The Providence journal, and town and country advertiser (Providence [R.I.]), 1799-05-08 00:00:00

The Providence Journal AND TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the New PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 19. ] WEDNESDAY, May 8, 1799. [ Vol. I. ]
Seamen Wanted, For the armed ship JOHN JAY, bound to the EAST-INDIES. A Number of able bodied seamen, and a few stout raw hands, will meet with great encouragement, by immediately applying to BROWN and IVES. May 1.
Plainfield Academy. THE public are informed that this institution will continue under the care and instruction of Mr. BENJAMIN ALLEN. The Summer term will commence on Monday the 20th of May. May 1.
THE creditors to the estate of RICHARD FENNER, of Johnston, yeoman, are hereby notified to exhibit their claims against said estate to the subscribers, administrators thereon, within twelve months from the 20th of April, 1799: otherwise they will be excluded according to law: And all those indebted to said estate, are requested to settle their accounts immediately. JAMES FENNER, RICHARD FENNER, ISAAC FISK. Johnston, May 1, 1799.
NOTICE. ALL those who may be indebted to the late company of DICKENS and SOWLE, are requested to call and settle their notes or book accounts before Tuesday next; otherwise they will be sued at May court, without any reserve or any other call from me. E. DICKENS, surviving partner.
For Sale by said DICKENS, 15 hogheads of tobacco 60 barrels of prime beef 50 ditto pork 1000 bushels of salt 20 hogheads molasses 2000 weight of cheese 10 Kgs of lard April 28.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the night of the 14th ult. an indentured NEGRO BOY, named Fortune Dennis; about 18 years of age, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, straight and well built; had a mole or spot under one of his eyes, rather blacker than the rest of his face. Carried with him sundry articles of wearing apparel, viz. 1 dark coloured great coat, 1 fine broadcloth straight-bodied coat, 1 black ditto, 1 short thick cotton jacket, 2 pair of light coloured overalls, of the same, 1 short cotton jacket spotted yellow and blue, 1 dark cassimere waistcoat, 3 shirts, 1 cotton and 1 linen; a number of pairs of stockings, 1 pair of half boots, and 1 pair of new shoes. Whoever will secure said apprentice in any jail in New-England, or deliver him to the subscriber, in Providence, shall receive a reward of 50 Cents, and all necessary charges. All masters of vessels, and others, are forbid harbouring or concealing said boy, as they would avoid the penalty of the law. KNIGHT DEXTER. May 1.
HERDS GRASS SEED. A QUANTITY of Herds Grass Seed, of an excellent quality, this day received from Troy, and for sale by GREENE & BARKER. April 24.
Final Notice. THE Hon. Court of Probate having allowed the further time of six months, from the fourth day of December last, for closing the administration on the estate of the late Dr. EPHRAIM COMSTOCK; all persons interested are requested to avail themselves of this information, as no claim will be received or allowed after the expiration of that time. EDWARD DEXTER, Administrator. N. B. The administrator to the above estate takes this last and public method to acquaint all persons whom it may concern, that the unsettled notes, and all book accounts relative to said estate, will be lodged in the hands of George R. Burrill, Esq.; as fast as the accounts can be drawn off, without any reserve, as he is determined to close the business by the above time. Said DEXTER also requests all persons who have unsettled accounts with him in his private business, to call and settle the same. April 3. (tbc)
For SALE, by Isaac Boorum and Co. 20 Hhds. of prime Georgia Tobacco 100 Barrels of Tar 70 ditto of Turpentine. April 3. (t.f.)
Latest from Europe. By the ship Packet, Troit, arrived at Boston, in 35 days from Liverpool.
VIENNA, February 22. The Archduke Joseph was received on the frontiers of Russia with great solemnity, and conducted on his way to Peterburgh with the utmost pomp. The Russian troops in Upper Austria are to be considerably reinforced; 20,000 Russians are on their march towards Agram, in Croatia, and when united they are all to be employed in Italy. The emperor Paul has declared his determination to reinstate the king of Naples in his dominions.
