The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1793-11-18 00:00:00

The POTOMAC GUARDIAN, and BERKELEY ADVERTISER.
PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANN.]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1793.
[NUMBER 157—VOL 4.]
WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY.
Franklin.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A SOBER, decent, industrious young Man, as an Hostler. If he answers the above description generous wages will be given. Inquire of the Printer.
November 11, 1793.
CAME to the Subscriber's Plantation, some time since, a black and white HEIFER, with a white face and black over the eyes; has a crop in both ears, and a bit off the right ear. She has been pasted and appraised according to law. The Owner is desired to prove his property and take her away.
November 11, 1793.
THE Subscriber requests those that are indebted to him by open account, to come and settle, and if they cannot discharge what may be due, to give their obligations, as their accounts may be closed by the first of April next; he then purposed to open a large assortment of Merchandise, and wants his books settled before he begins business again, as they have been long standing.
JOSEPH MINCHINNI.
November 11, 1793.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on the night of the 19th of September last, a Negro Man named SOMERS, about 26 or 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, rawn complexion, has a down look. He took with him when he went away, a light cloth coat and breeches, a red flag waistcoat, a round white sailor jacket, a pair of striped and a pair of tow overalls, a good wool hat, and shoes. He will endeavour to pass for a freeman. Whoever apprehends said Negro and returns him to me, or commits him to jail so that I get him again, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
JOHN KEARNEY.
Berkeley County, Virginia, November 11, 1793.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A JOURNEYMAN SADDLER. If he is a workman, and of good character, he will be taken as a partner, or constant employ, good wages, and punctual payment made, either by the month or piece work. WILLIAM SKINNER.
Martinsburg, Nov. 11, 1793.
Just opened, and now ready for sale, BY PATRICK POYLE, At his Store in MARTINSBURG, A large and general assortment of FALL GOODS, Which he is determined to sell on very reasonable terms, for cash or country produce. The highest price given in cash or goods, for good MERCHANTABLE WHEAT, And CORN.
November 4, 1793.
STRAYED, or was taken away from the commons of Martinsburg, about eight weeks ago, a grey HORSE, nine years old, branded with a B on the near shoulder, about 14 hands high, a natural pacer, hind legs crooked, the property of the Subscriber, who intends to dispose, by Public Sale, of a Plantation Waggon, Plough, and other utensils of Husbandry and Household Furniture, on Tuesday, the 19th of this month. Whoever shall take up and deliver the said Horse to the Subscriber at Martinsburg, shall receive the sum of Three Dollars reward. JANE HUNTER.
WILLIAM RIDDLE, Has just received, and is now opening, A large and general assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS, Suitable to the present and approaching seasons, which he is determined to sell at a very reduced profit, for ready pay, in cash or country produce. He returns his friends and the public his sincere thanks, for the encouragement he has met with since he commenced business in this place—shall ever make it his study to merit a continuance. Martinsburg, October 21, 1793.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BY LATE ARRIVALS.
F R A N C E.
NATIONAL CONVENTION, August 23. Report of the Committee of Public Welfare, respecting the rising and marching of all the French in one body.
BARRERE—“FOR this has been the best mode of organizing the great movement unanimously demanded by all the commonalities of the republic, and to give it that regularity without which it would only become an additional weapon in the hands of our domestic and foreign enemies.
“We have unanimously been of opinion, that a sudden resolution, an enthusiastic deliberation upon an object of that importance, would evidently compromise the interests of the republic; we therefore examined, with the dispassionate calm of reason, our wants and our resources.
“We began by seizing the true and proper sense and import of the words rising in one body .
“We first asked ourselves, does this mean a contingent? Does it mean a certain number of men to be furnished by every division of the republic, in proportion to its population? Is it a recruiting levy? Is it a departure in one body—that is to say, comprising the totality of all the fighting men of the republic?
“A contingent?—Let us leave this petty and insufficient resource to Germany, to the Imperial edict, to the federalists. The contingent of the republic means all the French citizens; and doubt not, the departments will contend for the glory of first rushing upon the enemy. You have had several instances of their zeal.
“A recruiting levy?—aristocracy attends it.—Her recruiting officers, and those of Pitt—have they not more dastards left to tell us—dastards like those who, in La Vendee, spread constantly terror among the ranks, and manifested baseness in all their actions? Have you forgot the efforts of aristocracy renewed whenever recruiting is the question?—How often times has it not been a means of civil war? Citizens, all Frenchmen are soldiers: they all will to terminate a dastardly war: so let us have no contingent, no recruiting levy.
“We ought therefore to rise in one body! I see little minds smile at this word: those egotists, devotees of principles and morality, have uniformly attempted to render this expression ridiculous.—The cowards! do not they know that this mass (which they would offend if their smiles were of any consequence) would crush them with its immense weight, if it even perceived their existence?
“But I declare a rising in one body, in the sense which they endeavoured to attach to this word, the rising in a body of ten millions of armed men, organized, ranged, and marching in order of battle! Such a levy is impossible to be made regular; and how is the whole to be regulated? How are all the men to be armed and fed? How shall we prevent that no ill designing persons be introduced among them, and spread confusion every where, to fly like cowards, and to disseminate terror among them, and spread confusion every where, to fly like cowards, and to disseminate terror among the noisy multitude of individuals, necessarily moved by divers passions?
“Besides, are we come to the point to be obliged to sacrifice all commercial interest, all kinds of industry, all the arts? No, no! Are the enemies at Paris? Have the Spaniards re-entered our territory? Has La Vendee, the banks of the Rhine and Loire, any known means to oppose only two days longer, the national force directed against them?—Then alone, like in 1789, the rising in one body, or rather a general insurrection, would level with the dust ruffians whose heads ought never to have risen above it.
“But no! the coalition of the kings leagued against us, does not render necessary those extremes.
