The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1793-06-03 00:00:00

Foreign Advices.
Further Accounts received by the British APRIL Packet Carteret, arrived at New York from Falmouth.
BRUSSELS, April 2.
Letter from his Excellency Gen. Clairfayt, to Mons. Comte Starenberg, Imperial Minister at the Hague; dated Tour- nay, March 31, 1793.
I lose not a moment in communicating to your Excellency what M. Dumourier has just written to me, when he sent to our camp 8 or 9 prisoners, this morning, four of whom, with Gen. Bournonville, he says, were specially commissioned by the National Convention to arrest and conduct him a prisoner to their bar, and, on any resistance, on the part of Dumourier, to have him assassinated on the road: But, adds the writer, I have been before hand with them, in securing those commissioners, and their deputies, as my prisoners. These he has sent, under a strong escort, to the Prince de Coburg, after having put seals on all their papers, &c.
"M. Dumourier transmitted me, at the same time, a list of the prisoners, and concludes by saying, that he was that instant about to move with the trusty part of his army, in order to destroy those who may further oppose themselves to the public good of France, and to give to that distracted kingdom permanent peace and tranquility. I have the honour to be, &c. CLAIRFAYT."
BERGEN OP ZOOM, April 2.
Intelligence has been received from the Prince de Saxe Cobourg's head-quarters at Mons, that an armistice had been agreed upon between his serene highness and General Dumourier, the latter having previously consented to evacuate the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Brabant: that General Dumourier set out on the 3d instant, on his march to Paris: that his serene highness had put his troops into very close cantonments, keeping them in immediate readiness to act: that the King of Prussia had crossed the Rhine at Bucher, attacked the French at Biegen, Creutzenach, and Altheim, took Gen. Neuwigen, 30 officers, 200 non-commissioned officers and privates, 15 cannon, and a military chest, and had formed the blockade of Mayence: that General Wormser, with a Prussian corps, was immediately to pass the Rhine at Mannheim, and act on the left of the king: that Worms and Oppenheim were evacuated, and that the enemy had retreated from those places towards Landau. These operations happened between the 27th of March and the first of April.
LEYDEN, March 28.
France has now at sea, and armed ready for sea, one hundred and ninety-four ships of war, exclusive of gun boats and cutters. In addition to these, 15 ships of the line have just been launched, and 6 cutters on the stocks, rapidly advancing. Many insurrections of the people have happened in Spain, against the magistrates of the government, on this account near one hundred thousand muskets have been distributed in several provinces, to awe the people.
L O N D O N, April 2.
General Clairfayt is promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, and the Archduke Charles invested with the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, for their military exploits.
Admiral Macbride has made a most seaman like disposition of his numerous fleet of cruisers; they stretch across the whole channel, and nothing can escape them. They have taken a number of vessels, neutral bottoms, laden with grain and stores, the cargoes of which, we suppose, will be bought by government, and in the mean time these captures, they conceive, must greatly distress the enemy.
April 4. It is reported that Simon, the Mayor of Brussels, while the French were there, and five other citizens, were hanged within half an hour after the Austrians entered the city. Executions which would so ill accord with the promise of a general amnesty by the Emperor, we cannot believe to have taken place.
According to letters from Italy we are informed, that a corps of 5000 French, under the command of General Bruent, attacked, on the 14th, a detachment of 1000 men, composed of Austrians and Piedmontese troops, commanded by Major Straaldo, near Sospillo; the action was bloody; our troops lost 260 soldiers; Major Straaldo was wounded; two captains and two lieutenants were made prisoners by the enemy.
A Treaty of Alliance is about to be concluded between this court and that of Vienna. Lord Elgin is gone thither for that purpose.
Dumourier was at Brussels so late as the 23d ult. —at midnight he left it, till which time the French Patroles remained at their posts, and tolerable good order preserved; but so soon as they were gone, and no authority existing as a check, the populace proceeded to pillage every place where any valuables were deposited; these tumultuous proceedings were not stopt till the next day, when the Austrian advanced guard arrived.
April 6. The letters from Holland, brought by the mails of yesterday, confirm the account of the repeated and decisive defeats of the French, together with their entire expulsion from the territory of the seven provinces, and from all parts of Austrian Flanders.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, April 3.
