Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-01-02 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. 62 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1793.
[Whole No. 384.]
Foreign Affairs.
FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION,
LETTER From THOMAS PAINE to the PEOPLE of FRANCE.
Paris, Sept. 25, 1792.
"First year of the Republic."
"FELLOW CITIZENS!"
I RECEIVE with affectionate gratitude the honor which the late national assembly has conferred upon me, by adopting me a citizen of France; and the additional honor of being elected by my fellow-citizens a member of the national convention. Happily impressed as I am, by those testimonies of respect shown towards me as an individual, I feel my felicity increased by seeing the barrier broken down that divided patriotism by spots of earth, and limited citizenship to the soil, like vegetation.
"Had those honors been conferred in an hour of national tranquility, they would have afforded no other means of shewing my affection, than to have accepted and enjoyed them; but they come accompanied with circumstances that give me the honorable opportunity of commencing my citizenship in the stormy hour of difficulties. I come not to enjoy repose. Convinced that the cause of France is the cause of all mankind, and that as liberty cannot be purchased by a wish, I gladly share with you the dangers and honors necessary to success."
"I am well aware, that the moment of any great change, such as that accomplished on the 10th of August, is unavoidably the moment of terror and confusion. The mind highly agitated by hope, suspicion and apprehension, continues without rest till the change be accomplished. But let us now look calmly and confidentially forward, and success is certain. It is no longer the paltry cause of kings, or of this, or of that individual, that calls France and her armies into action. It is the cause of all. It is the establishment of a new era, that shall blot despotism from the earth, and fix, on the lasting principles of peace and citizenship, the great republic of man."
"It has been my fate to have borne a share in the commencement and complete establishment of one revolution, (I mean the revolution of America). The success and events of that revolution are encouraging to us. The prosperity and happiness that have since flowed to that country, have amply rewarded her for all the hardships she endured, and for all the dangers she encountered."
"The principles on which that revolution began, have extended themselves to Europe; and an overruling Providence is regenerating the old world by the principles of the new. The distance of America from all the other parts of the globe, did not admit of her carrying of those principles beyond her own situation. It is to the peculiar honor of France, that she now raises the standard of liberty for all nations; and in fighting her own battles, contends for the rights of all mankind."
"The same spirit of fortitude that insured success to America, will insure it to France; for it is impossible to conquer a nation determined to be free! The military circumstances that now unite themselves to France, are such as the despots of the earth know nothing of, and can form no calculation upon. They know not what it is to fight against a nation. They have only been accustomed to make war upon each
other; and they know from system and practice, how to calculate the probable success of despot against despot; and here their knowledge and their experience end."
"But in a contest like the present, a new and boundless variety of circumstances arise, that derange all such customary calculations. When a whole nation acts as an army, the despot knows not the extent of the power against which he contends. New armies rise against him with the necessity of the moment. It is then that the difficulties of an invading enemy multiply, as in the former case they diminished; and he finds them at their height when he expected them to end."
"The only war that has any similarity of circumstances with the present, is the late revolution-war in America. On her part, as it now is in France, it was a war of the whole nation. There it was that the enemy, by beginning to conquer, put himself in a condition of being conquered. His first victories prepared him for defeat. He advanced till he could not retreat, and found himself in the midst of a nation of armies."
"Were it now to be proposed to the Austrians and Prussians to escort them into the middle of France, and there leave them to make the most of such a situation, they would see too much into the dangers of it to accept the offer; and the same dangers would attend them, could they arrive there by any other means. Where then is the military policy of their attempting to obtain, by force, that which they would refuse by choice. But to reason with despots, is throwing reason away. The best of arguments is a vigorous preparation."
"Man is ever a stranger to the ways by which Providence regulates the order of things. The interference of foreign despots may serve to introduce into their own enslaved countries the principles they come to oppose. Liberty and equality are blessings too great to be the inheritance of France alone. It is honour to her to be the first champion; and she may now say to her enemies, with a mighty voice, "O! ye Austrians! ye Prussians! ye who now turn your bayonets against us; it is for you; it is for all Europe; it is for all mankind, and not for France alone, that she raises the standard of liberty and equality!"
"The public cause has hitherto suffered from the contradictions contained in the constitution of the former constituent assembly. Those contradictions have served to divide the opinions of individuals at home, and to obscure the great principles of the revolution in other countries. But when those contradictions shall be removed, and the constitution be made conformable to the declaration of rights; when the bagatelles of monarchy, royalty, regency and hereditary succession, shall be exposed, with all their absurdities, a new ray of light will be thrown over the world, and the revolution will derive new strength by being universally understood."
"The scene that now opens itself to France, extends far beyond the boundaries of her own dominions. Every nation is becoming her colleague, and every court is becoming her enemy. It is now the cause of all nations against the cause of all courts. The terrors that despotism felt, clandestinely begot a confederation of despots; and their attack upon France is produced by their fears at home."
"In entering on this great scene, greater than any nation has yet been called to act in, let us say to
the devoted mind, be calm. Let us punish by instructing, rather than by revenge. Let us begin the new era by a greatness of friendship, and hail the approach of union and success. Your Fellow-Citizen,
"THOMAS PAINE."
(LACROIX, PRESIDENT.)
Letter from General Montesquieu.
Chambery, October 3.
I AM hitherto informed, by the public prints only, of the decree which pronounces my dismissal; I have officially received that which suspends its effect.
I respect, as I ought, the decrees of the people's representatives. They ought to reject the services of those who were suspected, the moment they put sufficient confidence in my accusers, to regard their assertions as proofs.
If truth could have been heard, the national convention should have known that all which was told them was a collection of impositions; they should have known that I had never petitioned nor adhered to any petition; that the statement presented by me to the legislative assembly, of the King of Sardinia's forces, is perfectly exact; that it is the executive council which had forbid the attack of Savoy; and that it was my pressing representation, the repeated communication of my plan, and my promise of success, which determined the executive council to give me the liberty to act; it should have known that the fables repeated by several journalists, on the infallibility of the camps I had chosen, were so many lies; it should have known, in short, that the most honorable confidence of my army, is a reward for all my trouble.
I have the happiness to do a service to my country and to mankind, in introducing the standard of liberty among a good people, who appear to me worthy of this great benefit. No sacrifice has poisoned this happiness. The satellites of despotism have every where fled before an army of citizens.
Savoy is as much French as the eighty three departments, and its attachment to the nation has already reflected honor on the general who first planted the tree of liberty on a foreign soil.