“All Frenchmen are no doubt in a state of service; but in this sense, some of them owe their industry to their country, others their fortune, others their arms, others their cares—and all, the blood which circulates in their veins.
“But men alone will not do; France will never be in want of men; they must have arms and provisions; the committee has foreseen all this, and in its name I will propose you measures.
“For instance, it proposes to you the establishment of a central manufacture of arms at Paris: long has that celebrated city supplied all France with childish and ridiculous fashions. Paris was then the centre of luxury, and of the arts. Paris, the cradle of the revolution; Paris so calumniated, should become the general arsenal of the republic, and that from its bosom do depart those thunderbolts and legions which ought to achieve the defeat of the tyrants. Paris ought no longer to be the sink from which those tyrants drew the means
of corruption, which prepared or accomplished the misfortunes of the people.
“And let not the rest of the departments be uneasy at the preference given to Paris.—There is nothing exclusive in this choice.—All parts of the republic, like Paris, give their concurrence to the result of this establishment, some by furnishing wood, others by sending raw materials, &c. &c.
“Free Frenchmen! Citizens! These are our watch-words: To arms! and the country is saved!
“How happy will the time be (and it is perhaps not very distant)—the time when, after having driven their enemies from their sacred territory, the people of France, united at one of their frontiers, shall raise majestic columns, on which they will engrave the sublime decree, by which you have declared in their name, that you renounce every idea of conquest, and the abolition of royalty!
“Behind and near those columns shall be impregnable strong holds, arsenals well stocked, and tree-men. Thus shall you wait in peace the respect or hatred of the universe.
(Here Barrere read the plan of the decree, which was received with loud applause—the first article repeated twice, and, after some small amendments, adopted in the following words:)
“The national convention having heard the report of its committee of public welfare, decrees—
Article 1. From this present moment till that when the enemies shall have been driven from the territory of the republic, all Frenchmen shall be in permanent readiness for the service of the armies.
The young men shall march to the combat; the married men shall forge arms and transport the provisions, the women shall make tents and cloaths, and wait in the hospitals: the children shall make lint of old linen; old men shall cause themselves to be carried to the public squares, to excite the courage of the warriors, to preach hatred against kings, and the unity of the republic.
Art. 2. The national edifices shall be converted into store houses: the ground of the cellars shall be washed with lye, to attach the saltpetre.
Art. 3. The muskets and arms of Calibre shall be immediately delivered to those who are to march against the enemy: the internal service of the republic shall be performed with fowling pieces.
Art. 4. All saddle horses shall be given up, to complete the cavalry: the draught horses and others except those employed for purposes of agriculture, shall convey the artillery and provisions.
Art. 5. The committee of public welfare is charged to take all necessary measures to establish, without delay the extraordinary manufacture of arms of all kinds, suitable to the efforts of the French nation. It is authorised in consequence, to form all establishments, manufactures, and working places, which shall be deemed necessary for the execution of these works; and to summon throughout the republic all the artists and workmen who can contribute to their success. The sum of thirty millions shall be at the disposal of the minister at war, to be taken out of the four hundred and twenty-eight millions of livres in assignats, which are in reserve in the chest with three keys. The central establishment of this extraordinary manufacture shall be at Paris.
Art. 6. The representatives of the people sent into the departments to execute the present law, shall have the same authority, and shall concert measures with the committee of public welfare:—they are invested with the unlimited powers attributed to the representatives of the people with the armies.
Art. 7. No Frenchman summoned to serve shall be suffered to send a substitute. The public functionaries shall remain on their posts.
Art. 8. The rising or movement shall be general: the unmarried or widowed citizens from the age of 18 to 25, shall march first; they shall form without delay, in the chief place of their district; they shall daily be exercised till the day of their departure.
Art. 9. The representatives of the people shall regulate the calls and the marches, so that the armed citizens may not reach the place of rendezvous before the supplies and ammunition, and all the mechanical part of the army shall have been brought together in competent proportion.
Art. 10. The general points of rendezvous shall be determined by the circumstances and pointed out by the representatives of the people sent out to enforce the execution of the present law, by advice of the generals, in concert with the committee of public welfare and the provisional executive council.
Art. 11. The battalion shall be organized in every district, shall be ranged under a banner, with this inscription: “The French Nation risen against Tyrants!”
Art. 12. The battalions shall be organized according to the established laws, and their pay shall be the same as that of the battalions now on the frontiers.

of provisions, the farmers, and stewards of the national lands, shall pour into the principal rendezvous of every district, a sufficient quantity of corn, the produce of the said lands.
Art. 14. The proprietors, farmers and holders of corn, shall be obliged to pay their arrears of taxes in the produce of the fields, and also two thirds of the taxes for 1793.
Art. 15. The national convention appoints citizens Chabot, Tallien, Carpentier, Renaud, Dargoyte, Laplanche, of Vievre, Mallarme, Legendre, Lanot, Roux-Fuzillac, Paganel, Boiffet, Tallifer, Baile, Pinet, Fayau, Lacroix, and Ingrand, as adjuncts to the representatives of the people who are actually in the armies, and in the departments, in order to execute in concert with them the present decree.
Art. 16. The commissioners of the primary assemblies are invited to repair, without delay, into the departments, to fulfil the civil mission entrusted to them by the decree of the 14th of August, and to receive the commissions which shall be assigned to them by the representatives of the people.
Art. 17. The minister at war is charged to take all measures necessary for the execution of the present decree. The sum of fifty millions shall be put at his disposal, to be taken out of the four hundred and fifty-eight millions of assignats in the chest with three keys.
Art. 18. The present decree shall be sent into the departments by extraordinary couriers.
HAVRE DE GRACE, August 31.
All private letters agree in saying, that a great fermentation prevails again in Brabant, and particularly at Brussels. They accuse Dumourier of it, and all their endeavours to secure his person have been useless. What is certain, is, that the parties which divided that country before France put arms and liberty into it, are preparing to create new disturbances. The emperor finds on all sides very humble remonstrances to his orders. He has at length had recourse to force; a corps of troops of the empire has lately formed the garrison of Brussels, and bayonets will prevent all pretensions, or will serve as answers to them.
