The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1793-10-14 00:00:00

TO BE SOLD, ON Friday the 18th of October, at the late Dwelling House of JAMES CRANE, deceased, (near Charlesown)undry valuable Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, and Household Furniture, on twelve months credit. Any person having any claims against said estate, are requested to bring them in. LUCY CRANE, Administratrix. Berkeley County, October 7, 1793.
PURSUANT to a decree of the High Court of Chancery, to us decreed, we shall proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for ready money, on Thursday, the 31st day of October next, on the premises, a Tract of Land, containing 200 acres, lying in Berkeley County, which Land was mortgaged to Mr. THOMAS WILLIAMS, by BENJAMIN BERLER, and adjoining the Lands on which said BERLER now dwells. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock on said day. ANDREW WAGGONER. ABRAHAM SHEPHERD. HENRY BEDINGER. September 30, 1793.
TO BE SOLD, 139 Acres of good LAND, within one mile of Shepherd's Town, lying near the Potomac, 80 acres of which are cleared, 8 acres in meadow, a good dwelling house, barn, draw well, and the Land under good fence. For further particulars and terms of sale, apply to the subscriber, on the premises, or at the Printing-Office. HENRY SEAYER. October 7, 1793.
HAVING obtained a commission to take the depositions of sundry witnesses, in a suit now depending in the Honourable High Court of Chancery, wherein we are complainants, John Vanmetre and Isaac Vanmetre defendants; and whereas the said John and Isaac are no inhabitants of this county, and the complainants are ignorant of their place of abode; this is therefore to give them notice that we shall proceed to take the said depositions, on Tuesday, the twenty-second day of this instant, at the Court House of the county of Berkeley, between the hours of 10 in the morning, and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. DANIEL VANMETRE. WILLIAM GORREL. Berkeley County, October 5, 1793.
A SCHOOL has been opened in OLD TOWN, under the care and instruction of BARTHOLOMEW KENNELLY, a young man of classical education, acquired in a respectable seminary, of approved abilities and an unblemished character, where he teaches the following sciences; at their respective prices, viz. reading, writing (after the common way,) and arithmetic, at ten shillings per quarter; the Greek and Latin, at twenty five shillings per quarter; the art of writing, book-keeping, geography, and the use of the globes, at forty shillings each, perfectly taught; his art of writing is so short, uncommon, and approved a method, that it is known or discovered but by a few Europeans, as yet, and therefore concludes it is but little experienced on this side of the Atlantic, but he will communicate this method to any grown person of common understanding, in one month, for forty shillings. October 6, 1793.
RAN away from the Subscriber, living at Bath, a Molatto Man Servant named BEN, about 5 feet 10 inches high, stout and well made; he was seen in Martinsburg during the races. Whoever apprehends said servant, and returns him to me, or commits him to jail, shall have Two Dollars reward, and necessary charges. JOSEPH BUTLER. October 6, 1793.
WHEREAS John and Christian Hawkins have a bond on Nicholas Cleppari and Jacob Painter, for 371. 10s. due April 1, 1794, but as John Hawkins has drawn on the above bond to the amount of one half of the bond. I hereby forewarn the obligees in said bond, as also all persons who are indebted to the said J. and C. Hawkins, by any other bonds, not to pay any part thereof to the said John Hawkins, as such payment will not be credited, without the mutual consent of both the concerned. CHRISTIAN HAWKINS. October 7, 1793.
THE WHOLE OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE. (Continued from our last.)
OF PRIMARY ASSEMBLIES.
11. PRIMARY assemblies consist of citizens residing for six months in a canton. 12. They are composed of 200 citizens at least, and 600 at most, entitled to vote. 13. They are constituted by the nomination of a president, secretaries, and inspectors of ballots. 14. They regulate their internal police. 15. No one can appear at them armed. 16. The elections are either by ballot or viva voce, at the option of each voter. 17. A Primary Assembly can in no case prescribe an uniform mode of voting. 18. The inspectors of ballot record the votes of Citizens who, unable to write, will however to vote by ballot. 19. The questions on the laws are decided by Yes and No. 20. The vote of the Primary Assembly is proclaimed thus:—The Citizens assembled in Primary Assembly of ... in number ... voters, vote [for or against] by a majority of ...
OF THE NATIONAL REPRESENTATION.
21. Population is the only basis of the National Representation. 22. There shall be a deputy for every forty thousand individuals. 23. Each collection of Primary Assemblies, completing a population of 39,000 to 41,000 persons, name immediately a deputy. 24. The nomination requires an absolute majority of suffrages. 25. Each Assembly counts its own votes, and sends a commissioner to the general collection of results, to the place fixed as most central. 26. If the first trial does not give any one an absolute majority, a second election takes place, the votes being confined to the two Citizens highest in votes. 27. In case of equal votes, the eldest is preferred, either to be voted for or elected. In case of equal age, chance decides. 28. Every Frenchman, exercising the rights of Citizen, in any part of the Republic is eligible. 29. Each deputy belongs to the whole nation. 30. In case of refusal to accept, resignation, forfeiture or death of a deputy, the Primary Assemblies who had nominated him replace him. 31. A deputy who has resigned cannot quit his post before his successor is ready to enter upon the duties of his appointment. 32. The French people assemble every year, on the first Tuesday, to proceed to their elections. 33. They proceed to the election whatever be the number of Citizens, having a right to vote at it assembled. 34. A Primary Assembly may be extraordinarily convoked, upon the requisition of a fifth of the Citizens having a right to vote at it. 35. The convocation in this case, is made by the Municipality of the common place of meeting. 36. These extraordinary Assemblies deliberate only in case a majority of the Citizens having a right to vote in them, be present.