"Lord Auckland will set out in a few days for Brussels, for a conference with the Prince of Cobourg. The court of Orange are in the highest spirits, in consequence of the total expulsion of the French from the United Provinces. A grand gala was given the night before last on the occasion. General Byland's court martial goes on with great solemnity; he is still a close prisoner, not being permitted even to appear personally before his judges, nor is the court open to any but its component members. The surrender of Gertruydenberg on honorable terms, was much disapproved of here, till it was generally known that the chief Dutch Patriots had got out of it by stealth a few nights since."
A letter from Brussels, dated the 25th ult. gives the following particulars of the retreat of the French from that city:
"Yesterday the whole of the French army reached the environs of this place, and continuing their march all night, were no longer to be perceived at break of day. Thanks to General Dumourier, who, as well as his aids de camp, remained on horseback, to maintain regularity, the retreat was made with good order. To amuse our populace, he put them in possession of several magazines of meal, bread, and rice, in the plunder of which they busied themselves from 8 last night till 11 this morning. Having concluded this operation, and taking the advantage of the absence of the troops, they proceeded to the plunder of the houses of the two brothers Chapel, and of a citizen named La Fay; the two former were representatives; the latter one of the heads of the Jacobin club. Had it not been for the timely assistance of six Hulons and a party of the Marechausse, a corn-contractor, a most zealous partisan of the French cause, must inevitably have been killed. We hear the discharge of artillery, which announces the approach of the Austrian troops."
A letter from Rotterdam, dated the 26th ult. represents the Prince of Saxe Cobourg as having written to the Duke of York, stating the victory of the 22d as the most complete ever accomplished in military history, the French having had killed, wounded, &c. not less than 15,000 men, and the Austrians more than 3000 killed, and as many wounded: The French fled under the walls of Brussels, where at length they threw away even the small arms. They lost, says the account, sixty pieces of cannon.
UNITED STATES.
AUGUSTA, May 4.
We have it now in our power, from the best authority, to give the following melancholy particulars to the public, attending the murder of the family on the Oconee river on the 22d ultimo.
The Indians, 37 in number, came to the house of a Mr. Richard Thresher, and fired upon and killed Mr. Thresher, two children, and a negro woman; Mrs. Thresher, to avoid, if possible, the fate with which she was threatened, fled with an infant of about five or six weeks old in her arms, and leaped into the river; the Indians pursued, shot her through each thigh and right breast, stabbed her in the left breast with a knife, cut her left arm nearly off, and then scalped her. In this horrid situation she remained until the neighbors could assemble in sufficient numbers to cross the river and pursue the Indians. As the first canoe was crossing, she had strength enough to call for assistance; they went, found her hanging by a bush in water nearly up to her chin, her infant at the bottom of the river a few yards from her. She lived nearly 24 hours, and when informed by her physician that she could not possibly survive much longer, she, with a fortitude that is rarely to be met with, called her friends around her, and in a calm but pathetic manner, gave her hand to every one, wishing them a better fate than had befallen herself and family; and when, after her speech failed, as the neighbors were constantly coming in, she continued to give her hand until about five minutes before she resigned her breath, which was without a groan.
Mrs. Thresher was about 25 years of age, of a respectable family, an elegant person, and possessed an uncommon education.
On Thursday the 25th ult. two men were killed in Franklin, 40 horses carried off, and, since the accounts published in our last, all the inhabitants on the frontiers have retreated into forts without arms or ammunition: at one meeting of near 40 persons, they could only muster five old muskets; to heighten the horror of their condition, the Indians were momentarily expected.
As similar murders are daily committed, it called upon the spirit of 800 gallant fellows, who have marched, last week, against the savages, determined to avenge the cruelties indiscriminately perpetrated on the infant, the mother, and the defenceless.
BOSTON, May 18.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION, CAPTURE of TOBAGO by the ENGLISH.
FROM PORTSMOUTH, May 15.
Captain Samuel Briard arrived here last evening from Tobago, which he left the 21st April, and brings the following Intelligence:
That on the 24th of April, a body of forces consisting of his Britannic Majesty's 9th and 60th regiments, and a corps of Artillery, arrived at Grand Cove and Fairy Bay, in the Trusty 60 gun-ship, the Nautilus and Fairy Sloops of War, two King's brigs and two transports, from Barbadoes, all under the command of Admiral Lafoney and Major General Cuyler.