STRASBOURG, August 26.
Copy of a letter from Dunkirk, Aug. 25.
Last night passed pretty quietly, several shots passed on both sides; the enemy do their utmost to establish their batteries; but the cannon of our ramparts always dislodge them. The commandant of Dunkirk is the citizen O'Motand, born in that town.
Ten o'clock at night. The enemies attempted to surprise our first lines and to mount to the assault; but no one was asleep; they were received in such a manner by the fire of our lines and of our ramparts, that they retired faster than they had come; we perceived their dead bodies in very great numbers on our glacis. Since the 20th there is not a single citizen who has passed three nights in his bed. Not one of our cannoniers has yet been at home, day or night, yet no one complains.
25th. We and the enemy kept up a brisk fire with small arms; the enemy comes as far as our glacis, to irritate us, and we expect a bombardment. We are told, that a reinforcement is coming to us; if we have that happiness, never shall the enemy fully the pavement of the Republic. The Citizen Boyer, of Billon, in Auvergne, a volunteer, having been made prisoner by 4 of the enemy, contented himself with killing 3 of them, the 4th ran away. Boyer returned with the spoils of a drum, two carabines, a Dutch grenadier's cap, and 100 livres, which he had found in the pockets of this last.
27th. This day passed like the preceding ones in firing at each other. We have received a reinforcement of six battalions of infantry, and one regiment of cavalry. We are now sufficiently strong to defend the town. We are assured that General Houchard has taken Ypres, and that he is coming with the strongest column of his army. By this means the enemy will be between two fires, and in the midst of the waters. He is making the siege of Bergues at the same time; his army is of forty thousand men, as is confidently reported; the sluices are open to all the marches which give from 5 to 6 feet of water.
To see our town one could hardly persuade itself that it is besieged, alacrity is painted on all countenances; if the generals are true Republicans, as there is no reason to doubt it, peace is under the walls of Dunkirk. The English ought to call to mind that in 1640, Turenne defeated in the same place 50,000 with 30,000, and that he slept on the field of battle, which has retained the name of the famous battle of the Downs, which are at 200 fathoms from our ramparts, and Turenne was not a republican. Thrice has Dunkirk been summoned to surrender; thrice has Dunkirk refused. We have made oath to bury ourselves under its ruins, rather than to surrender it. The chief engineer of the enemy is named Dupontail, who married in Dunkirk, where he was a long time engineer, as also at Bergues.
"You may depend on the truth of what I write you."
BRUSSELS, September 1.
We are just informed by a letter of good authority, that general Fabri having made an expedition on the side of Dunkirk, with twelve squadrons of Karaczai and of Blankstein, has brought back 300 prisoners, of whom 24 are officers, and 21 pieces of cannon.
On the 21st, a column of the Piedmontese defeated the French near Salanches, took their cannon, and chased them out of all Fauvigny, until within two leagues from Geneva, the whole territory of which they have evacuated, without risking another engagement.
Two other columns crossed Mount Cenis and St. Barnhard. One of them took on the 15th the French redoubts in Tarantaile, and drove the enemy from St. Maurice and from Sixt. The other forced the French entrenchments at Termignon, Bramens, and St. Michael, in la Maurienne. The enemy, in their precipitate flight, abandoned their magazines, equipage and cannon.
Two columns being joined, marched on the 21st against Chamberry, from whence, on the next day, they drove Kellerman, who in all speed was arrived there two days before from Lyons, and is fled into France with the Municipalities and the Administrators of the districts. The tree of liberty, which was called the tree of licentiousness, has been cut down every where. Blue cockades (which the Piedmontese troops generally wear) have succeeded to three colours. The people have risen in favour of their lawful sovereign. At Cluse, Bonneville, Moultice, and St. Jean, women and old men fired upon the republicans from the windows.
FRANKFORT, August 25.
The head quarters of the Imperialists are at Rhein-zabern. On the 22d they took Lauterbourg, and the French have evacuated all the forests of Bienen. At Jockrim and Langon Cadel, the peasants fired on our troops, and suffered for it; five cannon and a howitzer, taken from the enemy, have been carried to Spire; thirteen, which were also taken, remain at Rhein-zabern.
HAMBURG, August 26.
On the 17th inst. the Hereditary Prince of Hohenloe having received orders from the King of Prussia to attack the French, who were intrenched, with 25 pieces of cannon, behind Limbach, divided his corps, and took his measures with such success, that the enemy were repulsed, and driven beyond Blies, by Limbach; behind Limbach, they rallied, and took a new position, where they defended themselves a considerable time, but at length were again forced, completely routed, and pursued as far as St. Imbert. Their loss amounted to 22 officers and 330 men killed, and 136 taken prisoners, with two pieces of cannon. The battalions of grenadiers and volunteers suffered most; the free company of Mentz was cut to pieces. The loss of the Prussians consists of 40 men killed and wounded. Major Marwitz was dangerously wounded, and Lieutenant Fink was taken prisoner.
TOURNAY, August 31.
Fourteen hundred men, of the troops which deserted with Dumourier, arrived here yesterday, and proceeded this morning on their march to Cysoing, where they are to be employed.
We learn by private letters, that the Duke of York has taken Fort Louis and Francois, between Dunkirk and Bergues. In the affair of Givchele, the French lost four cannon.
PARIS, August 24.
We are assured that the town of Ville Francha has yielded to the Spaniards. The garrison fell back to Mons-Libre, but we are assured that that city cannot hold out long, as the enemy possess the heights which command it. This intelligence was brought the 9th of August, but is not officially confirmed.
