Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-06-12 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
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[No. 108 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1793.
[Whole No. 430.]
FOR SALE, 1360 Acres of excellent FARMING or TOBACCO LANDS,
LYING in the county of Amherst, 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.
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June 5.
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 Magistrates 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.
Wanted to complete files of this Gazette numbers 79 and 80—Six pence each will be paid by the Editor for a few of those numbers.
Albany Glass-House.
The Proprietors of the Glass-Manufactory, under the Firm of
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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.
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City of Washington.
JANUARY 7th, 1793.
A NUMBER of Lots in this City will be offered for sale at auction, by the Commissioners, on the 17th day of September next. One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the residue at three equal annual payments with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Com'rs.
Extract of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington.
"Be it enacted, That any foreigner may by deed or will, hereafter to be made, take and hold lands within that part of the said Territory which lies within this State, in the same manner as if he was a citizen of this State; and the same lands may be conveyed by him, and transmitted to and be inherited by his heirs or executors."
"Provided, That no foreigner shall, in virtue hereof, be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen."
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For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
NOTWITHSTANDING there was considerable opposition to the adoption of the constitution, the measures of the new government were not only peaceably acquiesced in by the people, but the former enemies as well as the friends of the federal cause joined in rejoicing in its prosperous administration. To revive trade and manufactures, to give a resurrection to public credit and such energy and stability to government as would be adequate to the general good of the people, were the common subjects of conversation. All men, not in office, and almost all in office, whether federal or antifederal, joined their earnest hopes and wishes for this auspicious era so important to our nation to be hastened. Accordingly, Congress made all haste to arrange the government, and to adopt the measures which would have these expected good effects. The Treasury department was arranged—not a word said against it. The petition of the public creditors was presented to the first Congress praying for the full and permanent provision of their certificates. The Secretary was required to prepare a plan for this purpose; All America was informed of this in all the Gazettes—All America expected a just and full provision for the debt would be made at the next session of Congress. The creditors exulted in the near prospect of having justice done them. The price of certificates rose very rapidly. The people seemed to rejoice that the rise would either prevent foreigners engrossing them, or make them pay at an unusually high rate for what they might purchase. During all this period of bustle and expectation, the clamor against monied influence and a funded debt was not heard. So far as the public sense could be collected, it not only permitted but earnestly demanded the adoption of measures to place the public credit on a firm and honorable basis. Political integrity and honesty were urged as the only ground on which public faith could be securely rested. Not to be tedious on a subject which every man in America knows to be truly stated as above, it may be asserted, that the sense of the people at the time as well as the experience of the anarchy and disgrace of a feeble confederation, required such arrangements as the first Congress adopted. The report of the Secretary on the means of providing for the public credit was made to the first Congress in their second session. The candid part of our citizens may be appealed to, whether the first impressions were not remarkably favorable to that per-
fumenes. Scarce was there in Congress, or out, a variable of objection to funding at all. After an ominous lull, the attack was made on the pretence of extreme regard for the original holders. It is no secret that the object and the certain and known consequence of that scheme of discrimination was to defeat the whole provision for the debt. Yet surely those who urged the payment of six per cent. to the original holders, and half to the purchasing holders by a funding system, cannot pretend to condemn at this time of day any funding whatever. It was their declared plan to fund. The majority also were for funding, though not on the idea of discriminating. Who would have thought that the party would so soon have clamoured against a funded debt, a moried influence, a Treasury department, and a dozen other topics, which it is now the canting habit of this party to censure? This, however, is the pretext, and a faction is constantly attempting to oppose and embarrass all the measures of Congress—and threatening their abolition and repeal at the next session. This short view of their proceedings will show that the opposers of the systems of public credit are not warranted in their pretences by their own conduct when those systems passed, nor by the public sentiments at that period. They pretend to respect the sense of the people.—Yet Congress is called a bunch of knaves for obeying it. The funding of the debt was foreseen and not a corner of the union in which this expectation and the grounds of it were not made known many months before the act passed. Not a man in the woods or out of them who did not see or hear of the effects of this expected provision; for the certificates rose excessively in Sept. 1789, almost a year before the funding act passed. But when the storm of party broke forth in Congress against the Secretary's report, the holders of certificates became alarmed. Many sold out supposing that the debt would not be funded at all, and that it would run down and come to nothing, as the old continental money did. The price sunk, and while the subject remained for several months in total uncertainty, it was a game of chance whether the paper would be worth something or nothing. The Southern certificate holders sold out. It is said; and a clamor is raised against they, the holders south of the Potomac, have suffered loss by selling their paper.
Will any candid Southern man say, the blame is justly chargeable on that act, or on the men who advocated its passage. Those men uniformly and strenuously urged its passage. The delay was not their fault, but their misfortune. The losers are to be pitied, but they must acknowledge the friends of the funding act would have prevented their loss if they could. The causes and true history of the opposition to funding need not be suggested—but they were very unlike the pretexts which have since been adopted to give a color to their party. The hypocrisy of many pretences to republican purity, simplicity and jealousy, was not then held enough to raise its hyena cry. Time that unfolds many truths to the deceived and abused multitude makes them forget the uses to which it is to be applied. The discerning few will judge whether the party who are now moving heaven and earth against the government of our country, and whose hopes of success are chiefly placed on deceiving and enflaming—are not bound to answer for all the losses and resentments which have been the consequences of the delay of the funding law and of the gross and profligate misrepresentations which have taken place since its passage.
