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ter confufion they discovered to me that
they were baibf> ; that hey had arretted
* the person whom 1 rfcwd for thirty
pounds ; and that I muff give fecutity
far the debt or go instantly to prison.
To cme to the close of my unhappy
narration, they carried me to one of their
hoafes: From whence I lent to the land
lord where 1 lodged, who having feme
thing more than thirty poundsof mine ir
his ha-ds (all that I am worth in the
world !) was kind enough to bail me —
From a principle of confeience (k owin
that I had really made m fell the debtor) I
would have paid the money immedi
ately, if it had not occurred to me tha
the gentleman whom I delivered would,
upon reading there particulars in the
World, be honorable enough to remit me
the sum I fraud ergaged for on his ac
count. As soon as Ihe this letter infert
rd, I (hall make myfelf known to Mr
Doeflex, to whom 1 desire that the none,
may be paid : Or if the gentleman chafes
to come in person and discharge my bail,
Mr. Drdfley will be able to inform him at
what place I mav be found.
I beg your immediate publication of
this letter, and am,
r ffirai r ii^'Gflir
•, W. B.
£> coo Gx^^e^^O^O^oGx
INTERESTING PARTICU
LARS,
CONCERNING THE
REVOLUTION IN POLAND.
WARSAW, (Poland) May 14.
(extract OF A LETTER.)
" THE adherent# of Russia and
Proffia, in tris place, endeavor fec;e:ly
to affimulate all cur proceedings with ihofe
of the jacobins at Paris. The National
Council they compare to the Convention,
and the unlimited command gben to Kof'
ciufko is like that given to Dumourier.
The summary trial and execution of the
Bishop of Livonia, they compare to the
bloody deeds of September. The inten
tion of the King to remove to Prague on
the 18th of April, when he was prevented
by his fubjetls, is likened to the butinefs
of St. Cloud, and the coinage of the mon
ey without the visage of the King, is a
• fare presage of a future democratic Repub
lic
+ " The cause of freedom, notwithstand
ing, derives freSh fuccours every day,
and the deliberations of the provisional
council are carried on with the utmost de
corum, and'efta. They decreed, April
47^^ &;^<, i^. : .
To particularize every misfortune that
has happened to n\e in London, wa^d ex
ceed the bou^s of your "paper. I mail
only inform you of the occurrences of tell
night.
It was past twelve when I was returning
to my lodgings from visiting a sick friend.
Asl passed along the Strand I heard at
a little dißaccefiom me the found ofblows, :
and the screams of^a woman. I quicken-^
cd my p<cc, and immediately perceived!
a very pretty young creature upon her
knees, intreating a soldier f:r mercy, who
by the far, in his looks, and his uplifted:
cudgel, seemed determined to shew none.;
Cprurnoahumanity, as well as a sense of
niy duty, impelled me to flop and make
ray remonstrance to this barbarous man.
The effcas of these remouftrances were,/
that I Icon after found mjfelf upon the/
ground, awaited as it were from a trance,
with myJirad broke, my bedy bruifed,my
pockets rifled, and the soldier and his ia
2dy no where to be found.
Alas! Mr. Fitz-Adam, if this had
been the only misfortune of the night, 1
had gone home contented ; but I had a
severer one to undergo. I was comfort
ing mjfelf as I walked along, that I had
aßed the part of a chridian in regard to
these wretches ; when a loud cry of thieves
and murder, and 'immediately after it the
fight ofagentleman Ilruggling with two ill
looking fellows, again alarmed me. All
bruited and bloody as I was, '! fl:w with
out hesitation to his affiitar.ee ; aid being
of an athletic make and confutation, in a
very few minutes delivered him from their
clutches ; who, as icon as he saw himself
at liberty, made the moll natural use of i;
by running away. 1 was now left to the
mercy of two street-robbers, as 1 thought
them, both of whom had so Securely faf
tened upon me as to prevent my escape.
But while 1 was beginning to tell them
that 1 had been already robbed, to my ut-
fubfeription from the ladies to furnifh shirts
for the array. On the 30th, they ordered
the President to grant puffports to Gran
gers, who have not been domicilated at
Warsaw, and to all who are obliged to
travel in the service of the date.