A letter from Montelimart, of the 20th instant, states, that General Gasteau has received a courier extraordinary, ordering him to repass Durance, and retire to Avignon. On the other hand we learn, that on the 30th of July the Spaniards, to the amount of 300 men, made themselves masters of Prades, the chief place in the district of Roussillon, and that they afterwards proceeded to attack the fort of Ville-Franche, which is supposed to be in their power.
On the 17th it was strongly reported that the army of Kellerman and Dubois-Crance had been completely defeated by the Lyoneses; whilst the troops of the republic attacked the latter, the battalions of Jura deserted, and took the republicans in the rear.
L O N D O N,
August 23. A private expedition is immediately to take place, supposed to the West-Indies, under the command of Sir William Howe, who is to have under him four Major-Generals, viz. Alexander Stewart, Lieutenant-Colonel of the third foot, James Coates of the 19th, John Leland, and Ralph Dundas, with 12 regiments of foot; seven from England, and five from Ireland. The seven English ones are all under orders at this moment, viz. the 3d, 19th, 42d, 54th, 58th, 59th, and 63d; the Irish ones are hourly expected; the 64th and 70th are two of them. They are all to rendezvous at Portsmouth, and are expected to sail in about a month, or five weeks at farthest.
Apprehensions of a war with America are still entertained in the city; and it is even pretended that the cession of the French West-India Islands is the price at which the American corsairs are to be let loose upon our trade.
It is said that Mr. Pinckney, the American Minister, has made some representations of what are deemed, by Congress, infractions of the treaty of 1783; and more particularly the seizure of American ships bound to France, and the impress of American sailors to man our fleets.
It is further stated, that the said Ambassador is so little secure of a continuance of peace, that he has ordered in the accounts of his tradesmen and prepared for a speedy departure.
It is however to be hoped, that hostilities may yet be averted.
August 28. Lord Amherst has issued an order for all the officers absent from the regiments in the West-Indies, to join immediately; and it is said that 12,000 men are to be sent thither.
August 29. An English gentleman, who a few days since arrived in town from Berlin, was induced by curiosity to make an excursion from Dusseldorf to Hays, to see Dumourier; he found that the cidevant patriot was in great retirement, writing a history of his life, and of the recent occurrences in France. The traveller, in being an Englishman, met a most flattering reception.
September 4. Letters from Dublin mention, that in consequence of the determination of his Majesty's Ministers to carry on the present war with redoubled vigour, 13 regiments of foot are to be immediately embarked from Ireland for the West-Indies, with a large train of artillery; for which purpose, twenty thousand tons of shipping will immediately be contracted for, to transport the forces across the Atlantic.
Two provincial regiments are to be raised in Canada, besides the regiments already levied in Nova-Scotia and New Brunswick. Governors Wentworth and Carleton are to be Colonels of the regiments raised in their governments. Lord Dorchester has the appointment of the officers of the two regiments in Canada.
Admiral Macbride is returned to town from Dunkirk. We understand, that, on Thursday last, he had an interview with his Royal Highness the Duke of York, near that place, when he was informed by his Highness that the enemy was in greater force than was expected. Admiral Macbride, it is said, returned in order to request of the Admiralty a greater naval force, of gun boats and bomb vessels, to act against Dunkirk; which has been granted him.
The additional force by land is likewise ordered to proceed to Dunkirk, without loss of time. The 19th, 42d, and 52d, (or 57th) regiments, which were intended to be sent to the West-Indies, have been ordered, within the last three days, to prepare instantly to proceed to Flanders, to join the Duke of York's army in the siege of Dunkirk.
The French have nine gun boats at Dunkirk, each carrying two or four 24 pounders, which, running close into the shore, greatly annoy our troops employed in the siege of that town.
Camp near Wormhout.
Head Quarters, August 26.
We yesterday took possession of this post, and are situated about a mile from Wormhout, and two leagues from Cassel.
Wormhout is a strong fort, and was garrisoned by 4000 French: Its reduction being necessary for our immediate operations, 1500 Hanoverians and Austrians, with the right squadrons of the 2d dragon guards, were ordered to attack it. The garrison, although so superior in number, and deriving infinite advantage from their position, made but slight resistance, and we took the place with but little loss.
The main body of the army is to be stationed here, as an army of observation, to cover the siege, the French having collected about 15,000 at Cassel, as it is supposed with intention to interrupt our operations.
Bergues still holds out, nor is expected to surrender till Dunkirk falls.
BULLETIN from the head quarters of the allied army at Bermerain, August 27.
Lieutenant-General Baron d'Alvinzy has just communicated to us, a signal advantage obtained over the French, by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, almost under the walls of Dunkirk.
The advanced posts of the combined army, under the command of that Prince, took post very early in the morning, upwards of a thousand yards farther, drove the enemy's piquets upon the glacis of the town, and maintained this dangerous position, exposed to the uninterrupted fire of canister and musketry.
Towards nine o'clock, they saw almost the whole garrison of Dunkirk, consisting of 9000 men, march out, under the protection of a most terrible cannonade, and advance chiefly against the right wing of the combined army.
His Royal Highness, foreseeing a general attack, made all his troops advance, leaving only behind as many as were necessary to cover the camp. The proper dispositions had scarcely been taken, when the combat commenced. It lasted two whole hours, amidst the most violent fire from the cannon, which discharged grape-shot, and that of the musketry. Between whiles, the enemy, to favour their march along the downs, and to put us between two fires, had drawn close to the shore several frigates, which thundered upon the right wing of the combined army. But the intrepidity of the allied troops frustrated all their efforts, and they were obliged to retreat. His royal highness pursued them to the town where they threw themselves into the covered way.
While our advanced posts continued their discharge of musketry, the army took the new position of siege, drew the line of countervallation, and began the works amidst an incessant cannonade.
The loss of the combined army has been considerable; that of the enemy was far more so; but the great proximity of Dunkirk, which offered an easy retreat to the latter, occasioned that they only lost three pieces of cannon.

UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, October 26.
