The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1792-11-05 00:00:00

The POTOWMAC GUARDIAN, and BERKELEY ADVERTISER.
PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANN.]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1792.
[NUMBER 103—VOL 2.]
WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY.
Franklin.
JUST RECEIVED,
And now for SALE, by
McSHERRY AND STARKEY,
At their
New cheap Store,
IN MARTINSBURG,
A neat assortment of
FALL GOODS,
Suitable to the approaching Season.
A L S O,
A general Assortment of
Wines, Spirits, and Groceries,
Which they will sell on reasonable terms, for cash flour, wheat, rye, corn, oats, bees-wax, and most kinds of country produce.
October 29, 1792.
Copper and Tin WARE.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
In the most respectful manner, informs the Public in general, and the Inhabitants of Martinsburg, and its vicinity in particular, that he has commenced business in the Copper and Tin Line , in said Town, where they may be furnished, on the shortest notice, and most reasonable terms, with Copper and Tin Ware , of every description; and hopes, from the goodness of his work, and moderation of his Prices, to merit the patronage of a generous public.
Having just received a large quantity of Copper, he is enabled to comply with the commands of those who may wish to employ him—and is their devoted humble servant.
CHRISTOPHER BRIDENHART.
N. B. The highest price will be allowed, in cash, or new work given in exchange, for old copper, brass, pewter or lead.
An active Boy would be taken as an apprentice to the above business.
Martinsburg, October 23, 1792.
N O T I C E.
A Meeting of the Overseers of the Poor of this County, is appointed at the house of Robert McKnight, in Martinsburg, on the third Tuesday in next month, in order to lay the parish levy. All persons having any claims, are desired to attend.
Per order. ROBERT COCKBURN, c.o.p.
October 26, 1792.
To the Freeholders and Electors of BERKELEY COUNTY.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the first Monday in November next is the day appointed by act of Assembly, for them to meet at the Court-House of the said County, to vote for some person in the District of Frederick and Berkeley, to represent them in voting for a PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. All persons having a right to vote for Assembly-Men, have a right to vote in the present case, and are required to attend under the same penalty; and no precept can be served on any person during the election.
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM, Sheriff.
October 20, 1792.
F O R S A L E, By the Printer hereof, Blank Deeds of Bargain and Sale.
J. Riddle and Co.
ARE NOW OPENING,
At their Store in King Street, nearly opposite Mr. McKnight's Tavern,
ALEXANDRIA,
A general Assortment of
FALL GOODS,
Received per the Powhatan , from London, and other vessels lately arrived at Baltimore;
Among which are
Broadcloths; coatings; kerseys; half-ticks; fearnoughts; Kendal cottons; flannels; rose and dutil blankets; yarn and milled stockings; worsted, silk and cotton ditto, kerseymires and vest patterns; Russia and Irish sheetings; 4-4 and 7-8 Irish linens; German and British osnaburghs; brown rolls and other coarse linens; scarlet and drab cardinals; a handsome assortment of lute-strings and muslins; with a variety of Manchester Goods; which will be sold cheap, by wholesale or retail.
They have also on hand,
Rum in hogsheads; Coffee in barrels and bags; sugar in barrels; coarse and fine salt hysan, hysan-tkin and bohea teas; powder, shot and bar-lead, &c. &c.
Alexandria, Sept. 26, 1792.
2 Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from Mr. George Morgan's plantation, near Shepherd's-Town , on the 30th September last, a black Mare, 8 years old, branded P. H. on the right shoulder and buttock, 13 hands 3 inches high, trots and canters, has some saddle spots, had one shoe on her near fore foot, has a bushy tail, and has some white hairs near the foot-lock joint. Whoever takes up said Mare, and returns her to me, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
PETER SINN.
Shepherd's-Town, October 27, 1792.
Patrick Boyle,
Begs leave to inform the Public, that he has opened
Store in MARTINSBURG, in the house of Mr. FRE-
DERICK SNYDER, where he is furnished with
A neat assortment of
G O O D S,
Suitable for the Season,
Among which are the following, viz.
COARSE and fine Cloths, Coatings and Blankets, Chintzes, both wide and narrow. Calicoes, Moreens. Joan's Spining. Durants and Calimancoes, Silks. Sattins. Manteaus and Modes, Muslins. Lawns, and Cambricks, Velvets. Royal Ribs. Corduroys and Thicksets, A variety of Jacket Patterns of the newest fashion, Mens' and Women's Saddles and Bridles, A large assortment of fine Hats, Coarse and fine Hose. Irish Linens, Glass. Stone, Delph and Queens Ware, A good assortment of Hard Ware, Madeira, Lisbon, and Teneriff Wines, Jamaica Spirits and common Rum, Sugar, Coffee, and Chocolate, Hysan, Souchong, Hysan-tkin, Green and Bohea Teas.
All which he will sell on the lowest terms, either for cash, or country produce.
October 22, 1792.
FALL GOODS.
Jos b & Jos a Riddle,
Have just received, and are now opening, at their Store,
A neat and general assortment of
G O O D S,
Suitable to the approaching Season.
