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kneel when the reft did5 but when they arofe he
w,~!kl ;v.-.»rrr.ire Linifelf and addrvls his, “ father,
{frequently faying) my father iboo knowelt it was
in uOcd'i.-iv.e 19 thy commands, and-for thy P,lory
that 1 h d:»ns rhis deed."-— Mrs. Bleecker, at
v 1 .i,- name h*i then was, bide lump one a lie him
who »m Either was r—he made no reply, but pu!h
ing away the Y-trfmi who flood between her and
himlUf, darted «t her a look ol fuch indignation as
1 drilled horror in h.r heart—his ipencil was con
nected, end he i -id ids tale without variations he
exoreii^d «’ ' n i.-rrow for the lofs of his dear fa
mily. hu. con', '..led himiVlf with the id«^i of having
peri.’nn** = •- ' • — was to Albany and
there c«»'i6 H-d aa a. ruiiatic in the goal, tioni whicn
he .dc,p‘; J w;. cnee by the aft it a nee of Acqua
loriis. b f ”‘i i ■ • p'iicd the door.
I e:/ i*; v-t-1 .V ti o little girl, by whom Mr.
Bleed-:er h d but nhi; fume fruit ; he was then con*
h ltd in a dungeon and had lever.il chains on—he
p !|j. .red to be u: :..h «ff-ci«.-d at her remenbratue of
hii’.t, end put up a pious Mutilation for ln*r and her
} tufdv—-mice llu-ii have receiver* no account re
Jpucnutf %dm.
iHe c m is of his wonderful cruel proceedings, is
h- 'oi d ih: c-mcvpiio.n of human brings—the deed
io pi-c-.uc'd'iist'-d/b) unprovoked, that We do not
t. l(> proi'.- ii the til- t of infuniry—yet
upun the other l.md w’ium v/erefl -ct upon the etpia
tiimi'v of lib: tem;.- rv and the comfortable liruation
in win h In: was, and no vifible circumlranccs ope
r;1 t ■,,p to s HuVr hi... frantic, we are apt 10 conclude/
liiit he was under a ftvong delplion of Satan. Hit
v; ii a t ■ v . *i i our cm yrctui'c f. per naps it ia be ft that |
fVone things are con- led from ns, and the only ufe j
\v.-' can n"W m ik»: <•! o ir knowledge of this siTair, is |
to is * h im u • under a feute of human frailty, to re- .
ij._ v»r pur 'pein ion “ Lead us not into temptation.
IvlAj 29 I,96
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LATEST FROM EUROPE.
N !£W V * • F Dcember 23.
If'e lane no iv< d /•; Capt Hood, from Greenock, London
, ,, ,,.yf (,j [Jd. I / ’l be. French accounts are Inter, but
:!je German no 010/ts give « d'Jjrent complexion to manj
‘trtufztiions—A/ <•’ the,.jure fubtij/j lie m jl material arti
cles.
CARLSRUHE, Sep*. 7.0.
On the iBih inlt.at tour in lilt niurning, the Auf
trians attack'd the Frenchent renohmeiits near ILebl,
en-i |W(, b.mlji:-L»*•of the Archduke i- rennaud ihar
p- vl the enetv.. with the bayonet.—About 7 ,o*dotk
th. w were matters of the entrenchments and the
fort, they had .nude Soo of the French prifoneri ;
and killed or wounded 1200: the French general
.S herb was among «he fl tin, AH the baggage, can
non, and amnumiiiuii of the french fell into the
Innds of the Aultr.ians ; but the latter having ne
nlicu-d to tiedrny the bridge near the Rhine, aud a
pirr of the loldiers being employed in dividing the
poojy, the French.' about noon, having received a
reinforcement of3COC men, and being covered by a
r,;; nitrons artillery from the left bank of the Rhine,
retook t;ie fort, thepoluiou of which is lb impor
tant in •..can:p.Vigff in Suabia.
rj |je Aulirhins ioft about 460 men in killed and
wounded, and retired to Bilchoffsheini, where the
Jiead quarters of general Petralch now are.
A number of Am'triau pritoners and wounded
liavc been brought into S'trnlbourg. 6000 National
"Ufirds h-lve marched from that city lor Landau,
the garrifon of which place hjis taken-the field unr
tier general Marefcot. A number of-French troops
are alio on their march from fitrafbourg for Snabia.
