The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1793-07-22 00:00:00, page 2

0, % foe mt been general, reed in tbit
part of the country,fetch extractsfrom them
as may be thought entertaining and in
4rtt&ive quill be occaf anally inserted.
Frankfort.
AMONG the remarkable things in
Frankfort, the inns may be reckon
ed. Two in particular, the Emperor and
the Red House, for cieanlineft, conve
niency, and number of apartments, are
faperior to any I ever saw on^ the contig
nent, and vie with our most magnificent
inni in England. ,
At thefe,as.ar all other inns in Germa
ny and Switzerland, there is an ordinary,
at whichthe flrangers may dine and sup.
This is celled the Table d' Hote, from
the circumstance of the landlord's fitting
at the bottom of the table, and carving
the victuals. The feme name for an or
. dinar, is itill retained in France, tho' the
landlord does not fit a< the table, which
was the case formerly in that country,
and flill is the custom in Germany.
There are no private lodgings to be
bad heat, as in London, nor any hotels
garnis #s&?<!,%, Strangers therefore
of their re^eoce, any of
^''"w^ff And travellers o/Tvery de
in this country, under the
* rank of fotereign prince, make no scru
ple of caring,.occafionally, at the table
d'llo p ? of the inn where they lodge,
which custom is univerfidly followed by
strangers from every country on the conti
nent of Europe.
Many ofourcoun'rrmen,however, who
despise economy,.and hate the company
offtrangers, prefer earing in their own
apartments to the table d'Hote, or any
private table to which they may be invit
ed-
It would be'arrogance in any body to
dispute the right which every free born
English man has to follow his own inclina
tion in this particular : Yer, when people
wish to avoid the company of ftranger<,
it strikes me, that they might indulge their
fancy as completely at home as abroad ;
and while they continue in that humour,
I cannot help thinking that they might
save themfeira the inconvenience and
expence of travelling.
The manners and genius of nations, it
. is true, are not to be learnt at inns; nor
is the mail feled company to be found at
public ordinaries ; yet a person of ob
fervarion, and who is fond of the study of
character, will sometimes find inftruftion
and entertainment at. both. He there
^l^O^horc, ^n^nea^ the remarks of travelled
""¥ deg'ee. - , f
The firft care of a traveller certainly
, should be, to form an acquaintance and
some degree of intimacy with the priuci
' pal people in every place where he in
tends to, refine ; —to accept invitation# to
their family foeieties ; — s o entertain them
at his apartments, when that can be con
veniently done, and endeavor to acquire a
just notion of their government, customs,
sentiments, and manner of living.——
Those who are fond of the study of man,
which) with all due deference to the
philosophers who prefer that of beasts,
birds and butterflies, is nor unnatural
philosophy, will mix occasionally with
illdegrees of people, and, when not other
wise engaged, will not scruple to take a'
feat at ihe^Fable d'Hote.
Itis said thttlow peopleare sometimes
to be found atthefe ordinaries. This,to
be sure, is a weighty objection ; but then
it Should be remembered, that it is with
in the bounds of possibility that men, even
engaged in commerce, may hare liberal
. minds, and may be able to .give asdif
tin& accounts of what is worthy of ob
servation, as if they had been as idle as
people of the highest fafhion through the
whole of their lives. A man mud have a
very turgid idea of his own grandetff, if
he cannot submit, in a foreign country,
to dine at table with a person of inferior
rank ; especially as he will meet, at the
fame time, with othersof equal, or foperi
or rank to himfelf: For all etiquette of
this nature is waved even in Germany at
the tables d'Hotei. N .
'3 A knowledge of thecharaaers of men,
as they appear varied indifferent situations
and countries—the study of human na
ture indeed in all its forms and modifica
' tions; is highly interesting to the mind,
and worthy the attention of fee greatest
man. This is not to be perfeffy attained
in courts & palaces. Theinvefligator of
nature mutt rifle begin humbler life, and
? ut himfelf ona level with the men whom
he wishes to know.
It is generally found, that those who
possess real greatness of mind, never hesi
tate to overleap the obstacles, and dcf,ife
the forms, which mafrftandin the way of
their acquiring this afeful knowledge,
The most powerful of all argument
against entirely declining to appear at the!
public table of the inn, i, that in thL
country it is customary for theriadiq
themselves, when, on a journey, to eg
there ; and my partiality for the table
d'Hote may possibly be owing in some
degree to my having met, atoneof them
with twoof the handfumeft women that
I have seen since I have been in this coun^
try,which abounds in female beauty.
