare that we will
NEfLR deviate from the principles of
equity and benevolence, which have di
refted all our operations, and that
all neutral vessels Jhall be quell received
here tend protected as far as lies in our
power. Ibis our present declaration
ffiall be officially ferit to the Congress
and Legislatures of the different States
cf America.™
Port of Liberty, 3d Ventofe %.
(Signed) Victor Hvcces, &c.
Thank ye, Mr. Viftor Hugues, for
• your good advice : as the above des
cription exactly fuitsyotir own conduct,
we shall follow your own advice and be
on our guard, by protesting our vessels
2nd providing against your perfidi
ous vexation of our trade.
Had this Arch Buccaneer taken
pains to draw the picture of his own
character, he could not have hit it
more exactly than in the foregoing
proclamation. " Rot he must, mo
ney must be had, no matter by what
means, if he can't get it from, his ene
mies, he must turn Pirate and ran
sack NEUTRAL VESSELS.
LONDON MARCH 8.
&mrdaylaft in the Iriffi House of
Commons, Sir John S. Hamilton pro
.pofed a land tax of is. in th^ pound, io
liewof the pew tax on salt. This pro
pcfal was to be taken up on Tuesday.
Sir John Parnell; Chancellor to the
Exchequer, moved for an open loan for
800,cool, at fix percent for five years.
Ibis was oppdfed by the Speaker and
several other members, ori the ground
that it would cramp the means of com
mercial credit' A member (Mr. Bag-,
well of Tipperary,faW, ra&er than a
dopi fitch jpeafore, he would give up a
fourth of his income to government for
five ) ears, and he would begin bf pay
isg etot immediately, and 560 L at
Michaelmas,-and he thought every man
of property in the kingdom should come
forward with tifoalhy on the present
ocedfion. The Chancellor's proposition
was poftoned.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 6
' Hoche's Proclamation out done !
\JPetfe may exert their ingenuity in at
tempts to depi& the cbarader of the Ret
• elutions of France ; their .labours will
be wholly i* vain ; for after exhaufling
* the sombre without fuccefs,<»e rejort to
their own condud and aaions'.".By
- thir deedsjefball know them."
From the Madras Courier.
.MADRAS, NOV. §.
THE views of the Executive Direc
rory,in fending the commissioners to
the lie of France, Were of an extensive
nature, nor were their exertions to have
been confined to the Iflandl alonr—they
were to have reached to this country—
the tranquility, of the Englifb possessions
was to have teen disturbed by the re
vival of hope and confidence in the bo
som of Native defpotjfm ; (30,000
Caffres, were to have been landed in
India as 'he bafisof that hope, and of
that confidence) but on this head we
write with caution, for altho the plans
of the directory have proved abortive,
the views to which they had given birth
are yet exiting;
Explanatory ofthe above, we lay be
fore our readers the followingobtline of
the loth article of the Inftruflions, giv
en by the Directory to Brunelle and his
associate.
" Art. 10. Our intentions have long
since been known to the ***** ; the
blacks to obtain biberty must firn prove
that they are worthy to enjoy it; you
will feled 25,000 of the ™ most athletic,
the youpgett, and the bravest of the
slaves, to whom you will promise plun
der as the incentive, and liberty at the
reward of their valor. The rich -posses
sions of the English in India will be no
more. ,
" To the blacks you will add a body
of colour;and so many Frenchmen as
the Island can spare ; tranfporcs will
not be wanting; the vovage will be
short. and a few days will land you on
the shore of India."
We have only to add, that the com
missioners declared their determination
of arming and embarking the iiafes for
India, and that the violence off red to
their persons by the Colonial Affimbly,
was the & consequence of that decla
ration.
How the commissioners were to have
afted, should the islands have been
found in the possession of rhe English,
the following articles will (hew:
TRANSLATIONS
.From the French, of the 13th article cf the
InJ?runions given by the Executive Di
redory, to ibeir Agents, Brunelle and
Baas. el
"If by chance (which we however do
not think, and which we regard even
as impoffiblej the Lands 'of Frame, and
Bourbon should be , on yotir a rival, In
possession cf the Engliffi, you will nev
ertheless, make your defeent, at any
place which you may find proper, on
ope of those islands.
•' You then are to proclaim the Lib
erty ofthe blacks, and after this being
done, you will raise an Infurredion
by their means, and having formed a
rampart of their bodies, you are to
cut their throats without diftinftion, of
the conquerors and conquered.
[Who, after reading this bloody
scheme of fraternization, can hesitate
§ to credit the authenticity of Hoche's
; proclamation.]
ExtraS of a letter from Richmond, dated
April 28.