As the .Aufrrinns have not deitroyed the bridge
between the E.tbl and Stralbcurg,, the French will
always be able eaftly 10’fend reinforcements into Su
abi.
VIENNA, September 28.
The fop pie me nr to the Court Gazettes of the r.yth
inlr. contains f.inhr'r-accounts of the victorious pro
o.-els ot the Arch Duke Charles, and the fuceelsful
operations of the troops in Swabia employed againlt
thc'armv of Moreau. (General Frwhlich in an ac
tion mi the :7th tirir Kwnptcu, took 230 prifoners,
and a.7.iin d»*|r<«ted tile French on the 201I1, in a
ha'tlc ucai lliiv, in t\ h;eh the lofs of the enemy.a
luounted to at lea!* 1200 men : 19 officers and 500
liun were made priloiw is, and the rett. of the vibule
corps killed, vv.mndfd or dilperft-d. Gen. La d our
writes iluf, in the difFVrmt t ran fact ions that have
t -ken pl .ee in'F. vaii> i-;oo prifoners have been ta
ken from the rn my, and their war chefts. 'I he
Gazette proceeds ;
Alter till-1 . under Gen. La Tour had pafsed
the Lech, the pi Man s {hewed every kind of hatred
to the cdmuvou eotmy • they every where collected
in great numbers, rang the alarm Cel Is, ftinml
limn! elves, vviihrn pikes and every kind of
weapons, and uttered to join the van guaid to pur
ine tiie enemy, Mdor Gen. Count Vaillet, who
commanded the vanguard, defirous to profit hy their
ardour. p-it 12.10 oi them under the direction of the
captains Mefery and Audr*(sy. Their zeal is in
i ut turhulii iti, ..d (hews how much they mult
have luiKivd from the entr.iy.
L 0 N D O N, October 17.
Late on Saturday n'-ghr^three tndsengers arrived
front the contincnr, viz. Mr. Corvifor from Vitn
x. one from p-ter<?burg, and one Ironi Venice.—
Thr firlr of the Hamburgh mails, which have been
*0'long due, arrived at the Lcne time.
. CV the probable fate of Moreau’s army, we are
*:ho v -~i rt-c lo’fpeak in more poihive
By an article from Stistguard, of the 2rd, we
kart), that the Auftrians had made tfiemfehes mal
lei* of.the grand powder magazine of Moreau'S ar
my at EHingen, containing 3000 barrels ol powder,
which is reprtfenred to have been of more-confe
cuence to Moreau than the lols of a battle. His ar
my was left alnvolt without ammunition..
Accounts from Ulrr., of the zrft, Bate Moreau to j
he retreating with precipitation in three columns;
but at the lame time preit-cd hard in his £*nks and
rear by gen. La Tour and Nauendorff. Gen Pe- 1
rrofch had pofselsed hitnfelf of the ftrong p.dttions of;
fv.niibiandand the Black Pore ft, which would cut :
oif the retreat of MorCau‘3 army from Keld.
„ By the accounts brought by the ’uefsengcr front j
Vienna, we learn, that the emperor had railed two
hundred tboufand additional troops that were,
marching to rite reinforcement of hi., different ar
mies ; in his capital alone he railed feventeen thou
fantl men in one week; Inch was the noble ardour
of patriotitm that pervaded the Aultrian States.
This morning arrived the Hamburgh ntai! due on
Wedneiday. '! he details which it brings are high
ly fatisfactory. The boafted advantages of Buona
parte before Mintua, appear much lets formidable
. rhan they did in his reprelentation ol them. Field
M irlhcl Wm mler was, it is true, ihut up in Man
tua, but ihife Items to bea voluntary ftep, lor the
purpofe, no doubt, of reinforcing the garriion, and
taking unor. hhnfelf the command of that important
From Bremen, October 6.
The enemy's daring plan of uniting in Germany
their threedelolaungnrmies, has met with the late
which its temerity dderved, and lor the welfare of
fociety is totally defeated. Jonrdan completely
routed, his late army fcattered by twenties, and
f'iii pnrtui d by the horitic peaiantry ot Germany ;
Moreau recreating in the uimoft diforder, every
day altering his route, but now laid to be attempt
ing rn march to Brilgau j Buonaparte neceflitated
to amndon his daring project of penetrating into
Tryol, where: every man, nay, where every woman
and child, is under arms, inftead of palsing Trent,
Ins retrogaded bevond Verona. The Auftrians are
in full pofcdnon of the city of TJlm, fi-oce the 35th
ult. The Frenchgarrilou ot 3oo men became pri
soners of war.
