Gazette of the United States and daily evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-06-01 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States AND DAILY EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 129 of Vol. VII.]
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1795.
[Whole No. 852.]
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LONDON, March 25. House of Commons, Tuesday, March 24. STATE OF THE NATION. Speech of Mr. PITT, in reply to Mr. FOX.
Leaving, therefore, for the present, all the various points of the right hon. gentleman's speech which he should allude to curiously here and there...
The right hon. gentleman had told the house that he had a motion to submit to a committee of enquiry, if it should be granted, which would not require the production of any paper to support it...
The right hon. gentleman had used the state of Ireland as he did almost every other occurrence—he had converted it into an argument to induce the house to change the opinions they had repeatedly and solemnly given upon the subject of war...
With respect to the observations which had been made relative to the body of Roman Catholics in Ireland, he was sure that the house must feel that so great a legislative act, so intimately connected with the interests of Ireland, and which formed so peculiarly a subject of the consideration of the Irish parliament...
He had no complaint to make of the general nature of the subjects selected by the right hon. gentleman, as fit subjects for enquiry...
But he begged to ask the house, if there was any one subject of public nature, that had any one object of national relation either to the internal policy or the external relations of this country, which might not become matter of discussion in the committee proposed by the right hon. gentleman!
The right hon. gentleman had been before the house, and had stated that he was convinced that all these topics had been brought forward upon this occasion for the purpose of introducing the great and real object which the hon. gentleman had in view, viz. the present situation of the kingdom of Ireland.
The question whether in the course of the war we had lost a few hundreds more, however it might affect their feelings, yet by no means decided the general question. Every object in life was great or small by comparison...
But the right hon. gentleman had taken this subject only in one point of view, and the most unfavourable one for this country—the losses sustained by England were enumerated with a most scrupulous exactness...
But he would suggest to the house and to the right hon. gentleman, a criterion which was by no means so liable to inaccuracy. When gentlemen saw the immense increase of manufactures, and of course the great increase of bands employed in them...
But he would suggest to the house and to the right hon. gentleman, a criterion which was by no means so liable to inaccuracy. When gentlemen saw the immense increase of manufactures, and of course the great increase of bands employed in them...

had been made, was in the neighborhood of a manufacturing town, where the recruiting had been carried on with the greatest effect.
The army of this country was greater now than ever it was at any former period; the navy had also been augmented to an amazing extent—this must necessarily tend in some places to lessen the population, but did not by any means prove that the decrease was general. And notwithstanding this great augmentation of the army and navy, the export had been greater last year than in any former year of war, and greater, with the exception only of two years, than any former year of peace. The right hon. gentleman alluded to the declaration of our trade in the year 1793. It was certainly true that our trade had been considerably less that year, but it was owing to the great speculations of persons engaged in commerce, which in the year before had given a temporary stagnation to trade: and yet so far from the country sinking under that check, or giving way to the pressure of a war, pretended to be so fatal to our trade, in the very next year viz. 1794, the commerce had arisen to a height never before known, except only in the years 1791 and 1792.
Formerly it was customary to look to the years immediately preceding the American war as the most flourishing period of our commerce, and after the commencement of that war, it was supposed that many years of peace would be necessary to raise it again to the same pitch—and yet now in a time of war, and one stated to be so much more injurious to our trade than the American war, our commerce far exceeded that of the boasted years of 1770, 1771, &c. Were not all these facts which the house were in possession of, more satisfactory than the report of any committee? If any enquiry on this subject had been necessary, it would have been before the ways and means of the year were stated, before the resources of the country were detailed and proved to the house; but now it was wholly unnecessary. The next proposition of the right hon. gentleman was one of a most singular nature. It was calling upon the house to go into the consideration of all transactions whatever between Great-Britain and her allies, and also between her and neutral nations. Without any regard to what might be the situation of this country with respect to those powers, whatever negotiations or treaties might be pending, the whole was to undergo the scrutiny of a committee of inquiry, and to be published to the world.
The arguments used by the right hon. gentleman were upon this subject so strange and unfounded, that it was unnecessary to reply minutely to them.
With respect to the king of Prussia he had already stated his sentiments upon the conduct of that monarch. He had never contended that all the objects we had in view in that treaty were obtained, or that the king of Prussia had fully performed his engagements. He had admitted this when the subject was before brought under discussion, but he must repeat now what he had asserted then, that the failure on the part of the king of Prussia was no reason why this country was never, upon any occasion, again to enter into a treaty of a similar nature. But then the right hon. gentleman had urged the necessity of some declaration being made on the part of this country expressive of our resentment at the non-performance of the treaty. It did not appear to him that such conduct on our part was called for by honor, or would be justified by reason.
Angry declarations would only have the effect of creating animosities which might interrupt or prevent any future arrangements. The right hon. gentleman then alluded to the Emperor, and spoke in very strong terms of his inability, from the want of pecuniary resources to carry on the war. But admitting the truth of that argument in its fullest extent, it did not go far enough to serve the hon. gentleman's purpose. For if the house still retained the opinion they had so often and so distinctly expressed upon the subject of this war, the natural conclusion to be drawn from the argument of the Emperor's pecuniary inability, was, that Great Britain, who possessed resources of money, should by means of those resources enable the Emperor to bring his troops into the field. In speaking of our allies, the right hon. gentleman had pressed much upon the repeated defeats and losses which they had sustained. It was unfortunately but too true, that the success had not corresponded with the expectations we had formed, but it was a very unfair mode of reasoning to suppose, that because the allies had not been politically successful, that they were totally useless: For though the effect of their assistance was not displayed in victories and conquests, yet by engaging the attention of the enemy in various quarters, they had tended to divide a force which, if concentrated in a point, might have been infinitely more destructive. The next power to whom the right hon. gentleman had turned his attention, was the king of Sardinia; and he had contended that that monarch ought to have been left in a state of neutrality. In the first place, he begged to remind the house and the right hon. gentleman, that it was not an optional point in the king of Sardinia, whether he remain neutral or not, for the French declared war against him.
As to his being put into a state of neutrality now, the only means of doing it was to carry on the war with vigor, or his neutrality would neither be safe to himself or the allies.
