Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-06-05 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 106 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1793.
[Whole No. 428.]
Foreign Intelligence.
M O N S, April 5.
(Extract of a private letter.)
T HE right Column of the Prince Cobourg's army is marching towards Valenciennes. At the moment I am writing it is believed that that town is in possession of the Austrians. It is reported that the inhabitants of Maubeuge have sent to inform General Clairfayt, that they are willing to open their gates upon condition that the General will guarantee the security of property."
B R U S S E L S, April 5.
"Lisle has opened its gates to the Austrians. We expect that Conde, Douay, Valenciennes, and Maubeuge, will do the same."
L I E G E, April 2.
"The Prince de Hohenloe is at Namur, where he assembles the heavy artillery, corps of engineers, &c. He is to command at the sieges which are soon expected to be made, of some of the strong towns on the French Frontiers. It is thought Maubeuge or Givet will be the first attacked. He has five other Generals under him.—General Beaulieu is with a small army opposite Longwy."
A N T W E R P, April 8.
"The French garrison that were in Breda, have made a requisition to be allowed a strong escort, lest they should be murdered by the Brabanters, who are highly incensed at the French."
A number of English troops do duty at Ostend. The Austrians from that place, are gone to take possession of the French camp at Nieuport and Farneries.
L I V E R P O O L, March 30.
Some people shake their heads, and seem sorrowful when they hear of large sums of money having been sent to the good patriots of France, to enable them to carry on the war against this country with the greater energy and effect; but what is it the true sons of liberty will not attempt in support of their darling cause? The Englishman who would not betray his country, rob his creditors and reduce his family to beggary and ruin, in support of liberty, is not worthy the name of a modern patriot.
A gentleman of veracity in War-rington informs us, that a nephew of his rode a galloway from that town to Settle, in Yorkshire, which is 70 miles, in one day, and back again the next: After which his nephew and the galloway were weighed, when the former proved the heavier by 15 lb.
Mr. Fox said in the House of Commons the other day, that nothing was more unpopular and opposite to the desires of the people of England, than Sir John Scott's bill for preventing traitorous correspondence; but Mr. Fox surely forgot himself; his conduct at this particular crisis, is infinitely more unpopular, and opposite to the desires of the people.
D U B L I N, April 4.
The Commissioners of the Irish Privy Council, appointed to go to London, to assist in the British Cabinet, at the discussion of a great measure respecting this kingdom, are now on their way to the English metropolis. The object of this great consultation, is by a number of people here supposed to be the mode of effecting a union of the British and Irish legislatures.
It was apprehended for some time, that the Guilds of this city
would have been so much under the influence of old prejudices, as to throw difficulties in the way of Catholics seeking admission into their respective bodies, which would effectually exclude them. We are happy to learn, however, that many of those guilds are much more liberal in their sentiments, and intend to admit Catholics to their freedom, on nearly the same terms as Protestants.
Part of the exquisite furniture belonging to the late King of France, from the Palace of St. Cloud, is consigned to the European Museum.
FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
L O N D O N, April 9.
From the 20th of March to the third inst. Paris appears to have been remarkably quiet, considering that disinformation news had been daily pouring in from every quarter. The Council General of the Commune has been vigilant; and Santerre, the Commandant General, active in the discharge of his own duty, and strict in compelling those whom he commands to perform theirs. The Decree for disarming all suspected persons was rigidly executed, and without the smallest opposition. The state of Paris is now more that of a garrison than of a city. What effects the news of Dumourier's conduct may produce, it would be presumptuous to anticipate. The conduct of the Parisians is not reducible to any known principles of human action.
The squadron which sailed from Brest on the 8th of March, was obliged to put back, having suffered severely in a gale of wind. The Achilles and the Tourville lost their masts; and Duval, the Commander of the squadron, was killed.
When the Commissioners of the Convention were introduced to Dumourier, they asked him, by whose orders he had made the French army retreat from the Belgic provinces—he answered, by my own proper order . "You then love the Belgic provinces!" added he, "very well! you shall pay a visit to them yourselves."
Brissot's party is now the leading one; he carries with him 300 members of the Convention, which, seemingly undismayed, are preparing to resist the renegade restorer of Monarchy.
The Commissioners are lodged in Maestricht, by order of the Prince de Cobourg, as a place of the greatest strength. It is said the allies suspend their operations until the success of Dumourier is known.
APRIL 11.
The Gazette, in which errors are as common as in newspapers of less emolument, seems to have made a small mistake in the number of prisoners taken by the Prussians at the battle of Bingen. It states the non-commissioned officers and privates taken at 200; the Brussels Gazette extraordinary makes the number 2000.
The same Gazette informs us, that an armistice had been agreed upon between his serene highness the Prince of Saxe Cobourg and general Dumourier, the latter having previously consented to evacuate the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Brabant.—Why his serene highness should agree to an armistice, on condition of Dumourier's doing that, which if the accounts of his serene highness's victories be true, he was evidently obliged to do without any condition, it is not easy to imagine. The natural inference is, either that Dumourier was still in sufficient force to dispute the possession of the Austrian Netherlands, or that the prince of Saxe Cobourg had purchas-
ed his victories at so dear a rate as to make an armistice desirable, if not necessary.
The Duke of Richmond is now preparing a plan for the fortification of Paris against Republicans and Levellers, which he means to transmit to Dumourier as soon as the latter has taken possession of the capital and restored the old government. Mr. Reeves is to go over at the same time, and transfer the seat of his association from the crown and anchor to the palais royale.
The fast. From the late intelligence from the armies on the Continent, the bishops will find it necessary to make an alteration in their form of prayer. Since the wicked have seen the error of their ways and turned into the right path—it should be rather a thanksgiving than a fast .
The admiralty of Amsterdam have given notice that the embargo upon all the vessels of the allies and neutral nations bound to the Baltic, the East and West-Indies, is taken off.
Dumourier is said to have been persuaded to change sides by the ambidexter negotiations of Lord Auckland.
Letters from Vienna and Cremona state, that a messenger arrived on the 11th inst. at Milan, with intelligence that General Colli had defeated the French at Nizza, taken all their baggage; and that Biton, their General, was wounded, supposed mortally.
Intelligence was yesterday transmitted to the admiralty by admiral Macbride, that Dumourier, finding that his army would not support him in his plan of marching to Paris, and placing young Louis on the throne, had found it necessary to consult his safety by going over to the Austrians; and that he effected his escape from his own troops, carrying with him a regiment of cavalry, consisting of from four to six hundred men.
