National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-12-26 00:00:00

AM, at the mere report of his victorious arms —all France shall submit and acknowledge the justice of the cause he befriends; which is the cause of God himself—of that God by whom kings reign—a common cause between the sovereign and the people, whose mutual regards must alone constitute their mutual happiness!
Convey then, most puissant monarch, convey to Louis the affections of those faithful citizens who are forever devoted to his service—you have gained our hearts by your most amiable qualities, and by the ineffable wisdom which presides over your councils, and which directs your glorious enterprizes.—Mighty monarch, who art come to break our chains, and to restore us to real liberty , deign to receive from us the most respectful tokens of submission, the homage of affection, admiration, and eternal gratitude.—Our churches and our walls shall resound with adoration to that deity who protects us—and it shall be enjoined upon our latest posterity to extol to the skies the glorious name of the great, the conquering , the immortal Frederick William, THE DELIVERER OF FRANCE!!!
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Late advices from Europe, by the Ship Paxtuxent Planter , arrived last Friday, at Baltimore.
BONNE, October 5.
The necessity which the commanders of the armies, combined against France, have been in, to draw successively to them all the German troops stationed on the Rhine, first the body under General Prince Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, next the body that remained under the orders of Count d'Erbach, has left to the French an open field, not only on the side of Thionville, where they intercepted a considerable convoy, but also on the Rhine. Coming from Strasburg and Fort Louis, they attacked with forces much superior the 3000 troops of Austria and Mentz who composed the garrison of Spire, killed or took the whole, took possession of the city, and transported the magazine to Landau. The alarm has spread to Manheim, Worms, and even Mentz. The inhabitants fly, and the consternation is universal. This expedition took place on the 29th of September.—Higher up, and on the Moselle, the French have made a second irruption into the Electorate of Treves. Five thousand French with 9 cannon, arrived on the 29th at 7 in the morning, at Merzig, obliged the garrison of Treves to retire, destroyed the provisions, &c.
Mentz, Oct. 2. The invasion under General de Custine, by the orders of General Biron, on the territory of the Empire, and the capture of Spire, with the large magazine for the Imperial armies, which were established there, has spread terror and consternation through all this quarter of Germany. Our city is shut up, and no one can either come in or go out. The navigation even of the Rhine is impeded, to the great injury of commerce: the number of fugitives from Heidelberg and Worms, and all that part of the Rhine, is considerable.—Of the 3000 men most of whom were from Mentz, the remainder Austrians, who protected Spire and the magazine, under the orders of Colonel Winckelmann, very few escaped; almost all were killed, drowned in the Rhine or taken, but not without making a very resolute defence. The French, of whom the greater part came from Landau, amounted to about 17 or 18000 men. Their superiority was, therefore, too decided to admit of opposition. It is said, that they intend coming as far as this, having already advanced within a league of Kirchheim-Poh, and where Prince Nassau-Weilbourg resides. His court was obliged to move hastily at ten in the evening, with their most precious effects, and is arrived at Weilbourg. Spire was taken on the 30th and the capture is certainly, at this juncture, a most important if not decisive stroke.
Brussels, Oct. 8. The siege of Lisle is raised, and for some days past there has arrived at Tournay a considerable number of carriages loaded with bullets, bombshells, cannons, &c. &c. which were employed before that place. It appears that we have met with losses in that quarter, though the official publications have not mentioned them. In general we are in great uncertainty as to the operations which have taken place both in France and Flanders: But on the whole it is easy to perceive that the arms of the combined powers have not met with the success that the assurances from the principal emigrants led to expect. It is known also, that the democratic party in France hope to propagate revolution principles through all the neighbouring states. Here we begin to be in a state of anxiety. The under-hand fermentation that a certain party keep up in the minds of the multitude, increasing with circumstances, orders have been given for a detachment of military to be stationed at Antwerp, the centre of discontent. There is also some fermentation at Louvain, and the government will be obliged to be as prudent as possible, to prevent the effect of the idea, that the fate of the Bel-
gic provinces depends on the success of the democracy in France.
Leyden, Oct. 11. The editor of the gazette, after giving an account of the communication from Dumourier to M. Servan, relative to the retreat of Brunswick, adds, "From the route that part of the retreating forces have taken in their march, it is probable, that they will fall in with General de Custine, at present master of that part of Germany which is on the Rhine from Spire towards Mentz. The accounts we receive are perhaps exaggerated; but it is certain, at least, that the fate of war has been very averse to the allied powers."
Cologne, Oct. 6. The body of French troops from Landau, under the command of Gen. Custine, after having imposed heavy contributions on the Prince Bishop, the Chapter, clergy, and citizens of Spire, pursued, on the 3d instant, their march for Worms: and, as they appear to intend marching through Mentz, Darmstadt and Frankfort, to the country of Hesse, the principal inhabitants of those parts have taken flight, and each puts, as far as he can, his most valuable effects in safety. This day, towards the evening, arrived here several distinguished personages from Mentz and the environs, a yacht brought from Coblenz the military chest of the Prussian army, the archives, the church ornaments and other precious effects. It is said, that the vanguard of the French is already arrived at Kreutznach.
From Luxembourg, Oct. 5.
The accounts we received from Verdun are of the most disagreeable kind. The Prussian army has wanted bread for several days, or what they received was of the worst kind, for that received from a distance, arrives green and musty. It is nearly the same in the Austrian army.—From our gates to Verdun the country is laid waste, is ruined and deserted. As, for four weeks past, it has rained incessantly, the roads are impassable, they are strewn with hundreds of dead horses. By all these adverse circumstances, the soldier is discouraged, and even officers despair of seeing the campaign terminate fortunately.