The following letters from La Fayette, during the first days of his captivity, are worthy of being preserved. They are copied from the (London) Star, of the 16th April; where the authenticity of them is vouched for.
NIVELLE, in the Netherlands, August 27th, 1792.
YOU must be much interested with my singular situation, and among the conjectures which your friendship formed respecting me, this certainly never could have found a place. I informed you that I would defend the constitutional throne with the same sincerity with which I combated the ancient system; and though the republican faction would have given me any terms to change my conduct, I never wished to have any communication with them. My conduct in the Assembly, by uniting against the villains a majority of two thirds, was about to strengthen the political machine a little, when the horrid crisis of the 10th of August overturned eve-
ry thing. I found in the constitution, as well as in my own indignation, and the interest of my country, every possible reason for resisting that rebellion, contrary to all the principles and to all the laws. The department of Ardennes, in which I was, the municipality of Sedan, all the citizens of which are excellent, and a part of my troops, were the first means of resistance which I employed. Three commissioners of the Assembly, among whom was Kersaint, have been arrested, amidst the acclamations of all Sedan, and confined in the castle, from which they beheld the National guard and the troops review, before the municipality, the civic oath to the nation, to the law, and to the king. A courier from M. Claviere, came to me with a passport, from which the name of the king had been erased. I sent him to prison. The longer corresponded but with the directory of the Department of the Ardennes.
Until liberty shall be restored to the king, and to the national Assembly, whom I consider as also in a state of captivity, I proposed to the other departments a coalition, and a kind of small congress, which should act in the name of the king, until the executive power should be restored to him, so that the suspension might be declared by a respectable majority of the kingdom to be a criminal act, to which France would not submit: But what can the most energetic efforts avail when terror reigns every where? The departments were slow in declaring themselves.—Besides, the administrators were expelled. Several
which I myself often exclaimed, were exposed to view with success; and the capital gave an example of timidity which was too much followed. Dillon, with the whole left wing of my army, from Dunkirk to Maubeuge, yielded to the commissioners, and did not even send me the troops which I requested from him, and on whom I most depended. Luckner assisted in the sitting at Metz, in which the suspension of the king was accepted by the municipal and administrative bodies, who were ready to die with fear, as well as their general. Behold then, all the civil surrounding authorities, and all the troops, except the main body of the army immediately with me, bend under the yoke! Several of my regiments had been seduced: and among others, I shall mention only one of the infernal manoeuvres employed, which was to enlist in the country, and to send me as recruits the ablest disorganizers.
The artillery of suspension, decrees of accusation, and in short, every thing which could destroy confidence, was about to be hurled against me, I had still some good regiments and a great number of officers. I wished to shut myself up in some strong place, and to erect there towards and against all, the constitutional standard; but it was represented to me, that being surrounded at the same time by the combined powers, and the power of the Jacobins, I should, by resisting, only shed to no purpose the blood of my friends, expose myself, and perhaps cause the King, his family, my own, as well as all the persons known to be attached to me, to be assassinated. During this time the commissioners, who were prisoners, requested me to grant them a conference, which, they said, would settle every thing. It was in my power, they said, (a la Columbe) to be the first man in the world. I readily believe, that by forgetting their crimes, by sacrificing the king,

and by joining their party, I should have become to them a chief of great importance to be gained over; but as I was perfectly certain that their proposal would not be reconcileable to my conscience, I had refused even to see them. In this situation I could do nothing else than quit France, as my death would have been no service to it. It is from the 19th of August that I date my egira. I repaired to Bouillon, with Meaubourg, Bureau de Puzy, and some other officers. We set out under pretence of reconnoitering, leaving my escort of Hussars on the road, I sent back all my Ordinance, (soldiers on duty, whose business it is to carry the General's written orders) to make those divisions of the army, retive who were in danger, and to inform Luckner, my own General, and the Municipality of Sedan, of my departure.
In a word, instead of carrying off with me as I might, my officers and troops, I did not with that the most scrupulous delicacy should have anything to reproach itself with.
Having arrived near Rochfort, in the country of Liege, from which we expected to proceed to Holland and England, we were informed that there was there an Austrian post which we could easily avoid, but which we had no reason either to seek for, or to fly from. With a view only of avoiding all mistake and all uneasiness, Bureau de Puzy quitted us to make to the commanding officer a declaration similar to that which I now send you. We were invited to approach, and you will be as much surprized as I was, when you learn that we were there treated as prisoners of war. Being conducted to Namur, and afterwards to this place, we are so closely confined, that I have a centinel at the door of my apartment, and I am not allowed to walk in a small garden which is at the bottom of the stair-case, we walk only in the court. This conduct towards us is as unjust as impolitic. You will readily perceive that it tends to alienate the Convention party, that is to say, the grand majority of the nation, from all confidence in the Court of Vienna, since it is very clear that we quitted our country for having defended royalty, at the same time as liberty. In short, whatever may happen to me, I shall always remain such as you have known me; but if justice and policy prevail over personal malice, I expect to repair soon to England, where I shall be happy to see you. (Signed) "LA FAYETTE."
