The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1794-05-05 00:00:00

The POTOMAC GUARDIAN, and BERKELEY ADVERTISER.
PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANN.]
MONDAY, MAY 5, 1794.
[NUMBER 181—VOL. 4.]
WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY.
Franklin.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale, at Messrs. M c Mullan's store, in Shep- herd's-Town; at Mr. R. Barnhouse's, Charles- town; and at the Printing-Office hereof.
The Manual Exercise,
From Baron Steuben's, "Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States."
TO BE RENTED.
A HOUSE and Lot on the South-side of the Bridge, now occupied by Mr. James Gribbins. Apply to the Printer.
SADDLERY and HARNESS MAKING.
GEORGE WOLFF,
From LANCASTER,
HAS taken the House two doors below Dr. Wil- cox's new stone house, in Burke Street, where he carries on the SADDLE and HARNESS Making Business in all its branches. Those who may wish to encourage him, may depend on having their work done in the neatest manner, on short notice, and most reasonable terms.
Martinsburg, April 28, 1794.
YOUNG ROCKINGHAM,
A full-bred horse, from the lower parts of this State, Will stand this present season, at Capt. William Lucas's, below Shepherd's Town, on Mondays and Tuesdays; at Mr. Josiah Flagg's mill, on Wed- nesdays and Thursdays; and will there cover mares at a guinea and half bushel of grain, the grain to be brought with the mares; half a guinea the single leap, paid in hand. The money for the season to be paid the 15th day of August next ensuing, and if paid within the season, 4 dollars will discharge the above.
ROCKINGHAM is a beautiful black, 15 3/4 hands high, rising 7 years old; he was got by Gen. Nel- son's noted horse Rockingham; his dam by Col. Armstead's old Fearnought, out of a Tom Jones mare. His figure is complete, and all sufficient to render him satisfactory. The season commenced the 3d inst. and will end the 20th June.
JOHN HENDSLEY.
N. B. The above horse was previously adver- tised in hand-bills, which specified the season to con- tinue till the 6th August; it being unnecessary, I therefore shorten the season as above.
He will be shown in Martinsburg, on Tuesday in May Court.
Berkeley County, Virginia, April 28, 1794.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on the night of the 19th of September last, a Negro Man named SOMERS, about 26 or 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, tawny complexion, has a down look. He took with him when he went away, a light cloth coat and breeches, a red shag waistcoat, a round white sailor jacket, a pair of striped and a pair of tow overalls, a good wool hat, and shoes. He will endeavour to pass for a freeman, as he has obtained a pass from his brother William Larkins, who was lately set free at Hager's Town. Whoever apprehends said Negro and returns him to me, or commits him to goal so that I get him again, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
JOHN KEARNEY.
Berkeley County, Virginia, April 28, 1794.
STRAYED from the subscriber, living on Back- Creek, near the pack horse road, on the 18th instant, a two years old dark bay mare; near 14 hands high, a natural trotter, and has no brand. She was seen on Thursday last, between Mr. Mich- ael Kewan's plantation and James Campbell Esq's. Whoever takes up said stray, and returns her to me, or gives me notice that I get her again, shall re- ceive two dollars reward.
JOHN ALEXANDER.
April 28, 1794.
Three Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 23d ult. an old negro wench named Phillis, about 55 years of age, grey headed, stoops much in walk- ing, Jersey born, and pretends she has a right to freedom, which induced her to go away. Who- ever will commit her to the goal of this County, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
ALEX. RODGERS.
The interesting information that follows has been translated from papers received by the vessel mentioned in our last to have arrived at Norfolk, from Rochfort, in France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Report of Max. Roberspiierre, to the National Con- vention, made in the name of the Committee of Public Safety, on the 5th day of December, in the 2nd year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CONVENTION.
THE Kings coalesced against the Republic, make war against us with armies, intrigues, and li- bels: To their armies, we oppose armies, more brave—to their intrigues, vigilance and the terror of national justice—and to their libels, truth.
Ever attentive to tie again the threads of their fa- tal plot, which have been broken by the hands of patriotism, and ever active in turning the arms of liberty against liberty herself:—These emissaries of the enemies of France are continually endeavour- ing to overturn the Republic by republicanism, and to rekindle a civil war by philosophy. A perfid- ious plan of defamations against the National Con- vention, and against the nation herself, coincides marvelously with this grand system of subversion and hypocrisy: Whilst perfidy or impudence weakens the energy of the revolutionary measures which the national safety require, leaves them without exe- cution, exaggerates them with malice, or applies contrary to their true meaning: Whilst in the midst of these embarrassments the agents of foreign pow- ers, employing all these means, called our attention from the real dangers and pressing wants of the re- public, in order to turn it entirely to religious ideas:—For a political revolution, they endeavour to substitute a new revolution, to change the pub- lic reason and the energy of patriotism; whilst the same men openly attacked all worship, and secret- ly encouraged fanaticism:—They at the same time made all France resound with their insensible decla- mations, and dared abuse the name of the National Convention to justify the extravagancies reflected from aristocracy, disguised under the mantle of fol- ly:—The enemies of France bought your ports, your generals, and your armies—they encouraged the boasted federalism, intrigued with all foreign powers to multiply your enemies—they armed a- gainst you the priests of all nations—they opposed the empire of religious opinions, to the natural as- cendant of your moral and political principles, and the manifestos of all nations denounced us to the world as a people of fools and atheists: It is the du- ty of the National Convention to step between fan- aticism which they awake, and patriotism which they would extinguish, and inspire every citizen with the principles of liberty, reason and justice:— Legislators who love their country, and who have the courage to save it, ought not to resemble reeds, to be continually agitated by the breath of foreign factions:—It is the duty of the committee of public safety, to develop them to you, and propose the necessary measures to stifle them:—It will fulfil its duty:—It has charged me to present to you the plan of an address, the purport of which is to confound the gross impostures of the tyrants leagued against the republic, and discover to the world their hide- ous hypocrisy:—In this combat of tyranny against their cause of liberty we have so many advantages, that it will be folly on our part to avoid it; and since these oppressors of mankind have the timidity to plead the cause before it, let us hasten to follow them to this dreadful tribunal, and accelerate the inevitable destiny that awaits them.