Dublin, Sept. 25. Letters from London insinuate that the British cabinet are suspected of looking round for some pretext to enter into an open league with these powers on the continent at war with France, whom they are supposed to have already privately aided, and that the disposition of the people has in a more particular manner been founded since those late atrocious events have been perpetrated at Paris and Versailles. Emisaries have been busy in representing the sufferings of a great monarch now subjected to a sanguinary populace, who have not spared the most sacred characters, and his fate with that of his family, is stated as depending on the impulse of this blood-thirsty rabble. Some of the prints, known to take their general impressions from the instruction or inclination of government, teem with narratives calculated to harrow the feelings of the people, which are said to be received either from letters of Englishmen at present in France, or from the lips of those who have precipitately made their exit from that distracted country. Even in this city, and through the country, such tales are circulated as may be supposed to have a similar object.
Cork, Sept. 26. Mr. Collis, whom the Anti-gallican prints lately represented as inhumanly butchered by women in Paris, roundly contradicts the barbarous report in a letter to his friend in Cork, from Edinburgh, where he has been for some time—This is one of the many fabrications intended by these infamous papers, to poison the minds of free people against a nation struggling for their liberties with a hydra of tyrants.
The ministerial prints in England are shockingly alarmed at the idea of a French patriot coming over; but in our opinion the liberties of the empire have more to apprehend from the agents of despotism and the abettors of slavish principles, who, after setting their own country in a flame, seek safety under a free constitution, which they opposed so violently at home.
Paris, Oct. 2. France now resounds from one end to other with the voice of patriotism. To live free or die, are the words in every one's mouth; and not an individual but is animated with an enthusiastic zeal for the defence of liberty. Aged men, tottering on the verge of the grave, are inspired with the invigorating sound; their feeble hands seize the arms adapted to the vigor of youth, and dispute with them the honor of serving against the enemies of our revolution. Even the women, who in all governments have so much influence, are eager to share our dangers; and from the force of public opinion only, warriors and heroes spring, as it were, out of the ground, the intrepid defenders of the rights of man, and from whose efforts arises, in time, the emancipation of entire Europe. Every friend of the human race, as well as the philosopher who confectates his days and nights to the discovery of truth, begins now to perceive that the face of the world is changing—a universal regeneration, politically so, is taking place among mankind, clearly proving that the prerogatives of political equality, are the only source of perfection in the social system.
The king's aunts are still at Rome—Poor ladies!—they consoled themselves with the hope of a restoration long before the present day. Whether they will continue at Rome and Naples, or go to Germany is difficult to say. The papal territories are so overburdened with French refractory priests of every denomination, that the court begins to view all emigrants with a distant eye, particularly those of the church, conscious that it has holy mendicants enough of its own, in all reason, whose wants lay the first claim to charitable donations and pensions.
Madrid, Sept. 28. The introduction of French newspapers and books into this kingdom, which had been allowed for some time past, is again prohibited. By way of precaution, 60 companies of provincial militia, amounting to five thousand men, are ordered to watch the French frontier, besides six battalions of troops of the line, 650 men to each.
On the 27th of last month arrived at Cadiz, six vessels from the Spanish West-Indies, with a cargo of 1,587,536 dollars, cochineal, indigo, sugar, tobacco, &c.—Another ship arrived at Corunna from Montevideo, brought 279,252 dollars, in specie.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, Dec. 21.
On motion, the petition of Capt. William Mackay was read a second time, and referred for report thereon, to the Secretary at War.
The appropriation bill, for the support of government for 1793, reported yesterday, was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole house on the 31st instant.
Mr. Moore and Mr. Heister were appointed, on the part of the house, a joint committee for the enrollment of bills—The Senate on their part appointed Mr. Brown for the same purpose.
The bill for repaying a loan made of the United States bank, was twice read, and made the order of the day for Monday next.
The house then proceeded in considering the bill to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes—after some debate the bill was recommitted to the committee that reported it, together with the amendments—An additional motion of Mr. Gerry's was laid on the table, to the following purport—that a clause be inserted in the bill for authorizing the permanent residence of agents with the peaceable Indians; and for carrying on a trade with the said Indians under the direction of the President of the United States—for supplying them with merchandise on fair terms, and in such manner as to prevent imposition.
A petition was read from Robert Ralston, assignee of Thomas Barclay, consul from the United States to the Emperor of Morocco—referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
The house then went into committee of the whole on the bill to ascertain the fees demandable in cases of admiralty proceedings in the courts of the United States, and for other purposes—without coming to any final decision on this bill, the committee rose and reported progress.
MONDAY, Dec. 24.
Several petitions were presented, for compensations, renewal of certificates, settlement of accounts, &c. which were read. The committee of reference on the petition of John Bartlett, reported, that it cannot be granted.
The bill for licensing vessels, and regulating the coasting trade and fisheries, was brought in, engrossed, read, and the blanks filled up—The bill was then passed to be enacted into a law—the act now in force is to be superseded by this law the last day of March 1793.
A letter was read from the Secretary at War, inclosing several papers, relative to Indian affairs, from the Governor of Georgia. These papers contain information of a recent murder of eight white persons by the Indians on the frontiers of Georgia—laid on the table.