OF ELECTORAL ASSEMBLIES.
37. The Citizens in Primary Assemblies name an elector, one, for every 200 Citizens, counting present and absent; two from 201 to 400; three from 401 to 600. 38. The holding of Electory Assemblies and the mode of electing is the same as in the Primary Assemblies.
OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
39. The Legislative Body is one, indivisible and permanent. 40. The Session is of one year. 41. The Legislators meet on the first of July. 42. A majority is a quorum. 43. The deputies can be questioned, accused, or judged at no time, for opinions expressed from their seats in the Legislature. 44. They may for criminal actions be taken in the fact, but the warrant to arrest and to cause to appear can only be issued against them by the Legislature.
THE SITTING OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
45. The sitting of the National Assembly shall be public. 46. Its journals shall be printed. 47. It shall not deliberate, unless it be composed of, at least 20 members. 48. It shall not refuse any member the right of speaking, in the order in which he has demanded it. 49. It shall decide by the voice of the majority of those present. 50. Fifty shall have the right of calling for the yeas and nays. 51. The Assembly shall have the right of censuring the conduct of its members during its meetings. 52. The Assembly shall possess the immediate jurisdiction of the place in which it holds its sessions, and of such an extent in the neighbourhood as it shall itself determine.
OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
53. The Legislative body shall enact laws and pass decrees. 54. Under the general name of laws are comprised such acts of the legislative body, as concern—Civil or criminal legislation; the general administration of the revenues of the ordinary expenditures of the republic; The national domains; The standard, the weight, the impression and denomination of money; The nature, the amount and the collection of taxes; The declaration of war; any new distribution of the French territory; Public Instruction—and the public honours paid to great men. 55. Under the particular title of Decrees, are comprehended such acts as relate to—The annual establishment of the forces of the republic, by sea and land; the permission or refusal of the passage of foreign troops through the French territory; the introduction of foreign naval forces into the French ports; measures for the general safety and tranquility; The annual and temporary distribution of the public labor and public contributions; orders for the emission of money of all kinds; extraordinary and contingent expenditures; measures which are local or confined to one particular department, community, or particular kind of public work; the defence of the country; the ratification of treaties; the nomination and disposition of the commanders in chief of the armies; the trial of the members of council and public functionaries; the accusation of those suspected of plots against the general safety of the republic; every partial change in the distribution of the French territory; national rewards.
OF THE FORMATION OF A LAW.
56. All bills proposed to be enacted into a law shall be preceded by a report. 57. The discussion of the law shall not be opened, and it shall not be provisionally enacted, until 15 days after the report. 58. The bill is printed and sent to all the communes, under the title of, Proposed Law. 59. Forty days after the proposed law is sent, if in the majority of the departments, the tenth part of the primary assemblies of each, has not objected, the plan is deemed accepted and becomes a law. 60. If objections are made, the legislative body convene the primary assemblies.
OF THE TITLE OF LAWS AND DECREES.
61. All laws, decrees, judgments, and other public acts, shall be entitled, In the name of the French People, the _____ year of the French Republic.
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
62. There shall be an Executive Council composed of 25 members. 63. The electoral assembly of each department names one candidate; the legislative body chooses from the list the members of the council. 64. One half of the council is renewed by every legislature during the last months of its session. 65. The council is charged with the direction and superintendence of the general administration of the republic. It can act but in execution of the laws and decrees of the legislative body. 66. It shall name, from its own body the principal agents of the several departments of the Republic. 67. The legislative body shall prescribe the number and functions of these agents. 68. These agents do not form a council. They shall be separate, without any immediate connection between them. They shall not exercise any personal authority.

 70. It shall negotiate treaties.  71. The members of the council, if guilty of treason shall be accused by the legislature.  72. The council shall be responsible for any failure in the execution of the laws and decrees, and for all those abuses which it shall not denounce.  73. It shall depose and replace the public agent: whenever it shall think proper.  74. It is bound to accuse them before the judicial tribunals, whenever there be occasion. 
OF THE RELATION OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO THE LEGISLATURE.
 75. The Executive Council shall reside near the legislature. It shall have a separate chamber and a separate entrance into the place of its meetings.  76. It shall be heard as often as it shall have any report to make.  77. The legislative body may call for the presence of the executive council at its sittings, either in the whole or in parts, whenever it shall judge proper. 
OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND MUNICIPAL BODIES.
 78. There shall be in every commune of the republic a municipal administration.  In every District an intermediate administration.  In every department a central administration.  79. The municipal officers shall be elected by the assemblies of the commune.  80. The administrators shall be appointed by the electoral assemblies of the department and of the district.  81. The municipalities and the administrations shall be renewed by one half every year.  82. The administrators and municipal officers have no representative character; they cannot in any case modify the acts of the legislature, nor suspend the execution of them.  83. The legislature shall prescribe the functions of the municipal officers and administrators, the rules of their subordination and the penalties which they may incur.  84. The assemblies of the Municipalities and the administration shall be public. 
OF CIVIL JUSTICE.
