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POLAND^
Late the.happieft kingdom ** the fun /hone
upon” Ail Her citizens, united as one fam
ily, with Stanijlaus at its head, in the full
enjoyment of the heft blessing of peace and
good government—Now torn asunder by the
rapacious claws of the Ruffian and Prussian
Eagles—its citizens necessitated to pay hom
age to sovereigns imposed upon them—lts
king obliged co dance attendance on a Ruf
fian Viceroy—lts commerce and arts, in a
mealureannihilated ; and the full cup of sor
row held out to them without one abiding
consolation.—And to complete the measure
of th? iniqui^, all the powers of Europe,/
calmly observing its lamentable fimation,
and not an hand stretched forth to its re
lief.
§ Late a large kingdom, (or rather a republic) of
Europe ; but lately cut up, and a very considerable
proportion divided between Russia and Prnflia. Its
force or revenue we cannot, therefore afeertaiu.
he GERMAN EMPIRE*
The foremoft in the crusade ag »inftFrance,
is making every exertion for carrying on the
war.— All the circles have their quotas of
troops allotted them ; and there is an appear
ance of enthusiasm in the fubjefts thereof, to
“ bind tbeir chains fill frongerf’ The great
armies of Germany, are ftiil commanded by
the old Duke of ^^^vtt^.who appears feli
citous to furbifh up his tarnilhed laurels.—
The present theatre of war is in the Andri
an N therlands. To give fon.e idea of the
fixation of the armies of the crowned heads ;
we (hail briefly ftate,—That the Prince de
Cobo^rg, commands one on the Northern
Frontiers of France, con fitting of Austrian,
Hanoverian, and Bitiffi troops. —The whole
number said to be 3o 000 ; but in rourd
numbers very little reliance is to be placed.
About 250 mile&to rhe eastward of Cobourg's
army,we find thePruflian army,on the banks
of the Rhine, under the orders of Gen. Glair*
fayt. Attending the Rhine, about 50 mile',
we find a German arm/ under Gen. Wurm-
Jer. These armies, confiding of troops cf
various nations, are eftimated'at 130000
men : Their obje<T, at the date of the left
accounts. (May 23c) wa# ttill the flges of
Conde, Valenciennes, &c. on the northern,
Mtniz, and Caffe! on the Rhine, and Ean
dau in Aiface. The plan of the war appears
to be that of the Duke of Marlborough, sieges
and blockades. - ,
* A targe country in the middle of Europe, boun
ded on Hungary, Poland,Denmark,the Netherlands, ,
France, Switzerland, and Italy—64o miles long,
550 broad.
IMPARTIALLY TAKEN FROM THE MO3T
DENMARK^
But whether its tranquility arifet
from real happiness—or whether “ Jamething
bcirgroittn tv the Rate? prevents thd voice of
complaint being heard, remains yet to be
developed by time.
* A hrge kingdom in' the N. of Europe —the an
cientScandanavia. Its army amounts to So.oco men ;
and it is said it is able to equip fifty men of war.
f A kingdom of Europe, not very large. Its ar
mies amount to 40. coo men ; and has fomething’ of
a navy.
* AUT BE NT TC K DOCUMENTS..
RUSSIA*
J ' HIS great empire of flares—or more
properly fpenking its Mtfrefs, the imperious
Catharine —is at present doing little
more than threatening to become one of the
league of crowned heads now warring againlt
France ; but (he is adrive in fobjugatrng the
ei'txrns of 300 miles extent of the late Pobjb
te r ritorv to the degraded Rate of her own
mafia'll. While observing towards the
Poles this dereftable conduit ; she is offering
an asylum to the French Noblesse in the
hoffi' able t ternper’ate climes of Siberia', where
in company with the Bruins of the sorest,
thev may enjoy their deipotic principles, and
suspend their croix. and other trappings of
nobility, from the (hag of an elegant hearjktr,.
Notwithstanding feme humane nseafares she
adopted at the commencement of her reigh,
to atone perhaps for the murder cf her husband
her late conduct has been detestably abomi
nab'e.
All gracious Heav’h, if mortals claim thy care,' ;
And thy wing’d bolts are at the murd’rer hurl’d :
Bear thou humanity’s united prayer,
And quick remove t¥us>“SheWolf" from our world,
* This empire is a large country partly in Europe
and partly in Aha ; and takes altogether, with its
late conquest in Alia, may he likened to a fquare,'
whose sides are 2000 miles each. It can raifeatany
time 300.000 men and generally keeps 100,000 in
pay Its navy is conliderable ; and two of its com
modores arc natives of this Commonwealth.
SWEDENt
Under the minority of its young Monarch
enjoys tranquility. She has lately fitted for
fra a considerable fleet ? and it is said that
it is to join that of Russia ; but for what de
sign we are not able to conje&ure.