UN IT E D STATES.
SALEM, December 20.
A gentleman of this town has received a fetter
from his friend at Liverpool, I\ova-Scotia, where
in is mentioned the arrival at Halifax of a packet
from England-—which brings an account of the dif
ferences with Spain being accommodated, and a hap
py prolpect of the negouat ion with France being fa
vourably terminated. The letter is dated the ?.2d
ult. The pafsage of the packet is not mentioned.
NEW-YORK, December 22.
Yefterday morning, about 2 o’clock, a fire was
difeovered, by the citizen patrole of the 6th ward,
in Church, near Read ftreets. It appeared, that a
fire had been kindled in the garni of a new two fio
ry houfe, which would probably have ipread defo
lat'rnn had it not been for the vigilance of tins watch.
On Monday night a fire was difeovered under a
boat fh..>p of Mr. Dickenlon, in Water ftreet, above
.Peck Hip: evidently intentionally .done, as there
was a quantity of rolin and other coinbuftibles found
ou lilt fpot.
December 26. •
Laft Tburfday morning, about 4 o’clock, the
door of the liable belonging to Meisrs. Tucknels and
Lowntls, adjoining their dwelling houfe in Pear!
ftreet, Was difeovered to have been violently bro
ken open—the lock of the door having been forced
off, and a molt daring attempt made to let the build
ing on fire ; as a fire-brand was found in the (tall,
under the horfe, which fortunately did not commu
nicate, iu confluence of ihe wetnefsef the floor.
An attempt was made on Friday night to let fire
to the houie of Peter Williams, tobocconift, W illi
am ftreet 5 the matches and combuftibles were found
next illuming in a place between two buildings:
but providentially it failed of fuccefs.
PHILADELPHIA, December 22.
It is worthy of obfervatipn, lhat the motion re
ft tied on Tu11day in the Houfe of Reprefentatives,
concerning the clarification of the militia, carried
in it that greai principle which has given additional
energy to the trench armies; each corps conliiting
;•$ nearly as poffible of perfons of the fame age. Q-e
ry,.vvas it rejected becaule it was Ew/cb, Oi bccaui’e
it was a wife principle ?
What is 1 ::obinjm ?--It was at one time, in
.France, ;• ly fpirit of infurrection, founded on
realon apd juitice. It was at another.epoch an en
thufiaftic fpirit pufhed beyond the limits of reafon
into the regions of infauity. It does not at pre
l'en t emit in France.
/irijiccracj if. the dc finition only be confultcd, is
in no wife different from a democracy ,• becaufe it
is the governm ent of the beft, but in its acceptati
on it is the w or ft, the ni oft -dii’gr aceful of all pof*
fihle governments. It is the government of men,
founding their pretentions, put on tireir merits, on
tlieir love of liberty, or their information, but on
their antiquity of race, on their intrigue, a„3;r,
liberty, on their avtriton lor equality. Ariltocr •
in every age have been compos'd of the molt inr**
lent, the molt ihallovtr, the molt rich, fuperhciaT
vain,-empty, and contemptible-members of focietv
of men who have miftaken intrigue for inpenuitv
and diffiuiulation for cabinet policy; of men wK
wifh that mankind {imuld grpe and ftare on °
verumentas a iublime fupernatural bufinels,bev^
their reafoo, and beyond their enquiry and dS
lion.
Democracy in every age has been refpected tf
terror p.?tyrants ; the relting place of piiiioiophw
the refuge, the ai) lum of the human race. V*
COMMUNICATION.
It is extraordinary that a regard for truth
not prevented thePrelident from difplayiug the bon,
haft on our profperity, Co characteriitic 0f th"
fpeeches of his Britannic Majefty. Indeed the |jm*
iitude between the two is fo great, that it would h*
doing oo very great violence to conjecture, to f„»
pole that the lame h.nd manufactured both, f '
vaunt of our profperiry at a tints wnen every thin
feerns on the decline is a lerange aberration fr0m
truth and juftice. The products of our foil have
liink in demand and in price lince the eitabliiiJnie,u
uf the Bi iiiih treaty, our commerce is decaying ra.
pidly, and our’rtioui'ces are dimioiihing every dav*
and yet the Prefident is boalring of oar profperity
As if our treaSury waa oversowing he propoles the
eltablithmeiit of a navy, ot military Ichoofs tad an
uuiverlity to linlel that rattle of lus age the t;ty of
Walhinj^totio Vvhtihcr it is becaufe this city bears
his name, or whether its neighbourhood to h;s pro.
perty is the caufe of that extreme folicmrde tnui'; be
ieft to every nun's own mind to determine. Cer
tain it is however, that there has been a devotion
t o that fpoc mere fervent than would have beta in.
