The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1792-10-15 00:00:00

The POTOMAC GUARDIAN, and BERKELEY ADVERTISER.
PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANN.]
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1792.
[NUMBER 100—VOL. 2.]
WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY.
Franklin.
By the President of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION.
L.S. WHEREAS certain violent and unwarrantable proceedings have lately taken place, tending to obstruct the operation of the laws of the United States for raising a revenue upon spirits distilled within the same, enacted pursuant to express authority delegated in the constitution of the United States; which proceedings are subversive of good order, contrary to the duty that every citizen owes to his country and to the laws, and of a nature dangerous to the very being of government:
And whereas such proceedings are the more unwarrantable, by reason of the moderation which has been heretofore shown on the part of the government, and of the disposition which has been manifested by the legislature (who alone have authority to suspend the operation of laws) to obviate causes of the objection, and to render the laws as acceptable as possible: And whereas it is the particular duty of the executive "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed;" and not only that duty, but the permanent interests and happiness of the people require, that every legal and necessary step should be pursued, as well to prevent such violent and unwarrantable proceedings, as to bring to justice the infractors of the laws and secure obedience thereto:
Now therefore I GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States, do by these presents most earnestly admonish and exhort all persons whom it may concern, to refrain and desist from all unlawful combinations and proceedings whatsoever, having for object or tendency to obstruct the operation of the laws aforesaid; in as much as all lawful ways and means will be strictly put in execution for bringing to justice the infractors thereof, and securing obedience thereto.
And I do moreover charge and require all Courts, Magistrates and Officers whom it may concern, according to the duties of their several offices, to exert the powers in them respectively vested by law, for the purposes aforesaid; hereby also enjoining and requiring all persons whomsoever, as they tender the welfare of their country, the just and due authority of government and the preservation of the public peace, to be aiding and assisting therein, according to law.
In Testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my Hand. Done this fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States the fiveteenth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
By the President.
THO. PETERSON.
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 bosiers sufficient to attend the same.
FLORENCE MAHONY.
October 6, 1792.
STOPPED, supposed to be stolen by a Negro Wench who left Alexandria about six weeks ago, a black sattin cloak, lined with black silk, three silver table spoons and one silver tea spoon; the spoons have been engraved with the owner's name, but the letters are defaced—the letters I A appear to have been a part of the engraving. The aforesaid Wench has with her two silk gowns, one a black, the other a light blue, which are also supposed to be stolen. The owner of the above articles are requested to apply to the Printer hereof, who will give information where the property may be found.
Sept. 24, 1792.
CAME to the Subscriber's plantation, about 3 weeks ago, a red and white mitch COW, with crop and bit out of each ear, and a slit in one ear. The owner is desired to come and prove the property, and take her away.
THOMAS WEARINGEN.
Sept. 1, 1792.
FALL GOODS.
Jos b & Jos b 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, Role and striped Blankets, Flannels, Cassimeres, Corduroys, Thicksets, Velvets, Royal Ribs, Cotton Denims, Best mohair and hair Plushes, Cassimere, Toilets, Silk and silk and worsted Vest Patterns, Silk and worsted, silk and cotton, cotton and worsted Stockings, Stuff Shoes,
FILES , Raps, H and HL Hinges, Mill, cut, and belt steel plate hand Saws, Bar Iron, Castings, Steel, Sad Irons, Conk Shells.
SPIRITS , Whisky, Sherry, Teneriffe & Malaga } WINES , Molasses, Best Nylson, Souchong & Bohea } TEAS , Coffee, Chocolate, Loaf and brown Sugars, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon,
GRAPES , Moreens, Durants, Joans Spinning, Camblets, Wildboars, Mens' and Womens' fine and coarse Hats, Russia Sheeting, Ditto Duck, White and brown Irish Sheetings, 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,
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,
SPICE , Pepper, Raisins, Ginger, Madder, Allum, Copperas, Indigo, Red Wood, Log Wood, Brazell, Salts, Salt Petre, Salt, Brushes 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.
FOR SALE
449 Acres of LAND, lying on New-Creek, in Hampshire County, within 2 1/2 miles of Potomac 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 Charlstown.
Sept. 14, 1792.
1.f.
To be sold, at PUBLIC SALE, On Wednesday, the 17th October next, By the Subscriber, living on the well-known Plantation called General LEE's Farm,
A Number of valuable
Horses, a Mare and Colt, and a number of likely unbroke Colts, from two years to five years old. Cows with Calf, Cows and Calves, a large number of Geese, and sundry other articles too tedious to mention.
The sale to begin at 10 o'clock, said day, where due attendance and eight months credit will be given, on giving bond with approved surety, by
JOSEPH MINGHINNI.
Berkely County, Sept. 17, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Claimants of the Soldiers' Rights to the Sandy-Creek Lands, granted in the year 1754, being surveys of 28,000 acres, or more, intend to petition the General Assembly at their next session, that the division made May 10, 1775, and begun at S. Creek, may be established.
Sept. 8, 1792.
A List of Letters remaining in the Post-Office, Shepherd's-Town, which if not taken away before the first day of January next, will be returned to the General Post-Office as dead letters.