 85. The code of civil and criminal law shall be uniform throughout the Republic.  86. The right which the citizens have of terminating their disputes by arbitrators chosen by themselves, shall not be infringed.  87. The decision of these arbitrators shall be definitive, unless the parties have reserved their right of appeal.  88. There shall be justices of the peace elected by the people in cantons, the limits of which shall be fixed by law.  89. They shall accommodate differences and administer justice without cost.  90. Their number and their qualifications shall be regulated by the legislature.  91. There shall be public arbitrators appointed by the Electoral Assemblies.  92. Their number and extent of jurisdiction shall be fixed by the Electoral Assemblies.  93. They shall take cognizance of disputes which have not been finally determined by private arbitrators or by the justices of the peace.  94. They shall decide in public; they shall give their opinions openly; they shall determine in the dernier resort either upon verbal defence, or upon a simple memorial, without pleading and without costs—They shall give the reasons of their decisions.  95. The justices of the peace and the public arbitrators shall be elected every year. 
(To be concluded in our next)
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Received by late arrivals at New-York and Boston.
P A R I S, July 18.
THE sections of Marseilles persist in their determination of marching against the Convention. They have already taken Avignon, which was for the Maratists; but no blood has been shed.
The city of Lyons is still in a state of insurrection against the Sans Culottes and the partisan of the Convention; its armed force is very considerable, and has been reinforced by several platoons of Marseillois, who are daily arriving.
Florence, July 22. Intelligence has been received from Leghorn, that last night two English frigates arrived there, with the news that they left the combined English and Spanish fleet, consisting of 78 sail, before Toulon. This fleet is accompanied by a great number of transports, with ammunition and land-forces.
L O N D O N, July 20.
The places against which the combined armies will now have to direct their forces, are Bouchain, Donay, Arras, Maubeuge, Avesnes, Lequefnoy, and Cambray.
When these strong places shall be taken, the impregnable city of Lisle will employ the allied armies the remainder of the campaign. At the distance of about 25 miles from Cambray, on the road to Paris, is the town of Perronne, which, from its having never been taken, is called Perronne la Pa-
me. On the approach of an enemy, the inhabitants by means of their sluices, can inundate the whole country.
After Perronne, there is no place of any importance to impede the march of the combined armies to Paris. But we presume they will not advance into the country, so long as the enemy shall have a strong garrison in Lisle, from whence they might make frequent sallies to annoy them in their march, and intercept them in their convoys.
July 30. The King of Prussia, it is supposed, will divide his army into two bodies, the one under his own command, and the other under that of the Duke of Brunswick, with a view of penetrating into Alsace and Lorraine at the same time.
It is currently reported, that the French have a fleet of men of war in the bay, consisting of 17 sail of the line, besides frigates, &c. and that they have made advances towards the British Channel; but the more probable account is, and which is also reported, that the French have that number in Quiberon-Bay, and 4 sail of the line in Brest-water, ready for sea. It certainly appears that government are apprehensive of their fleet being equal in force to that under the command of Earl Howe, as the greatest exertions have been used since last evening, to get the intrepid and Sampson ready, to strengthen the fleet.
August 6. The capture of Mentz will now leave the king of Prussia and the duke of Brunswick at full liberty to take other measures for distressing the common enemy; and with so fine an army under them, hardened by the operations of the siege, and amounting to near an hundred and fifty thousand men, what may not be expected?
Eleven thousand men are said to be captured in Mentz, besides a prodigious quantity of artillery and other implements of war.
August 8. Letters from Paris of the 1st instant, state that at that time all was tranquil. The account of the taking of Valenciennes had been officially stated in the convention, but had excited only a momentary surprise. It was generally understood and firmly believed at Calais, that the combined armies were on their march, in two columns, from the camp before Valenciennes, to lay siege to Lisle. General Custine and General Miranda were still in the Abbaye prison, as well as M. Brissot, whose trial had not yet taken place.
It is reported that the queen of France, after undergoing her first examination before the revolutionary tribunal, was committed to one of the common prisons of Paris.
August 10. By the last letters from Valenciennes, we understand that it was intended to make an attack upon the French camp near Maubeuge.
Immediately upon the surrender of Valenciennes, General Clairfayt moved farther towards France with a body of twenty thousand men, chiefly cavalry.
General Beaugard, who commands the van of the army of the Ardennes, is arrested at Mouzon. Kellerman is appointed commander in chief of the armies in the North of Ardennes, in the room of General Custine, who is a prisoner in the Abbaye.
The Convention has decreed the arrest of all foreigners, natives of any of the Belligerent powers, now in France, who have not taken up their settled residence for three years: And an Appeal to all the World , on the plots made to destroy the Liberties of the French People.
They have also decreed the establishment of another camp behind the grand camp in French Flanders to consist of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN ; and have declared ALL FRANCE TO BE IN A STATE OF SIEGE .
August 12. By French papers of the 3d instant, received in town on Saturday, it appears, that on the 1st instant, upon Barrere's announcing to the Convention the taking of Valenciennes by the allied army it was decreed, among other things, that the Queen should be immediately tried before the revolutionary tribunal! and in consequence of this decree, she was removed on the following day from the Temple to the Conciergerie.
It was likewise determined, that the monuments of all the French Kings should be destroyed.
By another channel we learn, that soon after the intelligence reached Paris of the taking of Valenciennes, Custine was beheaded.
A decree was passed, banishing all the Bourbons from France, the young King and his sister excepted.
It was likewise decreed, that all the foreigners whose nations are at war with France, should be arrested, with the exception only of those who had been three years in the country.