They immediately landed, and marched over to Port Louis (about seven miles) and at half past three in the morning of the 15th, stormed the fort, after summoning the commander (General Mantle) to surrender, which he refused: There was an heavy firing for an hour, from the fort, when it was carried sword in hand. On the French part, were nine killed, fourteen wounded, and 235 taken prisoners, 80 of whom were regular troops, the remainder sailors from French ships, and French inhabitants. The English lost seven killed and eighteen wounded; among the latter, is General Cuyler, in the arm, but not badly. The Fairy sloop of war was to sail on the 22d for England with the prisoners.
BRITISH PORTS OPEN.
In addition to the above, letters, by Captain Briard, inform, that the islands of St. Christopher, Grenada, and Antigua were opened for importation of lumber and provisions in American vessels: — And that on Friday 10th May, in lat. 38. 40. long. 68. 20. spoke the British Frigate Andromeda, Capt. Salisbury, of 32 guns, cruising on this coast. The officer who came on board Captain Briard's vessel, informed, that the Winchelsea Man of War was also cruising in these seas. The Andromeda had been 44 days from England.
In consequence of the opening of the ports of the British Islands, two vessels have sailed from Portsmouth, for St. Kitts, with produce and lumber.
The Extraordinary Commission of Guadalupe, the 21st March last, decreed, "That the ports of Bassetterre and Point Apure will be freely opened to the vessels of the United States of America."
That said vessels will have liberty of export in return for their cargoes in all kind of colonial produce, paying however the local duties, and those called Domain d'occident.
The assembly of St. Lucy, has decreed, "That reckoning from the 17th of March all the ports of the island shall be opened to all neutral vessels."
NEW YORK, May 23.
GLORIOUS SUCCESS OF DUMOURIER.
The following is a copy of a post-script of a letter received by a gentleman in New-London, by the brig Charming Polly in 37 days from Calais: — "The French affairs begin to wear a more pleasing prospect; Dumourier by the most surprising manœuvre ever heard of, on the 6th of April surrounded a body of ten thousand of the flower of the Prussian army, and cut them to pieces to a man. The King of Prussia and Duke of Brunswick are among the slain!"
[The above is a literal copy from a New-York paper. The writer must be mistaken in ascribing this success to General Dumourier, as the King of Prussia and his army were, as appears by the last accounts, employed about Mentz, where General Custine commands, who lately engaged and beat the Prussians; and this, it is more probable, is a subsequent victory obtained by that General.]
Affairs in St. Domingo, particularly at Cape Francois, still wear an alarming aspect. By a vessel which arrived here on Tuesday we learn, that the forces there have had several skirmishes with the blacks; that the blacks have been successful in two skirmishes, and had killed (April 29th) upwards of 50 whites; and that the commander of the French troops, to prevent falling into the hands of the negroes, had blown out his brains with a pistol.
A letter dated yesterday, from a respectable gentleman in Philadelphia to his brother here, says, "Dumourier is gone over to the Austrians certainly! We are left to conjecture to the probable causes. — Dumourier's ill success left him in the predicament with La Fayette; numbers, it is said, thirsted for his honorable post, others for his life; to secure it, he has fled. Skin for skin; yea, all that a man hath he will give for his life."
PHILADELPHIA, May 23.
Tuesday afternoon arrived here the brig Sally from Cape Francois. She left the Cape on the 9th inst. We have collected the following intelligence by conversing with several passengers on board the Sally, respecting Dumourier's defection.
On the 7th, the frigate La Concorde arrived at the Cape from Brest, which port she left the 9th of April. On board this frigate general Gilband arrived, as commander in chief of St. Domingo. From him many of the passengers, with whom we have conversed, had their intelligence.
Dumourier really went over to the Austrians some time in the beginning of April. He tampered first with the old commissioners to Belgium; informed them that he now found Frenchmen unmanageable under a republic and that they required all the rigour of monarchical energy to keep them in a proper degree of subordination. He next communicated his change of sentiment to the Convention by letter, who probably received the information from the commissioners as soon at least, and explicitly declared to them that France must have a King.
The passengers in the Sally do not appear acquainted with the circumstance of commissioners being dispatched by the Convention, to apprehend him; but mention that Bournonville was sent off to take the command of the army.
Dumourier, they say, before he quitted his post, made known his sentiments to his army, particularly to a body of about 12,000 most attached to him. These latter hesitated a moment whether they should join him, but at last determined to remain firm. His etat-major, some passengers affirm, others mention, and a great number of officers accompanied him in his disgraceful flight.