C. Robert Catlett, near Berry's Ferry.
E. David Elder, care of Col. Morrow, Shepherd's-Town.
H. William Robert Howe, near David M c Hillens's.
R. Jacob Rubsam, Esq. near Charles-Town.
S. William Smith, care Francis Campbell.
W. Francis Whitfield, care William Cherry.
HORATIO ROSS.
October 1, 1792.
Foreign Advices.
By the ship New York. Capt. Smith, arrived at New-York, from London, we have the following interesting intelligence, viz.
L O N G W Y, July 30.
LUXEMBURGH, and its environs, are full of troops. To-morrow, 18 000 Prussians are to arrive with Heymann and Bouille at their head.
There are two camps, the one before Arlon above d'Obange, the other between Longwy and Montmedy, near St. Leger. Fortunately for us La Fayette's army is arrived, and fortunately too for Flanders, for the enemy have followed his motions.
He has just attacked the two camps above mentioned, and was near taking both. His success would have been complete, if it had not been for some desertions. They were pursued, but escaped and alarmed the enemy.
M. la Fayette had occupied the Austrian valley of Virton, between Longwy and Montmedy and had advanced troops towards Tiercelet to prevent the troops in the camp of Reming, before Luxembourg, from attacking our city on that point.
He marched at night from his camp at Villers-le-Rond; having disposed his troops in two columns to surprize the two camps. Unfortunately a heavy rain retarded their march, and the deserters gave notice of their approach time enough for the enemy to fall back.
Our first column, which attacked the camp at St. Leige, killed about 400 of the enemy and took thirty covered waggons.
The other column pursued the enemy to the village of Masancy before Arlon, where they took shelter, and where they burnt the Village in order to dislodge them; they had still a retreat open into a thick wood.
A priest killed one of our men from a window; he was taken, on the point of being put to the sword when some of the soldiers reminded their comrades of discipline and the law, and he was brought safe to Longwy.
The enemy having retreated more speedily in this quarter lost only about 80. On our part, M. Delmotte, La Fayette's adjutant general, and intimate friend, was mortally wounded. Our whole loss is only three killed and about twenty wounded.
The commandant of the hussars at Masuague was killed, and his horse superbly caparisoned, sold for 1,050 livres.
On the evening before this action, the Hussars of Chamberant took ten of the Hulsans; but we lost 32 dragoons on a foraging party, one of whom, a

volunteer, was cut in pieces at the enemies grand guard.
We have still 18,000 men at the camp of Villers-Rond.
July 31. The Austrians are returned to their two camps, and our troops, to theirs. The camp of Fontoy is reinforced by 4000 men from Marshal Luckner's army. The valley of Virton is the only part of the enemies country occupied by us in this quarter.
The circumstances of the engagement, I find are correctly stated in my former letter. The regiment of Rouillon, at the head of our first column, charged with fixed bayonets, on coming up with the rear of the enemy, which accounts for the loss of the Austrians in the quarter where the first column attacked. The second column had not an opportunity of coming to close action, the enemy having moved off before they came to the ground. The commander of the Austrian hussars, whose horse was sold by the dragoon who killed the rider for 1050 livres, had the day before sent an insulting letter to M. la Fayette.
M. la Fayette is still a favourite with the army, but the soldiers complain that they are not led against the enemy.
W A R S A W, July 25.
The new constitution, the termination of which we have long apprehended, is now at an end.
On Sunday night, the Russian Minister delivered the final answer of his Imperial mistress, to the king, in which she declares her determination of the reestablishing the ancient constitution, and of supporting to the utmost of her power, the confederation of Targovica.
The rapid advance of the Russian troops and the determined language of her Imperial majesty, left King Stanislaus no alternative; he, therefore, on the following morning, assembled the nobles and communicated to them the Empress's determinations, and at the same time recommended, to prevent the further effusion of blood and dismemberment of the kingdom, to submit to a temporary inconvenience , revoke the constitution settled on the 3d of May, 1791, to restore the ancient form of government, and to submit the arbitration of the differences between the people of Poland and the Empress, to the three rebels, Counts Potocki, Rzeivoutky and Branicki—and proposed in compliance with a requisition from the Empress, that Prince Poniatocki, should be recalled, and Count Branicki invested with the command of the army, which the assembly was by no means unanimous in the adoption of these sentiments.
A strong party, of which M. Malachowski, Marshal of the diet—Princes Sopieka, Marshal of Lithuania—M. Potocki, jun. and M. Solicki, were at the head, opposed the pacific propositions of his majesty, and declared, that the king having deserted the constitution, the constitution without the king, should repeal the ambitions and oppressive views of its enemies, or sinking, should bury thousands in its ruins.
On the 23d of July, a cessation of hostilities took place between the grand armies, and on the 29th, the treaty was to be finally ratified.
Thus it is that the courts of Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain, who a short time ago, appeared to be terrified at the idea of Turkish accession to Russia, have tamely permitted a female despot to overturn the freedom of a constitution founded by the universal spirit of virtue, and approved of by the great majority of every nation in Europe.
Among the many other insulting and indecent indignities to the king, the community have demanded, that the day of the celebration of the birth of Louis the XVI. should be set aside, and no longer to be observed as a festival.—The assembly have decreed, that the King's edict on that subject should be annulled.
