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ihrorrtied, that fr din this fleet 1500 troops
had been landed on the island.
' Capt Knight, arrived at Salem, from
Jamaica, spoke oriihiSpaflage a veffelby
which he learnt, that there was a report
at Barbadoes, that a French armaihent
had arrived in the Weft-Indies.
Capt. Stone, arrived at Kennebunk,
from St. Euftatia, 21 days, informs, that
sixteen flaps of war had arrived at Mari
tinicd, from Brcft. , •? -
Yesterday there.was an •arrival here
ft dm St. Lucia. By a„ paff?hger, .we^
learn, it was reported at that island Jhat
a French squadron had Arrived in mpfe
leas—that it was enumerated At from one
to nine fail of the line and- fix ipgates—
that this force had been divided* .one
part failing.to leriard, the other to wind-;
ward, and that on patting near Guada
loupe, he heard a fey ere cannonade. —■
The above-.are all the accounts receiv-
ed. ■ •, r ( •/. , :
. , Capt, Pratt, the 22d ult. "arrived at
New-London,from Barbadoesin 15 days
i off I'dijto-Rico saw a fleet of men of war
of leven fail, three of which were three
deckers, and the other appeared to be
Trigate's,and full of troops,with red caps,
on next day saw five fail, they all ap
peared, to be bound to Hispaniola. A
Eritilh officer who was pallenger with
Capt. P.from Barbadoesto Turks island,
thought them to be French ships bound
to the Cape, "Reader, form your opini
on. ' . —“— . ,
. TROM B&tfRDEAUX.
Since our Taft, accounts h’kve.been re
’ccNed from France, ’which announce,
that the, French army of thp Pyrennes,
"had obtained, on the Ift of May, a signal
vidofy over the Spaniards—killing three
thoufimd,and taking 4000,together With
230 carin'on. These accourits,are by Capt.
Lamb, from Bou'rdeatix. Our . last ac
counts from. Catalonia, whfe to the ‘ 23d
April—they gave information that Gen-
Dogabert had captured the .town of Ur
ge!, and that his iucceffor, Gen.-Dorret
was waiting for reinforcements to attack
the citadel of that place. A severe ren
counter ih that quarter is then highly
probable*; but found numbers seldom
give the extent., t ,
It is not impofiible that the accounts of
the rejoicings in England and France; at
the fame time, Ihould be true. For it is
hardly poflibTe, but that in a general at
tack, extending near two hundred miles
and in as many as fourteen points', ihould'
In forhe parts fueceed, and in feme parts
fail. Thus for the successes, the French
rejoice ; for .their failures the Englilh are
glad.
Mr. Higginson, the agent of the U
~lfited States,appointed to; colleft evidence
^the {pollutions on Ofir commerce th the
Weft-Indies, has arrived at BarbadoeL
Gen. Kosciusko, the' Revolutionary
‘commander in Poland, was a Col. of En
gineers, in the service of the United
States, during-a great part of the Ame
rican Revolution.
-j ri-, -TA
REVOLUTION w PQLAN&.
The fttuation of Poland has eicited
cbmmitferatipn in every -quarter of the
/civilized world—Surrounded by two po
tent and atnbi tious powers, we havefeen
< thisdevoied- Republican kingdom piece
medled to gratify their inordinate luftof
dominion —and not Qhe friendly drin has
beers stretched foftH for hes relief.
StANis vaui ,at the age of three fc.ore,has
Been reduced to thehumiliatingmeceffhy
■ of abandoning his throfte ; and whett ^n
■_ effort has beerfmade to check the inrOads
of the. Ruffian and Pruflian defpert^'darc
aot second the attempt. But j£ Poland
< m not (o receive benefit from thepatifipt
ifm of Kofciuiko ; it is not to-be doubted;
that the Republic of France will—for
fiiould this pupil of Wash in gtok—frppi
' whom conductors Haveproceeded which
have eleifterized the world—fucceedin
any degree in the revolution he contem
plates, the Prussian monarch will find
fufficient employment for his troops, in
^defending his newly, acquired ppflefiions;
and mutt of course quit the confedera
tion against France. On every princi
ple therefore, RWciufko has die bed
wishes for fucccfs,- of evdry friehd tc
peace and the felicity of th<; world, * _
Alate New <York paper contains ibt
: ‘foliowing
Humming Extraordinaries.