The strange conduct of Dumourier has been attempted to be accounted for, by supposing that some great change in the complexion of the parties of the

Convention may have occasioned the adoption of some violent measure against him and a consequent order to arrest him. To avoid this, and the fate of which these proceedings were only preliminaries, he was obliged to fly as the unfortunate La Fayette had done before him.
But if we are to believe the fact of his declaration to the commissioners and to the Convention of his sentiments as to the fundamental principles of the revolution, and this fact is as well authenticated as any in the whole business, for the account through London gives it as well as that through Cape-Francois, and that directly from Amsterdam infers it, then it is evident that the change is not in the Convention, but in Dumourier himself.
After such a change, the Convention no doubt wisely adopted decisive measures respecting him, and these may have ultimately caused him to decamp, though his treachery was the primary cause.
How this prodigious change of sentiment may have been effected is another question of importance. From the character of the man, it is much less probable that it is owing to sincere conviction, that he was first in the wrong, than that he had been bribed to a change of conduct by Austrian gold.
Dumourier's communicating to the convention his change of sentiment, and telling them there must be a King, was probably with a view of intimidating them and bringing about a counter revolution. This attempt was, no doubt, his bargain which the Austrians bound him to make, as well as his subsequent endeavour to seduce the army.
Dumourier's popularity with the army, and his consequent influence with the convention, may have led the combined powers to imagine, that if he could be gained over, the day was won. They reasoned like despots, and shewed themselves green in their acquaintance with republics, where the care of the public weal rests on the shoulders of no one man.
It may still remain a doubt whether Bournonville, and the citizens sent to apprehend Dumourier, may not have been carried off with him; but of a most important fact we may rest assured, that not one private followed the disgraceful example of their General.
Accounts have been received by the brig Sally, Capt. Cockran, from Cape Francois, of the 8th instant, which mention, that a French frigate had arrived there from Brest, with the new governor of the island of Domingo, and a large sum of specie. That this frigate had sailed from Brest the 6th of April, and that it was then reported there that General Dumourier had left the French army and was gone over to the Austrians, but without taking any of the French troops off with him.
By accounts from Ireland, per the Ann and Mary, it appears that the government have put a stop to the emigration of redemptioners from the north of Ireland. None, therefore, but persons of property, who may be able to advance the passage money for themselves and families, can attempt coming to the United States, and even those find an almost insurmountable difficulty in disposing of their property—so that the people of Ireland seem to be in a manner completely imprisoned, and obliged to remain under their present yoke. This, however, they do not so much complain of, as that of being disarmed—though this has not yet been complied with by the northern volunteers.
Napper Tandy, who was charged with being accessory to some insurrections at Dundalk, was ordered to take his trial. This however, he declined, not expecting much fair play from the laws now dictated by the executive; and, in consequence, he has made a retreat to France, as is generally supposed; from whence, it was thought, he would soon set out on a visit to the United States.
DUMOURIER'S FLIGHT.
May 25. Yesterday afternoon arrived in this port, in 42 days from Bristol, the brig Orange, Capt. Sampson.
Reports at Bristol, when this vessel sailed, viz. April 12, were that Dumourier had gone to Paris at the head of his army, for the purpose of declaring the Dauphin King, he, Dumourier, having been worried out with the abuses of the Convention, and being convinced, that none but despots could govern Frenchmen, &c. &c. &c.
A letter to a respectable merchant in this city, intimates, that a speedy peace is expected, and that the inducement to this belief is, the late conduct of Dumourier—but the writer does not mention what this conduct is. The inference would seem to be (supposing the desertion of Dumourier and a general defection) that despotism will soon be re-established, and war cease!
London papers are received to the 10th inclusive, in which there is not one official account of Dumourier's defection. There are a variety of reports, purporting that all France is in a terrible state of convulsion—various debates in the Jacobin Club, in which, it is said, BOURNONVILLE was impeached, and many other enthusiastic measures entered into—In The Sun, of the 10th April, which is the latest paper received, the following paragraph appears:
"It is now rumoured, that Dumourier, having found reason to suspect the sincerity of a great part of his army, in the promises they had given to support him in his plan of marching to Paris, and placing young Louis on the throne, had left his army at the head of a regiment, of cavalry, and gone to the Austrian army. We give this merely as a report; we may, however, add, that no official intelligence of any such event has been received."