16. A courier arrived last night, from M. Luckner, with intelligence, that he had surrounded a large body of Austrians, in the forest of Condel, and taken 300 prisoners, besides 220 horses and 6 four-pounders. The enemy did not fire a single musket, nor could they be prevailed upon by their officers to make the least resistance whatever. The French army in the neighbourhood of Landau, has had the advantage of the Austrians in several skirmishes.—The Duke of Brunswick was to have entered France on the 17th.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE.
Aug. 10.
About nine o'clock in the morning, almost every person who could procure arms, hurried towards the Thuilleries, calling out for the dethronement of the King—adding that he was a traitor, and had forfeited the confidence of the nation. The King, alarmed at the furious dispositions manifested by the people, left the Thuilleries; and attended by the Swiss regiment of guards, proceeded to the National Assembly, accompanied by the Queen, his Sister, and the Royal children. He placed himself by the President, and afterwards retired to the bar with his family; but as, according to the terms of the Constitution, the Assembly could not perform the functions of a deliberative body while he was present, he was desired to remove into one of the boxes set apart for the use of the editors of news-papers.
The Assembly then sent ten commissioners to endeavour to appease the people.
In the mean time the detachment from the National Guard, citizens armed with pikes, and a number of Marseillois and Federates ranged themselves in the Place de Caravazal, and proceeded to attack the palace, which was guarded by a body of Swiss. The Swiss, having been insulted and hard-pressed by those who came against them, were at last obliged to fire in their own defence, and at first the mob
were put to flight; but being re-enforced by the Marseillois and Federates from Brest as well as by a great number of Parisians, they rallied again, and commenced a heavy fire against their opponents.
The gates being at last voluntarily opened by the Swiss, or violently forced by the mob, an obstinate combat ensued; the Swiss defending themselves with signal bravery, and the populace continuing the attack with the most sanguinary fury. At last, horrid to relate, the Swiss were obliged to yield to superior force; and almost to a man, were inhumanly butchered! they, however, sold their lives dear, and did not yield till they had killed several hundreds of their opponents! During the conflict, the people, who had several cannon with them, fired them at the palace, as if determined to raize it to the foundation.
After the mob had got possession of the palace, an immense crowd burst into the different apartments; some of whom carried to the Assembly the Queen's jewels, valuable effects, money, and important papers. The furniture was taken to the sections, after an inventory of it had been made, and the papers were sent to the Committee of Safety.
The statues of Louis XIV. and XV. were destroyed.
During this tumult, while the noise of cannon was heard in the Assembly, and several shots even entered the windows, the members still continued their deliberations, the Jacobin party exclaiming Liberty! Equality! and all raising their hands towards Heaven, swearing they would die to save their country.
MONDAY August 13.
M. Manuel appeared at the bar, to desire that the temple might be appropriated for the King's residence; the President informed him, the hotel of the minister of justice had been fixed on; M. Manuel said, in proposing the temple, the community of Paris purposed to be responsible for the King's safety; the temple stood by a high wall, which rendered it secure, but many houses were attached to that of the minister of justice, which might afford means for the King to escape. The Assembly decreed, that the community should be entrusted with the custody of the King, the choice of the place to be in their discretion. M. Manuel's patriotism was much applauded.
The fifteen Southern departments of France have opened a subscription of 5 millions of livres, to be distributed in rewards for taking the lives of the principal persons concerned in the league against the French, which are offered in these sums:
 For the Emperor 400 000  The King of Prussia 400 000  The Duke of Brunswick 400 000  Stanislaus Xavier Monsieur 300 000  Charles Philippe d'Artois 300 000  Louis Joseph Conde 200 000  Louis Henri Joseph Bourbon 200 000  Bouille l'infame 200 000  Lambesc 100 000  Broglie 100 000  Mirabeau Tonneau 100 000  Calonne 30 000 
What remains, to be employed in rewards to those who may assist in destroying any other principal partizan in the league.
August 14.
M. Poyravault communicated to the Assembly an address from the Department of Doir and Cher. By this address, which is directed to the citizens, the Council-General informed them of the decree passed for suspending Louis XVI. "Frenchmen!" say the administrators, "our present circumstances are extraordinary; but they ought neither to alarm or discourage you. Call to your remembrance the epoch of the King's flight, and assume, as on that occasion, a majestic, dignified, and tranquil conduct. Shew yourselves worthy of liberty, by obeying the laws, paying taxes, and maintaining property. Let us die, should it be necessary, for the maintenance of Equality, Liberty, and the Rights of Man!"
M. Ruth requested that a letter, written in German, and found in the pocket of a Swiss, might be sent to the Court-Martial. In this letter, the Swiss announced, that in fifteen days the Austrians would be in Paris, and that his regiment would join them, in order to exterminate all those who might prove unfaithful servants to the King.
L O N D O N, August 12. SUSPENSION OF LOUIS XVI.
By an express received in town yesterday evening from Paris, we learn, that on Thursday the motion for the suspension of the King was discussed, and there appeared against the unhappy Louis a great majority. It was then proposed that he should be prosecuted as a traitor of the state. A long and warm debate, or rather contention, ensued; after which, it was determined, that this proposition, with the motion for his suspension should be reserved until the following day, for final decision; when it was expected he would be formally suspended, and the exercise of executive power invested in the hands of commissioners.