—CONSISTING OF—
SUPERFINE, fine and coarse Cloths, Plain and twilled Coatings, Kerseys, Half-Thicks, Fearnoughts, Rose and striped Blankets, Flannels, Cassimeres, Corduroys, Thicksets, Velvets, Royal Ribs, Cotton Denims, Best mohair and hair Plushes, Cassimere, Toiletet, Silk and silk and worsted Vest Patterns, Silk and worsted, silk and cotton, cotton and worsted Stockings, Stuff Shoes,
CRAPES, Moreens, Durants, Joans Spinning, Camblets, Windboars, Mens' and Womens' fine and coarse Hats, Russia Sheetings, Ditto Duck, White and brown Irish Sheetings, 1/2, 3/4, and yard wide Irish Linens, Ticklenburgs, Oznabrigs and Sacking, Muslins assorted, Chintzes, Calicoes, Furniture ditto, Cambricks and Lawns, Cotton and linen Handkerchiefs, Long and square Shawls, Saddles and Sadlery,
FILES, Raps, H and HL Hinges, Mill, cut, and best steel plate hand Saws, Bar Iron, Castings, Steel, Sad Irons, Conk Shells.
DOOR, cupboard and chest Locks, Wood Screws, Knives and Forks, Pewter, Coffee-Mills, Looking-Glasses, 8 by 10, and 7 by 9 window Glass, Slates,
SPIRITS, Whisky, Sherry, Teneriffe & Malaga } WINES. Molasses, Best Hysan, Souchong & Bohea } TEAS. Coffee, Chocolate, Loaf and brown Sugars, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon,
ALSPICE, Pepper, Raisins, Ginger, Madder, Allum, Copperas, Indigo, Red Wood, Log Wood, Brazell, Salts, Salt Petre, Selt, Bruhes assorted.
They have
Two new Waggons, fit for the road, that they will barter for produce.
THEY will receive all kinds of Produce, and give generous prices, and are determined to sell on the most reasonable terms, for ready pay.
They return their thanks to their customers for the encouragement already received, and hope to be able to merit a continuance.
F O R S A L E,
449 Acres of LAND, lying on New-Creek, in Hampshire County, within 2 1/2 miles of Potowmac River, 200 acres of which land are tillable, 50 acres are cleared and under fence, 4 or 5 acres are in good meadow, and much more may be added. The land is thin, but valuable, being convenient to navigation, which is daily improving—boats now load at the mouth of New-Creek. A general warrantee will be given the purchaser.
For terms, apply to THOMAS WHITTAKER, near Charlestown.
Sept. 14, 1792.
15.

Foreign Advices.
By the brig Mary, arrived at New York in fifty days from Havre de Grace, the following European Intelligence has been received, viz.
P A R I S, August 25.
THE common-council of this capital, during M. Bailly's mayoralty, had ordered a medal to be struck in honour of General La Fayette—M. Du-viver, a distinguished young artist, was commissioned to execute it. But, unwilling to perpetuate the blasted fame of the fugitive General, he yesterday laid before the council his unfinished work.—The common-council ordained, the effigy of the hero of both hemispheres should be solemnly dashed to the ground, on St. Louis's day (the tutelary Saint of France,) 25th of August, at ten o'clock in the morning, on the Place de Greve; and that the ceremony should be performed by the executive power, alias Ja-k-Ketch.
The former stately palace of the Thuilleries is nearly a wreck; there is a question of levelling it to the earth, that the dwelling of so many tyrants may no longer offend a free people, and put them in mind of the shackles which hailed them so many centuries.
Several houses have been thrown down in the neighbourhood of the Royal residence. The inhabitants had offered unjustifiable insults to Louis XVI. and his family, as they walked for air in the garden. The Municipality destroyed the effects, by rooting away the cause. Now when the King walks in the garden, all the workmen employed in digging the fosse, have orders to retire. He is only accompanied by a Municipal Officer; the Imperial blood of Antoinette cannot bear to be side by side with a tradesman of Paris; she signifies her discontent by her looks; but the tradesman does his duty, and walks cheek by jowl with the daughter of Cæsar.
No body is suffered to leave the Temple, the guards excepted, without being searched.
Louis is as careless and fat as usual. The young Prince is as lively as ever; the pretty innocent never committed a crime—he does not know what remoré is. May he be always equally ignorant of vice and its concomitant evils!
The King has borrowed immense sums of money to support his rebel brothers and their criminal adherents. If things do not take a different turn in his favor, above 20 bankers in this capital will be obliged to stop payment and the sums being so immense, the bankruptcies, in Paris will occasion several others in all the great towns in Europe.—His debts amount to at least 150 millions of livers.
Messrs. A. Lameth, and La Tour-Maubourg, and all the staff officers of the army have followed La Fayette.
M. La Tour-Maubourg was one of the Members of the Constituent Assembly, who were sent to Varennes to bring back the fugitive King.
There is not a steady impartial friend to the sublime cause of freedom, but grieves most sincerely for the very unpleasant altercations which lately took place between the Legislative Body and M. La Fayette, and which ended in the emigration of that young General.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
Wednesday, August 22.
The department of Vosges, Loir, and Cher, conveyed to the Assembly the sentiments of their indignation at La Fayette's conduct.