My race is run, and I can no longer hope to be useful.
A general who has been once beset by suspicion, on whom the national convention has once imprinted the seal of public mistrust, can no longer act with a necessary spirit of freedom, with that inward and communicated sentiment of intentions, always pure and loyal. Those whose intrigues have once followed me, can never forgive my having conquered Savoy, on the day they denounced me as a traitor. Every one of my operations would be crossed; every trap set by the enemy would be denounced as a treason: secrecy, the soul of success, would always hide some suspected intention.
I therefore demand, Mr. President, and I demand it pressing, from a love for my country, from attachment and gratitude to an army to whom I am much indebted, that another general be named in my place: Nothing can deface the decree of the 23d of September, and it is necessary that the citizen who commands a French army, should be not only pure, but free from suspicion.
I solicit only one favor, that I may be permitted to return home, there to enjoy my rights of a citizen, and to prove, by the obscurity of my life, that if ever I had an ambition, it was that of serving my country.
The general of the Alpine army,
MONTESQUIOU.
A debate followed on the subject of general Montesquieu's letter, in which it was proposed to rescind the original decree for the dismissal of the general, but after an animated discussion, it was adjourned till the commissioners could be heard.
A petition was then presented from the section of the temple, against the proposition of collecting an armed force round the convention, drawn in equal parts from each of the eighty-three departments.
A debate followed, in which it was hinted that the members were afraid of their situation, but this idea was universally scouted: The petition was sent to the committee to report on it in three days.
THE MINISTER AT WAR
Requested the permission of the assembly to purchase salted provisions in Hamburgh, Holland, and Ireland, to the amount of three millions of livres; she observed at the same time, that this enormous sum scarce sufficed for the nourishment of the armies ten days.
Decreed.
A secretary read a second letter from the same minister, in which he demanded, if it was necessary to deliver in the accounts already presented to and passed by the national legislative assembly?
The Jacobins express a strong desire to have the ci-devant King and Queen brought to trial. The Convention seem to agree in the opinion of the Club, and one of the Deputies of Paris has expressed the utmost anxiety for a speedy judgment.
Letter from the Minister at War.
October 5, 1792.
"First Year of the Republic."
"Citizen President,"
"Colonel Ucestermann, from the united armies of the centre, has arrived in Paris this morning; he has confirmed all the details sent me by the Generals; and adds, that they continue to harass the enemy daily. They take carriages, provisions, and have made a number of prisoners, among whom are several emigrants. (Signed) "SERVAN."
HARLEM, October 9.
The French remained at Spire when our last intelligence came away. They had sent away 500 carriages to Landau, laden with the produce of the magazines. The Austrian magazines at Heidelberg have been sent away for fear of another such visit as that of Spire. The Prince Bishop has also left that place, and the Margrave of Baden is hourly expected to do the same. Philipburgh, which is in the Bishop of Spire's territory, is under the apprehensions of an attack, as well as the Elector's dominions, it being reported that the French had thrown bridges over the Rhine for that purpose.
LONDON, October 12.
The Senate of Venice determined against entering into the European Alliance to subdue France. The reason they assign is not the best that might or could be given, yet it is good enough—namely, that their forces would add little strength to the League, and that they are needed at home to prevent the epidemical influence of the French opinions spreading.
At Valence, a Citizen sent five sons to the Army, and made himself the sixth soldier of his family—A daughter ashamed to be left at home, put on the male habit, & joined the army.
Marquis de la Fayette attempted to be plunged in all the infamous and sanguinary outrages of Paris, has resisted the artifices of the Arch-debayer of Man, whose very name dishonours the page on which it is found.
Basle preserves not the armed Neutrality of Berne, but one of a less menacing nature. The French read friendship there, and most probably read correctly.
Caillard, the French Envoy to Ratisbonne, has quitted this feudal Metropolis—They furnished him a passport dated September 12, and lasting only eight days. All Frenchmen are excelled thence.
Monsieur, the brother of Louis XVI. has certainly over-shot himself to imagine, that his Body-guard will be accepted in the Cartel for exchanging prisoners as so many Austrians or Prussians.—He and they, it may be depended upon, will meet the treatment only of traitors taken in arms, fighting against their country.
The Italians are dreadfully afraid, that the triple-coloured French will make them a visit. Rome prays, Naples arms, and calls upon the grand Master to save her, and Portugal to lend her succours. Spain is angry and appeased, menaces and dreads, yet does nothing.
A Messenger arrived at Dover, from Turin, on Monday, by way of Ostend. The report was then that the King of Sardinia had been assassinated.
There is a true and there is a false Philosophy; but as it is the case with truth and falsehood, the latter has a more extensive circulation than the former, always counteracting its salutary influence. It is to the false Philosophy of France, that this unhappy people owes its misfortunes; the stream of which, polluting whatever it approximates, may be traced to the authors of the boasted, but most pernicious Philosophic Dictionary.
A wise Member of the National Assembly, a short time before its dissolution, proposed, "that the Rights of a French Citizen should be decreed to Mr. Addison." This Son of Liberty was whispered by a friend, that Addison had been dead these fifty years.
A letter from the Commissioners at Chalons, concludes thus:
"It appears from every information, that the brothers of the ci-devant King, accompanied by Castries, formerly a Marshal of France, were at the head of the column of the Emigrants. They were known by their fury, and they endeavored by the most infamous and mean hypocrisy to introduce religion into their atrocious quarrel."
"We saw General Kellerman at Suippe, and found his army in the best possible order. Discipline prevails among the soldiers; they are full of ardor and courage, and we did not hear a single complaint either from the General or the troops, who have mutual confidence in each other."
"Provisions arrive in great abundance; and while we see the fields strewed with the carcasses of the horses of the enemy, ours are strong and vigorous."
FAYETTEVILLE, (N. C.) Dec. 18.
Letters from Newbern mention the Hon. RICHARD D. SPAIGHT, to be chosen GOVERNOR of this State.
His Excellency ALEXANDER MARTIN, Esq. our late Governor, elected SENATOR, in Congress, in place of the Hon. Samuel Johnston; the term of whose appointment expires in March next; that by the last balloting for the place for holding the next assembly Fayetteville had a large majority.

DECLARATION OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. [Read to the French National Convention by M. BRISLOT.]
WHEN their Majesties, the Emperor and the King of Prussia, in confiding to me the command of the armies which these two allied Sovereigns have caused to march into France, made me the organ of their intentions, set forth in the two declarations of the 25th and 27th of July 1792, their Majesties were far from conceiving the possibility of those scenes of horror, which preceded and brought on the imprisonment of their Majesties, the King and Queen of France, and the Royal Family. [This gave rise to some murmurs.]
