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in these ifhnds. Health officers
are appointed at New-York, Phi-
Lddphu, Baltimore, Charleston
and in Virginia, with particular
cautions in regard to veflcls arriv
ing from the Welt Indies. There
have been some late reports which
gave us great hopes, that the mea
sures of Bermudia would be less
injurious to our commerce. Mea
sures are pursued to prevent any
breach of the laws of neutrality in
our Southern States. There are
reports that the Dey of Algiers
had consented ro receive an A
merican Ambaflador on the fub
jeft of Peace. The accounts from
the Indians are various. Lately
we heard the Shawanele and Dela
wares were for peace, but now
that they are preparing to commit
hoflilities. Among our articles of
domeflic intelligence we find, that
a grand jury has prefen ed as a
grievance the aft providing in the
State of Virginia, that lands should
not be liable to b? fold under ex
ecution to pay debts* Military
aflbciations have been formed* and
their articles pubhffied. Their
design is to maintain the military
genius of our country. There are
proposals for a Baltimore Bank —
The permanent feat of govern
ment in Per .Sylvania is to be at
Carhfle, in the county of Cum
berland. The revision of the con
fl itutionis the most interesting
fubjeft in our own State. To
maintain the right and establish the
time for a future quiet revision
seem to be the motives urged for
th? convention in the present year.
A majority was obtained for the
revision in this town, but Che pub
lic mind seems much at ease upon
the fubjeft. There are no ft ten
uous advocates for any particular
changes, and all are patiently wai
ting the sense of the common
wealth, as by law to be determin
ed* We applaud the patriotism,
which Mr. tFadfwortb a diftin
guilhed preacher in our neigh
bourhood has so well ex prefled in
His late thanksgiving dittojjfe, and
of which we are Ibrry to be able
to repeat so little, in agreement
with our design. “ Our lot, fays
he, has fallen in an age of revolu
tions- Great events have taken
place. He who has been an aftor
on the stage, or an attentive spec
tator, for twenty years pall, has,
in a fenle lived a Century. The
happiness of society is progreflive.
Should heaven ft ill fmde, without
an'oracle we may look forward
and behold United America rising
gracefully to the zenith of repub
,ican I^;*^ u
Arrived at New York May fl,
Capt Palmer, from Port-au-Prince,
who informs, that the Brigands and
French who were beficging that
place, were very numerous, a
mounting (as was said) to ftveral
thousands—that there were 700
Britifhtroops and 1500 loyalists in
Rort*au-Prince, and tmlefs a rein
fdr cement arrived by the zbb of|
March* the place would undoubt
edly fall into the hantß ’of/the
Teas, as well as an EnglifL But
they are so little acquainted ^itb
the movemfenrs of each other, that
reports from the parties are very
inconsistent. The prevalence "trf
great mortality teems agreed on
by all, and is confirmed by the lof
fes every day reported to us re
fpefting our commercial friends
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By Monday's Maik ' I
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European Intelligence.'
E NG L AND.
LONDON* MARCH Ij.
WE have avoided to mention
the report which has been
freely circulated on the continent
.for some time, but without any oth
er evidence than its probability —
we mean the separate peace aftual
ly said to be concluded between the
French and the King of Prussia.
It is now reported upon authori-
ty that in our minds is decisive ol
the faft. Ministers do not deny
it; and even the terms have tran
spired. A body of Prussian troops
are perhaps at this moment on the
march, and it is strongly fufpeft
ed that Hanover is to be made the
theatre of the aftion of the two
powers, the conquest and guaran
tee of which will be made tb Prus
sia by the French as the prince of
peace. r
' On the fame authority/we learn
the equally important faft, that
the Emperor persists rn refuting
the loan offered to him by this
country, since the extraordinary
movements in his own neighbour^
hood make it incompatible wish
his own lase yto proceed in the
war. The terms offered him by
the French are too* advantageous
to be refilled ; and there is little
doubt but that he, like Prussia,«
will accept of the boon that is held
out to him, namely, the guarantee
Os Bavaria.