" Last night a second attempt was
made to rob the treasury of this state.
The villains had removed the iron gra
ting from one of the windows, but
were flopped from further progress by
an iron Gutter within."
CREENFFELD, MAY It.
IVaJbington's ReJignalien.
An oration on this event, with a
short review of the life, character, and
conduct of that illutiriou, man, was
pronounced in London, Nov. so, by
Dr. J. G. Jones, a member ofthe Lon
don corresponding society lately profc
cuted by government.
.}Origin of Slavery.
In the year 1440 the Portuguese of
fered the following petition to the
court of Rome ; They fought leave ro
double thbCape of Good Hope, nod
to reduce the negroes td perpetual slave
ry because the) never went to mass, and
because they were the colour of the damned!
These two requests were granted them
without referve=-by hil iholinefs.
Tbefollmihg paragraph irextraSed front
a late Philadelphia paper.
" Among the curiofirirs of the pres
ent day, is a patent granted to a man
tor contriving a coffin so conftruaed as
so secure the dead against a future re
farreSion !"
Al.telo an old Proverb.
" 'Tis an old faying in Newengland,—
" There is no knowing who will be
governor, until after election."
The election of governor - and lienr.
governor for the state of Maffachufefts
has terminated in the election of Mr.
Sumner to the former and Mr. dill to
the latter honourable Ration.
The annual ele&ioh in the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, is on the last
Wednefdey in Mav. (Beflow paper.)
The " Tip" of the day is, to dun add
be dunned, to sue and be sued; then
pocket the Rino aud elope : This fafhiori
meets the approbation of many people in
the United State!. (^fern Star.)
NEWBURYPORT, MAY 1%
The board of Commiflioners in Eng
land, -has decided the case of the Sally;
Capt. Choat in behalf of the claimants.
Messrs W. P. Johnson, and others of
Newburyport : that they are entitled to
full and complete corhpenfatioh bom
the British Government fop the loss
sustained by the capture. It remains
for them to prove the amount of lof&, &c.
from philAd. May 5.
We bear that the consecration of
Dr. Edward Bass, Bishop elect of the
Episcopal Church, in the state of Mafi
chufetts, will take place atChrift Church
on Sunday morning.
DUBLIN, MARCH 4.
The tonfternarion which prevails
from the late shock sustained by the
public, is indescribable. Allconfidence
in paper is gone ; and business is at
a complete Rand..
For a considerable time on Thursday
last the commifioners of the revenue re
fufed to accept of notes of. the Bank cf
Ireland from such merchants as tender
ed them in payment of the dories on
their entries. The effefts of this refu
fal may easily be conceived. It ope
rated like an electric shock, and threw
the whole metropolis into confufien,
Fortunate!) this prohibition was taken
off in the course of the day—and the
Bank of Ireland notes were allowed
as currency at the Cuftomhopfe.
As a circulating medium, guinea
notes have hern adopted by the Bank of
Ireland, and a number of them have
actually issued.
' NEW. LONDON, MAY it.
Two Indiamen arrived at New-York,
last week ; and several European vegcis.
The Ontario, from Canton, was in
sured to the amount of 500,000 dollars,
principally underwritten in Newy ork.
These arrivals have diffufed a momenta
ry ray ofjoy over the sombre faces of
the merchants of that city.
A French paper fays,, " Laporte,
the ex-member of convention, who had
been arrested for extortion, has made
his efeape from prison. A man who
has five millions of Frowns is not to be
hanged." 7
The President has received and ac
knowledged Don Joseph Ignacio de
Viar, as consul general from his most
Catholic Majesty to the United States.
We hear that Don J ifeph Ignacio de
Viar is appointed commissioner on the
part of his most Catholic Myefty, to fet
tle the claims of the merchants of the
United States, for the derenfion and
confi feation of their vcffels in Spanish
ports, during the late war between the
kingdom of Spain and the republic of
France.
The American commiCioner, to aft
in this business is Mathew Clarkfon,
Empire of Philadelphia.
Agreeable to one ofthe articles of the
treaty between the French republic and
Naples, the latter is to Furnish grain
and pTOviflons to the amount of fifty
eight millions, and to deliver the fame
free of all duties or expence when and!
wherever they fnall be required by the
agent of the republic.
On Wednesday last the president of 1
the United States recognized Richard
Soderftronm, Esq. Us consul general 'qf
his Swedish maiefty, within the United
States of America.
A letter from Stockholm fays, Kof
ciulko, is on his way to America, with
a number of his friends. He accepted
from the Emperor money to enable him
to defray the expense of the voyage ;
but declined the offer of a traft of land
and the pension of 6000 roubles.