[M. Brissot here observed, that the only answer he should make to this manifesto, was that General Dumouier had it printed and distributed in his army; the good effects of which were found in the increased courage and provoked indignation of the soldiers. He proceeded in the reading of it.]
Such atrocious acts, of which nations in the least degree civilized have not yet shown an example, were nevertheless not the extreme bounds, which the audacity of certain factious men, who had contrived to render the people of Paris the blind instruments of their will, had set to their guilty ambition.
The suppression of all the King's functions, which had been referred to him by that very constitution, which has been so long cried up as the vow of the whole nation, was the last crime of the National Assembly, which has brought upon France the two dreadful scourges of war and anarchy. [Fresh murmurs.]
[M. Brissot.—I request silence, if it be only through pity.]
To perpetuate these evils, there remained but one step to be taken, which could be dictated only by that mad spirit, the fatal forerunner of the fall of empires, which has seized upon those men who distinguish themselves by the title of deputies of the nation, chosen to confirm its rights and happiness, upon the most substantial basis. The first decree which they passed in their Assembly, was the abolition of royalty in France; and the senseless acclamation of a small number of individuals, of whom even several were strangers, claimed the right of overthrowing the judgment of fourteen generations, who have filled the fourteen centuries of the existence of the French monarchy.
This proceeding at which the enemies of France alone should rejoice, if they supposed that it could have a lasting effect, is in direct opposition to the firm resolution, which their Majesties the Emperor and the King of Prussia have taken, and from which those two allied Sovereigns will never depart, to restore to his Most Christian Majesty his liberty, safety, and royal dignity, or to wreak a just and signal vengeance on those who shall dare any longer to violate or infringe upon them.
For these reasons, the undersigned declares to the French nation in general, and to each particular individual, that their Majesties, the Emperor and the King of Prussia, invariably attached to the principle of not meddling in the interior government of France, (a peal of laughter) persist nevertheless to require that his Most Christian Majesty, together with all the royal family, shall be immediately set at liberty, by those who presume to keep them imprisoned. Their Majesties also insist, that the royal dignity in France shall be, without delay, re-established in the person of Louis XVI. and his successors: (another and louder burst of laughter) And further, that this royal dignity shall be secured from any such affront in future.
If the French nation has not entirely lost sight of its true interests, and if, free in its resolutions, it is desirous of putting a stop quickly to all the calamities of a war, which exposes so many provinces to all the evils attendant upon the march of an army, it will not delay an instant to declare its opinion in favor of the peremptory demands which I make in the name of their Majesties the Emperor and the King of Prussia; and which, in case of a refusal, will inevitably draw down upon this kingdom, hitherto so flourishing, new and more terrible disasters.
The part which the French nation may take, in consequence of this declaration, will either extinguish or perpetuate the fatal effects of calamitous war, by removing, in the suppression of royalty, the means of re-establishing and keeping up the ancient connexion between France and the powers of Europe; or may open the way, by negotiation, to the restoration of peace, order and tranquility, which those who call themselves the depositaries of the national will, are the most interested to render as prompt as it is necessary to the kingdom. (Signed)
CHARLES F. DUKE OF BRUNSWICK LUNENBURG.
Head Quarters, at Ham, Sept. 28, 1792.
These papers were referred to the Committee of public safety.
COMBINED ARMIES.
Prussian Head Quarters at Vouliers, October 1.
We have retraced our steps to the place in which we were 15 days ago. We have been 10 days in presence of the French army without an action, or a cannon shot on either side. The time has passed in negotiations. Baron de Breteuil repaired to Verdun. To this Minister it was, that the King of Prussia and the other Princes chiefly gave credit, after the retreat of M. de Calonne, to whose bad calculations are imputed, and, as appears, with reason, all the notions hastily taken up and ill digested, on which hopes of prompt and cheap success were too readily entertained. But for these fallacious assurances, the entrance into a country planted with fortresses from Lille to the Rhine, would not have been attempted; or if attempted, would have been so with greater means. M. de Breteuil watched events at Verdun, especially while the French army was surrounded almost on all sides by the allies.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WEDNESDAY, December 26.
A bill providing for a reimbursement of a loan made of the Bank of the United States, was taken into consideration. Mr. Steele moved that the first section be struck out; this occasioned a debate.
Mr. Steele said he made the motion, not that he was opposed to the general object of the bill, but on a persuasion of the bad policy of borrowing. He remarked, that with respect to an individual it had been considered that he was generally in the road to ruin, in proportion to the facility with which he could borrow, and the same remark would probably apply to public bodies. He had an aversion to the whole system of borrowing; he had therefore made the motion in order to try the principle, how far we were to proceed, and in hopes that a more full discussion of the subject would produce an abandoning of such a system.
Mr. Madison enquired whether any information had been received in consequence of the resolution passed on Monday, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report the state of the foreign loans.
The Speaker said, he supposed the time had not admitted of any return from the Secretary.
Mr. Madison then said, he should be glad to be informed what were the disadvantages which would accrue from deferring the business a few days. If it should appear that any loss would occur, or the credit of the government suffer, he should most heartily agree to proceed in the bill; but as it did not appear that this was the case, and much important information was wanting, he hoped that no precipitation would take place.
Mr. Sedgwick replied to Mr. Madison; he adverted to an existing state of facts, in relation to a sum of money now laying useless, but appropriated for a special purpose—he observed, that one object of the bill was for the government to avail itself of this sum, by making a loan at a less rate of interest than is now paid to the Bank of the United States. The design, said Mr. Sedgwick, is not as the gentleman from North Carolina has said, to increase the debts of the United States, but to diminish those debts, and this has been the case in respect to every loan that has been made since the existence of the present government.
Mr. Madison observed, that he had heard nothing to induce him to suppose that any necessity existed for a loan for the purpose of the bill. It is stated that there is a sum of money laying useless: he knew, he said, of no motives of delicacy or propriety which should prevent the application of this money to paying the loan made of the Bank of the United States. If any such reasons existed, he was ignorant of them, and therefore should be glad of further information: he supposed he was not alone in this respect; many of the members, he believed, were equally in the dark with himself.
Mr. Baldwin, after adverting to the several acts authorizing loans, inferred from their amount their appropriations, and the surplus of those loans now on hand, that there was no necessity for a new loan to discharge the loan made of the Bank of the United States.
