Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-06-22 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. 111 of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1793.
[Whole No. 433.]
FROM THE GENERAL ADVERTISER.
THE interest which the citizens of the United States must take in any question which may in the least degree appear to implicate their neutrality, has induced the editor to collect all the information in his power respecting the case of the ship William, prize to the privateer schooner Citizen Genet, libelled by the owners of said ship in the District Court of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania.
Robert Findley, jun. Andrew Buchanan, George Buchanan, James Hopkirk, Thomas Hopkirk, John Dunlop, and John Bannatyne.
Libel filed,
The Ship William.
At a special District Court held the 14th June, 1793.—The libel in the aforesaid case was read, setting forth—That Robert Findley, jun. Andrew Buchanan, George Buchanan, James Hopkirk, Thomas Hopkirk, John Dunlop, and John Bannatyne, all subjects of the king of Great Britain, were owners of the ship William—That the said ship on her voyage to Potomack river in the state of Maryland, at the distance of nine miles from the coast of the United States, received an American pilot on board; that the said ship continued the same course until they arrived within 2 miles of Cape Henry, the Southern Promontory of Chesapeake Bay, in 5 fathoms water, and as near the shore as the pilot thought proper to convey the ship, when she was forcibly seized by the Citizen Genet, commanded by Pierre Arcade Johanne. The libellant then protesting against and not admitting the said schooner Citizen Genet to be duly commissioned, insisted that according to the premises the said ship William was at the time of her being so taken upon neutral ground, within the territorial jurisdiction and under the protection of the United States.—Concluding with a prayer of restitution of ship and damages.
To this libel Pierre Arcade Johanne appeared on behalf of himself and crew of the Citizen Genet, and pleaded to the jurisdiction of the Court, stating that neither the law of nations nor the treaty of amity and commerce with the United States and the French Republic gave cognizance to the said court to interfere or hold plea respecting the said ship and property. To this plea the owners of the said ship entered their replication, and issue was joined thereon.
Sketch of the PLEADINGS in this important Case.
Mr. Duponceau, on the part of the concerned in the Privateer, opened the cause. He, after a few preliminary observations, turned to the 17th article of our treaty of amity with France, to shew that it expressly prohibits our taking cognizance of prizes brought into any of our ports by the French. This article of the treaty he remarked, only renders the obligations of the law of nations on this point stronger; and as the treaty secures mutual advantages to the two nations, it certainly (he continued) is entitled to considerable respect. The French are now at war, it is true, and the Americans at peace, therefore at this particular time, it operates most favorably as to the former, but a period may come when Americans in their turn may be involved in war, and find several of the stipulations in said treaty of considerable importance to their interests.
He next entered into a comprehensive view of the general nature of privateering, to shew that none of our Courts can take cognizance of acts committed by either of the belligerent powers against each other. Privateers obtain commissions, the nations to which they belong, alone, can take cognizance of their proceedings under those commissions, and an attempt in a court of any neutral power to interfere is an infringement on the sovereignty of the state that granted the commission. The government of all civilized countries establish tribunals for the trial and condemnation of prizes captured by their privateers, and in those courts redress can be obtained, neutral property, through them, will be restored, and all matters adjusted.
He turned to Magens to shew an instance in which the principle he wished to establish was involved. English privateers had seized and carried into port Prussian vessels (Prussia being a neutral power) for having enemy's property on board; these seizures were tried in the English courts, and some of the property condemned, and some not. The Court of Prussia, through their minister, expressed to the English Court their displeasure at these proceedings. Mr. Mitchell, the Prussian minister, insisted, that the English had no right to try this property, that the ships ought to be considered as part of the territory of the nation to whom they belonged; that wherever a nation could extend her protection, so far did her territory extend; that ships were as much a part of the territory of a nation as tents on the borders of the sea; the Prussians in their own ships were perfectly at home; that therefore it was against the law of nations to seek for enemy's property on board, and that since the question related to the law of nations, at any rate the courts of England had no right to erect themselves as judges, and that the business could be properly settled by negotiation only. In 1st Magens, page 463, Mitchell's representation to the Duke of Newcastle is recorded. For the answer, see page 487. Mr. Duponceau proceeded to state, that in consequence of England's judging in this case, Prussia proceeded to counteract her proceedings by liquidating the damages on her part and securing their amount. This proceeding of Prussia was generally complained of;—the courts of that country to whom the capture belonged had a right to give a decision in the case. So in the case before the court, he contended, the courts of admiralty to which the capture belonged, alone had a right to determine the question of prize or no prize.
If the case involved a violation of our territory, it belonged to the sovereign power of the United States to seek redress by negotiation, and on the principles of the law of nations the question would be determined. He cited 2. Bynkershoek, 177, to shew that if we act in an hostile manner against our enemies on the territory of a friend of both parties, the offence is given to the sovereign that has power over that territory.
He cited Woodifson's second lecture, 425, to prove the same point.—He referred to the 4th Cooke's institutes, 153, to shew, that before the merits of a case of capture on the high seas can be brought in the court of a neutral country, it must be shewn, that the country to which the capture is brought is in a state of amity and peace with the parties, and that the sovereigns of the countries to which the parties belong, are also in a state of amity and peace.
The case before the court involved a question of violation of the territory of the United States, the action is brought by British subjects and the court prayed in a collateral manner to determine a question in which the sovereignty of the nation is concerned, without giving an opportunity to that nation to be heard in its behalf. The British subjects who conceive themselves aggrieved, he said, had two remedies. In the first place they might apply to the courts in France, where a candid hearing would be had, and where security was given by Capt. Johanne in the sum of 50,000 livres, to answer any demands for damages wrongfully committed. Their second remedy was an application to the Executive of the United States; they could tell the Executive, that in consequence of a violation of the territory of the Union by a French privateer, we are immediate sufferers, we demand protection and expect redress.
It would then be incumbent on the Executive to bring the business before the proper tribunal, and a decision would be obtained by negotiation with the agents of the sovereignty of France. It would be, he remarked, for the good of mankind, if a tribunal could be established, having the same relation to all the powers of the civilized world, that our federal courts have to the several states, or that an analogous institution in Switzerland has to the separate Swiss Cantons: such a tribunal would often be able to settle disputes, for the determination of which nations now fly to arms. But in the present state of things, negotiation is the only means of determining these national questions; in the recent case of the ship Grange, these were the means—the result is known.
This case would have embarrassed any court of justice in the United States; but in the course of amicable negotiation it was settled to the satisfaction of the United States. No doubt if the present case had been carried to the same tribunal, an equitable decision would also have obtained.
He turned to 2d Vattel, ch. 6, sect. 65, 66, 67, 68, to shew, that nations have a right to do themselves justice; when justice is refused; but not a right in the first instance to attempt to do themselves justice through the medium of their own tribunals.
He next adverted to the treaty, and observed generally, that treaties should never be subjected to forced interpretations. He turned to 2d Vattel, ch. 17, to enforce that opinion. Vattel lays it down, that no part of a treaty should be suffered to be interpreted which is plain without interpretation.