At the date of the last accounts from Europe, the British and French fleets were both in port—that rumours of a declaration of war against the United States had so far prevailed in England, that insurance on American bottoms had risen in London, to five guineas; but that on the publications of the proceedings at the merchant's meeting of this town, confidence was restored, and the premium fell to the peace establishment—and that the most active naval equipments were making for the investment of Dunkirk.
NEW-YORK, November 6.
Accounts from Corunna, in Spain, Rochfort and Havre de Grace, in France, Dover and Deal, in England, import: That the famous French port of TOULON, 30 miles from Marseilles, in the Mediterranean, with 15 ships of the Line, is in the hands of the Spanish and English—supposed by invitation from the royalists in that vicinity, whom we have long heard were numerous. It is even said, that this was a pre-concerted plan, but whether by dint of gold is not known. It is supposed, that many other pre-concerted plans are now fast carrying into execution. The singular conduct of the two channel fleets has excited curiosity, and caused various suspicions—they have been more than once in view of each other, but do not engage! the agitated question is—has this ever before been the case? and from hence arise various conjectures.—Enemies environs of that struggling country. There seems to have been a league formed between Russia and England, by their fleets to stop all kinds of warlike succours or provisions from other countries—yet we do not hear of the cry of WANT , but of freedom ; corn, wine, and oil are rained down upon them in abundance.
The Convention appears to be acting with the same firmness as heretofore, notwithstanding all opposition, which seems daily to increase—that they may have wisdom and justice, as well as firmness, breathes every virtuous son—expel their enemies, and live in peace and freedom.
By the ship Mercury , Capt. Moses Grinnell, who arrived in this port on Saturday from Havre de Grace, we received Paris papers to the 1st Sept. These papers announce, that Ville Franche was taken (or rather supposed delivered up) to the Spaniards on the 24th August. That Manlibre was besieged about the 24th, but that the garrison of brave patriots made a sally, against the will of their commandant, and killed great numbers of the enemy—That all the country in that vicinity were much harassed by the Spaniards, &c.
On the whole, the dark file of the great picture of "The struggles of men for Liberty ," seems to be presented—from whence some infer, that if there be not a fairer side to present, Frenchmen must yield , and Despots triumph! but, for the sake of humanity—for the sake of the cause of God and Liberty—we will hope, that there is a fairer side .
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in this city, dated November 1, 1793.
"I send you glad tidings! Two days ago a white flag was displayed at Bush Hill, in token of convalescence; and yesterday all the carts which were employed to carry the sick to the hospital were discharged. The frosts we have had for several nights together, nearly healed the city, and the plentiful rain which began about noon yesterday, and still continues, will, by the blessing of God, perfect the cure, and poor Philadelphia shall yet be spared. It is probable a few days will bring us 20 or 30 000 of our citizens back to their habitations, and the gloomy clouds of melancholy depopulation shall vanish away. For here three months we have had scarce any other business, but making coffins, digging graves and burying the dead. The scene has been so truly distressing, that my heart melts, and my eyes overflow, when I review what we have passed through."
Extract of a letter from a respectable merchant in Bristol, to his friend in this city, dated August 29.
"We have had reports of a rupture between this and your country, but which, I hope and trust, will prove unfounded."
A report circulated yesterday, that after the surrender of several parts of French St. Domingo to the English, several French ships and transports, with 6000 troops, had arrived, and driven off the English with loss.
We hear from Philadelphia, that the public offices will be open in that city in the course of this week for transacting business.
BALTIMORE, November 11.
A Correspondent informs, that Advices received at New-York, by the Danish Ship Charlotte , arrived there in forty seven days from Leghorn, confirm the Account of Marseilles and Toulon having been taken Possession of by Lord Hood, together with 30 Sail of French Ships of the Line, which were delivered up to him as a Guarantee—The Advices further state, that Lord Hood ordered these Vessels to the Port of Carthagena, under a Convoy of ten Ships of the Line, four Frigates, and two Cutters—that, the Day after they had sailed from Toulon, a heavy Gale arose from the Southeast, by which they were drove ashore on the coast of Roussillon, and only three escaped Ship-wreck, one of which carried away her Main-Mast.
A Report is in Circulation, and generally credited, in New-York, that the English have taken Port-au-Prince—that, previous to its Capture, the French Commissary, Sontnonax, had attempted to burn the
Prison, in which near 800 Persons were confined, but that they were luckily rescued—and that Sontnonax was taken, and torn to Pieces by the enraged Populace.
By the Chesterfield-Packet we learn, that the arrived at Halifax after a short Passage—It being apprehended there that the French Fleet, which sailed from New-York some Time ago, intended to attack that Place, the Militia were called out, near 4000 of whom encamped near Halifax, and the Chesterfield was detained there fourteen Days, with an Intent to despatch her, Express, to England, should an Attack be made.
NORFOLK, October 30.
On Sunday last arrived here the ship Camilla , Capt. Robert Service, from Cadiz, which place he left the 15th of September last, and has brought the following
Copy of a letter from A. Merry, Esq. British Consul general at Madrid, to James Duff, Esq. British Consul at Cadiz.
"Madrid, Sept. 6, 1793."
"SIR,
"I have the satisfaction to inform you, that the cities of Marseilles and Toulon having, on the 21st and 23rd of last month, sent Commissioners to Lord Hood, with offers to surrender themselves to him, as in deposit, together with all the fortresses in the two places, and the ships in the harbour of Toulon. His Lordship dispatched a Frigate to Admiral Languara, requesting that he would proceed with his fleet, and some land forces, to assist his operations, and that Admiral Languara having accordingly proceeded off Toulon, the two fleets entered that harbour on the 28th; and the land forces, which Ricardo was to send not being arrived there, the marines were disembarked from the ships, under command of Gravina, and they took possession of all the forts and ships; the latter are said to be above 30 sail of the line, besides frigates. Louis the XVII was proclaimed by the inhabitants; for Lord Hood had agreed to restore every thing when peace shall take place. The news was dispatched as soon as the marines were safely landed, and in possession of the fortresses. There are other particulars, which I have not time to relate.