Mr. Gerry gave an account of the several loans, the objects to which they are appropriated, and from this statement shewed that there was no such surplus as the gentleman stated, to be applied to the present object without interfering with appropriations already made. Mr. Gerry observed, that the design of the bill was, not to increase the debts of the United States, it is simply to provide for diminishing the interest now paid on a debt due from the government—That this will be the operation of the proposed loan was demonstrable; and on this principle the bill is most extremely eligible.
Mr. Williamson said he had heard but one substitute hinted at, for the section proposed to be struck out; and he should not vote for striking out, for that. He shewed that the selling of the stock in the Bank, belonging to the United States, would have a most inauspicious effect—It would fall into the hands of foreigners; he could have wished rather that the United States owned the whole of the stock. He doubted whether the government could, in justice and sound policy, make such a sale of stock as to affect the value of the property, as subscriptions from individuals arose in part from the government being interested; it would operate something like an ex post facto law. He added some remarks, to shew that no immediate necessity existed for a new loan—he thought we could do without one at present.
Mr. Madison replied to Mr. Williamson—he remarked that this was the first time he had ever heard it intimated, that the property of the United States, in the Bank, was unalienable—with respect to the money appropriated, and now laying useless, he was of opinion that it ought immediately to be applied to the original purpose, i.e. to pay our debt to France. He thought that now was the time to discharge our obligations to that country; and so far was he from considering the present posture of affairs as a reason for withholding payment—he could rather wish that the sum due was wasted to them on the wings of the wind. He added, that if he was arguing from mistaken principles, he wished to be set right. But the reason for withholding payment from our generous allies
he did not think sufficient: the reason suggested was that the United States, by paying the money at the present time, might be liable to pay it again, in case of change in the government of France.
Mr. Giles denied the necessity and the policy of making a loan of two million of dollars, to provide for the payment of an instalment of 200,000 dollars to the Bank of the U. States—He shewed by an induction of particulars, that it was at least extremely problematical whether there would be any saving by a loan at 5 per cent. when the charges and douceurs were taken into the account. At least, said he, it will require a considerable time to clasp before the profits talked of will begin to accrue. On the whole, considering the imperfect state of the information in possession of the House, respecting the loans already made, their amount and application,—he thought the business should be postponed: he therefore proposed a resolution, requiring from the Secretary of the Treasury, a more particular statement of facts, respecting all foreign loans, than was required by the resolution of Monday.
Mr. Findley observed—from the various surmises which had been made in the House, he feared there was a general want of information, in respect to the whole business; and therefore was in favor of the bill's laying over till the requisite information was obtained. For his part, he never would vote for the clause till this information was received; and if the bill is not postponed, he should vote for striking out the section.
Mr. Boudinot remarked, that as the United States need the sum now to be provided for, and were paying an interest at 6 per cent. the only question was, whether we shall borrow a sum at 5 per cent. to pay it off, and thereby make a saving of 20,000 dollars annually, or continue to pay the 6 per cent. He remarked, that the only objection which had been mentioned, was that which had been offered by the gentleman from Virginia, that little or no saving would be made, owing to the douceur, charges, &c.—Mr. Boudinot said, that it must be understood, that 5 per cent. includes the charges.
Mr. Fitzsimons observed, that the gentleman who had brought forward the motion, had said he did it to try the principle, whether we were to go on with the pernicious practice of loans.—Mr. Fitzsimons said he did not think that this would try the principle. None of the loans made by the present government have added to the debt of the United States; they were all made to discharge other loans, and have been so applied to the great benefit of the country—and this is the object of the loan now proposed to be made.—Mr. Fitzsimons stated sundry particulars, to shew that a loan at 5 per cent. would in the present case be an annual saving to the United States of 16,000 dollars per annum; even calculating on the douceur, stated by the gentleman from Virginia, which is the highest that has ever been mentioned.—Mr. Fitzsimons added some observations respecting the necessity of making immediate provision, as the instalment became due next week.
Mr. Madison adverted to the different grounds on which the bill had been advocated; and now the support was narrowed down to the simple idea of the exigency of making immediate provision for the instalment. He hoped, therefore, that the bill would not be precipitated, but lay on the table for further consideration.
Mr. Dayton opposed the bill's laying on the table.
Mr. Steele offered sundry reasons to induce a postponement. Mr. Venable observed, that according to the statement which had been mentioned of the douceur on foreign loans, the United States in the first instance would encrease their debt by borrowing at 5 per cent. to pay off loans on which 6 per cent. was now paid: it would require a number of years to clasp before they would begin to realize any advantage; so that at this moment the debt of the United States were in fact encreased by the loans already made—and it would take four years to place the country in exactly the same state in which it now is, in relation to the loan of the Bank of the United States, in case a foreign loan at 5 per cent. is now made to pay the bank.
Some observations were made in opposition to Mr. Venable, in which it was asserted that the advantage of the proposed loan would begin immediately to accrue to the United States.
Mr. Steele's motion was at length determined in the negative by ayes and noes, which are as follows:
Table with 2 columns: A Y E S. Messrs. Ake, Baldwin, Findley, Giles, Greenup, Grove, Lee, Madison, Moore.
Table with 2 columns: N O E S. Messrs. Ames, Benson, Barnwell, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Dayton, Fitzsimons, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Gordon, Griffin, Hartley, Hillhouse, Hugger, Jacobs.
Mr. Madison then moved to strike out of the first section, the words two millions, and insert two hundred thousand, before the word dollars.
The Ayes and Noes being demanded on this motion, are as follows:
Table with 2 columns: A Y E S. Messrs. Niles, Parker, Schoonmaker, I. Smith, Steele, Sturges, Sumpner, Treadwell, Tucker, Venable, White, Williamson, Willis.
Table with 2 columns: N O E S. Messrs. Hillhouse, Huges, Jacobs, Kittera, Learned, Leonard, Livermore, Murray, Sedgwick, W. Smith, Sylvester, Thatcher, Wadsworth.
The Speaker voting in this case in the negative, the motion was lost.
A motion by Mr. Williamson, to amend the section by adding a clause, to restrict the premium on the loan, to 5 per cent. per annum, including all charges, was unanimously agreed to—and then House the adjourned.
MONDAY, Dec. 31.