From the preparations that were making, and the disposition evinced by the people of Paris, there is every reason to believe that Saturday last, the 10th, was a day, the transactions of which in that Capital will make humanity shudder at their recital.
The next post will, in all probability, bring us an account of the execution of the Queen of France , and the imprisoned members of the Convention. While Europe will drop a sincere and respectful tear over her tomb, the fate of those who shall have been the cause of her death, the Brissots and Condorcets of France, will be considered as the just retribution of their crimes.
Paris papers ( Moniteurs ) received in town, of the 3d, 4th, and 7th instant (the papers of the 6th is wanting), make no mention of any further proceedings in the trial of the Queen, since her examination on the 2d inst. and it cannot be supposed that so important a process, had it been going on, would have been passed over in silence.
demnation and death of Custine.
There is the same reason for supposing the accounts of the condemnation and execution of Gen. Custine to be unfounded, nothing being said of either in those papers.
Whatever weight may be allowed to this negative evidence, we are happy to contradict the report mentioned in yesterday's paper of the Duke of Liancourt having received a letter, in which it was said, that the late unfortunate Queen had been torn to pieces by a mob. We have authority to say, that M. de Liancourt has received no letters whatever from France for several months past, which those who have the honour of knowing him will readily believe; but in times like the present, when falsehoods of all kinds are eagerly propagated, it is not wonderful, that the most respectable names should be made use of to give them a momentary currency.
August 14—17.
No information which we should think it prudent to rely upon has yet found its way to us with regard to the designs of the Prussian or combined armies. They are probably concealed with great industry, as nothing can so much harass the French forces or divide their attention, as the general state of uncertainty in which all parties seem at present to remain. On the 22d of July there was a very serious action in the neighbourhood of Landau, in which the French if we are to give credit to the conquerors, left 5000 dead upon the field of battle. By their movements subsequent to this defeat it appears that their immediate apprehensions are for Thionville, the chief town of French Luxembourg, and a fortress of considerable strength, which it may be remembered signalized itself in the last campaign by a very gallant defence, under Gen. Wimpfen, now commander in chief of the French forces in opposition to the Convention.
In the Netherlands the allied armies have gained very great and unexpected stores of ammunition by the capture of Valenciennes.
Thomas Paine, Joel Barlow, and several other Englishmen have been for some time obliged to secure themselves from the fury of the Paris mob.
UNITED STATES.
N E W - Y O R K, October 2.
Since our last publication there have been several arrivals from Europe, at Philadelphia and Boston, by which London accounts were received to the 13th August. These accounts seem all hostile to the Rights of Man —but we do not find, that the ardour of our republican brethren in France is in the least abated, for it is said that the news of the surrender of Valenciennes was received at Paris with calmness.
The following abstract is taken from the Boston Independent Chronicle.
YESTERDAY arrived in this port, the ship Minerva , Captain James Scott, in 35 days from the Land's-End. Papers are brought by this arrival up to the 12th of August.
By them it appears, that the affairs of France do not wear so favourable an aspect as they did by the last arrivals.
By the general tenor of the papers received it appears—That Valenciennes, Mayence, and Mentz as well as Conde, have fallen into the hands of the combined armies; the former surrendered and the garrison marched out with the honors of war, on the 1st of August.
Gen. Custine has been arrested and imprisoned in the Abbaye, and General Kellerman is appointed commander of the armies in the North in his stead. He is accused by the Parisians of having occasioned the surrender of Mentz.
The following letter from Gen. Custine was read in the sitting of the 27th July, to the National Convention, who referred it to the committee of public welfare:
"From the Prison of the Abbaye, July 26, 1793.
"CITIZEN PRESIDENT,
"I shall forbear speaking here of the astonishment which my arrest excited in my mind. Permit me only to assure the Convention, that I never ceased to prove myself worthy of the confidence of my fellow citizens, and of the armies whose command has been conferred upon me. Detained since last Monday in the Abbaye prison, I could not yet obtain an interrogatory. I solicit my speedy trial, and the digest of the act of accusation. I learn that defamatory libels are circulated against me at Paris; my probity has been, and shall ever be, spotless. I only wish to confound my accusers, and undeceive the citizens in good faith, respect to the laws, and fraternity to the French, who want a Republic, one and indivisible!
Signed,
"CUSTINE."
Further accounts state, that immediately upon the surrender of Valenciennes, Gen. Clairfayt was to move towards Paris with a body of 20,000 men. That the siege of Dunkirk was immediately to take place—That the Spaniards had been repulsed before Perpignan on the 18th July, and were obliged to break up their camp—and that about the 15th the rebels, to the amount of 15 or 20,000 men, had been defeated near Rochelle.
The report of the widow of Louis Capet, being tried and ordered for execution, does not appear to be well founded, as no mention is made of such a circumstance in the London papers.
A correspondent says, that two table spoons full of Bateman's genuine pectoral drops given in a jill of weak warm flip, or hyssop tea, and the patient put into a warm bed, is an approved remedy for the Yellow Fever.

A pestilential disease prevails, in a great degree, in and near this town, amongst horses, which carries off great numbers.
PHILADELPHIA, October 5.
We are sorry to inform our country readers, that the prevailing disorder which has raged in this city for some time past, still continues to carry off numbers of our fellow citizens. Some days we are flattered with the appearance of its having greatly abated, at others of its still encreasing force. Upwards of one thousand of our citizens have fallen victims to this dreadful disease!
We have not had any rain here for upwards of two months.