" On the ift of May, the coramiffion
of the peace was ordered to fend 268,000
florins to the army, payable at the national
bank. They aifu requeued the apotheca
ries to furnidi medicines and medical peo
ple for the Service of the campaign. Th,
physicians, 'Shallki and Paull, were named
to collect the voluntary contributions.—
May the ad, they ordered the commi/Ta
ries to give an account of the population
of the town. Mr. Tykel, alhkant to the
council,was ordered to organize the guard
cf Burgesses at the palace; and they
charged the commandant Mok rono* Iki, to
arrelt all vessels laden with corn on the
rivets, Narrow and Bug. May the 23d,
they resolved to affib in a body at the cer
emony of the baptifin of the son of Zahr
zewfki, born on the memorable 14th oi
April. May the 4th, a prohibition was
laid cn the exportation cf raw hides and
tanned leather. They liberated cn the
feme day, the Ruffian Captain Dafskow,
Alio had been fe^viceable to Stanislaus
Potocki, aid-de Camp, 13 Mokronewlk.,
while he was in a blue cf airak by Ige:1-
crom." q
The Poles have made themselves ma(
ters of Lublin, in M^xovia, and put &
whole Ruffian garnfen to the (word.
May 16.
29, that the commission for the preserva
tion of the peace fhuuld examine into the
nature of the Ruffian affignats, and ascer
tain their amount. Th,y alio accepted a
Then the Delegates begged the King
to appear frequently in the most Sequent
cd places in the city, as he had been used
before the 19th of April, which the Kig
promised.
The Delegates then mentioned two for
eigners who redded at the Castle, and were
attached to the King ; the one for tear
thirty the other for ten years, as much
fufpeaed. This intimation was highly re
fenred by his M jefly, ^d he concluded
the audience with answering for the fidelity
of ah his fe;vanes who resided at the pal
ace.
" Say then yocrfelves (replied the
King) what you think necessary."
They then declared "That the people
wished to have one o' confidence always in
the Royal apartments, and to follow his
Mj.fty wheresoever he went."
The king answered " this must receffs
rily hurt rac extremely, if the diftiuft aris
es from you ; but as you'hy the people
can no otherwise be calmed,! do not oppose
it."
The Situation efthe King becomes eve
ry day more alarming lince the Regency
no longer keeps any measures with
ihe minivers arc! other agents cf
Pruffa, and that the people have (hewn
their inclination far capital punishments.
On the 24 h of Apnl eight members
of be Regtocy, via. the CafleUan, of
Lublin Poteck), Sieurs Kochanoufty and
Mokr^npw&i, Nicholas as Prince de Rad
zivil, Elens Alfe, Wegierfey, Rafalowiex,
end T)kel came to, the King and said,
'• We are appointed by the Regency to
/ay to you, fir, that the people express
great dillruft of your Mjeily being de
tirous of quitting Warsaw Secretly. The,
fay yesterday you took a walk alorg the
Vistula, accompanied only by wo persons
in order to prepare your flight by water
We h ve pledged cur lives on the falfit)
of these fufpicioas, but the alarms of
the people arc not to be calmed, and we
beg of your Majesty to give us the means
of fatisfying the people on this head."
The King replied, “It is about fcur
days fi.ee 1 took fach a walk ns you men
tion, but it was in broad day, and without
any mystery. 1 wentta fee the rafts that
were arrived, and to ask what provisions
they had brought for Warfew, ashing c|
much importance at the prefect juncture.
lafterwards went ta fee how far the build
i^g of the bridge was advanced. From
thence, I returned to the great iquare if
ful, d:y, and accompanied net only by
hz^Ferfon,, but by a croud of people.—
I gave you Some days ago,
my ward ihu. i would not quit Warsaw—l
reiterate the,fame to you now, in the most
positive manner—what would .you have
mere /"
Upon this anfiver of the King, the Do
legates replied, " that for themfelvei,
hey were perfoaded of this truth ; bu:
.hat the people's distrust was so great,
that something more than this mult be
done."