Mr. B. Bourn presented the petition of the corporation of Rhode Island College, praying reparation for the damages done to the said College during the war, by the American and French armies, and for rent for the same—the College was alternately used as a barracks and an hospital to the said armies. Read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Thatcher presented the petition of Isaiah Thomas, Printer, of Worcester, in Massachusetts, praying that the article of Printing Types imported from Europe, may be exempted from duty; and that bonds given by the petitioner for the duty on a large quantity of Types imported by him, may be cancelled. Read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
A bill to amend an act entitled, an act for establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States, so far as respects the coinage of copper; was reported by Mr. Williamson, read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole for to-morrow.
The bill to ascertain the fees demandable on cases of admiralty proceedings in the courts of the United States, &c. was brought in engrossed, read the third time, the blanks filled up. On the question, Shall the bill pass?
Mr. Williamson said the bill appeared to him to be essentially defective; one leg was cut away, and it limped very badly on the other; he wished therefore it should not pass. He wished that the judiciary system should be generally amended; this was the desire of his constituents, who, under the regulations now existing were exposed to innumerable difficulties; and with respect to seizures, they had almost ceased, owing to the perplexities thrown in the way, by the regulations of the courts of the U. States.
Mr. W. Smith acknowledged that the bill was not so good an one as he could have wished—he remarked that he could not conceive how any thing could limp on one leg. But its mutilated state, said he, may be attributed to the gentleman who now opposes its passage. Mr. Smith said, the gentleman had not, in his opinion, give any sufficient reason against its passing. He further remarked, that it originated on a petition from upwards of 60 respectable merchants of the city of Charleston, who complained of the enormous fees they were subject to in that state. Their petition has been thought just and reasonable. The bill will afford them relief, without doing injury to any other parts of the union. He hoped, therefore, that the bill might pass, as a temporary relief, until a general revision of the judiciary system, shall take place: No further observations being made, the bill was passed.
The report of a select committee on the petition of the inhabitants of Vincennes, praying to be released from the expenses of re-surveying their lands, was read, which was in favour of the petitioners; the report was accepted, and a committee appointed to report a bill.
Mr. Gerry presented the memorial of the officers of the Massachusetts line of the late army, in behalf of themselves and the privates of the said army. Read and laid on the table.
Mr. White called up a motion which he laid on the table, on Friday last, which was, that a committee be appointed to prepare and report a bill to explain the act establishing the courts of the United States, in respect to taking bail in criminal cases.
This motion being agreed to, Mr. White, Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. J. Smith, were appointed as the committee.
Mr. Goodhue, from the committee appointed for the purpose, reported a bill relative to claims against the United States, not barred by any act of limitation, and which have not already been adjusted. Read twice, and committed for Thursday next. Ordered that 100 copies be printed in committee of the whole, on the bill making appropriations for the year 1793.
Mr. Sedgwick in the Chair.
The committee made some amendments; they then rose, and reported progress. On motion the committee of the whole was discharged, and the bill recommitted to the select committee which reported it.

Mr. Bove moved the following in substance: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to furnish this House with a list of the several persons employed in the different offices of the various departments, and the salaries of each, for whom provision is to be made, according to the estimate of appropriation.
This motion, after some remarks, was withdrawn by Mr. Grove, as being too extensive, who moved the following as a substitute:
That the Secretary of State, the Treasury, and of War, lay before this House lists of the several persons employed in the offices of their respective departments, and the salaries allowed to each. Agreed to.
A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Secretary Lear, informing the House, that he has this day approved and signed an act concerning the registering and recording of ships or vessels.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, communicating a letter from a number of the citizens of Thoulouze, in France, denouncing M. La Fayette, addressed to Congress.
In committee of the whole, on the report of the Select Committee on sundry petitions of persons praying to be placed on the pension list.
Mr. White in the Chair.
The report was read by the chairman, and then considered in paragraphs. The committee rose without finishing the discussion, and the House adjourned.
TUESDAY, Jan. 1, 1793.
The petition of Samuel Lindsay was read, praying compensation for his services as a Lieutenant in the army of the United States during the late war.
Mr. White reported a bill respecting taking bail in criminal cases—which was read and committed for Friday.
The memorial of Nicholas Reib was read, and referred to the Secretary of War.
In committee of the whole on the copper coinage bill.—Mr. White in the Chair.—The object of this bill is to alter the weight of the copper coin, as stated in the former act; after some discussion, the blanks specifying the weight of the cent, and half-cent were filled; the first with 8 pwt. 16 grs.—the other with 4 pwt. 8 grs.
Mr. Boudinot after remarking that the artists who had exhibited specimens of the figure of liberty on the several samples of coin which he had seen, all differed in their conceptions on this occasion—for the sake therefore of uniformity—He moved to add a clause to the present bill providing that in lieu of the figure of liberty, the head of Columbus should be substituted. Mr. Boudinot supported his motion by some pertinent remarks on the character of Columbus, and the obligations the citizens of the United States were under to honor his memory.
Mr. Clark was in favor of the alteration—Mr. Williamson and Mr. Livermore objected to it—On the question's being put, the motion was negatived.
The committee then rose and reported the bill—which the house ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
In committee of the whole, on the report of a select committee respecting invalids.
Mr. White in the chair.
The committee finished the discussion of the report, and agreed to sundry amendments; which were adopted by the house, and a committee appointed to bring in a bill pursuant thereto.
The bill for allowing interest on a claim of Udny Hay, was taken into consideration in committee of the whole, and reported without amendment—ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
The bill to authorize the settlement of an account of Lewis Garanger, for military services during the late war, was committed, amended, reported, and ordered to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr. Sedgwick, the report of a committee on the memorial of John Tucker, was taken up—the sum reported was struck out, and a committee appointed to report a bill.
Adjourned.
Domestic Articles.
CARLISLE, Dec. 26.
The Citizens of Carlisle, happy in common, with the people of the United States, in the full enjoyment of liberty, secured by the most excellent form of government known to the world, are anxious that these invaluable blessings should be diffused. They have anticipated the rising lustre of freedom in France, of which they themselves have experienced its meridian blaze. Although they have deplored many recent transactions in France they have always looked forward with hope to that goal of liberty to which Frenchmen must at length arrive. In the triumph of the French republic they trust they will behold the general fall of tyranny. It was such sentiments that naturally called for a public demonstration of their joy when the retreat of the Duke of Brunswick was announced. Agreeable therefore to the wishes of a Town Meeting convened by a notice from the Burgess; on Thursday last the bells rung in this town with short intervals from three o'clock until nine in the evening. At night the Court-House was elegantly illuminated. Two beautiful transparencies were displayed from the upper windows of the Court-House, with the following inscriptions in large letters legible at a great distance—The one to the east significant of the Event then celebrated, being in that quarter—LET MAN BE FREE.—The other was to the South, intimating that despotism prevails most in that unfortunate
hemisphere—TYRANNNY IS ABOUT TO CEASE. Bonfires accompanied the illuminations; and the evening was passed by the citizens in convivial meetings expressive of their satisfaction.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 28.