M. Oswald.—I know not whether the sudden departure of the British Ambassador threaten France with any hostile measures on the part of the Court of St. James's, or not. But certain it is, that all the English prints, hired by the Civil-Lists of the Courts of London and of the Thuilleries, in order to traduce the French Revolution, have represented, in the most atrocious colours, the events of the glorious 10th of August. It is to be apprehended that the English people may be led astray by such perfidious reports; and that the Court, availing itself of the opportunity, may plunge the nation into a measure pernicious to the cause of Liberty. It is, therefore, extremely necessary and urgent to undeceive the British nation, and to defeat the infernal plots of these Royal Tigers, who have always, and ever will delight in instigating two brother nations to mutual butchery. It is a duty which we owe to France, to England; to the Grand Commonwealth of the Human Race; I therefore propose,
1st. That the Society of the Friends of Equality do send to the British nation a fraternal address, in which shall be unfolded the whole conspiracy of the traitor Louis XVI. and all the outrages which provoked the sacred insurrection of the 10th of August. 2d. That the address be transmitted to all the popular societies of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a request to have it reprinted, and circulated throughout the British Empire.
Thus you will dispel the aristocratic clouds that obscure the political atmosphere of England; you will raise the spirits of your brethren, the Patriots of Britain, shackled by Royal proclamations, and tyrannised over by the odious manœuvres of an inquisitorial Administration; and then, perhaps, England, freed from her tyrants, will at length lend you a vigorous arm to eradicate aristocracy and royalty; and, in union with you, to bring about the Revolution of Europe; and, finally, of the whole human species.
M. Boisguyon proposed an amendment. He wished the copy of the proceedings of the National
Assembly, and many copies of the papers found in the King's desk, should be added to the address proposed by M. Oswald.
M. Oswald's motion, and the amendment, were unanimously carried.
M. D'Hengst, a Major-General in the army, lately under La Fayette's command, announced, that Colonel L'Allemand had disappeared; he feared he had followed La Fayette. His loss was the greater as his bravery and talents were indisputable.—Citizens of both sexes from Belleville, near Paris came to the bar. We present ourselves before you, said they, in order to congratulate you on having suspended Louis the traitor. We lay on the table the epaulettes of our officers, the gold crosses and bracelets of our wives, with 77 livres 10 sous in cash.
Admitted within the bar.
M. La Source declared, that the committee of Surveillance had examined into the general conduct of M. Montmorin, read his correspondence, &c. and had found no traces of criminality in any one department. The Assembly ordered M. Montmorin to be liberated; and that M. Montmorin, Governor of Fontainbleau, should be taken into custody.
M. Charlier moved for the suppression of the order named—Royal and Military Order of St. Louis.—The motion was referred to a committee.
A member read a letter from an officer in General Dillon's army, and in the camp of Pont-Sur-Sambre. The officer wished to know whether it was true that Paris was in a state of civil war.—Yesterday evening, said the officer, M. Dillon and his Aids-de-Camp came and told us what was taking place in Paris—we were thunderstruck. They asked us whether we were willing to march up to Paris and assist the national guards, worn out with fatigue in keeping down the factious:—we are afraid we shall be forced away from the frontiers, though we want to fight the foreign enemy, and not the Parisians."
Several members said, that General Dillon was a traitor—General Dillon, who until that moment, had aped patriotism, and from whom, on account of his bravery and talents, so much was expected.
The Assembly decreed, that General Dillon had lost the confidence of the nation, and charged the Executive Power to remove him from his present command.
M. Merlin communicated the text of the proceedings of the Commons of Sedan, where the Commissioners of the Assembly were detained as hostages.
"On their arrival in that town, Messrs. Kersaint, Antonelle and Peraldi, were taken into custody and brought before the General Council of the Commons; they were then interrogated concerning the object of their mission. The Municipal Officers declared, that they only considered them as the emigrants of a faction, and not as Deputies from the National Assembly; they declared, they knew the National Assembly were not free; that all the decrees since the 10th were null and void, because they had been all extorted; they declared, that they protested against the proceedings of the National Assembly; and concluded with telling the Commissioners, that they put them under an arrest, lest they should disseminate discord through the army, and cause the ruin of the empire."
From another resolution, entered into by the Municipal Officers, it appeared, they advised the inhabitants of Sedan to repose their sole confidence in them, and to reject, with horror, every proposition not originating in the Municipality. Be particularly on your guard, said they, against the newspapers now in circulation: all the prints that breathed the spirit of the laws have been stopped, all the presses destroyed; the only papers now to be found are replete with falsehoods, and their detestable conductors only bestow praise on vice and infamy."
You see, continued M. Merlin, that Sedan is in a complete state of rebellion: it is our business to stem the torrent of faction, by adopting great and vigorous measures.
The National Assembly decreed, that all the citizens of Sedan, the National Guards, and the regulars, in garrison in that town, should be responsible, individually, for the safety of the Commissioners arrested by their Municipality. The Assembly ordered them immediately to enlarge the said Commissioners: and, that the Municipal Officers should be taken into custody, and brought to the bar of the Legislative Body.
Saturday, August 25.
The Executive Council, composed of six Ministers, entered the Hall.
The Secretary at War notified the dismissal of Marshal Luckner and General Dillon,—Neither was well disposed to fight for the new system. Marshal Luckner had uttered several expressions injurious to the National Assembly; and in a letter written to Government, he made use of the following phrases:
"I cannot divine the motives that actuate the Assembly with respect to La Fayette. He swore to be faithful to the Nation, the Law, and to the King. I took the same oath in the face of France and will observe it."
Marshal Luckner suffered a body of grenadiers to coalesce, and to write to him, that they would be faithful to the King, their Supreme Chief.
General Kellerman took the command of the army.—General Biron was appointed second in command.