NUREMBURG, Feb. 28. The Austrian troops on the frontiers of Bavaria, reckoned at 40,000 men, are to receive considerable reinforcements from Bohemia. Magazines have been established at Weeden and Amberg.
BREMEN, March 5. According to our last advices from Rastadt, which are of the 22d ult. every thing wears a warlike aspect. The French would, it was there expected, enter Suabia in a very few days, and would in the first place take possession of the Brisgau and the dutchy of Wirtemberg. The archduke Charles, who is watching all their motions, appears to wish that the odium of commencing hostilities should lie on them, and will not make any hostile motions until he shall learn that they have entered Suabia or the Brisgau. The conduct of this prince leads us to suppose that the court of Vienna will return no answer respecting the Russian troops, but that it will quietly await the course of events without provoking war, though in a state of defence, from the numbers and goodnes of his troops. Ulm and Constance are two points to which a number of troops are despatched: the archduke Charles still remains posted behind the Lech, with the main body of the army, increased by the greater part of the troops that were in Bohemia, so that the whole cannot be estimated at less than 50,000 effective men. With respect to Italy, though but in possession of very imperfect accounts of what has happened since the capture of Naples, we yet know for certain that more than half of the army of Championnet was destroyed by the Lazzaroni, and that the necessity of putting a strong garrison in that place, renders the French army unable to complete the conquest of that unhappy kingdom. If, as I have before said, a number of Russian and Turkish troops should be disembarked on the coast of the Adriatic, as well as at Civita Vecchia, it will be easy to regain the territory which has been lost, and even to transfer the theatre of the war to the gates of Bologna.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 3. Sir Sidney Smith, brother of the British Ambassador at this court, who has been so long expected, arrived here towards the end of last month in the Tyger, of 84 guns. The wind being contrary the Tyger could not sail past the Seraglio, and was therefore obliged to come to anchor behind the Castle of Seven Towers. Sir Sydney, with his Staff, marine guards, and a number of soldiers, and some French emigrants, repaired, by desire of the Porte, to the beautiful palace of Baylos, formerly occupied by the Venetian Ambassador. The above emigrants are said to be those who assisted Sir Sydney to escape from the Temple at Paris.
Yesterday Sir Sydney assumed the character of accredited Naval Minister of the King of Great Britain at the Porte, a diplomatic character very proper at the present crisis, and of which hitherto there has been no instance. Captain Smith, it is supposed, will direct the operations of the Turkish navy during the present war. He will not long remain here, as he will sail towards the end of the month, when several Turkish ships, now fitting out in great haste, shall have joined his squadron.
The Pacha of Acre, who is now marching against the French in Egypt, has demanded 10,000 purses, or about 1,000,000 of florins, to defray the expenses of the war, to pay his troops, &c. which has been complied with. A Russian ship, arrived here, brings intelligence that the port of Alexandria has been bombarded by the allies.
January 18. The French Government, through the intervention of the Spanish, Swedish, and Batavian Ambassadors, has expressed its wish to re-establish its ancient friendship and alliance with the Porte, with offers to cede all the islands in the Adriatic sea, and other possessions on the coast of Dalmatia and Greece, viz. the Islands which formerly belonged to the Venetians, viz. Corfu, Cerigo, Cephalonia, &c. (of some of which, however, the French are no longer in possession) as also to withdraw, immediately after the treaty is signed, all their troops from Egypt.
To these offers the Porte has replied, that the French having broken one treaty of peace and amity without cause, and made a hostile attack on Egypt, the Porte had been compelled to enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with Russia and England, which it was determined faithfully to fulfil.
The Russian Envoy, General Tamara, has been presented by the Grand Seignor with a snuff-box worth 50,000 piastres.
As we are so much in want of intelligence from Egypt, telegraphs are to be erected, by the advice and under the inspection of Sir Sydney Smith.