He took notice of the effect of a breach of one article of a treaty, 2d Vattel, ch. 13, lays in strong terms, that the violation of one clause of a treaty renders null the whole, not only because of the connection between the subject of various clauses, but because clauses very dissimilar are often mutually granted, by way of compromise, and therefore the breach of one tends to destroy the balance intended by the framers of the treaty.
He recapitulated, and stated as the result of his argument: That prizes should be tried in the court of the country to whom the captor belongs; that a neutral power has no right to enquire into the validity of prizes brought into their ports, and expressly so by treaty, as it relates to France and the United States; and that questions in which the sovereignty of States is involved can only be settled by negotiation. Upon these grounds which he had endeavored to elucidate, his client pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court.
He concluded by remarking, that if the present application to the court was successful, we might in a similar circumstance be involved on the other side, and after having offended France by an encroachment on her sovereignty, offend Great-Britain in the same way. He closed by some observations on the importance of keeping clear of the disturbances which agitate Europe.
M. Sergeant, before the court adjourned, wished merely to turn to some authorities omitted by his colleague. The present contest is between English subjects and French citizens, and the United States have no immediate concern in it. Independent of treaty, the law of nations does not allow a third power to judge between two nations at war. 1. Vattel s. 18, and 3. Vat. s. 191, to this point. 2. Inst. s. 335, 38, 39, to the same. Douglas, p. 58c, lays, no case of an admiralty court of a neutral nation attempting to judge between two belligerent powers; the presumption, then, that none exists. The court adjourned to the afternoon.
(To be continued.)
[From Port-au-Prince papers.]
ADDRESS
Of the Merchants of the town of Port-au-Prince, to the National Civil Commissioners, on board the America, a French 74 gun ship in the road of Port-au-Prince, dated the 8th of April, 1793—[Four days before the severe cannonade took place, of which the particulars have appeared in former papers.]
AS long as we had any hopes remaining that an accommodation would prevent the misfortunes that are ready to burst upon Port-au-Prince, we did not think it our duty to trouble you in relation to the private concerns of our commerce. At present every thing reminds us that we have every thing to fear; we should be blame-worthy then if we did not exert ourselves, in the name of that national commerce whose confidence we possess, to make such representations as will serve to the advancement of its interest.
We shall not here undertake the defence of an unfortunate town, now for three years past the victim of perfidious conduct: we will beg leave to observe, however, that it is painful for its inhabitants to be accused of crimes without being suffered to exculpate themselves; to see themselves menaced with punishment without being informed what crimes are laid to their charge. Will the delegates of the nation condemn them without a hearing; will they indiscriminately involve in their proscription the friends of lawful government, the faithful children of the parent country, and those who are accused of being declared enemies of both?—No; it is impossible the breaches of the commissioners can harbor so cruel a thought. But, citizens commissioners, if we should for a moment flatter ourselves with a ray of hope, how can we otherwise then despair when we reflect that by your proclamation of the 21st of last March you involved us all in an indiscriminate sentence of suspicion, and held as certain truths the slanderous assertions of our enemies, carrying despair into every heart by your threats of a deplorable transportation of the merchants of Port-au-Prince from their homes and properties. What citizen would not tremble, however innocent he might be, to see his name on the list of the proscribed; to be separated from his wife, his children, his property, from those various great and sacred concerns which are entrusted to him, and to be dragged like a criminal to the terrible tribunal of the National Convention of France! In our hands remain the fortunes, and perhaps the last resources of those valuable men, to whom the republic of France owes its prosperity. In defending their interests, we defend those of the mother country, who will find in their generous and inexhaustible patriotism the means of resisting the enemies of liberty; and yet, for fifteen days past all our business is suspended. An embargo has been put upon our droguing vessels, that keep up a commercial connexion with all parts of the
colony, supply those with provisions which cannot be resorted to by vessels from foreign parts, and serve as transport vessels for the commodities with which our foreign ships are laden. And how shall we answer the private engagements we have made; how supply the demands of our correspondents in Europe, if all our abilities are thus fettered?
The armament in our harbor wears a menacing aspect, and the land forces collected from the western quarter, are brought hither to annihilate the last hopes of national commerce instead of aiding the citizens of Port-au-Prince and Croix des Bouquets to support them. At this instant the revolted are wasting and burning the rich possessions in Cul-de-Sac; instead of hastening to destroy the villains, you arm against a town that is actually at war with them, and which begs you for peace. You refuse all intercourse with us, reject the deputations we have sent to you, and flew every hostile disposition. Alas! do you perceive how much future mischief is the consequence of such steps. Do you know that we have on those here our papers and precious effects, and merchandise the value of which is inestimable? that neither these papers nor these articles of merchandise are our own, but that we are merely the trustees of the greater part? that their destruction would occasion numberless failures, which failures would bring on the ruin of national commerce, already shocked by the misfortunes it has sustained; and, finally do you know, Messrs. Commissioners, that you will be responsible for these losses, and that six millions of unfortunate people, who are supported by commerce, will with cries of despair demand vengeance on the National Convention.
Can it be your intention to set at defiance this awful responsibility, and thereby reduce us to despair? we can no longer doubt it, since the orders you have given to the Captains of the merchant vessels to anchor outside of the ships of war. What can be your designs? will you proceed to the last extremities against a town whose petitions you have refused to hear? we now declare to you in form that the order you have given to the mercantile Captains cannot be executed without essentially injuring the concerns of trade. Indeed, only cast your eyes on the situation of the vessels in the road, few of them are loaded or even ballasted; it would be next to impossible that they can go out of the harbor, or be conducted into the ground without being exposed to considerable damage, and probably to a total loss. Besides, most of the Captains have their cargoes on shore, which they are obliged to guard carefully: and how can they attend to this duty, if you order them away to the grand road, at so considerable a distance from their property. Will you answer for it, that on your attacking the town the commercial magazines will be respected; and would you not be held responsible for the losses that might happen through plunder or conflagration?
It is impossible to calculate the evils attending upon civil war; and not one of them but is a mortal stab to the interests of trade, Citizen commissioners, before you proceed to extremities, reflect that peace is for the advantage of this colony, and that France stands in need of her commerce, and that you yourselves will be held seriously responsible for the loss of either. What is the meaning of that general embargo laid solely on this port, which puts a stop to all our business and occasions immense losses to commerce. What means that obstinate silence you keep notwithstanding our pressing and repeated solicitations to you to explain yourselves—What mean those threatening steps you are taking against a town on whose fate a very large share of the national commerce depends?—In fine, what construction are we to put upon the orders you have given to the Captains of the trading vessels to retire outside of the ships of war?—Is it really your design to cannonade the town, and to destroy in one instant the merchandise and debts due to the national trade; for such will be the consequence of the least act of hostility on our part.