Answer of the National Convention to the manifestos of the kings leagued against the republic—proposed by ROBER- SPIERRE in the name of the committee of public safety, and decreed by the convention.
WILL the national convention answer the mani- festos of the tyrants leagued against the French re- public?—It is natural to despise them; but it is use- ful to confound them; it is just to punish them:— A manifesto of despotism against liberty! What a wonderful Phenomenon! How have the enemies of France dared to take men for arbiters between them and us? Why do they not fear that the subject of the quarrel will awake the remembrance of their crimes and hasten their ruin?—Of what do they accuse us? Of their own crimes. They accuse us of rebellion. Slaves, revolted against the sovereign- ty of the people, are you ignorant that this blasphe- my can only be justified by victory? But behold the scaffold of the last of our tyrants; behold the French people armed to punish his equals: this is our an- swer—The kings accuse the French people of immo- rality!—People lend an attentive ear to the lessons of these respectable preceptors of mankind. The morality of kings, just Heaven! People celebrate the good faith of Tiberius and the candour of Louis the XVIth; admire the good sense of Claudius, and the wisdom of George; boast of the temperance
and justice of William and Leopold, exalt the chas- tity of Messalina, the conjugal fidelity of Catharine, and the modesty of Antoniette; praise the invinci- ble honor of all the past, present and future despots for usurpations and tyranny, their tender regard for oppressed innocence, their religious respect for the rights of humanity. They accuse us of irreligion; they publish that we have declared war even against the divinity. How edifying is the piety of tyrants! and how agreeable to Heaven ought to be the vir- tues which shine in courts, and the good deeds which they perform throughout the earth? Of what God do they speak to us? Do they know any other but pride, debauchery, and vices? They call themselves the images of the Divinity—Is it to cause him to be hated? They say that their authority is his work. No:—God created tygers, but kings are the chief work of human corruption. If they speak to us of the Divinity, it is to put themselves in his place:— They send to him the prayers of the poor, and the sighs of the distressed, but they are themselves the Gods of riches, the oppressors, and the assassins of the people. Honor the Divinity and punish kings, it is the same thing.—And what people has ever cultivated a worship of the Supreme Being more pure than ours, under the auspices of which we have proclaimed the immutable principles of all human society? The laws of eternal justice have been dis- dainfully called the dreams of good men, we have made them realities—morality was formerly found in the writings of philosophers—we have transfer- red it to the governments of nations. The sen- tence of death pronounced by nature against tyrants, lay dormant in the dejected minds of timid mortals —we have put it in execution.
The world belonged to some races of tyrants as the deserts of Africa, to Tygers and Serpents, we have restored it to mankind. People if you have not the power of retaking your part of the inher- itance, if you are not able to perfect the title which we have given you, at least take care not to violate our rights or to calumniate our courage. The French are not so mad as to render any nation hap- py against its will. All kings might have lived and died unpunished on their bloody thrones, if they had known how to respect the independence of the French people: We only wish to convince you of their impudent calumnies—your masters tell you, that the French nation has proscribed all religion, that they have substituted the worship of some men for that of the divinity; they represent us to you as an idolatrous or insensible people. They lie:— The French people and their representatives respect the liberty of all forms of worship and they pro- scribe none. They honor the virtue of the Mar- tyrs of humanity without insatiation, or idolatry; they abhor intolerance and persecution under what- ever pretext it is concealed. They condemn the extravagancies of philosophy as the folly of super- stition, and the crimes of fanaticism. Your tyrants impute to us some irregularities inseparable from the tempestuous movements of a great revolution; they impute to us the effect of their own intrigues and the wicked attempts of their emissaries.— Whatever the French revolution has produced wise and sublime is the work of the people, all that is of a different character belong to our enemies.