Yours, &c.
"A. MERRY."
(Signed) To James Duff, Esq. } Cadiz. }
Capt. Service also informs that a large quantity of flour was shipping at Cadiz for both Toulon and Marseilles.
KNOXVILLE, October 2.
On the morning of the 29th ult. a large body of Indians, by most people who saw them, believed to be about 300, made an attack on Henry's station about twenty-three miles from this place. Lieut. Tedford, and Andrew Jackson, went out very early in the morning to a field, at some distance; on hearing a heavy fire commence at the station, they ran back to try to get into it, and unfortunately rushed in among a party of Indians laying concealed—the Lieutenant was taken and dragged about 150 yards, and put to death in a most cruel manner.—Mr. A. Jackson made his escape, and got to a neighbouring station from whence the whole frontier were alarmed. A Mr. Samuel Jackson, who went out early in the morning and fell first into the hands of the savages: He was put to death in like manner with the Lieutenant. These two men were all whom the Indians killed. They kept at too great a distance from the fort for the people in it to hurt them.
The neighbouring stations shewed much alacrity in turning out to relieve the attacked station. Had the Indians waited a few hours longer, they would have received a severe chastisement; but they withdrew over the Tennessee, beyond which our government restricts our operations against them.
On Friday the 30th ult. two Indians went to the house of Sebastian Hetler, on the south side of Nolichucky, Washington county, 15 miles from Jonesborough, wounded and scalped his wife in a most inhuman manner, and killed his daughter, 12 years old, cut off her head, carried it some distance and skinned it. Mr. Hetler and a negro were in a barn but could not afford any assistance.
On the 3d inst. a party of about fifteen Indians attacked the house of Zephaniah Woolsey, on the south side of Nolichucky river, 10 miles from Greene court house, shot his wife through the head, and wounded a young woman through the thigh; they caught a small girl in the yard and scalped her.—Mr. Woolsey was shot through the breast and hand. All four persons are likely to recover.
During the storm on Tuesday 10th inst. a party of Indians pulled down the stables at Craig's station, and stole eleven horses; and on the following evening they stole 13 horses from Gamble's station.
By a letter from a gentleman at Lance le Grace to his friend in Cumberland we learn, that about six hundred Greeks and Cherokees, on being told by the people of Saluda, that a certain Mr. Shaw with a company, were going to build a fort and establish a settlement at the mouth of the Cumberland, way-laid, on the banks of the river, several days, for the coming of this company; but being disappointed in their expectations they divided, and about 300 of the Indians went up the Wabash to join the Northward Indians; the other party went down the Ohio, and took a batteau, killed 12 men, and took one white woman prisoner: On board of her were 300 rifles, a quantity of powder and lead, dry goods, rum, wine, whiskey, &c. to the amount of three thousand pounds sterling. The property belonged to the Spaniards; the boat was manned by Americans.
Since our last came in a company from Cumberland (Mero District), by whom we have received the following intelligence:
About the 1st of August, one Abraham Castlemen, raised a party of volunteers to assist him in retaliating a number of injuries he had received from Indians, such as killing several of his near relations, &c. On arriving near the Tennessee ten of his company turned back, because General Robertson's orders prohibited all scouting parties from crossing the Tennessee: But Castlemen and four others did cross the Tennessee, as is generally believed just below Nickajack; and about ten miles beyond the river, on a plain road, which led, as they supposed, to Will's Town, came upon a party of 40 or 50 Indians at breakfast, they were within thirty steps of them before they saw the Indians, on whom they instantly fired, and say they saw several fall. This happened on the 15th of August. On the 21st they all got back safe to Nashville. This party of Indians they have no doubt were on their march, for war, against the Cumberland settlers, as they had large bundles, but no squaws or horses, and were painted black.
About the 25th of last August, Captains Reins and Gordon, pursued a party of Indians who had killed one Samuel Miller, near Jessin's station: After crossing Duck River, they found that their sign was very fresh: On pursuing them about 7 miles further, came up with them and killed five on the ground, and took a sixth prisoner, a boy about 12 years old, the seventh had address enough to make his escape by calling out that he was a Chickasaw. They proved to be Creeks from the Uphaulie towns, on examining the prisoner.
On the 19th, in the night, the Indians stole, from Brown's station, a tub of clothes which were in the walth.
The 20th, the owner of an evacuated house, in Tennessee county, having gone to his plantation, discovered signs that Indians were there. He returned back to the station, and collected a party of seven in number, and went in the night to search for the Indians. They met them on the path, and fired at them. Next morning they found one Indian lying dead on the ground, and two traces of blood making off, by which it appears there were three wounded.—The Indians did not return the fire.
About the same time Robert Wells's family, consisting of a wife and two children were killed by the Indians. Mr. Wells was from home.
MARTINSBURG, November 18.
By Mr. R. Campbell, who arrived in this neighbourhood a few days since, from Lexington in Kentucky, which he left on the 25th ult. we were informed, that the evening before he departed that place, news arrived there, that Gen. Wayne with the army then under his command, had reached Fort Jefferson, but that the baggage waggons, 22 in number, under a guard of 100 men, (which were left 15 miles in the rear of the army) were intercepted by a body of 400 Indians, who killed and took the whole guard, with all the waggons, corn, whiskey &c. &c. The credibility of our informant leaves us little hope but that this unfortunate event is too true.
An English gentleman, who made his escape from Dunkirk, reports, that the place would have been surrendered to the Duke of York, had it not been for the commissioners from the National Assembly, who by their energetic exertions had prevailed on the people to make the most vigorous defence, and to hold out to the last extremity.