Yesterday, in testimony of the heart-felt pleasure the citizens of this metropolis were inspired with, on hearing the triumphant success which were attending the arms of our generous allies the French, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells.
At 4 o'clock, a Federal salute was fired from the battery;—And every countenance seemed to speak joy at heart in the glorious event, that LIBERTY should reign victorious over her proud, despotic invaders; and at the clear prospect that such monsters as Kings, will soon be expelled from the face of the earth.
In the evening, the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, met at their Wigwam to celebrate the day, and a number of toasts were drank; which we are unable to obtain for this day's paper: The Wigwam was beautifully illuminated; and the monument dedicated to Columbus, was also illuminated, which attracted the attention of the citizens and of the fair.
Extract of a letter from Paterson (N. J.) Dec. 19.
Various paragraphs having appeared in different papers respecting the invention of a Machine at this place, for the purpose of cleaning the cotton of its seed, and as most of those accounts are erroneous, and unauthenticated, we are authorised to inform the public, that a Ginn for the above purpose is now compleated upon a construction entirely new, and to work by water; one of these engines occupying a space of not more than 12 feet by 4, will produce very near 300lb. of cleaned cotton per day, and requires only the assistance of children. The usual and hitherto great impediment arising from the amazing friction, and consequently great wear and tear, is to nearly removed in this engine, as to be of but very little or no importance. The Machine is divided into separate and distinct movements, any given number of which may be instantly stopped by the attending child, without being the least impediment to the remainder. An application is making to government for a Patent, being the production and joint invention of Mr. WILLIAM PEARCE and Mr. THOMAS MARSHALL, conductors of the Cotton Spinning and Weaving Departments belonging to the Manufactory in this place."
BOSTON, December 19.
BOSTON GLASS.
His Excellency Governor Mifflin, of Pennsylvania, has written to the Proprietors of the Glass-Manufactory in this town, on the subject of a supply of their Glass, for the House building in Philadelphia for the residence of the PRESIDENT of the United States; and it is with pleasure we can assure the public, that the Glass made here, is every way equal, if not superior, to any of European manufacture; Our own citizens, too, are assiduous to encourage the enterprise; many houses are now glazing with this glass, and we are told, that the windows of the elegant Chateau, building by Mr. Barrell, in Charlestown, will be of this fabric.
The violent opposition to the Vice-President of the United States, may in the end, be productive of much good: It has called forth his friends;—and the examination of his principles and opinions have served to strengthen and confirm them. It is from free discussion alone, that freedom can be established. To him, and his writings, the following amiable lines most strikingly apply—
"While malice, friend, denies thy page— Its pure celestial fire— While critics, and while Bards in rage, Admiring, won't admire; While wayward pens thy worth assail, And envious tongues decry, These times, tho' many a friend bewail, These times bewail not I. But when the world's loud praise is thine, And spleen no more shall blame— When thy Defence and thou shalt shine, In one establish'd fame; When none shall blame, and ev'ry lay, Devote a wreath to thee— That day (for come it will) that day, Shall I lament to see."
Philadelphia, Jan. 2.
Monday arrived here the ship Experiment, Captain M'Calmont, from Dunkirk, which she left the 27th of October—at which time the republic of France was entirely clear of the Prussian and Austrian forces; the French armies had penetrated into the territories of their enemies, and it was supposed would not find much difficulty in reaching Brussels.
LISLE, October 16.
The van-guard of Dumourier's army is expected to have arrived yesterday at Valenciennes. The general is hourly expected there. The three commissioners from the National Convention, who set out on Saturday last to go and establish order and tranquility in Cambray, have not yet been heard from.
FRANKFORT, October 10.
The rapid sensation of fear has seized all the Princes on the banks of the Rhine. The house of Baden has taken flight. The Prince of Liège has arrived at Mannheim with all his baggage. The Bishop of Spires has retired to Odenwald, and thence has taken the road of Heilbronn towards Newstadt. The commissary of provisions at Heidelberg has emptied the magazines in haste, on the news of the approach of the French. Many French families have taken refuge in the Oldenwald.
FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION.
SESSION OF SATURDAY OCTOBER 20.
The Secretary read the following Letter from the Commissioners to the Army of the Centre.
At the Camp of Vaudoncourt, Oct. 18, at ten o'clock in the evening, the First year of the French Republic.
Citizens, THE division of the army commanded by General Kellerman, arrived yesterday at the Camp of Vaudoncourt: General Valence, who commands the other division, advanced through the forest of Maugienne, and pushed his van-guard as far as Pillon, which he found occupied by the enemy. He was obliged to bring up his cannon against this post, and then he soon got master of it.
The Duke of Brunswick and General Kalkreuth sent in that day a Trumpeter with an Aid de Camp, to demand a personal conference with General Kellerman, they testified a desire to accommodate matters, but General Kellerman adhering strictly to the intentions of the national convention, answered that he could enter into no conference whatever, as long as the Prussian army should be on the territory of the French republic; that the re-surrender of Longwy was a preliminary without which he could enter into no engagements. The Duke of Brunswick offered to evacuate Longwy and to give the place up on the 26. Kellerman judging that he wanted four days more to arrive with his army before that place on account of the roads being broke so much insisted on having the place evacuated the 22d of this month.
After this conference, General Valence was charged with the regulation of the articles of capitulation. We send inclosed an authenticated copy thereof, and you will judge yourself of the advantages of this event. On the 22d at ten o'clock in the morning the enemy will have quitted the territory of the Republic. General Kellerman will march up his whole army in battle array, and our commissioners will thank them for their courage and perseverance. We beg our fellow citizens to partake of the joy which such an event has caused us.
See here then this contest of despotism against liberty soon determined; and happy are we to have been the witnesses thereof, and to be charged to give you these interesting details.
The commissioners of the national convention, SILLERY, PRIEUR, CARRA.
