The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1792-12-24 00:00:00

N O T I C E.
ALL Persons are hereby cautioned against trespassing on my land in any manner whatever, as has heretofore been practiced, as I am determined hereafter to put the law in force indiscriminately against all those who may be detected in such injurious and illegal practices.
CORNELIUS THOMSON.
Berkeley County, Dec. 15, 1792.
WHEREAS some time in the month of March, 1791, I gave a note to William Boland, for £1. 10s. 6d. which note Boland obtained from me unjustly, through my ignorance of the English language, he reading the note I signed different from what it expressed, and as I was not in debt to him the aforementioned sum, I therefore caution all persons not to take an assignment thereof, as I am determined not to pay it, unless compelled thereto by law.
JOHN SOCKMAN.
Shepherd's-Town, Dec. 15, 1792.
F O R S A L E.
A good HORSE, suitable for draught or the saddle. Inquire of the Printer.
Wanted immediately,
A JOURNEYMAN COOPER,
To whom good wages and steady employ will be given, by JOSEPH HARRIS.
Martinsburg, November 26, 1792.
From the American Daily Advertiser.
PERHAPS no greater political character in America has so long been obscured, or sustained so much temporary injury from the subtle mist of misrepresentation, as the character of governor Clinton; but truth, like the morning sun, is shedding her influence upon this foul vapor—ere long will dissipate it, and present his character to the world in a clear and beautiful horizon. This cloud of misrepresentation has arisen from the aristocratical faction of New-York, who have always viewed governor Clinton as the great obstacle to the success of their political enterprizes; and have regarded no means dishonorable, which would tend to effect his removal. Hence calumny, hence falsehood, hence misrepresentation, have by them been levelled against him, to the utmost extent of their influence, throughout the United States.
I profess myself now to be, and ever to have been, federal; I profess, too, to have felt some sparks of that irritability against governor Clinton, which naturally grew out of that momentous question which gave rise to the distinction of federal and anti-federal; it is also presumable, that I inclined a willing ear to all detractions from his political character; but having ever been touched with the charms of truth, I have with accurate attention informed myself of real state of facts, and in etching the great outlines of his political character, the has instructed me to say, without reserve or fear of contradiction, that he is virtuous and republican in principle; brave and intrepid in action; equally the lover and promoter of order, and obedience of the laws; and the practical champion to the equal rights of man;—that, for more than fifteen years, amidst dangers and difficulties, he has exhibited to the world a wisdom and energy, in the executive department of New-York, unexampled elsewhere in America. These are great political features, which have not been denied him by the hardest of his enemies.—From this description, an impartial elector would be led to enquire, What are the objections to a character like this? They are numerous, strange as it appears, but shall be detailed with faithfulness.—They are as follows:
That he is unfashionable in his politics; that he still preserves the republicanism of 1776, notwithstanding the various mutations suggested to have existed in the political current since that time; that he will not believe a public debt to be a public blessing; that he will not believe the present prosperity of America to have grown out of the funding system, in the whole or in part; that he laments the people of America and their posterity should be shackled with perpetual debts and perpetual taxes; that he dares to assert an opinion, that the representatives chosen by the people are the constitutional organ of taxation; that he doubts the infallibility of Mr. Alexander Hamilton, that he is the scourge
of the aristocratical faction of New-York, and keeps them in trim obedience to order and the laws; that he loves the uncourtly honest yeomanry of New-York, and is so barbarous as to entertain them at his table; that he is frugal and oeconomical in his living, and possesses not a taste for splendid entertainments; that he is not adept in the noble science of bowing, and possesses not the supple flexibility essential to court etiquette; that he does not venerate Mr. Adams's book upon Props, and Checks, and Balances, and is not intoxicated with this modern juggle of political rope-dancing, &c. &c. These and such like are the specks which have been fluted, to sully and stain his great and manly virtues. Americans! at a time when political heresies are springing up every where—at a time when Europeans are crowding to our shores, attended with the opinions, prejudices, the habits the affections, in favor of the tyrannical governments they have abandoned—at a time when our funds invite moneyed foreigners amongst us, and establish in them an impulsive interest to decry the public will when upstart Americans, the offspring of unsettled times, possess with them a sympathy of interest and feelings—at a time when this modern doctrine of Props, and Checks, and Balances, the ingenious refinement of politicians in office, and the miserable consolations to the people for their slavery, are thought fashionable; imputations, like those urged against governor Clinton, amount to more than negative, they are become active virtues in America.
Another charge of a more serious nature, has been urged against governor Clinton; but when impartially examined, it will be found altogether without weight or foundation: it is, that he is anti-federal. If by the term anti federal be meant, that he was opposed to the adoption of the existing constitution in its present form, it is admitted unequivocally to be true; but if it be not extended beyond this meaning, it is at least perfectly harmless; it would amount to nothing more than the free exercise of opinion upon a great, and dubious question of which he had a right: The present Congress furnish examples of persons violently anti-federal before the adoption of the constitution, who have become extravagantly federal since the happening of that event. If by that term it be intended to impute to him a wish to destroy or lessen the proper and necessary influence of the general government, I deny the fact. Two considerations justify this denial; the one is, that it is the first principle of governor Clinton's republican creed, to submit to the voice of the majority of the people fairly pronounced; the other is, that his subsequent conduct has indubitably proven the existence of this principle. In the course of his administration, he has shewn as much respect to general government, and executed its measures with as much energy and alacrity as the head of any executive in America has done; although some of its measures have been more federally brilliant and fanciful than the warmest federal contemplated at the time of its adoption. Governor Hancock has conceived the general government to have taken some unconstitutional liberties with the executives of the respective states, and I believe he is founded in his opinion; yet governor Clinton has not been so critical and accurate in his remarks or conduct upon that subject.