This intelligence is said to have been received by Admiral Macbride from the Austrian commanding officer at Ostend.
APRIL 12.
Yesterday morning Sir James Murray arrived in town from Ostend, with dispatches to government. He left Antwerp the 9th inst. and has made a very expeditious journey. Sir James Murray confirms the report of Dumourier's having been obliged to return back to the Austrian head-quarters at Mons.
The following intelligence may be depended on as being correct:
General Dumourier, at the head of about 18,000 men, had reached Cambrai, a town of considerable strength in the French Netherlands, and 15 miles S. W. of Valenciennes, on his March towards Paris. In the course of the 6th inst. he observed some disaffection in his army, and having arrived at Cambrai, he observed his artillery desert him, as well as many of the National Volunteers. He endeavored to rally his forces, and harangued the troops of the line in particular, in a very pathetic speech, exposing to them the villainy of the National Convention, and that it was impossible for the government to exist much longer. He said it was a disgrace to serve such a cause.
The army, in reply, assured the General of their personal attachment and respect for him, but that they could not consent to follow him in his present views, and turn their backs on the Constitution they had sworn to support. Finding this disposition very general, Dumourier thought it prudent to make good a retreat as fast as possible; and on the 7th inst. he returned to the Aus-
trian head-quarters at Mons, at the head of about 1100 Hussars, principally belonging to the regiment of Bercoiny, who had always been considered as attached to the Royal cause.
Young Egalite, who ranked as a General in the army, is returned with Dumourier, and has resumed his title of Duke de Chartres; the consequence of this will probably be, that as soon as the Convention hears this news, they will take his father into custody, and all those who are nearest attached to him, on suspicion of being accessory to Dumourier's treason.
The operations of Dumourier's army are not known, after his leaving it; it is certainly in a very disunited wretched state, and we shall not be surprised to hear of its having totally disbanded itself. Dumourier was the very life and soul of the cause in which he had embarked; and the French will not find another General of abilities and courage equal to him.
Gen. Dumourier did not propose to remain long at Mons; he had considerable expectations of being able to collect a considerable force of French Royalists in a very short time, and return to some important enterprize.
General Dampierre took the command of Dumourier's army on his leaving it.
The directors of the India company have resolved to put up four millions six hundred and seventy thousand pounds of tea at their sale in June next.
Sir James Murray left Antwerp on Tuesday; and besides a confirmation of the failure of Dumourier's plan for restoring royalty in France, and his being obliged to consult his personal safety, by flying from his own army to the Austrians; brought the result of the Congress held at Antwerp on Monday; at which were present,
The Prince of Orange and his two sons; his Excellency Vander Spiegel; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; his Excellency Lord Auckland; his Excellency—Kuhler, Minister of Prussia; his Royal Highness the Prince de Saxe Cobourg; his Excellency M. Metternich and his two sons; the Count de Staremberg; the Count Mercy d'Argenteau; the Minister of Spain; the Minister of Naples.
The object was to settle a general plan for the prosecution of the war; and, as Dumourier's defection had produced no material alteration, to determine whether the combined armies should again attempt the invasion of France, or confine the French within their own frontier, and cutting them off from external communication, leave the restoration of Monarchy to the efforts of the Loyalists within the kingdom, and the natural progress of discontent arising from distress among the people.
In a letter from Angers in France, of a very late date, which came by way of Ostend, it is stated that there have been two actions below Saumur in Brittany, between the Patriots and the Insurgents. In the first action, the Insurgents were defeated; in the second, which took place the next day, they had ample revenge of the National Guards of Angers, whose cannon they took. This success made them masters of the bridges of Ce, an important passage over the Loire, which opens to them the road to Anjou, and gives them the command of the communication between that province and Poitou. The bridges of Ce are but a short distance from Angers.

The ill success of the campaign of last year, had taught the Austrians and Prussians the difficulties that must attend entering France; and produced declarations, that it was not their intention to dictate a form of Government for the French, but to prevent the effects of those licentious principles which tended to the subversion of every established government.
By the Congress, however, it was resolved to commence a plan of active operations against France, and instead of the chimerical project of marching directly to Paris, to besiege at once as many as possible of the strong places on the frontier, which will block up or call off the greatest part of the Republican troops from the interior of the Kingdom, and leave the Royalists within it without much opposition. If these places fall they will be immediately occupied by the troops of the Combined powers, and serve as points to act from according to circumstances, while the fleets of England, Holland, and Spain are to form a chain of cruizers round the coast, ready to favor the Royalists wherever they appear, and to cut off all the supplies by sea, as the armies will do by land. Thus attacked and hemmed in on all sides, with a strong party to act against them at home, the Republicans, it is hoped, must be soon subdued.
The cessation of hostilities was declared at an end, and the allies immediately commenced their operations.
Such we understand to be the plan agreed upon at this memorable Congress, in the execution of which Great-Britain is to assist with all her forces by sea and land. Of its practicability we presume not to give an opinion; but from the conduct of the allies in other cases, we have little doubt but that if the garrisons on the French frontiers should fall, the Austrians will take possession of French Flanders, Lorraine, and Alsace. This being accomplished, Prussia will have an equivalent in another quarter, and peace will be offered to the French without much regard to what form of government they may choose to establish.
Extract of a letter from Antwerp, dated April 8.
"The Deputies put under arrest by Dumourier, and sent to prince Cobourg, are at Maestricht.—Dumourier with young Egalite, who now calls himself the duke de Chartres, and his sister Mademoiselle D'Orleans, are at Mons."
"The army which general Dumourier lately commanded, is in the utmost confusion, and it is even said entirely dispersed, without any regular leader. That General persuaded himself, from the personal attachment shown him by his army, that he might promise himself their support, to the extent of his wishes, in the project he had formed. He was, however, mistaken. He had advanced as far as Cambray, on the road to Paris, when he found his army deserting him; the artillery first forsook him, then the national guards. He then harangued the troops of the line, who, in return, informed him, that, notwithstanding their love to him as their general, and as a brave soldier they were determined, to a man, neither to fight against their country, nor to violate that constitution which they had sworn to maintain."
"General Dumourier finding that he could not depend upon the army, immediately set out with young Egalite at the head of two regiments of horse, and took the road for Mons. He was, however, so closely pursued by a party who followed him, that he was absolutely obliged to fight his way."
"It is said that Dumourier intends to recruit among the royalists, who now are very numerous in France."
"The Austrians have laid siege to Conde, and expect to have made considerable progress in France before the end of six weeks."
"The French garrison that were in Breda have made a requisition to be allowed a strong escort, lest they should be murdered by the Brabanters, who are highly incensed against the French."