Manheim, August 4. Last night, about 8 o'clock, a detachment of Austrian horse attacked the French cavalry near Effingham, and drove them back with great loss, under the cannon of Landou.
The skirmishes between the two armies are fre-
quent, and from the superior discipline of the Imperial and Prussian troops, victory generally crowns their arms.
Prussian Head-Quarters, at Contz, in the environs of Trèves, August 6.
Yesterday, the 5th instant, the army entered the camp. The vanguard, under the command of Prince Hohenlohe, lies encamped between Gravenmarch and Tavern.
The King's quarters are in the monastery of the Carthusians, and those of the Duke of Brunswick, at Contz. Hostilities are immediately to be commenced; but at present both parties are nearly inactive.
The French patriots at Landou have sent an address to all the Jacobin clubs in France, in which they declare their resolution to perish in the ruins of the fortress, rather than to surrender.
The garrison consists now of 10,000 men.
Spire, August 11. The Austrians began to bombard Landou on the 8th inst. about 4 o'clock in the morning.
The Marquis Bouille has joined the Imperial Army.
Vienna, August 12. We have accounts from Warsaw, that the King has offered to abdicate the crown and take a journey to Italy, but that his abdication had not yet been accepted.
Central Army (late La Fayette's.)
Sierk, August 21.
The Imperialists and Prussians begin to infest our frontiers, and commit every kind of depredation. Several French detachments attack and repel them. They seem at once to threaten Thionville, Moyenvie and Longwy. Our army is becoming more formidable every day, reinforcements are pouring in upon us without interruption, patriotism cannot swell higher in every breast.
UNITED STATES.
S A L E M, October 16.
Last Friday Capt. Brookhouse arrived here from Havre-de-Grace. By him the information was received of General Fayette's having made his escape. Capt. Brookhouse adds, that the General's family embarked privately at Havre for England about the 23d of August, and happily got away undiscovered. He says, that it was by no means a universal sentiment, that the General was that traiterous character which the distracted Parisians would make him; as far as he had opportunity of hearing the opinions of people, the prevailing sentiment seemed to be in his favor, and his flight was generally justified, considering the circumstances he was under.
B O S T O N, October 13.
The Editor of a Paris News-Paper (under the direction of the Jacobin Club) thus decently observes:—"The National Assembly being furnished with the evidence of the conduct of the scoundrel La Fayette, Mr. Lasource moved, that he be held up as the object of indignation to all Frenchmen, and that his name should excite horror and contempt in the hearts of good men. And Mr. Merlin moved, that to exterminate the crimes of this imitator of Cromwell, his house should be destroyed, and on the spot a column be erected, on which his crimes should be engraven, and thereby be transmitted, with execrations, to posterity."
L E X I N G T O N, (Kentucky) September 13.
Extract of a letter from a citizen of Cincinnati, Sept. 2.
"The day before yesterday, General Wilkinson returned to this place, from a visit to the out post, and an extensive excursion to General St. Clair's field of slaughter, and around the waters of the Big Miami. I am informed that he has discovered two pieces of the brass ordinance lost on the 4th of November; that he explored the country in the front of the field of battle, within eight miles of the old Miami village, which turns out to be sixty miles from the field; he has also explored the country to the east of General St. Clair's trace; from whence it appeared that the Governor bore too much to the westward; we are told the General passed through extensive and several encampments occupied by the savages about the month of May, on the head waters of the Miami, but that he was not able to discover any party of these murderers; indeed it is probable, that was not his object, as he does, I am informed, still consider himself restrained from offensive operations."
N E W - Y O R K, October 22.
"By a gentleman who arrived here a few days since from Lake Champlain, we have received the following particulars: "That on the 2d instant, about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, it was so extremely cold there, that the Lake was nearly frozen across; and several canoes, with people in them, in attempting to go some distance, were impeded to such a degree, at a considerable space from shore, as to be unable to proceed either backward or forward."
P H I L A D E L P H I A, October 25.
When the Kitty sailed from England, preparations were made for arming and equipping a fleet of men of war, to be commanded by Lord Hood, which fleet it was said, would co-operate with ten sail of Dutch ships. Four or five first rates were already commissioned, and press warrants dispatched to the different ports in the kingdom.
In our paper of last Monday, we mentioned the recapture of M. de la Fayette by the French, and his being on the route to Paris under a strong escort.

We received the information from an obliging and intelligent gentleman who came passenger in the Kitty. He derived his information from the perusal of a London paper of August 30th—the last which reached Liverpool before the vessel sailed, but which was lost on the passage.
The London account of the recapture was not very particular, and might be grounded on report only. This article of intelligence requires confirmation.
It is not, however, beyond the bounds of possibility, and indeed not very improbable, that a strong body of French horse, dispatched in pursuit of M. la Fayette, might have penetrated between the frontier posts of the enemy, into the country, and have overtaken the general and the Legions Legion, by which he is said to have been taken.
We could with this account ungrounded, as, in the hands of the Austrians, he may probably be safer than in the power of the prevailing party in France.
All the Swiss regiments lately in the service of France, are broke. All the Ambassadors at Paris had demanded passports for the purpose of leaving France. The King having demanded the funds destined for him, it was moved in the Assembly that the money should be given, but not into the hands of the King, who might make use of it to corrupt his guards, and send letters of information to the enemy; it was therefore ordered to be paid into the hands of Commissioners for his use. According to letters published since the deposition of the King, which are said to have been found in the palace, it appears that a plan was concerted and nearly ready for execution, which would have ended in a general massacre of all that opposed the King's power—in which case it is probable many members of the National Assembly would have been sacrificed. Time will ascertain the truth of these reports.