The constitution, Mr. Adams and governor Clinton remind me of a scriptural parable, the moral of which I believe may be collected from the following statement:—A father requested one son to perform some particular act; the son faithfully promised to perform the request, but failed in the execution: he requested another to do the same thing, who actually refused, but really executed the request: our divine commentator instructs us, that the real executioner, and not the promiser, was entitled to applause from the father, and I hope that America will, at this day, bear testimony in favour of this found morality.
The apologists of Mr. Adams, though engaged in an embarrassing cause have displayed less dexterity and address in the management of it than was expected from them: they seem much distressed and divided in opinion respecting his most advantageous plea, some have thought it best to deny the charges, and attempt to destroy the competency of the evidence; others have admitted the truth of the charges and attempted to justify; these approve Mr. Adams's ideas of the necessity of Kings, Lords and Commons, his props, checks, and balances, &c. &c. but conceive it prudent for the present to keep the secret from the people: they conceive the impropriety to consist, not in Mr. Adams's political opinions, but in a discovery of them to the world, at this time, which they called a temporary indiscretion: a third description conceives the opinions wrong, but give credit to their author for his boldness in avowing them, as if the assassin deserved to be applauded because he is bold enough to avow the commission of the fact—I am at a loss to determine which description displays most weakness:—an author of the first description, under the signature of Antoninus, has
pathetically lamented that Lucius should be so cruel, as to quote extracts from Mr. Adams's own writings as evidence against him, and declares such evidence incompetent to ascertain Mr. Adams's real political opinions. In cases when extracts are brought forward as evidence, two inquiries are necessary—Are they truly and faithfully taken? Do they present a full view of the sentiment or opinion suggested to be contained in them? If they be found to contain these requisites, they amount to a species of evidence equal to a confession in open court, but Lucius has been more cautious, he has marked the book, the page from whence they are taken, so that any deception whatever might be easily detected.—Apologists! be candid to your countrymen;—fear not to tell them the truth; treat them as friends and confidants, and not as enemies plotting your destruction; honestly acknowledge Mr. Adams's political opinions, and trust your countrymen with the proper deductions, fear not dishonor from them, their conclusions will be right. These evasions, concealments, and prevarications are the emanations of little, timid, microscopic genius, they are not too small however, to be discerned with the naked eye, nor too indifferent to avoid contempt, and to you particularly who applaud Mr. Adams's political opinions, but condemn the discovery of them to the world, who conceive yourselves the natural, and wish to become the governmental aristocracy of America, I address myself, and suffer me to give you a timely and necessary caution—Your seclusions from the common mass of the American people, your ambitious fondness for this species of government, the brilliancy of your prospects in case it could be effected, your continual associations with each other, and the uniformity of opinion, familiarly exciting amongst your class of the community upon this subject, have shut your eyes against the opinions of America, and have caused you to mistake equally your numbers and your consequence. If, by the subtlety of administration, you should attempt by insensible degrees to change the government of the United States, into a form and species essentially different from that contained in the Constitution, and to which the people have consented, if you should insist upon introducing Mr. Adams's props, checks and balances, composed of a King, Lords and Commons, of tythes, of armies, of Placemen, of Pensioners, &c. &c. and all the brilliant, expensive and complicated machinery, essential to the existence of such a government, and its consequent slavery and oppression to the people—three millions and an half of federal Americans become sensible of their wrongs, sensible of the deception, sensible of the political juggle practised upon them, and actuated by one spirit teeming with a just revenge against the authors, will furnish you with the wretched conviction of your folly and insignificance, when it will be equally in vain to lament their existence and depreciate their effects and you will then find your funded debt, your bank, your perpetual taxes, and all your other fiscal machinery, but slender barriers against the power of such an enraged and injured foe.
Permit me, without offence, to address myself to you, who have been honorably selected from the people, as fit persons for electors of President and Vice-President: Truth is my sole object. A regard for truth, perhaps too zealous a regard for the happiness and peace of America, are offered as my apology.
The eyes of all America are upon you, the eyes of all the world are upon America; recollect that Mr. Adams's book is not confined to America; his political opinions are afloat in the world. If he should be elected to the Vice-Presidency, it will be deemed the surest harbinger of the fulfilment of the political prophecy of Europe, that the discretion of the American people is incompetent to their government and as far as America furnishes an example, it will give countenance to the tyrants of the earth, and damp the laudable exertions at present employed in favour of the rights of man. In this point of view, the subject is an important one, and this single consideration should dissipate the operation of ten thousand personal preferences, preconceived opinions, or party attachments &c. &c.
If the election should terminate in favour of Governor Clinton, America will be held up to the world in her proper colours, as persevering in her attachment to republicanism, and as reaching all her sons this valuable lesson, That the fundamental principles of her government and laws shall not be violated with impunity, and that the most darling of her sons shall not, with political heresies and novelties, profane her sacred constitution, the hallowed temple of deposit for her liberty, her happiness, and her laws.
A UNIFORM FEDERALIST.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette, are received at this Office.

Foreign Advices.
FRANKFORT, September 24.
A CIRCUMSTANCE has occurred here, which has occasioned much alarm. On application from the Prince of Conde, a person of the name of l'Eveque, who is by profession a dentist, and is established at Strasburg, has been apprehended in consequence of a discovery having been made, that he was engaged to assassinate the King of Prussia.
This person has been employed, professionally, in the family of the Duke of Wurtemburg, and attended the Duchess in her late visit to the Princes Ferdinanda of Prussia. After he was taken into custody, he confessed the truth of the charge, and added, that he had already received fifty thousand livres, in part of the reward which had been promised him for the perpetration of this horrid crime.