This account is nearly the same as the one via Cape Francois—and by it, and the other accounts, the public must be convinced, that some momentous defections have taken place in France, much against
the republican interest—but the particulars of these defections are not yet developed, or disgorged from that abominable mass of political rumour and intrigue, which increases by deception, and consolidates by being continually heaped upon.
The Sun (a London ministerial paper, of the 8th) contains some very interesting matter, if it could be relied on as authentic, particularly a dialogue between Dumourier and the Commissioners whom the Convention had sent to him, in which he complains bitterly of the Convention and some of their edicts, declares his present sentiments respecting France, &c. &c. This shall appear in our next.
The following is an extract of a letter dated May 8, received by the Sally.
"The frigate La Concorde, of 44 guns and four howitzers, is arrived from Brest in 28 days, and brought here Mr. Galband, our new governor, with his lady, children and sundry officers. He brings with him about 4,000,000 of money.—This day the convoy has been seen coming from Port-au-Prince, with two ships of the line, having the commissioners on board, with about 500 persons, intended to be shipped for France."
"We hear from France, that Dumourier has quit his army in Brabant, having been seduced by dint of gold; luckily his flight has not been attended with any evil consequence. We have 20 ships of the line in the Mediterranean, and 8 in the channel—40 more ships were fitting out at Brest with great activity, and they must now be in readiness."
From Cape-Francois Papers.
Some Particulars of the Attack on Port au Prince.
Extract of a Letter.
"The Commissioners entered Port au Prince the 14th in the evening. About 300 that have been fired, and about 20 persons killed. Borel has flown, with about 500 persons, towards Jackmel."
Port-au-Prince, April 16.
"We are now well treated here; the town is quiet and the forts in the best order. Fort St. Clair fired on the ships of the republic with red-hot shot, and succeeded in setting the America on fire, but the fire was soon extinguished; another bullet went thro' the cabin, but hurt no one. There were five men wounded on board the frigate La Fine."
PITTSBURGH, May 18.
Last week the Indians stole seven horses belonging to Elliot and Williams, from the west side of the Allegheny, about two miles from this place.
On the 3d instant, five of the scouts (or spies) from Virginia, being out on Sandy creek, had shot a turkey, and were about to cook it, when one of them discovered 8 Indians (Wyandots) within twenty five yards of them; he immediately gave the others notice, and then shot at the foremost Indian—those with him say the Indian fell—the Indians immediately retreated, as the spies advanced, until another party of Indians was discovered in their rear; a Mr. Dowling then shot at an Indian about thirty five steps distant, and thinks he killed him—the spies then separated, and each one was followed about a mile, without receiving any personal injury—they lost their blankets and provisions.
On the same day, two other scouts had been out and returned to the Ohio, and sat down on the beach to eat; shortly after they discovered a party of Indians endeavouring to surround them, which they had nearly completed, but fortunately the Indians' guns, being wet, missed fire, and by that means the spies got off.
His Excellency Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the territory north west of the Ohio, has issued a proclamation forbidding all the inhabitants of that territory, and all those who may pass through it, from making any hostile attempt upon the persons of the Indians north of the Ohio, or of any of their settlements, until the event of the treaty is known.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, (M.) May 17.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kentucky, to his friend in this county.
"The Indians are murdering some of us every week; notwithstanding the truce which the government of the United States conceives now to be existing between them and the savages. The 2d inst. they killed and wounded 5 men, and stole 17 horses; am now returning from a scout after them—we overtook the savages, and took 9 scalps including that of a white man who was their leader. But we must not let the public know of our scalps, for it is against the federal officers' orders to scalp any. And if the army don't come down soon from Fort Pitt we will be hard put to it, for the savages embody very strong."
MARTINSBURG, JUNE 3.
On the 26th of March, there was an engagement near Antwerp, between a body of French troops and an Austrian division. The battle was long and bloody, and was maintained on both sides with the greatest intrepidity; but the French being superior in number, forced the Austrians to retire, and took several prisoners.
By the brig Cicero, Capt. Patterson, arrived at Boston on the 17th inst. from Cape Francois, certain accounts were received, that the whole town of Port-au-Prince was laid in ashes, excepting only three or four houses.
A letter from Nassau, dated April 20, says, "It is reported, that 3000 troops were poisoned in the Cape, and that a great number of the French troops are called home from their Islands in the West-Indies."
When our last accounts left England, it was generally believed, that the insatuated ministry had entered into a league with the despotic powers on the continent, to re-establish monarchy in France by the point of the bayonet. The league was already so strong, that the English vessels of war took all merchant ships whatever coming out of French ports, whether neutral or otherwise.