A petition was read, from H. C. Baker, an officer in the late continental army, praying compensation for services—also a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in favor of the petition of Udney Hay, for payment of the principal and interest of a note for 40l. given during the war by two American officers, captured in Canada—A bill was ordered to be brought in pursuant to the report.
The house then went into committee of the whole on the bill to provide for reimbursement of a loan from the bank of the United States—after considerable length of debate, the committee rose and reported the bill with one amendment—which was then laid on the table for future consideration.
The following resolution was moved by Mr. Parker—"That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before the house an account of the application of the
monies borrowed in Antwerp and Amsterdam for the United States during the year 1792"—agreed to.
Several memorials, petitions, &c. were presented, read, and referred.
The house then adjourned till Wednesday the 26th instant.
PHILADELPHIA.
DECEMBER 26.
On Friday last arrived at Baltimore the ship Paxtuxent Planter , from London.—This ship brought London papers to the 14th of October. They confirm the accounts, heretofore published, of the Duke of Brunswick's retreat, and of the success of the arms of France over her invading enemies. The following is an extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman at the Hague, dated October 9, brought by this vessel:
"The gazettes inclosed will inform you of the bombardment of Lisle. A report has circulated here, to-day, of the Austrian army having retired from that place. I cannot say whether it is to be depended on. There being no official supplement published, according to custom, with the Brussels Gazette, indicates, at least, no success having taken place."
"Another report, better authenticated, which circulates here, and which is written from Brussels, by the British minister there, to the ambassador at this place, is, that the combined armies have been obliged to make a retrograde movement, supposed to proceed from the absolute want of provisions—a mortality which had taken place among their horses, and diseases among their men. If this is the case, and that they should be forced to retire from France, it will be attended, probably, with consequences of a serious nature for themselves, and place the contest in a very unexpected position."
"The last accounts from Brussels, before this, were, that the French army was so surrounded as to have asked to capitulate. This was so fully believed, that the government of the Low Countries sent an express with it to their minister here, who immediately announced it in such a public and official manner, as to have somewhat exposed that government, it being now certain that the details and circumstances, as then related and said to have been received from the king of Prussia, were not true."
"On the French side, they state this offer of capitulation as an overture of negotiation from the Duke of Brunswick."
"A letter which I have just seen, being the copy of an extract of one from Gen. Dumourier, at St. Menehoud, to General Biron, at Strasburg, affirms this to have been the case—a truce had been agreed on, as he states it, between his army and the Prussian army alone. He adds, "Le Duc de Brunswick has spoiled all by sending me a declaration; so no more truce, as I shall announce to him this evening." This was the first of October. He adds, that he had begun to oppose the enemy with an army of 17,000 men, and that he now had 100,000. That the Duke of Brunswick had begun with 80,000, of which he had already lost 25,000—and other things of this kind, in his stile. Altho' the details of his letter are certainly exaggerated, yet they serve to shew that he is no longer in the difficult position in which he was in not long before, and which gave rise to the intelligence mentioned from Brussels."
"The account you will see in the Leyden supplement of to-day, of the French having entered the empire, may be relied on—they are also in possession of Savoy, where the people join them, and are for municipalizing their country. Should these dispositions pass the Alps, and seize the lower order of people, nothing will be able to prevent its ranging all Italy, their force and number being out of all proportion with the people of property, and the military, and where, in many parts, the military would probably join them."
The latest intelligence from Guadalupe and Martinico, announces, that on the first of November, every thing there was tranquil, and the greatest harmony subsisted between the planters and the citizens. The towns began to realize the duration of their tranquility. The produce was at a moderate price.
White sugar from 13 to 16 dols. Brown ditto from 8 to 9 dols. Molasses, 2 pistareens a gallon. Coddish from 7 to 8 dollars a hundred.
In November the western part of the island of Hispaniola was perfectly restored to peace; brown sugar was sold at eight dollars, and molasses at 50 sols from those islands the gallon. The provinces north and south still presented a spectacle of desolation; but the preparations constantly making, encouraged a hope of the speedy return of order and tranquility.
We are informed, that it is seriously spoken of, in the islands of Martinico and Guadalupe, to make application to the British government to take those islands under the jurisdiction of its laws, if the new order of things in France should be established.

On Tuesday, the 18th instant was apprehended at Newark (New-Jersey) and sent back to New-York in irons, a person who said his name was Web, and that he was a native of Massachusetts. On examining him, one hundred and sixteen counterfeit 50 dollar bills, of the bank of the United States, were found concealed in the socks of his boots, and the plate on which they were struck was found on him. They were exceedingly bad executed, especially the signature of the president and cashier. Two of his accomplices were apprehended in New-York on Monday last.
The Electors of the state of Georgia were unanimous for George Washington, as President, and George Clinton, as Vice-President of the United States.
A letter from Richmond, Virginia, dated Dec. 16, mentions, that "A Captain Hanly, from the southern territory, on his march with forty men, to the relief of Mero district, was attacked by the Indians in ambuscade. Himself and twelve men fell, on the spot—eleven missing—sixteen got safe in."
The public are desired, in a New-York paper, to be on their guard in receiving French crowns in payment, as there are counterfeits in circulation. They are easily detected by rubbing, when the wash comes off, and they look like copper.
We hear from North-Carolina that the Electors of President and Vice-President for that state, gave a unanimous vote for George Washington and George Clinton.
On the 5th instant the election was held in Columbia, South-Carolina, for the office of President and Vice-President of the United States—The votes were, for George Washington, 8, for John Adams, 7, for Aaron Burr, 1.