From the measures which are now taking, it is probable that many additional particulars of this business will soon be known. It may, in the mean time, be considered as an additional evidence of the principles by which those abandoned persons are actuated, who have usurped the conduct of affairs in France.
PARIS, September 17.
PLAN of DEFENCE against the TYRANTS.
The important question of the moment is to determine, Whether the Duke of Brunswick will reach Paris?
Those who say he will, are the aristocratic party, who most ardently desire it, and the minds who fear his approach, rest their argument on his great military talents; on his having a cool head, fit for grand calculations.
They assert, he has a well digested plan; that the French have none; that he has an army of veterans; and, that we have only a number of raw, undisciplined soldiers; that he receives regular intelligence from our garrisons and armies; that the desperate emigrants under his command will form a nucleus, around which all the malcontents of the kingdom will gather; that as soon as two places are taken, it will be impossible to oppose an army of 100,000 men marching, in three columns, with its own garrisons behind it, and the Austrian forces laying waste all the country on their march; disarming the patriots to arm the malcontents; with light troops in their van, to kill, plunder, and burn; and conclude by taking possession of our most advantageous posts, so as to cut off provisions from Paris, and reduce it by famine.
Those who maintain (and think with most probability) that Brunswick will not be rash enough to shut up himself and army in France, observe, that the Prussians can only occupy a certain space of the country; that if they bring along with them mere necessaries for an army of 100,000 men, their march must be materially retarded; that should they expect to have provisions furnished them on their road, we have only to set fire to every thing previous to their arrival, and devastate all Champagne: to summon, in progression, all the citizens of France towards the relief of the capital; that all the departments being armed, it will be proper to let Brunswick advance far enough to surround him; and that, by taking possession of all the advantageous posts, it will be an easy matter to destroy all his men successively, without risking a battle: that as soon as he has got about twenty leagues into the country, we shall stop up every avenue of subsistence, and starve him in his camp; all the stray soldiers killed will be carefully concealed, in order, that the deleterious effluvia, arising from them, may occasion a pestiferous mortality:—in short, the friends of liberty argue, that no army can hold a durable footing in an enemy's country; to say nothing of the astonishing efforts and enthusiasm of patriotic soldiers, which are unknown to mercenary troops inured to slavery; and, to oppose plan to plan, and defeat artifice by artifice, the brave partizans of fair freedom suggest the following series of operations:
 1st. To arm all the Frenchmen on this side the Loire.  2dly. To get possession of all the elevated posts, whereby they will be enabled to harass the Prussians on their march.  3dly. To burn and destroy all the provisions and forage in every place they (the patriots) are compelled to evacuate; and prepare a general rendezvous of asylum and indemnity for the natives suffering thereby.  4thly. To have an interior auxiliary army ready to march against the Prussian colors when about twenty leagues from Paris; so as to encompass, harass, and attack them on every side; fill them at once with horror and dismay; and leave them without hope of retreat or mercy, the just lot of all venal and hireling tyrants. 
In the mean time all the aristocrats are to be secured, disarmed, and confined. The next step is, if possible, to enter Brabant, repulse the Austrians on the frontiers, and march on with rapidity to Coblenz and Mentz.
Care must be taken to man the garrisons we leave behind. The interior troops will be prepared to give Brunswick and his followers a due reception, should they advance, which we apprehend they will do cum grano salis, as to an absolute certainty, they would perish in the country they mean to enslave.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) October 11.
The almost unparralled glut of American flour,
flour, and corn, is such in this town, at the present moment, that the importers are necessitated to dispose of these commodities at a rate far under the first cost. Corn, in particular, was purchased yesterday, in quantity, at the very low rate of two shillings and six pence per peck.
ST. DOMINGO.
Letters from that quarter, dated the 12th of November inform, that an attack has been made upon Mornepele, a post occupied by the negroes, which commands the camp of Clerisse.
M. d'Assas who commanded this attack drove the rebels from the post: but unaccountably gave up his advantage, by leaving the post, taking with him a spiked cannon which the rebels had left behind.—The negroes had time to carry off what artillery was serviceable.
As soon as M. d'Assas left the post the negroes returned and continued to annoy the camp at Clerisse. The patriotic commander has lost much of his popularity on this occasion.
UNITED STATES.
C O N G R E S S.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, December 10.
MR. William Smith, from the committee appointed for the purpose, brought in a bill to establish an uniform system of bankrupt-laws throughout the United States; which was read twice, and made the order of the day on the 2d Monday in January next, and 400 copies ordered to be printed.
This bill contains many sections. After premising who shall or may be adjudged a bankrupt, it proceeds upon a plan nearly similar to that of the bankrupt-law of the state of Pennsylvania, by appointing commissioners, advertising in the public papers, with fines, punishments, and imprisonment, to be inflicted on the delinquents; so that the whole system seems admirably calculated to relieve the unfortunate insolvents, and to do justice to every person concerned in the appropriations of the dividends of the estates of bankrupt persons.
The order of the day, on the President's message of Friday last, being called up, the galleries were shut.
WEDNESDAY, December 12.
A report of the Secretary of War was read, made in obedience to the order of the House, which required a statement of the conjectural items which compose the estimate of expenses necessary for the support of the war department for the year 1793. Ordered, that this subject be referred to the committee of the whole on the Secretary of the Treasury's estimate of appropriations for 1793.
The House went into a committee of the whole, on the appropriations for 1793—Mr. Dayton in the chair. The report, with the items of conjectural expenses which came in from the Secretary of War, was taken up and deliberated upon a considerable length of time. A motion to strike out the sum of 50,000 dollars for the contingencies, was debated and agreed to, and a blank left to be filled up hereafter. A motion for the committee's rising, in order to refer to a select committee for their report on the subject, was negatived; and a motion to rise, report progress, and sit again, passed in the affirmative.