Further accounts by the late arrival at this port from Dunkirk state—That Verdun and Longwy were evacuated pursuant to articles of capitulation by the Austrian and Prussian armies, and immediately taken possession of by the French forces—Several other places were also abandoned by the invading armies, and others taken by the French after a faint resistance—so that the enemy were entirely driven out of France—Not only so, but the French armies had penetrated into the German Territories, had taken Spires, Worms, Mayence and other places—Spires and Worms had been laid under contributions; from the latter a million of livres had been exacted—The siege of Lisle was raised, after having about 200 houses destroyed, and a number of the citizens and the garrison killed.
In Chamberry, a society had been formed of the friends of equality—this society consisted of 1200 persons—they have addressed the national convention—have abjured the Duke of Savoy, and swear they will never again acknowledge a king, or submit to any master whatever—The people of France are exceedingly elated with their successes—and consider their losses by the devastation and sieges of the enemy as nothing, when contrasted with the favorable turn in their affairs, and the prospect of a speedy and permanent establishment of their Liberties under the auspices of a Free Republic—The papers we have seen are to the 23d Oct: printed at Paris—they contain no accounts of the present situation of M. la Fayette, nor of the ci-devant King and Queen of France.—In Verdun a considerable number of letters and papers were intercepted, throwing great light on the hitherto secret manoeuvres of the emigrants, and the other enemies of the revolution—M. Pétion, in a speech to the Convention, informs them of a protest of the ci-devant King against all the acts and proceedings of the National Assembly, which he had signed—alleging that he had not been in a state of freedom to approve or not to approve those acts and proceedings—This protest had been sent to several of the courts, particularly that of Brussels.—General Paoli is going on an expedition against Sardinia.
By accounts published of the votes for Vice President of the United States, it appears, that exclusive of Kentucky—the numbers are for Mr. Adams 77—Mr. Clinton 50—Mr. Burr 1; difference fav. Mr. Adams 26.
It is an old remark, "to preserve peace be prepared for war"—but modern patriots preach a contrary doctrine; so in politics, they say the way to preserve the "rights of man," is to throw down every barrier of law and justice that defends them.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Those who are sincere in inculcating the usefulness of public schools, as a means of diffusing knowledge and preserving liberty, will not stop at that point: They will feel the same ardor to promote a free enquiry into public measures, and a cheap and certain circulation of newspapers. It will be in vain that the people are, by education, enabled to judge of their rulers, if they watch not over their doings, or be not seasonably and fully informed thereof.
As the government, it seems, has gained no less than one million by granting a charter worth no more than five million, would it not be well to take a hint from the plan of the bank, for disposing of the western lands whenever peace and a completion of all private sales in that country will permit such a measure to be adopted. The territory (which is as much the property of the public now, as the privilege vested in the bank was prior to the charter) might be divided into 25,000 lots or shares, and a grant be made of 20,000, free of all quit-rents and taxes, to an incorporated company of such generous subscribers as will agree that the public may retain the remaining 5,000. The better to ensure success to the plan, by evincing the faith of those who adopt it in its profitableness, it should be understood that all members of the government be free both in law and decency, to take the lead in liberal subscriptions for their private emolument. It will be further expedient, and tend to keep up a proper understanding between the company and the government, and to facilitate seasonable aids, benefits and encouragements to the former, if members of the government be not only interested as subscribers, but a suitable number be always in commission to manage and direct the affairs of the company.
Our scribblers caution the people to beware of the writers who recommend order and obedience to the law. The writers who cry out knave and rogue, they say, are the people's friends, and are to be confided in. What is the amount of this?—A scribbler who finds any passion up, and falls in with it, is very clever. Wherever there is a local prejudice, he is very sincere, and shews himself a man of truth by courting it and making the most of it to obstruct the law, and to discredit and vilify the servants of the public. But the man that advises others to be calm, to forbear violence against the excise law, to think more favorably of government and of human nature than our mobocrats say they deserve, is held up as a fly seducer of the republican virtue of our country. The way to cheat our people, is not to oppose prejudice and passion. The ambitious man who would destroy liberty, must run with the multitude, and run them out of breath. Liberty must have no resting place—it must have no shelter. Thus exhausted and defenceless, it becomes an easy prey, and this is what our anarchy-men seem to be laboring to accomplish. We have a free government; yet that will not please them. The next experiment seems to be either to have none at all, or one that is not free.
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December 31.
THE MEMBERS of the Insurance Company OF NORTH-AMERICA,
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EBENEZER HAZARD, Sec'y.
January 1, 1793.
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LYING at the end of Snipuxent Neck, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, within two miles of the Inlet, in Worcester County, in the said State, being the first landing for vessels that trade in there. From the situation of the place, it is convenient for fish, clams and oysters, is open to the sea, and has every convenience that could be wish'd for. The soil is excellent for Indian corn, wheat or flax, is natural to clover, and has a good marsh pasture for flock.
Any person desirous of purchasing, may know the terms by applying to Ashton Humphreys, Esq. in Philadelphia—Mr. Benjamin Purnell, in Indian Town, Worcester County—or to Capt. Littleton Robins, near the place.
Jan. 2.

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LOST, at Providence, or between Providence and Boston, a very small TRUNK, covered with seal-skin of a reddish colour, with white spots. It contained a quantity of South and North-Carolina State Notes, and a few of the State of Rhode-Island; with other papers, which can only be serviceable to the proprietor. The State notes are checked at the offices from whence they issued. Any person producing the Trunk (with its contents) to JOHN MARSTON, of Boston, WILLIAM HALL, of Providence, Messrs. PATERSON and BRASHER, New-York, or Mr. SAMUEL EMERY, in Philadelphia, shall receive the above reward, or for any part of the property, One Hundred Dollars. Boston, Nov. 28. ep 1f.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA, November 20, 1792. THE Stockholders of the Bank of the United States are hereby informed, that according to the statute of incorporation, a general election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the seventh day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
And pursuant to the eleventh section of the Bye-Laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting at the same place, on Tuesday the eighth day of January next, at five o'clock in the evening.
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Between William Shipley Complainant, John Meng and others Defendants. December 28, 1792. In the high Court of Chancery of the State of New-Jersey. Present, His Excellency the Chancellor.
