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

The POTOMAC GUARDIAN, and BERKELEY ADVERTISER.
PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER ANN.]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1793.
[NUMBER 156—VOL 4.]
WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY.
Franklin.
P URSUANT to a decree of the High Court of Chancery, made on the eighth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, will be sold by the subscribers, the commissioners therein named, at Public Auction, for ready money, to the highest bidder, on the TWELFTH of November, instant, at the tavern kept by F. Mahony, in Martinsburg, in Berkeley County, a certain Tract of Land, lying in the parish of Norborne, in the County aforesaid, containing two hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, which the said Benjamin Beeler had mortgaged to Thomas Williams.
ANDREW WAGGONER, ABRAHAM SHEPHERD HENRY BEDINGER.
November 4, 1793.
N. B. In consequence of the absence of two of the commissioners, on the day previously appointed for the sale of the above land, it was unavoidably postponed.
WANTED,
A Young Man to attend a Store, who is well acquainted with the business, and can be well recommended. Inquire of the Printer.
November 4, 1793.
S TRAYED or was taken away from the commons at Martinsburg, about eight weeks ago, a grey HORSE, nine years old, branded with a B on the near shoulder, about 14 hands high, a natural pacer, hind legs crooked, the property of the Subscriber, who intends to dispose, by Public Sale, of a Plantation Waggon, Plough, and other utensils of Husbandry and Household Furniture, on Tuesday, the 19th of this month. Whoever shall take up and deliver the said Horse to the Subscriber at Martinsburg, shall receive the sum of Three Dollars reward.
JANE HUNTER.
Just opened, and now ready for sale,
BY PATRICK BOYLE,
At his Store in MARTINSBURG,
A large and general assortment of
FALL GOODS,
Which he is determined to sell on very reasonable terms, for cash or country produce.
The highest price given in cash or goods, for good
MERCHANTABLE WHEAT,
And CORN.
November 4, 1793.
A LL persons having any demands against the Subscriber, are requested to bring them in for settlement; and those who are indebted to him, are desired to make provision for payment, as he is determined immediately to settle all his accounts both in favor or against him.
The tailoring business is still carried on by him, in its fullest extent;—any demand for a suit of clothes can be completed in three days, and other work in the usual proportion of time, executed with neatness, and in the newest taste.
GEORGE TILLEY.
Martinsburg, October 28, 1793.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
One or two Journeymen TAILORS , who understand their business, are of sober characters, and industrious. Such persons will meet with constant employ,—three shillings and four pence, Pennsylvania currency, per job, will be given them, by applying to
RICHARD MONTGAUL.
Charlestown, October 15, 1793.
At a Court held for Berkeley County, the 20th day of August, 1793.
Simeon Hiatt,
Compt.
against
Defis.
} Upon an Injunction.
Isaac Hiatt and James Hiatt,
T HE defendants not having entered their appearance, agreeable to an Act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the third Tuesday in November next, and answer the bill of the Complainant; 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. C.
NEW-YORK, October 22.
Copy of a letter from William Moultrie, governor of South-Carolina to Citizen Genet, minister plenipotentiary from the French republic to the United States of America.
Charleston, Sept. 5th, 1793.
Dear Sir,
Through the medium of the northern newspapers we in this state have been informed, that a dispute had taken place between the President of the United States and yourself, on some point relating to a prize; and upon your dissent thereon, you laid with a degree of warmth, that you would appeal to the people.—Viewing it as here represented, many real friends to the republic of France have taken great offence, as it conveys insult to a character, highly respected by his country, independent of the station which he fills; from hence much conversation and warm altercation arises.
My regard for you personally, as well as being the representative of a nation I really esteem, induces me to request from you an exact relation of what did happen in your dispute, if any you have had; and that you would, in favoring me in my request, mention the time, the place, and the manner; because opinions lead people more often astray for want of the knowledge of particulars. For my part, be assured my regard for you leads me to suppose, that your good sense could not permit you to behave with the least impropriety to the president.