It was currently reported on Friday in the city that the would-be Regicide Petion, had been seized by a number of indignant citizens, and hanged at a lamp-iron; but we are sorry to find, upon inquiry, that his execution is deferred until the Duke of Brunswick's arrival. The report added, that the Jacobin traitors were dispersing and this we have the happiness to announce, is actually the case.
Petion, and the Jacobins at his tail, begin to tremble at the consequences of royal profanation, and the last sanguinary expressions of the Parisian Assassin, were merely the effects of despair. The seditious
recreant and Regicide, dare not remain in Paris an hour after the approach of the Imperial and royal armies.
August 14. Doctor Willis returns from Lisbon loaded with bars of gold, and adorned with diamonds. What rewards would have been bestowed on him, had he proved successful!—But the Queen's malady is incurable.
August 18. The advices from France, brought to town yesterday evening, express, that the King had on Monday signified to the National Assembly his wish to comply with the sentiments of the people; and desired to abdicate formally the Crown, to which their confidence was no longer attached. All that he further requested, was such a stipend as the nation should not deem excessive, for the support of his family. Retirement was the only hope they had left! The Assembly replied, it is stated to his Majesty that the object exceeded their powers, that the resolution of the state into its pristine elements, left every organization with the National Convention, to which the Royal desire must be referred.
Paris is again in a state of tranquility. No news of importance had arrived from the armies, except that Marshal Luckner had, by a fortunate and well contrived manœuvre, surrounded and taken 500 Austrians, with 220 horses, and six four-pounders. This affair happened in the forest of Candel. The Austrians, finding themselves overpowered, surrendered without making any resistance.
At Boulogne, a man has been seized with a letter upon him, laid to be written by the King of the French to the Austrian army. This, if true, will seal the destruction of the sovereign in the present temper of the people.
By letters from Coblenz we learn, that with every appearance of truth, the Duke of Brunswick had fixed on the 10th, (Thursday last) for his march; on which day he was to begin the campaign; he was to move in three columns; and himself with a chosen band to push with all possible expedition for Paris.
August 21. The King of Prussia, accompanied by the Duke of Brunswick and their train, arrived with a part of their army at Tiers on the 4th inst. They took up their quarters at the monastery of the Carthusians; the French Princes were hourly expected to join them.
UNITED STATES.
S A L E M, Sept. 25.
Repeated robberies have of late been committed on the public Mail: Two letters from Baltimore to a merchant in this town, enclosing bank bills, have been opened, the money taken out, and the letters released and returned in the mail.
K N O X V I L L E, August 25.
On Saturday the 11th inst., a party of Indians attacked a house at New Garden, in Rüssel county, Virginia, killed sixteen persons, and took a woman and four children prisoners. They were followed by a company of horse who soon came up with them, and retook the prisoners.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Nashville, to his friend in this town, July 16.
"It is here believed from a variety of concurrent circumstances, that M c Gillivray himself has deserted the interests of the United States, and attached himself to the Spanish interest. It is beyond all doubt, he is gone to a conference with the Spaniards at Pensicola, accompanied by a large party of his warriors, consisting of three hundred. Panton the great Indian trader, of Pensicola, has been engaged by the Spaniards to bring about this meeting of the Creeks, and hath also been among the Cherokees to bring them into the measure and hath applied to the Little Turkey to obtain leave for the Spaniards to establish garrisons on the Tenessee, and one even as high up the fame as the mouth of Bear Creek."
P H I L A D E L P H I A, October 4.
Tuesday morning last, at half past 1 o'clock, there was a fall of snow in this city; and a gentleman from the country informs, that, at about 11 miles distance, snow was 2 inches deep.
So various and contradictory are the European accounts, that it is impossible to form a precise definitive opinion with respect to French, Polish, English, Austrian, or Russian affairs.—Even the intelligence from France, or that under the Paris head in the English papers, is very far from satisfying the mind. There is, however, one predominant feature which forcibly intrudes itself—the National Assembly appear to possess the confidence of a decided majority of the people—and the people discover a greater fervor in the cause of liberty, than at any period since the commencement of the revolution.
Amongst the various reasons assigned for the violent measures of the people of Paris, against their King, one is, that he wilfully declined sending supplies to the frontiers.
An account from Paris, dated the 11th of August, after the bloody tragedy of the preceding day, closes thus:—"God grant these scenes of tumult may not be renewed—that where the blame lies is not easy to say; but it was obvious enough that the decision of the question in favour of M. la Fayette, had much enraged the Jacobin Faction, and that it was well known that their adherents were busy in exciting such clamour as might ensure them success on the deposition of the King."
"Our court (says a letter from Richmond Virginia) has rejected the allowing the recovery of old British debts, until the treaty is fulfilled, by Great Britain, restoring the Western Posts. The laying is

here, Let them fulfil the treaty on their part, and we will readily do so on ours."
Divisions among the Jacobins are talked of—should this be the case, the right cause in France, that of the constitution, will perish.
P I T T S B U R G H, Sept. 22.
Captain Snake, a chief belonging to the Munsee tribe, who was sent with a message to the hostile Indians, was killed at one of the Delaware towns, after he had made known his business.
ELIZABETH - TOWN, (Maryland,) Sept. 26.