We are well informed that Mr. Wiggin and the new company of Comedians are on board the ship Montgomery, every hour expected at New-York from London. There are certain accounts of this ship having failed on the 14th October.
The following persons are elected representatives in the Congress of the United States, from the state of Massachusetts, Fisher Ames, Benjamin Goodhue, Samuel Dexter, Artemas Ward, Theodore Sedgwick, Peleg Coffin, George Thatcher, and David Cobb.
Vast numbers of emigrant French priests arrived in England the beginning of autumn. Subscriptions were raising for their relief, and in one day 4000l. was collected. The palace of Winchester, which is capable of accommodating eleven thousand persons, is fitting up for their reception, where each of them is to have two guineas a month for their maintenance.
A new Sail Duck manufactory is now established in the island of Nantucket. This manufacture, it is said, furnishes employ for more people than the five rope-works, and ten manufactories of spermaceti candles, which have been of some years standing in that island.
The subscription to the Alexandria Bank was opened in that town on the 7th inst. and the whole number of shares was subscribed in less than two hours.
On the 10th instant sailed from New-York for Bombay, the ship America, Howell. It is said near one hundred thousand dollars have been sent to India with this ship.
Every friend of man, and the rational rights of man, cannot but rejoice at the disappointment of the combined royalists in their late campaign against France. Despotism never, in any age, avowed its principle more directly and openly than in the daring attempt of these powers to deprive a nation, by violence, of the natural and inherent right of making laws to suit itself, and to establish such a mode of government over themselves, as they should see fit. In this attempt is completely developed the accursed, overbearing nature of despotic, or absolute power, which has hitherto existed by ignorance, imposture, bloodshed, and devastation. Like the devil, it has been a murderer from the beginning; and whoever reads the history of Europe, only, will find from thence, that in all ages the people have been led to the field of slaughter, either to gratify the imaginary wrongs of individuals, to glut the thirst of personal ambition, and in fact for almost every purpose except that of ensuring peace, liberty, property, and happiness to themselves. From the melancholy example of past ages may the world learn, that power only belongs to the people, and that every individual to whom it is delegated, ought to be held immediately and continually responsible to them, the fountain of all authority, for the exercise thereof; a neglect of which precaution has given birth to myriads of crowned and titled monsters, the disgrace of human nature in every century that has passed, and the bane of nineteen twentieths of the habitable globe, at the present hour.
It is proposed by some person connected with the mint of the United States, in order to make the real value of the copper coinage equal to the nominal, and, at the same time, reduce the piece to a conveni-
ent size, to introduce a silver stud of a certain size in the coin, thro' a hole in its centre, and after this operation to coin it so that the silver shall bear part of the impression. The idea is certainly ingenious, and the improvement it is said, is not difficult of execution, nor does it encrease the labour in any material degree.
One objection to this mode of coining strikes at first view: whether it might not be a temptation to counterfeit, by coining with studs of base white metal. Perhaps however, the silver saved in this way may not be equal to the expence of coining and then the objection falls to the ground.
[From SÁLEM (Massachusetts) Dec. 11.]
Capt. Thomas Putnam arrived here on Saturday from Gottenburg. He sailed on the 22d of October—some days previous to which, there had been no news from France, by reason of a delay of the mails; but in the afternoon of the 21st, several posts which had been due came in, bringing with them important intelligence respecting the war. Capt. Putnam's immediate departure prevented his obtaining particulars; but he says, the purport of it was—That the Duke of Brunswick was FLYING precipitately before the national troops of France, and it was supposed he would not make a stand till he was clear out of the French territories—That in one action, some time in October, the despotic army lost 8000 men—and, in short, that such brilliant success was attending the arms of France, as men fighting in the cause of liberty deserved; and such disgrace befalling the enemies of freedom, as their cause richly merited. This intelligence was received at Gottenburg with too great a degree of pleasure to be concealed—those only, whose consequence and expectations were founded upon the perpetuity of hereditary tyranny, were chagrined at events so contrary to their delusive dreams.
[From the Leyden Gazette, of Oct. 12.]
"We are now no longer in any doubt as to the real situation of the French and combined armies. Certain it is, that the fortune of war has already been infinitely unfavorable to the armies of the combined powers, as the following extract of a letter from the head-quarters of the combined army at Walmy, will evince—Oct. 1st. "We are in a most wretched country, where we are in want of every thing—No fuel, and a scarcity even of drinkable water. Add to this, that our convoys of provisions have to come a long distance round about, by Longwi, Stenay, Buzeney, Vouziers, &c.—we have also several strong posts behind us, and the country people having suffered much by our passage, are by no means our friends. Hence, our provision convoys are continually liable to be intercepted." "All our plans seem to have been ill concerted. The Baron de Breteuil, after M. Calonne retired to Italy, was the minister in whom his Prussian majesty and the French emigrants reposed the greatest confidence; but his systems seem to have been so badly digested, that no success could be expected to attend them. Had he not implicitly relied upon the most deceitful assurances, we should never have ventured into a country like this, (provided as we are) which has a continued succession of strong posts from Lisle to the Rhine."
Mentz, Oct. 2. "General Custine's invasion of the German territories, and his capture of the city of Spires, with the immense magazines at that place, for the use of the imperial armies, has spread terror and consternation through every part of the empire. Every thing has operated against the combined forces, stormy weather accompanied with perpetual deluges of rain—and added to this, famine, and a raging bloody flux proceeding from the use of bread which had become rotten with mould, from the long time it was in transporting to the army."