The next point of the hon. gentleman's speech, was his observations upon the declarations made by our ministers at foreign courts. He begged once for all to put in a protest against that mode which gentlemen on the other side of the house had so frequently
used, namely, that of selecting a particular passage from some of these state papers, and then charging upon the ministers at home, who would not of course anticipate every identical expression which a foreign minister might make use of. Upon examining these declarations fairly and altogether, they would be found to agree in sentiment with each other, and with the language of ministers at home. As to the proposal for an enquiry into the conduct of the executive government of this country to neutral nations, he was not aware of any good that could possibly arise from it at the present moment. Whenever the proper moment for inquiry should come, he would undertake to prove to the house, that the conduct of Great-Britain towards the neutral powers had not only been strictly regulated by the laws of nations, but it had in every instance been governed by the principles of justice and moderation.
The hon. gentleman had charged ministers with having, in the first instance, treated America with insult, and afterwards soothed her by submission. In answer to this, he could only say, that the principle which had governed his majesty's ministers in their intercourse with other neutral powers, was the principle upon which they acted towards America. And when the treaty signed between that country and Great-Britain was laid before the house (which should be done as soon as possible) gentlemen would then have an opportunity of judging whether there had been any dishonorable submissions on the part of the latter.
The right hon. gentleman then came to the consideration of that often disputed point, namely, the object of the war. Upon this subject he would not have intruded one single word upon the house, had it not been that the right hon. gentleman had in some degree shifted his ground. (He Mr. Fox) had stated, that there were two lines of conduct which ministers might have adopted in the commencement of the war; each of these modes of conduct was attended by their respective advantages; but both of them preferable to the line of conduct adopted by his majesty's ministers. The first of these modes was, by carrying on what he called a war against France; this was to confine the exertions of this country, simply to protect our allies, and to revenge the insults offered to us, without in any manner whatever interfering in the internal commotions which might prevail in France. The other mode suggested was that of carrying on a war for France, thus openly to avow that our efforts were directed to the formation of a regular government in France, and that our conquests were only made in trust for Louis the 18th. Either of these two systems might have been adopted, said the hon. gentleman (Mr. Fox), with propriety, but our present system differing from both was radically wrong.
The right hon. gentleman had this night abandoned all his old arguments, for he formerly used to contend that we could not interfere at all in the internal affairs of France, without violating every principle of justice and of the law of nations. But now, the right hon. gentleman admits, that it would have been proper to have carried on the war for the restoration of monarchy in France. With all possible respect for the hon. gentleman's judgment he thought that his majesty's ministers had conducted the war in a manner, and upon principles more consonant to good sense and policy, than either of the systems adopted by that gentleman.
They had entered into a war for the defence of this country and for the protection of our allies, in the protection of which they did not by any specific declarations as to the internal situation of France, prevent themselves from taking every possible advantage of any favourable occurrences which might happen in France. Nor did they state that the restoration of monarchy, or any particular form of government in France was a sine qua non without which they would not make peace.
This was the conduct of his majesty's ministers—this was the conduct which had frequently been explained to, and had as often received the approbation of the house of commons; had he begged here, in the most distinct manner, to disavow that proposition laid down by the right hon. gentleman, that a nation on entering into a war, was bound to state in clear and positive terms all its objects in the war, and by that means preclude itself from taking advantage of any fortuitous circumstances which might happen during its continuance.
As to what had fallen from the right hon. gentleman as to the want of vigilance and activity shown by ministers in the conducting of the war, this point has been so often argued before that he could say nothing upon it. Upon one point only he would detain the house for a few moments, and that was in reply to the charge made by the hon. gentleman, of the want of attention in the admiralty to protect the trade of Great Britain. The charge was partly founded on the encrease in the price of insurance—it was true that from some causes the many circumstances to be taken into consideration upon this subject. The great and unexampled extent of our commerce, which he had shown in the former part of his speech; the almost total annihilation of the commerce of France, which led her to turn her attention to the equipment of privateers to plunder our trade, which swarmed in every sea.
Another very important circumstance was, that the enemy had hardly in any one instance contended for the empire of the sea; a consequence was, that as their fleet was seldom united in a body, it was the better enabled in small divisions to harass our commerce. Added to all this the enemy did not send any considerable naval
force to the colonies, while we were obliged to send large squadrons; but notwithstanding all the concurrent circumstances, our trade was not in any instance neglected. It was true, that for a short period the French were masters of the Channel, owing to the circumstance of Lord Howe's being obliged to put into port for the purpose of refitting, but even during that short period every possible precaution had been taken for the protection of our trade. Upon the whole the question for the consideration of the house was, whether or not they were to retract all those opinions which they had so often and so solemnly pronounced, and whether they would employ concession and submission as the most likely means to obtain an honourable, a secure, and lasting peace.
The hon. gentleman had in the course of his speech sedulously endeavored to confound the idea of a regular government, with a government founded on principles inimical to freedom, and with the same anxiety endeavored to palliate all the excesses of the French, by calling them an enthusiasm in the cause of freedom.
Entertaining such sentiments as these, it was natural for that right hon. gentleman to forget all our advantages, while he remembered and often exaggerated our misfortunes. It was natural for him to lessen the value of our conquests, and to depreciate the splendour of our victories; to represent our success as useless, but our defeat as fatal. Openly professing such sentiments, the house would not be surprised at such consequences.
But though gentlemen looked to an honourable lasting peace from a vigorous and effectual war; rather than from a dishonorable submission—those who did not impute a temporary interruption of success to want of judgment, or to guilt—they would not, he was sure withdraw their confidence from their majesty's ministers, without proof of their want of capacity; and if they did, they would place their confidence in those, who would encounter difficulties, and not in those who would shrink from them—in those who would not make the disgrace of the nation the first step to a peace. He concluded with moving to adjourn.
Continuation of the latest European Intelligence, received by the Severn, capt. Goodrich, from Bristol.
HAGUE, March 21. The oath ordered to be taken by the Magistrates, Minis, Municipalities, and other public bodies, is to the following purport:
"I declare my acknowledgment of, and respect for the inalienable rights of men and citizens, as they were declared by the provisional representatives of the people of Holland, in their publication of the 31st January, 1795; and I swear to uphold them in my office or employment, as much as is in my power; and I swear to be true and faithful to the representatives of the people of Holland, whose sovereignty I acknowledge to exist in themselves, and to obey their representatives."
The Dutch Legion under the command of General Daendels, has been ordered to join the French army of the Pyrenees.
The assembly of provisional representatives has decreed, that all the inhabitants of towns and villages have a right to vote at the elections of their respective town and village councils. The distinction between voting and non-voting towns is abolished, and members are to be received into the assembly, as well from small cities as from the open country. All ancient ordinances, not directly contradicted are to be understood as continuing in force, till the meeting of a national convention of all the Batavian people.