Near too sail of vessels are now riding anchor in the Delaware bound to this port, but on account of the prevailing epidemic, are not permitted to come up and unload. Most of the sail vessels from Europe are among the number.
Out of four daily papers heretofore published in this city, at present there is only one—two of the weekly papers have also been discontinued on the same account, viz. the prevailing sickness.
BALTIMORE, October 8.
Captain Smith, of the ship Friendship, who arrived in this port on Saturday last, in 45 days from Bordeaux, informs that the inhabitants of that place were very much distressed for want of provisions—that an embargo had been laid upon all the American vessels in the ports of France—and that it was confidently reported at Bordeaux that Lisle had surrendered to the combined forces.
Advices received from Pittsburg inform, that an express arrived there from Fort-Franklin, on the 20th ult. with intelligence that the Cornplanter's nephew had arrived at that fort on the 17th, and addressed the Commandant, Lieutenant Polhemus, in the following words: "We are sent forward by our chiefs, to let you know what has happened since we left this place: A number of warriors and chiefs are lying under ground (poisoned by the hostile Indians,) and all of us have undergone great hardships: We have long tried to make peace, but we find we cannot do it; so we will never speak to these bad Indians any more: nearly all the warriors have gone to meet the army, and a Delaware Indian informed us, that a party had gone to war, but did not know to what party; but the settlement at Conestogo, &c. is supposed to be their object:—The Potowatamies and six nations have put their hands together, to be on the side of the United States; the Shawanese, Delawares, Wyandots, and Tewitawies, are determined to be at war as long as they have a man:—The Indians would have made peace, had it not been for Alexander M'Kee; for, when it was nearly concluded on, M'Kee told them, if they did, they would be ruined for ever; and that he would supply them with whatever they stood in need of, as he was authorized to do so."—That, in consequence of this information, the frontier inhabitants had been cautioned to keep a good look out, as it was not doubted that Indian parties were out to harry them—that the scouts having seen 50 Indian warriors near Reed's station, on the Loyalhannah, the militia of Legion-valley and its vicinity, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, had been ordered out on the 26th ult.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated October 2.
"The disease still rages here as usual; but has assumed a more inflammatory form than formerly. Dr. Ruth has a number of patients recovering from violent attacks, after six or seven violent blood lettings, and copious evacuations from the bowels. Doctor Currie has now publicly avowed the superiority of this practice over that of using bark, cold bath, &c. which many of the physicians still adhere to."
"Doctor Ruth has recovered from a violent attack; but has lost his sister and three of his students—Messrs. Walthington, Alston, and Stahl—two others had been seized with the disease, but have recovered—this makes the number of doctors and students twenty five, who have been carried off by this fatal disorder."
The accounts from Philadelphia continue to be melancholly. Particular care has been taken of the poor sick, and orphan children.
A fear of the communication of this fatal epidemic has caused the citizens and magistrates of the greater part of the maritime ports, of considerable note, to adopt measures of caution against the evil—such as causing quarantine by sea, and being examined, &c. by land.
NORFOLK, October 2.
On Monday last arrived in Hampton roads the ship George and Patty Walthington, Capt. Calk, from Bordeaux, bound to Baltimore, which place she left the 8th of August.
A French gentleman who came passenger informs, that on the 11th of August the Royalists were defeated near Nantz; but that at Saumur the Royalists had attacked the patriotic army, and defeated them; particularly a body of 15,000 Parisians, under command of General Santerre, who escaped to Tours, the only fugitive. The Royalists, together, amounted to 190,000 men, completely armed, and commanded by good officers. Their proceedings were conducted with humanity, and even generosity in such places as fell in their hands.
MARTINSBURG, October 14.
From Kentucky papers we learn, that about the beginning of August, a volunteer company of 180 men, marched from the counties of Knox and Jefferson to the Cherokee towns. They burnt a number
with the Indians, and returned about the middle of August. They met with little or no loss, and killed in the whole expedition nine Indian men and two squaws; and brought in seven squaws, with their children.
Our accounts from Philadelphia are alternately better and worse, and it would seem, that this is occasioned by the variations of the air, from heat to cold—great relief to our distressed friends there, is, therefore, to be hoped from the approaching season.
We do not find that individuals of other states, have taken this fatal disorder in any instance out of Philadelphia. Accounts from several quarters mention deaths by that disorder, but they had, in every instance, taken it at Philadelphia.
Extracts of a private letter from Norfolk.
"A vessel just arrived here in 24 days from Falmouth, brings the following important news;—That about the latter end of July, the French and English fleets had a very warm engagement, which lasted for eight hours and a half, when the latter were obliged to seek an asylum in flight, with the loss of their Admiral, who, with three of his best ships were forced to strike.—The French fleet consisted of only 13 ships of the line, whilst that of the English amounted to 18, much superior in weight of metal, besides a number of frigates. It is thought the above blow will compel England to sue for a speedy peace."
To the Worshipful the Court of BERKELEY.