The late conduct of General la Fayette has excited much the public attention: And we wait in the momentary expectation of receiving a declaration from him, explaining his motives therein; and from the known Patriotism, Integrity, and love of Liberty, which have marked his character, since his first introduction to public life, there cannot be a doubt entertained, that it will give satisfaction to every mind not immovably fixed by prejudice. As yet we have only seen his last transaction through the distorted medium of his inveterate enemies the Jacobins of Paris—and common justice requires we should wait his defence. As his conduct heretofore has been not only wholly irreproachable, but highly meritorious, we feel a degree of confidence, that, in the issue of the investigation, his last proceeding will also be found not to merit censure.
October 29.
Captain Bliss of the ship Roebeck, sailed from Bristol the 1st September, and arrived here last Saturday evening. When he left Bristol, the latest accounts from France, mentioned the escape of Marquis de la Fayette with thirteen of his officers, through the Austrian Netherlands, and that they were taken and carried into Namur. This information was not contradicted by any other account up to the first of September. The idea of the Marquis having arrived in England was not credited. Extract of a letter from Havre, to a gentleman in Boston, dated August 25.
“I arrived here from Paris last evening, where I have witnessed the most dreadful scenes of tumult, outrage and civil war. [The writer here details the events of the 10th August, and those which followed, to the imprisonment of the French King, —of whom he writes:—] “The King is now a prisoner; he is to be tried, and if found guilty, they mean to Un-King him, and let him go where he pleases—If not, they will allow him a pension to live on like any private man.
“The Marquis la Fayette, with about 300 of his principal officers, have made their escape by the following stratagem. As soon as the Marquis heard that the King was dethroned, and the Commissaries were on their way to the army, he sent some of his officers to Sedan, to detain them—he then proposed to the army that Paris was in a distressed situation—and wished to know, if they would march to its relief; which they refused. He then sent to the officers at Sedan, to send on persons to personate the Commissaries, with a story fabricated for the purpose to the army, and while these pretended Commissaries were negotiating matters with the army, the Marquis and his friends made their escape.”
A CORRESPONDENT.
IS happy to find, by every Account from France, that the Citizens of that executive Kingdom, are almost universally united, armed, and arming themselves in Defence of their Rights, and the glorious Constitution they have so lately established, and which is spoken of with Praise, by all real friends to the Rights of Men, as well in Europe, as in America,—from which latter Country, they acknowledge that they caught the Sacred Flame of Liberty which has, in a great measure, given them a tolerable Idea of their own Consequence in the Scale of Nations.—GOD grant them Success, and every other Nation on the Globe. (adds our Correspondent) engaged in so righteous a Cause as the extirpation of tyranny from off the Face of the Earth: —But, at the same Time, our Correspondent regrets, the unfortunate situation of M. de la Fayette!
BALTIMORE, October 26.
That distinguished Statesman and Patriot, the Hon. RICHARD HENRY LEE, Esq; of the Commonwealth of Virginia, having resigned his Seat in
the Senate of the United States, the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth above-mentioned, passed on the 27th Inst. the following grateful and just Resolution:
“RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That the Speaker be requested to communicate to RICHARD HENRY LEE, Esq; the high Sense entertained, by his Country, of the Services rendered, by him through the Course of a long Life, so usefully devoted to the Public Interest; to express the Regret felt by this House, at hearing that he is compelled by the Infirmities of Age, to retire from Public Life; and their sincere Wish, that he may, in the private Scene to which he is returning, yet, long experience those Enjoyments attendant on the Conscientiousness of a faithful Discharge of Duty; and that he may be as happy as he is respected.”
The Hon. JOHN TAYLOR, Esq; is elected to succeed the Hon. RICHARD HENRY LEE, Esq; in the Senate of the United States.
On the Night of Sunday, the 20th of August, several Citizens of Paris appeared at the Bar of the National Assembly, and requested to be formed into a Legion, destined to cut off General la Fayette's Head, and to lay it reeking before that Assembly.—Another Citizen appeared alone at the Bar, and offered to go to Sedan, by himself, and be Bearer of the Articles of Impeachment against General la Fayette; he engaged to execute the Decree, and drag la Fayette, dead or alive, to the Bar of the National Assembly.—The Energy of these Petitioners was applauded, and their Petitions referred to the Committee of general Safety.
Late Accounts from France mention, that the Debts of Louis XVI. the imprisoned King (which amounted to 150 000 000 of Livres, great Part of which Money was borrowed from Parisian Bankers.) it was thought would produce numerous Bankruptcies in the great Towns in France, and other Kingdoms of Europe.—That amongst the Officers of Distinction who had followed the example of M. de la Fayette, in abandoning the Kingdom of France, were M-firs. A. Lameth, la Tour Mauburg, and Col. l'Allemand.—That Marshal Luckner and General Dillon were dismissed from their Commands.—that General Kellerman had taken the Command of the Army late under the Orders of M. Luckner, and that General Biron was appointed second in Command.
