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, —are circumstances, which peculiarly
mark our situation with indications of
, the divine beneficence towards us. In
such a state of things, it is, in an espe
cial manner, our duty as a people—
with devout reverence and effe&ionate
gratitude to acknowledge bhr'many
and great obligations to Almighty God,
A letter from Port St. Maloes, of
O&. 16, mentions, that three colums,
of our army attacked the quarter of
the Olone Sables, of the Rebels, and
tave made a dreadful slaughter among
them. We are yet ignorant of the
number which have fallen under the
victorious and brave Republicans. It
is c^hfiderable. One of their chiefs
however has been found among the Gain.
Five Thousand of these Rebels, who
•witnessed the Carnage of theirbrethren
threw down their arms, and demanded
quarters. Fatigued with fighting with
out success, and in want of every
thing.
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BY AUTHORITY.
'A PROCLAMATION ;
By the President of the U. States
of AMERica.
WHEN we review the calami
ties, which afflift so many o
ther nations, the present condition of
the United States affords much matter
of consolation and fatisfadion. Our
exemption hitherto from foreign war,
an encreafing profpea of the continu
ance of th#t Exemption—the great de
gree of internal tranquility we have en
joyed—the recent confirmation of that
tranquility by the suppression of an in
furre&ion, which so wantonly threat
ened it—the happy course of public
affairs in general the unexempled
prefperity of all classes of our citizens
" We have taken fifty pieces of
cannon, the ammunition waggons, and
a great number of swords and muskets.
In fine, we are in poffeflion of the fa
mous foundaries of Hordeffe and Aiy,
eflimatcd to have toll in erection 32
millions.
CAPTURE of VENLOO.
On the 29th of O^ober, Merlin of
bouay, in the name of the Committee
of Safety, reported to the Convention,
that Venloo, fell into the power of the
Fiench; two days before, after a siege
cf four days. The garrison was al
lowed the honors of war. The advan
tage in the reduction of this place (he
fays) is immense.
In the fitting of the Convention of
the 30th October, Thuriot in the
name of the Committee ofPublic Safety
observed, "It has been lately report
that our army in the Weftern Pyrenees.
tore idle—lndeed that they had lately
experienced a check ; Attend to the
truth ! News has just been received,
that the Spanifli army in attacking
our troops, have met a complete defeat.
Their lines and important redoubts
were forced— two thoufard Spaniards
refled on the field of battle, and two
ihoufand five hundred were taken pri
soners loss on our ;part was on
ly 50 killed.
VICTORY over the SPANIARDS.
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were only seven inches in length.—
The signals were made from the Gupa
lo of the old capitol, whilst the obser
ver was Rationed at the College, a with
Telescope magnifying about 40. The
distance you know is nearly a mile :—
but had it been three, or even four
times as far, the result Would have been
the fame. Three fenteaces were ta
ken down in a few minutes. These
might by an apparatus fufficiently
large, have been conveyed to ^hiladel
and to implore him to continue and
confirm the blessings we experience.
Deeply penetrated with this senti
ment, I, GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President of the United States, do re
commend to all religious societies and
denominations, & to all per sons whom
soever, within the United States, to
set apart, and observe, Thursday,,^
nineteert+h day of February next, as a
day of public Thanksgiving and
Prayer ; and, on that day, to meet
together and render their sincere and
hearty thanksio the great'ruler of na
tions, for the manifold and signal mer
cies, which dillinguifh our lot as a na
tion, particularly, for the pofTeffiori of
conflitutions of government which u,
nite, and, by their union-, eflablifh
berty with order ; for the piefervatioq
of peace, foreign and dumeftic ; for
the feafonahle coretboul, which has been
given to a fpffit of diford eV, m«^
suppression of the late infurre&ion ;—
and, generally, 'for the prosperous
course of our affairs, public end pri
vate ; and, at the fame time, humbly
and fervently to beseech the kind au
thor of ,hefe blessings, graciously to
prolong them to us—to imprint,on our
hearts, a deep arid solemn sense of our
obligations to him for them—^to teach
us, rightly to estimate their immense
value*—to preserve us from the arro
gance of prosperity, and from hazard
ing the advantages we enjoy, by delu
sive pursuits—to dispose Us to merit
the continuance of his favours, by not
sousing them, by our gratitude for
them, and by a cortefpondent conduct,
as citizens and as men, to render this
country, more and more, a propitious
asylum for the unfortunate of other
countries—to extend among us true
and ufeful knowledge—to diffufe and
eflablilh habits'of sobriety, order, mo
rality, and piety—and, finally to im
part all the blessings we possess, or ask
for ourselves, to tftfy whole family of
mankind.
In tefimor, whereof, I have caused
the seal of.the United States
of Amirica, to be afc,
ed to these prefects,and
(L.S.) signed the fame with my
hand. Done, at the city of
Philadelphia, the ftrft day
of January, 1795, and 'of
'the independence of the Uni
ted States of AMERICA,
the nineteenth.•
G. WASHINGTON,
'PreJident of the United States.
Edmund Randolph,
Secretary of State.
RICHMOND, Dec. 2b.
Extrafl of a letter from WilliamJbufg,
dated Dec. 16.
" Our worthy and ingenious profef
for, Judge Tucker, Ms, from the
flight hints afforded in the public pa
pers, just made a Telegraphe, which, if
it be not entirely similar to that which
announces so rapidly the victories of
the gallant French, must, I think, at
least equal it in Simplicity and dispatch
—Th: whole apparatus epnfifts of an
upright {haft with two moveable a rm*
We made an experiment yefterdaw
with a final! model, the arms of which
phia or Boston, in a few hours ; nor
have I doubt, but. by means of this
simple contrivance, the most important
intelligence might be communicated
from one extremity of the U. States to
the other, in half a day, or rather in
one hour, if everv thing neceflary were
disposed in the moll convenient man
ner."
BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.
The schooner Trent. Capt. Don
al dson, and Regulator,Capt. Reeves
arrived yellerdcw, in 23 days from Je
remie, and report, that the diflurban
ces have by no means subsided ;
that skirmishes had taken place between
the whites and brigands, since our last
advices from that place ; that a few
delays before they failed, four hlacks
were executed ; and that the British
are expelling both the mulattoes . and
Slacks ; those who cannot pay' their
passage from thenceto another port —
they fend to Jamaica, and fell ayflaves.
With those arrivals there came a num
ber of paffengeß, hunted from their
houses and driven far diflant from
their homes, by trusting to British hu
manity. Flottr felling at eight dol
lars, and other articles proportionably
low.
"A letter from the Mole,fays, Gen.
Williamson, will arrive there within
eight days, and fix thousand English
troops are expeded daily that the
two generals are to concert their at
tacks, the fear of which has already
determined Gen. Leveaux, to fend
Lieut. Col. Pageot, from Port-au-Paix
to the Cape, with his regiment to rein
force that place.
" A letter from Jeremie, dated
Nov. 29, fays, "We learn that some
Spanish frigates, with troops are ar
rived at Fort-Dauphin, from Europe,
That Jean Franc ois,- and some
persons -concerned in the mafTacres of
July 7th are arrested, and that the pre
sident, Don Garcia has fled.
" A letter of the 6th Nov. from the
Havannah, mentions the appearance of
two conspiracies on.the Spanish maine,
at Sant-a-Fee, and Mexico- Ihe
archbifbops, priests and French surge
ons were at the head of it, and their
intentions were, to murder the Euro
peans.and to form their confutation on
the French model. The chiefs, howe
ver, have been arrested, and muff have
experienced by this time, tlie punish
ment due so their crimes."
JULIERS, Oct. 30. The column
of the army oftlie Republic ordered a
gainst Duffeldorf, continue to bombard
that place with great activity.
Yeflerday evening arrived here the
(hip Union, Capt. Johnson, in ten
weeks from Bremen. Capt Johnson
was ffiort of provisions, and was very
humanely supplied bv the Thetis, and
otherwise treated with much civility.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30.
Extrafl of a loiter from Jeremie, da
ted Nov. 25.
"We this day learn from the
Mole, that on the rtßth three Spanish
ships from Cuba, which have entered
the harbour, confirm the news of the
nomination 6f Don Aristissabe L, to
the Generalship 'of St. Domingo, and
at the fame time, commander of the
land and sea forces. He is to proceed
tb Tort Dauphin, with the Trips of
war and 7000 men, after having con
voyed the fleet of Europe into a high
latitude. We are assured he has or
ders from the court of Spain, to fend
home, dead or alive, that monfler Don
Joachim Garcia.
We are told, that the Hon. Timo
thy Pickering, the Foft-Mafter-Gene
ral, will succeed to the War Depart
ment. —
,THE ALEXANDER,
A Britifli ffiip, of 74 guns, tbm
manted by J. Weft, has been takeh
by a French squadron, & carried into
Bref. The Canada, of 74 guus, was
in company with her, and bore off at
the close of the engagement.
FROM GIBRALTAR,
By the way of Cork, information
has been received, that eight ships,
with the British flag hoisted over the
French, were seen beating into 'he gut
when the bearer of this information
left there. - Four were supposed to be
ships ofthe line, and the other frigates.
They were imagined to be the Toulon
fleet, sometime since blocked up by
admiral Hotham, in Conclave bay.
Dobra
JANUARY 17.
From the [Bofton] CENTINEL of
JAN. 13.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By a gentleman whoarrived in town
since our last, from Newport, we are
informed of a n arrival there on Satur
day last, from Hamburg, which place
(lie left about the 'l2th November ; the
captain of which reports, that he saw
in a Hamburg paper, an account that
a treaty for ccffation of arms, had tak
en place between the French Republic
and the King of Prussia, and that the
French troops were preparing to go in
to winter cantonments.
There is a report in town —.but its
source we could not traces—that the
English had made overtures to the
French, for a cession ofarms ; and that
the Ministry of Creat-Britain had it
in contemplation to join the Poles a
gainst Prussia. We do not give thb
article as received from any authority
whatever.
FURTHER FROM EUROPE,
OnSunday last arrived at Gloucester,
the schooner Friendship, Capt Brown,
in 52 days from Nantz, who informs,
that two days previous to his failing,
the news arrived of the surrender of
Maeftrich, to the arms of the 'French
Republic. The particulars Captain
Brown did not learn.
Reports from the Weft-Indies still
continue contradiriory. A captain of
a vessel arrived at Martha's Vineyard
reports, thit an 'advice bolt had aflu
ually arrived at Guadeloupe, bringing
positive information of the failing qf
a fleet from France for that island, and
that the advice boat bed left it in a cer
tain latitude.
Capt. Brown arrived from St. Eu
ftatia informs, that a British fleet of
five fail of thedine was cruising off
Guadeloupe, when he left St. Eufatia.
ST. DOMINGO.
Nothing decisive of late has taken
place there. '' The inhabitants are
anxiously waiting for a force from Eu
rope, to decide their fate, and place
them either in the hands of the French
or Englijk. The principal towns are
threatened by the brigands, so muchas
to impede the capture of the plains
round Caves, Cold# Sac anb L'Artipo-
The Hon, HENRY KNOX, Esq.
has resigned his filiation as Secretary
at War.