THE dreadful conduct of a number of the citizens of this County, over whom you preside, for some years past, has been such as to render its name odious to a proverb, in the ears of the good citizens of the other Counties in this Commonwealth; of which you must be sensible, when you reflect upon the many thefts and murders which have been committed in it; to the ruin of families, who have thereby been deprived of their only expectation of comfort and support; many of which said horrid crimes, have been overlooked by the people, while the culprits have escaped from justice; a recent instance of this kind, causes me (however reluctant I feel on the occasion) to endeavour to awaken the magistracy of this County to a reflection of their duty—which has been obviously neglected by many individuals of that honorable body; and which must plead my excuse for presuming to dictate measures both for the effectual detection of the present offenders, and to prevent such evils, (which they certainly are in the last degree) in future.—It is a generally received maxim, that to remove the cause and the effects will cease—if then the cause of those evils under which the people groan, and which makes travellers fearful of journeying through our county and lodging in our little towns, be owing to a want of active, independent, spirited magistrates, who are faithful in the discharge of the duties of their office, and cropping the evils in their embryo; by enforcing the execution of those wholesome laws in every degree, which the wisdom of our legislators have enacted for our mutual benefit, does it not behoove you, gentlemen, (who alone can redress the grievance) to arise from your inactivity, and join as with one heart and as with one hand, in punishing in the most exemplary manner, every transgression of the laws under which we live, tho' in the most trivial instance, for experience proves that the only way to prevent great transgressions is to be particular in punishing small ones; and where thefts, robbery or murders are committed, to exert every sinew in bringing the offenders to justice, without partiality, favour or affection:—to be particular in seeing that every part of the county be well supplied with active magistrates, who can and will support the dignity of their office, and exert themselves in the detection of offenders; and then, and not till then, may we look for the evils to cease, the lives of our citizens preserved, and the husband no more shot dead in his own dwelling, while the partner of his cares fall a lifeless, fainting object, on the remains of her deceased bosom friend, with the fruit of their loins, lamenting in the most affecting manner, their common loss.
AN OLD CITIZEN OF BERKELEY.
ALL Persons indebted to the estate of Captain Isaac Evans, deceased, are hereby notified, that unless they come in and settle the same by March Court next, their accounts will be put in suit. Any persons having any demands against the said estate, are requested to bring them in immediately, for settlement.
MARTHA EVANS, Executrix, JOHN EVANS, jun. } Executors. JOHN FRAYATT, }
October 14, 1793.
PURSUANT to a decree of the High Court of Chancery, made on the eighth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, will be sold by the subscribers, the commissioners therein named, at Public Auction, for ready money, to the highest bidder, on the twenty-ninth day of October, instant, at the tavern kept by F. Mahony, in Martinsburg, in Berkeley County, a certain Tract of Land, lying in the parish of Norborne, in the County aforesaid, containing two hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, which the said Benjamin Beeler had mortgaged to Thomas Williams.
ANDREW WAGGONER, ABRAHAM SHEPHERD, HENRY BEDINGER.
October 14, 1793.
Fayette County, Union Township, Pennsylvania.
TO THE PUBLIC.
WHEREAS we, the subscribers, are informed, that certain meddling and envious persons,
neighbouring to the town of Woodstock, elsewhere; we think it our duty to declare, and do hereby certify, that from considerable acquaintance and dealings with said Hopwood, we have ever found him to be a man of truth, honesty and integrity. As witness our hands,
 John White, Jonathan Gray,  James M'Clean, David Stirt,  Isaac Sutton, (of M.) Thomas Brownfield,  James M'Coy, Isaac Sutton, sen.  Jacob Sutton, Samuel Sutton,  Benjamin Brownfield. 
Fayette County, Union Township, Pennsylvania.
Saturday, September 21st, 1793.
TO THE PUBLIC.
AT the request of John Hopwood, we, the subscribers, having viewed the seat of the town of Woodstock, do declare, that it is level, well-watered, healthy and pleasant; a firm sandy soil, somewhat stoney, but the stones in general are small, easily removed, and good for building; it is near the foot of Laurel Hill, but not more than half an hour's sun is intercepted thereby, in any one day in the year, in our opinion. The reader may be assured, that what we have here asserted, is, without partiality, the naked truth, and may be depended on. As witness our names, &c.
 Warner Wynne, Benjamin Brownfield,  Solomon Brown, Moles Carr,  Ephraim Guard, Daniel Green,  William Brownfield, Abraham White,  Lawr. Heldebrand, Samuel Drake,  Jeremiah Guard, Thomas Carr,  Isaac Sutton, Samuel Sutton,  Josiah Standberry, Michael Walters,  David Sutton, James M'Daniel,  John Sutton, James Hawkins.  Job Littler, James Heaveirn,  Thomas Brownfield. 
TO THE PUBLIC.