From the Bennington paper of 10th ult.
We hear from Niagara, by Mr. Hatheway, who left there on the 23d of April, that the Indians had sat in grand council for a number of days, and had concluded their business the day before he came away. The council consisted of the Six Nations, together with the Delawares, and several other nations who reside upon the shores of western lake. In their debates, many of the chiefs discovered much natural eloquence; their gestures were strong, yet expressive; they spoke very loud in general, and some of them very lengthy; the Farmers Brother, a Seneca chief, spoke almost three hours in one harangue. The final result was peace generally. They unanimously agreed to meet the Americans in the grand convention that is about to be holden in June next, on the fourth side of lake Erie; and, for the purpose of making the peace more permanent and extensive, they have appointed Brant, who is now their king of kings, to go and convene all those tribes who live to the northwest of lake Ontario. He accordingly the day after set out for that purpose: it cannot be doubted but that all those northern Indians, are fully determined upon peace, and will do every thing in their power to effect the same; their situation if nothing else, compels them to be at peace with the people of the states; they live so contiguous to us, that it required, we might with the greatest ease extirpate them from the face of the earth.
HAVING been much longer detained from home, on business that was indispensable, than was expected, am well informed on my return that a certain William Cochran, late of Pennsylvania, but now of Hampshire County, in this State, was attempted to sell the lands on which I live; I have therefore thought proper, in order to prevent the said Cochran from practising that deception and fraud which seems entailed on his character, as well as to undeceive any whom it may concern, to give a brief detail of the relative circumstances. I was involved in a heavy law suit in Pennsylvania, with a certain Patrick M'Sherry, in which Mr. Cochran was my security; as I was a Virginian, which I have experimentally discovered is almost a crime in Pennsylvania, it became necessary to indemnify Mr. Cochran against any loss he might sustain in becoming my security in the suit aforesaid; in order therefore, to make him perfectly safe, I gave said Cochran a deed for the lands on which I live, and at the same time took his bond to reconvey the same, when he should be released from the security aforesaid, which I knew was a mortgage only. The said Cochran, in consequence of his being disappointed in his views, has entered into a combination with the said M'Sherry, who has actually levied an execution on the lands that was formerly Mr. Cochran's, in Pennsylvania, and which he has sold, although no judgment did exist in Pennsylvania, at the time of the sale of his land that could bind the same, it being quashed by the judges of their supreme court, nor until long since the cause in which I am engaged in, which is now depending in the Federal Court of the United States, in Chancery, in the District of the Middle Circuit, the final issue of which will be shortly known. As for the falsehoods Mr. Cochran has told—the calumnies he has raised in my absence, and what he has done or will do, are matters that must be indifferent to the public—my only object in this publication is, to state facts, in order to prevent him from practising any deception in the sales of my lands, as he now has, nor never had, and the presumption is, never will have, any equitable right to them. WILLIAM ASKEW.
June 1, 1793.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, Two Journeymen Waggon-Makers, A L S O, One or two active Boys, as Apprentices to the above business. Good wages and punctual pay will be given to the Journeymen, and good usage to the Apprentices.
An Apprentice to the Blacksmith's business is also wanted. JOHN ROHR, REUBEN ROHR.
June 1, 1793.
THE Subscriber, having removed from this County, calls on all persons having any accounts unsettled with him, to exhibit the same in this town on the first day of July next; all those indebted to him, are desired to pay their respective balances by the above time, or their accounts will then be put in suit.
BARNHART GILPIN.
Martinsburg, June 1, 1793.
TO BE SOLD, A good SADDLE HORSE, young, and spirited. Apply to WILLIAM SKINNER.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
ODE
To the Author of a piece in the last paper signed AN ALEXANDRIAN.
SAY, mighty champion of the paper sword, Brimful of nothing, or with nonsense stord; Did e'er a lyric bard's enchanting strains Thy prowels warble, or thy leaden brains— 'Till now I strike the dancing string? Didst ever dream of such a thing?
No, never in thy life has such a frantic thought Assail'd thy visionary hope: Thou'dst thought as soon to buy a kingdom with a groat; Or thread a needle with a rope.
But nature's greatest works are strangely fickle; And thus the wisest heads, a straw may tickle My fancy, heedless as a flock of sheep, Looks down to thee to laugh itself to sleep: Nay, be not angry; by a gentle dresing, The Muse intends thee nothing but a blessing.