We repeat to you, it is a time when the revolted lay waste and burn the rich possessions on the plain, when they are ruining the sources of national commerce, that you think it your duty to excite a civil war in the western province by arming fourteen parishes against one. Is it not rather your duty to destroy the revolted before you think of re-establishing order in a place where all is quiet—and do you suppose you will not have to answer for the conflagrations and devastations which are daily committing in the plains, for want of the stipulated relief, which your proclamation has prevented the neighboring parishes from sending.
Citizen commissioners, we now declare to you that this address is to be printed, and to be transmitted to all the commercial settlements of the republic, that we transfer to yourselves all the responsibility we lay under to our constituents, and that we will notify to them, that if they suffer losses, we have used every argument with you to prevent them. You are ruining the colony instead of

saving it, and under pretence of avenging affronts which France has never received, you will soon plunge her into mourning, misery and consternation. Renounce then your intended attack, give peace to the citizens of Port-au-Prince, and be convinced that they are worthy of the French republic, and do not merit slander or abuse. Suffer truth to shine into you, and turn not away from the mirror we hold up to you. In a short time you will no longer be able to look at it; the misfortunes we predict will fall upon your own heads presently, and you will then regret that you had not prevented them. Ye depositaries of national confidence, the voice of commerce ought to have some influence on you. She has some right to a special protection, and you cannot without acting a criminal part towards your country, expose her best interests to destruction.
[The foregoing was signed by near sixty merchants, and trading companies in Port-au-Prince; the cannonade, notwithstanding took place on the 12th (four days after the date of the above) for the reasons mentioned in the commissioners letter.]
Foreign Intelligence, BY A LATE ARRIVAL AT BOSTON.
VIENNA, March 13.
THE latest accounts from Constantinople state, that the Sultan has publicly declared to live in peace with all the neighboring powers of the Ottoman empire. His highness does not harbor the smallest fear with regard to the armaments made by Russia in the Black Sea. The Russian charge d'affairs at Constantinople has declared that those armaments had no other tendency than to repulse in a proper manner the French, who had been talking of attacking the Crimea. The Sultan has likewise given orders to send Turkish pilots on board of all those French ships in the Archipelago, which for some time past have captured ships under Russian colours.
A deputation of 2000 Poiss have waited on his Imperial Majesty, requesting to serve in the Austrian army, to avenge the execution of Louis XVI. on those who voted for his death.
Our court will not only conclude a treaty of alliance with England, and likewise with Holland, but a certain convention will take place with those powers on which it will turn out to the advantage of all parties. A treaty is also to take place, between Austria and Prussia, and the importation of French wines into the territories will be entirely prohibited.
The accouchement of her Imperial Majesty, the Empress, is expected to take place the middle of April, and public prayers have been ordered for her Majesty's safe delivery.
APRIL 15.
The Senate of Venice lately gave orders to the French charge d'affaires in that city, to take down the arms of the French republic from his hotel; but the latter not having complied with these orders, within the time appointed, the senate caused them to be ignominiously taken down by some stone masons attended by an escort of 200 Shirris.
His Imperial majesty has sent orders to the prince of Saxe Cobourg, to send hither under a proper escort, the French general Bournonville, his adjutant, and the members of the French national convention, now state prisoners. His majesty has farther given orders to his serene highness, to enjoin the officer who commands this escort, to halt at the last post before Vienna, to transmit official notice to the Aulic council of war, of the arrival of the prisoners. We are assured that they will be imprisoned in the fortress of Spielberg in Moravia.
The states of the Austrian Netherlands have requested to send a deputation to our court; and their request has been granted.
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, April 20.
The post brings intelligence of Lord Elgin's return from Cassel to the King of Prussia's camp. He had been to Cassel to conclude a treaty, for troops to be furnished by the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel. The number is reported to be 8 thousand men.
It is strongly reported here, that the garrison of Mayence has offered to surrender, on condition of obtaining the honors of war, in marching out, and to take with them artillery and stores. The conditions have been refused, and the King of Prussia approaches nearer and nearer to
the town, in order to bombard it. It was expected the bombardment would begin on the 24th instant.
FRANKFORT, April 13.
Madame Daniels, mistress to general Custine, has been taken in men's clothes by the Prussians at Gunterblum. It is said that she had 36,000 French crowns with her.
COLOGNE, April 19.
At four o'clock yesterday morning general Dumouier and two other officers arrived at this place, and after changing horses, continued their route towards Schweltz.
LOWER RHINE, April 20.
During the course of this week 1500 French prisoners, and among them sixty two officers, of Custine's army arrived at Wesel, and were placed in the Citadel.
General Dumouier passed through Aix last Wednesday, Madame Sillery and Mademoiselle Egalite d'Orleans and Pamela, preceded him the day before.
BRUSSELS, April 26.
That part of the combined army, consisting of Austrians and Prussians, commanded by gen. Clairfayt, which threatened Lisle, and had taken several advantageous positions round that place, has quitted them, in order to advance against Conde and Valenciennes, which will probably be the two principal points of attack. While this movement was effecting, the corps commanded by lieut. gen. De la Tour, after having given a false alarm to the entrenched camp of Maubuge, advanced against that place to blockade it, and to cut off entirely its communication with Valenciennes. These measures were attended with the desired success.
On the 23d, a very smart engagement took place between the advanced posts in the neighbourhood of Maubuge. The French having advanced in great numbers, forced at first some posts of chasseurs, but soon after our people being reinforced, obliged the enemy to fall back in disorder.
April 12. On the 11th, 12th, and 13th, several bloody actions have taken place in the environs of Conde and Valenciennes, in which the French were found to give way, which, however, was not done but with the most obstinate resistance.
April 27. Yesterday, and the day before, 4000 Hanoverian troops passed here on their way to the frontiers to join the English troops. The fine appearance of this corps excited the admiration of all the inhabitants.
ARANJEUZ, April 10.
The Madrid Gazette has of late been filled with a register of patriotic offers, which still continue to be made with alacrity and zeal. The Duke de la Infantado has presented the king with a regiment of 1200 men, equipped in every respect—they have 8 battalion guns, 2 field pieces, and 4 howitzers, with the necessary ammunition and baggage, wagons, mules, and the Caisse du Regiment stocked with a large sum of ready cash.
Another Grandee has also raised a regiment on his estates; and several have paid to the Royal treasury a voluntary gift of 10,000. in hard and sterling money.
The Queen and all the ladies of the Court, are busily employed in making lint.
PARIS, April 8.
Yesterday five determined persons went out of Paris, who had sworn to arrest Dumouier or to kill him.
General Custine writes, that he has been betrayed by Gen. Newinger; that by treachery and the cowardice of part of the army, he has lost a decisive battle on the Ana. Gen. Newinger is gone to the enemy, who have seized the greater part of the artillery. Gen. Custine has left a garrison at Mayenne, and has retired to Landau. What adds to these new misfortunes is, that the army of Vosges has been abandoned by that of Moselle.
Extract of a letter from Lille, April 4.
Yesterday was very quiet—a camp is forming on the plains of Fauxbourg de la Mandeleine, and another at Cassel, between Bergues and Baeleul.
L O N D O N.
[From the Oracle of May 3.]