THURSDAY, December 13.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a plan for the reduction of the public debt, on motion of Mr. Sedgwick, was referred to a committee of the whole.
A motion for its being made the order of the day, this day week, was opposed. Mr. Murray objected to so early a day. The subject, said he, is important: the state of Maryland has a right to six votes in this House: it so happens, that four seats of the representation from that state, are vacant. He wished, therefore, that a more distant day may be appointed; as, in that case, it was highly probable, that state would be more fully represented. Other reasons for a more distant day, were urged by several gentlemen. This day fortnight was fully agreed to.
Mr. Steele moved the following resolution:
That the Secretary of War be directed to lay before this House, a return of all the commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the regular establishment of the United States, specifying the regiments or corps, to which they belong, and the time of their entering the service.
NORWICH, December 4.
On Thursday evening last, a young man by the name of Cook, aged nineteen, was instantly killed, in this town, by the bursting of a swivel. The circumstances, as near as we can collect, were as follows:—In celebration of the day (being thanksgiving) a large number of boys had assembled, and by pillaging dry casks from the stores, wharves, &c. had erected a bonfire on the hill back of the landing, and to make their rejoicings more sonorous, fired a swivel several times, at last, a foolish soundness for a loud report induced them to be pretty lavish of their powder, and then filled the swivel with turf—the deceased touched fire to the powder—the explosion
burst the swivel into a multitude of pieces, the largest of which, weighing about seven pounds, passed through the body of the deceased, carrying his heart and entrails, and was afterwards found in the street, thirty or forty rods from the place where it was fired.—While the serious lament the unhappy accident, they entertain a hope, that good may come of evil, that the savage practice of making bonfires, on the evening of thanksgiving, may be exchanged, for some other mode of rejoicing, more consistent with the genuine spirit of christianity.
HARTFORD, December 3.
A correspondent remarks, that nothing exhibits the human character in a more degrading view, than the violent attacks made upon the Vice-President and the Secretary of the Treasury. That men so bold and distinguished in the cause of America, during the late revolution, so upright, ingenious, able, and indefatigable in establishing a system of government and finance for the United States, and so much esteemed and respected by the great body of Americans, that such men should be continually abused, censured and vilified by a little faction of wrong-heads , and avowed enemies to the present constitution of the United States, which has, in three years time, raised us from a wretched state of discord, and refuced our national character from infamy, is a fact no less surprising than degrading to human nature.
But why abuse the Vice-President, that profound statesman—that steady patriot? Why abuse the Secretary of the Treasury, that discerning, upright and persevering financier? Does not America rest easy and satisfied with his administration? Let the enemies of our peace be assured, that if the wisps of their leaders were placed at the head of the Treasury department, he would not dare to change the present system of finance. No man who knows the attachment which the mass of substantial Americans have for that system, and their determination as well as their power to support it, would venture upon the hazardous experiment. The man or men, who shake public credit or overthrow the system that supports it, will be crushed in its ruins.
NEW-YORK, December 10.
We are informed that the ship Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan, from London, bound to this port, has been spoken with a few days ago, upon the coast.
Capt. Bunyan failed a few days after the Packer, and by him we hope to be enabled to give our readers more satisfactory accounts from France.
A gentleman of respectability, who is an inhabitant of, and lately from, Kingston, formerly Cataraqua, in Upper-Canada, assures us that the people of that territory were very desirous of having the prohibition on trade with the United States taken off, and that their request being made known to Governor Simcoe, he readily complied with it. This trade will be by the Western Lake and the Mohawk.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.
A correspondent observes, that the hint thrown out in a late number of the Mail, respecting a supply of grain for our allies at Marseilles, is indicative of the benevolence and patriotism of the writer; as such, it must meet the approbation of all good men.
The hint, however, is susceptible of improvement: it is reported that the rise in the price of the grain will operate so advantageously for the planters and farmers in the southern states, where the crops are very great, and are principally on hand, particularly in the ancient dominion, that the circumstance will make a difference of a million of dollars in favour of that state. Now, Mr. Printer, if your correspondent had extended his idea to that state, probably his own, and had proposed an association there to guard against the avaricious practices of mercantile monopolizers, similar to that suggested with so much candor, for this city, I think his plan would have been more complete as well as more uniform.—But, in order to be perfectly consistent, he ought to have gone to the fountain head of supplies, and warned some persons, if any such there were, to be thus warned, against the extortion of the farmers, the original holders of the article; for it may very rationally be supposed, that these will be very naturally disposed to avail themselves of an advantage which does not occur every day.
Bank profits, says a late writer, are enormous; and whilst in the web of fiscal contrivance the public are made to pay the extraordinary sum of 500,000 dollars, annually, for the expense of clerks, for the sole purpose of making transfers of funded stock, to accommodate the gentlemen speculators, would it not be proper for Congress to impose a tax on transfers, at least equal to the expense of making them; and also such a tax on bank stock as would better equalize and accommodate its present immoderate profits to the public necessity and convenience.
Extract of a letter from Dunkirk, October 2, to a Mercantile house in this city.
“The war has approached so near us, as to be within the sound of cannon in a still night, the city of Lisle, about 48 miles from us, being besieged.—Lisle, it is said, can sustain a siege of six months—that is the last strong barrier near us in Flanders.
“The Prussian army have but three days provisions. If they remain where they are, they must starve—and whether they advance or retreat, they must be cut to pieces; such is the spirit and determined bravery of the French troops.”