What madding frenzy seiz'd thy luckless pate, To make thee meddle in affairs of state?— Think'st thou the Gov'nor thanks thee for thy trou- ble? He'd rather, had'st thou spar'd him, thank'd thee double.
'Twere better at discretion, to surrender Than thus be bor'd, by such a lame defender— Were stupid advocates like thee in fashion 'Twould set the very Devil in a passion. A truce then with thy clumsy, wretch'd stuff, It's past enduring, 'nough, I say enough.
But hold, I check my swelling wrath indignant And spare thee half thy folly's due; Compassion, mercy, pity, all benignant, For pardon, all for pardon sue.
It's done—thou hast a full and ample pardon. But if thou dost invade agen, The public eye, with such a host of jargon, Expect no quarter from my pen.
I have in store, such heaps of whips and stings, With scorpions venomous and hideous things, With adders, crocodiles, and toads and bats, With wasps, and bugs, and rattle-snakes, and rats, Should e'er the MIRROR hold them to thy light They'd make thy very hair to stand upright.
Be careful to avoid such frightful scenes, Be henceforth silent—silent as the dead, And if thou canst, by any sort of means, Transform thy Gourd the image of a Head.
C A I R A.
Prince-Street, May 20, 1793.
WHEREAS some time since, I gave four bonds to Frederick Heifner, three for forty-five pounds, one payable the first day of May next, the other for forty pounds, in three annual pay- ments, but as the said Heifner has not comply'd with the terms of the agreement for which the said bonds were given, I hereby forewarn any person from taking any assignment thereon, as I am deter- mined not to pay it unless compelled thereto by law. FREDERICK STIP.
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JACOB WILLIAMSON.
March 23, 1793.
William Riddle,
At his NEW STORE, adjoining Mr. Edward Beason's, IS NOW OPENING, A neat and general assortment of
SPRING GOODS,
Which he is determined to sell on advantageous terms, for READY PAY in cash or country produce. Martinsburg, May 18, 1793.
FOR SALE
One Sixth part of that Tract of Land known by the name of General Lee's, which was de- vised by the late General Lee to Eleanor Oswald.
Inquire of the Printer.
May 14, 1793.
STRAYED from the subscriber the 5th inst. two young Mares, a black and a bay, two years old past, both with bells on, branded on the near shoul- der A. B. the bay has a blaze in her face, and is long and slim made. Whoever takes up said strays and gives me notice so that I get them again, shall have One Dollar reward. ROBERT NORRIS.
Land in Berkeley, FOR SALE.
ABOUT 1150 acres, adjoining the land of Mr. James Strade, within three miles of Martins- burg, being the greater part of a tract granted by the late Proprietor of the Northern Neck, to George William Fairfax, for 1700 and odd acres, and called by the name of Poplar Spring.
There are leases for eight tenements upon this Land, two of them have but one life each (one very old) four others have each two lives, and the re- maining two have three lives. The terms of sale may be known by applying to
FERDINANDO FAIRFAX.
Berkeley, Shannon-hill, April 22, 1793.
To be sold or rented, on reasonable terms, and may be entered on immediately,
200 acres of good Land, 50 cleared, and a small quantity of meadow made, and 8 or 10 acres more may be made, and watered the most part of the summer season. This land is well timbered, and known to be good for any kind of grain. There are on said plantation two tenements, one of which is a square log-house, 20 by 16 feet, and a shingle roof, a good convenient garden, and a never-failing spring, about five rod from the door; this land is very convenient for water for cattle, it being in ev- ery field the most part of the summer.—This place lays within two miles of the Warm Springs, where they have a good market for any produce, and with- in one mile of a good grist-mill and saw-mill, and within four miles of the Potowmac, whence they may take any kind of produce to any place on that river, at a small expence. On this tract are two small orchards, one of which appears to be loaded with apples and cherries. Any person inclining to purchase or rent, may know the terms, by applying to Mr. JONATHAN JONES, adjoining the premises, or to me at MARTINSBURG, near Edward Beason's mill.
PATRICK M'KELVIE.
Berkeley County, Virginia, May 13, 1793.
HARP AND CROWN TAVERN.
Florence Mahony,
RETURNS his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the public, for the great en- couragement he has met with since his commence- ment at this house—his liquors are excellent—his attention to his customers shall be minute and point- ed—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, 1793.