As a specimen of the validity of "official accounts" published in London papers, we extract the following paragraph from "the Star," respecting the memorable action between the Ambuscade and Boston frigates. After mentioning that the Boston  decoyed the Ambuscade into an engagement—that they were within pistol-shot—that the action continued upwards of four hours, and a number of other particulars equally as true, the official account concludes thus;
"The Ambuscade had a tender with her which supplied her with fresh bands three different times."
Another London paper, with a great degree of assurance says, "It is now certainly ascertained, that nothing but the present Indian war prevents the American states from commencing hostilities against Great Britain."
(Comments are needless.)
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated November 5.
"Health rapidly revisits our City; The citizens again return to their Homes; and the Town once more begins to wear the face of business."
Last night departed this life, after a few days confinement, Mr. WILLIAM SKINNER, a long resident and noted tavern-keeper in this town.
TO BE SOLD,
530 acres of LAND, lying on Sleepy-Creek, a corner of Frederick County, nearly adjoining Berkeley and Hampshire line; there are about 50 acres of plow-land clear'd, 12 acres of meadow, and much more may be made, a young bearing apple and peach orchard, the land well watered and timbered, it has a good mill seat, a limestone spring, some cabin buildings, &c. Apply to WILLIAM CATLETT.
November 18, 1793.
SIX PENCE REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, an orphan boy by the name of PETER BANKS, bound by Court—he is a four looking lad, black hair, about 20 years old. Whoever takes up said runaway, and commits him to goal, shall have the above reward.
ZACHARIAH MILLER.
November 18, 1793.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
THE BEE.
A BEE, the busiest thing alive, The most industrious of the hive, Had toil'd for many hours; Had ris'd gardens, lawns and fields, Or what the spicy thrub'ry yields, Of balmy herbs and flowers.
Each hill and dale well knew his song; To him their honied stores belong: Then why new scenes explore? Ambitious of a noble prize, He through my Anna's window flies, To crown his plunder'd store.
There buzzing round her beauteous lips, Which did the blooming rose eclipse, Their tempting sweets to spoil, Eager he whirls around the fair, 'Till tangled in her lovely hair, He's seiz'd amid the toil.
Ye swains, take warning from the bee, Flee the enticing snares, ah! flee; By him and me be taught; Avoid those dear bewitching charms, Nor hope to gain her to your arms, Or, like us, you'll be caught.
ODD VERDICT.
AT a late Kent assizes, an action was tried for slander, in which an Attorney was the Plaintiff, and an honest Farmer the Defendant. The action was brought to recover damages for calling the Attorney a Rogue and a Thief . The words were proved to have been spoken by the Defendant. The verdict of the Jury was—"We are of opinion, that as the Plaintiff is an Attorney, the action will not lie."
NEW-YORK, October 30.
CITIZEN GENET, Minister Plenipotentiary of the French republic, to Mr. JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
New-York. October 27, 1793. 2d year of the French republic.
I Have just received, together with your letter of the 3d inst. the dismission of citizen Duplaine, vice-consul at Boston, and I hasten to declare to you, that I do not acknowledge its validity, because the constitution of the United States has not given the President the right which he now appears desirous to exercise—it has empowered him, as first Minister of the American people, to admit and receive the ministers of foreign nations, sent to the great American confederation, and their consular agents, distributed to the particular states; but, in confiding to him this official function, it has not given him the power of discharging them, to send them away, or to suspend them when once they have been admitted. Such an authority cannot be exerted, Sir, but by the sovereign of the agent, or by the one to which he is sent. On the part of their own sovereign, their recall can only be the object of his particular will, or a consequence of negotiations began with him for that object: On the part of the sovereign to whom he is sent, a dismission can be the result only of an act of regular justice, or of an arbitrary act.—If it is a national act of justice, the sovereign should be furnished with every possible light upon so important an object, that he may be enabled to prove to the foreign sovereign, that the minister was unworthy of his confidence, and, that the dismission or suspension was indispensable.—If it is an act merely arbitrary, it is among the class of acts of aggression, and becomes a cause of war, and you know, Sir, that in this respect the constitution of the United States has reserved, to the representatives of the people, the right of declaring it. I do not recollect what the worm-eaten writings of Grotius, Puffendorf, and Vattel say on this subject—I thank God I have forgot what these hired jurisprudents have written upon the rights of nations, at a period when they were all enchained. But the fundamental points of your liberty, and our own, are engraved in my memory in characters not to be effaced, and the rights of man are enclosed in my breast with the source of life. I have incessantly before my eyes your constitution, and our own, and it is because I fully feel the just and wise intentions of those who founded them, that I demand of you, Sir, to ask the President of the United States to procure an examination, by the legislature, representing the sovereign people of Massachusetts, of the conduct of citizen Duplaine, in the same manner as I have demanded an examination of my own in the ensuing Congress.
In governments like ours, political affairs can only be judged by the political bodies, and if the vice consul Duplaine has infringed the particular laws of Massachusetts, or the general laws of the union, which that government is bound to support,
to the state a cognizance of a crime against the majesty of the nation belongs, in the first instance, and it is for her officers to announce it to the federal government, in order that the foreign agent, found to have violated the laws of the country, may receive punishment from his sovereign if he merits it. I insist, with the more confidence upon this step, Sir, as the attorney for the district of Boston made three efforts to procure a bill to be found at the circuit court, against citizen Duplaine, and three times a popular and virtuous jury threw out his complaint, and the vice-consul was finally acquitted in the most honourable manner.—How could, in fact, any room for accusation against him be found, since he only acted in conformity to the treaties, to his instructions, to the decisions of the federal government, communicated to all states, which even trust to the care of the French consul the prizes supposed to be made within the jurisdiction of the United States, and as he proved, incontestibly, that he never had any intention of resisting, by force, the orders intimated to him by the judicial authority, although they were contrary to the political rights of the French nation.
GENET.
NOTICE.