Second letter of M. De La Fayette.
Arlon, Sept. 3.
"I am sensible how much your attention is engaged with my situation—I am well, this is all the satisfaction I can at present give to my friends.
"I wrote to you since the epoch—when the crimes of the 10th of August, the violence offered to all the constituted powers, the little support I found in the bold step of arresting the Commissioners of the Assembly, and lastly, the inutility of my death to the public cause, were so many successive reasons for determining me to quit France.
"Had the King been able to determine to quit Paris, as I proposed to him, after having taken measures for conducting him to Compeigne, he would have avoided great dangers and great misfortunes. But it is useless to recur to the past.
"I informed you how I resolved to quit France, in which I could no longer serve the cause of liberty, and in which I could neither promise with guilt, nor bend under the despotism of the Jacobins.
"I informed you also how I reached Rochfort, where there was a post of Austrians whom I and my companions neither sought for nor avoided. You must read in the papers a declaration made by us, as well as a list of the companions of my journey: the manner in which we announced ourselves, left us in no doubt respecting the right we had to pass freely. We were however conducted to Nivelles, and our confinement became closer every
day. A part of the officers who had accompanied me, have at length been released; the rest ought to have been so. Since Meaubourg, Alexander Lameth, Bureau de Puzy, and myself, were put into a carriage, under the escort of a major and three officers of infantry, with a detachment of hussars. At every place where we arrived, two centinels were posted at the door of our apartment, two at the bottom of the stair-case, and two at the street door, besides those posted at the stables and under the windows, so that we were in every respect treated not as prisoners of war, which was absurd, but as state prisoners, which is explained by the constitution of bayonets. We shall arrive to-morrow at Luxembourg—this is all I know.
"It is strange enough to see La Rochefoucauld and Barnave under the rod of the Jacobins—I and my companions in the chains of the Austrians. The friends of liberty are proscribed on both sides: I am not therefore in my place, but in a prison; and I had rather suffer in the name of despotism, which I have combated, than in the name of the people, whose cause is dear to my heart, and whose name is at present profaned by villains.
"I wish that the Duke of Brunswick may march speedily to Paris, in order that honest men may escape the dagger of assassins, and quit France in safety. But I am filled with indignation at the cowardice with which both towns and troops surrender.
"I know well that the crimes of the 10th of August contribute greatly to this, but it is necessary that the French nation should have at the same time energy sufficient to punish them, and to defend itself from suffering enemies:—my countrymen have had neither the one nor the other.
"In short, though my present situation is disagreeable, it is not disgraceful for a friend of liberty, and it is not what it would have been at the head of an army, under the monstrous government which the Jacobins have substituted for the constitution.
"You will perhaps ask, what are they going to do with you at Luxembourg? I really do not know; but they will not make me a man inconsistent in principles, nor pliable by the situation in which I now am. (Signed) "LA FAYETTE."
PARIS, April 2.
Dumourier in one of his letters to Bournonville, says, he designs "one part of his army for the deliverance of the found part of the Convention." M. Brissot, who is not only a found but a moderate patriot, and who does not wish to see the republic fall before Brunswick nor Dumourier, thus apostrophises, "deliver the found part of the Assembly! Pray who charged you with this duty, Dumourier? and suppose the Assembly was not free, where is the republican who would owe his deliverance to a Rebel? Where is the republican who is not persuaded that if any one man could "deliver" the Convention to-day, he could not also, enslave it to-morrow? Take care, Dumourier, if you march against the Mountain, the whole republic will become Mountain—and I, who have braved the daggers of our little Cromwells, am ready to present my breast to the bayonets of Monk. Do you really believe, Dumourier, that we are so reduced as to choose between our tyrants?"
It would be difficult to paint the indignation which seized on every mind, at the reading of Dumourier's traitorous letters in the Convention: It was thus Cæsar wrote when he marched against Rome; he also pretended to re-establish peace, and destroy tyranny; he affected not to aspire to the Supreme Authority.—"Dumourier! Dumourier!" cried Brissot, "I have compared thee to Cæsar—it is enough to say, Brutus waits for thee."
On the 25th of March, the patriots engaged a body of counter-revolutionists near Vannes, routed and killed 400 of them, who appeared by their dress to be peasants; but
upon a closer examination they were found to be men of very delicate shapes, white skin, and soft hands. This fact proves what we have suspected, that a large number of emigrant nobles have entered the country in disguise, and are the only counter-revolutionists we have to fear in the interior parts.
APRIL 5. A whole Department has denounced Marat, and declared that his head must fall, or the public tranquility cannot be restored.