Extract of a letter from a Member of Congress, to his friend in Virginia, dated 2d Dec. 1792.
"You will, before this can reach you, have heard, no doubt, the British Tory aristocratical account of the Duke of Brunswick's capturing the French army under Dumourier; but if I have not lost my discerning spirit, I will venture to say that the Duke is nearly in Burgoyne's situation, and that a return home is impracticable, but under the pretence of withdrawing, to open the way for a treaty of peace: or on a convention, or capitulation—the former he has preferred, and therefore has proposed terms of peace, which he knew could only give him a permission to return: for he must have supposed, that the National Assembly would not listen to any terms from an enemy within their country. For my part, from the day on which the French deposed their king, I looked upon them as invincible—I knew they must have been united or they would not have struck so bold a stroke; and I knew they would be no longer exposed to the treachery of their king, and would have their existence as a nation of free men, and substantial liberty to fight for—An ob-
ject which would animate them to resist all the powers of Europe. I knew well that the gallant French would dispel dangers, endure hardships, and disregard the loss of towns and even of their metropolis, as much as our countrymen did in their struggles with Britain—and I also knew that in such cases even victory to the insulting invaders must often prove equal to a defeat. I remember well the helpless situation of Lord Cornwallis three days after his boasted victory at Guilford courthouse—Twenty pitched battles won, and twenty towns taken by assault, or even by treacherous surrenders, would avail the tyrants nothing. Freemen will rise up to revenge the slaughter of freemen, and tyrants will at length be hated and abandoned by their unhappy oppressed subjects.—Everyday's march has carried the invaders farther from home and from necessary supplies, without a prospect of succeeding in their wicked attempts to enslave twenty-five million of freemen. Surely the hand of Heaven has been wonderfully stretched out in our days, in behalf of the oppressed nations of the earth! Let us second the designs of Heaven—let us, my friend, as we cannot join the French troops and fight their battles, as we once declared we would, should they stand in need of assistance, set on foot an association to send them supplies of provisions. Cannot Virginia set the example of sending as she did to Boston, wheat, corn, and flour? France is as much engaged in our cause now, as Boston was then—Frenchmen are fighting for the rights of human nature, and should they be conquered, the combined kings no doubt would extend their combinations and their views of despotism till they would leave no trace of freedom on earth."
From the combined imperial and royal armies in Flanders, dated Oct. 8, 1792.
The bombardding of the city of Lille, which was begun on the 22d of September, not having produced, as was wished, the effect of inducing the inhabitants and commander to surrender, and to return to their allegiance to their legitimate sovereign, and the season far advanced and unfavorable, opposing the greatest obstacles to the continuance of a siege, the body of troops, which protected the bombardding, broke up, this morning, the camp they had occupied before that city since the 24th of September, the artillery, of which the ammunition had been exhausted in the attack, having previously been sent towards Tourney.
From the VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
Richmond. December 6, 1792.
Mr. CAREY,
The following impromptu was written on the report that the electors of this state in consequence of their having unanimously voted for governor Clinton as Vice-President, were contumeliously called Jacobins.
Having remarked and admired, the freedom of your press, I have submitted it through your medium to the public.
If any one shall suppose it personal as to himself, with him you are at liberty to effect an interview with the author.
Rejoice! republicans rejoice! your inestimable privileges are secure. The genius of America is awake. The tutelary saint of Virginia is roused. The electors of this state have unanimously given their suffrages to governor Clinton, as Vice-President. Governor Clinton is a republican both in principle and practice. The principles of Mr. Adams, the late Vice-President, are reprobated—his book—his writings—his sentiments—his late conduct—his love of, and his having recommended hereditary monarchy, and hereditary aristocracy, are all, all reprobated. The monarchists, aristocrats, highflyers, mushrooms, all hang their heads; and while the friends of men sing psalms, hallelujahs, and anthems, to the tune of regenerating freedom; they who were conspiring to dethrone the sacred majesty of the people may perform the last funeral obsequy and sing the last melancholy dirge to Adamitical principles.
Yes! ye men of Belial, regeneration is at your heels, and ere long she will hold you up hated and avoided, as you are now suspected and despised. Your chariots, your pomp, your gala days, your court etiquette, your cries of sedition, and your reproaches against tried republican characters, will not avail. All eyes will be opened; the fatal issue of your abominable schemes will be developed; then you will hate and execrate each other yourselves, as you now deserve it, from all the race of man.
You call the electors Jacobins, as a mark of contumely; in that view they despise you and ask, that a man shall avow himself. But why say, Jacobins? Are they not the authors of the greatest and most glorious revolution of which the annals of history can boast? Have they not loosed the shackles of slavery from thirty millions of people? Have they not fanned the sacred blaze of liberty, in every region of the earth? Have they not dethroned tyranny, monarchy, aristocracy, priestcraft, and all
their satellites? Have they not set up and crowned the mighty majesty of human kind over the punyism of individuals? Yes! the Jacobins of France have done all this. The French have no longer a king; they are no longer slaves; they are free; and therefore you despise them.
But future ages, when they trace the history of man, when they contemplate the catalogue of woes, which blacken the pages of antiquity, will at this eventful epoch make a complacent pause, and drop the tear of gratitude to the memory of those who so much contributed to emancipate the human race.