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, August. 14.
A person arrived in town from Pitts
burg, on I'uefaay ni,t lad—the intelli
gence by him is Substantially as follows ;
That the meeting proofed to be held
in Braddock's field la& Friday week, took
place— -that between four and ,000 ptr-
Lns, in arms, were supposed to be p%
eat —that the whole body parched from
thence to Pittsburgh—that they Sent a
deputation to Maj. Butler, commanding
officer of the continental troops in the
garrison there, informing him that the
movement of the people towards Piftf
burgh was merely to fee their friends,
and that they had no hostile intentions re-
Ipeaing tie garrison or public Bores.
That. MsjoQfafler informed them he
vai under no apprehensions, but if they
.meant to keep opt cf Sanger, they mutt
net ceme within the reach of his cannon—
that the whole body took a circuitous,
distant route by the fort—entered, and
marched through the town, and dispersed.
—We are further informed that Major
Ifaap Craig, cf Pitt^urg, has been pro
feribea by the rioters —but is fafe within
the fort; we further learn that MriTrs.
Findley, Smilie and Gallatin are indefat
igable in their exertions among the people
to restore peace and good order.
The military Stores feat on from this
city some time ago have arrived fafe at
Pittsburgh.
There are no certain accounts in town
of the insurgents having intercepted the
provisions, &c. intended for Gen. Waj ne's
army. .
Auguftzi.
On the aoth of June, the forces under
Gen. Wayne, which had then been joined
by 15 or 1600 mounted Kentucky volun
teers marched forward towards the Mae
The above plan of letting a guard over
the king, has been put in execution since
yesterday. Two Municipal officers accom
pany him wherever he goes, and cat at his
table. For his l#rvice,i4 members of the
Municipality have been nominated, who
rel eve each ocher every 24 hours*. In oth
er refpeds, the King is treated with every
outward mark of dignity,' and he ffiews
himfelf to the people every day by riding
through the streets of Warsaw.
June 10.
Each feaion of the city at Warsaw is
obliged to furnifh a regiment of militia
of 1000 ren. General Kosciusko has
joined another considerable corps at Lub
lin, to watch a Ruffian army near that
place..
The warlike force of the Polish confed
eracy is laid to confix cf 67,870, men,who
are Rationed in five divifionr.
The corps of General Kofcirlko con
fills of 22 970 men ; that of Gen. Ku
chawfki 18 900 ; that of Jiffinfki, of 6009
flattened at Grodno ; a corps of 12,000
at Wilna, and another at Warsaw conlifts
of Boco. The peasantry ere not included
in this calculation. The confederates are
well provided with every necessary.
The report is perfectly true of the King's
having a body-guard of fourteen citizens
set over him, cf whom two are to be in
^onftant attendance, and are to accompa
n him every where. On the 18th Count
Uorah, the Pelt Director, Stattorious, and
iorce others were arretted.
Q<>O ©rfDsQ-jOoOo^ ©9GX>OKD'O
^omej/cc c/nte/li^ence.
. itcar^^w*—
KENTUCKY.
KNOXVLLE, August 4.
ON Wednesday the 9th infant, a
bout 9 o'clock in the morning Major
George Winebefter was killed and (capped
by Indians, near Major Willfcn's (Me
ro Dulridl) on the public road leading
from his own house to Summer court
house: He was ajuftice of the pe ce, and
, n his wav to cou p t —ln the death of M.j
Winchester, the public have to lament
the ?ofs of a valuab e citizen, and .good
civil and military officer.
We learn that 40,000 Ruffiars are
marching towards Po'ar.u from the Ukraine,
& 16 000 from Livonia. The Poles have
prohibited the exportation of grain and
provident cf all forts.
The intendant of the Police, WencefEs
Rogzinfki, of whose arrest we'have given
an account, was condemned to die on the
i„h, and was executed on the 16th, in
the fame manner as the other victims of the
Polish Revolution.
BOSTON, SEPT. 9.