“ That things go on gloriously
in France, fonie, debentures ex.
cepced: that the Sans CuFa-tei
have invented new machines ol
. ri a . 1 ■ ■ u
appears only the conception of the
Bntiih, whole ideas of the irrefit
Ibility of the French are fvvoiten
to such a degree, that they con
vert mole hills into' mountains,
and conceive pickets to be main
bodies: That the Duke of York
has; id conjundibn with the Em
peror and Prince S axe Cobdu rg,
attacked twp forraging parties of
the Sans Culottes ; the combined
powers advanced in eight columns
—the.aftack was irrefifUble j they
furioufly drove two waggons of the
enemy down a hill, broke two of
the /pokes? and deranged one bf
the wheel fellow’s so that the driv
er was incapable of making his
escape. Much praise is due to
Lieutenant Hastings of the Brit*
ilh Royalists, for his intrepid con*
dust on this dccafion, who like a
hero pursued the driver^ he re
ceived, However, a fmallAoiind
in his left eye, by a crack of the
waggoners whip, but hopes are en
tertained of his recovery ‘ if he
Ihould loose his eye; no doubt
government will bellow a pension
out of the inexbaufttble treasury of
the British nation* Nor can ad
miral M’Bride be too much com
mended for his timely affijlance?
who; in the mornehc of danger,
hove in fight with his horse marines
and performed wonders. They
allo report that the citizens of Ire
land were about toillumim te when
this glorious news arrived,but that
later intelligence from the conti
nent having informed th ar the
^i^ory was too dear bought^
postponed their burftl Offering un
til the neStt fair day?’
, IT i* averted by Thomas Paih^ ftys a ;
corrprppDdent, Wat; ‘‘the greate’ft charac- -
tcrs‘ths world Has known, have rife©otf the
Democratic floor?’ The Idlib ft i r«g Jift
proof t f his airenioi), might be greatly . en
larged, and particularly by these, wfap httvc
been or now are eminent to. thq th States.
ALetthofe, wBo, wish Burke the apqtta.’.e,
confider and treat the muttitudc’as
read, and refled, that the period is atriveH,
wheb leather apd. prunella” are mo long-;
er qbjeds if riorflrip. , , . . ,
UiMophenet was ‘the son of i forgetnan,
Horace of a f reeamari. ‘ v
gbeufhrajitii of an old' dbathfinadT '
Roujjeau the poet, of a fhoenjaker.
7. J. RouJ/eau a watchmaker.
Ma It eri was the lon of. a tapeilt'yjiian. ,
Rollin the hiflorian, of a cutler,. I
MaJfillM of a Taphtr. ( ( ri -' r ,
fanui toobe of a yery indigent pepfanri .
- Sbakefyeari of very poor pareati. ; , .
flenjamin Franklin, the , foq oft a. tallow-
Chandler, and himfel£a PRINTER.
gg Rittinboufe ^ a gQldfinith*/
Marat was a wjnsdi^ercbMlt. *
■ Paint Paps wa^a tent mak^: o*l
Saviour of mankind was the repoted of ;
Joftph the qirpenter; •’ -At
; And almost all who have increafe4 the
sum of'human knowledge experienced in
youth, that contempt whieh attends povei
ty, in truth,. triTA. A , "
“ Worth, tnakci thi ^au^and wa«t of it ,
the fcHow.” /
S ALEM, fafy
Within a few days a number of Ame- ,
rican vessels have arrived from a state of
arreftation ir» Jamaica, having been ac
quitted, paying heavy costs. They in* \
form, that they were greatly diftrU^
for flour arid bread; in the Hland ; that it
Was Very sickly there ; and that their de
fence rias very weak, thebe' being only v
a small number of Britilh troops there ,
and those dying faft. .
Yesterday arrived here after 8 weeks '
passage, from NeWry, ihip Alexan
der, Captain Gpffiriy riith 43T fouls on
board.
death, such as ipears, which can
be lanced fifty yards, and if no ex
ecdtiort is done with the throw,
they retbrn by a fee ret ftratageni
to the owner; having an equal
chance to kill in their returning
as when thrown. This however
Latest European Intelligence.
' . Boston, Jutt 5.
Capt. Knowles, who arrived in tbis pppt
on Thursday evening la/1,. in 40 days from
Liverpool, &a$ obliged;us with London pa
pers tq the 17th May, from which we have
fdeited/he following.
Internal Commotions.
' - Lon do si Ma v 13.
HOUSE OF COMMONS— may i 2.