The revolution has blasted your hopes—the kings, or tyrants, of Europe have leagued against them; and why do you not go? The duke of Brunswick will receive you—he will embrace you, and you will shew the ne plus ultra of human depravity; Americans aiding and abetting kings and tyrants to reduce to bondage thirty millions of people, whose blood and treasure were exhausted to purchase your country's freedom! Go hence and take with you the last feed—the last shoot, the last scyon of your stock; and let that bold essayist, as your crusading champion, whose head, heart, and hand have been employed to sap the impenetrable and defined rights of his countrymen be announced to kings and their cut-throats, by his herald, as a voluntary fugitive from a country where men will cease to be, or live free.
Thanks to you, electors—all the friends of human liberty will thank you—future ages will revere and venerate your names—Heaven and your own consciences will reward you. HENRICO.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 21.
Yesterday a numerous and respectable company of gentlemen, Friends to the Rights of Man, assembled agreeable to notification, at Mr. Grant's fountain inn, for the purpose of celebrating the late triumph of liberty over despotism, in France, and after partaking of an elegant dinner, the following toasts were given:
 1st. The nation, the law, and equality; a continuance of good news from France, and a speedy and propitious period to their present virtuous contest.  The duke of Brunswick's fate to all other servile leaders of tyrannic flavish bands.  3. The national convention of France.  4. The Congress of the United States.  5. The President of the United States.  9. Stanislaus, the only patriotic king; may the Poles be reanimated and enabled to establish a free constitution.  7. Gen. Dumourier, and the French army; may they winter at Brussels.  8. M. la Fayette; may his future life correspond with that of his past, and with the patriotism of his heart.  9. Thomas Paine; may every apostate author like Burke, meet an antagonist like Paine.  10. Perseverance and success to all who defend freedom with sword or pen.  11. Reformation to the advocates of despotism, and destruction to its authors.  12. May virtue and talents confound and consume hereditary honours, aristocratic privileges, and all other distinctions unfriendly to the dignity of man.  13. The heroes of France and America, who have either fallen in defence of their countries, or who yet live, to advance their glory.  14. May the friendship of freemen ever last between America and France.  15. May universal freedom be permanently established under the majesty of the people. 
** No papers yesterday by the eastern and southern mails, except one from Baltimore, containing no fresh intelligence.
Philadelphia & New-York
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BURLINGTON, BORDENTON, & SOUTH-AMBOY
WILL start from Samuel Cooper's Ferry, opposite to Philadelphia, every Sunday and Wednesday morning, during the winter season, and arrive at South-Amboy on Monday, and Thursday evenings—where a good boat will be ready to convey Goods and Passengers to New-York.
The Stage boats will leave New-York every Monday and Thursday, so as to meet the Stages from Philadelphia at Amboy, to proceed for Philadelphia next day. All Baggage belonging to passengers to be at their own risk.
All Goods forwarded by the Stages on bill, to be under the particular care of the Proprietors of the Stages; but not warranted against robbery or damage—And all entering, clearing and permits to be paid by the owners of goods.
Price of a passage from Cooper's ferry to New-York, £0. 18. 9d 2colb. of Goods, to pay the price of a passage All Way passengers, 3d per mile.
AMOS HUTCHIN, } For Burlington & South-Amboy, } ton line. NICHOLAS SCHENCK, } VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN, } For Bordentown & David Williamson, } ton line. December 24, 1792. [raw.ew.]
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For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
ANTICIPATION.
A GREAT FRAUD.
THERE lived in the state of Georgia, an ingenious man named Peter, who conceived an opinion that he could turn cyder into good wine; and set about many costly experiments until he expended almost all that he had earned by other hard industry—However, at last he hit on the secret, and did actually discover the art of turning cyder into good old Madeira wine; which discovery greatly elated him, being fully of opinion that his fortune was now made, provided he could get a patent for this his great discovery.—Accordingly, he collected the remainder of his small estate and set out for Philadelphia; and there being at a loss how to apply for a patent, he communicated his invention to some that offered to be his friends (particularly to John Filcher) and they directed him to apply by petition to the Director of the Mint. But he was greatly surprised to find that his friend, John Filcher, had also petitioned for a patent for the same discovery; and a dispute arose between them, who was the inventor.—Peter proposed to leave the matter to three Referees, as directed by law; but the impostor insisted on having it referred to the supreme court of the United States—as the law directs the Director of the Mint to refer such disputes, in case the disputants cannot agree as to the referees.—To this mode Peter made strong objections, alledging that he could neither attend at so great a distance, nor pay the expence. The Director of the Mint saw the weight of Peter's objections, and was sorry that the law left it not in his power to decide which of the modes should be adopted; for he plainly saw that Peter would be wronged out of his invention.—Now, to make a long story short, the consequence was as follows: Peter was not able to bear the expence of attending the court, and John obtained a certificate from the court of Peter's default, which he carried to the Director of the Mint, and he was obliged by law to issue a patent for said invention to said John. The case now is such, that all the sons of Bacchus do honor and congratulate the said John Filcher on account of his great and glorious discovery; and speak well of him in all their jovial companies. But Peter is poor and despised—He dare not even assert that he was the true inventor of the art of changing cyder into good old Madeira wine, because he would not be believed.—Indeed he hath even been heard to exclaim "Cursed be the day that I made the discovery, since it hath been my ruin; so that I cannot even provide cyder for the making of my own wine—and if I could, I durst not do it without the permission of the man who hath robbed and ruined me; who now lives in pomp, splendor, and plenty, by the profits of my invention."—A friend to justice first published this account—and when Congress heard thereof, they resolved to amend the patent law, so as to put it out of the power of John Filcher or any other person thus to defraud the true inventor again. Those who have read the PATENT BILL, now before Congress, will give this account due credit.