A French frigate, that had escaped from Alexandria, has been taken by a Turkish corsair, and carried into Chio. The French on board, 15 in number, say that an epidemic sickness has broken out in the army of Buonaparte.
From all parts of the Crimea, and from Ochakow, Russian troops are on their march to the harbour of Sebastopolis, to be embarked there for Constantinople, where they will be joined by a Turkish armament, intended to effect a landing in Italy. Magazines are already formed for the use of these troops at Constantinople, and in Zante.
PARIS, March 12. Accounts from Italy state, that a second Russian squadron has sailed through the Dardanelles, and has been joined by a Turkish detachment. They have both on board land forces, which are to be put on shore at Palermo, and they are, under the command of Admiral Nelson, to attempt a descent upon Calabria.
Louis Buonaparte, who arrived yesterday from Egypt, waited upon the Directory, and communicated satisfactory news from that quarter.
We learn from Ancona, that the Turks are throwing up fortifications on the coasts of Albania, since they have heard of the progress of the French in the kingdom of Naples.
The majority of the Piedmontese have declared themselves in favour of an union with France.
LONDON, March 6. It will be seen, that if we can credit the details which the republican Journalists have at length ventured to give on the Neapolitan war, that kingdom has fallen in a manner as extraordinary as fatal, and which is without example in ancient or modern history. We see the Neapolitan army, led by its king and commanded by an able general, after successes due to the dispositions made by the latter, lose by treason and cowardice these first advantages, and repulsed to the very gates of the capital. We see it afterwards conduct itself in a manner so opposite to military duty and sentiments of patriotism, as to force its prince to seek for safety amongst his enemies. We see the people, at once discontented with the conduct of the army and of the government, take up arms and turn them with a blind fury against the servants of their sovereign, against the chiefs of the army, against the better order of citizens, and at last against the French, and combat these with a courage worthy of a better fate. Thus Naples presents to us the singular example of an army abandoning its sovereign, of a sovereign forced, in some measure, to abandon his army, and of a people who, without imitating the first, or obeying the delegated authority of the second, wished at the same time themselves to take place of both. By not standing forward before the French approached so near the capital, and by then attacking them with fury and obstinacy, the Lazzaroni displayed all the want of foresight, and the inimitable courage of a still barbarous people. How much have we not to regret that it was not possible to give union and regularity to the different means of defence and preservation which the Neapolitan government possessed? How much above all have we not to deplore the torrents of blood which have been shed in vain, and the devastating fury to which the conquerors gave themselves up? According to their custom, they have offered to the vanquished, by way of consolation, the government of the French Republic! March 19.
Last night the Paris journals, from the 12th to the 14th inclusive, were received in town. They contain more important intelligence than has lately come from that quarter. On the 12th and 13th inst. the directory sent messages to the two councils, containing a formal requisition, that
A DECLARATION OF WAR against the EMPEROR and the GRAND DUKE, might be decreed by the French nation. None of the journals that have arrived contain full copies of these important documents; but the following extract from the Patriote Francois, of the 14th, will enable our readers to form tolerably correct ideas respecting them.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED, 23 Ventose, March 13. "Delbrel, the secretary, read several messages from the council of elders, containing the resolution of that council on the subject of the message of the Directory, stating that the French republic is at war with the emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and with the grand duke of Tuscany. "The directory has explained at length in its message the complaints of the republic
against those two powers. It declares, with respect to the emperor, that the treaty of Campo Formio was misunderstood in its principle, and not carried into effect in one of its principal articles; and that the conduct of the Austrian cabinet has been always in opposition to peace. It adverts to the cold reception of our ambassador Bernadotte, at Vienna; to the affront offered to him there; to the hypocrisy of that court in the negotiations of Silesia, which was the more evident, because baron de Degellman did not repair to Paris; to the sending of Count Cobentzel to Berlin and Russia; and to the difficulties raised in Vienna to receiving the Cisalpine ambassador. It finally demonstrates the hostile disposition of the emperor with respect to the march of the Russians across Moravia and Austria, which are on the confines of Bavaria, already occupied by an army of 100,000 Austrians.