Dumourier wrote from Mons, requesting permission to attend the Congress which was refused him.
General Valence was at Antwerp on the day the Congress met, not as a member of it, nor as a prisoner, but having gone thither during the suspension of hostilities. Our accounts do not state on what motive.
The mode of electing officers in the French army which Dumourier in his letter, after the battle of the 18th of March, proposed to suppress, has been the means of saving the northern army to the republic. Had Dumourier had the appointment of the officers ever since he took the command, the army would have gone with him. By the mode of election they are worse soldiers, but much better citizens .
BARCELONA, March 1.
M. Bourgoins, the French Minister, previous to his departure for France, had proposed to leave M. Durtabie in quality of Charge d'Affaires, per interim, and Messrs. Puyabri and Payou, as Consuls. The Minister agreed provisionally to receive the two latter, but rejected the former.—By these dispositions, the French here are exposed to the insults of the people, extremely irritated on account of the tragical death of Louis XVI.
Our fleet will soon be on a most respectable footing. The command of it is given to Vice Admiral the Marquis de Coëtali.
The fleet of Cadiz consists of seven sail of the line, seven frigates, and one brigantine; that of Carthagena amounts to six sail of the line, three frigates and one brigantine, that of Ferrol six sail of the line. Total 20 sail of the line, 10 frigates, one cutter and three brigantines.
STATE PAPERS.
GENERAL DUMOURIER TO THE FRENCH NATION.
SINCE the Commencement of the Revolution, I have devoted myself to the maintenance of the Liberty and Honour of the Nation.
The services I rendered in the year 1792, are the most memorable. Minister of Foreign Affairs during three months, I elevated and sustained the dignity of the French name throughout all Europe. I was calumniated by an odious Cabal, by whom I was charged of having plundered six millions of Livres, destined for secret services. I have proved that of this sum I did not expend half a million.
Having quitted the career of Politics towards the close of the month of June, I commanded a small army in the Department of the North—This Department I was ordered to quit with my troops at the very time the Austrians entered in force that part of the Republic. I disobeyed the order, saved the Department, and an attempt was made to come on me by surprise, for the purpose of conveying me to the citadel of Metz where I was to be condemned by a Council of War to suffer death.
On the 28th of August, I took upon me, in Champagne, the command of an army of twenty thousand men, weak, and without either discipline or organization. I arrested the progress of eighty thousand Prussians and Hessians and forced them to retreat after they had sacrificed the one half of their army. I was then the Saviour of France; and then it was that the most wicked of men, the opprobrium of Frenchmen, in a word, Marat began to calumniate me without mercy. With a part of the victorious army of Champagne, and some other troops, I entered on the 5th of November, the Belgic provinces, where I gained the forever memorable battle of Jemappe; and, after a succession of advantages, entered Liege and Aix-la-Chapelle, towards the close of that month. From that moment my destruction was resolved on; and I have been accused of aspiring, now to the title of Duke of Brabant, now to the Stadtholdership and again to the Dictatorship. To reward and crush my successes, the Minister Pache, supported by the criminal faction, to whom all our evils are to be ascribed, suffered the victorious army to want every thing, and succeeded in disbanding it by famine and nakedness. The consequence was, that more than fifteen thousand men were in the hospital, more than 25 thousand deserted through misery and disgust, and upwards of ten thousand horses died of hunger!!!
I transmitted to the National Convention very strenuous remonstrances, which I followed up by repairing in person to Paris, to engage the Legislators to apply a remedy to the evil. They did not even condescend to read the four memorials I delivered in. During the twenty-six hours I spent at Paris, I heard almost every night bands of pretended Federates demand my head; and calumnies of every description, as well as menaces and insults followed me even into the country house to which I retired.
Having delivered in my resignation, I was retained in the service of my country, because it was proposed to me to negotiate the suspension of the war against England and Holland, which I had conceived as indispensable to the safety of the Netherlands. Whilst I negotiated and that successfully, the National Convention itself hastened to declare war, without making any preparations and without either power or means for its support.
I was not even advised of this Declaration, and learned it through the medium of the Gazettes only. I hastened to form a small army of new troops, who had never fought, and with these troops, whom confidence rendered invincible rendered invincible, I made myself master of three strong places, and was ready to penetrate into the middle of Holland, when I learned the disaster of Aix-la-Chapelle, the rasing of the siege of Maestricht, and the sad retreat of the army. By this army I was loudly summoned. I abandoned my conquests to fly to its succour; and considered that we could be extricated from our difficulties by a speedy success only. I led my companions in arms to the enemy. On the 16th of March I had a considerable advantage at Tirlemont. On the 18th I brought the enemy to a general action; and the centre and right wing under my charge were victorious. The left wing after having attacked imprudently, fled. On the 19th we retreated honourably, with the brave men that were left together, for a part of the army disbanded itself. On the 21st and 22d we fought with the same courage, and to our firmness was owing the preservation of the remains of an army which breathes solely for true Liberty, for the reign of the Laws, and for the extinction of Anarchy.
It was then that the Marats, the Roberspierre, and the criminal sects of Jacobins of Paris, plotted the fall of the Generals, and more especially of mine. These villains, bribed with the gold of foreign power, to compleat the disorganization of the armies, caused almost all the generals to be arrested. They keep them in the jails of Paris, to Septemberize them; for thus it is that those monsters have coined a word, to hand down to posterity the remembrance of the horrid massacres of the first six days of September.
Whilst I was employed in re-composing the army, in which employment I laboured night and day, on the 1st of April (yesterday) four commissioners reached me with a decree, purporting that I should be brought to the bar of the Convention itself. The War Minister, Bourdonville, my pupil, was weak enough to accompany them, to succeed me in my command. The persons who were in suite of these perfidious emissaries, informed me themselves, that different groups of assassins, either fugi-
tives from or driven out of my army, were dispersed on the road to kill me before I could reach Paris. I spent several hours in endeavoring to convince the commissioners of the imprudence of this arrest. Nothing could shake their pride, and I therefore arrested the whole of them, to serve me as hostages against the crimes of Paris. I instantly arranged with the Imperialists a suspension of arms, and marched towards the capital, to extinguish, as soon as possible, the lighted embers of civil war.
My dear countrymen! it is expedient that a true and brave man remove from you the veil which covers all our crimes and misfortunes—In 1789, we made great efforts to obtain Liberty, Equality, and the Sovereignty of the People. Our principles were consecrated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and there have resulted from the labours of our Legislators, 1st. the declaration which says that France is and shall remain a Monarchy; 2dly. a Constitution to which we swore fealty in 1789, 90, and 91.