LONDON, April 19.
The Duke of York has caused a Monument to be erected at Dord, to the memory of Lieutenant Western, who so gallantly perished in the defence of Williamstadt.
Large bodies of emigrants are daily embarking for Ostend, to serve in the army of the Prince de Conde, as well as in that of the Prince de Saxe Cobourg.
It is expected that Dunkirk will be attacked on the 20th inst. The Guards were to march to Nieuport and Furnes this day or to-morrow. It is said there are only 60 regular troops in Dunkirk.
The French are so completely blocked up at Dunkirk by our cruizers, that not a privateer or gunboat has made its appearance in the channel for many days past.
The Municipality of Dunkirk is said to have prohibited all further intercourse between that port and Ostend. In this case, it will become difficult to procure the French Gazettes.
A privateer belonging to Guernsey has taken and sent into Falmouth a French ship, laden with indigo, valued at 40,000l.
A Liverpool privateer, belonging to Mr. Tarleton of that place, has taken and sent in a French West-Indiaman, valued at 32,000l.
The Irish smuggler, called the Morgan Ratler, which has been in the smuggling trade since she was launched, is converted into a privateer, armed, victualled, and furnished with a commission from the chamber of Vice Admiralty at Brest.
Marquis Cornwallis was expected to leave Bengal in February last.
The French Gendarmerie, who were at Breda, are arrived at Lille, with their artillery, arms and baggage. The rest of the garrison, with that of Gertrudenburg, took a different route; but whether to join Dumourier or not, is not yet known.
Blancheland, late Governor of St. Domingo, is now under trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
APRIL 20.
The intelligence which we communicated on Monday last, respecting Generals Miranda, Stingen, and Lanoue, we were hopeful would have proved unfounded. Subsequent advices, however, put it beyond doubt, that they had suffered on the scaffold. The same advices state, that Santerre, the Commandant General of Paris, had been appointed Commander in Chief of the French armies.
It is also confirmed, that Conde has surrendered to the Austrians.
Valenciennes is regularly invested.
On the 13th inst. Marat was arrested, in consequence of a decree of the National Convention, and committed to the prison of the Abbaye.
Memorial presented on the fifth of this month, by the British and Imperial Ministers to the States General.
"High and Mighty Lords, It is known that towards the end of the month of September last year, his Britannic Majesty and your High Mightinesses gave, in concert, a solemn assurance, that in case the imminent danger which then threatened the lives of their most Christian Majesties and their Families, should be released, his Majesty and your High Mightinesses would not fail to pursue the most efficacious measures to prevent the person who might render themselves guilty of so atrocious a crime, from finding any asylum in your respective states. This event, which was with horror foreseen, has taken place; and the divine vengeance seems not to have been tardy. Some of these detestable regicides are now in such a situation, that they can be subjected to the sword of the law. The rest are still in the midst of a people whom they have plunged into an abyss of evils, and for whom Famine, Anarchy, and Civil War, are about to prepare new calamities. In short, every thing that we see happen, induces us to consider as not far distant the end of these wretches, whose madness and atrocities have filled with terror and indignation all those who respect the principles of religion, morality and humanity."
"The undersigned, therefore, submit to the enlightened judgment and wisdom of your High Mightinesses, whether it would not be proper to employ all the means in your power to prohibit from entering your States in Europe, or your colonies, all those Members of the seceded National Convention, or of the pretended Executive Council, who have directly or indirectly, participated in the said crime; and, if they should be discovered and arrested, to deliver them up to justice, that they may serve as a lesson and example to mankind."
"Done at the Hague, this 5th of April, 1793. (Signed) "AUCKLAND." "LOUIS C. STAHRENBORG."
The suspension of all regular communication with France has obliged us to be more brief in some of the details we have laid before the public since that period than we could have wished. We are now enabled to give further interesting particulars respecting the conduct of the convention, on hearing of Dumourier's attempt to re-establish Royalty in France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
In the sitting of the 4th inst. Lacroix gave an account of Dumourier having arrested Bournonville and the commissioners sent to bring him to the bar.
The committee of public safety immediately met. The constituted authorities in Paris and the executive council were summoned to the bar, and ordered to preserve the peace of Paris. Santerre, the commandant general was sent for, and ordered to concert with the civil magistrate in all measures which the circumstances might require.
The convention decreed, that the executive council should instantly nominate a general to succeed Dumourier, whom they declared a traitor; forbade him to be obeyed, on pain of death and confiscation; and offered a reward of three hundred thousand livres to whoever should bring him dead or alive to Paris.
The executive council announced that they had taken the necessary measures for the peace of Paris; and proposed that the convention in imitation of the constitutional assembly, should take the reins of government into their hands, and appoint generals.
A deputy from Valenciennes announced, that the best spirit reigned in that city, notwithstanding the efforts of Dumourier; that there were 10,000 men in the camp at Maubeuge, and 6,000 at Conde.
Robespierre inveighed against Brissot, and moved a decree of accusation against him—Brissot replied, and the convention passed to the order of the day.