THE Complainant having filed his bill of Complaint against the Defendants in the month of September, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, and in the said Bill of Complaint did among other things set forth that the said Complainant being seized in his Demise as of freehold and in a certain Tract of Land, said to contain nine hundred and thirty acres, situate, lying and being in the township of Hardwick in the county of Sussex in the State of New-Jersey, did on the first of March seventeen hundred and eighty-five, bargain sell and convey the same in fee simple unto John Meng and John Henderson of the city of Philadelphia, William Goodwin and John Town, for the consideration of One Thousand Six Hundred Pounds in Gold or Silver—That on the fifth day of the same month of March the said feoffees above named did execute unto the said William Shipley a Deed of Mortgage in fee simple of the said Tract of Land to secure the payment of the said sixteen hundred pounds, with the lawful interest which might thereon accrue—That in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-six the said John Meng and William Goodwin did become Bankrupts within the intent and meaning of the acts of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and such proceedings were had against them that in the same month they were duly declared Bankrupts; and that they the said John Meng and William Goodwin did in some short time afterwards convey and transfer all their estate both real and personal, and particularly all their right and title to the premises above mentioned to John Field, Curtis Clay, James C. Fisher, Isaac Wharton, John Kaighn and Arthur Collins all of the city of Philadelphia, subject to the Mortgage so as aforesaid given to the said Complainant.—That the said John Field, Curtis Clay, James C. Fisher, Isaac Wharton, John Kaighn and Arthur Collins soon after bargained, sold and conveyed all their Right and Title of and in the said Tract of Land unto Benjamin Town of the city of Philadelphia, and John Town, subject to the Mortgage aforesaid—That on the eighteenth day of October seventeen hundred and eighty-five, the said John Town and Benjamin Town did execute another Mortgage to the said William Shipley for securing the payment of twelve hundred pounds in certain installments—That in the month of January seventeen hundred and eighty-six, John Town did bargain and sell in fee simple all his Right and Title to the said premises, to the said Benjamin Town, subject to the Mortgage aforesaid—That in the month of February seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, the said Benjamin Town did convey all his Right and Title to the said premises, to John Field and Curtis Clay of the city of Philadelphia, upon certain Trusts unknown to the said Complainant—That said Benjamin Town the soon after became Bankrupt, and in pursuance of the bankrupt laws of the State of Pennsylvania, did convey all his estate real and personal to a certain Robert Ralston—That John Henderson did also in the month of September seventeen hundred and eighty-seven become a Bankrupt, and under the bankrupt laws of the State of Pennsylvania, did assign and convey all his estate real and personal to David Lenox, George Hughes, Matthew Clarkson, Peter Baynton and Richard Bache—And the Complainant doth in and by his said Bill, pray that those having Right to the said Estate may be decreed to pay him what is due on the said Mortgages, or that the equity of Redemption be foreclosed by the Decree of this Court.
And now upon opening this matter this day by Richard Stockton, Esquire, being of the complainants counsel—it appearing to the Court that the said defendants do reside in the State of Pennsylvania, without the jurisdiction of this Court; and it appearing further to this Court that writs of subpoena have been taken out according to the course of this Court, that the said writs of subpoena have been duly served upon the said several Defendants upwards of one year from this day; and that none of the said Defendants have caused his or their appearance to be entered in this Court to the suit of the said Complainant: It is, therefore ordered by his Excellency the Chancellor, that the said Defendants do cause their appearance to be entered to the suit of the above Complainant according to the rules of this Court in two months from this day, or that the Plaintiffs bill be taken pro confesso agreeably to the directions of the act of the Legislature in such case made and provided.—The Complainant giving notice and making publication of this rule as in and by the said act of the Legislature is provided.
WILLIAM PATERSON, Chancellor.
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17. The Doway Translation of the Vulgate Bible, in quarto—Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/2—plain, six dollars.
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21. History of Charles Grandison, abridged—Price a sixth of a dollar.
22. Poems by Col. Humphreys—Price a third of a dollar.
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LONDON, October 12.
By advices from Cologne, dated the 6th inst. it appears to be the intention of the French General Custine, to push on to Mayence, Daimstadt, and Frankfort, even to penetrate into the Hessian territory. The inhabitants are all collecting their most valuable effects. A yacht has conveyed to Coblenz the Prussian military chest, the archives, church ornaments, &c.
Letters from Manheim positively state that an army of from 25 to 30,000 Russians will be before Landau, by the commencement of the ensuing month, and that the first column, consisting of 6000 men, has already reached Bohemia.—These troops will unquestionably be joined by the body of 25,000 Hungarians, which is expected to reach the borders of the Rhine within the above period.
By the above advices it appears that the Princes of the Empire are to furnish double contingencies, and that the King of Prussia has ordered the levy of fresh troops. In this case General Dumourier has formed a very false opinion of the sentiments of this monarch, whom, with the whole of his army, he has sent back to Prussia.
The disorder in the queen's feet is not occasioned solely by corns, but by a settled humour, which affects the soles of both, and renders them so painful, and afterwards tender as to prevent her majesty standing for any length of time without extreme pain. The faculty have all agreed, that the humours should not be repelled.
The governors of the bank of England have agreed, that in future, all bank notes shall have a line engraved across them to shew where they are to be cut, when sent by post; and directions will be given to their clerks to write the number on each half, and also the date of month and year on the left hand side of the note, as recommended by the post-office.
Prince Potocki has given an entertainment at Warsaw, in which the health of Catherine of Russia was drank, under a discharge of 300 guns. The accompaniment would have been more suitable to the toast, if every gun killed an hundred thousand persons.
At a meeting, called by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, at the Exchange there, on the 10th inst. a proposal was made by his lordship, that some public means should be used to obtain subscriptions for the relief of the French emigrants in Ireland. The motion was negatived almost unanimously, for though the company were willing to promote private subscriptions for the same purpose, they would not, by any public measure, seem to express a censure of the French Revolution.
THE PRUSSIAN RETREAT.
Before the disastrous entry of the allied armies into Champagne, the French were taught to dread the immense and believed invincible Cavalry of Prussia.—What is now become of it? The horse is the tenderest of all animals, and the inclemency of a marshy soil and incessant rains, have killed them by hundreds, Custine has burnt the forage necessary for their support, and the French Hussars bring numbers of them in daily; Vitry is the market for their sale; and there the peasants come to buy—and bespeak the preference of such as the Light Troops may acquire in their excursions.
Thus, what with the neglect of succors, imprudence in their feeding, the determined enterprize of the enemy, and, yet more than all these, the inclemency of the season, this perhaps unequalled assemblage of the finest troops in Europe is forced into the disgrace of retreat, before armies they have too lightly derided, and leaders they seem judiciously to have despised.
DUBLIN, September 22.
Patriotic Divorces.—The French ladies appear at the bar of the Assembly, offer their husbands to serve on the Frontiers, saying, at the same time, they are of no use at home.
When several patriotic French husbands offered to send their wives to the Frontiers the Assembly have always passed to the Order of the day.
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