ARTIST.
From the A. DAILY ADVERTISER.
I scorn the wretch, may vengeance blast his fame, Who apes poor royalty in act or name.
BEING a cool and deliberate observer of the various proceedings of the servants of the people, as well in the national as in the state legislature, I do not beg leave, but claim the inherent right of a free and independent citizen, to write, and cause to be published, through your useful paper, the following impartial and republican sentiments.
When I attend the courts of justice, the tympana of my ears are grated with the lordly sounds contained in petitions, &c. of "To the Worshipful Mayor," "His Honor the Judge," &c.—When in the state legislature, of—"His Excellency the Governor," &c. When in that part of the national legislature, to which I sometimes have access (for the masters, the people, are excluded from overseeing their servants in the Senate) with that of—"His Excellency the President of the United States," "The Honorable member who spoke last," &c. These diabolical terms,
whether in humble imitation of royalty, or the tottering remains of a dying aristocracy, are surely repugnant to the divine principles of a republican government! View the pride of nations, the great focus of human refinement—the central and glorious spot which gave the first genuine birth to the rights of man:—I mean France. And let us, as I hope it is not yet too late, take from her a republican lesson. There we find republicanism and democracy, in the most elevated degree of pure and uncontaminated perfection.—instead of the ridiculous epithets of—Sir—Mr.—Esquire—Worshipful—Reverend—Right Reverend—Honorable—Excellency, &c. which are all contrary to the principles of a republican government; and despicable to every citizen who thinks for himself, we find the social and soul-warming term Citizen applied even to the first servant of the people, in that sublime nation.—Let us endeavor to exterminate every vestige of titles, as being the remaining seeds of that cursed distinction, that poisonous aristocracy, from whence we derived our origin; so that, not a single grain of that baneful weed may be left, to germinate in this luxuriant soil of freedom, to spread its ruinous contagion, among a happy and independent people.
DIOGENES.
A PLAN OF A PEACE OFFICE FOR THE UNITED STATES.
[From the A. Daily Advertiser.]
AMONG the many defects which have been pointed out in the federal constitution by its anti-federal enemies, it is much to be lamented that no person has taken notice of its total silence upon the subject of an office of the utmost importance to the welfare of the United States, that is, an office for promoting and preserving perpetual peace in our country.
It is to be hoped that no objection will be made to the establishment of such an office, while we are engaged in a war with the Indians, for as the war-office of the United States was established in the time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a peace-office should be established in the time of war.
The plan of this office is as follows:
I. Let the secretary of peace be appointed to preside in this office, who shall be perfectly free from all the present absurd and vulgar European prejudices upon the subject of government: let him be a genuine republican and a sincere christian, for the principles of republicanism and christianity are no less friendly to universal and perpetual peace, than they are to universal and equal liberty.
II. Let a power be given to this secretary to establish and maintain free schools in every city, village and township of the United States; and let him be made responsible for the talents, principles, and morals of all his school-masters. Let the youth of our country be carefully instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in the doctrines of a religion of some kind; the Christian religion should be preferred to all others; for it belongs to this religion exclusively to teach us not only to cultivate peace with all men, but to forgive, nay, more—to love our very enemies. It belongs to it further to teach us, that the Supreme Being alone possesses power to take away human life, and that we rebel against his laws whenever we undertake to execute death in any way whatever upon any of his creatures.
III. Let every family in the United States be furnished at the public expence, by the secretary of this office, with a copy of an American edition of the Bible. This measure has become the more necessary in our country, since the banishment of the bible, as a school book, from most of the schools in the United States. Unless the price of this book be paid for by the public, there is reason to fear that in a few years it will be met with only in courts of justice or in magistrates' offices; and should the absurd mode of establishing truth by kissing this sacred book fall into disuse, it may probably, in the course of the next generation, be seen only as a curiosity on a shelf in Mr. Peale's museum.
IV. Let the following sentence be inscribed in letters of gold over the door of every house in the United States:
The Son of Man came into the World not to destroy Men's lives, but to save them.
V. To inspire a veneration for human life, and an horror at the shedding of human blood, let all those laws be repealed
which authorise juries, judges, sheriffs, or hangmen to assume the resentment of individuals, and to commit murder in cold blood in any case whatever. Until this reformation in our code of penal jurisprudence takes place, it will be in vain to attempt to introduce universal and perpetual peace in our country.
VI. To subdue that passion for war, which education, added to human depravity, have made universal, a familiarity with the instruments of death, as well as all military shews, should be carefully avoided. For which reason, militia laws should every where be repealed, and military dresses and military titles should be laid aside: reviews tend to lessen the horrors of a battle by connecting them with the charms of order; militia laws generate idleness and vice, and thereby produce the wars they are said to prevent; military dresses fascinate the minds of young men, and lead them from serious and useful professions; where there are no uniforms, there would probably be no armies. Lastly, military titles feed vanity, and keep up ideas in the mind which lessen a sense of the folly and miseries of war.