"The directory in the same message accuses the grand duke of Tuscany of perfidy towards the republic, and of connivance with the enemies of France. It exposes his secret negotiations with the cabinet of St. James's, particularly by the possession of Leghorn by the English, against which he merely opposed ill disguised efforts.
"The message concludes with a formal proposition of declaring war against the emperor and the grand duke.
"It was ordered to be printed, and was received with shouts of "long live the republic!" Thus is the great question at last decided, and Europe—miserable unhappy Europe is doomed to suffer unspeakable horrors, and to hear the wailings of widows and orphans.
The following appear to be the different positions of the French armies that have crossed the Rhine, according to the most recent advices:
The French column under General Bernadotte, which passed the Rhine near Manheim, of which it took possession, continued its route with the utmost rapidity by Hubelberg and Heilbronn. It is said that the General made this haste for the purpose of being before hand with the Austrians, and to form a line from Philingen and Heilbronn, along the Neckar, on both sides of which river are high mountains and advantageous positions.
Gen. Bernadotte, after crossing the Rhine, summoned the fort of Philipsburgh to surrender, which the Governor refused. The army under General Jourdan marched direct into the interior of Suabia, leaving a garrison in Offenburgh. His principal headquarters were, on the 6th inst. at Villingen, in the Black Forest. General St. Cyr, who commands the left wing of the French army, has entered the Duchy of Wirtemberg, by the Kniebis mountains, and has taken possession of Stuttgart. The Duke, who has for some time past been at open war with the Provincial Diet, had repaired to Louisbourg. The Paris papers report that he and the Duchess will come to England.
The next papers may be expected to contain very important facts. The Patriots Francois of the 13th states, that the Austrians had passed the Lech, had advanced beyond Ulm, and that in a few days the two armies would be in sight of each other.
March 21. As this paper was about to be put to press, we learnt that French papers had reached town of the 14th and 16th. They confirm the account of the French having beat the Austrians at Coire, the capital of the Grisons, after a bloody engagement, which place they have taken.
An account has been received by the Hamburg mails, of a proclamation by the Archduke Charles, in which he declares his intention of immediately marching to the attack of the French, in consequence of their having crossed the Rhine.
BUONAPARTE.
At Milan it was reported, that a letter had been received from General Lannus, stating, that the Pacha of Syria, at the head of an army of 60,000 men, had been defeated in a general engagement by Buonaparte, who had in consequence penetrated into Syria, leaving General Kleber in command of the forces in Egypt.
The history of the French march against Naples is a complete history of Jacobinism. General Mack was surrounded by treason on all sides. Both officers and men were sold to the French.
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker is appointed to the Newfoundland station, vice Valdegrave, who retires. Sir R. Curtis, to the Cape, vice Christian, deceased—Sir C. Cotton, Halifax, vice Vandepuit, who retires.
Pichegru, who had been for some time at Hamburg, was very near being arrested by order of the French legation. It is reported that he continues to reside at Brunswick.
Several French actors have received passports from the minister of the marine, in order to proceed to Egypt, to perform on the theatre established by Buonaparte at Grand Cairo.

The Adelpiad, No. II.
THE French have not, it is said, in the whole career of their revolution, entirely abandoned science. It is true, they have relinquished almost every thing which seems naturally to hold any relationship with literary knowledge...
"It is for this I get my meagre looks, And sacrifice my dinner to my books."
The other was his having been overheard, in an evening ramble in one of the public walks, repeating these lines:
"Bear me, some God, O quickly bear me hence, To a solitary solitude, the nest of sense; Where contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down."
These, with the other suspicious circumstances (being, it must be acknowledged, something more than what the lawyers term leves presumptiones ) were deemed abundantly sufficient. A capias issued against his reputation; and, after a summary trial, it was condemned and hanged in chains for the purpose of infusing a lingering and certain death.