BEING sworn in, at the last Worshipful Court of Berkeley County, to collect the arrears of taxes, clerks fees, &c. due JAMES CRANE, late of Berkeley, deceased, as a former Deputy Sheriff for said County. I therefore earnestly request all persons in arrearages in like manner, to make immediate provision for payment, or they will be compelled as the law directs, which will be very disagreeable to me, as no longer indulgence can or will be given.
JOSEPH CRANE.
October 23d, 1793.
NOTICE.
ALL Persons who stand indebted to me in any manner, are desired and earnestly requested to make an early provision for the payment of the several sums which are due; those who neglect the observance of and compliance with this request, will not I hope blame me for commencing suits against them, which I am determined to do.
MOSES HUNTER.
Martinsburg, 17th October, 1793.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their Friends and the Public, that they will receive raw cloth at Mr. Seth Duncan's, (formerly Mr. Thomas Duncan's) in Martinsburg, and return the same when dressed the first day of Court following. We return thanks to those who have favoured us with their custom, and those who wish to continue, may depend on due attention, and an immediate dispatch, by
THOMAS BUTTERFIELD, and Co.
October 28, 1793.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the Subscriber, an apprentice boy named ZACHARIAH LOVLAND, bound to the blacksmith trade, about nineteen years of age, six feet high, and fair complexion. Whoever apprehends said apprentice and brings him to me, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
SAMUEL McCLELLAND.
Mill-Creek, Berkeley County, October 20, 1793.
NOTICE.
ALL Persons indebted to the estate of Captain Isaac Evans, deceased, are hereby notified, that unless they come in and settle the same by March Court next, their accounts will be put in suit. Any persons having any demands against the said estate, are requested to bring them in immediately, for settlement.
MARTHA EVANS, Executrix, JOHN EVANS, jun. } Executors. JOHN FRAYATT, }
October 14, 1793.
ALL Persons indebted to, or have any demands on, the estate of William Morgan, late of Berkeley, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same to the subscribers, as they are determined on a speedy settlement of said estate.
ABRAHAM MORGAN, } Executors. GEORGE MORGAN. }
October 21, 1793.
THE Subscriber informs the public, that he has established a
NAIL FACTORY
in Charlestown, where Nails, Brads, and Sprigs of all kinds in his way of business, may be had very reasonable for cash.
GEORGE WARK.
3m.
MY duty, as Inspector of Flour at this place, obliges me strictly to enforce the act of Assembly passed at the last session, for regulating the inspection of flour and bread. If the Farmers and Millers would duly consider the subject, they would find themselves deeply interested in the faithful execution of this act. If their staple, by any neglect or inattention, loses its credit at any foreign markets, the price will most certainly fall at home as well as abroad. This must be obvious to every person, and requires no chain of reasoning to prove. That the loss, whatever it may be, will ultimately fall upon the Farmer, is as evident. That those who may be affected by the enforcing that act, may not plead ignorance, I have judged it proper to transcribe and publish those clauses of the act by which they may be affected.
"All bread and flour casks which shall be bro't to any of the places before mentioned for exportation, shall be well made of good seasoned materials, tightened with ten hoops, sufficiently nailed with four nails in each chine hoop, and three nails in each bilge hoop."
"Every miller of flour, and baker of bread for exportation, shall provide and keep a distinguishable brand mark, with which he shall brand every cask of flour and bread, and mark thereon the Tare and Nett weight, before the same shall be removed from the place where it was bolted or baked, under the penalty of forty-two cents for every cask of flour not hooped and nailed as aforesaid."
The points in which the manufacturers of flour are too generally deficient, are the quality of the timber of which the barrels are made, being often, very often, too green, which will destroy the quality of the best flour; and neglect in nailing agreeably to the directions of the act. My duty demands from me a rigorous execution of the law, which I will most assuredly perform. The interest of the Manufacturer loudly calls for it, though he may, and frequently does, turn a deaf ear to it.
I have just opened, and have for sale, at my house in this town, a choice assortment of BOULTING CLOTHS.
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Alexandria, Sept. 23, 1793.
3m.
BOULTING CLOTHS.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that he has just received a large and general assortment of Boultng Cloths of all kinds and of the best qualities, chosen particularly by Mr. Smith, the Inspector at Alexandria. The Cloths consist both of the wide and narrow kind, and will be sold on lower terms than any of equal quality have ever been sold in this County.
I have, as usual, on hand, a large assortment of other Goods, suitable for the present and approaching season, which will be sold very low for cash or produce, in consequence of a determination to decline the retail business.
I earnestly request all those who are indebted to me, either by bond, note, or otherwise, to make immediate payment; and those whose accounts have been standing open more than six months, are requested to come in and close them, either by payment, or give their obligations. Those who do not choose to comply with this reasonable request, before the middle of September next, may depend on having their accounts closed according to law.
WILLIAM WILSON.
Middletown, Berkeley County, 24th August, '93.
3m.
TO BE SOLD.
FOUR Lots in the town of Middletown, all under improvement. one has a good House, Shop, draw Well and some fruit Trees, two others with small log Houses, one of which has a Stable, and one other Lot under good fence. Indisputable titles will be given. For terms of payment and other particulars, apply to the subscriber on the premises.
EDWARD JENNINGS.
Middletown, Sept. 23, 1793.
3m.
TO BE SOLD.
From 300 to 700 acres of LAND, lying in one body, on both sides Back-Creek, including said Creek two and half miles on one side and two miles on the other. This land is divided into four plantations, well watered; there is a two story log house, barn, kitchen, &c. on the principal plantation, also a good apple orchard of near 100 bearing apple trees, a peach orchard and some cherry trees, about 16 acres of good meadow, and a mill seat near the dwelling house. The whole of the said tract of land is well timbered, and the bottom equal to any in the settlement. There is on one of the plantations a log house of one story and one half, and an excellent lime-stone spring, suitable for a distillery. The above tract will be divided, or sold altogether, as may suit the purchaser. For terms of sale, apply to the subscriber, on the premises, or at the Printing Office hereof.
WILLIAM BAILEY.
October 21, 1793.