MONDAY, April 8.
A letter, dated St. Gaudens, April 1st, was read, stating that general Sabudet had entered the valley of Aran, in the Pyrenees, belonging to Spain, with two columns of French troops, and had taken possession of it. The letter added, that he had taken 80 prisoners, with 60 muskets and 6000 cartridges, with the loss of only two chasurs killed, and four wounded.
Breard moved, that the assistants of the minister at war, those of the minister of the Marine, and Dumas, director of one of the offices of the minister at war, should be kept in a state of arrest.—Decreed.
It was reported to the Convention, that 35,000 pounds weight of gunpowder had been removed from Cassel to Lille. In the camp of the traitor Dumourier, who wished to retain none but such as were attached to his cause, desertions multiplied daily. The report further stated that such of Dumourier's troops as continued faithful to him were united to the Imperialists.
Carnot and Lefage announced that they had transmitted to the Convention a trunk belonging to Dumourier, in which were found several papers respecting his treachery, and various books, such as the lives of illustrious men, an atlas, &c.
The department of the Meuse denounced General Chazot, as a traitor to the Republic.
Bentabol moved that a decree of accusation should be passed against Miranda, Stingen, Mazienfsky, and Lanoue; that they should be delivered up to the Revolutionary Tribunal.
Some members having observed that such a decree was not necessary, and that it would be sufficient to read the papers which tended to criminate, these papers were ordered to be read to-morrow.
The ci-devant Duchess of Orleans requested and obtained permission to be confined in her apartment.
A member who read a letter from Sables d'Olonne, dated April 2, announcing that the rebels had appeared in force before that post, and, under cover of the night, had begun to throw up trenches for batteries, but that their works had been destroyed by a heavy fire from the town. The rebels fired red hot shot, but a ball from the town destroyed their furnace, burnt some of their carriages, and occasioned an explosion which killed a number of people. The counter-revolutionists then fled, and were pursued by the patriots, who killed 3000 of them, and took 14 cannons and 11 carriages laden with bread.
PERMANENT SITTING—APRIL 11.
The sitting of this day was entirely occupied by the reading of the dispatches from the departments in a state of revolt.
In the Department of Finisterre, Cotes-du-Nord, and la Vilaine, the insurgents had been completely subdued; in the latter, many of the ringleaders had perished on the scaffold. The communication between Rennes and Nantz had been re-established, and General Berruyer was to attack the Rebels.
FRIDAY, April 12.
Buzot demanded, that the Appeal nominal should be proceeded on, for the election of four Members to repair to the Department de l'Orne, there to collect particulars respecting the motives of Philippe d'Or-

leans' journey to Sees. He next proposed, that the Convention should decree the examination of the Members denounced by Robert-Spierre.
"I know," said Marat, "that wicked and criminal faction of Guadet, Vergniaud, Brissot, and Genoune, aims at concealing its crimes under the veil of an imaginary conspiracy. The criminality of this faction, many of the members of which have, however, in my opinion, been led astray from their allegiance, is no longer a mystery, since Dumourier has removed every doubt on that head, by declaring in their favor. It is not for me to decide whether Philippe Egalite ought to be brought to trial, upon a charge of treason; but this I know of him, that he is a man without morals, without capacity, and without honor. Whether or not he is culpable, I leave to the wisdom of your researches."
"It is, however, no longer doubtful, that the younger Egalite, who has followed Dumourier, has been guilty of Leze Nation. I therefore demand that he may be declared no longer under the protection of the law; and that the Decree framed against his worthy master in treachery may be extended to him. I wish also to see whether you will real y proscribe the family whom you to appearance pursue; and I demand against all the fugitive Capets the decree you have passed against Dumourier. As to the authors and abettors of the Faction of la Gironde, I wish to see them in possession of every possible means of freeing themselves from the stigma with which they are covered by the public opinion."
Here violent murmurs arose against the Speaker; and it was demanded that he should be called to order, and reprimanded. The Assembly now became very tumultuous, inasmuch that the President put on his hat.
In the course of a few minutes, the tumult was appeased, and Lecointre Puyravaux, obtained a hearing. He combated the propositions of Marat which he found very impolitic, since they might induce the enemy to make reprisals, and cut off the four Commissioners imprisoned at Tourney. He next intimated, that certain persons would perhaps be very happy to see the ci-devant prisoners assassinated, to the end that their accomplices might not be come at.
Here Lecointre was interrupted by the cries of the Mountain, several of the Members on that side observing, that none but the friends of the Capets, and Statesmen, could entertain such a wish.
At these words, the tumult redoubled. All the Members on right the side, among whom Duperet was particularly noticeable, each with a sword cane in his hand, the weapons drawn, hurried in a body towards the Mountain. The President instantly put on his hat, and it was a considerable time before tranquility could be re-established.
Lecointre wished to resume his harangue, but was interrupted by Calon, who demanded that Duperet should be ordered to the prison of l'Abbaye, for having sword in hand, menaced some of the Deputies.