Ipifed by puriotilm alone.
Pofterity is frill the burthen of his long, and pep.
haps becaule it is a complin, to',: to h.niiVif; for hit
flatterers have by this time perftraded him. th:,- ,»
i- tlie vital principle of t. try thing even •,..yl;, .|iQ
die United States. Where is' ihi., proij.ci n\ ^
found ? In.the ruin of our ir.erchants in the ;i .ery
of'ocr feamen ? hi the increafe of oar natibirj u.-or f
In the. decay, of our f.nar.ccs i’ is it to be ’m
the degradation of our ciiararter ? In the p1,a.
tion of our national faith ? In' she ptrflnv an.i '.rea
chery of onr cdniimltraiion ? Let truth have ns . ;iy
aml it w ill he fee,., that the fair, ft pro'peci-. u a
country -have been f-.crifkedto a lufr of power, n>ia
a character honourable to human nature brought in
tod Horace by an idolatrous worlhip of ciher Gcds
linn oue„
BALTIMORE, Dscem'oer 29.
Veftenlay morning the boufe of Samuel Owen<,
Bfq. in Hanover ftrcet wa'i diicovereo to be on hr-,
the roof of which was coniumed before th- flame,
could be extiuguilhed. A negro woman belonging
to the honle was committed to priion on lulpiciunot
having fee it 0.1 lire.
Yelrerday arrived in town, we ore lnppy to (ay
in perfect health, commodore Barney, who left
Cape Francois on the 2d inftanr, in the Mcditla,
accompanied by another frigate ; both which be
left at Norfolk, and took pafsage with Capt, Gould
up to Annapolis. We learn by, him, that the trou
bles which broke out feme lime fince at the Cape
and in the foot hern department of the ifland, had
fubfided, and that order is again reftored. The re
mainder of the political-news from the Cape, is ra
ther of a difagretable nature ; namely, that in con
kqoence of the rcprifal-orders [if fo they maybe
termed} from the executive directory, eight or tea
privateers were fitting out there, to take every
American hound to and from an enemy's port, or
having Britilh property on board ; and that the
vefsels carried into the Cape have (cab put on their
hatches, and not fuffered to depart until decrees of
acquittal or condemnation are received fromFrance,
dating which time their cargoes are fpoiltd, and
their bottoms knawed by the v/orms into honey
combs. Six or eight Britilh (hips of war were
cruifing c (F Cape Francois when commodore Car
ney lett it, but having found means to elude their
vigilance, lie arrived at Cape Henry on the iqtb,
iuiafety.
ALEXANDRIA, December 31.
There is little doubt but the Fires in Savannah
have been the work off’omevile incendiaries. That
city was alarmed, lince the Lite dreadful fire it ex
perienced,, no lei's than three times in one day.
Some fofpected perfons have been apprehended.
Sunday week a Fire happened in Philadelphia,
that fhew the molt indubitaole evidence 01 cietign;
a timely difeovery prevented the intended mikhief-.
The utmolt vigilance is necefsary ; otherwile W5
may- be convinced of our danger by experience.
By the I'ortlmouth, (N. H.) paper it appears,
that there were in that State 6 votes for ]. Acbins
and 6 for O. Ellfworth. — No doubt can remain of
Jtffcrfon's being at lenk Vive-Prdident. We have
not yet heard from Vermont fo directly as to be a
ble to fettle the doubt with refpeci to the validity
of the election in that Stare.
Among a number of perfons taken up by the n'*t*
roles of Bvititnore on la it Sunday night, and exa
mined before George Salmon, E’q. on Monday
morning, were four ftrangers of fulpicious charac
ters, particularly a man who called himlelf Hoi
loci:, and a woman that pafsed for his wife, from
New-York. The other man and woman were from
Philadelphia. Report laid indeed they were a