From four to six persons are daily employed in ascertaining the effects of the Stadtholder, and their account is to be rendered to the French Commissioners.
The order has been renewed, that all persons, not belonging to the defensive societies, shall surrender their arms and ammunition.
The expenses of the French representatives amount daily to 1800 guilders. They keep a table of 60 covers, at which ten hussars, or other French soldiers, are daily received, in their turn, and treated with as much attention as the representatives and generals show to each other. But it has been resolved, upon their own proposal, that their table shall be reduced to twelve covers, and the hussars shall be no longer boarded in the palace.
Pensioner Spiegel, and Count Bentinck, have received permission to be visited in their prison by their relatives.
The provisional representatives of the province of Friesland have annulled the office of Stadtholder, and declared the effects of the Prince of Orange in that province confiscated.
All the Dutch officers by sea and land have surrendered their commissions, preparatory to a new organization. The naval officers, it is said, are not to serve again.
The committee of finance has given a summary account of the state of the
finances of the country, from whence it appears, that—
1st. Since the year 1787 till the beginning of the present revolution, besides the usual revenues, the people have been obliged to furnish an extraordinary sum of 89 millions of florins, of the application of which the nation will be more particularly informed.
2d. That this treasure has not only contributed nothing to the thorough re-establishment of the finances of the state, but that moreover new taxes must be introduced.
3d. That, how much soever this terrible situation of the treasures of the state should have influenced the former government with peaceable sentiments, war was nevertheless continued still; when they were unable to maintain themselves any longer, peace was offered to the republic of France, with a sacrifice of innumerable treasures, with the preservation of the former government, which appears from the 11th article of the secret instructions, which were given to the citizens Branden and Reepelaer, on their being sent to Paris, which article is worded as follows:
"They also shall give a negative answer, in case proposals shall be made for making the most trifling alteration in the constitution and government of this state, and if the French should insist upon this, they should declare with discretion, that this would be the means of breaking off the negotiations; for things would be suffered to come to the last extremity rather than yield to the said point."
4th. That through such mismanagement the country has been loaded with innumerable debts, in such a manner, that for paying the interest, there will annually be required nearly 12 millions, exclusive of the guarantees which the province of Holland has made from time to time for the support of the East-India Company, which in the whole exceeds 70 millions of florins.
5th. That the province of Holland has advanced to several towns, settlements, East and West-India Companies, &c. above 30 millions, of which in the present circumstances, not even the interest can be paid.
6th. That the treasury of the country contains, at the end of January, 1795, about four millions.
7th. That the province of Holland has still to receive about 3,400,000 florins of last year.
8th. But that all this is not sufficient by far, to pay all that is required for the present exigency.
9th. That the province of Holland as to the pay and other expenses of the militia, and urgent objects with the admiralties, has still to pay upwards of two millions. That
10th. For repairing destroyed fortresses, filling magazines, procuring new ammunition, paying for provisions, &c. for the French army, several millions must be procured.
11th. That the annual revenues of the province of Holland are three millions less than the usual expenditure.
12th. That in order to free the province from this load of debts, extraordinary means must be naturally adopted, without which the country would be entirely ruined, and that of course the representatives of the people must be enabled by sacrifices in money to promote the real interest of the country.
All gallowses and places of execution, in the province of Holland, are to be taken down, and criminals buried immediately after execution.
The greatest preparations are making for organizing the army and navy.
The French representatives make no political decrees, until the Dutch authorities have seriously debated upon them. The military only are under the immediate orders of the French generals.
The Hague sent formerly no deputies to the states, but has now got the privilege. Both Roman Catholics and Mennonists are chosen members of municipalities.
VIENNA, March 29.
The king of Poland still remains at Grodno, living under the protection and at the expence of the Empress. His letters have the melancholy tone of a captive, and not the dignity of a monarch. There does not remain an inch of ground in Poland that is not occupied by the troops of the partitioning powers; but it is not yet decided how the arrangements are to be settled. Austria flatters itself with the hopes of possessing all the territory to the right of the Vistula and the left of the Bog. Foreign powers have not yet withdrawn their ministers from Poland, in expectation of a diet being convoked to establish some legitimate form of government; but no such thing is likely to happen, and the ministers remain there as private individuals.
Various pasquinades and satires a-
gainst the partitioning powers, and particularly Russia, are found potted up on the walls of Warlaw, which sufficiently shew that the spirit of discontent is far from being extinguished.
LINGEN, March 27.
No doubt the arrival of the Prussian troops in our environs must cause a great alteration in the present system of war among the combined powers. The daily proofs we got of it were these:—The French not only evacuated the frontier places of Holland, but several in Germany. All we can guess about the endeavors of the Prussian army is, that they intend to keep the French army within Holland, and so give, by these means, a sufficient opportunity to the Austrians to relieve Luxembourg.
PARIS, April 1. The following are some details that have been received from our Toulon fleet, since it sailed on the 10th Ventose, (28th February).
"They fell in with the Warwick, (supposed to be the Berwick) of 74 guns, which was returning from St. Florenzo, in Corsica, where she had been to repair some damages, and which took our fleet for the English. She fought three of our frigates for some time, but a line of battle ship approaching her, and soon after our fleet coming in sight she struck her colors. After this, our fleet met with a gale of wind, which did some damage: two of our line of battle ships ran on board each other, and carried away their top masts, which threw them a good deal a-tern. The same gale of wind separated the Sans Culotte of 120 guns, on board of which was the representative le Tourneur, but he got out into a frigate. The admiral sent a frigate and a line of battle ship to look after those two ships a-tern, and to bring them into the body of the fleet, but either from disaffection, or some other cause, this order was not executed.
"It was in this state, that, on the 21st, (11th of March) in the morning, the English fleet hove in sight, consisting of fifteen sail of the line, of which two were Neapolitans. The English manoeuvred to cut off these two ships, and succeeded but two well. Our admiral made a signal to the ships ahead to pass between the English fleet and the two ships, but a calm, and still more the ignorance of the captains, prevented the execution of this order, and the van passed to windward.
"During this time our two ships sustained a bloody combat with the English fleet. Our squadron made some efforts to succor them: some of our vessels a-head were engaged with a part of the English, but the result has been the abandoning of the two vessels, which have been taken by the enemy. Their names are la Ca-Ira, of 84, and the Censeur of 74 guns."