On the 16th Inst. the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia resolved, “That the Executive be authorized to direct such temporary defensive Operations, for the Protection of the Frontiers, as will secure the Citizens thereof from the hostile Invasions of the Indian Enemy; and that the Governor be requested to communicate with the President of the United States, in Person or by Letter, as he may judge most expedient, for the Purpose of establishing adequate and permanent Arrangements for their Security and Defence.”
MARTINSBURG, NOVEMBER 5.
The Congress of the United States are to meet in the city of Philadelphia this day.
Thursday last the Hon. ALEXANDER WHITE, Esq; passed through this town, on his way to Congress.
A patriotic society in Ireland sent an address to the National Assembly of France, which was accompanied with six thousand eight hundred livres, for carrying on the war.
Jonathan Trumbull, James Hillhouse, Jonathan Sturgis, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Amasa Learned, Benjamin Huntington, and Stephen Mix Mitchell, Esquires, are chosen by the freemen of Connecticut, to represent them in Congress.
On the 18th ult. failed from Pittsburg, under the command of Major Rudolph, a detachment of part of two troops of dismounted horsemen and infantry. The horsemen were to proceed to Kentucky to train the horses purchased there. The infantry are to be stationed at Gallipolis.
Captain John Stake has resigned his Commission of Captain of the Light Dragoons, in the army of the United States.
It is said that several other officers are about resigning their Commissions in the army, as soon as their accounts, &c. can be settled. What should lead to their resignation at this critical period, is not for us to say—time must determine the cause.
The experience of France is a lesson to all mankind; and if they will not improve it to their own advantage, it will be because kingdoms and states are so blind and corrupt, that they are unprepared for, and unworthy of the blessings of free and just government. It should inspire the people of the United States with the highest veneration for their own free elective government—and make them more and more solicitous to preserve inviolate the sacred right of suffrage—and here again the immense importance of information and general knowledge among the people, is strikingly apparent—for without these, this inestimable right will be prostituted to party purposes, and to the subversion of the constitution and the public liberty.
No precedent can justify an improper conduct.—All customs, which are unjust in themselves, however made venerable by time, should never be suffered to continue.
Saturday night last departed this life in this town, Mr. JOHN SRIVELY, Æt. 55.—At the late races here, Mr. Srively was unfortunately thrown from his horse while crossing the path, and was inwardly bruised to so great a degree that he lay in the most excruciating pain until he expired.—He was a worthy citizen and an honest man.
On the 10th ult. we arrived at Portsmouth (N.H.) the Schooner Betty, Capt. Ham, from Jacquemel—he informs, that the blacks are still at war with the whites and mulattoes—that since the whites and mulattoes had made peace together, the negroes were much enraged and killed all without distinction that came in their way, and that they had in their possession all the south part of the Island, excepting a few forts near the sea, and to appearance they soon would be in possession of the whole.
The Baptist Church of Christ, called Great Bethel, in the vicinity of Union Town, to the Religious Societies of every denomination, and to the Baptist in particular, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS we have been informed, that a certain JOHN HOPWOOD, when abroad, assumes the character of a Baptist Preacher, and has actually presumed to preach in the city of Philadelphia, and other places. These are, therefore, to certify, that he is a member of no religious society whatever, and was publicly excommunicated from the church of Great Bethel, in Union Town; and that he is an impostor, whatever pretensions he may make, or writings he may produce, to the contrary. We therefore warn you to beware of him, and receive him not into your houses, nor bid him God speed, in the capacity of a Preacher.
Signed, by order of the Church.
DAVID LOOFBOURROW, Minister, ANTHONY SWAIN, Clerk,
October 6, 1792.
To the Public in general, and the Baptist Society in particular.
Whereas the malice of DAVID LOOFBOURROW, and his adherents, have now reached the public prints, it leaves me no other alternative for my vindication but to meet them on that ground; and although their arrogance has betrayed them into the unparalleled measures to request the public not to believe any testimony on my behalf whatever, yet I am sure the candid and judicious reader will for that reason suspend his opinion, till he can be further informed; especially when he sees their advertisement replete with terms odious to civil society, and to human nature itself, to say nothing about religion. For the present I can only inform the public, that I never was in communion nor fellowship in a religious sense with said Loofbourrow, or his party, and that long since they mocked that sacred ordinance of excommunication (to feast their spite) I have been chosen by the church to which I belong la-elder, writing clerk, messenger to the association, and received as such, as by documents of the association 1791, and of the church preceding that time, will fully appear, to which I appeal for the truth of what I say. Until they can be brought forward, well attested, I submit what has been said to the public candor.
JOHN HOPWOOD.
October 31, 1792.
4 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, on the 21st instant, living in Fairfax County, near Difficult Bridge, a Mulatto Boy named NED, between fifteen and sixteen years old, near five feet high, has some scars on his back and head, has short black hair, and is a smart active fellow. He had on when he ran away, an old blue great coat, tied round with a rope or strap, a pair of ragged linen trowsers, he had no shoes, under his coat he had on an old tear-nought jacket, and tow linen shirt, he had a good wool hat. Whoever will take up said run away and convey him to me, or secure him in goal so that I get him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges.
JOHN MARCHANT.
Fairfax County, October 30, 1772.
4 Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen on the 14th of October last, out of the stable of Mr. Ridgway, about one mile from Charlestown, a bay Mare, about 14½ hands high, 9 years old, branded with a figure resembling 3, has a star in her forehead, shod all round, has two small lumps directly on the back bone; she both paces and trots. Whoever will take up said Mare, so that I get her again, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
CHRISTIAN SMITH.