M. de la Fayette appears to be equally the aversion of the Aristocrats and Levellers, both of the old world and the new.—It is well known that the

French Aristocrats in America, as well as in Europe, have always considered him as the enemy of every species of tyranny—whether of the one, the few, or the many. There have not been wanting those in this country who attempted to blast his reputation as the friend of man—and a foreign paper informs us, that the emigrants at Luxemburg, attempted to force his apartments in that city—which were at that time not in a castle, but in a private house—they were however prevented.
A correspondent remarks, that the cessation of hostilities, and the civilities, which the papers tell us took place between the Duke of Brunswick's army, and that under Dumourier, however mysterious such an affair might appear to some people in Europe, will remind an American of a similar case in the late war. When an experienced, accomplished General, with a well disciplined army, completely equipped, flushed with success, and breathing forth threatenings, and ready to let loose whole bands of fierce savages, upon undisciplined, defenceless inhabitants of a country, far from being fully settled, was found all at once disposed to accommodate differences, even upon less honorable terms than the Duke has offered to the French nation.
The Duke has a much greater proportion of well-appointed disciplined troops to oppose him, and a more populous country to subdue, than Burgoyne had, and no prospect of succeeding in the object of his expedition, even should Dumourier's army surrender without firing a musket. Should every town which the combined armies besiege, capitulate, and even Paris fall into their hands, the citizens of the other numerous, populous cities and provinces would not be dilheartened any more than the Americans were, when they sustained the defeats of armies, loss of forts, cities, and even large districts of several states. The success of Tyrants will only excite more vigor and general exertions to oppose their invasions. Their victories often prove defeats. In the case before us, prisoners are not merely an incumbrance, but they propagate a doctrine, which will, in time, disarm the invaders; besides all this, any army in an enemy's country, must have many posts to occupy; many detachments out foraging, and conveying provisions and stores—hospitals for the sick and wounded—prisoners under guard, and liable to repeated alarms—which, added to excessive fatigue, must in time wear down any army, upon earth. Lord Cornwallis, a few days after his victory at Guilford Court-house, was glad to leave his sick and wounded to the mercy of General Greene, and retired to the lower parts of North-Carolina, for the necessary refreshment of his men. Why then should the cessation of hostilities above mentioned, be so mysterious? and why should it be supposed, that if Dumourier's army had actually surrendered, that affair would be kept secret at Paris? It is more probable, that the National Assembly would in that case, again call out on their fellow-citizens to defend their country, which they would again declare was in danger.
It cannot be their interest to conceal such circumstances. The representatives of a free people have no occasion for the low, dirty artifices of Kings.—Congress published an account of the wretched state of our finances, and of the innumerable difficulties they had to contend with in the war. But how can it be supposed, that the combined armies could reap any real advantage from the capture of Dumourier's army, and even of Paris: can 4 millions of freemen, capable of fighting any troops on earth, all fired with a divine enthusiasm, be supposed insufficient to defend such a country as France, against even 400,000 Austrians & Russians? Is it not more probable, that they will compel 200,000 dispersed troops to seek for terms, under which, they may, with apparent honor, return home?
ALEXANDRIA, December 19.
Late European papers, received at New-Bedford, from Dunkirk, announce that a war with France becomes daily more unpopular in England—that bills have been stuck up in several parts of London, written in the following words, "Peace with France or a Revolution in London." Should the British Court attempt a co-operation with the confederated powers against France, there is little probability but England will in her turn, experience a dissolution of what a certain British writer pompously terms, "the regular climax of subordination." These papers further advise, that General Dumourier is perfectly satisfied with his situation: he says that the enemy cannot hold out longer than two or three days being deprived of all kinds of provision and reduced to the greatest extremity—that a misunderstanding of a serious nature, has taken place between the King of Prussia and the Duke of Brunswick—that the enemy, on the frontiers of Brabant were repulsed—and that St. Amand and the camp of Mauld were retaken.—Do you wish to know, exclaimed M. Rouyer in the National Convention, in how desperate a state the Prussians are at present?—they live on the horses our soldiers kill!
A French patriot has deposited with the Assembly twenty-five livres, to be paid to any man who will bring one of the King of Prussia's ears, and promised twenty five Louis d'ors for his whole head.
BALTIMORE, December 24.
European news-papers, received by the latest arrivals, further advise, That a misunderstanding of a very serious nature had arisen between the King of Prussia and the Duke of Brunswick—That scarce a day passed in which carriages, loaded with dying and wounded, did not arrive at Luxemburg—That the King of Prussia's agents received orders to buy up provisions at any price whatever—That the
blockade of Luxembourg was still continued—that Thionville, also, was still closely besieged, and had not cost the besiegers less than 3000 men—That General Dumourier was perfectly satisfied with the position he had taken, and hoped to reduce the enemy in two or three days, having under his command 70,000 men, well supplied with necessaries, while the enemy were deprived of almost all kinds of provisions, and reduced to the greatest extremity—and that Camp Marshal Omoren had nearly driven the invaders of France from his part of the frontiers.
The Honorable Richard Potts, Esq. is appointed a Senator, to represent this State in the Senate of the United States, in the room of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Esquire, resigned.
A paragraph under the London head of the 29th of Sept. says—A proposition has been made to the Jacobin Assembly, that in case Louis the 16th and his wife, Maria Antoniette, should upon trial be found guilty of the crimes they are charged with, that they be sentenced to die on the scaffold; but instead of carrying the sentence into execution, it shall be left to their own choice to name the country to which they would prefer being sent to pass the remainder of their lives in banishment. This, it is thought, will be a sufficient punishment for royal traitors, without the nation subjecting itself to the odium arising from a prejudice in weak minds, that there is something sacred in royalty; and, that the blood of a crowned traitor cannot be shed without a crime."