In the seventh and last place, let a large room, adjoining the federal hall, be appropriated for transacting the business and preserving all the records of this office.—Over the door of this room let there be a sign, on which the figures of a lamb, a dove, and an olive branch should be painted, together with the following inscription in letters of gold:
Peace on earth; Good will to men. As! Why will men forget that they are brethren? Within this apartment let there be a collection of plough-shares and pruning-hooks, made out of swords and spears; and on each of the walls of the apartment, the following pictures as large as the life:
 1. A lion eating straw with an ox, and an adder playing upon the lips of a child.  2. An Indian boiling his venison in the same pot with a citizen of Kentucky.  3. Lord Cornwallis and Tippoo Saib, under the shade of a sycamore-tree in the East-Indies, drinking Madeira wine together out of the same decanter.  4. A group of French and Austrian soldiers dancing arm in arm, under a bower erected in the neighbourhood of Mons.  5. A St. Domingo planter, a man of color, and a native of Africa, legislating together in the same colonial assembly.* 
To complete the entertainment of this delightful apartment, let a group of young ladies, clad in white robes, assemble every day, at a certain hour, in a gallery to be erected for the purpose, and sing odes and hymns, and anthems in praise of the blessings of peace.
One of these songs should consist of the following beautiful lines of Mr. Pope: Peace o'er the world her olive wand extends, And white-rob'd innocence from Heaven descends; All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall fail, Returning justice lifts aloft her scale.
* At the time of writing this, there existed wars between the United States and the American Indians, between the British nation and Tippoo Saib, between the planters of St. Domingo and their African slaves, and between the French nation and the Emperor of Germany.
CHARLES BITTERS,
No. 120, South Market, near Fourth-street, Has received from New-York, and manufactured from Lot Merkel, A large and general assortment of Muffs and Tippets, Trimmings and Edgings, Great Coats, Caps, Mitts and Gloves lined with Fur, which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest prices.
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BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia, Nov. 20th, 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 Thursday the eighth day of January next, at five o'clock in the evening.
By order of the President and Directors. JOHN KEAN, Cashier. t. J. 5.
Terres à Vendre
Dans un pais bien peuplé, —
SAVOIR, soixante cinq mille, trois cens, soixante et quatorze Acres, en une seule pièce, dans le canton le mieux peuplé de la Caroline Meridionale, le District de Ninety-Six. Ces terres sont situées dans une contrée agréable, et salubre, où les fièvres sont inconnues; à environ vingt lieues de Colombie, la Capitale, et contiguës à la ville de Cambridge, où il y a College, et Cour supérieure. A environ douze lieues, il y a bonne navigation; et il est très probable, que dans quelque tems on rendra navigable le Grand Saude, rivière qui arrose les terres mêmes. Elles sont agréablement diversifiées de coteaux et vallons charmans propres à la culture du tabac, du coton, du maïs, et du petit grain; et dont une proportion considérable se peut aisément convertir en prairies fertiles, il n'est peut-être guères possible de rencontrer une pareille pièce de terre à vendre dans aucun autre des Etats Unis; et pour les conditions de l'achat on les rendra très commodes.
S'informer à l'imprimerie de la Gazette Nationale. Sept. 5.
LANDS FOR SALE,
IN a well settled Country. SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES OF LAND, in one body, in the most populous part of the state of South-Carolina, in the district of Ninety-six---It is situated in a fine healthy climate, free from fever & ague, about sixty miles from Columbia, the seat of government. The land is contiguous to the town of Cambridge, where are a seminary for the instruction of youth, and a superior law court. It is at present within about thirty-five miles of good navigation, with a probability of having the river, called the Great Saluda, that flows along one side of the land, made navigable. The land is beautifully diversified into swells and vales, and is perfectly well calculated for the culture of tobacco, cotton, Indian corn, and small grain; a great proportion of it may be made meadow ground. There is not, perhaps, such a body of land, so circumstanced, for sale in any other of the U. States. The terms of payment will be made convenient to the purchaser or purchasers. Apply to the Printer. August 29. tawtf
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THE proprietors of the New-York and Philadelphia Land and Water Stages, beg leave to mention, that for the better accommodation of the passengers, they have removed their different packet boats from their former stand, at the Crooked Billet Wharf, to the wharf or dock immediately next below Arch-street; from whence a convenient packet boat starts for New-York, as usual, on every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and returns on every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The passage to be made either by the way of Bordenton or Burlington; each place taken alternately. Fare for passengers from Philad. to N. York 15/ For goods per Cwt. do 6/
Van Emburgh and M c Kean, David Williamson, Proprietors of the line of New-York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Bordenton.
Jacob Myers, Amos Hutchin, Nicholas Schenck, Proprietors of the line of New-York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Burlington. Bordenton, Oct. 1.
For freight or passage apply to the masters on board, or to
M c Kean and Van Emburgh; Who have for sale at their store on said wharf, immediately next below Arch-street, Old Madeira, } Muscovado, } Teneriffe, and } Wines. Loaf, } Sugars Mountain Lump Jamaica Spirits, Molasses, Antigua, Coffee, Montserrat & } Rum. Chocolate, Newbury Bohea Tea, Rochelle Brandy Burlington Pork, in pipes, casks and Hams, demijohns, Flour, Gin in pipes and cases, Bar Iron, &c. &c. &c. Orders for Grain, Staves, Bills of Scantling, or other Lumber, punctually attended to.
For freight or passage to Lamberton or Trenton, apply at said wharf to Thomas Ashmore, William Douglass, John Ashmore or Alexander Douglass, (Masters on board) or as above, to M c Kean & Van Emburgh. Philadelphia, October 6, 792.
THE person who borrowed a SILVER WATCH last August from a person near this city with the letters M.T. (initials of the owners name) in cypher, on the outside case, the number 4452, is desired to return it to the printer of this paper, or he will be advertised in a manner that will be disgraceful to himself. 4t. 2awf
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