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
with great regard, your most obedient, humble servant,
WILLIAM MOULTRIE.
Citizen GENET's Answer.
New York, October 15th, 1793, the 2d year of the French republic.
DEAR SIR,
I should long since have exposed the authors of the falsehoods, which a dark and deep intrigue has laid to my charge, if I could have condescended to put myself on a level with those men, whom I too much despise to produce proofs against the absurdity of their accusations. But it is not thus that the representative of a great people should conduct himself—it is not sufficient that he exposes those who traduce him, he ought to demand their punishment and to obtain it, if the representative of the sovereignty where he resides does justice.
It is to congress that I shall address myself, through the medium of the executive of the United States, to ask the severest examination of all my official measures, and of every particular step which may be supposed to have been an attempt upon the established authority of the American Republic: I shall conceal nothing, Sir, from this august body: I shall place under the inspection of every member, my instructions, my correspondence and conferences with the federal government: my correspondence with the French government: my instructions to the consuls of the republic, and my correspondence with them: and, I hope that the result of the examination of these documents, and the analysis of the pretended threat imputed to me, of appealing to the people, will be a thorough conviction, that if I have spoken to your government, with the energy of a freeman, with the enthusiasm which at this day inspires and animates every Frenchman really attached to his country: if I have complained officially, and in no other way of the conduct of certain officers of the federal government, whose intentions appeared to me both destructive of liberty, and favorable to our enemies: if I have declared that their tameness, that their small measures in the common danger which menaces free nations, did not appear to me to be consistent with the sentiments of their fellow-citizens, with the true interests of their country: if I have expressed without disguise, my grief at seeing general Washington, that celebrated hero of liberty, accessible to men whose schemes could only darken his glory: if by this boldness, I have made myself the mark for all the resentment their utmost perfidy can occasion, I have never forgotten what I owe to the supreme head of the executive of a great people, who were the first to open the career to freedom, the first to proclaim the rights of men, and whose existence is as dear to us, as ours is necessary to them.
I am as jealous of the esteem of the Americans, as that of my fellow-citizens, and whatever efforts may be made to deprive me of it, I flatter myself with confidence, that I shall wholly preserve it. I believe that I shall be always deemed worthy in their eyes, of the fraternal reception they gave me from Charleston to New-York; and, I make no doubt, finally, that the brave general Moultrie, will never regret to have been the first to acknowledge in me, the envoy of the French republic and to have heaped on me those kindnesses and obliging attentions: the recollection of which will be never effaced from my memory.
GENET.
Citizen Duplaine, the vice consul of the French Republic in Boston, having been prosecuted by a Boston tribunal, according to certain decisions of the Executive, relative to the right of selling, publicly, the French prizes, has received the following instructions from Citizen Genet, to direct his conduct in that extraordinary circumstance.
Extract of a letter from Citizen GENET, to Citizen DUPLAINE, Vice-Consul in Boston.
“Persist in your protestation against whatever might, in the least degree, affect the rights of the French nation, and the character with which you are invested; afterwards give yourself up wholly, and without reserve, to the moral force of the judicial power of the United States; and confine yourself to presenting to that authority, which is independent of the executive power and its decisions, in one hand, our treaties of commerce and alliance, which should be for them laws most sacred, in the other the history of the immortal revolution in America. The latter ought to be, for just and grateful men, the only commentary on national compacts. If you are absolved, more than ever bless and adore those free governments, where man is ever sheltered from the fatal strokes of despotism, so long as his conduct is justifiable in the eye of the law. If you are found guilty, leave to the sovereign people of France and America to decide, through the organ of their representatives, whether our bands of union are to be strengthened or wholly broken, at a time when all the courts have sworn the ruin of those Republics which are founded upon the rights of man; at a time when their perfidious policy has directed all its efforts to a disunion among them, that they may afterwards, with the more safety, operate their effectual destruction.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BY LATE ARRIVALS.