The almost unparalleled glut of American flour, biscuit, and corn, is such in this town, at the present moment, (says a Kingston paper, of the 11th of October last) that the importers are necessitated to dispose of these commodities at a rate far under the first cost. Corn, in particular, was purchased yesterday, in quantity, at the very low rate of two shillings and six pence per bushel.
RICHMOND, December 10.
On Thursday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Kay, who resided about three miles from this city, died in consequence of poison having been administered to them, some time since, by a negro man, now under sentence of death, for said offence.
MARTINSBURG, December 24.
IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.
FLIGHT OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.
By the Mail on Saturday last, we received Philadelphia Papers to the 15th instant, by which we have been furnished with the following glorious and interesting advices.
NEW-YORK, December 13.
By an arrival at New-Port, Rhode Island, we have received the following very important information.
BELFAST, October 10.
We have more than once stated it as our opinion, that Ireland is deeply involved in the progress of Liberty in France—and not only Ireland, but the whole World. It is therefore with much satisfaction we now announce the defeat of despotism , in the flight of that redoubtable Hero the Duke of Brunswick, who the day before his disgrace, had the audacity to renew his bravados, threatening destruction to a whole people, merely because they had thought proper to better their condition!—May such a cause ever meet a similar fate.
Letter from General Dumourier.
"Sainte Mainbould, October 1."
"At length, my dear Servan, what I expected and predicted in my letters, has taken place. The Prussians are in full retreat. The brave Buernonville , who has been stiled, 'The French Ajax' has taken from them during the two last days, more than four hundred men, fifty waggons, and above two hundred horses. All the prisoners and deserters agree, that this army is exhausted by famine, fatigue, and the bloody flux.—The enemy decamp every night, and march only two leagues in the 24 hours to cover their baggage and heavy artillery."
"I have sent a reinforcement to Buernonville , who has more than 20,000 men and who will never quit them until he has exterminated them.—To give the finishing blow to this business I shall join him in person."
"I have sent you some copies of my negotiation, which I have caused to be printed, because the commander of an army of freemen, ought to suffer no suspicions to exist respecting his conduct with the enemy. I think that the present circumstance will deliver us from the scourge of war; and as I told you before, if I remember right, I hope, provided you have confidence in me, to establish my winter quarters at Bruisels. You may therefore assure the August Assembly of the sovereign people, that I shall never seek for repose, until it shall be put out of the power of tyrants to do us any harm—I embrace you. (Signed) DUMOURIER."
LONDON, October 6.
Two letters, one from the Commissioners sent to the Camp at Chalons, and another from Dumourier, were read in the convention, stating, that the enemy continued to retreat, and that the road behind them was strewed with dead bodies. On visiting the camp, which they had quitted, 300 horses were found dead and half-eaten.
These letters farther stated, that there were 8000 sick in the Hospital General at Grand Pre, and up-
wards 5000 at Verdun. General Dumourier was of opinion that the enemy could neither winter at Verdun nor Longwy, and that they would effect their retreat through Luxemburg.
The Philadelphia papers mention, that on the above intelligence being received in that city, a grand exultation prevailed among the citizens, and the rejoicing bells were rung, in testimony of the exquisite pleasure which the free Americans feel, from the glorious news of the retreat of the combined armies who had inhumanly menaced the Freedom of France.
[The following paragraphs are taken from an Albany paper of December 3.]
JUDGE HOSMER, of Ontario County, arrived in this city on Saturday last, from the Genesee country, and has been so obliging as to communicate to us the important and highly interesting intelligence, of a truce having been concluded between the hostile Indians and the U. S. on which we take the liberty of felicitating our countrymen.
He says, the chiefs of the Six Nations, lately deputed and commissioned by the President of the U. S. on a mission to the hostile tribes, assembled in council at the Miami village, are returned home, having happily succeeded in bringing a cessation of arms between the said Indians and the United States—to continue till the spring of 1793—and that, in the interim, they are ready and willing to enter into negotiations with commissioners, on the part of Congress, for bringing about and establishing a firm and lasting peace with the United States.
The said chiefs add, that the Indians at the council, contrary to their most sanguine expectations, received them with a great deal of cordiality—treating them their eldest brothers, and treating them as such in the most courteous and friendly manner; and that they paid every possible degree of respect & attention to the talks which were delivered them from the President of the United States.
The above information was received in the Genesee settlement (as might well be expected) with the highest degree of satisfaction; and it has already given a new spring to the spirit of improvement, as well as to all kinds of business in that new and flourishing part of the union.
The President of the United States has issued a proclamation offering 500 dollars as a reward for apprehending and bringing to justice each of those persons who lately committed depredations upon the territory of the Cherokees on the frontier of Georgia.
The Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, for the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Massachusetts, and New-Hampshire, have been unanimous in the choice of George Washington and John Adams, to fill those important offices.
The Electors of the States of New-York and North-Carolina, have given a unanimous vote for George Washington and George Clinton, as President and Vice-President of the United States.
The State of New-Jersey has also given a unanimous vote for George Washington and George Clinton, as President and Vice-President of the United States.
A gentleman from Whelen informs us, that about three weeks ago, a body of 250 Indians attacked a party of 70 men on their way from Kentucky to Fort-Jefferson, within 300 yards of Fort St. Clair; that the latter being over-powered, retreated to the fort with loss of 6 men and 225 horses; the Indians had two of their party killed in the action.
Married, on Saturday evening last, Mr. CHRISTOPHER BRIDENHART, to Miss JENNY VERDIER.
Extract of a letter from Quebec, October 17, 1792.