The Indians have killed between forty and fifty persons this last spring and summer on the frontiers of Kentucky.
A severe frost, which happened on Thursday night last has, we learn, totally destroyed all the tobacco that was out.
B A L T I M O R E, October 9.
The number of people who were butchered during the horrid Tumult in Paris (which no language can describe) on the 10th of August, are supposed to amount to 1500.
MARTINSBURG, October 15.
Wednesday next the remaining detachment of Capt. Stephenson's company of riflemen, commence their march from this town for Fort Pitt.—They go by the way of Hager's-town, where Capt. Stephenson is commissioned to inspect the recruits under Captains Lewis and Carbury, and march them to headquarters. Capt. Stephenson's company is complete with 100 effective men.
Friday evening last, a Mr. Ainsworth fell dead in the street at Shepherd's-Town, as he was returning to his house.
There is now to be seen in Shepherd's-Town, a radish, planted last June, in a garden there, which measures 2 feet 7 inches in length, one foot 5 inches round, and weighs 9 3/4 pounds.
The Baltimore Daily Repository , of the 9th inst, mentions, that a letter has been written by a gentleman in the Genesee country to his friend at Stockbridge, stating that intelligence had been received from Niagara, that General Wayne had had an engagement, gained a complete victory, and destroyed 1300 of the savages.—This information, as the Pittsburgh Gazette of the 29th ult. makes no mention of an action taking place, we have reason to believe, is without foundation.
Accounts from the Miami towns state the number of hostile Indians, at present there assembled, to be about four thousand five hundred, which is upwards of four times the number that defeated Gen. St. Clair. This confederated force consists of 600 Indians from Lower Canada, with bodies from the Hurons, Wiandots, Chippewas, Ottowas, Potowas, a few Oneidas, Cayugas, Tuscaroras, Senecas, Shawanese, and the whole tribe of the Delawares. Blue Jacket, Gothewa, and Snake are their principal commanders. They were said to be waiting in force for the approach of the American army; which by our last accounts (that part of it under Gen. Wayne at Pittsburgh) had begun to move down the river about the 15th ult.
A London Paper of August 21, says, the reports of the day, and which chiefly engross the attention of the public, are, that the Queen of France has been murdered; that the populace broke open the prison of Orleans and very deliberately put all the prisoners to death; that the Duke of Brunswick has been defeated in a pitched battle with M. La Fayette, with the loss of four or five thousand men killed, and three thousand prisoners, besides all his ammunition. These accounts, however, want confirmation, though given with a degree of confidence in some of the morning papers.
An important decree has passed the National Assembly of France—"That as the Patriot of to-day may be a Traitor to-morrow, all officers shall be chosen by the Soldiers."
The following decree also passed the Assembly on the 12th of August:—First, The Hotel of the Minister of Justice shall be inhabited by the King.—Second, he shall be furnished with a guard, subordinate to the Mayor of Paris, and to the commandant of the National Guard, who shall be answerable for his safety, and that of his family.—Third, there shall be a sum of five hundred thousand livres allowed to pay his expences, until the National Convention meeting.
"The National Assembly declares, that the King is suspended; and that both himself and his family remain as hostages; and that the Assembly proceed to replace them.—That the civil list cause to take place. GENSONNE, President."
On the 11th of August, the question on the impeachment of M. La Fayette was decided by the National Assembly—the Committee reported that he had been guilty of high treason, &c.—at the close of the debate on this report, there appeared 224 members of the Assembly in favour of accepting it, and 400 against it—that on leaving the hall, the majority were grossly insulted by a great mob, among which were a Number of those infernal Furies the filth-women of Paris .
A RETURN of the Killed and Wounded in and Prisoners taken from Mero District, since the first Day of January, 1792, as promised in our last.
 1. Itham Withs, Peyton's creek, killed and scalped.  2. Lilly Negro, near Bledse's lick, killed and scalped, at a sugar camp.  3. Cornelius Herndon, wounded.  4. Capt. Caffrey's negro, Stone's river, killed on his master's plantation.  5. Edmund Hickman, killed. 
 6. George Wilson, Nashville road, near Stanton-Camp creek, killed and scalped.  7. John Hickerson, Smith's fork, killed.  8. Thompson, near Nashville, killed and scalped.  9. John Gibson, Mayfield's station, do. do.  10. Benj. Kuykendoll, near Croft's mill, in his own yard, killed and scalped.  11. Thomas Fletcher, mouth of Red river, do. do.  12. Harry, do. do.  13. Harry, do. do.  14. Robert Jones, Major Wilson's, do. do.  15. John White, Cumberland mountain, do. do.  16. Joseph Dickson, at his own house, near Croft's mill, killed and scalped.  17. George French, killed. 
Note. —There were many persons killed after the treaty of New-York with the Creeks, and prior to the first day of January, 1791.
Since the Treaty of Holstein.