I am not unappraised that an appeal to neighbours for character, is, in the opinion of many, a bad omen; but as circumstances alter cases, my friends and acquaintances will excuse me, when they are informed, that a number of respectable gentlemen interested in coming at the truth, especially those who are purchasers of lots in the town of Woodstock, who never saw the place, and with whom I have but a transient acquaintance; it is for their satisfaction alone that I have called on my neighbours, to lay before the public, the certainty and truth, both with respect to myself and the situation of the town; a variety of malicious and false reports having been industriously propagated, by some evil-disposed persons, with a view to prejudice me in the mind of strangers. It is to be hoped, after this, those whom it may concern, will be able to distinguish the creature of envy, and when any of them hear me abused, or my private character aspersed, refer them to the solemn testimony of my above named neighbours, who are all landed men, able farmers, and of unspotted character; by whom I have lived, and with whom I have dealt, near the last seven years, and the furthest of whom does not reside more than two miles and a half from my habitation—or, when they hear them set forth, that the sun does not shine on it until ten o'clock in the day; or that it is on the top of Laurel Hill; or that, where it is not a thelve of rocks, it is a mud-hole; referring such to the testimony of twenty-three of my honest neighbours, will surely counter-balance it. In the Proverbs it is written, chap. xxv. verse 18—"A man that bears false witness against his neighbour, is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow."—Cruel and deadly instruments indeed! but although they may do mischief for a while, yet, like the armour of Goliath, will not stand proof, but fall, like that giant did, before the David of truth. It is but a short time since I put to silence the religious enemy who attacked me in the Virginia Gazette, and it is to be hoped this will put the civil liar to silence, at least concerning me; if so, it will be an act of charity, for it will cover a multitude of sins, and may tend to restore the shattered lungs of some, and so prove a medicine at free cost. But if this should fail, I only know of one remedy more in which I have the least hope—now, as Physicians generally fail to blistering in the last stage of a disorder, when the symptoms are bad, in order to remove the obstructions, and restore the blood to its proper circulation; and as it is presumed that the blood is the seat of health or sickness of the body, so the conscience is that of the mind; and as some are said to have scared consciences, which bespeak a total stagnation of conviction, to such I would recommend the often reading of the 2d, 3d, and 4th verses of the 120th Psalm, and apply it as a blister plaster, which is very suitable for such contagion; and if they should find relief, to thank God for it, for they are heartily welcome to the council of their
very humble servant, JOHN HOPWOOD.
STRAYED from the subscriber in this town, while removing from Junieta to Winchester, on Friday evening last, three cows, two of which gave milk, the other a heifer forward with calf;—one of the milk cows was of the mule breed, red and white, had a bell on, and leather strap tied with strings; the other milk cow mostly red, with a white face; the heifer was a brindle, with a white spot in her forehead in the form of a half moon.—Whoever takes up said cows, and gives information to JAMES WILSON, Esq. or to me, at the mill formerly Sexton's, near Winchester, shall have Two Dollars reward, and necessary charges.
DAVID LOCKHART.
Martinsburg, October 13, 1793.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
THE ETERNAL SCOLD.
FRIEND, hast thou never heard old OCEAN roar, When the black tempest hovers big with fear? Impetuous dash'd against the rocky shore, It's hoarse resounding fills the astonish'd ear.
Or, hast thou never heard loud thunders crack, (Swift skim the lightnings long the liquid sky) When some vast oak becomes the mighty wreck, In thousand fragments scatter'd far and nigh?
The welp-robb'd tigress hast thou never met, Nor trac'd the furies of her angry mein? Hor the fell lion, when with toils beset, His hedious roarings heard, his flashing eye-balls seen?
If not, friend come to me:—my house displays, All these, and ev'ry monster more; for there. Bulls bellow, dragons hiss, the wild als brays, Hoop-owls, croak-frogs, and growls the ugly bear.
Drums, trumpets, thunders, hurricanes abound; Storms, tempests, earthquakes in perpetual strife; Fiends, furies, hell itself, may there be found, In one strange creature—That's my own dear wife.
N O T I C E.
MY duty, as Inspector of Flour at this place, obliges me strictly to enforce the act of Assembly passed at the last session, for regulating the inspection of flour and bread. If the Farmers and Millers would duly consider the subject, they would find themselves deeply interested in the faithful execution of this act. If their staple, by any neglect or inattention, loses its credit at any foreign markets, the price will most certainly fall at home as well as abroad. This must be obvious to every person, and requires no chain of reasoning to prove. That the loss, whatever it may be, will ultimately fall upon the Farmer, is as evident. That those who may be affected by the enforcing that act, may not plead ignorance, I have judged it proper to transcribe and publish the clauses of the act by which they may be affected.
"All bread and flour casks which shall be bro't to any of the places before mentioned for exportation, shall be well made of good seasoned materials, tightened with ten hoops, sufficiently nailed with four nails in each chine hoop, and three nails in each bilge-hoop."
"Every miller of flour, and baker of bread for exportation, shall provide and keep a distinguishable brand-mark, with which he shall brand every cask of flour and bread, and mark thereon the Tare and Nett weight, before the same shall be removed from the place where it was bolted or baked, under the penalty of forty-two cents for every cask of flour not hooped and nailed as aforesaid."
The points in which the manufacturers of flour are too generally deficient, are the quality of the timber of which the barrels are made, being often, very often, too green, which will destroy the quality of the best flour; and neglect in nailing agreeably to the directions of the act. My duty demands from me a rigorous execution of the law, which I will most assuredly perform. The interest of the Manufacturer loudly calls for it, though he may, and frequently does, turn a deaf ear to it.
I have just opened, and have for sale, at my house in this town, a choice assortment of BOULTING-CLOTHS.
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Alexandria, Sept. 23, 1793.
3m.
List of Letters remaining in the Post-Office at Shepherd's-Town, which if not taken up before the first day of January next, will be sent to the General Post-Office as dead letters.
 B. C. John Conley.  E. Samuel Fipas, care of Robert Flaming.  J. Fulton, care of Nicholas Orrick.  H. Rev. Moses Hoge.  K. Francis Keys.  R. Dr. E. Rumsey, care of John Morrow.  Richard Ransom, care of William Cherry, Charlestown. 
WILLIAM GOOD, jun. P. M.
Shepherd's-Town, October 1, 1793.
FOR SALE, A young SADDLE MARE.
Inquire of the Printer.
to him by open account, to come and settle, and if they cannot discharge what may be due, to give their obligations, as their accounts may be closed by the first of April next; he then purposed to open a large assortment of Merchandize, and wants his books settled before he begins business again, as they have been long standing.