At the departure of the courier, the remainder of the squadron, composed of ten sail of the line, still kept the sea; but the Sans Culotte had not rejoined, and it was feared she had fallen into the hands of the enemy.
NATIONAL CONVENTION. March 25.
Continuation of Barrere's Trial.
Saladin, the reporter, opened the debates of that day by the first charge—The having covered France with prisons. He pronounced on that matter a very energetic speech—he pointed especially at the refinement of barbarity used by the Committee. The accused had said, "Since such was the system of the Government that liberty could not be established by terror, and that half measures protracted too much the revolution;" according to the expressions of Billaud Varennes, when he moved the arrest of suspected persons, and the organization of revolutionary armies, it is clear and proved that the great number of prisons erected in the bosom of a free country was the deed of such as directed the action of Government.
Barrere—"It will be sufficient to demonstrate the injustice of the accusation directed against three persons, to remember the origin of those numerous prisons that have covered the soil of France. The origin of those great revolutionary measures had a fixed epoch it was on the 10th of August 1793, when the Republican Constitution was accepted by the Nation, the Primary Assemblies of which sent over Commissioners that you have been sitting at this very Bar, and who provoked those measures, the execution of which is to day objected as our crime. Remember, Citizens, what was then our alarming situation. Our frontier places had fallen into the hands of the coalition Powers and the enemies of the interior shewed themselves with more audacity than ever. The measures which were then proposed to the Convention and adopted by it caused the departure of eight hundred thousand men to the defence of the Republic, and compressed the enemies of the interior. Those measures were as pure as the will of the People, as irresistible as its power, as great as its dangers, and, we must say, as violent as were its enemies."
"It was then in the presence, and after the demand of the Commissioners of the Primary Assemblies, that you impressed the Government with a Revolutionary move-

ment, and that you ordered the arrestation of all the suspected persons. (Here Barre read the speech, which the Com- missaries of the Primary Assemblies had pronounced at the bar.) So, you fulfilled the wishes of the people, expressed before you by its extraordinary Deputies—It was they, who exercised amongst you the be- ginning of terror, against the numerous enemies of the interior. The 14th of the same month, the Sections of Paris present- ed you the same wishes, and even demand- ed an augmentation of the number of Houses of Arrest.
“Who commanded that terrible mea- sure? the Revolution—By whose organs? by those of the People—Who caused them to be executed? the Revolutionary Committee—Who approved them? the Convention. Who watched daily over them? your Committee of Public Safety. Liberty, as well as victory, cannot be secured without the use of the sword. The execution of your decrees was entrusted to men who exaggerated the measures, men led by heinous passions and private vengeance; the others by an exasperated love of their country, and the enthusiasm of Liberty, accompanied by its jealousy, delirium, and fury: yet Li- berty had its excesses; it now disavows them; but we are not guilty of them; they are not our crime; it has been said that the Kings had fewer Battles than the Republic had; it is because the Kings were in a state of peaceful Counter-Revo- lution, and the Republic in a state of stormy Revolution.
“Paris, on account of its population, of the intrigues practised by the ancient pri- vileged orders, the old friends to the Court, must necessarily contain a greater number of suspected persons: and if we consider the demand of the Sections, in- stead of thinking that the number of the houses of arrest has been excessive, being thirty two, it should rather be a matter of surprise that there had not been forty eight. “We are accused of arbitrary arrests, but when that charge was brought forward for the first time by Lecointre, it was re- jected. Bourdon de l'Oise, himself, took on our defence, and said, that such arrests had been the work of the Revolutionary Committee, and of men who had well served their country, for such was the opinion in our behalf, and it was un- der that head we were called by Bourdon. “In short, the first head of accusation, relative to the oppression of the people, cannot concern us, neither as individuals, nor as members of government.”
Dubaran. “We must not think that by the charge relative to the houses of ar- rest, suspected persons only had been con- fined, they contained likewise robbers, murderers, forgers of assignats, men guilty of every kind of delinquency.”
Maure. “Justice and the welfare of the country order me to disclose every thing. At the time of my mission into several departments, I received, in my cor- respondence with government from the accused, nothing but letters congenial to humanity, philanthropy, and justice. A revolt having broke out in the department of Seine and Marne, 800 persons accused of having excited it, were arrested, and crowded into a Church, where they could not breathe for want of air, where they had every minute death before their eyes, and the cannon directed against them. I came to see them, I gave them some hope and comfort. I described their state to the Committee of Public Safety: they directed me to take some information on the conduct of the prisoners, saying, “En- deavour not to find any culpable among them.” Having heard them, I dismissed six hundred, out of the eight hundred, only two hundred remained. I reported to the Committee. Billaud told me, “You should have let all liberty all those against whom there was no material fact.” I re- turned in consequence to Colombiers where I released 190 prisoners. Ten only were sent and condemned by the Revolutionary Tribunal. The Committee refused, in an- other instance the creation of a revolution- ary army in the Department, saying, that “Philosophy and humanity are incom- patible with bayonets.”
Clauzel. “It would have been desirable that the Committee should have always entertained the same sentiments of hu- manity as those alleged by Maure, we should not have to many tears to shed on the atrocities perpetrated at Bedouin, Arras, Nantes, &c.”
Saladin continued the reading of the charges. He read that of the arbitrary arrests.
Collot d'Herbois answered that charge. Want of room obliges us to postpone till to-morrow the continuation of this in- teresting Sitting, where an incidental motion having denounced the outlawed De- puties, gave rise to very violent speeches, in which Lecointre was very ill treated; many anecdotes were disclosed concerning the 31st of May, and Merlin de Douay said, that a discovery had been made by the Committee of Public Safety, that for- ty thousand Louis d'ors had been sent from England to Paris, by way of Balle, to bribe some members of the Convention. The Jacobins asserted, that by the cor- respondence seized, it appeared that Merlin himself was to receive 5000 livres out of the 40,000.
Thibaudeau, the President, was super- seded in the Evening Sitting by Pelet de la Lozere.
Sittings of the 26th and 27th of March.
These days were spent in hearing suc- cessively the accused and the Reporter of the Commission, through the several charg- es, without any determination being taken.