From the COLUMBI AN CENTINED*
Political State of Europe,
, PRUSSIA,i
As a vfiit in tht confederacy, we {hall jaft
take a view of. ItsGourr being removed to
the armicstwe know little of the internal ft ate
of the kingdom. The most rigorous mea
fare', have long been pursued to quench every
spark of liberty in the kingdom, and we be
lieve fucßefsfolly ; for the embers appear ex
ttnd. The chief part of the Handing troops
are on the frontiers of France; except a InpH
army, tn Southern Prnffia (as the part Os Po
land lately stolen by Frederick is called) and
large garrisons in the once free cities of
Dantzick and Thorn.* The Treasures of
Frederick the 2d. which were rather augment
ed than hffened by the Third Frederick, are
now dissipating in the most rapid manner ;
in a Quixotte expedition. The consequence
is eahiy to be perdifted.
J A large coniitry of Europe, bounded on 1 the N.
by the Baiuc sea ; on.the E. by Lithunia and Samq
gitia on the S. by Poland ; and on the W. by' Bran
denburg, Pomerania, and Caftubia, about 500 miles
in length, and 100 in breadth, where it is narrow
est.
* In this new acquired territory, its new master is
railing 8 regiments of infantry, 5 battalions of fufi
1-iers, 3 regiments of dragoons, and 1 of artill. ry.
This augmentation of military strength to the House
of Brandenbourg, will amount to thirty thousand
men. ■
The FRENCH REPUBLIC.
Our last accounts from this great centre of
expectation, through .the medium of its own
papers, are ho brer than the beginning of May.
A- that time the animating principle of the
Republic (;he Convention) were pursuing the
meft vigorous measures co oppose the myriads
who were meditaung the overthrow of theft:
Order of Things. The army efta&lifhmenr of
6e0.c00 men, was then completed; and the
Mtnifterat War had appropriated to him, ah
immense sum of Money, to defray the exigen
cies of the war. Ihe Convention, it is true?,
were much divided in their jubordinate mea
lures ; but in the main faint there w®s much'
unanimity. Denuciadons succeeded to denun
ciations, every morfi'ent—and the violence of
par'y zeal frequently occasioned conlequendes
of the most fenous import; nor was the entire
diflblution of the Convention, with ah appeal
to the Nation, an event, deemed improbable
fooh to take place. The aflignats had not
depreciated more thsm three for one. Os the
late tumults which.are said to exist in the de
partments, it is difficult to give precise inform
ation. In Britanny, she insurgents are formi
dable in numbers,and theiroppofers are alio nu
merous. But in all parts of France, the lands*
from the nature of the tenures by which they
are now held, are in general, highly cultivated:
and a gentleman who late travelled thro’ theße
public, fays, its resources are inexhaustible—&
thwt the Republic cannot fall, except it is thro*
the commotions which appear to agitate her.
•—Thefd commotions, he fays, are numerous'
-—•nd time alone can reveal their confequen.
ces. To their frontier we will now carry our
readers. The army of theNo’th, commanded
by Gen. Dampierre, is greatly recruited—-
And* partly posted in the frontier cities, and
partly in the field,oppofes to the Prince de Co
bourg, a formidable head. Cuftine is on the
Rhine, with 40,000 men, advantageoufty post
ed; and that on Molelle has lately emered
DeaxPcn's. The combined armies carrying
on the invasion by regular approaches, the
French are necessitated to make frequent attacks
on various posts of their enemies ; and, there
fore, wi hout any thing decisive taking place,
much blood is shed. Whether the combined
armies mean to enter France—or only to at.
trail the attention of the French armies to the
frontiers, in order the betier to give the insur
gents opponunhies to effed rheir plan of coun
ter-revolution in the bosom of France, is only
within the sphere of conjeftu/e : But of this we
believe we may be certain, that as Falftaff fays
in the play, should they invade France, they
will “find no bofis flay there.” In assistance
to his opinion, we beg leave to Tay before the
readers of the Herald the following historical
(ketches of the principal towns on the North
ern Frontier of France. They follow:
Lifie. Never taken but once,, by Marlbo
rough and Eugene ; to them it cost a siege of
more 'han three months.
Conde. A very strong place in French
Hainaulr, and among the few not taken in that
war by Marlborough. / • •
Maubeuge. Another fortrefs of French Hain.
Rulr, conftrufted by Vauban, and capable of a
good defence. . ;
Falendennes.- A place of strength and im
portance, little Inferior to Lisle, and which af
f> has a strong citadel. The country round it
can be overflowed by sluices from the Suheidr.