A Message frntn His Majesty "was
brought down by Mr. Secretary Dundas,
which is as follows :
GEORGE, r;\ ; . . .
His Majesty having received inform
ation^ that .the seditious pradices which
have been for force time carried on by
certain Societies In London, in correspon
dence with societies in different parts of
die country, have lately been pursued
with incrcaied a^ivity. and. boldness, and
have been avowedly dire&qd to the ob
je<ft of aflenitling a pretended general
convcntion^Qf the people,in contempt and
defiance bf the authority of Parliament,
and on principles fubyerfive of the exist- ,
ing Laws and Cdnftitution,* and diredly .
■ tending to the introduction of that system
of anarchy Aiid confufibn which has fa
tally -prevailed in France, has. given di
rections fo.rTei zing the books and papef-s
of the fajd societies in London, which
.have been seized accordingly: And these
books .& papers appearing to contain mat
ter of the greatest importance to the pub
licintereft. His Majesty ha§ given orders
for laying them before, the Hpdfe of
Commons), and, His Majesty. recom
mends to the Hohfe to/confider the fame,
and to take such me^fii res thereupon as
may appear to be neoeflary for effectually
guarding againft.the further prosecution
of these dangerous designs, and sot pre
serving to His Majesty’s fubje&s the en
joyment of the bleflings derived to them
by the Constitution happily eftablilhcd in
these kingdoms. G. R.
Mr. Secretary Dundas jhen said, that as
the papers in qaeftion were extremely vo
luminous, 2nd as it was lull uncertain
- whether it wduld be, right to print the whole
of them, though he did not think that it
would be poflible to bring the matter fbr-
Ward, yet, as that mi^hc be the case, he
Ihould move/that the Message Ihould be ta
ken into consideration to ifforrow ; which
Was agreed? <&. „ u .
. Mr. JEK-Adams, Secretary to die Con- ,
fUtuiional Society, and Mr. Hardy, Secre
* tary to the Gorrefponding ipciety. Were
examined forfcveral hours yesterday, at the
Privy Couh.dk WhitefiaH. The papers of
< theft different societies had been previously
feized.-*-We fuppjie, by the Message de
livered to both Houfts of a Parliament, that
. a fyfkmhcS been, difeoyered, tq which it
is necessary that the confiderauoif >df Par
liament ihould immediately be called,' for
the purpeft Os taking meafurto for the iup
preflibn of meetings, from which proceed
ings hostile cb the Cqpftituiioh either have,
or are fuppoled:likely to spring, 4 mat
.ter of greater hhpqrianCe never engaged
the a.tcnfioh pf. Parliamenr, and We uuft
that the whole fitbjeft will undergo that
attentive and feriou&jnvdtigatioq which iis
magnitude demands; and if the laris now in
force are nOt fu^iciendy flrong to, suppress
-afToCialione which, updn fyftem,{trike atfhe
liberties tfEngliffrAen. we.hope that far
liament'riiiiinterpOfe ah effeftoal
.end Ipeedy remedy; that ohr proj^ci^r b^
freedom, >u<k€very privfiegi that ii dear jb
us, may not.be wrrfted from us by, periods
. whole object m a y bfe to throw us Wb a
. state cf ^Qgr£hy n similar io that in Which
we .behold ,* neighbouring Ration, the con
duitofwhich it (eema tq-be thHr leading
oi^edt tb i^tate,
AccoUnlf the combined argny,
LONDON, ri At Is.
, -Mr. ; the
King’s messenger,. arrived .at. Whitehall
with a letter from hN Royal Highness the
Duke of York, dated at Tesurnay, on Frb
day last, th« gtlx illff; His Kqyal High
. ne^ dates, that an Austrian officer had
> juftpaffed through" There, on his ribyff^
* CbiiarAiT» with orders from the
ftßmperqr tq attack the French at Gouf
v v tray. The Meflenger left t|ie Duke, of
; York’ri Head quarters ,oii Saturday
* At three, It
was understood, an attack on the French
was to be made, , Soon after that hour
t a cannonading was heard, rihich contin
| ? tfed the whole day j and at Oftend it w^s
ithrbu’gh'fdvferal channelsreported in the
eveninlgjjoLSaturday, tfiat Clairfait
g hid attacked hi thi morning, and com
pletely routed the Frenche. So confident
ly was the event believed at Oftend,
that on Satilrday night the bells were set
arinjng.