This constitution might, and indeed must have been imperfect; but it ought and might have been believed, that with time and experience its errors would be rectified, and that the necessary strife between the Legislative and Executive powers would establish a wise equilibrium, which would prevent either of these powers from seizing the whole of the authority, and attaining despotism. If the despotism of a single individual is dangerous to Liberty, how much more odious must be that of 700 men, many of whom are void of principles, without morals, and who have been able to reach that supremacy by cabals or crimes alone!
Licentiousness and excess soon rendered it impossible to support the yoke of a constitution that gave laws. The tribunes influenced the assembly of representatives, and were themselves awed by the dangerous club of Jacobins of Paris. The strife between the two powers became at length a daily combat, then was the equilibrium destroyed. France ceased to have a king, and the victory of the 10th of August was foiled by the atrocious crimes of the first days of September.
All the departments, but more especially the wretched city of Paris, were delivered up to pillage, to denunciations, proscriptions, and massacres. No Frenchman, the assassins and their accomplices excepted, had either his life or his property in security! The consternation of slavery was augmented by the clamorous orgies of villains. Bands of pretended federates ran thro' and laid waste the departments; and of the 700 individuals who composed this despotic and anarchial body, 4 or 500 groaned and decreed, and decreed and groaned, exposed to the exterminating swords of the Marats and Roberspierre. It is thus that the unfortunate Louis the 16th perished, without a judicial trial and without a tribunal; and 'tis thus that the decree of the 19th of Nov. has provoked all nations by holding out to them our aid, provided they will disorganize themselves. 'Tis thus that the unjust and impolitic decree of the 15th of Dec. has alienated from us the hearts of the Belgians, has driven us from the Netherlands, and would have brought about the massacre of the whole of our army, by this nation, provoked at our outrages and our crimes, if I had not saved that very army by my proclamations. 'Tis thus that a decree established the bloody tribunal which places the lives of the citizens at the mercy of a small number of iniquitous judges, without recourse or appeal to any other tribunal. 'Tis thus that during the last month all the decrees have been marked by the stamp of insatiable avarice, by the blindest pride and more especially by the desire of maintaining power, by calling to the most important posts of the state no other than daring, incapable and criminal men, by driving away or murdering men enlightened and of a high character, and by supporting a phantom of a republic which their errors in administration and in policy, as well as their crimes, had rendered impracticable. These 700 individuals despise, detest, calumniate and revile each other, and have already, and that frequently, thought of poignarding the one the other. At this moment their blind ambition has impelled them to coalesce afresh; and bold criminality allies itself to feeble virtue, to preserve a power as unjust as it is unuseful. In the mean time their Committees devour every thing, that of the National Treasury absorbing the public funds, without being able to render any account of the expenditure.
What has this convention done to maintain the war it has provoked against all the powers of Europe?
It has disorganized the armies, instead of reinforcing and recruiting the troops of the line, and the ancient battalions of national volunteers which would have formed a respectable army. Instead of recompensing these brave warriors by promotion and praises, these legislators have left the battalions incomplete, naked, disarmed and discontented. In the same way have they treated the excellent cavalry: and the brave French artillery is in the same manner exhausted, abandoned, and in want of every necessary. They notwithstanding create new corps, composed of the satellites of the 2d of September, and commanded by men who have never served, and who are in no other way to be dreaded unless by the army they surcharge and disorganize. The convention sacrifices every thing to these satellites of tyranny, to these cowardly headloppers. The choice of officers, and that of administrators are in every particular the same; we see throughout the tyranny which flatters the wicked, because the wicked alone can support tyranny. And in its pride and its ignorance, this convention orders the conquest and disorganization of the whole Universe; it says to one of its generals, Go and take Rome, and to another, sally forth and subdue Spain, to the end that despoiling commissioners, similar to those horrid Roman proconsuls against whom Cicero declaimed, may be sent thither.
In the worst season of the year, it sends the only fleet it possesses into the Mediterranean, to split and founder on the rocks of Sardinia; whilst it exposes the fleet at Brest to the fury of the storms, by sending them in quest of an English fleet that has not yet left its port.
In the mean time a civil war spreads through all the departments. Some of the insurgents are excited by fanaticism, the necessary effect of persecution; others by an indignation at the tragical and fruitless end of Louis XVI. and others finally, by the natural principle of resisting persecution.
Arms are every where taken up; murders every where committed; and every where are pecuniary supplies and provisions intercepted. The English foment these troubles, and will by their succours, supply fuel to them at their pleasure. Soon will every one of our corsairs disappear on the ocean; soon will the southern department cease to receive supplies of corn from Italy and Africa, and already have those from the north and from America been intercepted by the squadrons of the enemies. Famine will annex itself to all our other scourges, and the ferocity of our cannibals will but encrease our calamities.
Frenchmen! we have a rallying point which can stifle the monster of anarchy; 'tis the constitution we swore to maintain in 1789, 1790, and 91, 'tis the work of a free people; and we shall remain free, and recover our glory, by resuming our constitution.
Let us display our virtues, more especially that of mildness; too much blood has already been spilt. If the monsters by whom we have been disorganized chuse to fly, let us leave them to meet their punishment elsewhere if they do not find it in their own corrupted hearts; but if they wish to support anarchy by new crimes, then shall the army punish them.
In the generosity of the enemies we have often grievously outraged, I have found the security of external peace. Not only do they treat humanity and attentively our wounded, sick, and prisoners who fall into their hands; and all this in despite of the calumnies spread by our agitators to render us ferocious; but they engage to suspend their march, not to pass our frontiers, and to leave to our brave army the termination of all our internal dissensions.
Let the sacred torch of the love of our country awaken in us our virtue and our courage! at the bare name of constitution, civil war will cease, or can no longer exist unless against certain malevolent men who will no longer be supported by foreign powers. These have no hatred to any others among us except our factional criminals, and desire nothing more fervently than to restore their esteem and friendship to a nation, whose errors and anarchy disturb and trouble all Europe. Peace will be the fruit of this resolution, and the troops of the line, as well as the brave national volunteers, who in the space of a year have offered themselves as willing sacrifices to liberty, and who abhor anarchy, shall repose in the bosom of their families after having accomplished this noble work.
As to myself I have already made an oath, and I repeat it before the whole nation, and in the presence of all Europe, that immediately after having effected the safety of my country by the re-establishment of the constitution, of peace and good order, I shall abandon every public function, and shall seek in solitude the enjoyment of the happiness of my fellow citizens.