All reasonable and magnanimous men are of the republican party;—all perfidious and corrupted be- ings are of the faction of your tyrants. Is the star which animates all nature to be calumniated on ac- count of the light clouds which glide over its shin- ing disk? Shall august liberty lose her divine charms because the vile agents of tyranny search to profane her? Your misfortunes and ours, proceed from the crimes of the common enemies of man- kind. Is this a reason why you should hate us?— No—it is a reason for punishing them—the cow- ards dare denounce you the founders of the French republic. The modern Torquins have dared to say that the senate of Rome was an assembly of vaga- bonds. According to the declaration of Xerxes, Aristides pillaged the treasury of Greece. Octavi- us and Anthony with their hands full of rapine and stained with the blood of the Romans, commanded all the world to believe them to be the only good, just and virtuous. Tiberius and Sejanus saw in Brutus and Cassius nothing but men of blood and rogues—Frenchmen, men of all countries, it is you whom they insult by insulting liberty in the persons of your representatives, or of your defenders.— They have reproached some of the members of the convention with weakness, others with crimes.— Ah! what has the French people in general to do with all that?—What has the National representa- tion but the force which it imprints on its weakness- es, and the punishment which it inflicts on the guilty? All the armies of the European tyrants repul- sed, notwithstanding five years of treason, conspira- cy, and intestine discord; the scaffold of unfaithful representatives erected near that of the last of your tyrants; The immortal tablets where the hands of the representatives of the people engraved in the midst of broils and convulsions, the social compact

all great culprits trembling before justice; Innocence without a support, astonished at last, to find an asylum in the tribunals; the love of our country triumphing in spite of the vices of slaves and the perfidy of our enemies; the people powerful and wise, invincible and just, rallying at the voice of reason and learning to distinguish their enemies even under the mask of patriotism; The French people running to arms to defend the magnificent work of their courage and their virtue; behold the expiation which we offer to the world, both for our own errors and for the crimes of our enemies. If it is necessary we can yet present to them other titles: our blood has flown for our country. The National Convention can show to the friends and enemies of France honourable scars and glorious mutilations. Here two illustrious adversaries of tyranny are fallen before its eyes, under the strokes of a faction of parricides: There a worthy rival of their republican virtue shut up in a besieged city has with a few companions dared to form the generous resolution of forcing a passage through the Phalanx of the enemy; noble victims of an odious treason, he falls into the hands of the satellites of Austria, and he expiates by long torment, his sublime consecration to the cause of liberty. Other representatives penetrating through the rebel country of the south, scarce escape the fury of traitors, save the French army delivered by perfidious chiefs, and carry back terror and flight, to the satellites of the tyrants of Austria, Spain and Piedmont:—In that execrable city, the disgrace of the French name Baille and Beauvais, enraged at the outrages of tyranny, are dead for their country and its wholesome laws.—Before the walls of that sacrilegious city Gasparin inflaming the valour of our republican warriors has fallen the victim of his courage and of the wickedness of the most cowardly of all our enemies. The North, the South, the Alps and the Pyrenees, the Rhone and the Escaut, the Rhine and the Loire, the Moselle and the Sambre have seen our republican battalions rallying at the voice of the representatives of the people around the standard of liberty and victory—the one has perished, the others have triumphed.
The whole National Convention has fronted death and braved the fury of all tyrants. Illustrious defenders of the cause of Kings, Princes, Ministers, Generals, Courtiers, cite to us your civic virtues; relate to us the important services which you have rendered to mankind, speak to us of the fortresses you conquered by the force of your guineas, boast to us of the talents of your emissaries and the promptitude of your soldiers to fly before the defenders of the republic; boast of your noble contempt of the rights of nations and of men; our prisoners murdered in cold blood, our wives mutilated by your Janissaries, infants massacred on the breast of their mothers, and the murdering tooth of the Austrian tyger tearing their palpitating members.—Boast to us of your exploits in America, Genoa, and Toulon; but above all boast to us of your supreme abilities in the art of poisoning and assassinating.—Tyrants, behold your virtues!
Sublime parliament of Great-Britain cite to us your heroes. You have a party of the opposition. With you patriotism opposes itself then despotism triumphs: The minority opposes itself, the majority is therefore corrupted. Insolent and vile people your pretended representation is venal under your eyes and with your own approbation.
What is then that strange privilege of talking nonsense without measure and without modesty, that the stupid patience of people seems to accord with the views of tyrants! what! these little men whose principal merit consists in knowing the tariff of British consciences; who exert themselves to transplant into France the vices and corruption of their own country; who make war not with armies but with crimes, dare accuse the National Convention of corruption; and insult the virtue of the French people. Generous people we swear by you that ye shall be revenged. Before we finish the war, we will exterminate all our enemies—the House of Austria shall perish sooner than France—London shall be free sooner than Paris enslaved—The fates of the republic and of the tyrants of the earth have been weighed in the eternal balance—The tyrants have been found the highest. Frenchmen let us unite and march against the tyrants; let us subdue them, you by your arms, and we by our laws—Let the traitors tremble! Let the last of the cowardly emissaries of our enemies disappear—Let patriotism triumph and let innocence be encouraged—Frenchmen fight—your cause is good, your courage is invincible—your representatives know how to die:—they can do more, they know how to conquer.
January 26.
A deputation of Americans was admitted to the bar, and the orator demanded the pardon of Thomas Paine, that apostle of liberty, who had been proscribed in England, and whose arrest was a species of triumph to all the tyrants on the earth. His papers had been examined, and far from finding any dangerous propositions the committee had traced only the character of that burning zeal for liberty—of that eloquence of nature and philosophy; and of those principles of public morality, which had through life procured him the hatred of despots and the love of his fellow citizens. They demanded, therefore, with confidence, that Thomas Paine would be restored to the fraternal embrace of his fellow citizens, and they offered themselves sureties for his conduct during the short time he would remain in France.
The President, after a high compliment to the American people, said, "you demand from us Thomas Paine; you are anxious to re-conduct to your own shores the effect of the Rights of Man; we must
was born in England; that was enough to subject him to the decree in the first instance, which our own safety demanded by the revolutionary laws.—The Convention will take into consideration your demand."
FRESH EUROPEAN ADVICES.
By the Fanny, from Greenock, arrived at New-York, after a passage of 35 days, London papers to the 1st and Glasgow papers to the 7th of March, have been received, and from which the following extracts were taken.
BRUSSELS, February 20.
THE head quarters of the Austrians will be this evening at Valenciennes. M. de Clairfayt will command 20,000 men at Tournay; the Prince de Cobourg 40,000 at Solemesmes, between Catay and Cambray; and the Prince of Hohenlohe 20,000 on the banks of the Sambre. There will also be 9,000 men between Beaumont, Maubeuge, and Philippeville 18,000 Dutch troops, and 12,000 Austrians, will protect Namur, and M. de Beaulieu will have 9,000 at Arlon. Such are our dispositions. The 15,000 Austrians that are at Treves will be charged to cover the Electorate. The English, Hessians, and Hanoverians alone are charged with the defence of West Flanders from Menin to the sea.
We may further have to combat between 30 and 35,000 men from La Vendee; though in consequence of the successes of the brave Royalists, commanded by Charette and La Roche Jaquelin, whose troops will most likely remain in the interior. You may depend upon it, we shall attack the enemy as soon as possible. Col. Mack's system is to act on the offensive, and he is right.