"I send you a few of our city Gazettes—you will find little worth notice in them, this being the most reclusive corner of all America for intelligence, at least during two thirds of the year; and besides, the abject ignorance and moral servitude of the inhabitants (Canadians) afford little room or badly recompense any efforts to render newspapers useful or interesting; for it is no less true, though it may appear incredible, that of upwards of fifty thousand families, in lower Canada, not five hundred read public newspapers, or in fact read any thing at all. It is thus education, that first and greatest interest of society is neglected in this moral antipode of the United States, and you know it is impossible that printing should flourish, where education is so neglected."
WHEREAS Mary, the wife of the Subscriber, some time since, without the least just cause, left my bed and board, and with the assistance of my son, in my absence, took away my property to a very considerable amount;—this therefore, is to forewarn all persons whatever, from harbouring, crediting, or receiving any property from the said Mary, on my account, as I will not be accountable for any of her proceedings or contracts, after this date.
DAVID KENNEDY.
Montgomery County, Maryland, Dec. 21, 1792.
For sale, at the Printing-Office, Deeds of bargain and sale, Common bonds and notes, Lawyers' declarations.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
From the GENERAL ADVERTISER.
AND must my cup of sorrow still o'erflow! And must the wretched CARLOS still complain! Nought spring, within his breast but Hydra woe, And o'er bright hope dark thoughts desponding reign!
The sorrowing turtle, on the bough, forlorn, And Philomel, a while repose in sleep, Whilst I alone, for ever doom'd to mourn, Must solitary, wakeful vigils keep.
The fair for whom my tears will never cease, But still in limpid streams of sorrow flow, Who erst was all my hope, my joy, my peace, Lies moulder'd where yon tufts of verdure grow.
The lovely tulip, in the morn so gay, Alas! not knowing it must fade so soon, Pierc'd by the beams of yonder king of day, All languid, drops and withers ere 'tis noon.
Thus far'd the maid, for whom my constant breast Can never cease to heave th' embitter'd sigh; Whose early fall bereft my soul of rest, And still with tears bedews my fading eye.
In the mild beaming of her vernal morn, Ere yet her charms, full blown, had bless'd my sight, Maria left her Carlos here forlorn, And pass'd before him to the realms of light;
No longer does my breast with raptures glow, My pulse in tides of joy no longer roll, But slow and languid does life's current flow, And grief's dark pall enthrouds my sickened soul.
Sweet will the closing pangs to Carlos prove, Which cut of life the weak, declining springs, Then will he soar to meet his FIRST, BEST LOVE, Where nought but raptures touch th' affluant springs. December 5. CARLOS.
VARIETY.
I'LL live no more single, but get me a wife; For chance, says poor Tom, is the comfort of life.
A wife then he got, and no mortal could be, A few weeks after marriage, more happy than he. But when children and squalling began to increase, And a loud scolding doxy molested his peace, I wish in my heart I was quit of my wife, For chance says poor Tom is the comfort of life.
WHEN Themistocles went to Andres to demand a levy of money, he said, "I bring two Gods with me, FORCE and PERSUASION." He was answered, "And we have two stronger, WANT and IMPOSSIBILITY."
To be RENTED for three years, That well-known, commodious
TAVERN, MARTINSBURG.
Belonging to the Subscriber, situated in the centre of MARTINSBURG. This House, for situation and convenience, is not equalled by any one in the place for public business. For terms, apply to
ALEXANDER ROGERS.
P. S. All Persons indebted to him, are desired to settle their accounts, if they do not pay. November 19, 1792.
ALL Persons indebted to Doctor Lawrence Vandervoet, Dr. John Ten Brook, Capt. William Brice, Cornelius Carhart, or to John Good, Esq. Co. are hereby requested to make immediate payment to the Subscriber, who is regularly authorised to receive all money due to those gentlemen, on bonds, notes, or open accounts; and to settle all their accounts. The highest cash price will be allowed for produce, in discount for any money due to those gentlemen—or to myself. Those indebted to me, are particularly requested to make payment, during the present winter, as delinquents must expect to be dealt with agreeable to law.
I have a Plantation, well improved, within four miles of this town, to let, for one or more years. Possession will be given the first day of April next. For terms, apply to
HENRY BEDINGER.
Shepherd's-Town, Dec. 5, 1792.
FOR SALE,
449 Acres of LAND, lying on New-Creek, in Hampshire County, within 2 1/2 miles of Potowmac River, 200 acres of which land are tillable, 50 acres are cleared and under fence, 4 or 5 acres are in good meadow, and much more may be added. The land is thin, but valuable, being convenient to navigation, which is daily improving—boats now load at the mouth of New-Creek. A general warrantee will be given the purchaser.
For terms, apply to THOMAS WHITTAKER, near Charlestown.
Sept. 14, 1792.
2 f.
NOTICE TO DISTILLERS.
THE indulgence heretofore given in the collection of the Duty upon Spirits distilled in this District, has occasioned very disagreeable delay, and which has prevented the Collector from making his returns in due time—he therefore informs all persons concerned in the Distilling Business in this County, that he is determined (indiscriminately) to distress those who are not provided to discharge the Duty aforesaid, by the first day of JANUARY next, when the same becomes due.
NICHOLAS ORRICK,
(Collector of Revenue, BERKELEY.)
FALL GOODS.
Wm. Wilson, ju r . & Co.
Have just OPENED, and have now ready for SALE, At their STORE on CEDAR POINT, Adjacent to Messrs Anderson, Waggoner, and Winship's Mills, on MILL-CREEK,
A large and general Assortment of well-chosen GOODS, Calculated for the Season, of which the following are a part, viz.