The General in chief of the French army, DUMOURIER. Baths of St. Amand, April 2, 1793.
The Marechal Prince of Saxe Cobourg, General in chief of the armies of his Majesty the Emperor and of the Empire, TO THE FRENCH.
The general in chief Dumourier has communicated to me his declaration to the French nation. In it I find the sentiments and principles of a virtuous man, who truly loves his country, and who wishes to put an end to the calamities and anarchy by which it is desolated, by procuring for it the happiness of a constitution and a wise and permanent government. I know this also to be the unanimous wish of all the sovereigns whom some factious persons have armed against France, and particularly that of his Majesty the Emperor, and his Prussian Majesty.
Filled at this moment with esteem for the bulk of so great and so generous a nation, to whom the immutable principles of honor and justice were held sacred, until by the repetition of outrages, disorders and impostures, that part of it has been estranged and corrupted, which under the mask of humanity and of patriotism, speaks of nothing but assassinations & poignards.
Knowing also that this is the wish of all virtuous people in France.
Profoundly penetrated with these great truths and desiring nothing but the prosperity and glory of a country torn by so many convulsions & misfortunes:
I declare by the present proclamation, that I will support by all the force in my power the generous and beneficent intentions of the general in chief Dumourier, and his brave army.
I declare besides, that having lately fought us on several occasions as a gallant, intrepid and generous enemy, I will join a part of my troops, should general Dumourier desire it, or even all my army to that of France, to co-operate as friends and companions in arms worthy of reciprocal esteem, so as to restore to France her constitutional king, the constitution she has chosen, and as a necessary consequence, the means of perfecting it, if the nation should find it imperfect; thus to restore to France, as well as to the rest of Europe, peace, confidence, tranquility and happiness. I therefore declare on my word of honor, that I will not enter the territory of France to make conquests, but simply and purely for the purposes above mentioned.
I further declare upon my word of honour, that should the military operations require one or more fortresses to be given up to my troops,

I will keep them merely as a sacred truth, and I engage in the most express and positive terms, to restore them, as soon as the government which shall be established in France, or the brave general with whom I am about to make a common cause, shall demand such a concession. I also declare that I will give the most strict orders, and will take the most vigorous and effectual measures that my troops shall not commit the least disorder; not allowing the smallest exaction or violence; and respecting every where on the territory of France, persons and property. Any one belonging to my army who shall disobey my orders to this effect shall be immediately punished with the most ignominious death.
Given at the head quarters at Mons, the 5th of April 1793. THE PRINCE DE COBOURG.
The Maréchal Prince of Saxe Cobourg, General and Commander in Chief of the armies of his Majesty the Emperor, and of the Empire, to the French.
The Declaration which I made from my head quarters at Mons, dated the 5th of April 1793 is a public testimony of my personal sentiments to restore as soon as possible, peace and tranquillity to Europe. In it I manifested in a sincere and open manner, my particular desire that the French nation might have a solid and durable government, founded on the unshaken basis of justice and humanity, which might ensure peace to Europe, and happiness to France.
Now that the result of this declaration is so opposite to the effects it ought to have produced and which proves but too plainly that the sentiments which have dictated it have been misunderstood, it only remains for me to revoke it entirely, and to declare formally, that the state of war which subsists between the court of Vienna and the combined powers and France, is from this moment unhappily renewed.
I find myself therefore forced, by the predominating influence of the circumstances which the most guilty men persist in directing to the overthrow and destruction of their country, to annul entirely my former declaration, and to make known that a state of war so unfortunate, being renewed, I have given the necessary orders for commencing it, in concert with the allied powers, with all the energy and vigor of which victorious armies are capable.
The cessation of the armistice is the first hostile step that the unfortunate combination of events has forced me to make. There will therefore only subsist, of my former declaration, the inviolable engagement, which I again renew with pleasure, that the most exact discipline will be observed and maintained by my army upon the French territory, and that every breach thereof will be punished with the utmost rigor.
The sincerity and loyalty which at all times have been the principle of my actions, oblige me to give to this new address to the French nation all the publicity of which it is susceptible, to leave no doubt of the consequences that may result from it.
Given at the head quarters at Mons, the 9th of April, 1793. THE PRINCE DE COBOURG.
United States.
BOSTON, May 29.
The President having declared, "the happiness and best interests of the United States would be promoted by observing a strict NEUTRALITY in the present contest among the powers of Europe;"—and the new Ambassador from the French Republic having expressly laid, that France "does not expect that America should become a party in the war;" the citizens of the United States may rest assured, that their present desirable state of tranquillity will not be interrupted; and may make their commercial and other arrangements accordingly.
The Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New-York, have issued Proclamations, in aid of the Proclamation of the President of the United States, respecting Neutrality; and some have supposed the circumstance trivial and new;—but such are informed, that the Lt. Governors of Nova-Scotia and New-Brunswick, have issued Proclamations in aid of the Proclamation of the king of Great-Britain, declaring hostilities against the French, &c. So that it trivial , the occurrence is not new.
On Monday arrived here the brig Two Brothers, Capt. Rosse, from St. Peters. The Commander informs us, that on the 14th inst. a British armament of two frigates, two sloops of war and a transport, arrived off St. Peter's, (Newfoundland) and immediately made preparations for landing the marines and troops; who, meeting with no resistance, took possession of the Island: That on the landing of the troops, Capt. Rosse cut his cables, and slept to sea: And that there was an American vessel there, a Schooner of this port, Capt. Barker, and about 20 French fishing-vessels. The British Squadron was commanded by Commodore Affleck—the troops by Gen. Ogilvie.
BALTIMORE, May 30.
Yesterday arrived here the brig Prince William Henry, Capt. James Mitchell, from St. Kitts, but last from St. Eustatia, which she left the 17th inst. By her we learn, that the British fleet, commanded by Admiral Gardner, had cleared the West-India station of French men of war and cruisers—That there were but two French armed vessels in those seas, one of which had been captured by the Thibsy man of war—That the Governor of St. Eustatia informed him, that the British troops had landed at Martinico, and that Malvo, the French naval commander, had joined the British fleet.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.
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Philadelphia, June 5.
Saturday last an elegant entertainment was given by a number of the Citizens of Philadelphia, at Oellers' Hotel, in honor of Citizen Genet, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to the United States. The Cap of Liberty was placed at the head of the table, between the American and French flags.