PARIS, August 29.
T HE Evidence and argument on the trial of Custine were concluded on the 27th, late in the evening.
The public accuser, and the prisoner's counsel, having made their remarks, the president of the tribunal stated the following questions for the consideration of the jury:
1. “Have there been, during the present war, criminal manoeuvres and correspondence with the enemies of the republic, tending to facilitate their entrance into our territory, and to deliver up to them our places of strength, cities, magazines and arsenals?
2. “It is proved, that in consequence of such correspondence, the cities of Frankfort, Mentz, Conde and Valenciennes have fallen into the hands of the enemy?
3. “Is Adam Philip Custine, late general of the army of the North and the Ardennes, convicted of having co-operated in these manoeuvres and correspondence?”
To all these questions the jury found in the affirmative and the public accuser being heard on the application of the law; the tribunal passed the following sentence:
“Adam Philip Custine is condemned to death, and confiscation of his property for the benefit of the republic. The sentence of death shall be executed in the place of the Revolution, between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning (of the 28th) read, printed, and posted up wherever it shall seem proper.”
The president called upon the prisoner to say, if he had any objection to make to the application of the law?
Custine answered, “I have no defendant; they have all appeared; my conscience makes me no reproach; I die innocent.”
The people heard the sentence with loud applause.
Custine was brought to the place of execution on the morning of the 28th, where he shewed neither the calm resignation of conscientious innocence, nor the indignant firmness of men of proud spirits, who have no such consolation. Substitute for it. He kissed the crucifix, embraced his confessor, hesitated, used every artifice to gain a few minutes longer time, and at last was brought to the guillotine by force.
Letter from the French civil comptroller of the marine, at Dunkirk, dated August 25.
The enemy's army remains still encamped on Affrenkonke. Several advanced posts have been taken; one among other has established a battery more than half a league from the place; and several bullets have fallen in the town. The French army is encamped under the ramparts; during the day there have been many affairs of posts, and the skirmishes on both parties have kept up a continual fire.
A six o'clock, the garrison made a vigorous sally, drove the advanced guards above a league from

The batteries of the town kept up a terrible fire until nine in the evening. From that hour until six the next morning, not a musket was fired, and the night was perfectly tranquil. Our men having been for three days harassed with labor, had great need of this repose.
The floating batteries were as serviceable as on the day before. Citizen Castaigner twice repulsed a numerous body of horse, and prevented it, as well as a considerable train of artillery, from passing the Beltran. The enemy erected two batteries on the Downs, which they directed at the floating batteries; but Castaigner twice silenced their fire, and obliged them to remove westward, though he could not dismount their guns. I cannot sufficiently praise that officer, whose valor equals his patriotism.
We are prepared to defend this important town to the last extremity; the national guard is most excellently disposed; and I may venture to assure you, that Dunkirk will maintain the reputation it acquired under John Bart.
Called to the council of war, of which I am a member, I have not neglected the administration of the marine, which had been confined to me: In case of bombardment I have made every provision for safety; I have placed tubs filled with water, at short distances, beside the arsenal and all the magazines; I have removed hemp, tables, and all combustible materials, and have stationed a sufficient number of guards within the arsenal to ascertain its security; beside which, half the administrators alternately pass the night there.
I have ceded to the town, at a requisition of the council of war, such muskets, sabres, and pistols as are necessary for its defence, with grape shot of various dimensions, of which an immediate supply may be wanted, and which will of course be sent me. I have likewise sent all the matrassees that were in store to the hospital, for we have many wounded who must not be neglected.
[DEFEAT OF THE ROYALISTS.]
The representatives of the people, in a letter from Rochelle, dated August 15, stated the following defeat:
For these several days past the enemy threatened our troops in the Plains of Lucon. Yesterday 40,000, both infantry and cavalry, appeared in 3 columns; they commenced a vigorous attack, which proved, however, fatal to them, for in less than an hour and an half the ground was strewn with dead bodies. We think that the enemy lost 5000 men in the first attack; our troops pursued them to the distance of five leagues. We will now make the best of our successes, and not suffer them to rally; 6000 Republicans put 40,000 banditti to the route; and so great was their terror, that they must have fled had they been 100,000. This victory cost them 16 pieces of cannon, and six ammunition wagons.