OFFICIAL.
Of the Sortie from Cassel.
Communicated in a letter from Lieutenant General Schonfeld to the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg.
YOUR Highness has probably been informed by Major Scheel, of the artillery, of the late affair of the 15th, according to the latest advices of the day and the information obtained from the prisoners and deserters from the enemy—their forte was disposed in three columns composed at least of 12,000 men. Their principal object of attack was Koffheim, and the grand redoubt of Masbach, when the enemy succeeded in penetrating the Hessian right wing, in a manner almost imperceptible; but the firmness of the Hessians did not permit them to finish their devastation; the enemy in turn irretrievably losing one piece of their cannon while those which they nailed up of ours may again be rendered serviceable. The post of Bicerie was also as warmly assailed, as defended by Major Spittaens, with two companies of dismounted chasseurs. The enemy left 60 men upon the ground on their retreat.
“Our left wing at Koffheim was attacked with 3 or 4,000 men and 4 pieces of cannon; they forced the gate, but did not long keep possession, as I had no sooner determined upon the mode of a combined attack than I ordered two battalions of my left wing, under General Vitenghoffen, to march against them protected by my batteries. On this occasion I regret the loss of Lieutenant Borstell, and six brave soldiers of the regiment of Croulaz. The Hessian troops were sustained by Lieut. Gen. de Landt, with 3 battalions of infantry, and two squadrons of cavalry, notwithstanding Koffheim was then vigorously attacked; in fine, the French were repulsed in all parts. The number of prisoners is not yet known.—The killed on the enemy's side are much more numerous than ours—they left 200 at least scattered about in different places. We have lost only twenty men; so that notwithstanding the non-importance of this rencontre, I cannot help esteeming it as a fresh proof of the decisive superiority which his majesty's arms will ever obtain over those of our enemies.”
May 4.
It is stated in a Jacobin paper of this morning, that the French executive council have given orders to evacuate Savoy. How this intelligence has come, is not stated, but it certainly is not improbable, as the French would find it difficult longer to maintain their usurped tyranny over that unhappy country. Why this circumstance should lead to a separate peace with England, we are at a loss to divine.
Ministers yesterday received letters from France, by the way of Dieppe and Brightelmstone, stating that on Friday last, the 26th inst, the Gironde party had gained a complete triumph over the Jacobine faction, and that Danton, Robespierre, Marat, and many others had been massacred, that they had appointed a new executive council, and that they were in full possession of the government. This news Mr. Pitt read to the committee assembled for considering of the means of assisting the disordered credit of the country; and lord Grenville mentioned it in the house of Lords; but neither of them declared that it came to their hands upon authority that they could implicitly rely.
It is said that the leading members of the executive council of France are well disposed to offer terms of peace to this country almost on any conditions. In all the debates in the national convention, the members seem to be particularly guarded in their expressions concerning this country; and it is well known M. de Chauvelin has been very ungraciously received in France from the opinion entertained that he was too impetuous in his behaviour towards our court, by which he precipitated his country into a war. It is further said, that the committee of general defence in Paris was reduced from 25 to 9, in order to conduct the public affairs in general, and a negotiation with this country in particular, with secrecy.
The stocks yesterday had a rise of above 1 per cent. owing to a report that peace would speedily take place. This report however, founded on letters from Holland, was by no means generally credited.
Santerre, the commandant general of Paris, has quarrelled with the convention and the commons of Paris, whose orders, he says, it is impossible for him any longer to obey. The general, it seems, contrary to the injunctions of these two authorities, has lately taken on him to degrade several officers to the rank of privates: and a decree of accusation may punish him as he deserves for the active part he took in the murder of Louis the XVIth.
Several of the sections of Paris have petitioned the executive administration to bring the bloody Santerre, the commandant, to trial, for his disobedience of the constituted authorities.
The Paris Journal of the 22d ult. the latest which has come to our hands, states that adjutant general Belfere had defeated the insurgents, so as to open the communication between l'Orient and Nantz. One of their chiefs, named Barillais, had been executed in the latter city, between which and Angers, following the course of the Loire, the insurgents still maintained their ground.
The commissioners of the French convention have imprisoned the commandant, and the chief engineer Dubourg, of the Port de la Liberte, near Brest, suspected of having neglected to take the proper precautions for the defence of that part of the French coast, against the expected invasion of the English.
Lord Boringdon, who returned to town yesterday noon from the continent, where he has been about 12 months, met general Dumouier on the road towards Vienna, three days journey on the other side of Liege. The Liegeois are extremely vexed they did not recognize the French general while he was in that city, as they certainly would have detained and made him accountable for some of the government property which he and his army pillaged during their stay there.
May 5. Yesterday a messenger came from the head quarters of the Prussian army, near Mentz, which he left on the 28th, when no material event had occurred. The same messenger passed through Brussels, on the 30th, where there was an equal barrenness of intelligence.—On the northern frontiers of France the operations of the combined armies are delayed by the necessity for bringing up magazines—on the east, Mentz and Landau prevent the progress of the Prussians.
May 6. The Jacobins indulge in the absurd hope, that a few weeks may see France dictating a peace to Europe. These gentlemen, it must be confessed, are very sanguine indeed.
The memoirs of Gen. Dumouier must be particularly interesting.—We hope he will not long refrain from gratifying the public curiosity by a publication of them. He writes with a facility and a force which must make literary composition very little labor to him.
Dumouier has declared that he would have saved Louis XVI. if he could have found one man of firmness and courage in the whole National Convention, the majority of whom were royalists in their hearts. What a severe retribution is this upon the character of the French nation!
Of the manufacturing towns affected by the present war, Manchester stands the foremost. The number of hands out of employ there is very great; and in consequence thereof, that place daily furnishes a proportionate number of men to the parties beating up for recruits.
The average price of sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending April 3, is 55s. 11d. per cwt. exclusive of the duty of customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof to Great Britain.
D O V E R, April 25.
A report is in circulation, that the royalist General Galtou, in Brittany, has been killed in an engagement with the patriots, was cut into 83 pieces, and sent into as many French departments.

ANSWER
Of Sixty Parishes in Brittany, encamped at Sorimiers, to the Proclamation of the Commissioners of the Convention.
"In the Name of the only true God, whom you have Abjured!"
"WE are forced to return an answer to your Third Proclamation, the only intention of which, like that of both the preceding, is a disarming, which good sense and reason will not permit us to comply with; nor to submit to your laws, which we will never acknowledge, were we even to lose the last drop of our blood. Your sanguinary character, well known by your massacres, with which you have had the audacity to reproach our chiefs, does not permit us even to doubt respecting your deceitful promise. Your inveterate declarations against our chiefs merit only the most profound contempt. Our most ardent desire is to give battle to your invincible army of patriots! Our surest shield against your arms is a GOD, the avenger of crimes, as is proved in different attacks in which we have lost only two men: and instead of fearing their fury, which you say you are unable to restrain, we desire that you may add to it your own personal courage. We see too well to suffer ourselves to be seduced by your deceitful speeches, of which we have been neither affected nor intimidated by any of your threats. The mask is removed, the yoke is shaken off—and even if it were not, we should do it at present. We abjure all submission to your laws and protection."