This motion gave rise to an agitation, which constantly seeming to draw towards a conclusion, and as constantly renewed, was of a very considerable duration.
Duperet at length ascended the Tribunal. "The favor," said he, "I have to ask of the Convention and the Tribunes, is a calm hearing—a favor that is not refused to the greatest criminals. If I am culpable I am not the man who would wish to withdraw himself from the avenging arm of my Fellow-legislators."
"For nineteen months, in the Legislative Assembly, did I combat against Despotism and the Penitians."
"Since I have held a seat in this Convention, I have unceasingly striven against a band of miscreants, who have long sought the destruction of the common weal."
"In vain for the last two days has an attempt been made to come at a knowledge of the accomplices of Dumourier, Lecointre has for more than an hour endeavored to combat the proposition of Marat, but has not been able to obtain a hearing. In the interim, a part of this Assembly was excited by an emotion of indignation.—This impulse I followed; and whilst I was stationed in the centre of the Hall, I perceived a Mountaineer level a pistol at my head. Seized by a natural emotion, and impelled, if I may so express myself, by a fury, I drew my sword. But I had still another weapon—a pistol; and if I had merely made a thrust at one of my colleagues, I would instantly have blown out my brains." The Assembly at length put an end to this farcical contest, by proceeding to a nominal appeal on the nomination of commissioners to proceed to the Department of de l'Orne.
ST. JOHN'S (Antigua) May 7.
The sloop Favorite, Wm. Hastie, master, arrived here yesterday from Gibraltar, which place she left on the 10th of April. Capt. Hastie reports as follows:
That a 50 gun ship and 2. forties, with the 3rd regiment and a battalion of the train of artillery on board, sailed with him, bound to Barbadoes—and that he spoke the Woolwich, one of the 40's, on the 14th of that month, about lat. 30. co. long. 17.
That sixteen Spanish ships of the line passed the Rock of Gibraltar, bound to Carthagena, to join those that were there, and that the whole were to join Lord Hood, who was expected at Gibraltar, with 25 sail of the line.
That France had declared war against Portugal and all the eastern powers, and that when he left Gibraltar there were laying at that place a Portuguese ship of the line, 6 frigates, 2 brigs and a cutter.
That Gen. O'Hara had arrived there with a 50 gun ship, a sloop of war, and two brigs: that a prodigious number of prizes from America,
Martinique, Guadalupe, and St. Domingo, had been carried in there; and that in the beginning of March there were only 7 sail of French line of battle ships laying at Brest.
That a French store-ship, carrying 6 eighteen pounders, and 400 troops on board, had been taken by the Scout sloop of war, and carried into Malaga, after an engagement of 6 hours. She was laden with stores for the French fleet.
May 23. Admiral Gardner, with a part of his fleet, are gone to Barbadoes to wait the arrival of the troops from the different islands, intended for the attack of Martinico; Commodore Thompson is now cruising off that island.
We have been favored with the perusal of a letter from a gentleman at St. Martins to his friend in this town, dated the 21st inst. which gives an account that on Saturday night last, a party from the Dutch quarter, surprised them, and took the fort without the least accident happening on either side, and that the Dutch colors are now flying all over that island.
United States.
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) May 21.
On Monday last came on, in the Federal Circuit Court, under the authority of the United States, in this town, before judge Paterson and judge Bee, the important cause of William Higginson, surviving co-partner of Greenwood and Higginson, late merchants in London, against William Greenwood, surviving co-partner of Legare and Greenwood, of Charleston, and George Crofts and company of Georgetown, merchants. It was by a bill on the equity side of the Court. Mr. Read and Mr. Pringle were counsel for the complainants; Mr. Edward Rutledge and General Pinckney for the defendants.
It appeared, by the pleadings and the evidence, that in 1771, the defendants wrote to the complainants to supply them with goods, &c. and agreed to allow the usual commission on the purchases, and five per cent. interest; that the accounts of the complainants should be settled and balanced every year, and interest charged on the several invoices after a certain period from their respective dates; and, if not paid at the end of each year, should be added to the principal, and draw interest also at five per cent.
This appeared to be according to the custom of merchants engaged in that trade at the same time. The dealings between the parties were continued for several years, and the accounts of the complainants were stated according to the agreement, and sent over to the defendants, until the 21st of December, 1777, which they acknowledged to have received and to be just.
Mr. William Greenwood, one of the defendants, and the only surviving co-partner of both the companies in America, was put in the confiscation list in South-Carolina, and his property sequestered for the use of the state in 1784.—He afterwards went to England, and the complainant there applied to him to acknowledge a stated account against Legare and Greenwood, which was made up to the 21st December 1783, to the amount of about 34,000l. in which compound interest was charged for the whole time. He desired this might be signed and acknowledged, for the purpose of recovering it of the commissioners of confiscated property in South-Carolina, which the defendant signed accordingly; but, in his answer to the bill he avers that he was under arrest, and signed it without examination. There was some evidence to this point.