This spectacle, however, so terrified men, women and children, that for years past the mere fear of using learning in conversation has given people a religious attachment to ignorance; and lest they should be suspected of an intention to utter literature in speech, they take care never to carry any about them.
The alumni collegiorum for some time remained untouched by the general panic; and fancying themselves, by the detached elevation of their situation, capable of being in some sort a separate tribe, they maintained their independence with all the classical austerity of a commonwealth of Plato's. This was well. But, at present, it is presumed some (a very few indeed, I hope) have been exercised by dismal apprehensions. I believe the thinking part of the citizens of the town are of opinion that these scholastic petits maîtres may banish their fears; for they are considered as very good citizens of the beau monde , and will no sooner fall under a suspicion of scholarship or good sense, than the merest beau or coxcomb along street.
tic petits maîtres may banish their fears; for they are considered as very good citizens of the beau monde , and will no sooner fall under a suspicion of scholarship or good sense, than the merest beau or coxcomb along street.
What were at first the causes of a neglect of science in our country, I shall leave to a future number. I would however just observe, it has been more than once hinted that whatever may have been the remote causes, they have all been increased by an impolitic complaisance of people of knowledge to blockheads who, taking advantage of this parity, or armistice, to examine their forces, soon found their own party much the most numerous; and have ever since been able to set literature and good sense at defiance, by raising the loudest laugh on their own side.
This exactly comports with the observation of a lady with whom I was some time ago in conversation. She is really, though she makes but little parade about it, possessed of a mind refined by thought, expanded by science, and embellished by all the elegant accomplishments which an owner of so many personal charms can ever expect to acquire. I asked her if she was not often disgusted at her own nonsense, when it was so entirely in her power to instruct and amuse her friends with the most scientific and elegant conversation? "I frequently," she replied, "almost rebuke myself, I must confess, for conversing as I do; but I know my friends will forgive me if I do talk nonsense, and I know my enemies will not, if I talk any thing else." O
PHILADELPHIA, April 30.
Sunday arrived the ship Birmingham-Packet, captain Kelly, from Bombay, from whence she sailed the 10th December, a month previous to which, Lieut. Duval, of his Britannic Majesty's ship Zealous , arrived with dispatches from Rear Admiral Nelson, by way of the desert and Bassora, containing an account of the victory obtained over the French fleet; but it was generally believed the dispatches were of much greater consequence, from an intercepted packet of Buonaparte to the Directory, that was taken on its passage, and that they contained ample plans of the intended operations of the French army.
Immediately after his arrival, every thing was put in the best posture of defence, additional guns mounted where wanting: the European inhabitants had voluntarily embodied as a militia, and were daily training to the use of arms. The Governor has also convened the heads of the different casts, and ordered them to select about 2000 men to learn the military exercise: this had caused some uneasiness, as religious prejudices prevented them carrying arms, but they declared themselves perfectly willing to assist in any other manner against the common enemy.
A war with Tippoo Saib was also looked on as inevitable; large quantities of cattle, and a number of troops, were gone down to the Malabar coast, to join the army from Bengal. There seemed to be great unanimity among all ranks and degrees of people in Bombay, and voluntary contributions, exceeding three millions [most probably this should be three lacks, which would be 150,000 dollars, a sum more considerably large than the population and riches of Bombay would lead us to think reasonable] of rupees had been collected in that place and its dependencies, and remitted to England, to support the war.
Little apprehensions were, however, entertained of the approach of Buonaparte's army, as it was conceived the passage down the Red Sea would be attended with so many difficulties as to make it nearly impracticable, especially as a British squadron would have the command of it: A march through the desert would be still more difficult, as it was supposed, by those acquainted with the nature of the country, that a great part, if not all, must perish in the attempt.
L'Union, French privateer, of 18 guns, had captured, to the northward of Bombay, a Mocha ship bound to Surat, and two others, out of which they took ten lacks of rupees in treasure, [ten lacks of rupees is about 100,000 pounds sterling, or 500,000 dollars] and afterwards sent the ships to the isle of France.