Martinsburg, November 3, 1792.
Wanted to purchase, or hire,
A Negro BOY,
From 15 to 20 years old, who is active, and of good character.
Apply to the Printer.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
FRAGMENT.
EXILD for ever from your eye, I scorn th' indulgence of a sigh: No!—the close imprisond flame Ne'er shall burst my stubborn frame; Ne'er its hidden source betray, But eat my secret soul away! No tears, the kind relief of woe, From these burning orbs shall flow!
Hence! cursed Hope! Hence Comfort's dream! I scorn the soft Lethæan stream. Oblivion, with thy poppies, hence! But come, thou ever-wakeful sense Of Agony!—my bosom tear! Come, all the madness of despair! Yes! let the viper, Frenzy dart His boiling poisons thro' my heart: Swift let them rush, thro' every vein, With raging fury to my brain; As Ætna's flaming torrents flow, And scatter ruin as they go!
What? shall your unrelenting heart Never know the bitter smart? Yes! the day shall quickly be, When you shall sympathize with me! Love, unrequited, spectre gaunt, For ever shall your footsteps haunt: For ever to your view shall rise The helpless victim of your eyes! At early morn, or parting day, He still shall seem to cross your way! His ashy face, his hollow eye, Shall tell the mournful history.
In vain to cities you repair; His murder'd image shall be there: His still, small voice, in every gale, Shall turn the flush of pleasure pale; And, seated high in festal pride, You'll start to find him at your side. Mid the blythe dance, he'll take his stand, And grasp you with an icy hand! You eye, amid the tragic scene, Shall only mark his bloodless mien! When music trills her strain, alone Your ear shall catch his fainting groan!
A Vindication of part of YOUNG's Confession. Charlottesville, October 25th, 1792.
MR. WILLIS, THE Subscribers having perused the last dying confession of the unfortunate deceased criminal John Young, we perceive the said Young has announced in a public manner that we are entirely innocent of those charges he had alledged against us in his petition to the Judges of the last district.—It has long been our intentions of vindicating our innocence in a public manner, but we imagined it would be proper first to wait till we understood what the unfortunate deceased would say in his dying moments, being well assured he could never have attempted to have made his peace with God, and had any thoughts of launching into eternity, smothering such a charge in his breast.
As he has cleared us in so public a manner, as well as at the place of execution, we do not think it necessary to croud your paper with the different proofs and certificates we have obtained, and which incontestibly are our acquittal of those charges, and only mean to drop a hint at the hardship any person might labour under by being charged in like manner by such a person, and at the instigation of so notorious and profligate a wretch as Young sets forth he was. Had Young been admitted as an evidence, he might have pushed both Burnitt and McCormick very hard for their lives, and though he sets forth he can prove some of the charges alledged against Burnitt, by a woman of this vicinage (the absolute falsity and impossibility of which Burnitt has in full proof from the said woman) yet Young being so well acquainted from whom horses had been stole, the time, and many other circumstances that might even seem plausible to the prosecutor himself; these backed by his oath, aided by counsel, might have operated so far as to have made his charge appear reasonable to a jury.
Mr. McCormick in a worse situation charged in general as a horse-stealer. Who can vindicate himself by commanding the best of characters?—Nay, we are confident it was Conway's intentions to have procured testimony that would have sworn us guilty of any crime he should have been pleased to have dictated Young to have brought against us. For my part I have particularly cleared every charge alledged against me, in the clearest manner.
It is not the first time Conway has not only formed invidious schemes, but actually perpetrated hor-
no deeds in order to attack my life. At a time when Col. Rootes and myself were at a very great variance, Conway sets fire to the Colonel's stack-yard, and went down very early next morning, acquainting the Colonel that if he would prosecute he could find testimony to prove I did it. Notwithstanding our variance, the Colonel having a better opinion of my principles, could not believe it, and who, on enquiry, found from circumstances, that it was impossible I should have done it; and had I not been fortunate enough from such circumstances of proving my innocence, I might have been apprehended and tried for my life; and the following circumstance (the which Conway took advantages from) would have operated against me:—The grain that was burnt was (contrary to my endeavours to prevent it) taken from off my plantation, by which I was entirely prevented from getting my rent, and on which account I had both publicly and loudly censured Col. Rootes for such conduct. This, together with the testimony Conway after such a charge must have produced (for he boasts he always keeps such at his call) would, without a miracle, have borne down all the defence and efforts of honesty and innocence.
The truth of this circumstance was confessed to Col. Rootes, before Conway's face, by Charles Robinson, at the time when he was apprehended with the said Conway for stealing a Negro man. He further candidly confessed, that the said night Conway offered him a guinea and a creature, if he would set the Colonel's dwelling-house on fire, while he would stand ready with a loaded gun to murder him if he escaped the flames.
He received the guinea and kept it, but would not perpetrate the deed, which vexed Conway so much, he set fire to the grain himself.