The following Toasts were drunk on this occasion, under the discharge of cannon:
 1. The People and the Law.  2. The People of France—may they have but one heart, one head, and one arm, in support of the righteous cause of Liberty.  3. The People of the United States—may Liberty only be their idol, and Freemen only be their brethren.  4. The Republics of France and America—may they be forever united in the cause of Liberty.  5. May principles and not men be the objects of republican attachment.  6. May France give an example to the world, that the balances of a government depend more upon knowledge and vigilance than upon a multifarious combination of its powers.  7. In complaining of the temporary evils of revolutions, may we never forget, that the greater evils of Monarchy and Aristocracy are perpetual.  8. The spirit of Seventy-six and Ninety-two —may the citizens of America and France, as they are equal in virtue, be equal in success.  9. May true republican simplicity be the only ornament of the magistrate in every elective government.  10. Confusion to the councils of the confederated despots, and dismay to their hosts—may they never be able to form a centre of union or of action.  11. May France prove a political Hercules, and exterminate the Hydra of despotism from the earth.  12. Peace, Liberty and Independence—May the tyrants and traitors of all countries be punished by the establishment of the happiness which they wish to betray or destroy.  13. May the systems of the United States be entirely their own, and no corrupt exotic be engrafted upon the tree of liberty.  14. May the defection of individuals teach us to place our hopes of the safety and perpetuity of Freedom, on the whole body of the people.  15. May the clarion of Freedom founded by France, awaken the people of the world to their own happiness, and the Tyrants of the earth be prostrated by its triumphant sounds. 
S O N G,
BY MAJOR STAGG.
God save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings on dear! Let them be spread around Wherever man is found, And with the welcome sound, Ravish his ear.  Let us with France agree, And bid the world be free —While tyrants fall— Let the rude savage host In their vast numbers boast— Freedom's almighty trust Laughs at them all.  Tho' hosts of slaves conspire To quench fair Gallia's fire, Still shall they fail: Tho' traitors round her rise, Leagu'd with her enemies, To war each patriot flies, And will prevail.  The world at last will join To aid thy great design, Dear Liberty! To Russia's frozen lands, The generous flame expands; On Asia's burning sands Shall man be free.  In this our western world Be Freedom's flag unfurl'd Through all our shores, May no destructive blast Our heav'n with clouds o'ercast, May Freedom's fabric last While earth endures.  If e'er her cause should fail, Ambition's fiends assail, Slaves to a throne; May no proud despot daunt— Should he his standard plant, Freedom will never want HER WASHINGTON!
It is worthy of remark, (says the General Advertiser) that the committee who had the arrangement of the Civic Feast, determined to celebrate it in the true republican style, and to regard principles and not men , as the objects of commemoration; in the opinion that principles were immutable and eternal, but that men were liable to change.
The frigate l'Embuscade , weighed anchor last Saturday morning, and sailed from this port, supposed on a cruise; but her destination is not known.
The patrols who watched our streets last Friday evening, deserve much praise for their vigilance—and we are happy to hear they found no occasion to apprehend any irregular persons whatever; every thing was quiet.
The Western Posts, we understand will be speedily delivered up to the United States.—We also learn, that Gov. Simcoe is erecting new forts within the British territories, to form a chain to defend the frontiers of Canada. Fame speaks highly of the urbanity and liberality of the above Governor. Columb. Centinel.
By an arrival at New-York, English papers are received to the 18th April.—They inform, that pursuant to a decree of the National Convention, the Royal Family was to be sent to Marseilles, to be confined there as hostages for the safety of the Commissioners arrested by Dumourier.—That Philip Egalite is committed to close confinement in the prison la Conciergerie.—Custine has retired from Mentz to Landau, with part of his army—a letter from him was read by Cambon to the Convention, in which he says, "I am ordering back to Alsace all the magazines of ammunition and provision, not being able to resist the enemy, who, besides 32,000 men that block up Mentz, press on me with 80,000—I can scarcely muster a few broken squadrons of cavalry, to oppose 50,000 in the best order.—It is impossible for me to command an army disorganized by the new mode of election which you have decreed—I request it as a favor that you will quickly send me a successor—I prefer dying as a soldier, to leading brave men to slaughter as a general."—The rest of the letter consisted of bitter complaints against Bourdonville.
A new mode of electing officers was decreed.
The papers represent the city of Lisle as in a very destitute situation—Dumourier arrived at Brussels the 12th April.—Lafaye, a member of the Jacobins, in the sitting of April 9th, informed the Society, "That the Marcellaise, after disarming all suspicious persons, had thrown them not into a prison, but into a burying ground."
Portugal has at length finally determined on a war with France—Eleven sail of English merchantmen have been carried into Marseilles—On Dumourier's defection, the command of his army was given to Dampierre.
The commissioners of the northern army state, that Dumourier was obliged to swim a river to escape his pursuers.—General Paoli has been denounced as a conspirator, and was on his way to Paris as a prisoner to be tried. Success had attended the exertions of the patriots; all the posts on the banks of the Villaine, occupied by the seditious, had been taken.—Accounts from Cadiz say, that above a thousand Frenchmen were expelled from that place, many of them respectable and opulent merchants.
Among the REPORTS in the English papers, are the following:—That Mentz was taken.—That General Custine was a prisoner to the combined forces.—That an account had been received of an insurrection in Paris.—That the Austrians were within a few hours march of Dunkirk.—That Generals Miranda, Wimpfen, Stingen and Lanoue, had been decapitated in Paris.—The papers further state, that in January last £50,000 stock was purchased in the English funds for Dumourier.
By a vessel arrived here from Bristol yesterday, last from Milford in England, an account is received of Dumourier's being confined by the Austrians.
We are informed that in consequence of instructions from the Executive of the United States, to the Attorney for the district of Pennsylvania, prosecutions have been instituted against John Singleterry and Gideon Henfield, charged with violating their duty as citizens of the United States, in entering on board the armed Schooner Genet, in the service of France, and, with others on board the said Schooner, capturing several vessels, the property of the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, and otherwise annoying the trade and commerce of the said subjects, contrary to the laws of nations and the treaty of peace subsisting between the United States and his said Britannic Majesty.
The above named persons have been committed to the jail of the county of Philadelphia, to take their trials at the next Circuit Court of the United States.
Singleterry is a native of Charleston, South-Carolina, and has a family at Beaufort, in North-Carolina; Henfield was born at Salem, in Massachusetts.
Capt. Samuel Brady, who had been indicted for murdering certain Indians in the year 1791, was tried the 20th ult. at Pittsburgh, and acquitted—it appearing by the evidence that the Indians killed were hostile.