"It is needless for you to make any more mention of Districts, Departments or Municipalities, the armed force of which we are in no dread of. After the abuse which the first deputies made of our instructions and petitions, so often rejected, as not being conformable to your laws, we declare in the face of the universe, that we will acknowledge none of them, and that we adopt only the ancient laws, which we propose to re-establish by the sword, and the effusion of Democratic blood, if the patriots do not abjure their errors, and, as the first proof of compliance with our wishes, begin by setting at liberty our Clergy, and by concurring to raise that throne which you have overthrown. You are wrong if you think that the cause of the Nobility is the only end of the insurrection of the People—it is their own cause which they defend at present. Numberless acts of oppression, the decree of the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies, and those of the Convention, have forced them to take up arms, which they are determined never to lay down until you have dissipated their fears by a Proclamation. To accomplish this, grant the prayer of their petitions. Such is the will of all the united parishes. April, the First Year of the Reign of LOUIS XVII."
(Signed) &c. &c. &c.
DECLARATION of GEN. DUMOURIER.
"Having learnt that suspicions have been excited against my intentions, on account of a pretended connection supposed to exist between me and Philip d'Orleans, a French Prince, too well known under the name of Egalite, and being anxious to preserve that esteem of which I daily receive the most honourable testimonies, I take the earliest opportunity of declaring that I am ignorant whether there daily exists an Orleans faction; that I never had any connexion with the Prince who is supposed to be at the head of it, or who is the pretence for it; that I never esteemed him; and that since the fatal epoch when he tore asunder the bonds of blood and offended against all known laws, by criminally voting for the Death of the unfortunate Louis XVI. against whom he declared his opinion with atrocious impudence, my contempt for him has been changed into a just aversion, which leaves me no other desire than that of seeing him delivered over to the severity of the laws."
"With regard to his children, I think they possess as many virtues as he does vices. They have perfectly served their country in the armies which I commanded without ever showing ambition. I have a great friendship for the eldest, founded upon the best merited esteem, and I am certain, that, instead of ever aspiring to mount the throne of France, he would fly to the end of the world rather than be forced to it. In short, I declare, that if, after the crimes of his father, or by the atrocious results of the sons of faction and anarchy, he should find himself in such a situation as to waver between the virtues which he has hitherto shown, and the business of taking advantage of the dismal catastrophe which has plunged the sensible part of the nation, and all Europe, in mourning, and that if he should then be ever so far blinded by ambition as to aspire at the crown, I would devote him to eternal hatred, and entertain for him the same contempt which I have for his father."
(Signed) "DUMOURIER."
Francfort, April 20.
Philadelphia, June 22.
ABSTRACT OF FURTHER EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE, Received by an arrival at Boston, which drew London papers to the 7th May.
A fleet of 16 ships of war have sailed from Ferrol in Spain, to cruise against the French in the Mediterranean.
Admiral Goodall's squadron has taken 16 vessels from Marseilles and Cetté, and sent them for Gibraltar.
The combined army which had invested Lisle, under Gen. Clairfayt, has quitted its positions in the neighbourhood of that place, in order to advance against Conde and Valenciennes.
The bombardment of Mentz begun the 16th April.
A report on the 19th April at Ghent, stated that the Marquis de la Fayette died on the 12th, in the old prison in Berlin.—This wants confirmation.
A letter from Gen. Dampierre, of the 15th April, informs the Convention, that his army had gained a considerable advantage over the Austrians—who were driven as far as St. Amand. The letter is dated at Valenciennes. Gen. Dampierre's aid-de-camp informed the Convention, that a misunderstanding prevailed in the combined army.
A letter from the Commissioners to Custine's army states that the troops renewed the oath to die for Liberty—and that they burn with desire to engage the enemy. In the sitting of the 20th April the Convention decreed, that the petition signed by 35 sections and adopted by the Council General of the commune of Paris, is calumnious, and ordered copies of the decree to be sent to the departments.
The decree of accusation against Marat was adopted.
General Miranda on the 20th April published a justiciary memorial in exoneration of himself—in which he accuses Dumourier of Treason.
Marat is in the Abbaye prison, and Egalite is sent to Massilles—Brissot, Vergniaud, Petion, Genconne, Gorsas, and seventeen others, were impeached by the 48 sections on the 15th April. The combined powers insist on placing the Dauphin on the throne, as preliminary to any treaty with France—Savoy is evacuated by General Kellerman—The army of Custine is 36,000 strong, and is posted at Candelle, Laughterburgh, and on the heights of Weissenburgh—The French have invaded Switzerland, and have taken Soleure—One of Custine's aids, Coquebert, after accusing that General of being a traitor, shot himself—Blanchelande, late governor of Hispaniola, was executed the 15th April.
The English papers further state, that eight General Officers have been guillotined in Paris; on the 18th April Col. du Vaux, one of Dumourier's aids suffered, and Col. Vaujour belonging to the dragoons was afterwards beheaded.—Some accounts represent that order is restored on the coast of Brittany. The French have declared the trade of the Hanse Towns to be neutral. General Dampierre now Commander in Chief of the French army, had the title of Count before the revolution—he is about 42 years old—of a strong constitution, active, calm and undaunted in the midst of danger. The Emperor has sent his whole service of plate, worth two millions of dollars, to the mint.
In consequence of the late failures in England and Scotland, and the stagnation of public credit, it is stated that upwards of one hundred and sixty thousand men, women and children, formerly employed in the cotton manufactories in Scotland, have been dismissed and are in great distress—this it is said may be relied on.
General Custine has written a letter to the Convention, similar to Dumourier's of the 12th March last—his denunciation may therefore be speedily expected.
The widow Capet was still confined in the Temple, with her children and sister-in-law—nothing sanguinary appears to threaten them.
The Spanish Register ship, which was captured by the French Privateer Dumourier, and recaptured by the British frigate Phaeton, had on board 60 tons of gold and silver; and goods to the amount of 800,000 sterling. She is said to be as rich a prize as the Acapulco, captured by Lord Anson. The British, however, by law, are entitled only to salvage, about one half. Another Spanish ship recaptured by the British, had 36,000 dollars, besides gold, on board.
It may be collected from the late accounts of French affairs, that they still hold a good face towards the combined powers. In the various small actions which have taken place on the frontiers of France, the Austrians and Prussians appear to have acted on the defensive, the French being the assailants. The force from Cassel is represented as consisting of 12,000 men, which plainly shews that the French armies are formidable in numbers; as to Dumourier, it is difficult to ascertain his exact situation—it is pretty certain however that he has no army or body of men with him—nor is it probable that he will be entrusted with any command in the Austrian or Prussian armies. Should the account turn out to be well founded that the moderate party have attained a permanent ascendancy in the National Convention, there is every thing to hope in relation to an eventual establishment of the Liberties of France, on the basis of a just and equal government; consistency and stability, justice and moderation in the public Councils will produce universal confidence and destroy the spirit of faction and sedition.