There is more expreflicn in the counte
nances of French #6men fobut the ladies
in German, have the advantage in thd
fairnt fs of their skin, and tlie bloom of
their complexion. They have a greater
resemblance to English women than
French ; yet they differ considerably frora
them both.—l do not know how to give,
an idea ofthe various shades ofexpreffion
which, if, I mistake not, I can distinguish
in the features of the sex in these tty
countries.. ™
A handsome French woman, besides
the case of her manner, has commonly a
Took of cheerfulnefs and great vivacity,
^he appears williwtf|^^^tyua inted ,uim
The manner of an Englifli ' ,an is'
not so devoid of restraint; and a Granger,
especially if he be a foreigner, may observe ?
alook which borders on disdain in her
countenance. Even among the loveliert
features, something of A sulky air often/
appears. While their beauty allures, thi&
in some degree checks that freedom of
address which you might use to the French
vrn^n, and interests your vanity more,
hr giving the idea of the difficulties you
have to conquer.
A German beauty, without the smart
air of the one, or the referye of the other,
has generally a more placid look thatr
either.
■guttata* m Mwwgnoiw-teHMMWEK 1I rarr»iaCTa«Mnmu
Fofclgn Intelligence.
rererera^-
FRANCE.
PARIS, April to.
The infatuationof the Mountain
et rs at a late fitting of the Jacobins
was seen with indignation by all
good citizens. The club was in
high debateas to the best me^ps
of getting offthe heads of two of
the old life guards of Louis the
last, who are now in the claws of
&ty@^ &^hmite
Marat entered the hall, shouts
of joy instantly rose from the tri
bunes and from the galleries,and
for a long time nothing was heard
but " long live MARAT—long
live ourfather and our deliverer—
long live the prophet —the incor
ruptible —the patriot.
Marat has declared that the
plan of the present campaign
ought to be wholly defenfive.—
“ The republic, fays he, would
have been invincible, if instead
of going to consume out treafu re
and exhaust cur resources for
people yet impregnated with pre-.
Judices and fanaticifm, we had
attended simply to the defence
of dur own territory ; we should
thereby have saved the lives of
numbers of our volunteers, who
have fallen victims of the ambi
tion and falfc love of glory in.
their chiefs. I know the source
ofall ourmisfortunes (continued
this would-be Spar/^z?.) If the
Convention had takenmy advice,
and not stupidly forbore toftrike
off a few hundred beads in due
time, tire people would not now
be obliged to chop off thousands.
An ex 4& account of the am
munition, warlike stores, and
implements, of all kinds, in Pa
yis, in the camps and in the dif
ferent arsenals of the Republic,
has been laid before the Con
vention, by the minister at war.
Fiom this statement it appears,
our preparations and resources,
are far fuperiol to what our ene
mies can boast of. They arein
deed, immense, and we arc in the
Left possible situation, in this ref-
Iccl at'leaft.
m All the Horrors of the revolu
tion have not deftrbyed a certain
of humor, so natural to the
^French. On the 25th of March,
{the women of Paris attacked the
Grocers' shops —during the gen
eral pillage, a person palling by,
forking another the cause of the
&Dioar, was answered, " Oh !—
(Nothing but the nation taking a
%dish of coffee." —“ True, fays
^B firft, and I observe they don't
\take it without sugar." 1
Ifo =trcwra
# S^AiN.
gCA D I Z, March I^.
it The order for expelling the
" ^ r '" c " from this city has bten put
z ' execution. Above a thousand of
Utalnation, among whom were fifty
&n:cmed<n trading houses,
^fany of .them of great opulence,
Wive been forced to depart.
* 'lt is thought that all the re^i
mtnts of infantry will be completed
fffhe course of April, when the
Sfaiards will have an army of
liopoo men on the frontiers.
HOLLAND-—
, AMSTERDAM, April r§.
'lnfconfcquence cf a resolution
rftrt?/@ by their High Mightiness
es, on the sth mft. his Serene
FEghno's has been requeued to
give orders to the Captains of
of ,ar, and privateers, not
'0 moiety or capture, on. the
«pen fcas, French fithing vcffels
_fauipped solely for that purpose,
^dnot arn ed. They have pow
jr, however to search them in
* :afe of fufpuion. These orders
*e to be in f&ce, as long as fifh
4|es of §hQ,fta\e§ are not molcit
%by French privateers.
^3V e ha&alr&dyannounced
- itfuMfr decree on the part oitne
French :—Decrees which evi-.
•dence the enlightened policy of
the world.]'-
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■1 MiiniMfawmia , tw»^ vvsEaCTwiic^^
American Intelligence.
.- -—ttrame—— —
MARYLAND.
GEORGETOWN, June 22,
A. gentleman just arrived in
town from Lexington, which he
left on the 2d instant, informs us,
that the day previous to that of
his departure, the pofi had arrived
,nd brought intelligence that 400
Indians had crossed the Ohio
some distance below Fort Sr.
Vincent; 200 of whom were des
tined to attack the frontiers of
Kentucky, while the rest, it was
cxpe&ed would enter the wilder
ness with an intent to intercept
travellers^
PENN^FANIA. .
PHILADELPHIA, June r 4.
The artifices qvbicb are made use of to ex-
WfAfticim- a^airft the general government
dre equally calculated to surprise and disgust.