According to an accurate estimate, the loss of the sufferers by the late fire in Third Street, exclusive of the framed buildings consumed, amounts to the sum of 2318. 14. 5 3/4. among fifteen persons.—The sums collected from the contributions of the citizens for their relief, amount to 932. 13. 8d. which in a ratable proportion to the loss of each sufferer, yielded a dividend of 8l. in the pound.
According to a paragraph in Mr. Dunlap's paper of Monday last, the French garrison of Tobago when taken by the English consisted of only FORTY MEN—It cannot be surprizing, therefore, that the Island should have been taken—when, according to the same paragraph, the force sent on the expedition amounted to two complete British regiments, besides a great number of volunteers from Barbadoes, and French emigrants from the Colonies, and these assisted by four-fifths of the inhabitants of the Island, who are almost all English.
COMMUNICATIONS.
The conduct of some politicians, says a correspondent, is enigmatical to those who pay only a cursory attention to facts—but a comparison of the present with the past, will throw some light on the subject.—While the old inveterate enemies of the union of the States, the advocates of measures which would have kept the country in perpetual discord, are actuated by hereditary enmity to an efficient government in their endeavors on the administration—there is another description, whose movements are evidently founded on the expectation of retrieving their circumstances by a new form in the hands of the United States.—To effect this, the full operation of principal states shall enervate the public confidence, they have feigned enough to know, must precede a general depreciation.
The abuse which rains down upon the public servants, is often the subject of discourse in private companies. The men of no party, and the moderate of all parties, confess that it is undeserved. But they generally comfort themselves with the idea that it is a good sort of discipline to keep the government right. We practise many strange arts to persuade ourselves that most events which we cannot prevent, are not evils. Now were it not for this willingness of the mind to be duped, it would be hard to see how a free government can be made honest and fair in its administration, by the basest suspicions, and the most unmeasured abuse. In private life, a man loses his virtue when he loses his reputation. Suspicion, however unjust, yet if it be general and continued, is a corrupter of the virtue that is suspected. Let the government do what it may, slander follows it like its shadow. How long it is possible for a free government thus to be tampered with, we are in a fair way to learn by the event.
It must be confessed in candor and justice towards the scribblers and mischief-makers of the day, that those persons are the greatest enemies of law, who have the greatest cause to be enemies—such persons may say, they are armed in their own defence, the law having struck the first blow. Men oppressed with debts, gamblers who venture all at a throw, men of principles unfit to obtain property or power in orderly quiet times, find it easier and more pleasant to attempt to change the times than their own conduct and principles. Yet some of this description are the noisiest clamorers for a superior purity in the administration of public affairs. Nothing that is done is good enough to suit them. They are afraid of bad principles creeping into the administration of the government. Why should not those most distrust human nature, who, upon looking into their own hearts and lives, find the very worst evidence against it. A good private character should be required as the test of public trust. Try them by that touchstone, and what will become of the bragging merits of some scores of our reformers.
The Merchants and Traders of Baltimore have addressed the President of the United States, on his Proclamation declaring the neutrality of the United States.
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From the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
SONNET,
To PHILENIA, on a STANZA, in her ADDRESS to MIRA.
SINCE first ATLETICUS's dreary frown, Glum'd the bright summer of my days, Ne'er has my BANKRUPT bosom known, A solace, like his peerless praise. [Feb. Mag.]
THY "Bosom bankrupt!"—fair Peru divine Of every mental gem, that e'er has shone, In dazzled Fancy's intellectual mine, Or ever spangled Virtue's radiant zone.
Thy "Bosom bankrupt!"—Nature, sooner far, Shall roll, exanulated, flowerless springs away; Leave the broad eye of noon, without a ray; And strip the path to heaven at every star.
Thy "Bosom bankrupt!"—Ah, those sorrows cease, Which taught us how to weep, and how admire; The tear, that falls to sooth thy wounded peace, With rapture glistens o'er thy matchless lyre.
Ind and Golconda, in one firm combin'd, Shall sooner bankrupt, than PHILENIA's mind.
MENANDER.
EXTRACTS,
Written in 1790.—Translated from the French.
THE expedient of arming the poor against the rich, is as absurd as execrable. Want and necessity have created more ties between the rich and the poor, than philosophy can easily dissolve. It is necessity which makes the multitude of poor perceive, that they could not exist without the few rich; it is the same provident necessity which forbids the ivy from stifling with its thousand arms the oak which supports it and saves it from creeping on the ground.
THE true philosophy of a people is policy;—and while philosophy teaches to some individuals retirement, the contempt of riches and honor; policy dictates to nations to enrich themselves at the expense of their neighbours, to cover the seas with their navies, and obtain by their industry and activity a preference in all the markets of the universe; for two nations are to each other in a state of pure nature, like two savages contending for the same prey.
THE experience of past ages proves, that whenever the people have exercised in themselves the three powers, the democracy is immediately changed into anarchy; violent orators agitate the multitude as the winds toss the waves; and the people flattered by demagogues, have committed all the excesses, abrogated their best laws, condemned their best citizens, and dissipated the public revenues. In Athens, the sovereign was mad, and the state miserable.
This experience of all ages further proves, that if the three powers are united in the hands of a senate or an individual, there is immediately an aristocratical or a monarchical despotism.
To obtain therefore, a tolerable constitution, the sovereignty must divide itself.—But slow experience has at length come in aid of reason, and has shewn that whenever only two bodies are established as the depositaries of power, they are necessarily engaged in a combat, which must finish in the extinction of one or the other, and the destruction of the public happiness. When Rome had banished her kings, the senate took their place, and governed like despots—until at length the people by frequent insurrections compelled them to acknowledge the magistracy of the tribunes. From that moment peace was banished from Rome; the tribunes in their turn, having gained the victory over the senate, destroyed liberty, and violently led the Sovereign People to slavery.
THE word Liberty will always be an enigma while we discern in it any thing more than the work of the law, and the fruit of the constitution; while we compound it with natural independence, we are still in want of a good definition of liberty.—To understand it we must enquire what are the elements of liberty. It seems to me that man, when he exchanges the condition in
which nature places him, to become the social being, loses his independence to acquire greater security. Liberty then is the result of a contract between independence and security. Man quits his companions of the woods, who do not disturb him, but who may devour him, to enter into a society which will not devour him, but must necessarily constrain him. He makes the best bargain he can, and when he enters into a society who have a good constitution, he surrenders as little of his independence, and obtains as great security as possible. It is like a ship, which we get insured on leaving our shores, of which, for the security of the whole, we voluntarily relinquish part of the profits. With this definition of liberty, we may explain all the phenomena presented to us in ancient or modern history. At Rome and Athens, for example, independence prevailed over security. In a monarchy like England, security prevails over independence.