The enemy have made the following dispositions: the army of Toulon will go to the Rhine; that of the Rhine will come to the sources of the Oise, and that of the Moselle to the camp of Ransenne, under Givet, which position was occupied by La Fayette during the campaign of 1792. The army of the Ardennes is to come to Salre le Chateau, between Avesnes and Philippeville, and that of the North will garrison the strong places.
FRANKFORT, January 30.
Field Marshal Moysendorf, appointed to the chief command of the Prussian army, on the resignation of the Duke of Brunswick, arrived here last night, and immediately set out for Mentz.
TENDERDEN, (Kent.) February 3.
We have a very alarming rising in Woodchurch, Warehorne, and other parishes in the Weald of Kent. Some of the insurgents have been taken and sent to Maidstone jail. The rest are closely pursued.—There is among them a list of those who have subscribed and agreed to Frenchify us, but we believe it is suppressed or carefully concealed—for the magistrates have not yet been able to get a copy of it.
LONDON, January 29.
A letter from Toulon, dated the 6th of December, and in a Paris paper, mentions, that the English fleet has met with a second violent storm off the island of Hieres, and that four ships of Lord Hood's squadron have been wrecked, one of which is the Commerce de Marseilles. The crews are saved.
February 8.
Last night, at eight o'clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of York, arrived at Whitehall from the continent.
His Royal Highness came passenger in the Vesta frigate, which conveyed Prince Adolphus to Ostend, and landed at Ramsgate yesterday morning, after a short passage of fourteen hours.
The Duke of York, after paying a visit at Buckingham house, set off for Oatlands, where his Duchess was.
Letters from Nantz of the 7th ult. state, that within the preceding 4 weeks, about 3,000 persons have been put to death, and a still greater number are doomed to share the same fate.
The French are making astonishing exertions to fit out their navy; and for this purpose, every seaman in France is put in a state of requisition.
Letters from the continent, by the Flanders mail of yesterday, bring the interesting intelligence, that the French have re-occupied the important heights of Oppenheim, and have pushed their advanced posts within 2 leagues of Mentz.
By our letters from Brussels, we learn that after the council of war, the Prince de Saxe Cobourg, attended by Col. Mack and other officers, returned to Mons. A motion was addressed by the minister to the assembly of states, upon which they are now deliberating—and a proposition has been made to the associate volunteers of that city, to march to the frontier to repel the threatened invasion: but this the citizens have refused.
There had been daily skirmishes at the out posts; but no movements of any consequence.
February 10.
We mentioned the report of the Duke of Brunswick being about to succeed to the command of the grand army in Flanders; but the fact is very equivocal; nor do we believe it. All that we know for certain is—that the Duke of Brunswick has not only given up the command of the Prussian army of the Rhine, but has also resigned in disgust all his military employments, and rank in the Prussian service. His serene highness does not approve of those who at present direct the crooked politics of the court of Berlin.
February 13.
According to the accounts from the West-Indies, a great number of American ships had been taken
and sent into our ports since the 6th of December. This order, issued by our ministers on no principle of justice or sound policy, but in the intoxication of imaginary success, and as pusillanimously retracted as it was inconsiderately issued, will thus be acted upon for several weeks, and the public will have to pay all the expenses incurred by the detention of the ships taken only to be restored. The effects of it in America will be to convince every man that the United States are not to depend for the security of their commerce as a neutral nation, on the moderation of the British Cabinet, but on their own power to afford it protection.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Peace with the French!!!
Marquis Lansdowne informed their Lordships that he had, the two preceding days, come down to the house, respecting a motion he had to make, but that the house was always open before he came. He understood, however, that a noble friend of his had moved the house to be summoned for Friday next; and therefore he (Lord Lansdowne) should submit to their Lordships, on that day, a motion for concluding a speedy, honorable, and advantageous peace with the French. The Noble Lord mentioned, that he had, at the commencement of the session, entertained hopes that this salutary measure would be adopted, but, from the great preparations which were making, and the immense armaments going forward in every department, it appeared that war was to be pursued, and the scale of hostilities enlarged.
The noble Marquis then attempted to justify his intention, by assuring the house, that what he meant to bring forward, was not to alarm the public, or to disclose danger, but merely for the general benefit of the public!!!
February 15. It is generally understood that our government will stop all American ships now in the river, bound to France. The urgency of affairs requires every vigilance on our part, to prevent any supplies being sent to that country, which is so very hard pressed at this moment for articles of the first necessity for carrying on the war.
LA FAYETTE.
A person of veracity, just arrived from Magdebourg, brings intelligence that the four French prisoners (La Fayette and his companions) during a year have been confined in the dungeons in that town. The bolts and bars have been doubled in each of the four cells that inclose them, and the people of the town are prohibited all communication with the prison.
February 17. The Marquis of Cornwallis will immediately be invested with the command in chief of all the forces in England. The Cabinet were divided in opinion, whether this post should be filled by his Lordship, or Lord Amherst; the casting voice only gave it in favour of the former.
The dissent among the troops under the command of Lord Moira, still prevails with great violence; the symptoms of this disease, which has swept off so many of our soldiery, are in many respects similar to those of the yellow fever, which lately raged in the trans-atlantic hemisphere.
February 18. Yesterday accounts were received from America, brought to this country by two ships from New-York, with letters as late as the 14th of January. By these we learn, that Congress had received intelligence of the proclamation of our Privy Council of the 6th of November last, for seizing American ships under certain circumstances; as well as that of the capture of several American ships in the West-Indies. Congress however, had wisely determined on preserving a strict neutrality with all nations. American stocks have risen in consequence.