The nation will act unitedly—and their measures proceeding from a centre of Union—they will be invincible. It appears by some late decrees that the Convention is retracting certain steps formerly taken which have doubtless had an inauspicious aspect on their affairs—particularly that of interfering in the governments of other countries. There appears to be two principal objects to engross the attention of the present French government—these are the quelling
internal commotions, and repelling the combined armies; till these are effected, it is difficult to conceive how they can make much progress in framing a constitution.
The combined armies, according to the last accounts have remained in a state of inactivity, from the 8th to the 14th of April. No engagement of importance, or siege, appears to have taken place; one reason assigned for this is, that they are waiting for the arrival of their magazines of provisions—but another very obvious one is, the strong fortresses between them and France; these are garrisoned by very numerous bodies of men—and defended by most formidable batteries of artillery—whatever may be the pretext for this tardiness in their operations, the effects appear to be favorable to France; it has afforded an opportunity for recruiting and reorganizing their armies—for throwing supplies into the fortified posts, and for recovering from the surprise and disorganization consequent on Dumourier's flight.
The insurgents in France have met with frequent defeats, notwithstanding which considerable bodies of them continue assembled in the department of Brittany—it is not stated that there are any disturbances occasioned by Counter-Revolutionists, in any other quarter.
A vessel arrived here from Cape-Francois in eleven days on Wednesday last. She brings no account of a French fleet's arriving there, as stated in a late Baltimore paper.
Another vessel arrived here on Thursday, in sixteen days from St. Eustatia. She brings no account of any engagement in those seas between the French and English fleets—so that the report from New-York of the former's having taken three sail of the line from the English, wants confirmation.
The Directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania have elected EDWARD FOX, Cashier, salary 1600 dollars—GEORGE HUGHES, first Teller, salary 1000 dollars—JOHN KNAPP, second Teller, salary 800 dollars.
DUEL between the Duke of YORK and Prince FREDERICK of ORANGE
A gentleman in New-York has received a letter from his friend in Bristol, via Boston, dated April 30th, in which he mentions, that "The Stadtholder issued an order for no troops, either Dutch or English, to be absent from garrisons or encampments—which the Duke of York took umbrage at, saying, none but a Briton should command a Briton, and spoke in such language as could not be brook'd by the Stadtholder's son, Prince Frederick of Orange; a duel was the consequence, in which the Dutchman was severely wounded."
Extract of a letter dated Edinburgh, 16th April, 1793, to a Gentleman in New-York.
"The country banks in England are exceedingly numerous—There has been a very general devaluation among them—above seventy of them have stopped payment; and many bankers and great merchants in London—Never was there such a general bankruptcy in England: And it seems not to be ended yet. The bankruptcies amount already from 15 to 20 millions sterling; so you may judge of the situation of England. Scotland, I am glad to say, has felt very little of the shock yet, and I hope will escape with what has already suffered, which is not worth mentioning when compared with England. The cause of the immense stoppages in London, is owing to the great fall of the funds of stocks, which fell from 96 to 71; but are now as high as 80 again. The London bankers, the country banks of England and the great merchants in London, were often full of money; and as no interest is given for money in England, they were always used to throw it into the funds; wherefore these three years past they never bought in, but were able to sell out with the advantage of 1 or 2 per cent. advance when they needed it, and had the chance of getting a half year's dividend if it became due in the interim. All Europe will feel the shock—Bills to the amount of 4 millions sterling, having been returned protested, including those returned to America; and money must be scarce abroad as well as in Britain; for owing to the present war with France, all the Kings of Europe are negotiating loans. Goods however in Britain have not fallen much, owing to the great bounties given to seamen and soldiers: No less than 120 thousand men have been raised, including the militia, for sea and land service, since the first of February last.
"A petition has been presented to Parliament by some American Merchants against that part of the Treason Bill which subjects to death, for ordering corn, grain, &c: that comes in America and touches in Britain, for orders to be sent to France, but their petition has been rejected; so that grain, provisions, &c. from your friends, that call at Britain for orders, cannot afterwards be sent or ordered to France.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Baltimore, to his friend in this city, dated June 14.
"I have just arrived here from the Havana, which place I left on the 6th June. On the 23d of May the declaration of war was proclaimed against France, at the Havana, and on the 25th the expulsion of the French from the territory, in 8 days, was published.
"On the 4th of June an extraordinary packet arrived, and in the newspapers brought by this vessel I read the account of an attack made by the inhabitants of Biscay on the town of Bayonne, which they took with the loss of four thousand men, and put thirty thousand Frenchmen to the sword; and I also read that the Catalonians had taken great part of Roussillon."
Died, on Tuesday last, the Marquis de BRIGNY, an Officer who served with reputation in the American Army during the war. His remains were interred on Wednesday.
In England, very suddenly, the celebrated physician, philanthropist and philosopher, Doctor LATTIMORE.
The attestation to the truth of the principles of liberty and free government, advanced in Mr. Adams's Defence of the American Constitution, is contained in the history and experience of society in all past ages to the present day—And at the present day this attestation is confirmed, being written in characters of blood.—He that runs may read.
The quotation from a Newbury-Port paper, in the last page of this day's Gazette, is made with a view to hold up to just applause and imitation the truly illustrious examples of unselfish benevolence therein mentioned—scarcely to be paralleled in this or any other country. How much superior is the honor which awaits such instances of living patriotic bounty, to the inscriptions on marble which celebrate those legacies that are only realized by the fear of death!
Extract from an exhortation to the Directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which appeared in Mr. Dunlap's paper of Thursday.
"Especially attention must be paid also to the business carried on by those you deal with, or whose notes you discount. All jobbing in lands or stocks, as it will very little aliment your bank, and is besides of a very precarious nature, should be touched as gently and as cautiously as possible. The real exporter of your produce, who pays the farmer his reward—the navigator and ship's husband, who bring their treasures from the deep—the wholesale and retail trader, who supply the community with its supplies of cloathing and of food—the mechanic and manufacturer; these merit your chief attention; the articles they deal in, ships, wheat, flour, sugar, dry goods, &c. &c. are of known value and solidity—you will risk little in trusting them, and if they have as may be expected, success, they will greatly serve you in their turn, by rich and valuable deposits. While those who deal in securities of less stable and certain value, must ever be more precarious for you to confide in, as the events of the hour may so greatly influence their ability to pay you."
The following extract from a late English paper is published not with the remotest idea of its applicability to any persons in this country.