Charles Joseph Lescuyer, aged 49 years, Marshal de Camp, accused of having received orders from Dumourier to arrest the citizen Bellegarde, deputy-commissioner to the army of the north, was condemned by the revolutionary tribunal, and executed on the same evening, at seven o'clock.
When he arrived at the place of execution, his resolution failed him; he fainted, and was carried to the guillotine.
General Houchard, who a few days ago was appointed to be commander in chief of the army of the North, has been denounced to the Jacobins by one Giroult, who calls him the confidential friend, and right arm of Custine.
The Royalists in La Vendee, are in a great measure subdued, 6000 of them have been destroyed in one action.
Cadiz, August 10. I am very sorry to tell you that the Spaniards have been completely defeated, both in Rouillon and Navarre.
Hera, Aug. 16. The Prince de Cobourg's grand army has invested Maubeuge, Le Quesnoy, and Landrecies; the two latter are now blockaded. The moment that Landrecies is taken, the siege of Maubeuge will commence. The allies began with Landrecies, although more advanced, because it cannot hold out long, and when taken, will completely cover the siege of Maubeuge. They will then be able to attack it from behind the woods of Marmal, where the French are still posted, and from which they might incommode the army that will besiege Maubeuge.
Cologne, Aug. 16. The King of Prussia issued orders for 25,000 fresh troops to march to the borders of the Rhine. It is also said, that the Duke of Brunswick will engage 6000 of his troops in the service of the Emperor and the Empire!
Landau has been surrounded on all sides, ever since the 6th: this is supposed to be a manœuvre in order to facilitate the operations of the Prussians against Saar Louis.
Straßburg has been invested since the 5th inst.
Brussels, Aug. 16. Accounts are received that yesterday Prince Hohenlohe gained a great advantage over the French, and completely drove them from their posts in the forest of Moral. The French lost on this occasion near 500 men killed and wounded, 200 prisoners:—Their commander was among the former, and two Colonels, with several other officers of rank, were amongst the latter. The loss of the Austrians did not exceed 60 men killed and wounded. The Austrians have taken possession of Barlamont, Johmetz, Loquignol, and Hecks, and are preparing for the immediate siege of Le Quesnoy.
This day, the town of Quesnoy has been completely blockaded, and every avenue to it cut off. Our army occupies several strong camps along the rivulet Selle, in such a manner that our right wing is supported by Denain, and our left by the forest of Moral.
The position procures us the advantage of cutting off from the enemy all communication with Cateau, a post very important, from the number of roads which meet at that place. In the afternoon many detachments of the enemy shewed themselves without the city, on the side of Orsinval and Jolimetz, but they durst not approach our advance.
August 23. This morning, at four o'clock, the enemy, with 700 infantry and 50 troopers, made a sortie from Quesnoy, against our post of Villeraux, Petit Freney, and Behe Maison; but they were obliged to abandon their enterprise, leaving 18 dead on the spot, besides a considerable number wounded, whom they carried off. We had only four killed and 20 wounded.
L O N D O N, September 7.
Camp before Dunkirk, September 3.
An officer of the navy reached the camp this morning, in 24 hours from the Downs, charged with despatches for his Royal Highness the Duke of York. By these the Duke was informed that two fifty-gun ships, some frigates and bomb-ketches were under orders to proceed immediately for Dunkirk, to co-operate with the land forces in the reduction of the place. We anxiously look for their arrival, as an event which cannot fail to facilitate our operations against the enemy, by dividing their attention, and their force, for the defence of both sea and land side.
Our artillery, during the whole of this day, have been very busily employed in removing guns from the park to the lines. Facines and gabions are making as fast as possible, and at last things begin to wear the appearance of a siege.