SALEM, April 30.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman on the continent of Europe, dated Dec. 28.
"THE noble declaration of our Executive, on the return of the American Envoys from France, has united all Europe, but the people of Germany in particular, even to a degree of enthusiasm. They say, that the cause is noble, to oppose a nation of savages, who wish to oppress and enslave the most virtuous people on earth, and whose only crime is, daring to ask for justice from the greatest monster that ever reared its head. Such sentiments have raised the Emperor, voluntarily, the greatest and most powerful army that Germany ever supported; in consequence of which, and the progress of 33,000 Russians, who are already in Germany on their way to the Rhine (being a part of 80,000 which the Emperor of Russia sends against the French) the Directory have ordered large drafts from their forces in Holland, which leaves an opening for the rebellion, which is hourly expected to become general throughout the Batavian Republic: the people of Brabant have already revolted, and are in great force; some actions have taken place between them and the French. The people of Holland are in the most dreadful state of distress imaginable: their fishermen, watermen, and all those who gained their bread by the sea, are absolutely starving: the English preventing the neutrals from going into Holland, and even a fishing boat from getting to sea, and their friends the French oppressing them by requisitions, the people are driven to perfect madness."
The Journal.
Providence, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8.
Wednesday last the General Election was held at Newport, when the following gentlemen were elected to the offices annexed to their respective names, viz.
HIS EXCELLENCY ARTHUR FENNER, Esq; Governor.
THE HONOURABLE GEORGE BROWN, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor.
JOHN INNES CLARK, Esq; NOAH MATHEWSON, Esq; JOB GREENE, Esq; (Son of Christopher) JOHN COOKE, Esq; JAMES CONGDON, Esq; THOMAS HOXIE, Esq; NICHOLAS TAYLOR, Esq; JOB WATSON, Esq; JOHN HARRIS, Esq; and TIMOTHY WILMARTH, Esq; Senators.
SAMUEL EDDY, Esq; Secretary. JAMES BURRILL, jun. Esq; Attorney-General. HENRY SHERBURNE, Esq; General Treasurer.
The Hon. William Bradford, Esq; was chosen Speaker, and William Marchant, Esq; Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Constant Taber, Esq; Chief, Benjamin Gardner, Esq; 2d, Perez Richmond, Esq; 3d, William Anthony, Esq; 4th, Nicholas Carr, Esq; 5th, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, within and for the county of Newport.
Caleb Harris, Esq; Chief, John Burton, Esq; 2d, John Dorrance, Esq; 3d, Arnold Paine, Esq; 4th, William Tyler (of Foster) Esq; 5th, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, &c. for the county of Providence.
Joseph Hoxie, Esq; Chief, Robert Stanton, Esq; 2d, Thomas Tefft, Esq; 3d, William Hammond, Esq; 4th, John Waite, Esq; 5th, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, &c. for the county of Washington.
Samuel Allen, Esq; Chief, William Barton, Esq; 2d, Josiah Tinney, Esq; 3d, Joseph Reynolds, Esq; 4th, Daniel Cole, Esq; 5th, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, &c. for the county of Bristol.
Thomas Rice, Esq; Chief, Benjamin Johnson, Esq; 2d, Stephen Greene (of Greenwhich) Esq; 3d, Jacob Greene, Esq; 4th, William Greene (Son of Philip) Esq; 5th, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, &c. for the county of Kent.