"Indigent and worthless individuals, designing and desperate ones, no doubt there are amongst us—It is the will of that Being who disposes of human affairs, that there should be a portion of vice and depravity mixed up in the transactions of mankind, and from this we are not, nor can we be exempt. That persons of the evil description above stated, are some of them on the watch for, and ready to take part in the worst of crimes, offences against the state, is not to be controverted. If pretence or means can be devised to excite public disorder, men thus wickedly intentioned are forward to kindle, inflame and spread the mischief. Nor is it to be wondered at; for during the prevalence thereof, the malignity and baseness of their characters find scope to act—opportunities for the perpetration of crimes are multiplied, and the probabilities of detection or punishment lessened—Times of sedition, tumults and riots, are consequently to them a harvest, with no property or reputation to sacrifice, what have they to lose in such times? The spoils of plunder, the pleasure of beholding calamity and devastation, they may obtain."
"It is curious to observe how men of this sort come forth, and rear their heads when they suspect clouds of the kind in question to be gathering—Mark the then cheerfulness of their looks, the lightness of their deportment, the audacity of their air and language—whilst sober, upright and respectable citizens, who with well to their country, are grave, anxious and troubled, they are gay and triumphant—with them all is life, spirit and motion."
"Reverie or dispel such appearance, they droop again, hang their heads, are not seen or heard of, and sink into nothing—Silent, dark, dejected are they, wrapt up in the hopes of, and intent upon the project of brooding mischief."
The Baltimore Mechanical Society have addressed the President of the United States on his late Proclamation declaring the neutrality of the United States—expressing their full approbation of the same.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Ship Swanwick, Perry, Havre de Grace Minerva, Skinner, Liverpool Snow Cleopatra, Donovan, Newry Brig Dolphin, Catts, Port au Prince Experiment, Smith, Cape-Francois Minerva, Thompson, Cadiz & Madeira Sloop Juda, Paddock, Savannah Saly, Mitchell, North-Carolina Rambler, Carr, S. Eustatius Sally, Providence
PRICE OF STOCKS.
per Cents, 17 3/4 3 per Cents, 8 1/8 Deferred, 10 3/4 Full shares Bank U. S. 5 per cent. a div.
Hercule De Sercey,
From Leogane, Isle of St. Domingue, MAKES and sells all sorts of Mugs, Jugs, Porringers, Cups, Stew-Pans, Lamps, &c. in Tin, plain or japanned—He also mends old tin work. As he works cheap, he hopes for the public encouragement.
No. 23. Race-Street, near From-Street. June 22.
HERCULE DE SERCEY,
DE Leogane, Isle de St. Domingue, travaille en fer Blanc, de toute sorte de manieres a commande et a bon marche.
A Philadelphia, ce 22 Juin. 1793. No. 23. Race-Street, pres From-Street.

From the NEW-YORK DAILY ADVERTISER.
Messrs. Childs & Swaine, Be pleased to publish the following extract, that the liberal conduct of the revenue officers and merchants of Londonderry may be made public:
Extract of a letter from the master of the ship Mary, at Londonderry to his owner in New-York.
WE may think ourselves very fortunate, for through the imposition of Diver, we were near losing our ship. When he applied to you in New-York, little did we think we had a smuggler to deal with; in two of the casks which we supposed to contain flax seed, were concealed two hundred and four pieces of nankeens, which being suspected by the revenue officers, Diver went on shore and informed that he had nankeens on board; upon which Mr. Newburgh, the collector, seized the ship, telling me at the same time that he was obliged to do his duty, but that I might depend upon his assistance in my unfortunate situation. I immediately (by the advice of the principal merchants in this place) gave in a petition to Sir Hugh Hill Bart. the principal officer of his majesty's revenue, who being informed that every person on board the ship (Diver excepted) was quite ignorant of the nankeens being on board, ordered the ship to be sold at auction according to law; every body being convinced that I had not been concerned in the smuggling, generously declined to bid against me, and I purchased the Mary from the revenue of Ireland for ten guineas, when it was generally expected there would have been a fine of five hundred guineas on her."
From the IMPARTIAL HERALD—a new paper lately established in Newbury-Port—Massachusetts.
Extract from Topographical Sketches of the County of ESSEX.
PASSING over the river, we enter ANDOVER, divided into two parishes. The general appearance of this place is thriving, and, for an agricultural town, the buildings, public and private, are in a style of uncommon neatness and elegance. The land is of an excellent quality, and under handsome cultivation; particularly that part of it which is watered by Shawsheen river, a considerable stream which takes its rise in Bedford in the county of Middlesex, and, passing through Billerica, Tewksbury and Andover, discharges itself into Merrimack river, at this latter place. In the south parish are a powder-mill and paper-mill. From the former of these, large supplies were furnished to the army, during the late war. The paper-mill is yet in its infancy, but has already exhibited specimens of its manufacture of an excellent fabric. These are both owned by the Hon. Mr. PHILLIPS, President of the Senate, a native inhabitant of this town, whose unwearied attention to the political, manufacturing and literary interests of his country are too well known to need an encomium here, and have endeared his name to the citizens of the Commonwealth in general, and especially to those of the County of Essex. Under his auspices, aided by the liberal benefactions of his father, the late Hon. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, of Andover, and of the Hon. JOHN PHILLIPS, L. L. D. of Exeter, in the State of New Hampshire, an academy was instituted in this town, in the year 1778, and in the year 1780 an act passed the Legislature, incorporating the gentlemen above named, with sundry other respectable characters, by the name of "The Trustees of Phillips's Academy in Andover."
The appointments of this seminary are liberal. A preceptor, an assistant preceptor, and a teacher of writing and practical mathematics, are at present well supported, and the funds are said to be in a growing state. Within its original design some higher branches of learning may be taught as ability and opportunity shall arise.
* This name distinguishes this institution from a similar one in New Hampshire, called "Phillips's Exeter Academy," founded solely by the Hon. Doctor PHILLIPS, the funds of which are said to exceed ten thousand pounds currency. In addition to these foundations, this gentleman has been by far the most munificent benefactor to Dartmouth University. Such wise and pious distributions of property in the lifetime of the possessor are the most honorable display of genuine public spirit and disinterested patriotism; and the man who thus nobly triumphs over the sordid dictates of avarice or a mistaken self-interest, has surely a better title to be canonized, than a whole host of legendary saints and martyrs.
A Manufacturer of Snuff in Boston, in his advertisement, gives the following character of a particular kind, which he denominates VIOLET SNUFF:
"IT is made from pure clean Tobacco, and granulated in such a manner, as to absorb all superfluous moisture in the head—it does not clog but clears it, and will rather help than destroy the speech. From which there is not that noxious effluvia, and flaming the handkerchief, that proceeds from fine snuff."
"The odour which proceeds from this Snuff, plays around the delicate fibres of the nose, makes it expand to receive the grateful particles which diffuse themselves to the places designed, perform their office, and gently return and mix with the native air."
P L A N S OF THE City of Washington, Sold by the BOOKSELLERS, DOBSON, CAREY, YOUNG, & CRUKSHANK. TICKETS In the FEDERAL CITY LOTTERY, May be had at SAMUEL COOPER'S Ferry.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
IT has hitherto been the practice of this Seminary (as it was all along the practice both of the Old College and of the Old University) to examine the several rolls once a week—and, on every such occasion, to levy fines (except where corporal punishment was to be inflicted) on such of the students, as, during the preceding week, had been either late in their attendance, or absent altogether, at any particular session.