The Gazette of Erlangen, oneofthe
best German newspapers, of the zgth uk.
contains the following ariiae concerning
Baron TRENCK, the famous adventur
er:
" Trenck, from hi/Paris dungeon, has
written a letter to a friend at , Hamburgh,
wherein he pictures, in the most affeaing
colours, the extreme wretchedness of his
prefect fitnation. A draw bed is his placf
of repose, and his food cenfiils in an allow
ance of bread and vegetables,fo fcanty,thas
it hardly keeps him from flarving. The
misery he now experiences at the age of
7^, far out strips, he fays, allihe hard:
fllips of his youth in the citadel of Magee
burgh. ThuSft this ill-fated vi^im of fee-)
obinifm affords another ftrikirg rrcof, that
the warnieft profeffion of Republican print
ciples. leafed with the dearciifafiri#,
cannot in the Republic of Sans CuloucL
mee towns. A considerable bod, of Brit
ish under Simcoe, were believed at this
time to be with the Indians, go the rout
the army was to take, and )tt we arc at
fcacevith that faith less nation.;
N E W-Y O R £<,
ALBANY, AUG 28.
The Indians' account cl the attack ;I|,y :
lately madron Fwt Recovery, has been
received at Niagara ; and we are inform
ed, that they Gate their loss kt^o warriors
killed ; and that they leidea us the Amer
ican troops, between 30 and 40, and kil
led and carried est jpo hqrfes, They ac
knowledge, they were g^mpletely fcifti
in their attempt of earning the putt —4
They speak of Gen. Wayne, as a chic:,
whefe prudence and caution not only pre
vents their making any head against him,
but totally detests every project they can
invent for bringing him to.an adion on a
ny terms thslean premile them success.
BRIDGETON, AUG. 20.
Alarming inflance oj ibefury of a BEAR.
On Moroa, the ißih irritant Benjamin
FoUer, being on Ins way through a thick
et of woods in Bridgeton, was Suddenly a.
larmed by the growling of a bear. He
soon difcbvercd an old fc-bear and two
cubs. The old one immediately made
towards him, growling and very fierce.
He immediately tock to the firft tree he
could find, which was about nine inched
diameter, and about '2O feet to the firrf
limbs. This he aftenced with all pofcble
Speed, and having reached the limbs, bd
called tc the neaieft neighbor, who lived
«bcuta quarter of a mile dittanr, for help,
she bear, on hearing his cries, retreated
from the tree and hallooed also; which
She repeated as often as he called for help.
The bear then returned to the tree, and
and climber up nearly to the firft limbs,
out lowing her he ld, She fell to the ground.
This enraged her, and She again ascended
the tree with Bill greater velocity, and 0-
vertook him at the height of about 30 feet,
when foe felted him by one foot ; but the
Shoe coming eff. She fell a second time to
the ground. Recovering, She alcended
the tree a thiid.time,3nd tock rffhis other
Shoe ; he constantly calling for help, and
rone to be found. He had now aScended
.he tree as far as was fife for him to ven
:ufe, the bear constantly tearing his feet
with her teeth, until they become a moil
Shocking fpcQzcle. The bear at length
fattened her j ws so powerfully upon cue
of his heels, as to cadfe the limbs by mkitli
he held to break ; a;d he fell to the
ground ; the bear falling at the Ametimg
on the other fide of the tree ; and, net
withftanding his feet were ia this mangled
condition, he escaped to the neared hiute,
and arrived fafe. The distance from th#
ground by meafmement, from whence th#
young man fell was 48 feet. It is suppos
ed, that his repeated and eager cries for
help, tended to increase the rage and for,
of the bear, which had her whJ,s ci
her."
CONNECTICUT.
NEW LONDON, SEPT. 4.
Left Monday the dwelling houic of
Captain William Leeds of Groton, Iwa,
struck with lightning, and iomewhat dam
aged ; a number of people were in the
house, but none received any injury.
NORWICH, SEPT. 9.
We learn that Guv. i'atterfcn of New-
Je.fey, has efired bis iervice to the Pref
identof the United States, to cemmaxd
the troops destined to quail the Pitt&rgb
insurgents.
MASSACHUSETTS
DISTRICT of MAINE.