It is pretty generally known in this vicinage, the perjuror he suborned, and the witnesses signing his petition, in order to get the Governor to remit him the fine imposed on him for his attempt to murder Col. Rootes in the night time. Similar methods cleared him in 1775, imposed for harbouring a notorious nest of horse-thieves, and their productions. Perjury, bribes, and petitions, are the grand bulwarks by which he opposes and extricates himself from all legal oppositions, and evades the effects of all the numerous called-courts and examinations had on him. By this method he cleared himself from the wheel-barrow, the chain, and the 56, and though it is very wonderful, yet he always clears himself of his just demerits by contrasted friendship, but his ingratitude surpasses all. This reprobate boasts, let him do what he will, he can always command men of respectability for his bail, in support of his character friends that will supply him with money enough, and justice to wink at his enormities.
It is generally known his house is an asylum for villains of every description. I myself once forced a murderer from out his loft, the which he secreted and denied, and meant to bear him off.
What hardships we labour under from a man, the truth of whose character is to depict him those and we hope the world will think nothing the worse of us, as to our honesty by Young's impeachment, since he has cleared us at his death, and since he was over-persuaded, and instigated so to do by so infamous and reprobated a character.
We are not afraid to challenge friend or foe to step forth and lay any imputations to our charge, that ever can, on a fair and impartial investigation, operate against us.
*RICHARD BOUCHER, ALEXANDER BURNITT, EDWARD MCCORMICK.
P. S. If any one pleases to enter the list in his favor, a full and perfect origination of his family and crimes, shall be truly represented. R. B.
8 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Subscribers, on Sunday the 30th of September last, a negro Man named SAUL; he is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, well made, a little bow-leg'd, has lost some teeth before, is of a very black complexion, can read and write, and has probably forged a pass; when he walks he steps uncommonly short. Whoever will apprehend said Negro and return him to us, or secure him in goal so that we get him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges.
ADRIAN DAVENPORT, JOHN BOWEN.
October 13, 1792.
HARP AND CROWN TAVERN.
THE Subscriber, from the liberal encouragement he has met with since his commencement at this house, returns his unfeigned thanks to the Public; and informs them, that he has received an assortment of the purest liquors, such as Wines of the first quality, old Jamaica Spirit, Coniac Brandy, Gin, Porter, &c. &c. He has also, stableage for 50 horses, in addition to his former, and has procured hostlers sufficient to attend the same.
FLORENCE MAHONY.
October 6, 1792.
TO BE SOLD,
A tract of very good unimproved Land, Containing 288 acres, known by the name of the silver mines, lying on the river Potowmac, Berkeley County, Virginia, situated one and half miles above the mouth of Back Creek. This land is as well timbered as any lying between it and the Alleghany, the situation of which, being so near the Potowmac, the timber may be rafted down the river at a very small expence—it has two never failing springs, and good meadows may be made on it. For terms, apply to the subscriber, who will give an indisputable title. DAVID WOLGAMOTT.
August 6, 1792.
N. B. The above described land abounds with Iron ore of an excellent quality.
STOLEN out of my pasture, on the night of the 21st instant, a bright sorrel Mare; between 3 and 4 years old, slender and handsomely made, natural trotter, was lately docked, branded on the near shoulder I. E—she was never shod, has a thin mane, and shews English blood. Whoever will apprehend the thief, and secure the mare, so that I get her again, shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward.
JOHN EVANS, senior.
October 22, 1792.
LANDS FOR LANDS.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,
FOUR Hundred Acres of Land, (called MAHON's) lying on Buffalo-creek, Monongalia County, upon which there are upwards of 40 acres of the best meadow, a good mill seat and spring, and the land equal to any on the Western waters.
Three Hundred and eighty-four acres adjoining, below, on same creek, a large proportion of meadow, and a good spring, the upland equal, which is held by settlement-right, and a general warrantee will be given.
One Thousand Acres on the Dunkard-mill run, a branch of said creek, held by preemption-right, of equal quality to the above, and the same warrantee will be given, all lying from 14 to 25 miles from Morgan-Town, and from 3 to 11 miles from Monongalia river—the State road from Morgan-Town to the little Kenhawa passes near or through the said land.
One Thousand Acres on Bingerman's creek, held by preemption-right, a great proportion of meadow, and well watered, which lies in the same county, the upland of good quality, about 10 miles farther from Morgan-Town.
One thousand acres on the little Kenhawa, about 14 miles from the mouth of said river, held by an old location on treasury-warrant, the land also very rich.
Any property in the counties of Berkeley or Frederick, negroes, or good bonds, will be taken in payment.
DAVID GRAY.
Berkeley, April 25, 1792.
12M.
BERKELEY COUNTY: to wit,
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that a law may pass changing the quarterly term of the County Court of Berkeley, from the third Tuesday in June, till the third Tuesday in May, in each year, it being the time on which the said quarterly term was formerly held, the late change being found very inconvenient to the people of the County.
By order of the Court, Teste,
MOSES HUNTER, c. c.
BERKELEY COUNTY: to wit,
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that a law may pass changing the quarterly term of the County Court of Berkeley, from the third Tuesday in November, till the third Tuesday in October in each year, it being the time on which the said quarterly term was formerly held, the late change being found very inconvenient to the people of the County.
By order of the Court, Teste,
MOSES HUNTER, c. c.
ALEXANDRIA, 27th August, 1792.
WE will receive and store FLOUR, as long as it suits the owner, free of any charge or expence, whether we purchase or not.
THOMAS VOWELL and SONS.
Cash given for Flour, Wheat, and other articles of produce, as usual.
A variety of wet and dry GOODS for sale. 6w.
Wanted, by the Printer hereof, a stout young Lad, as an Apprentice.