February 19. It is now understood to be a measure positively settled, that in compliance with the plan of Col. Mack, a descent on the coast of France shall be made by the British.
February 20. The Duke of York, in the ensuing campaign, is to act under the direction of Col. Mack, and the combined armies are not to waste their time by stopping on the way to attack or besiege any of the strongly fortified towns on the frontiers, but to proceed in a mass to Paris. (egg.)
Government yesterday received advice from Portsmouth, that the cutter which was dispatched from thence on Thursday evening to look into the ports of France, from whence the expected invasion was said to be projected, is returned, after running so close on shore as narrowly to have escaped a red hot ball from a battery; and reports that there are no troops embarked, nor shipping so numerous, or preparations in any state of forwardness such as had been conjectured.
The French having made great additions to their strength, along all the frontiers from Lisle to Dunkirk, threaten another inroad upon the West Flanders, and already some severe skirmishes have taken place, at the allied out-posts. Gun-boats are said to have sailed from Dunkirk, for the purpose of attacking Ostend by sea, to which place their troops in great numbers, are endeavouring to press forward by land. In the mean time, it is satisfactory to know, that Ostend has been for some time in a condition to make a vigorous defence.
February 21. Letters from Frankfort of the 14th announce, that intelligence had been received there from good authority, that the French intended to penetrate from the district of Hundstrucken against St. Wendel and Treves; but that the army revolted against their general, peremptorily refused to proceed any further, and insisted upon being led back to their own frontiers. The French, since this occurrence, have not only evacuated the territories of Treves, but even the Duchy of Deux Ponts, and the district of Kaiserlautern.

plan projected by the committee of public welfare, tends to recapture the strong holds taken by the allies during the last campaign.
On the 10th and 11th inst. several bloody skirmishes were fought about Auchies, in which the Austrian Hussars took a great number of prisoners.
The British troops were held in suspense till yesterday, when information was brought that the movement of the enemy was only a change of position, without any immediate hostile attempt. They are in force unquestionably, from 25 to 30,000 men.
The naval preparations at Dunkirk still go on, as to the flat-bottomed boats, bomb vessels, &c. — Ostend is probably the object of this expedition; the attempt however, will be dangerous.
March 1. Last night Mr. Sparrow, the messenger, arrived at the secretary of states office, with despatches from our army in Flanders. A general movement has taken place, and the British forces had already drawn towards the neighbourhood of Courtray, expecting an attack. Their head-quarters are now at Haerlebeke.
An out post near Menin, consisting of about 100 men, and 30 officers, Hanoverians and York Rangers, were surrounded at day-break, on Wednesday last night, by about 1000 of the enemy, and the whole taken prisoners. Whether this, or a more serious alarm was the cause, we have not been able to learn, but field-marshal Freytag, who commanded there, immediately sent an express to Sir William Erskine, commanding the British; and the whole of his forces were instantly ordered to march to the neighbourhood of Courtray, to be cantoned there. These orders, however, could not be effected till Sunday last, when the whole force marched from Ghent.
As the armies are now in general motion, the campaign may be expected immediately to commence. The prince of Cobourg arrived at Valenciennes on the 19th, where he has taken up his headquarters. He was received with the most lively demonstrations of joy, and the city was illuminated on the occasion.
The duke of York has given orders to his suite to be ready to depart at an hour's notice.
A detachment from the French troops at Spires, lately carried off from the single German village of Lambheim, six hundred head of cattle.
The Flanders mail due yesterday, arrived this morning, and brings intelligence from Anspach, that orders had been sent hither from Berlin, to get ready his Prussian majesty's field equipage at a moment's warning.
The last letter from Petersburg states, that all the officers and soldiers of the Russian army have received orders to join their respective corps before the first of March; and that prince Dolgoroucki and general Suwarow received orders to repair, the former to Moldavia and latter to the Crimea.
General Washington's Speech, on opening the Congress, while it displays a proper sense of the advantages to be obtained from cultivating peace, represents the necessity of maintaining the rights of commerce, and that, if the American States wish to avoid insult, they must be able to repel it. We must therefore consider it as fortunate that our Ministers, from whatever motive, have been induced to countermand their order for making prize of all American ships, laden with the produce of French colonies, or carrying cargoes to French colonies; an order, which, if persisted in, must have involved us in war with America.
PARIS, February 13.
A letter from Divant, of the 3d inst. states, that all the coasts of Brittany is covered with cannon and troops, waiting to make a descent upon England. — At Dunkirk the most active preparations are said to be going forward for the same purpose.
PORTSMOUTH, February 5.
By several of our cruisers lately arrived, we have advice, that the preparations making in the different ports of France, for embarking an army, are great beyond all example.
UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK, April 26.
European accounts state, that England had been under serious alarm from an expected invasion by 50,000 Carmagnols—to which government says, "let them come, for we have 60,000 best troops to oppose them!"
The landing of 13,000 Hessians in England creates considerable uneasiness, but the application of various salvoes has calmed the people in some measure—and, what is more surprising still, the more desperate and sanguinary the minister's plan, the greater his majority in Parliament.
Letters say, that the late mob at Edinburgh consisted of upwards of 10,000 men, who were subdued by the military, and the head taken, who is now on trial.
By a gentleman this moment arrived from Newport (Rhode Island), we hear that Gen. Rochambeau and his suite have actually arrived at that place in the Velvius and Britania . Fort Bourbon surrendered on the 23d of March, having been distressed for water after the taking of Fort Louis; on the 21st by the breaking of the water-conduits. The garrison, consisting of about 1000 soldiers, are sent to Europe. We apprehend this news to be authentic.
PHILADELPHIA, April 26.
Capt. Irwin of the brig Hope , in 23 days from Grenada, informs that he left there about 12 sail of American vessels.
He further informs that they have given up every
that restitution would be made.