Thomas Mair, whose arrival and de
tention at the Havannah lately excited
feme curiosity, has failed for Spain on
board of a frigate pit appears that soon
after he landed on the Weftern coast of .
America, from New Holland, that he
was received with thb greatest cotirtefy
arid attention by the Spanish settlers,
and that he was accompanied through
the whole of bis journey by fever,:i
persons who appeared uncommon!) at- 'I
tentive to provide him with accommo
dation and rieceffarirs, and ft was not 1
until his arrival at Vera Cruz that he
discovered In those who had been thus
attentive, persons employed by the ad- J
ministration to watch hi§ conduct fem
puloufly and penetrate into his purp o -1
fes ; upon his arrival at Vera Cruz, he
was desirous of proceedihg over land tcq
the northward, in order to obtain a p f
fage to the United States, and then it
was.that for the firft rime he was re
trained from pursuing his foutc acc>t- *
djng to his inclinations, and obliged <0
embark on board 3 man of war in which
he was convey ed to the^Havannab.
The Paris Eclair fays; a foirit oij•, ,
lousy & difumoo prevails to an unc^ n
mon degree in the Spauith marine, m,-
ing to the. promotion of a number of
French emigrants ro the* fupenor ra^: >,
over the heads of fyaniih officers.
newyork, MAY :,
A gentleman from the n< ighborhond °
of Ponghkeepfie informs us, that the
rich yeomanry begin to be alarmed
with the profpeft of disturbances be
tween this and the French republic, and
that they are a&nlly buying their move, f
But, what is still more extraordinary,
some of them declare that if a rapture
doer take place, they will dig it up again,
! and, if necessary, expend the whole of it
io aid of defenGve meafores.
PROVIDENCE, (R. 1.) APRIL 22.
On Wednesday morning last, bewe:n
three and four o'clock, a finart shock
of an earthquake was felt in this <ow%
attended by a tumbling noise like diC
tant thunder, which seemed so progrefe
from east to weft..
NEWYORK, MAY §.
L'Eclair of the yd Marchfa, —
Government has received advices from
the Eaft-lndies of the utmost impor
tance, the particulars have not trans - ,
red, but it is supposed that they relax
to a treaty offenfive and defensive con
cluded between Tippoo and the Mah
rattas.„
The deputies from the New Itai*n ;
Republic have given a sum of ?2,r o
lijpfa-m ^ arelent,ow^rd, the {UDD rt -
of the parents of those who have d; d "
and those who have been wounded v
the armies of the Republic and oib:r ;
poor persons at Paris.
Puyfaye, who has been arrested at
Laval in Mayenne had a variety of im
portant papers in his possession whkh
have all been secured, and will dev^
lope the assassinating plots of the noil
inveterate enemies of the Republic.
Advices from Conftantioople fa, thatl
the frequent conferences which take
place between the Polifli General 0 >n- ~
Iky, Aubert Dubayet, and the lr^
Dragoman of the Porte, have geen
much alarm to the Austrian ambaffidor
as they seem to countenance a rc/ui ,
concerning the destination of those ih
itary preparations and movements ccr
tyinZ forward on the frontiers of L il
lafchia and Hungary.
Agreeable to one of the article r>f
the treaty between the Republic and^
Naples, the latter is to furnifh grai and
provifione to the amount of eight tril
lions, and to deliver the fame free all
duties or expense when and whe ever ^
they Rial! be required By the agen of <
the Republic.|,
The United. Italian Republics ^re
agreed to the propositions fur the i :or
poration of Romagna, into the co^ ^o&#
union and on equal terms ; the C^ 'on
of Uri (Switzerland) has given a ri^
factory answer to the application sue
them, & agree to furnifh zoco met for
;the service ofthe Italian Republic, pon^
the terms propo fed. This body o r eN
erans, will enabte^he French Repi lie,
to remove-its troops from ethene 3
feezes of greater activity.#
The plans of Carnot, are now 1 ^fl
tc be completely executed „he me ore ,
of Wurmfer in Cutting himfelf in - #
Mantua, prevented the perfect e :%
tion of the vast defies of the cam gty
of ^796. Italy being now comp, p ly
restored to peace, the projeA will I
fumed,-and Austria will become ^J
the point of rendezvous for the tw ar-3
mies now under Moreau and H tesl
and for thatofltaly al, under B ^ J
parted the army of the latter "';,£
will consist of 100,000 men. & tfl
A person of the name of Brifden ■
the Canton of Lifieux, departure! ^|
Calvados, has been fined and fine
to a long imprisonment for causing : < #
mult in » Romilh Church during "fl
time of service.