   SPIRITS, Whisky, and Brandy, Port, Teneriff, and Madeira Wines, Coffee, Green and Bohea Teas, Molasses and Salt, Loaf and brown Sugars, Coffee and Chocolate, Allum, Madder and Coppers, Indigo and Fig Blue, Nutmegs and Cinnamon, Pepper and Allspice, Rice, Rosin, and Chalk, Augers and Chisels of all kinds, Drawers & Desk Mounting, Snaffle and curb Bridles and Surcingles, H & HL Hinges, brass and Iron, Redwood, Logwood and Brazills, Salts and Salt Petre, Sadlery Ware assorted, Seal and upper Leather, Calf Skins and Boot Legs, Files assorted, Shoe & Claw Hammers, Barr Iron and Steel of all kinds, Castings well assorted,   FRANKLIN and Pipe- Stoves, Pewter well assorted, Table and Tea Spoons, Anvils and Vices, Sheet Iron and Nail Rods, 4d, 8d, 10d, 12d, & 20d Nails, Queen's ware, well assorted, Mill, cross-cut, and best steel-plated hand saws, Frying Pans and sad Irons 8 by 10 and 7 by 9 window Glass, Glass and Tin Ware assorted, Draw, Cupboard and Chest Locks, Powder, Shot and Bar Lead, Men's and Women's Saddles, Door and Pad-Locks assorted, Drawing and cutting Knives, Brushes assorted, Whips of all kinds, Patent Medicines of various kind, Steelyards assorted, Waggon Boxes,   Together with a general assortment of
Dry Goods.
The whole of which will be sold on as low terms as any Goods of equal quality in Frederick or Berkeley County, for cash, and almost all kinds of country produce—for which the highest market price will be allowed at all times in exchange for Goods
Cedar Point, November 25th 1792.
HARP AND CROWN TAVERN.
THE Subscriber, from the liberal encouragement he has met with since his commencement at this house, returns his unfeigned thanks to the Public; and informs them, that he has received an assortment of the purest liquors, such as Wines of the first quality, old Jamaica Spirit, Coniac Brandy, Gin, Porter, &c. &c. He has also, stableage for 50 horses, in addition to his former, and has procured hostlers sufficient to attend the same.
FLORENCE MAHONY.
October 6, 1792.
2 f.
LANDS FOR LANDS.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,
FOUR Hundred Acres of Land, (called MAHON'S) lying on Buffalo-creek, Monongalia County, upon which there are upwards of 40 acres of the best meadow, a good mill seat and spring, and the land equal to any on the Western waters.
Three Hundred and eighty-four acres adjoining, below, on same creek, a large proportion of meadow, and a good spring, the upland equal, which is held by settlement-right, and a general warrantee will be given.
One Thousand Acres on the Dunkard-mill run, a branch of said creek, held by preemption-right, of equal quality to the above, and the same warrantee will be given, all lying from 14 to 25 miles from Morgan-Town, and from 3 to 11 miles from Monongalia river—the State road from Morgan-Town to the little Kenhawa passes near or through the said land.
One Thousand Acres on Bingerma's creek, held by preemption-right, a great proportion of meadow, and well watered, which lies in the same county, the upland of good quality, about 10 miles farther from Morgan-Town.
One thousand acres on the little Kenhawa, about 14 miles from the mouth of said river, held by an old location on treasury-warrant, the land also very rich.
Any property in the counties of Berkeley or Frederick, negroes, or good bonds, will be taken in payment.
DAVID GRAY.
Berkeley, April 25, 1792.
12 m.
LANDS
For SALE on reasonable Terms.
TWO TRACTS, containing 500 acres each, in the County of Harrison, on the West side of the Little Kenhawa; two other Tracts in the State of Kentucky, in the County of Jefferson, about 15 miles from the Falls of Ohio, on Tick-creek, equal to any Lands in that State, one Tract containing 1000 acres, the other 705; one Tract in the County of Berkeley of 106 acres, near the Opeckan-creek; one other in said County, near the White House, of 34 acres, adjoining the lands of Mr. Joseph Bell; one House and Half Acre Lot in Charlestown, well known by the name of Capt. Ross's store. Also, the Tract whereon I now live. Any person inclined to purchase, may know the terms by applying to me. JAMES CRANE.
November 10, 1792.
Berkeley County, head of Bull-Skin, by the White House Tavern, November 18, 1792.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
WILLIAM McFATRECH,
BEGS leave to inform the Public in general, that he makes and repairs all kinds of four-wheeled CARRIAGES, such as Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, Coachees, Family Waggons, one horse Chairs, Chaises and Sulkies, panelled or Winfor.
He has on hand a neat panelled Sociable, with a light top, for one horse, which he can finish at the shortest notice, and will sell for cash or country produce. WILLIAM McFATRECH.
Wanted, as a Journeyman, A person who understands the Wagon-making Business.
Good encouragement will be given by the Subscriber, as above.
WHEREAS I the Subscriber, some time in the month of October, 1782, gave a bond to James Morrison, for the sum of ten pounds, current money, which Bond has long since been fully discharged and over paid by my account against him, but I cannot obtain my Bond; this therefore is to caution all persons from taking an assignment thereof, as I am determined not to pay it again, unless compelled thereto by law.
JOHN RANEY.
Berkeley County, Nov. 26, 1792.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
THIS is to forewarn all Persons from cutting or carrying away any timber or wood whatsoever, or otherwise trespassing on Mrs. Jane Caldwell's farm in this County, as has heretofore been very much the case in an unwarrantable degree, as I am determined to put the law in force against all those who may be detected in such illegal practice.
CHARLES McDONALD,
(Attorney in fact for Jane Caldwell.)
Berkeley County, 20th November, 1792.