Judge Bee did not think it amounted to a legal defence; yet, as the account was signed and acknowledged for the purpose and with the views mentioned in the answer of the defendant, it ought not to bind him; and, particularly, that it ought not to bind the executors and representatives of deceased partners, being done long after their deaths, and of course after the termination of the co-partnership. The accounts against the firm of Crofts and Co. amounting to about 16,000l. were never signed.
The cause was argued with great ability, learning and eloquence on both sides.
The complainants contended that they were entitled, by virtue of the contract, and the custom of the trade, to have the principal and interest on their debt during the whole time, and interest on the accumulation each year. Many cases from the law were produced in support of their claim, and the treaty of peace was particularly insisted on.
The defendant contended that no compound interest ought to be allowed after the mutual dealings of the parties had ceased; and that no interest ought to be paid during the war. As all communication was prohibited by the Sovereign power of each nation, it was unlawful, and indeed impossible to make remittances: That the complainant being an alien enemy, had no power to sue, and had no demand during the war: That his claim was forfeited by the laws of nations; and that the treaty of peace only restored to him the right he had at the commencement of the war: That the word debts in the treaty did not include interest of course; and that in treaties where interest is intended to be included it is always mentioned: [Several extracts from treaties were read in proof of this.] That the act of a sovereign of a state is the act of every individual who composes it; and that the complainant did, in fact, hinder the defendant from making payment, and therefore he should not have interest, which is damages for detaining the debt; besides, that in a great national calamity, where the defendants could receive no profits, no interest ought in equity to accrue. This appeared to have been the law in Ireland, and ought to be so here, &c. The Judges delivered their separate opinions with great clearness and precision.
Judge Bee was of opinion that the complainant should recover interest, according to contract, till 1777, on both debts; that the interest should then cease till November 1782,
the time of signing the provisional articles of the treaty of peace, and should then commence according to the contract till paid.
Judge Paterson was of opinion that the compound interest should be paid on both debts during the time the parties had mutual dealings, to wit, on the 16,000l. till 1777, due from George Crofts and Co. and then to draw simple interest at 5 per cent. till paid, that being the time the dealings ceased; and that the 34,000l. draw compound interest till December, 1783, the time the dealings with Legare and Greenwood ceased, from which time it should draw simple interest at five per cent. till paid. He was of opinion, that the treaty of peace restored the complainants to all the rights they would have had if no war had been; and that the interest was a necessary consequence of the debt, and was intended by the treaty of peace.
The court being divided, no final decree was made.
We are sorry it is not in our power to give a more full and accurate account of this case, as the arguments of the council, and the opinions of the judges, would afford much entertainment and instruction to the gentlemen of the law.
The trial was not over until Thursday morning.
RICHMOND, May 30.
DUMOURIER.
Letters from Messrs. Anderson and Co. of London, an American house, as late as the 7th of April, say nothing of the defection of DUMOURIER—of course we may infer, that the various publications on this subject are fabricated lies—and that this GREATEST OF MEN is still a fast Republican, ready as he has been, to expose himself sword in hand, against the foes of FRANCE, of LIBERTY, and of MAN—it is wonderful to remark the zeal which certain people manifest to circulate tales which may darken the prospects, which hope opens, as relates to France; 'tis a species of folly and madness, which verifies the expression, "Quos Deus vult perdere primus demens"—"Whom God intends to destroy, he first infatuates,"—for, concluding from the disposition which pervades this State 'tis not to be doubted in case the struggles of France should become more serious—that this mongrel herd of pseudo-politicians and lye-mongers will be disgracefully situated, and compelled again to fly from the land of liberty, or become the conspicuous victims of their own folly—and it may not be presumed, that a people will hesitate to act decidedly, because of a governmental veto, who a few years ago disregarded the edict of king, supported and enforced by the whole British nation, and legions of German cut-throats.
SALE M (Mass.) June 4.
Town-Meeting on the President's Proclamation. AT a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Salem, legally warned and assembled, at the Court-House, on Friday the 31st of May, 1793, for the important purpose of taking into their serious consideration the pleasing and timely Proclamation issued by the President of the United States of America, enjoining upon the citizens thereof "to pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers"—Elias Hasket Derby, Esq. being chosen Moderator.
Voted unanimously, That the Proclamation issued by the President of the United States be read.
Voted unanimously, That the town of Salem, feelingly impressed with the highest sense of the wisdom, goodness and importance of the President's Proclamation, do address the President of the United States on that subject.
An address was then laid before the town, and read.
Voted unanimously, That the town approve of, receive and adopt the address presented; and that a committee of eighteen persons be chosen to sign and inclose a copy of the same, in behalf of the town, to the President of the United States of America, at Philadelphia.
ALBANY, May 27.
By a gentleman who left the Little Falls on the Mohawk river on Saturday last, we are informed, that about two hundred and fifty men are employed in cutting through the rocks, with a fair prospect of accomplishing the important object in view, with less difficulty than was anticipated by many.
From the Northern Canals we also learn, that they are going on with great spirit—the men are well fed and accommodated, and instead of cutting their way through solid rocks, as was expected, it proves to be a flat soil, easily loomed by a large plough and eight oxen.