In the sitting of the 27th, Itabeau made a report, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety, on the disturbances that
had taken place in Paris that very morn- ing. The distribution of bread not having been made as usual, many women had put themselves in a state of insurrection. They had begun to run up and down in the streets, compelling all the women they met to join them, and to repair with them to the Convention, there to present a col- lective petition on the subsistences: they were 12 or 1300 in number, and hoped they should terrify the Convention by cla- mours and numbers. The National Guard received them under arms, and presented a hedge of bayonets. They cried that they would have bread in spite of their threats and efforts. The Convention by a deep silence seemed to expect they would appear at the Bar to present their Petition. Some Members of the Committee of Public Safety went to signify to them that they must retire, and send only a detach- ment of them to present their petition. This however could not pacify them. They tore from the hats the national cockade; exclaimed, Drown with the Convention ; avowed their end was to dissolve it, and excite a general insurrection in Paris. When the National Guard was preparing to fire at them, they fled in dif- ferent directions. Four hundred men and women repaired to the Section of Gravil- liers; they asked from the President the keys of the half of the Section. Upon his refusal they broke open the doors, named a President, and began to deliberate.
Itabeau related what was then doing; the Committee, he said, had dispatched thither Delacroix, one of its members, who spoke with the seditious in a frat- ernal manner; he invited them to retire they peremptorily refused. The Committee ordered the Gen ral to be- beat, in the neighbouring sections, to assemble the Citizens. Itabeau added that in many sections deluded people wished to meet, in order to deliber- ate on the want of subsistence; that some persons gathered were marching to the Convention, that there was a corres- pondence between all the sections of the Fauxbourgs; and lastly, that a gene- ral insurrection was announced for the next Decade (30th of March.)
Tallien moved, that the Convention declare itself permanent.
Itard opposed the motion, under the pretence that the Convention ought not to spread the alarm in the Departments.
The Committee declared, that all the means of persuasion being exhausted, they would have recourse to rigour; and they assured the Convention of their firmness and resolution.
Sitting of the 28th of March.
The agitation of the preceding day had been calmed, the whole National Guard having been under arms, and nu- merous Patroles having every where dispersed the crowds, without effusion of blood; the bread was scarce, and the distribution had been reduced to half a pound, as the day before, but there was a secret cause of that scarcity, for the Government was said to have delivered almost the usual quantity to the distri- butors.
A letter was read from the Represen- tatives to the armies of Italy, &c. giving the particulars of the murders commit- ted at Toulon in the Prisons by the mob.
It was decreed that all the members of Administration dismissed, shall be compelled to give in the accounts of their Administration within four decades. Rouzet, speaking to order, proposed the abolition of the Revolutionary Tri- bunal, as being incompetent to try and judge the Representatives of the People. Collot d'Herbois and Barrere spoke in their justification.
LONDON, March 20.
Some bloody engagements have taken place near Bentheim, in Westphalia.— On the 12th ult. the first attempt was made by the French to force back the troops of the allies; but they met with so vigorous a resistance, that they were obliged to give up their design, with the loss of eleven pieces of cannon, and a considerable number of men. On the 13th they renewed their attack, and having received very strong rein- forcements, they at last succeeded in driving back the allies as far as Rhine. The loss was great on both sides. The French entered Bentheim, and made themselves masters of the castle, the gar- rison capitulated, and was allowed to withdraw.
HAMBURGH, March 26.
By an extraordinary conveyance we have the following accounts from Hol- land.
AMSTERDAM, March 21.
Our Envoy in London, Baron Na- gel, has requested to be recalled, and Lord Grenville has given our Commis- saries an answer to the following pur- port; “That the King his Master can- not release the Dutch ships detained in the English harbours as long as the French remain in Holland.” Our Com-
missaries, however, are to remain in Lon- don, waiting for further orders and in- structions. The Province of Holland opposes the recall of Baron de Nagel, but with for his personal presence in or- der to give an account of his conduct.
This Province has proposed to send new instructions to our Commissaries in England, in which the restitution of the detained Dutch ships is insisted on; and if a further refusal should be the con- sequence, to take a friendly leave, and re- turn to Holland. The number detain- ed amounts to 110, exclusive of the men of war, and East Indians.
The Municipality of Leyden has sent in complaints concerning the state of their finances, and desires to be reim- bursed the cash advanced for the French military.
It is said that a Dutch Legion, under General Daendels, is to be sent to the French army in the Pyrenees.
LONDON, April 3.
The intelligence from Holland is in- teresting. The public indignation has been excited against Great Britain, by a report of the haughty manner in which the Dutch Deputies were received by Lord Gren- ville, and by the former Dutch Ambassa- dor. A rupture with England, it is ge- nerally believed, will take place.
April 6.
The Princess of Wales arrived yester- day afternoon at St. James's.
Her Highness, after taking some hours of repose, set off from Greenwich at 12 o'clock, in one of the royal coaches, at- tended by the Countess of Jersey and Mrs. Harcourt.
She was introduced to their Majesties as soon as they returned from the German Chapel, and afterwards dined at Bucking- ham house. The Prince of Wales also dined there. Her Highness's form is polite and en bon point, her features regular and expressive, and her manners, as far as we can judge of the manners of royal person- ages, affable and engaging.
The ceremony of the marriage is to take place to-morrow evening.
April 10.
The Tancredian man of war, of 74 guns, mentioned in the list of ships in admiral Hotham's despatches, is a ship of his Sici- lian Majesty, which had been sent from Naples to join the fleet; and it is expect- ed that the three other ships of the line, which have lately been fitted out at Na- ples, are to join the fleet the ensuing sum- mer.
Some time ago we mentioned, that Earl Fitzwilliam had written a letter to the Earl of Carlisle on the subject of the differences between his Lordship and the British Cab- inet. As that letter was only shewn about in manuscript, delicacy prevented us from publishing an account of its contents. A second letter, however, has since been written and published.
In this letter Earl Fitzwilliam asserts, that his conduct with respect to the Ca- tholics, was strictly conformable to the system settled between him and his ma- jesty's ministers, previously to his depar- ture from this country. He expresses his satisfaction at the averton which, he states, Mr. Pitt entertains to the prin- ciples of his Lordship's administration; and he concludes the letter with a direct assertion, that he was “dismissed,” be- cause he refused to be “servile and sub- missive.”
ORDER OF BATTLE, the 14th March.