Subscriptions for a German News- Paper, printed at Frederick-Town, by M. BARTGIS, are received by the Prin- ter hereof.
NOTICE TO DISTILLERS,
THAT all Liquors removed in any manner whatever from any Distill-House, without a Certificate previously had therefor, is liable to sei- zure—blank Certificates for such removal are deli- vered by the Subscriber, free of expence.
NICHOLAS ORRICK, C. E.
April 25, 1793.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY,
 1 Prize £.475 0 0  1 do. 250 0 0  1 do. 100 0 0  1 do. a Horse, Saddle and Bridle, 14 8 3  10 do. Mens' Saddles, at 50/. 25 0 0  10 do. do. at 45/. 22 10 0  30 do. 60 Collars, at 7/. 21 0 0  30 do. 60 blind Bridles, at 6/. 19 10 0  15 do. 30 half curb Bridles, at 8/. 12 10 0  10 do. 30 snaffle do. at 8/. 9 0 0  6 do. 6 pair neat Boots, at 45/. 13 10 0  30 do. 60 pair good Shoes, at 30/. 30 0 0  4 do. 4 Women's handsome Saddles, at 18/. 18 0 0  12 do. 36 common chairs, well finish'd, at 4/. 7 4 0  12 do. 24 chopping axes, at 10/. 12 0 0  2 do. 2 sets Plow Irons, at 37/6. 3 15 0  6 do. 12 pair Waggon Chains, at 9/11. 5 19 0  12 do. 12 new Tables (neat) at 9/. 9 0 0  3 do. 6 new Ploughs, at 7/6. 2 5 0  25 do. 200 Flour Barrels, at 15/10 3/4. 18 15 0  50 do. 50 Wool Hats, at 6/. 30 0 0  14 do. 24 Roram Hats, at 30/. 36 0 0  22 do. 24 Screw Locks, at 8/. 10 10 0  34 do. 102 gallons Whisky, at 25/. 25 0 0  546 do. Cabs, at 13/1 each, 329 17 6  £.1500 3 9  2667 Tickets, at 11/3 each, - £.1500 3 9 
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE Subscriber flattered himself from his for- mer address, accompanied with a Scheme of a Lottery which he then apprehended was well calcu- lated for purchasers; but having after trial found that the price of the Tickets were higher than ma- ny people thought proper to risque, and being ad- vised by his friends to sell the same property in the manner known by the above scheme, being about two blanks to a prize, and desirous to encourage home-made manufactures, has intermixed among the Prizes a number of valuable articles made in this country, at cash price.
The highest prize contains a genteel Brick House, 46 feet long and 18 feet wide, in which there are three rooms neatly finished, with a commodious kitchen and garret; also a cellar under the same, 30 by 18 feet. Said House fronts New-Street, and the stream of water that runs through Macklenburg (commonly called Shepherd's Town) runs under said building. The area of this prize contains 71 square feet.
The second prize is a Stone Malt-House, 50 feet long and 24 feet wide, well finished, and the situ- ation calculated for the business; also, a Brew-House, 36 by 24 feet; they are both under one roof, but separated by said stream; at the lower end is a va- cancy of 10 by 24 feet.
The third prize contains a Frame House, 18 by 16 feet, has a cellar under it, fronts New-Street, 33 feet, and thence runs with King Street, 71 feet, which renders it a valuable corner. These Prizes lie near the centre of Shepherd's Town. The ap- praisement of said property is so reduced, that any enquiring person cannot help observing that they are rated at under value.
The Subscriber hopes for encouragement to this proposal, as the Tickets are so low, being only at half the price of his former scheme, and a number of other chances than were formerly proposed.
The Lottery is intended to be drawn in a few days, as most of the Tickets are sold and enga- ged. The possessors of Tickets in the former scheme are requested immediately to bring them in to be exchanged, as from the present rapid sale of the Tickets they may probably be excluded.
The cash prizes, &c. will be paid immediately af- ter drawing the Lottery, and deeds granted for the real property prizes at same time. Gentlemen of character are appointed to superintend the drawing of the Lottery.
Any of the articles mentioned in the Scheme a- bove, will be received for Tickets, at cash price.
THOMAS WHITE.
Shepherd's Town, May 10, 1793. 3 Tickets are sold and exchanged, at the Print- ing Office, Martinsburg.
For Sale, at this Office, Blank Deeds of Bargain and Sale, Common Bonds and Notes, Magistrates' Summons.