 1. Grantham Mouth red river, killed.  2. ——— } Cumberland river in Conrad's salt  3. ——— } boat. killed.  4. ——— }  5. John Rice, Cumberland river, killed.  6. John Curtis, near the Mouth red river, killed and scalped.  7. ——— Sevier, do. do.  8. ——— Sevier, do. do.  9. ——— Sevier, do. do.  10. ——— Boyd, Clarksville, scalped.  11. ——— Thompson, four miles from Nashville, killed and scalped.  12. ——— Thompson, his wife killed.  13. ——— Thompson, his child do.  14. ——— Thompson, his daughter prisoner.  15. Peter Caffrey's wife and child, four miles from Nashville, prisoners.  16. ——— }  17. ——— } Brown's station, Boys, all killed  18. ——— } and scalped.  19. ——— }  20. ——— }  21. Samuel M. Murray, Buckhanna's station, killed as he was ploughing.  22. ——— near the Mouth red river, killed.  23. John Purviance, Doctors Donnels, killed near Summer Court-house.  24. Benj. Williams, } at his { Massacred, and the  25. His Wife, and } house { house plundered.  26. Child. }  27. Negro wench } Williams's taken prisoners.  28. and child, }  29. A woman, Armstrong's station, killed near Nashville.  30. A boy, near Judge M'Naiby's wounded.  31. General Robertson, his own place, do.  32. Jona. Robertson do. do.  33. James Everett, Gowan's place, killed and scalped.  34. ——— Packs, Sycamore, do. do.  35. Michael Shaver, Zeigler's stations, do. do.  36. Archibald Wilson, do. do.  37. Mary Negro, do. do.  38. ———, do. do. do.  39. Joel Eccles, wounded.  40. Thomas Reece, do.  41. Gabriel Black, do.  42. Joseph Wilson, do.  43. Jacob Zeigler, missing.  44. Mary Zeigler, do.  45. Elizabeth Zeigler, do.  46. Hannah Zeigler, do.  47. Sarah Wilson, do.  48. Moses Wilson, do.  49. Zachaeus Wilson, do.  50. Sarah Wilson, do.  51. Eleanor Wilson, do.  52. Mary Wilson, do.  53. Montilion Wilson, do.  54. Molly Jones, do.  55. Cador, Negro wench, do.  56. Isaac Pendleton, Dripping spring, on the Kentucky road, killed.  57. ——— Millagin, do. killed.  58. M'Farlane, do wounded.  59. John Berkley, junior, Greenfield, in a peach-orchard, killed.  60. John Berkley, sen. wounded, since dead of his wounds.  61. ——— } On Cumberland river, 15 miles be-  62. ——— } low Clarksville, killed.  63. William Clarke, on the Holstein, do. 
Note. —There is positive proof that most of these depredations have been committed by the Creeks, and where the Cherokees have been concerned, it has been thought by their influence.
MR. WILLIS,
IN fulfilment of my promise, I attempt a few observations on your correspondent's transcendent composition; but to do justice to the subject, exceeds perhaps the powers of man. It is a first maxim laid down by a great poet, an elegant writer, and a judicious critic, that every literary performance should possess simplicity and unity of design. In this respect it ought to resemble an animal body, which nature's self has formed. The parts or members of which are not only complete in number, well shaped, and of a just and proportional size, but arranged in due order, placed in the most advantageous and graceful attitudes, and knit together by connections the most simple, strong, and perspicuous. Your correspondent, however, blessed with a soaring genius, has disdained to tread the beaten tract, and obeying the impulse of a lofty soul, has favoured this thrice happy age with a model of composition truly new. It puts me in mind of a noted Limner, who, desirous to surprise if not astonish the world with sublimity and boldness
of design, and to amaze it with some unparalleled stretches of genius, sat down to draw the portrait of a fine lady. The body of a female was no doubt formed by the happy strokes of his creative pencil, but above the shoulders arose the huge lengthy neck of a horse, bearing the diminutive head and tapering snout of a hog; to the slender waist, instead of a pair of elegant polished limbs, was appended the undivided scaly tail of a fish; and to the sides, in lieu of a brace of soft snowy arms, were affixed the dun-feathered pinions of a fowl. Overjoyed, however, to behold the rising form, so much the image of its maker's brain, the limner in a transport exposed it to public view, received the applause of kindred heads, but was shocked to hear the wiser part exclaim a monster . But quitting the contemplation of an ideal monster for that of a real one, I proceed to make the metamorphoses which this Proteus in composition has undergone. In the commencement of his piece, he displays the divine, quotes the sayings of the wise man, and forebodes a sermon. Another gentle transition becomes, the scriptural casuist, a conciliation of seeming contradictions; In a trice he is the moralist, and shrewdly observes that pride and self conceit are productive of ill manners—if the author has for once condescended to employ words in their usual meaning, experience will perhaps refute his philosophy. A proud man aspires to good manners for the sake of his pride, and self conceit prompts to a similar deportment, that self-importance may not suffer diminution. But the moralist is soon deposited as a snake throws off its scaly coat in spring, and the author becomes a humble suppliant, and in profound prostration solicits pardon of men for his compliance with the injunctions of heaven— No raving here .—But as the author's prefatory paragraph might have introduced Tom Jones, or a prayer book, with equal propriety as the subject to which the Printer has prefixed it, so his last five or six paragraphs might have graced the conclusion of any literary performance under the heavens as properly as the piece on which the author has bestowed them, as concluding decorations—to logic, a book of interrogatories, a pamphlet of a-bule, a compilation for dictionaries, &c. &c. they are vastly more alluded than to politics. Amidst all the caperings of the brain however, the author has displayed in one part no small share of candor and good sense, which I cheerfully auspicate as symptoms of his convalescence. He promises a Billingstgate dictionary —an undertaking happily suited to his disposition, education, and capacity.—Lucky for a country when talents are thus employed in occupations to which they are perfectly adapted. As to the singular case, the fluctuations of the author's brain are in it much too tumultuous for me to attempt them; and as to the collection of words which he has thrown around a part of a sentence of my last address, they are to Z altogether unintelligible. He knows not by what name to call this performance, or what design to ascribe to it. It had been well if the author had baptized his brat, before it was sent into the world, or at least told the intention of its arrival. But it is probable that he considered them as too troublesome ceremonies for a thing which favours so rankly of the black-guard and the clown. This arrow was discharged with prodigious force, and levelled as the mistaken archer thought with a cautious aim, but alas! the mark was widely missed; not a hair of Z's coat was grazed—nor let the miss surprise—what could be expected of a roving jack-ass, and jaundiced too, but that he should take a false sight ?