Clairfait, wehave reason to believe,
made the attack alone; as we understand
that (he Duke of York, mentions in his
letter of the 9th, that he ihould not be
able to assist Clairfait, on account of
the French having formed a camp of ob
servation, consisting of 25,000 men, be
tween Bouvinnes arid, Lan noy, who
would be able to attack him to great ad
vantage, if he moved towards Claiji
fait—and that therefore it was impru
dent, without a reinforcement.
. ' BOSTON, JULY 5.
'From LONDON—In a Le'ur dahd May g.
« I left Amsterdam on the aid ult. and ar
rived at Qftend on the i6th.r The
French are encamped spur miles from Nieu^
port, which jsonly 7 miles diliant from Of
tend. Jt was reported They. were in pof
feflion ofßruges, which I had juft.pafleithref
and that, they were.Jcoming.cn towards Os.
tend with fpred. A report had aifo fpread*
that Grp. Ciairfay t, of the combined forcce^
had met with a.terrible defeat, 5000 men
were laid to have. been tilled, also that he
had been unablt to rally the remainder of
ilia army-, whiph before the battle, consisted
of 30,0 po rt meh. The French fay their for
mer war in-Flanders was to give the.people
an opportunity of gaining their liberty—-They
rejected the opportunity, and were not wor
thy^of the qaufe ; and as Flanders is the feat
of the war, and a Ihelter to the.combined
forces^ they will plunder and deßroy every
town they enter belonging to it., A fmail
'village was burnt by t,he French, called Fur
nes,tcrt miles diftaut from Qftend; the even
ing £ arrived there; ■.thirteen villages were
a-Q-on fire at once, and burnt to the ground*
qear Landrecies. at which time the FrencM
fuffered a heavy loft of men and artillery.’
Give tpe leave to facilitate you from my
heart, in your bemg.a resident and . citizea
' of a land of freedom.-and among perhaps the
only people who enjoy their liberty on the
globe, at^prefent. ; 1 have been through sev
eral of the United Provinces, hut find no
where the freedom we enjoy in^merica. £
have travelled thro’ a part of Germany, Prus
sia and Flanders, where delpotiftn and priest
hood reign triumphant, misery and poverty
are thecanrequences.**
DIM, in this town fxnee our laft,Mr. James
RuNDLET,-iged 65.
At Hamptonfalls, Captain Sandb^rx,
Poft-Maft^r, aged 6S;
Qne penny Reward.
RAN away from the fubferiber
the 30 th of June hft, an In
dented apprentice boy v darned
*Nathaniel Lo^e.
All persons are forbid harbour
ing or trusting f^id boy on my ac- '
count as they would avoid the
penalty of the lav/,
Whoever will retufn him fejdl
receive the above reward. .
Daniel Jones.
Exeter Jolv 6 1704- V'
Letters remaining in tbe tojt^
r 794.
I J°^ e P^ Tihon, 5
JL/ A^guftus Odlin, F
Trewoithy Dxdby, |
Mary Bartjetc, XJ . '
’Ridia ^ Bean, - • - BrenAdwt^
David Lovekin,- . • •
1 heophilus Goodwin, . tJedvttnvn,
Abigail Hibber^ - - Almjbwy^ ;
; Johu W. Gilma n 3 Post- Mafier f
Friday last being the nineteenth anr*
veriary of the American Independence,
the morning was altered in as usual, by
the riling, of the fun ; and as on other
days the bell rang at five o’clock to call
the labourer from his drowsy pillowy
but what is more unusual on such occa
sions, the.irihabilants of the town dined
between the hours of one and two with
t*i9.r refperiive families, without, being
disturbed by the noise of federal salutes,
ringing of bells, or other childiih demoa
ftratibns of joy, common with thole who
pretend to selebrate the birth day of
Freedom. But that the day might not
pafs.entirely unnoticed, the principal in
habitants of the town aflemblcd at three
o*clock in.the afternoon on federal green,
where a frugal refrcfliment was provided
for the occasion, and .vdiere the after
noon was spent in good humor, mirth
and decent decorum. A proceflion of
equality .confiftin?. of upwards of one
hundred men and boys, closed the day,
when all retired hi hly fatisfied, in quiet
to . their refpeftive homes.—The tpafts
drank on theoccafion, have not yet come
to hand.
Point Petre in G^adalcupe, is re-capturcd
by the French. ,
Crstct,
7UESDAK 70V rB, 1794.