From a person who lately visited the wonderful Falls of Niagara, which are now ascertained to be near 150 feet perpendicular, the ice was not dissolved at the bottom, and formed a conical or pyramidal appearance of some extent and height; this added considerably to the majestic and marvellous prospect; that this prodigy of nature always seems to have; the rainbow also, which of a fine sun-shiny day is ever conspicuously visible, materially enhances the value of this unparalleled view. This gentleman, who has frequently for some years past minutely investigated these cataracts, further acquaints us, that the Table Rock over which the immense sheet of water, which comes from the upper Lakes falls down, is considerably excavated; this is unaccountable, as one would imagine such a mass of water rolling over it, would prevent this, and counteract the vapour or spray below, which is the only reason that can be assigned for this phenomenon.
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NEW YORK, June 7.
On Wednesday the 5th inst. 120 Gentlemen dined at the Tontine Coffee-House, being the anniversary of laying the corner stone of that building, at a splendid entertainment provided
by Mr. Kyde, and conducted with much satisfaction to all present.
After Dinner the following Toasts were drank.
 1. The People.  2. The President of the United States.  3. Governor of the State of New-York.  4. Chief Justice of the United States.  5. Secretary of the Treasury.  6. Agriculture and Commerce.  7. Science and the useful arts.  8. The fraternity of freemen.  9. May our laws be mild in their influence, and equal in their operation.  10. May the advocates of war alone feel its miseries.  11. May the commissioners of the Indian treaty secure a permanent peace.  12. May the nations of Europe bury their animosities in the tomb of despotism.  13. May success attend our hopes, and enjoyments our wishes.  14. The American fair.  15. Peace, freedom and happiness to all mankind. 
Volunteer from the Chair.
Success to the Tontine Coffee-House, and may it long continue to reflect credit on the subscribers.
June 10. A few days since arrived from London, the Chemical Apparatus for Columbia College; and also a numerous and well chosen collection of Anatomical Preparations. It must give pleasure to every lover of his country to observe the progress of science among us, who while the Europeans are engaged in political commotions and wars, are cultivating with assiduity and success the arts of peace. The introduction of this chemical and anatomical apparatus, evinces the liberal and enlarged plan of education which has been adopted under the sanction of a generous Legislature and patriotic Trustees, and cannot fail in a special manner to facilitate and complete the study of Physic in this seminary.
Philadelphia, June 12.
The frigate l'Embuscade, passed the light-house on Friday evening, and fired several guns during the night, as signals, it is supposed for her consort. The next morning she was observed at the distance of 5 leagues, standing East; and about one o'clock the same day captured the brig Catharine, Capt. Dridale, of Halifax, from Kingston, Jamaica, bound to this port. The crew of the brig, except the Captain, on finding the frigate overtake them, took to their boat, and were taken up by a pilot-boat off Turtle Gut. The prize was sent into New-York.
The French fleet, for some time past expected at Martinique, had not arrived when Captain Patton, of the brig Ranger, failed from thence, 18 days ago.
Capt. Smith, of the brig Aurora, in 19 days from Port-au-Prince, informs, that on the 25th of May, she was chased by the British privateer cutter Speedwell, Capt. Berry, of 8 guns and 60 men, and boarded by an officer and 6 men off Heneaga, who kept possession of the vessel about four hours, in search of French property. They informed Capt. Smith that they captured the Schooner Ann, of Philadelphia, and the Regulator, of Baltimore, Capt. White, from Jeremie, to this port, under pretence of having French property and passengers on board. In one of these vessels was a considerable sum of money.
By the last accounts from Paris, it appears, that the moderate party in the National Convention are the majority—the Mountain, notwithstanding the applause of the tribunes and the galleries, have been in the minority in several motions made by the steady and consistent friends of liberty.
M. Bouchotte is appointed Minister of War, in the room of Bourdonville.
Gen. Dampierre has accepted the command of the army.
There are various reports respecting the capture of several French places in the West Indies by the English—but Marine and Indian intelligence is as uncertain as that from any quarter of the globe—Time is continually refuting the most of it.
COMMUNICATION.
In private life he that raises and spreads evil and groundless reports of another is deemed a base assassin. In public affairs the most groundless suspicions are varnished over with the pretence of the public good—and are imputed by the fabricators to be an extreme zeal for the interests of the people—so honest as to be purblind. Happily for the peace of our country, we have no state quacks or politicians so careless or ignorant, as to make false charges—nor so bitter and so hasty, as to give them to the public full of blunders and inconsistencies that carry their own ridicule along with them! Who will pretend that even one false accusation has been made against our government either within the walls of Congress or among the body of the citizens?
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   ARRIVED at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.     Brig Aurora, Smith, Port-au-Prince   Ranger, Patton, Martinique   Susannah, Alinson, Leogan   Sloop Jafon, Taylor, Antigua   Schr. Nancy, Singleton, Kingston   Winfield, M'Neran, Virginia   Rising Sun, France, do.  
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