‘Thus will the French dexterous-
Jy draw from our fide ail our al
lies, preserve the immense frontier
they have acquired, and laugh to
scorn the pride and passion of those
felf-Efficient men who would not
treat with a people that will thus
become the arbiters of Europe.—
The predicament into which we
(hall be brought, L tco dreadful
to be contemplated, and yet so loft
are the public to all fenle bf British
interests, that our danger produces
no sensation, and Ministers are
fuffered to go on with the indiffer
ence of Stonifm,
The French are holding out
Russia and Great-Britain as the
real objefts of terror to all other
powers with whom they are at war
and calling upon to unite against
the two Cbloflufles that bestride
earth and ocean, The naval
power of B itain can give no alarm
to any of the combined poweis
except Spain; bpt the charge a
gainst Russia is too well founded
not to produce a considerable ef
feft. The dread of Russia haraU
ready induced the King of Prussia
to open a negotiation* for peace
with France, and must have great
influence upon the conduft pf the
Emperor.
March 23. Lacroix, the au
thor of a pamphlet in which he
aflerts, that ;he power is inherent
in the sovereign people, if they fee
fir, to establish a Monarchical
form of government, has been de
nounced therefor, ip Paris, tried
byv.ibe Revolutionary Tribunal,
and acquit led-
—
PORTSMOUTH,;MARCH 20.
- Last eveiling arrived from Hav
re de Grace, the American Ihip
Sw^n, Coffin, maftw. She kit
Ha vie de Grice the I.9th inft -f-
The matter brings information cf
the Deputies ^urrere^ittaad
times, and Collot, a*Herbois, having
been tried and condemned, -and
were executed a few days before
said (h p failed from Havre, accor
ding td accounts which had tWh'
received there; and that Vadier,
the other deputy, who had difap-.
peared, had been apprehended.
French Army lifere Menlz
February 28.
Our army is ttill in the fame
situation, as circumftanck^ prevent
it from afting? The plan of ihe
campaign appears to have beth
changed; it is now asserted chat
1 Memi is not to be attacked, but
that* from this fide, we Ihall re
main upoh the dtfenfive, till the
passage of the R une may be prad
ticable ; the passage is expefted to
be effefted by the atmy of the
Sambreand Mebfe. The Austri
an Generals, informed of otir itr
temions on this fide, fend down a
great number of forces, so that the
garrison of Mentz has experienced
a diminution, and the deleners
reckon it only at 10,000 men.—-
We can do nothing i*ll that for
trefs be completely inverted. Yes.
terday we had a very serious fkir
miih • the H uffars of Wurmfer at
tacked our" qutpofts in the very
moment they were relieving—they
were forced to fall back ; but our
dragoons and chaffturs charged
the enemy ; and many were killed
on both Tides. It appears as if the
intentions of the enemy were to
allow us no rest at ail; they depend
much on the difficul izs that our
cavalry has to encounter from* t.h£
want of fcr^ge ; however all the
attacks on our Out polls till now
proved fruitlefs. . We expeft to
havean engagement of cohfequence
as f >on as the weather will per
mit*
Domestic Intelligence.
PHILhDELEHiA, May
ExtraS of a hittrfrom a Merchant of the
firyi refpeSability in Liverpool, to a house
in thh city, datei Match ty, received by
the Diana. v - ;
M | h*d the pledure to receive by the Man
X chester, your very acceptable letter of
the ift December, with a packet of News
papers and Coke’s View of the United
State!,for which lam much obliged to you ;
the latter is a very valuable work ; and I
trust gives a true pi&ure of the flourifhing
state of your country ; info much, that was
it witbio a fortnight’s fail, you would have
many vifi orj; at the lealt co lake a lo^k cf
it. Ifincere’y hope the pleasing profpedl
may continue after the death df your very
worthy President, who is net only an or
nament to America but to Haman Nature,
and his lenfible, prudent conduft, with re
ipedl to the Lie inforreflion in the Weftern
Counties, most endear him Hill more to
every good man. To prevent evil and in
lurrtftion, is mach better than to conquer
it,< -Europe has of late been a foe ne ol
blood ; but I trust the waris near conclud
ing ; Holland and Flanders, are co querrd
by the Frehch ; *nd ft is now po£tivdy.af
firmed, that the K*ng of Prussia has made a
fepafate Peace ; aud that the Emperor of
Germany/(who is the only one of our Abies
that has behaved like an honest Man) has
fefufed the Loen offered him by this- in
fatua'ed Country to carry on the War; fay
ing it is not in hft power to furnW. the
11oops next campaign expend from him j
and that he meat to make peace with the
French Republic s should <hk be the case
it wiH oblige our Mit>M<r«to treat for peace
also. I observe grain P very high with
you; and it is'very much lo in this coun
try f but the -high freights 'and Inforance,
will nbt by any mewns afford it to be im
ported to England f we h«ve had a most
foverp Winter j and th» Wheat is by great
floods* very gjreatly damaged j in many
parti it must be pfowed ib efid the lands
fowli’bith wheat again, or Spring ctHu —
ft have endeavoured to flight an Ameri
| Philadelphia, but the
freight has been so high as to prevent me—
Englifii IhipS are now qtiite driven out of the
American carrying trade.”