Os this a letter, said to be Written by a gen
tlemen in the treasury dtpaktmmt to bis friend
in Hanover, dated May fb, which has ap
peared in federal of the publick papers is a Spe
cimen. It is imprffible but that this letter
niuft be a mifehievous fabricat ion. It is well
known that the Vifcountde Noailles is here, as
a private gentlemen, Mtheut any public cha
racter whatever, and with viewy of fettle
rfient in this country,produced by the peculiari
ty of bis situation with regard to his own;
having differed in bis political creed and con
d^i from the emigrant Ability, on the cne
band; and from the present ruling party one
jtbe other ; in foort, having been one of the
'gamers of the government eftablifbed fythe
tenfauent aftmbly, \and overturned by the
revolution tf th? loth of dugufl.
As there often typpens 'to be some cirevm
fanct, which gives rife tcflorid of this kind,!
thought if might not he amiss te enfuife
• whether an,fueb existed in the prefect case•
in consequence of which I have learnt—that
the Vifeount de Noailles, on the evening of the
day of his arrival, (which happened to be a
public evening of Mr. Washington) called on
the PreJident, under whom be bad served at
the bead of a French regiment during the late
American war ; that there happened to be
prefat, when he came in Mr. Ternant, then
Minifler of France ; that heflaid about fifr
teen ^r twenty minutes , convening on indiffer
entfabjeris, and wentoff either at the fame time
witb^ora little before Mr. Ternant.
I have also learnt that the recount &
Noailles never goes to the President's bouj^ ,
but on the eflablijbed public days findthen rare-<
I,,from motives of delicacy relatively to hie
situation. !.
We would add—That the gentleman at
Hanover, who inserted the above extraA
from his friend's letter, we Juppofe, must
have been rather too sanguine, and miflook
that for fall, which<was represented only as
matter If report; which report was really
current at the time of his writing.
- A DUEL
Was fo^ufant Carlifle, *forie
loth, between Major James Lam=™
btrlon and Mr. John Duncan, in
which the latter was inftantane—
cud, killed. By this unfortunate
catall rophe two happy families
are thrown into a most pitiable
feene of distress. ' ;
Theabovementioned duel orig
inated in an.elNlF^ering depute.
A most excellent mode of fet
tling petty quarrels of the kind,
for Republicans'!
—-raeffilm^^
MASSACHDSEITS.
B OSTO N,Wuly 6. .
A letter from Lyons, in France, to a
gentleman in this town, dated April 16,
1703, fays, " Since my last, of the 24, h
of Feb' .car armies have be n obliged to
retreat before our enemies in Flanders,
by the TREis dßof out Generals : but
that check has net disheartened the na
tion, which has fip.ce displayed more en
ergy than ever ; 600,0c0 men have enlist
ed. in less than a menth ; the patriotism of
the National Guards is above all expres
sions, never was such an emulation ; fa-,
theft, difputewi(h their fans the honourof
mttimig to ttyttiiers; my pro deity.,,^
going to a ball, i would have gone my-,
felf, was I not afflicted with that cruel
gravel, which torments me more and'
more. There are some partial' infurrec
ticns in Brittany, fomented by the Emi
grants and the conjuring Priests, but as
we hear every day that the insurgents are
driven from every quarter we have great
hopes that tranquility will soon be re
stored.
" Our city had the reputation of being
Ariftocradcal. bur we have so well ex
pelled from our walls the.enemies of lib*
erty and equality,'that not only have we
regained the esteem ofthe other depart
ments but we enjoy the greatest tranquil
" The price of provisions is high,
when compared with usual prices, but
not higher thah in the years 1768 and
1771. White bread is 6 sous per pound,
middle 4 sous and an half, common 3
fous.' Wheat fells for from 10 livres and
10 feus, to it livres per bushel: Mat £
and 9 sous per pound : Wine costs 70 and
80 livres a calk, and its high price if
owing to the badness ofthe last crop.
" Trade is neither bad nor good;
but generally du11."%
Another , letter, from Messrs. Penwick,
Mason, and Co. to a correfpondeat in
Virginia, dated at Bourdeaux, April 6th,
fays " Times are very unsettled here at
present, more so than we have yet known
them ; American Blips and produce in
much demand : Tobacco §§ to 83 livres
per cwt, ; wheat 30 per bl.; flour 6, to
„ per bl. These prices are likely to
continue Sometime as our wants are
really great, the price of bread has not
been so high these many years. Ex
change below iyd. for 3 livres on Lon
don. Things must soon come to a deter
mination in this country, and we fhould
not be surprised to fee a great+hange."
A letter from London, to a merchant
in Philadelphia, fays/' 6 Such is the situa
tion of affairs at home and abroad, that
-Mr. Pitt has said nearly as much as that
he will treat with the Convention.—The
next-packet wiH confirm to you that he
will try to make peace with the French."
The foreign vessels embargoed in the
different ports pf the < Frtych Republic,
and taken ia consequence of the decla-