Summons sent by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, to the commandant at Dunkirk.
Head quarters of the combined army.
Sir,
before Dunkirk, August 22.
"I inform you, that the army which I command is at your gates. Your city, destitute of the means of real defence, cannot long resist the victorious arms which I most instantly employ against it, did I not wish to avoid the utter destruction of a flourishing city, and did not humanity and generosity make me desire to spare the effusion of human blood. Therefore I summon you, Sir, to surrender the city of Dunkirk to his Britannic majesty, before I shall turn again at the considerable forces which are at my disposal, informing you, however, previously, that I will listen to the proposals which you may make, provided they be not derogatory from the respect and honour of the British arms, as well as from the interests of Great-Britain and her allies. I consent to grant you 24 hours to deliberate upon the summons."
(Signed) FREDERICK, Duke of York, Commander of the combined army, before Dunkirk.
AN ANSWER OF THE FRENCH COMMANDANT.
General,
Invested with the confidence of the French republic, I have received your summons to surrender an important city. I shall only answer it by assuring you, that I shall be able to defend it with the brave republicans whom I have the honor to command.
(Signed) O'MERA, general of brigade.
The Duke of York received an express from the Prince of Orange, the 29th ult. stating the particulars of the attack made by the French, and of the success they had obtained, but stating at the same time, that the French were collecting in such force, that they must fall back from all their posts, unless a considerable force should be immediately sent to their aid: That they had actually retired from Turcoing and Lannoy, and that they even apprehended they must abandon Menin, where the wounded English were in hospitals. This account was further confirmed by Colonel D'Oyley of the guards, who said, that in the apprehension of the Dutch quitting Menin, he had thought it necessary to embark the sick and wounded English, both officers and men, in a boat, and send them by the canal to Burges.
Of the mails expected yesterday, only that from Holland, which was due on Tuesday, arrived, and there were no official accounts from the army of his royal highness the duke of York. The long failure of the latter communications gave rise to a report, that from the increasing strength of the French at Cassel, and the weakness of the Dutch at Menin, his royal highness had found it necessary to retire from his position near Dunkirk; but it may be necessary to observe, that there is no authority for the rumor.
The governor of Landau, was summoned the 23d ultimo, for the first time. He replied, that he was resolved to defend the place until nothing should be left of it but a pile of ruins, under which he would bury his body.
The French republican army, on the 24th ultimo, bombarded Lyons, by which the gate of St. Clair, the magazines, the quarter of La Saone, and three considerable streets were destroyed; the damage is estimated at 2 hundred millions of livres. The republicans state their loss at only twenty-six men killed.
The French papers, of the 30th ultimo, were received in town at a late hour last night. The principal news which they contain is, that the republican troops had obtained an important victory over the Lyonnese. The federalists were, however, not wholly subdued. The city of Lyons still resists both the arms and the menaces of the assailants.
The army under the Duke of York, employed at the siege of Dunkirk, amounts to 46,000 men.
Letters from the army mention, that the English floating battery was cannonading Dunkirk.
This morning, accounts were received, by government, of an action having taken place before Dunkirk, after Sir James Murray's last despatch had been written, in which the allied army had sixteen killed and fifty-seven wounded. Among the number of killed are general d'Alton and colonel Eld. Among the wounded is Captain Williams.
By letters from Lord Hood's fleet, off Toulon, on the 2d instant, we learn, that on the preceding day a flag of truce had been sent in by his Lordship, proposing an exchange of prisoners. The officer who went in with the flag reported, that at Toulon all were in consternation and confusion—sixteen sail of the line were lying in the harbour, and four or five more fitting out. An exchange of prisoners is however to take place.
September 9. We are happy to lay before the public, a continuation of the detail of the operations carried on against Dunkirk, from which our readers will see, that so late as the morning of the 4th, the army under the command of his royal highness, instead of meeting with any serious disaster, as some late rumours seemed to indicate, was still before the place, and carrying on with vigor the measures necessary for reducing it.