Clerks of the Supreme Judicial Court.—For the county of Newport, William V. King, Esq;—Providence, Paul Allen, jun. Esq;—Washington, John Hazard, jun. Esq;—Bristol, Jonathan Russel, Esq;—Kent, Andrew Boyd, Esq;
Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace.—For the county of Newport, Robert Rogers, Esq;—Providence, James Fenner, Esq;—Washington, Samuel E. Gardner, Esq;—Bristol, Richard Smith, jun. Esq;—Kent, Hopkins Cooke, Esq;
Sheriffs.—For the county of Newport, Edward Thurston, Esq;—Providence, Nehemiah Knight, Esq;—Washington, Walter White, Esq;—Bristol, Richard Smith, Esq;—Kent, Jonathan Niles, Esq;
Public Notaries.—Newport, Christopher Elery, Esq;—Providence, Samuel Chase and George R. Burrill, Esq;rs.—Washington, Geo. Thomas, Esq;—Bristol, Richard Smith, jun. Esq;—Kent, Hopkins Cooke, Esq;—For Westerly, Charlestown and Hopkinton, Samuel Brown, Esq;—Warren, Wm. T. Miller, Esq;
Justices of the Peace for the town of Providence. Samuel Chase, George Tillinghast, William Richmond, William Tyler, the 2d. William Jones, Wheeler Martin, Obadiah Brown, James Fenner, Paul Allen, jun. Benjamin Reynolds and James Utter Arnold, Esq;rs.
The election of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, is postponed till June session.
On Friday last his Excellency the Governor, attended by his suite, and a number of other gentlemen, went on board the United States Frigate General Greene, lying at Newport, and partook of an elegant cold collation. Upon his Excellency's boarding, the frigate fired a federal salute.
An arrival at Boston, from Calcutta, states, that a very DESTRUCTIVE FIRE had happened at the Cape of Good Hope, in which public property to the amount of 300,000 l. sterling had been destroyed. It consisted of naval and military stores, and the buildings in which they were contained. 200 horses were burnt to death. The fire commenced just after the discharge of the evening gun; and was occasioned by the lodging of the wad on the top of one of the public stores.
The mayor of Philadelphia has lately caused several hundred suits of French uniform to be seized at a Taylor's shop in that city. A Frenchman, who ordered them made, was arrested, and an order for procuring them found on him, signed by Toussaint, the black general at St. Domingo, and countersigned by Latombe, late consular general at the United States.
Yesterday morning the new ship Resource , Capt. Pearce, failed for Canton, in China. She is completely armed, and carries an excellent crew. After weighing anchor, with all sail set, she fired a very handsome salute. Mr. Wm. F. Magee, merchant of this town, and part owner, goes out as supercargo.
On the 4th of March, a child of Capt. Asa Osgood, of Brownfield, (Maine) only ten months old, swallowed a penknife, which being shut measured two inches and three quarters of an inch in length—the handle three quarters of an inch wide—the joint end of the knife went down first—it was in the body three nights and two days: The infant did not appear to feel any pain till a few hours preceding its coming from him: The child is well.
There was a daring attempt to set fire to a shop in New York on Sunday night last week. The fire was discovered by a person at a late hour of the night—there does not remain a doubt but it was communicated by some evil disposed person.
The Federal Ticket, for members of Assembly, has been carried in the city of New-York, by a majority of Nine Hundred and Fourteen. This circumstance has occasioned great joy amongst the friends to order and good government.
The insurrection at Pennsylvania is at length completely quelled, and the army disbanded and returned home in high health and spirits.
Monday the 29th ult. being the anniversary election day of the different independent companies in this town, the same was celebrated with a brilliant military parade. At half past 11 o'clock, the evolutions being finished, the companies marched to the Rev. Mr. Wilson's meeting-house, where, after an introductory prayer by Mr. Wilson, an excellent oration was pronounced by Paul Allen, jun. Esq; to a numerous audience.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3. Capt. Jones, arrived in the ship Benjamin Franklin , in 26 days from Jersey, informs, that a misunderstanding subsisted between Toussaint and Rigaud, which it was expected would produce fatal consequences. The latter having embodied some troops, Toussaint had sent him word if they were not immediately disbanded, he should consider it as a declaration of hostilities.
The trial of John Fries was yesterday continued in the Circuit Court.—We understand all the evidence is not yet delivered.
Yesterday morning were conducted into this city, by a detachment of the United States marines, under the command of Lieut. Carmick, the French prisoners lately confined in Lancaster jail, amounting to 26. They were all fairly lodged in the jail in this city.