But this practice, however good the design with which it was instituted, was found to be attended with some inconveniences. The collection of so many petty fines was both troublesome and degrading to the Professors. Neither, after all, could the imposition of these fines be expected to produce the desired effect: for, if considerable, they operated rather as a tax upon the parents, than as a punishment on the boys; and, if inconsiderable, were but too apt to be disregarded. And, as to corporal punishment, the infliction of it so frequently, and in so public a manner, could not but tend to wear out that ingenious sense of shame and regard to character, which it is one great end of education to cherish and promote.
At a meeting therefore, of the Faculty, held April 18th, 1793, it was unanimously resolved,
"First, that all fines and corporal punishments for attending late, or for being absent altogether, at any particular session, shall be abolished.
"And, secondly, that, on the first Wednesday of every month, there shall be held a meeting of the several Professors and Tutors, for the purpose of examining the general roll, and comparing their several particular rolls; when an accurate statement of the attendance and behavior of each student, during the preceding month, shall be made out, and presented to his parents or guardians."
The Faculty confide, that by this extending, as it were, the authority of parents and guardians, there will be less need for the exertion of other authority: and that the apprehension of this monthly notice will be found to have at least as much influence on the minds of their pupils, as the apprehension of the weekly fines and punishments were found to have formerly.
Published for the information of the parents and guardians of the students and scholars at the University.
By order of the Faculty, WILLIAM ROGERS, Sec'y. Philadelphia, June 11, 1793.
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Philadelphia, June 19, 1793.
THE MEMBERS OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, Are desired to take Notice,
THAT the Constitution requires Payment of One Dollar on each Share, on the Second Monday (the 8th Day) of July next, on Penalty of Forfeiture of the Money already paid.
Such Stockholders as have not made their second Instalment, are informed, that Payment will be received at the Company's Office, No. 119, South Front-Street, either on or before the said Day, as they may find it most convenient.
EBENEZER HAZARD, Sec'y. June 8, 1793.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND and PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General Assembly, May Session, A. D. 1793.
RESOLVED, That an Act passed by this Assembly at the Session in May, A. D. 1791, whereby Jabez Bowen, Esq. Commissioner of Loans, was requested not to loan any Notes of a certain description, issued by the General Treasurer of this State for Monies due to the Soldiers of the late Army, in consequence of their having been fraudulently obtained, and the said Commissioner was further requested to retain said Notes in his Office until such future orders should be thereon made, as might consist with the principles of justice and equity, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as regards the detention of those Notes.
It is further resolved, That the General Treasurer advertise in all the newspapers in this State, and in the Gazette of the United States, a description of the Notes thus fraudulently obtained, with a caution to all persons not to purchase them.
List of Notes obtained from the Treasury Office by fraudulent Measures, to wit:
Table with 4 columns: When delivered, To whom payable, When payable, Amount of the Face. It lists various names and amounts from Sept. 25 to Dec. 23.
IN OBEDIENCE to the above recited Act of the General Assembly, I do hereby caution all persons from receiving any of the above mentioned Notes, without the most plenary proof being made that they were obtained from the office by genuine documents from the soldiers
who performed the service, to whom the balances were found due, or from their legal representatives or attorneys.
HENRY SHERBURNE, General Treasurer. Newport, May 14, 1793.
FOR SALE, 1360 Acres of excellent FARMING or TOBACCO LANDS,
LYING in the county of Amelia, in the State of Virginia, on one of the principal branches of James-River, within six miles of the latter, from whence it is navigable for boats of ten or twelve tons burthen.
Besides the advantages of these lands, for the farmer or cultivator of tobacco, they are supposed, from a small though successful experiment made by the late Col. Chiswell, to contain an abundance of metals, which, if not of a precious (as has been even supposed) are certainly of a very valuable kind. The better however to ascertain this fact, and place the purchaser on a safe footing, in so hazardous a business, as all those subterraneous researches, without the utmost certainty of an abundance of the desired ore, are supposed to be, every reasonable and necessary assistance or indulgence will be rendered those inclined to make the experiment, as well as every other necessary information given by the printer of this Gazette in Philadelphia, or JOHN NICHOLAS. Charlottesville, Virginia.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Philadelphia, May 27, 1793.
500 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS a certain THOMAS SLOSS GANTT, has lately made his escape from Baltimore County Gaol, to which he was committed under a charge of having robbed the Eastern Mail, on the 28th day of January last: Notice is hereby given, that a reward of five hundred dollars will be paid at this Office, to any person or persons who shall apprehend the said Thomas Sloss Gantt, and deliver him into the custody of the keeper of the said Gaol, or into the custody of either of the Marshals within the United States, so that the said Thomas Sloss Gantt may be effectually secured, and forth coming to answer the above mentioned charge.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Post-Master General.
The following is a description of the above-named THOMAS SLOSS GANTT: He is about six feet high, straight and well made, has light coloured hair, tied behind, fair complexion and has a down look when spoken to.
Albany Glass-House.
The Proprietors of the Glass-Manufactory, under the Firm of M'CLALLEN, M'GREGOR and Co.
BEG leave to inform the public, that they have now brought their WINDOW-GLASS to such perfection, as will be found, on comparison, to be equal, in quality, to the best London Crown Glass.
Having fixed their prices at a lower rate than imported Glass, they are induced to believe, that importations of this article will be discontinued, in proportion as their works are extended. They propose to enlarge the scale of this business, and as the success of it will depend on the patriotic support of the public, they beg leave to solicit their friendly patronage in the pursuit of a branch which will interest every lover of AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
All orders for WINDOW-GLASS, of any size, will be received at the Store of RHODAS and M'GREGOR, No. 234, Queen-Street, New-York, and at the Glass Warehouse, No. 48, Market-Street, Albany, which will be punctually attended to.
WANTED, six smart active LADS, not exceeding 16 years of age, to be indentured as Apprentices, and regularly instructed in the various branches of Glass-Making.
Also, three Window-Glass-Makers, to whom great encouragement will be given. May 1, 1793.
NOTICE.
THE STOCKHOLDERS in the SOCIETY for ESTABLISHING USEFUL MANUFACTURES, are requested to take notice, that the fourth and last payment is due, and must be made on or before the 13th day of July next, either to the Cashier of the United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit at New-York—the Cashier of the Bank of New-York—the Cashier of the Bank of the United States in Philadelphia—or John Bayard, Esq. in the city of New-Brunswick, in the State of New-Jersey. And that the shares of all persons neglecting to make such payment, and the monies by them previously paid, will then be forfeited for the common benefit of the said Society.
That the subscriber is duly authorized to make the requisite indorsements upon the certificates of shares, and that books of transfer are opened at his office in Front-Street.
NICHOLAS LOW. New-York, June 12, 1793.
Stock Brokers Office,
No. 16, Wall-Street, New-York.
THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE & SALE of STOCKS on COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States, will be strictly attended to. (t.t.) LEONARD BLEECKER.
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