^uefitoy. A (mail fortified town rn the dif
trid of Valenciennes, taken -.by the Allies in
1712, »nd the next year retaken by the French
under Villars. . 1
Cambray. A* large town well fortified with
a citadel. The ga rifon has, like that of Va
knciennes,theadvantage oljbting able to over
flow the country.
tandrecy Besieged to no purpose, in ry V 2,
by Prince Eugene.-
Bouchain. A place fortified by nature and
art, the marffies and inundations rendering it
difficult ©f access.
Douay. A large town of no inconflderable
strength in French Flanders.
Bethune. A place fortified by Vanbat^
with a citadsl> and advantageously Glutted on
a rock.
**l DARE fay you have heard exaggerated
accounts of Indian affairs, but the people on
the frontiers are not apprehensive of anyat
tack upon this state.—The Creeks who are
the only nation to the fouth, that has declar
ed .war against the United States, will Have
their hands full a t home. The Chickasaws
have declared war against them anditistho*t
that the ChoQaws have done the fame by
this time, by these means we fha 11 avoid being
troubled by them ; but if they do attack our
frontiers, they cannot penetrate far, as this
country is very populous and they would
quickly be repeled.”
PENN STL VANIA
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 3.
ExtraH of a letter from Manchefler, to a gentle
man in Philadelphia, May 4.
♦* I am truly rtjoiced at rhe news of your
fafe arrival,in the land of Liberty. Whatever
difficulties you may meet with in gaining a
knowledge of a local business, and eftsbliffiing
yourfelf in it you may reckon those difficulties
as pleasures, and happiness, to what you mult
inevitably have expetienced, had you staid in
this country.
This is undoubtedly, the meft wretched
country in the whole univerie, and from its lit
uatron when you left it,though but four months
ago,you can form no idea of its prelent dis
tresses. The war has cauled so great a fcarcitv *-
of money as was never before known. and has
so completely destroyed that confidence, which
is the life and foul of trade, that ihere.are but
a very few mercantile, houles in the kingdom,
capable to support their credit. The immen e
number of bankruptcies and failures is truly
shocking, and I believe that in this country and
Scotland,there are several hundred thousands of
the labouring parts of the community, out of
employment. Cash is not to be had at any
premium, and feme of the manufaflurers at
Bolton, have adopted the expedient of paying
their weaver^ with potatoes, meal, &c. Others
cannot even pay in that manner, and the poor
weavers are obliged to work on credit. You
will easily conceive what a fhockthe neighbour
hood hat set, from Jones and Go. barkers, be
ing embarrassed in their affairs. They have,
not yet indeed made a failure but they can do
/ire. • . A firong town in Arlo's; it cost the
Allies ih I7?O, a siege of two months.
St. Venant. A place not Io well fortified ;
but k can be laid under water.
/rras. The capital of Artoi^ and fortified
in part by Vauban. This is the last garrilon
tn wn on the Northern Frontier.
Latest European Intelligence.
P O R T U G AL.
LISBON, APRIL 14.
^TEUT. Gen. Bernard Ramerez Fs.
QJJEvaI, has been appointed Admiral,of our
fleet, which will be composed of eleven ihips
of the line, two frigates, and two brigs, and
are at prelent on the Tagus, between "jurquie~
ra and Belem, ready to put ,to lea- Twelve
hundred young men from Os or to have offered
co serve as volunteers on board this fleet, as
tvell as many fatlors from the ac'jacent provin
ces, to the amount of four thousand.
BARCELONA,APRIL IJ.
Ouf army on this fide Catalonia, is taking
every dilpofition for invading Frame : a great
many battering cannon are carried from this
place to the frontiers. Our army will be com
posed of about 70 000 men ; 40.000 are ve
teran troops, and the remainder are all Cata
lans, who serve as volunteers; and besides
there are feversi thousands in this province,
well armed, and ready to go wherever they
fhsll beordered ; and as the whole inhabitants
of this province have always had a great aver
fion to the French, they are of courie very de
sirous to enter that country.
sourn-c A R O LINA
CHARLESTOWN, MAY 22.
Meflrs. T1 mot h y W mason,
Pltaje to insert the following extraS of a letter
from a gentleman near the frontier of this
fiate, whose information may be relied on,det~
ted ryth May , 1795.
An English gentleman who lately arrived
from Rome, where he had resided three years,
(and during which time he cultivated an ac
quaintance with the officers of the Pope’s Ex
chequer) fays, that fiis Holiness has several
bad dibit in England. A regular account is
kept or the tribute money payable from she ab
beys and other religious houses, since the time
of the reformation I A black account againlt
some of the fees I The gentleman is a native
of the North England, and was desirous of
feeing the state of Durham, and some of the
livings in Cumberland ; With this he was gra
tified, and is of opinion that the land of lome
parishes, if fold, to the best advaniage, would
not fatis/y the claims of the apafiolic Jee !