I now take leave of your correspondent, and all his past, present, and to come, wishing him every success in his promised undertaking. Z.
To CORRESPONDENTS.
Z's piece is inserted in consequence of promise.—We hope our other correspondents will excuse the omission of theirs, as we are determined henceforth to publish nothing personal. Essays, letters, &c. upon general and important objects, will always find a place in this paper, when we judge them worthy of it, but personal reflections shall never.
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.
THE Land I advertised on Sleepy-Creek for Sale, the 22d instant, is already sold. PHILIP PENDLETON.
October 12. 1792.
N O T I C E.
EVERY Person who shall attempt to retail Liquors during the continuance of the ensuing races in this town, may rely on being prosecuted to law, without any respect to persons unless they subscribe Four Dollars towards the town purse:—No two or more persons are to be concerned in keeping a single booth, on or near the race ground.
Martinsburg, October 13, 1792.
Want of room obliges us to omit several advertisements.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
THE POOR PILGRIM.
WRITTEN UNDER A FIGURE DRAWN BY GUER-CIND.*
STAY, PASSENGER! who'er thou art, Compassion in thy breast may glow; And if thou canst not ALMS impart, From PITY some relief may flow.
If wayward FORTUNE thou hast prov'd, List to my tale, and feel for me; And if thou e'er hast fondly lov'd, Let love my vindication be.
An outcast from an affluent home, Where PEACE her downy wings display'd, Mournful and pennyles I roam— My all within this basket laid.
Forsaken by the man I lov'd, The man I foolishly believ'd, I wail my fate, while he, unmov'd, Forgets the wretch whom he deceiv'd.
Discarded by parental scorn, Betray'd by him whom I adore, A PILGRIM, weary and forlorn, Relief from Strangers I implore.
If you to whom I lowly kneel, Can pity to the frail extend; If you for those who err can feel, When spurn'd by ev'ry former friend.
Assist a PILGRIM on her way, Whose stock of bread is stale and low: Cold blows the wind—no cheering ray Warns my faint heart, or melts the snow.
Nor long will this unhappy form, Nor long this breaking heart offend: I sink beneath AFFLICTIO'S storm, And soon my shame and grief will end.
For sharper than the northern blast, Are the repentant pangs I prove: Hard is my fate, to mourn and fast; But harder still, to die of love!
* The figure is kneeling, in a supplicating posture, and resting her basket on the ground.
The following Abstract from the late Revenue Law is published for the information of those concerned:
AND be it further enacted, That every distiller of, and dealer in spirits, who may have in his or her possession, distilled spirits, not marked or certified pursuant to the Act, entitled, "An Act repealing after the first day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same," shall, prior to the last day of September next, report the spirits in his or her possession, in writing, at some office of inspection, to the end that such spirits may be marked and certified as old stock. And that from and after the said last day of September next, casks and vessels of the capacity of twenty gallons and upwards, containing distilled spirits, which shall be found in the possession of any distiller or dealer in spirits, except at a distillery where the same were made, or in going from one place to another, without being marked according to law, or without having a certificate from some proper officer, shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture; and that it shall be the duty of the several officers of inspection, upon request of any dealer or distiller, to take measures for the marking of casks, vessels and packages containing distilled spirits, and to furnish such dealer or distiller, free from expence, with certificates to accompany the same: Provided, That it shall not be incumbent upon any officer to mark or certify any cask, vessel or package which ought to have been before marked, or certified according to any law of the United States."
Certificates will be prepared, and every necessary measure taken, for the execution of the above clause.
As this arrangement is undoubtedly calculated to prevent the intrusion of spirits from distant places, that have not paid the duties, to the prejudice of the fair dealer, it is not doubted but all distillers and dealers in spirits will pay the strictest attention to the above law.
EDWARD SMITH, Inspector of Revenue for 5th Survey. Winchester, Sept. 17, 1792.
FOR SALE, A PLANTATION,
Lying in the County of Berkeley, between Charles-town and the Stone Church, and within one mile of said town, containing 190 acres, the land equal to any in the neighbourhood for farming, &c. between 70 or 80 acres cleared, with improvements on the same, and a well of good standing water, within 15 yards of the house. Whoever purchases the same, may be assured of having a good title made to them.