   VAN DIVISION—Admiral GOODALL   Ships Commanders. Guns. Men     Captain, Captain Reeve, 74 590   Bedford, Gould, 74 590   Tancredian, Le Chev. Caraccioli, 74 600   Pele's Royal, Purvis, 90 760   Agamemnon, Capt. Nelson, 64 461   Adm. Goodall,   Repeating Frigate, the Loweflote,   Tarleton, Palade, Poulette, and Minerva,        CENTRE DIVISION—Admiral HOTHAM   Ships Commanders. Guns. Men     Illustrious, Captain Frederick, 74 590   Courageux, Montgomery, 74 640   Britannia, Capt. Holloway, 100 859   Adm. Hotham,   Egmont, Sutton, 74 590   Windfall, Captain Gore, 90 735   Castle, Adm. Linzee,        REAR DIVISION—Vice Admiral Sir H. PARKER   Ships Commanders. Guns. Men     Diadem, Capt. Tyler, 64 491   St. George, Foley, 90 760   Terrible, Campbell, 74 590   Fortitude, Young, 74 590   Romulus repeating Frigate, Fox Cuter,   Total killed, 75—285 Wounded.        Names of the Ships which composed the French Fleet on the 14th March, 1795.   NAMES. Guns Men Action.     Le Sans Culotte, 120 1200 2030   Le Victoire, (late Lan guedoc) 80 950 1300   Le Tonnant, 80 950 1300   Le Guerrier, 74 730 1000   Le Conquerant, 74 730 1000   Le Meure, 74 930 1000   Le Barras, 74 930 1000   Le Generoux, 74 730 1000   L'Heureux, 74 730 1000   Le Du Quegne, 74 730 1000   Le Timoleon (late Com- merce de Bourdeaux) 74 730 1000   Le Ca Ira, (taken) 80 950 1300   Le Censeur, (taken) 74 230 1000   L'Alcide, 74 930 1000   Le Souverain, 74 930 1000   La Vesta, 32 250 250   La Minerve, 40 300 300   La Thamisie, 40 300 300   L'Alceste, 32 250 250   Scout, 18 120 120   Le Hazard, 20 120 120  
FLORENCE, March 7. Mr. Windham, the British Minister to the Court, had received orders from the Government to depart. This event is ascribed to some hasty and indiscreet ex- pressions dropped by his Excellency, re- specting the conduct of the Tuscan Court; and it is added, that his Lordship had en- gaged himself in a violent quarrel with the Prince Corini, the Prime Minister, on the occasion of the Neutrality of Tuscany.
NEW-YORK, May 30.
Thursday evening the Union Society met at Hunter's Hotel, and in consequence of the happy arrival of their much re- spected fellow citizen JOHN JAY Esq., and considering this event as connected with the peace, happiness and best in- terest of their country, they proceeded to celebrate the occasion by adjourning the ordinary business of the society, and drinking the following toasts:
 1st. Health, prosperity and general effem to our valuable citizen and firm pa- triot JOHN JAY.  2d. Peace throughout the world.  3d. Moderation and firmness to the councils of the American Union—May her sword reluctantly drawn be the terror of the unjust.  4th. Switzerland, Holland, and all free Republics.  5th. The United States, and the steady friends of its excellent constitution.  6th. Free elections and fair canvassing.  7th. Success to the honest citizens of France in their glorious struggle to obtain a free efficient and republican government.  8th. Distraction to the internal enemies of France, who under the mask of patriotism destroy the freedom of opinion and pro- mote measures of anarchy and terror.  9th. Destruction to the external enemies of France, who under the mask of religion humanity, and the love of order, pursue plans of piracy, invasion, cruelty and blood.  10th. The liberty of the press—May public virtue awe its licentiousness.  11th. May all who retire in free go- vernments from exalted stations, retire with the plaudits and laurels of Alexan- der Hamilton.  12. All citizens who associate to cherish the pure spirit of republicanism and social order.  13th. The President GEORGE WASH- INGTON. 
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.
The British fleet in the late engagement consisted of 13 sail of the line and two frigates carrying 1190 guns.
The French fleet consisted of 15 sail of the line carrying 1172 guns.
The British two days before the action lost the Berwick of 74 guns, who fell sing- ly into the hands of the French fleet.
In the general action the French lost one ship of 80 and one of 74 guns.
But the Aurora of this morning assures us that the French are still superior, by 3 sail of the line—this is made to appear thus—Two of the English ships were dis- masted and are gone into port to refit— and one was taken.
The French lost two only out of fif- teen, the loss of one is replaced by the English ship Berwick.
It appears also from the Aurora that the two French ships which were taken, fought the whole British fleet, and did all the damage they sustained, and killed all the men that fell in every one of the fleet, in short that those two ships fought a fleet EIGHT TIMES their force, which makes the British fleet sixteen sail of the line.
The ship Minerva, Scott—and Mary, Cunningham arrived at Boston on Sunday the 24th May—they brought accounts to the 3d April only. The 26th ult. arrived at Salem, the schooner Edward, Captain John Dennis, in 48 days from Bilboa.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED.
Brig Two Sifers, Fort, Antigua 15 Hope, Watts, St. Croix 16 Schooner Mark Anthony, Lewis North Carolina 12
Arrived at the Port.
Schooner Porga, Capt. Coffin, 19 days from St. Martin's.
NOTICE.
A Monthly meeting of the Philadelphia Society for the information and assist- ance of persons emigrating from Foreign Countries, will be held at the college in Fourth street, at eight o'clock on Wednesday even- ing, the third Infant.
Wm. TURNER, Secretary.
Members elected the 6th ult.
Mr. John Hampson, near Philadelphia, Messrs. Christopher Harper, Wm. Boyes, James Tatham, in ditto.
For SALE, The Sloop ANNE, Geo. Gardiner.
If not sold by Wednesday evening, she will then take Freight for Boston. Apply to the Captain on board at Chefnut Street wharf, June 1.
Meeting of the Owners and Occupiers of Wharves is request- ed to-morrow, at 12 o'clock, at the Coffee-house, in Second Street. June 1.
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CANAL LOTTERY.
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The Political Register
Or, Proceedings in the Session of Congress commencing November 3, 1794, and ending March 3d, 1795. With an Appendix, containing a Selection of papers laid before Congress during that period. By JAMES THOMSON GALLANDER. Volume I. At T. Dobson's may also be had, by the same author, Price half a dollar, The Political Progress of Britain. Part 1—3d Edition. June 1.
College of New Jersey.