ENGLAND.
WHITEHAVEN, Mav 21.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
Front a Correfpondenf.
The Commtffiooers appointed to fettle th
accounts between the United Stares and th
individual states we are informed cohcludei
that business on Saturday,laft-— what prodigj
oue exadtnefe 1 after an appointment of mos
than five yetfrs, they hit the very pqint of e^
piration of the time limited byCongrefs wig
as much accuracy as ever Sir Isaac Newtw
found the retnrn of a comet answered to I?
calculations, [General AdwertiJerA
Several of the most refpe&ab’e honfes in
Manchester, have called their creditors togeth
er, and bofinefs i.* almcft entirely at a hand.
You will be much concerned to hear, that Jo
feoh Baker and Co. have flopped. Ho* their
affairs will turn out, I have not been able to
Team, but at the firft meeting of their creditor*
there appeared a surplus iu their favour. The
times however are fuch,that if they are obliged
to fell their goods, &c. very little will be .pro
duced from them; feme of their creditor/,1 have
'heard, would be.willing to fell, for five fhil-
Mngs in the pound, lam forty to (ire yoa
with such a lift of unlucky news,fnd will only
mention one circumstance mere to you refpetl
ing it. Our government, bad as it is, has takeo
the situation of the country into consideration..
The House of Commons have nearly come to
a reloluticn, to vote five millions of monev, for
the support of public credit. This business
however, is to be managed by a committee
chosen by the treafurv, and it is much to be
The thoughtless multitude, composed of
various orders having heard the French
charged with being a nation of Atheists and
Infidels, may imagine, thac they are doomed
by heaven to deftrudtion. But it may be a&-
ed, has not such deitm and infidelity been
the natural produce of dark luperftition and
prejudice,in conjundtion with the inconfiflenc
and abandoned lives of what have been dene
mina'.ed the religious orders ? and may it
not be the dengn of Providence to bring a
bout a re ormation in the principles & prac_
tices of the nation by the judgments with
which they are visited ; and by bis provi
dential interpolitiors, in which he may pre
vent their rum—and in this way prepare
them for a free government of their own chu
fing ? It is a question not easily solved, whe
ther there is more real atheism and inndelity
in France than in Great-Britaln, the differ
ence of numbers considered, though in the
former the public avowal of it may be more;
general.”
“ Our ministry were Io wife as tn appoint
a public fait, to be kegt yefierday ; ma, y cf
the difientieg miniflers declined complying.
Some, complied for particular reaions : iu a
iermon preached on the occasion it w-as b-id
“ numbers would not be pleated at having it
insinuated, and yet it is to be feared, the
national confidence in and reliance on cur
own militsry and naval presets, has been
productive of the difappoincments common!’’
attendant on a vain felf eepenoance.” W. s
it not this that led on to those, hostilities,
which were commenced as on this day, tS
years ago, at Lexington, in Msflachuferis-
Ray ; and that brought on and continued an
unfoccefsful war for more than {even years,
and loaded us with a debt considerably be
yond a hundred millions of pounds flerliug ?
and is it not owing to the events of that un
fuccefsful war, that the preTent has been
drawn into existence ? Whatever advantages
may be gained from the latter, we can reap
but little glory from it. We are leagued
with so many powers that ihould France be
rushed by the united force of the confeder
ates, the sum of the divided honor obtained
by the event will yield but a trivial ihare
to each ally. However it is not a fln
gtrfar opinion of mine that such an even:
will not take place within the prefect year 5
after whi ch the probability of its ever exist
ing will gradually digjinifh. These thoughts
are natural to thofe.who recoiled! the various
circumstances of the American war—how
fudder.ly and unexpectedly, the threading
storm which hung over the country the lait
year, was difperfert, though headed by one cf
the firft Generals, now retired a‘ we are in.
formed, from public service to his-private
estates with faded Jawrels, and that it is not
the fate of one Arnold or one Dumourier to fix
the issue of a war : but of the ^ord God op
Hosts.
feared that the minifteriai influence will direct
the proceedings of the committee.
The Captain of the Jane, Ir 13 days from
St. Euflatius, informs, chat the last accounts
from Martinique when he failed were, thac
the Engliffi had been cannonading Fort Bour
bon with three77l4 1 gun ihips, but had ceased
firing and attempted a landing. A report
prevalent at Sc. Euflatia, said co be brought
by an irifh vessel arrived at Barbadoes, that
a negotiation for peace was on foot between
England and France.
Extrafi of a letter from England dated, April
very little bufnefs for want of t^e regu^r
counts of the bank of England, who have reru
fed their afliftance, ncrtwithlfanding the trades
men here have lubferibed their names, to give
security with Jones and Co. to the amouni of
160,000 pounos. •
20, 1793.
JULY 6.