NEW-YORK, May 1.
By Mr. Pilmore, a passenger in the schr. Massachusetts , arrived this morning from the Havana, we are informed that three men who escaped the massacre on board the ship Ocean , had arrived at the Havana previous to his departure. These men declared, that the ship Ocean had been engaged with two French privateers the greater part of a day, and beat them off.—In the evening they were joined by a French brig, when the action was renewed, and the Ocean obliged to strike her colours. After which, she was boarded.—Capt. KEMP WAS IMMEDIATELY MURDERED, when a GENERAL MASSACRE TOOK PLACE OF EVERY MAN THAT COULD BE FOUND—None but the three abovementioned, who were secreted 48 hours in the hold, escaped. After the expiration of this time, they were discovered—and from the abundant humanity of the conquerors, were spared, and suffered to proceed to the Havana to tell their melancholy story!
MAY 4.
Recent advices from St. Kitt's state, that Commodore TRUXTON was shortly to leave that island to cruise off Guadaloupe for a French 50 gun ship, said to be in those waters.
MARRIED. On Thursday last, at the Friends' meeting-house, Mr. Moses Brown, of this town, to Mrs. Phoebe Lockwood, of Warwick.
On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. James Wilson, James Arnold, Esq; to Miss Mehitable Carpenter, daughter of Mr. Oliver Carpenter.
DROWNED. A son of Mr. ----- Luther.
SONNET TO THE EVENING RAINBOW. [By R. Southey.]
MILD arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair, with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. Much mine eye Delights to linger on thee; for the day, Changeful and many-weather'd, seem'd to frailte, Flashing brief splendour through its clouds awhile, That deepens dark anon and fell in rain. But pleasant it is now to pause, and view Thy various tints, of frail and weary hue, And think the storm shall not return again. Such is the smile that Piety bestows On the good man's pale cheek, when he, in peace, Departing gently from a world of woes, Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease.
PORT OF PROVIDENCE.
ENTERED.
Brig Nancy, Cooke, Surinam; brig Murfree , Hicks, St. Thomas; sloop Resty , Child, St. Thomas; sloop Cordelia , Anthony, New-York; sloop Betty , Greene, St. Thomas.
CLEARED.
Ship Resource , Pearce, Canton; ship Dolphin , Dunwell, Havana; schooner Nancy Wright , Brown, Stonington; sloop Sally , Hammett, Tortola; sloop Juno , Trowbridge, New-York.
The ship Mary , Capt. Rodman, of this port, from the Isle of France, mentioned some time since to have been captured by a British frigate, and carried to Jamaica for adjudication, we have the happiness to learn has been acquitted.
The French frigate La Prudente , of 36 guns, has been captured and carried into the Cape of Good Hope, by the Dedalus British frigate, of 32 guns.—A few hours previous to being taken, she had made prize of the ship Concord , from Canton for Philadelphia, with which the prize-master escaped.
Take Notice!
THAT only a few able-bodied SEAMEN, and a few MARINES, are now wanted to complete the manning of the United States frigate GENERAL GREENE, CHRISTOPHER R. PERRY, commander, now fitting at Newport, for a cruise against the enemies of our country, and will sail in the course of ten days. Very generous wages will be given. Apply at the rendezvous.
May 8, 1799.
Just Landed,
From on board the brig Murfree , and for sale by BENJ. & EDWARD ABORN, BROWN Sugar, of the 1st quality, in hds. and bbls. Molasses, good for retailing, per hhd. St. Croix Rum, per do. And 500 wt. of Cocoa.
They have likewise for sale, Rock and Turk's-Island Salt, per quantity 75 Barrels of Pickled Fish; and 50 Barrels of Turpentine. May 8.
TO LET,
THE House and Store lately occupied by JAMES ATWOOD, opposite the head of the Long Wharf, and may be entered on immediately—a very commodious place for a merchant or tradesman. Enquire of POLLY NICHOLS, living on the premises. May 8.