Likewise for sale,
Two Houses and Two Lots of Ground, containing one quarter of an acre each, in the County of Berkeley, near Charles-town, fronting Capt. William Cherry's tavern—the 1st, the store-house where Mr. Mathew Frame now keeps store in, the house 24 feet by 16, with a cellar under the whole house, and a shed the length of the house, 12 feet wide, one fire place and two rooms, likewise a kitchen with a stone chimney.—2d house is on a lot joining the above-mentioned, the house a fram'd one, 20 feet by 18 feet, full story and half high, with a good cellar under the whole of the house, with a shed the length of the house, with a stone chimney in the same, and two rooms.
Likewise for sale,
Two Negro Women, the one about 30 years of age, who understands house-work, cooking, washing, &c. and can do light work about a plantation. The other about 20 years of age, who is well acquainted with cooking, washing, ironing, and can spin on both the flax and wooling wheel, and a good hand to tend in a house or tavern, which last she has served in for two years past. The terms of sale may be known by applying to the subscriber, living in BERKELEY County, near Charles-town.
EPHRAIM WORTHINGTON.
August 29, 1792.
t.f.
Martinsburg Races.
THE RACE at Martinsburg will commence on Wednesday, the 24th of October next, on which day will be run for, over a fine course, near the town, the JOCKEY CLUB PURSE OF FORTY GUINEAS, free only for Members of the Club. Heats 4 miles each. Aged horses carrying 126. Six years old 119. Five years old 108. Four years old 98. And three years old a feather.
No horse will be permitted to start unless the rider be dressed in a silk jacket, half boots, and jockey-cap.
On Thursday, the day following, will be run for over the same ground, a PURSE OF THIRTY POUNDS, Maryland currency, three mile heats, free for any horse, mare, or gelding, paying one shilling in the pound, entrance, and carrying weight agreeable to the rules of the JOCKEY CLUB.
And on Friday, following will be run for, over the same ground, a PURSE OF TWENTY POUNDS of the above currency, free for any horse, mare or gelding, except the horses winning the two preceding days—2 mile heats—paying entrance and carrying weight as above.
On Saturday, the day following, will be run for over the same ground, a handsome sweepstakes, free for any horse, mare, or gelding, except such as have won some one of the purses—one mile heats—with a catch upon each. FLORENCE MAHONY.
August 27, 1792.
A MEETING of the Members of the Jockey Club is desired the day preceding the Races, at the house of Mr. FLORENCE MAHONY, in MARTINSBURG.
NOTICE is hereby given, that no person will be permitted to erect a Booth on or near the race ground during the races, unless they subscribe FOUR DOLLARS towards the Town Purse.
Sept. 2, 1792.
At a Court continued and held for BERKELEY County, on Saturday the 25th day of August, 1792.
John Livesey, Peter Austin, Joseph Smith } Compt. William Hall and James Brazwell, } against In Chancery.
THE Defendant not having entered his appearance agreeable to an Act of Assembly, and according to the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this County. On the motion of the Complainants by their Counsel—It is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here, on the third Tuesday in November next, and answer the bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively, and published at the Church door in the parish of Norborne, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court-House of the said County.
A Copy. Teste,
MOSES HUNTER C.B.C.
At a Court continued and held for BERKELEY County, on Saturday the 25th day of August, 1792. BENJAMIN CHAMBERS and JOSEPH CHAMBERS, Administrators of WILLIAM CHAMBERS, } Compt.
against WILLIAM WILLIAMS CHAPLINE and WILLIAM PRICE, } Defts. In Chancery.
THE Defendants not having entered their appearance agreeable to an Act of Assembly, and according to the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this County. On the motion of the Complainants by their Counsel—It is ordered that the said Defendants do appear here, on the third Tuesday in November next, and answer the bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months, successively, and published at the Church door in the parish of Norborne, on some Sunday immediately after divine service, and also at the door of the Court-House of the said County.
A Copy. Teste,
MOSES HUNTER C.B.C.
LANDS FOR LANDS.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,
FOUR Hundred Acres of Land, (called MAHON'S) lying on Buffalo-creek, Monongalia County, upon which there are upwards of 40 acres of the best meadow, a good mill seat and spring, and the land equal to any on the Western waters.
Three Hundred and eighty-four acres adjoining, below, on same creek, a large proportion of meadow, and a good spring, the upland equal, which is held by settlement-right, and a general warrantee will be given.
One Thousand Acres on the Dunkard-mill run, a branch of said creek, held by preemption-right, of equal quality to the above, and the same warrantee will be given, all lying from 14 to 25 miles from Morgan-Town, and from 3 to 11 miles from Monongalia river—the State road from Morgan-Town to the little Kenhawa passes near or through the said land.
One Thousand Acres on Bingerma's creek, held by preemption-right, a great proportion of meadow, and well watered, which lies in the same county, the upland of good quality, about 10 miles farther from Morgan-Town.
One thousand acres on the little Kenhawa, about 14 miles from the mouth of said river, held by an old location on treasury-warrant, the land also very rich.
Any property in the counties of Berkeley or Frederick, negroes, or good bonds, will be taken in payment.
DAVID GRAY.
Berkeley, April 25, 1792.
12m.
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.
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.
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.
Wanted, by the Printer hereof, a stout young Lad, as an Apprentice.