By THOMAS JOHNSON, DAVID STUART, & DANIEL CARROLL, Esquires,
COMMISSIONERS appointed by Government to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the City of Washington, for the reception of Congress, and for their permanent residence after the year 1800—
A LOTTERY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
Table with 3 columns: Prize, Amount, Dollars. Includes Superb Hotel, Cash Prize, and various ditsos.
By this scheme at least the amount of the tickets will return to the fortunate adventurers, and yet the federal City will gain its object thereby, in a magnificent building designed both for public and private convenience.
Although some experience must necessarily attend the conducting of the lottery, (which experience will be taken from the principal prize) the Commissioners having agreed to present in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-stone, together with the best adapted lots for the hotel and for the out-houses, the value of the lottery entire may be fairly rated at something more than par: In this important instance it will be found, on examination, to exceed all the lotteries that have ever been offered to the Public in this or perhaps in any other country. The keys of the Hotel, when compleat, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn against its number.—All the other prizes will be paid, without deduction, in one month after the drawing, by the City Treasurer at Washington, or at such Bank or Banks as may be hereafter announced, for the convenience of the fortunate adventurers.
The drawing will commence on Monday the 6th of September next, at the City of Washington. Tickets may be had of Col. Wm. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington; Thayer & Bartlet, of Charleston, South-Carolina; Gideon Denison, Savannah; Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; Mr. Peter Gilman, Boston; and at such other places as will be hereafter published.
N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for the best Plan of an elegant and convenient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses; if presented on or before the 10th of April next; and a preference will be given to the Artist for a Contract, provided he be duly qualified to compleat his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out houses are to be erected, will be a corner lot of about 90 by 200 feet, with a back avenue to the stables, &c. Sections and estimates of the expense will be expected with the elevations, &c. compleat; and 50,000 dollars must be regarded by the Architect as the utmost limit in the expense intended for this purpose.
S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City March 6, 1793.
Stock Brokers Office, No. 16, Wall-street, NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE & SALE of STOCKS on COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States, will be strictly attended to. (t.f.) LEONARD BLEECKER.
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STATE of RHODE-ISLAND and PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General Assembly, May Session, A. D. 1793.
RESOLVED, That an Act passed by this Assembly at the Session in May, A. D. 1791, whereby Jabez Bowen, Esq. Commissioner of Loans, was requested not to loan any Notes of a certain description, issued by the General Treasurer of this State for Monies due to the Soldiers of the late Army, in consequence of their having been fraudulently obtained, and the said Commissioner was further requested to retain said Notes in his office until such future orders should be thereon made, as might consist with the principles of justice and equity, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as regards the detention of those Notes.
It is further resolved, That the General Treasurer advertise in all the newspapers in this State, and in the Gazette of the United States, a description of the Notes thus fraudulently obtained, with a caution to all persons not to purchase them.
List of Notes obtained from the Treasury Office by fraudulent Measures, to wit:
Table with 4 columns: When delivered, To whom payable, When payable, Amount of the Face. Lists notes from Sept 25, 1790 to Nov 5, 1793.
IN OBEDIENCE to the above recited Act of the General Assembly, I do hereby caution all persons from receiving any of the above mentioned Notes, without the most plenary proof being made that they were obtained from the office by genuine documents from the soldiers.
who performed the service, in view of the balance, were found due, or from their legal representatives or attorneys.
HENRY SHERBURNE, General Treasurer. Newport, May 14. 1793.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Philadelphia, May 27, 1793.
500 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS a certain THOMAS SLOSS GANTT, has lately made his escape from Baltimore County Gaol, to which he was committed under a charge of having robbed the Eastern Mail, on the 28th day of January last: Notice is hereby given, that a reward of five hundred dollars will be paid at this Office, to any person or persons who shall apprehend the said Thomas Sloss Gantt, and deliver him into the custody of the keeper of the said Gaol, or into the custody of either of the Marshals within the United States, so that the said Thomas Sloss Gantt may be effectually secured, and forth coming to answer the above mentioned charge.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Post-Master General. The following is a description of the above-named THOMAS SLOSS GANTT: He is about six feet high, statur and well made, has light coloured hair, tied behind, fair complexion and has a down look when spoken to.
Albany Glass-House.
The Proprietors of the Glass-Manufactory, under the Firm of M C LALLEN, M C GREGOR and Co. BEG leave to inform the public, that they have now brought their WINDOW-GLASS to such perfection, as will be found, on comparison, to be equal, in quality, to the best London Crown Glass.
Having fixed their prices at a lower rate than imported Glass, they are induced to believe, that importations of this article will be discontinued, in proportion as their works are extended.—They propose to enlarge the scale of this business, and as the success of it will depend on the patriotic support of the public, they beg leave to solicit their friendly patronage in the pursuit of a branch which will interest every lover of AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
All orders for WINDOW-GLASS, of any size, will be received at the Store of RHODES and MACGREGOR, No. 234, Queen-Street, New-York, and at the Glass Warehouse, No. 48, Market-Street, Albany, which will be punctually attended to.
WANTED, six smart active LADS, not exceeding 16 years of age, to be inducted as Apprentices, and regularly instructed in the various branches of Glass-Making. Also, three Window-Glass Makers, to whom great encouragement will be given. May 1, 1793.
POST-ROAD TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY.
THE public are hereby informed, that the Post-Road from Philadelphia to Reading, is continued to Sunbury and Northumberland; thence up the West Branch of the Susquehanna as far as Litchfield; thence to the Painted Post (in New-York State, near the forks of the Tioga) thence to Bath (a town laid out on the Cohoes Branch of the Tioga) thence to Williamsburg, at the forks of Genesee River.
Letters for this new route will be sent from the Philadelphia Post-Office every Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, with the mail for Reading.
A weekly mail will also be carried from Bethlehem to Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne. General Post-Office, April 6, 1793.
DISTRICT of PENNSYLVANIA, to wit.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirteenth day of March, in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, THOMAS DOBSON, of the said District, had deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
An Enquiry how far the Punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania. With Notes and Illustrations. By William Bradford, Esq. To which is added, an Account of the Gaol, and Penitentiary House of Philadelphia, and of the interior Management thereof. By Caleb Lownes, of Philadelphia. If we enquire into the Causes of all human Corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the Impunity of Crimes, and not from the Moderation of Punishments.—Montesq.
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
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