General Rochambeau arrived in town yesterday from Newport.
By the Delaware, Capt. Truxton arrived from London, we collect the following particular: Important despatches are received from Mr. Pinckney to our government, which show the British administration is by no means favourably inclined to the United States.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kentucky, to his friend in Montgomery County, dated February 14, 1794.
"Our country affords little news at present of consequence, only what we have from the army.—I hear that a few weeks past, 4 Indian chiefs, from different nations, came into head quarters, for the purpose of proposing a treaty; the General gave them but little satisfaction, only desired they would return and bring in their prisoners; they went, and took with them one of his officers, and left one of theirs in pledge, and were to return by a certain day agreed upon, which they have failed to do; in consequence of which Gen. Wayne intends marching on immediately, and swears by every thing that is sacred he will drink out of the Lakes before the 1st day of May; how that may be I cannot pretend to judge."
Extract of a letter from Barbadoes, dated March 19.
"All American vessels and property that have been detained and sold in the several English ports, London and Ireland, are to be restored. Such conduct, I am strongly of opinion, will keep us at peace with you."
BALTIMORE, April 27.
On Monday last the following resolution passed the House of Representatives of the United States—Yeas 58—Nays 38: viz.
WHEREAS, the injuries which have been suffered by the United States, from violations committed by Great Britain on their neutral rights and commercial interests, as well as from her failure to execute the seventh article of the treaty of peace, render it expedient for the interests of the United States, that the commercial intercourse between the two countries should not continue to be carried on in the extent at present allowed:
RESOLVED, That from and after the first day of November next, all commercial intercourse between the citizens of the United States, and the subjects of the King of Great Britain, or the citizens or subjects of any other nation, so far as the same respects articles of the growth or manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, shall be prohibited.
A committee was then appointed to prepare and bring in a bill pursuant to the above resolution.
We hear that the president of the U. S. has appointed Nathaniel Cabot Higginson, legal commissioner for the U. S. on a mission to the West-Indies to superintend the interesting appeals from the decrees of condemnation; to investigate the grounds on which they have been made and to do other things relative to American vessels and cargoes, which have been condemned in the vice admiralty court of the several islands, and also to afford relief to our seamen now there.
No condemnations or acquittals have taken place at St. Kitt's since the arrival of the new instructions from Britain, dated January 8, 1794, but all American vessels brought in since that period have been libelled as before.
The senate of the United States, on Saturday last, concurred in the President's nomination of John Jay , as envoy extraordinary to the British court: Ayes 18, Nays 8.
MARTINSBURG, May 5, 1794.
The Kentucky Gazette of March 29, says, "It would be difficult to recount the depredations committed in the last and present week; some of them are as follows: They stole horses from Little's, on the road between George town and Cincinnati; from North Elkhorn; from out of the town of Frankfort; from Brahier's creek; from Mann's Lick, and in fine, from almost every frontier of the state. They killed two men at Mann's Lick, and took two boys on Brahier's creek; on the contrary, a party from Columbia killed two Indians."
Similar accounts of murders and robberies committed in Cumberland and Mero districts, are contained in the Knoxville Gazette, of March 27. Parties had been out in search of the perpetrators, some of which had returned with but little success; and others were still in the pursuit.
On the 4th of March, about 9 miles from Fort-Hamilton, two waggons, one of them loaded with merchandise, belonging to Messrs. Smith and Findley, the other with quarter-masters stores, were attacked by a party of Indians; the waggons were both killed, the teams captured, the waggons set on fire, and, together with their loading, entirely consumed. Mr. Travers, owner of the waggons, was inhumanly butchered.
Tuesday, the 22d ult. the two MILITARY BILLS were read a second time in the House of Representatives, and ordered for a third reading the day following—one respects the arming and equipping of 80,000 militia—the other provides for raising an additional regiment of artillery and engineers.
The former of these Bills, we are informed by a gentleman from Philadelphia, has since passed both Houses of Congress, and laid before the President for his approbation.
whole island of Martinique, surrendered to the British on the 23d of March. A summons was sent to St. Lucia, demanding the surrender of that island, which it was thought would be complied with.—Guadaloupe was said to be the next object to which the operations of the British forces would be directed.
A melancholy event took place on Friday evening last, at Winchester:—A detachment of the infantry company being out, practicing the manual exercise, one of the men unguardedly having his firelock charg'd, on coming to the word fire! and being plac'd directly opposite the single man, discharged the whole contents of the piece into the left side of the neck of the unfortunate young man, which drop'd him on the spot. He was still living when our informant left that place, but no expectation had of his surviving many hours—may this accident prove a caution in future to commanders of parties, and remind them of that very necessary part of their duty, search arms! previous to proceeding to the exercise.
Extract of a letter from a member of Congress.
"Prospects appear to open as to peace. The orders of the 8th of January to the British courts and vessels, appear to be observed, notwithstanding paragraphs constantly appear to the contrary. The tone of that court to our minister, and of their minister here, is changed. Mr. Higginson is gone to the West-Indies, to go from Island to Island, and establish evidence as to the illegal condemnations.—To the success of the French arms and negotiations, the prospect of our keeping peace is most owing.—They are every where in the highest degree successful; and no doubt remains but that the combined powers have relinquished the expectation of forcing on them a King or a form of government; that some of the powers are anxiously proposing to withdraw from the confederacy; and that the cabinets of St. James's and Madrid are at variance, and their commanders, in all instances, thwarting each other."
Died in this town, on Saturday last, Mr. Christopher Wagoner.
ON Thursday last was lost by the Subscriber, a small Journal, with a £50. bond inclosed.—Whoever should find the same, and will leave it at Robert Daniels's, in Bucklestown, or Florence Mahony's, Martinsburg, shall receive grateful acknowledgments, from their humble servant, JACOB ANSPACH.