May 26, 1-25.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Grammar School formerly attached to this College, having gradually de- clined thro' the increasing infirmities of the late President for some time before his death, it is proposed by the subscriber immediately to revive it, and to put it under the most careful instruction and government. The Latin, Greek, and French Languages shall be taught in it, together with the principles of English grammar, of Geography, and practical Geometry. Parents, likewise, who do not chuse that their children should go through the entire course of studies in the College, may now have them instructed in any particular branches in the same manner, on the same terms, and to the same extent as in the College—particularly in the antiquities and mythology of Rome, in Geography, in the Mathematics, in Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy, in Moral Philosophy and the principles of civil government, in Eloquence and in the Elements of History. They may address their children to any of the masters in the College, or to
SAMUEL S. SMITH.
N. B. The young gentlemen shall be un- der the same rules of moral discipline as the other students—shall be subjected to public examinations, and, at leaving the college, shall be entitled to public testimonials of the branches they have studied, and of their pro- ficiency in them. June 1.
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NEW THEATRE.
Mr. WHITLOCK'S Night.
On MONDAY EVENING, June 1, Will be presented, a COMEDY, never per- formed here, called
The MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
[Written by SHAKESPEARE.]
 Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Whitlock.  Fenton, Mr. Cleveland.  Justice Shallow, Mr. Harwood.  Master Slender, Mr. Moreton.  Mr. Page, Mr. Green.  Mr. Ford, Mr. Chalmers.  Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Bates.  Doctor Caius, Mr. Marshall.  Host, Mr. Wignell.  Bardolph, Mr. Darley, jun.  Nym, Mr. Warrell.  Pistol, Mr. Solomons.  Robin, Falstaff's Page, Miss Solomons.  Simple, Mr. Blisset.  Rugby, Mr. Warrell, jun.  Mrs. Page, Mrs. Whitlock.  Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Morris.  Ann Page, Miss Willems.  Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Rowson.  End of the Play, a DANCE, called
THE SPORTSMAN DECEIV'D.
By Mr. Francis, Mr. J. Warrell, Mrs. De Marque and Miss Milbourne. To which will be added, an Entertainment of MUSIC, DIALOGUE, & SPECTACLE, Written by the late David Garrick, in honor of SHAKESPEARE, called
The JUBILEE.
 Irishman, Mr. Whitlock.  Ralph, Mr. Bates.  1st Serenade, with a song Mr. Marshall.  2d ditto, Mr. Darley.  3d ditto, Mr. J. Dar

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The real securities given for the payment of the Prizes, are held by the President and two Directors of the Bank of Columbia, and are valued at more than half the amount of the Lottery.
The twenty four gentlemen who by appointment of the late Commissioners assisted in the management of the Hotel Lottery are requested to undertake this arduous task a second time on behalf of the public; it is hoped that the friends to a National University and the other federal objects may continue to favor the design. The synopsis of one of the Colleges, to form a branch of the National Institution, is already in the press, and will be speedily published, together with its constitution.
A complete PLAN of the whole of this important Institution, compiled from a selection of the best materials, ancient and modern, will be submitted to the public whenever the same may have gone through such revisions as may be necessary to establish the perfect confidence and general approbation, so essential to its present rise and future existence for the general good of America.
By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Europe, where the tickets have been first for sale, the public are assured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necessary to insure a safe disposal of the tickets, has rendered the short suspension indispensable. February 24, 1795. SAMUEL BLODGET
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A View of the Evidences of CHRISTIANITY. IN THREE PARTS. 1. Of the direct Historical Evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the Evidence of other miracles. 2. Of the Auxiliary Evidence of Christianity. 3. A brief consideration of some popular Objections. By WILLIAM PALEY, M. A. Archbishop of Carlisle. In One large Octavo volume. Price one dollar and three quarters, handsomely bound. In the present enlightened age, when free discussion has opened the eyes of mankind, and the fabrics of Despotism and Superstition are crumbling to the dust, it becomes an object of no small importance, to distinguish leading Truths from those Counterfeits which had assumed their names and usurped their place, and in the subversion of which, Truth itself is too apt to be discarded without inquiry. In the present work, the learned author (who had before distinguished himself by his principles of moral and political Philosophy) has treated the subject with that ability and candor which becomes it, and has exhibited in a short compass, perhaps the clearest and most distinct view of the proper evidences of christianity ever published.
TO BE SOLD, A HANDSOME BLACK HORSE, 15 1-2 hands high, he is rising five years old, fit for the Saddle, Chair, or Leader, to be sold for no fault. Enquire of the Printer, May 28. 3t
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Revenue Office, April 27, 1795
PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the COMMISSIONER of the REVENUE for building
A LIGHT HOUSE
on the head land of Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina, of the following materials, dimensions, and description. The form is to be octagonal. The foundation is to be of stone, to be sunk thirteen feet below the bottom of the water table or the surface of the earth, and to be commenced of the diameter of twenty nine feet. From such commencement to the height of four feet the foundation is to be laid solidly and from thence to the bottom of the water table, the foundation wall is to be nine feet high and nine feet thick.
The diameter of the base from the bottom of the water table to the top thereof (where the octagonal pyramid is to commence) is to be twenty eight feet four inches and the wall is to be seven feet thick. The wall of the octagonal pyramid is to be six feet thick at the base thereof, on the top of the water table.
The height of the building from the bottom of the water table, and from the surface of the earth, is to be ninety feet to the top of the stone work, under the floor of the lantern; where the diameter is to be sixteen and one half feet and the wall three feet. The whole of the walls is to be built of stone.
The water table is to be capt with sawed stone, at least eight inches wide and sloped at the top to turn off the water. The outside of the walls is to be faced with hewn or hammer dressed stone, having four windows in the north east and five windows in the south west. The sashes are to be hung with hinges, and each sash is to have twelve panes of glass, eight by ten inches.
On the top of the stone work is to be a framed tier of joists, beded therein, planked over with oak plank, extending two feet beyond the wall thereby forming an eave which is to be finished with a cornice, the whole having a descent from the centre sufficient to throw off the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and sufficient iron lantern in the octagonal form is to rest thereon. The eight corner pieces or flanchions of which, are to be built in the wall to the depth of ten feet. These flanchions to be nearly three inches square in the lower ten feet, and 3 1-2 inches by 2 1-2 inches above. The lantern is to be ten feet and nine inches in diameter, it is also to be ten feet high from the floor to the bottom of the dome or roof and to have a dome or roof of five feet and nine inches in height. The whole space between the joists or upright pieces at the angles is to be occupied by the sashes, which are to be moulded on the inside and struck solid. Each sash is to have twenty eight panes of glass, fourteen by twelve inches. A part of the sash on the south west side is to be hung with hinges for a convenient door to go out on the platform. The rafters of the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel, thro' which the smoke may pass into a large copper ventilator in the form of a man's head, capable of containing one hundred gallons.