I have a number of valuable young Horses, from two to five years old, which will be sold at Public Vendue, on the 24th of October instant, on nine months credit, with giving bond and approved security.
JOSEPH MINGHINNI.
October 6, 1793.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, living in Berkeley County, Virginia, 2 miles from Martinsburg, on the 30th of September last, a black horse, about 15 hands high, 9 years old, no brand, a middling large blaze in his face, a piece of skin under his fore top loose from his skull or pate, crest fallen, marked with the collar near the weathers, slim tail and short, natural trotter, his hind hoofs turn out, shod behind and near fore foot. Whoever takes up the thief and horse, shall have the above reward, provided the thief be brought to conviction and the horse returned to the owner, and for the horse only two dollars, paid by JOHN DAVIS.
N. B. The horse does not see well with the right eye.
October 6, 1793.
At a Court held for Berkeley County, the 20th day of August, 1793.
Simeon Hiatt, Compt. } Upon an Injunction. against Isaac Hiatt and James Hiatt, Defts. }
THE defendants 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 inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the third Tuesday in November next, and answer the bill of the Complainant; and that a Copy of this order be for h 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. Teste. MOSES HUNTER. C. C.
At a Court continued and held for Berkeley County, the 23rd day of August, 1793.
George Myles, eldest son and heir at law } Compt. of George Myles, deceased,
against David Watkins, Jane Logan, widow, executrix and devisee of James Logan, deceased, Bryan Brum and James Wilson. } Defts.
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Watkins and Brum, 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 inhabitants of this Commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant, by his Counsel, it is ordered, that the said Defendants Watkins and Brum, do appear here on the third Tuesday in November next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order 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. Teste, MOSES HUNTER, C.C.
At a Court of Quarter Sessions, continued and held for Harrison County, on Thursday the 24th day of May, '93, and in the Seventeenth year of the Commonwealth.
James M c Henry, surviving partner of John M c Henry and Company, complainant,
against
Samuel Shaw and Abraham Johnson, junior, surviving partner of Abraham Johnson, jun. and company, defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant, Samuel Shaw, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an Act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this Court that he is no inhabitant of this Commonwealth, by motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here, on the third Monday in November next, to answer the bill of the complainant, and a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively, and published at the church in the parish of Harrison, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the front door of the Court-House of the said County.
A copy. Teste, BENJAMIN WILSON, C. H. C.
to be sold, by public vendue, at the Court-House of BERKELEY County, on the first day of next court,
A Lot of Land in the Town of MARTINSBURG, at the junction of John-Street and Water-Street, adjoining the best spring of water in the said town, on which is a small dwelling-house. The terms will be made known at the day of sale, and a good and indisputable title will be made the purchaser, on complying with the terms then proposed.
ROBERT EYER.
Sept. 21, 1793.
TO BE SOLD,
FOUR Lots in the town of Middle-town, all under improvement, one has a good House, Shop, draw Well and some fruit Trees, two others with small log Houses, one of which has a Stable, and one other Lot under good fence. Indisputable titles will be given. For terms of payment and other particulars, apply to the subscriber on the premises.
EDWARD JENNINGS.
Middletown, Sept. 23, 1793.
8 DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on the night of the 19th inst. a Negro Man named SOMMERS, 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. Whoever apprehends said Negro and returns him to me, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
JOHN KEARNEY.
Berkeley County, Virginia, Sept. 23, 1793.
N O T I C E.
I do hereby forewarn any person or persons, from taking an assignment on two notes passed by me unto Anne Fitzgerald, now Anne McElwaine, sometime in April, 1790, for the sum of about twenty pounds Virginia currency, the amount of which notes I have paid to her and her husband Joseph McElwaine, which notes the said McElwaine, I am informed, attempts to transfer.
Given under my hand this 23rd day of Sept. 1793. FLORENCE MAHONY.
BOLTING CLOTHS.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that he has just received a large and general assortment of Bolting-Cloths of all kinds and of the best qualities, chosen particularly by Mr. Smith, the Inspector at Alexandria. The Cloths consist both of the wide and narrow kind, and will be sold on lower terms than any of equal quality have ever been sold in this County.
I have, as usual, on hand, a large assortment of other Goods, suitable for the present and approaching season, which will be sold very low for cash or produce, in consequence of a determination to decline the retail business.
I earnestly request all those who are indebted to me, either by bond, note, or otherwise, to make immediate payment; and those whose accounts have been standing open more than six months, are requested to come in and close them, either by payment, or give their obligations. Those who do not choose to comply with this reasonable request, before the middle of September next, may depend on having their accounts closed according to law.
WILLIAM WILSON.
Middletown, Berkeley County, 24th August, '93.
THE Subscriber having rented the front room of his house to a mercantile gentleman, and taken several boarders, has declined keeping tavern, but will accommodate gentlemen that may wish to be retired, with good and convenient private lodging and stabling. He has just received a quantity of genuine old Jamaica spirits and the best Holland gin. He can also furnish gentlemen with any other kind of liquor.
WILLIAM CRAGHILL, jun.
Martinsburg, Sept. 30, 1793.
HARP AND CROWN TAVERN.
FLORENCE MAHONY, RETURNS his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the public, for the great encouragement he has met with since his commencement at this house—his liquors are excellent—his attention to his customers shall be minute and pointed—and every exertion in his power will be made to please them, and to deserve the countenance and patronage of the public.
Martinsburg, April 6, '93.