May 5, 1794.
WHEREAS some time since, I exchanged my property in this County for land in Kentucky, and being now on the point of removing, my wife Elizabeth M'Laughlin , not only refuses to sign my deed of conveyance but also refuses to go with me, without the least just cause, I therefore am reduced to the disagreeable necessity of thus publicly cautioning all persons against dealing with, or in any manner crediting the said Elizabeth on my account, as I shall not be answerable for any of her proceedings, or pay any debt of her contracting, after this date.
JAMES M'LAUGHLIN.
Berkeley County April 30, 1794.
Will be exposed to sale, on Thursday the 15th inst. at the house of the subscriber, a variety of articles, consisting of live stock, &c. viz.
Cows, sheep and hogs, implements of husbandry, household furniture, together with many articles too numerous to ascertain. Four months credit will be given on bond with approved security. The sale to begin at 10 o'clock, where due attendance will be given, by JOSEPH HEARD.
May 1, 1794.
TO BE RENTED.
A Dwelling-House and Garden, Situated at the West end of Burke Street, and lately occupied by Mr. Redfern. Apply to FLORENCE MAHONY.
May 5, 1794.
YOUNG TRAVELLER,
WILL stand the present season, at the plantation of the subscriber, upon the Winchester road, three miles from Shepherd's Town, adjoining Capt. James Kearney's, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, in each week; and at Paul Verrier's, in Martinsburg, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in each week, at the moderate price of Three Dollars the season, Five Dollars to insure a colt, or eight shillings the single leap, cash to be paid at the time of covering. The money for the season to be paid by the 1st day of September next.
Young Traveller is a beautiful dark brown, full seventeen hands high, rising five years old next grass, was bred in the State of New-Jersey, out of the noted horse called Ajax; Ajax was got by an imported dray horse, out of a full blooded imported mare, both of which were imported from England by William Allen, late of Philadelphia; his dam was got by a full blooded imported Hunter called Hector, and her dam was a full blooded mare, both of which were imported from England by Governor Reed, late of Philadelphia.
The season to close on the 1st of July.
JAMES VERRIER.
May 1, 1794.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
On ENVY and DETRACTION.
IT must be own'd, in vain we guard 'Gainst slander's envious tongue, Tho' virtue is its own reward, Yet virtue will be stung.
Were you as pure as spotless snow, As clear as chrystal ice, Yet slander, Virtue's native foe, Would call this virtue vice.
Where virtue most conspicuous shews, There malice seems most bent; Thus where the sweetest blossom blows, There wasps will most frequent.
What fence can ward against the fiend! The means how dearly bought! The price for slander to your friend, But merit sets at nought.
Let patience scorn their selfish views, For malice patience dreads; For sure the storm that threatens you's, Most burst upon their heads.
Tho' dirty schemes demand their care, Revenge like them detest, For dirt will harbour any where, But in an honest breast.
TAKE NOTICE.
WHEREAS my father George Hagley , in his life- time past a note to George Heiges , for about forty pounds, perhaps something more or less; but as it was unjustly obtained, I never will pay it un- less compelled by law.
PETER HAGLEY, Administrator for George Hagley, dec'd.
Berkeley County, April 19, 1794.
ALL Persons indebted to the subscriber are ear- nestly requested to come and settle their re- spective balances, as no longer indulgence can possi- bly be given.
WILLIAM CHAPLINE.
Shepherd's-Town, April 19, 1794.
TO BE SOLD,
An active Negro Boy, about 7 years old. Apply to the Printer.
ALL Persons indebted to, or have any demands on the estate of John Tayler , late of Berkeley , deceased, are hereby notified to come in for imme- diate settlement with
WILLIAM TAYLER } Executors. JOHN TAYLER, }
April 21, 1794.
W A N T E D,
A BLACKSMITH, who is a good workman, to take a shop with a good set of tools, either on shares or wages. Apply to WILLIAM RUSH , 3 miles from Martinsburg , near Opeckon .
April 19, 1794.
OLIVER and WILLIAM ASHENHUST, From CARLISLE,
INFORMS their friends and the public, that they carry on the Taylors' Business, near the Printing- Office, Burke-Street. They will make up their work in the best and neatest manner. Cash or coun- try produce, at market price, will be received in payment.
April 19, 1794.
TO THE PUBLIC.
WHEREAS a certain Gabriel Wilkins , in the state of Maryland , and County of Alligbany , hath one time ago made a trespass upon my landed pro- perty and surveyed, the same, viz. one hundred and fifty acres, on the North-Branch of Potowmac , and obtained a grant for the same, from the Common- wealth of Virginia . This is therefore to forwarn any person or persons from purchasing said land from said Wilkins , as the property is mine in justice and equity, and will not be given up to him or any other person or persons that may purchase the same from him.
THOMAS ANDERSON.
INFORMS the public, that he carries on the Tay- lor and Lady's Habit-making Business, one door below Mr. Snedickel's . He wants two or three jour- neymen, to whom constant employ will be given, and cash paid at the expiration of the week. The work will be done equal to any in Philadelphia or Baltimore . Cash, or country produce at market price, will be received in payment.
Martinsburg, April 7, 1794.
ALL persons are cautioned against trespassing on my meadow or fields in the vicinity of this town, as I am determined in future to prosecute every offender to the utmost extent of the law.
ROBERT COCKBURN.
Martinsburg, April 19, 1794.
At a Court continued and held for BERKELEY Coun- ty, the 20th day of March, 1794.
IN CHANCERY.
William Wilson and John Potts, jun. merchants and partners in trade, under the name and firm of William Wilson, and Co. of Alexandria , and Thomas Williams and Joseph Carey, merchants and partners in trade, under the name and firm of Williams and Carey, of Alexandria .—Complain- ants.