«l. I Jl—".ll' •
About the beginning of March,
in the Engliffi channel the Live
~“hrßri(ifb frigate of 32 guns,
cook Le Tourrerelle French frig
^ate of 26 guns, after an obstinate
fight of iwo hdurs and an half, du
ring ,which Le Tourrereile fired
two Broad fidts qf red hot ftiot.
Lxtrafl of- # letter from a merchant
in Cadiz, to his friend in this ci
ty,. dated Feb. 25, 1795— by a
Jhip arymed at Fork.
c ‘ Our friend at Salec informs
uS, that Muley Sqtiman’s pbjeft
is to compel America to fend him
a Consul, ^ho shall acknowledge
h>m as the lawful fdveteign, which
Uveral European powers have al
ready done.” 5
d
I ' MAY 9. "
Naval Engagement, f
Cape. Wicks, jnturms, (ha. -
bout 15 days before he arrived at
the I fie of France, the Centurion,
a British 50 gun (hip, and the Di
omede frigate of 40 guns, had ar
rived on the cOaft to intercept the
trade 1 in co3lequ n.ee of which,
two French frigates; Cibdle and
Prudence, the 'one of 36 and the
other of 32 guns,’ ftad been dif
parched after cheqi,; an engage
ment had infued, which was obsti
nately maintained Ors both sides,
tor fivehous; whtfn in a fluttered
condi ion, they parted after a draw
baul^ The lots of the Cibelle,
was one hundred men killed •
that of the Prudehre, not so great!
One of the Britifb (hips was in so
fluttered a condition, that (he
could scarcely be towed fafe to
port. Theirdois of men’could nos
be afeertained. It .was juppoled
they had failed for Bombay, tor re
fit, as they had neither been seen
nor heard of since the engagement.
The two French friga^es Were
in port when Capt. Wicks failed
from the I fie df France, and all
their privateers called in. ‘
The port was guarded bv three
fortifications, each iOO pieces of
cannon, with a numerousgani’on
of troops in high spirits, and well
supplied with provffions, who were
determined to hold otic ro the hft
extremity, in cale they ffiould he
attacked by the Brjtifh.
, NEW-YORK May 9.
The following extraordinary letter, ••
publilhed in Thurldav’s Gaze te is said ro
be a genuine one—no coubt the writer
wilhe» as he writes—
ExtraS of a letter from a tefyeSable gentle
man in Havre di Grdce t la a merchant in
tbit city.
“ The present will inform you of die
happy change, which, in all p^obabrky,
is about to take place in France. It is
the public opinion hire, that a peace will
loon prevail. The army of La Vendee
have entered into accomodetioA whb the
deputies of the Convention. The Gener
al of the Le Vendee, Charette, came to
Nantz with 30 000 troops with baggage
&c. Ail the people repeatedly vociferate
huzza for the union. Before the arrival
of Charel‘t at Nantz, they were reduced*'.flo
four ounces of bread a day per peifon ; and
ys loon 15 Charette cam?, twelve ounce*
were ordered.
“ We do npt yet know the co^djiiope
between Charette and the Deputies of the
Convention ; but it is belie ved thai C s ^.
ette has nrade very advantageous conditioiu
for bimlelf and his army.
“ Every thing foews us, that the Confit
tution 0(1791 will take place. There is
pasted upon the door or gate of the Tcmpte
where the JDauphin of France is confined,
<he following words : France baa nut «