This head is to be turned by a large vane; so that the hole for venting the smoke, may be always to leeward. Eight dormant ventilators are to be fixed in the roof, a large curved air pipe is to be passed through the floor, and a close stove is to be provided and fixed in the lantern. There are to be eight pairs of stairs to ascend to the lantern, the entrance to which is to be by a trap door covered with copper. The building is to be furnished with two complete electrical conductors, or rods with points. The floors are to be laid with plank, of at least one inch and one half in thickness. The entrance to the light house is to be well secured by a strong door hung upon hinges with a strong lock and latch complete.
Also a frame House to be thirty four feet in front and sixteen feet deep with a cellar under it. The cellar walls to be eighteen inches thick and seven feet high. The first story of the house is to be eight feet, and the second, seven feet and six inches high. The floors are to be laid in whole lengths, nailed through. The stack of chimneys is to be finished with two plain fire places on each floor, one of them large for a kitchen, two windows below, and three above in front and rear, each sash to have eighteen panes of glass ten by twelve inches. The doors are to be hung and furnished completely.
The ceilings and sides of the House are to be plastered with two coats; all the wood work inside and out is to be well painted and the whole to be finished in a plain decent manner. An Oil vault is to be built twenty feet by twelve feet in the clear, arched over and covered with earth or sand over which a shed is to be built. It is to be furnished with nine strong Cedar Cisterns with covers, each capable of containing two hundred gallons. The entrance to the vault is to be secured by a strong door. A well is to be sunk at a convenient distance, and furnished with a curb, bucket and rope completely. The builder to find and pay for all the materials, labor, workmanship, provisions, and other objects of cost, charge or expense for a sum to be agreed upon, and to execute the before described work and every part thereof in a good and workman-like manner. Convenient payments or advances, on security will be made. April 27. m & th tf
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Take notice that on the third Day of March, the Co-partnership of the Subscribers was dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the said Company are requested to make speedy Payment, and all persons having demands against said Company are requested to exhibit them for settlement. Lewis Deblois, Samuel Breck, jun. Philad. March 3d. 1795. 2aw3m
FOR THE GENTLEMAN FARMER Just Published, Printed and sold by H. & P. RICE, Philadelphia, Price 67 1-2
A Treatise on CATTLE: Shewing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, Asses, Mules, Horned Cattle, Sheep, Goats & Swine With directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders. To which is added a dissertation on their contagious diseases. By JOHN MILLS, Esq. Fellow of the Royal Society, London, honorary member of the Dublin Society, of the societies of Agriculture at Rouen, of the O-Economic Society of Berne, and of the Palatine academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres.
Contents of the above Work. Asses. Of greater estimation than commonly held in—how to heal their diseases—at what age capable of generating—how to know their age—how taught to amble—high value set upon fine asses in Spain and Avirgine. &c. Mules, how bred—their qualities and uses—which forts reputed best—how fed and managed. HORNED CATTLE. Of the general properties and uses of horned cattle—the choice of cattle and fitting them for tillage—of feeding, fattening and tending them—of their propagation, care of the cow whilst pregnant, and management of the calf till fit for slaughter or for work—the diseases of horned cattle.
SHEEP. Of the qualities and different kinds of Sheep—of their management propagation, diseases of the head and throat, coughs and shortness of breath, of the belly, liver, droppy and cutaneous diseases. &c. &c. SWINE. Of the character, properties, and uses of swine—of feeding and fattening—propagation and diseases.
Contagious Diseases of Cattle. Of the causes of contagious diseases—the cure of their contagious diseases—additional observations on the diseases of cattle and on their cures, by the society of Agriculture at Paris—on the symptoms and cure of the late contagious distemper among the horned cattle in Great Britain, by Peter Layard, of Huntington, M. D. and F. R. S.
H. & P. RICE,
Have just received by the ship William Penn from London, and the Glasgow from Dublin; a most capital assortment of BOOKS & STATIONARY, For Sale on the lowest terms—Catalogues delivered gratis at their store No. 50 Market Street.
In a short time will be published at the above store, THE SICILIAN ROMANCE; by the authors of the Romance of the Forest. &c. May 13 3aw2w
Philadelphia, March 1795. PROPOSALS
For Printing by Subscription, a Work to be entitled TRIALS
HIGH TREASON, Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
By EDMUND HOGAN, Editor of the Pennsylvania State Trials.
It will contain an accurate and comprehensive statement of the charges against the accused, the documents, oral testimony, arguments of counsel on both sides, and final issue.
As every citizen in the United States is more or less concerned in the issue of these trials, it is hoped the Editor will soon be enabled to acquaint the Public, that he has met with sufficient encouragement to undertake the publication, which he intends to do as soon as 600 subscribers shall have signed. With this view—
He offers the following Proposals to the Public. 1. The work shall be printed in octavo, with a good type, on fine paper, in numbers of 64 pages, to be delivered as soon as possible after the trial. 2. As no accurate estimate of the length can be made at this time, its size and price cannot now be ascertained; but the price shall be limited to sixpence per sheet of 16 octavo pages, exclusive of binding. 3. Subscribers on the delivery of the first number, to pay one dollar, and the remainder when the work shall be completed.
The printers of newspapers in the United States, who shall publish these proposals six times in their April, May and June papers, shall be entitled to a copy for their trouble; and the allowance of a seventh copy will be made to them and all others who may exert themselves in soliciting subscriptions and securing payment. As this is supposed to be a sufficient inducement for printers, stationers, booksellers and schoolmasters, to be at some pains to procure subscriptions, it is hoped that persons will exert themselves by opening subscription papers immediately, and they are requested to be punctual in transmitting the lists before the first of July next; as the names are to be printed as patrons of this work.
J. M. BART,
No. 170, North Second Street, Continues to wait on such Gentlemen and Ladies as are desirous to be instructed in the French Language. May 19.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED [Price 25 Cents]
THIRTEEN LETTERS, On Democratic Societies; By GERMANICUS.
Sold by Thomas Dobson, No. 41 Second Street, John Ormrod 41 Chestnut Street, Benjamin Davies 68 High Street and by the Editor, 119 Chestnut Street. April 13