John Leamy, William Crammond, and Hugh Holmes, executors of the last will and testament of David Cay, deceased, who was surviving partner of the late house of Andrew Clow, and Co. of Philadel- phia , and George Hite and John Conrad, mer- chants and partners in trade at Rutherford's mill, in BERKELEY County, under the name and firm of George Hite, and Co. and John Conrad and George Hite, merchants and partners in trade at Charles-Town , in the said County of BERKELEY , under the name and firm of John Conrad and Co. —Defendants.
THE defendants, John Leamy, William Cram- mond, and Hugh Holmes, not having entered their appearance, agreeable to an act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabi- tants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said John, William, and Hugh, do appear here on the third Tuesday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this or- der be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette , for two months successively, and published at the church door in the parish of Norborne , on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court House of the said County.
A copy. Test.
MOSES HUNTER, C. B. C.
At a Court continued and held for Berkeley County, the 20th day of March, 1794.
IN CHANCERY.
William Wilson and John Potts, jun. merchants and partners in trade, under the name and firm of William Wilson and Co. of Alexandria , and Tho- mas Williams and Joseph Carey, merchants and partners in trade, under the name and firm of Wil- iams and Carey, of Alexandria , and Philip Rich- ard Fendell, also of Alexandria .—Complainants.
John Leamy, William Crammond, and Hugh Holmes, executors of the last will and testament of David Cay, deceased, who was surviving partner of the late house of Andrew Clow, and Co. of Philadel- phia , and George Hite and John Conrad, mer- chants and partners in trade at Rutherford's mill, in Berkeley County, under the name and firm of George Hite, and Co. and John Conrad and George Hite, merchants and partners in trade at Charles-Town , in the said county of Berkeley , under the name and firm of John Conrad, and Co.— Defendants.
THE defendants, John Leamy, William Cram- mond, and Hugh Holmes, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabi- tants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainants, by their counsel, it is Ordered, that the said John, William, and Hugh, do appear here on the third Tuesday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainants, and that a copy of this or- der be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette , for two months successively, and published at the church door in the parish of Norborne , on some Sunday im- mediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court House of the said County.
A copy. Test.
MOSES HUNTER, C. B. C.
STRAYED or stolen from the Plantation of the subscriber, about five weeks ago; a red Cow, with a white face, a white spot on her back, white legs and tail, strait horns; a piece cut out of each ear about the size of a penny; and very heavy with calf. Any person delivering said cow to the sub- scriber shall receive ten shillings reward.
JOSIAH CLAWSON.
April 28, 1794.
Court continued and held for BERKELEY County, the 21st day of March, 1794. IN CHANCERY.
William Dark, Complainant.
vs. Ignatius Simmes, Philip Pendleton, and Robert White, Defendants.
THE defendant, Ignatius Simmes, not having en- tered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appear- ing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant, by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said Ignatius, do appear here on the third Tues- day of May next, and answer the bill of the com- plainant, and that a copy of this order be forth- with inserted in the Virginia Gazette , for two months successively, and published at the church door in the parish of Norborne , on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court- House of the said County.
A copy. Test.
MOSES HUNTER, C. B. C.
At a Court continued and held for BERKELEY Coun- ty, the 20th day of March, 1794.
IN CHANCERY.
James Webb, Complainant.
vs. William Weathers, Defendant.
THE defendant, William Weathers, not having entered his appearance, agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appear- ing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant, by his counsel, it is Ordered, that the said William do appear here on the third Tues- day in May next, and answer the bill of the com- plainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette , for two months suc- cessively, and published at the church door in the parish of Norborne , on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court-House of the said County.
A copy. Test.
MOSES HUNTER, C. B. C.
NOTICE is hereby given to the purchasers of goods at the sale of the effects of the late Mr. William Skinner , and have not taken them away, and given bonds agreeable to the conditions of the sale, that unless they comply with the same in three weeks from this date, the forfeiture will be put in suit, without further notice.
REBECCA SKINNER.
April 19, 1794.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD
STRAYED away from the Subscriber about the 21st of December last, (but probably since that time may have been stolen) a very likely black mare, about 15 hands high, four years old this spring, branded on the near shoulder A. and on the near buttock M, the latter not plain, but by particular examination may be understood; a middling long tail, her main hangs on the off side, a very short neck, which occasions her when grazing, to keep one fore leg bent; very large under jaw, which is peculiar to the breed; very gentle, (had all round trotts and gallops: Was raised (if I was rightly in- formed) in Berkeley County, by Abraham or Andrew McDonald , near the North Mountain; I ima- gine she is gone to her native place, if not stopped, as she strayed away twice before and was taken up on the road leading from Alexandria to Keys's ferry on Shanandoah river. Three Dollars will be given to any person who will deliver the above men- tioned mare to Mr. George Hite in Charles-Town , Berkeley County, or Mr. Joseph Smith , Leesburg ; and the above reward if delivered to
WILLIAM RHODES.
Alexandria, March 19, 1794.
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THE Editor of this paper has frequently, though with reluctance, called on his Subscribers, who are indebted to him to make payment, but that notice has not had the desired effect;—the rise of paper, expence of post-riders, &c. places him in a situation which will not admit of his continu- ing the business unless the means are furnished him, he therefore is obliged in the most pressing terms to request all persons to settle their several arrearages to the 7th of November last, at which time the 3d year of the Guardian expired. Necessity requires him to repeat the original terms of subscription, and which must in future be comply'd with, viz. one half year to be paid on subscribing, and the remain- der at the end of the year—and advertisements to be accompanied with the cash.
FOR SALE AT THE PRINTING OFFICE. Blank Deeds of Bargain and Sale. Common Bonds, Blank notes, &c.