When our despatches left the army, it was encamped at a village about three miles from Dunkirk, after setting fire to every thing combustible in the posts of which they had previously taken possession of close by the town, and which they had left for a more convenient position.
In a few days Dunkirk will be attacked on all sides, at once, with the utmost vivacity. The land army, it would appear, will make two principal attacks, while the squadron, which has already arrived before that place, will form a third no less powerful. We are assured that the merchants of that city have already made representations to the commandant, begging that he would not suffer Dunkirk to be destroyed for no purpose, as Valenciennes was. These representations were so badly received that the Governor threatened to hang up the first man who should dare to speak of a capitulation. The garrison of Dunkirk is partly composed of the troops who, last winter, attempted the conquest of Holland.
From the Head Quarters of the
Prince de Cobourg, at Berlin, Aug. 16.
At a council of war, held at Valenciennes, the Duke of York strongly insisted, that the only way to terminate the war, and to save the lives of the Queen of France and the Royal Family, would be to march strait to Paris: That being once in the possession of the capitol, and the Convention dispersed, a feeble resistance only afterwards can be made on the part of the King; that being within 40 leagues of the city, and the French having no army there, the allies would arrive before their enemies could assemble forces capable to stop a victorious army; and that if 45,000 men were given him, he would lead them thither. General Otto supported this opinion, and said that if he were permitted to follow the Duke with his Hungarians, he would answer with his head for the success of his plan.
The other Generals were of opposite sentiments; asserting, that it would be imprudent to leave the strong places behind. The Duke of York, however, spoke with so much warmth and reason, that he gained over the whole Council, and it was agreed that he should march forward to Paris with 30,000 men; and that the Prince de Cobourg should support him with 40,000 more. The road by Campaign was to be taken, in order to command the Oise.
The French having evacuated the camp of Cæsar, and having retreated behind Arras, the Duke of York set out on the 10th from the environs of Crevecoeur, and arrived the following day at Beury, where he stopped until the corps which was to follow him put itself in motion.
S H E R B O R N E, September 9.
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, September 6.
"Wednesday, the Audacious, of 74 guns, arrived here from earl Howe's fleet, which passed this port, at a great distance to the southward, the same day, in their way to Torbay, at which place they anchored that evening."
"A ship of the line and three frigates are now (five o'clock, P. M.) working into the sound, supposed to be part of earl Howe's fleet coming in to get victualled."
Extract of a letter from Dartmouth, September 6.
"The grand fleet, under the command of earl Howe, came into Torbay on Wednesday last, where they all remained until this morning, when the Cumberland sailed to the eastward, and four or five sail of the line to the westward."
Dover, September 8. This morning a letter was received by a gentleman, from the Captain of the Dolphin armed cutter, belonging to this port, which states, that he yesterday fell in with a Swedish brig off Calis, which had left that place a short time before. The Captain of the brig reports that the inhabitants were in great consternation, they having received intelligence that Lord Hood had made himself master of Toulon, with fifteen ships of the line in the harbour. This intelligence, however, wants confirmation.
Deal, September 8. Yesterday evening Mr. William Sharp, acting Lieutenant of his Majesty's cutter Dolphin, landed at Walmer Castle, and communicated to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the agreeable intelligence of the surrender of Toulon, with 15 sail of the line, to the combined fleets.—Mr. Sharp received this information from the Captain of a neutral brig, who left the port of Calais just as the news reached that place.

UNITED STATES.
BOSTON. October 23.
Captain Brown, arrived at Portsmouth, informs, that the day previous to his sailing from Jamaica, an English squadron, consisting of one 50 gun ship, two frigates, and a number of privateers, carrying about 700 British troops, were despatched for Jeremie, in Hispaniola, with a view to capture that place.
NEW-YORK, October 23.
MALIGNANT FEVER ABATED.
We congratulate all sympathetic friends of the distressed, on the following authenticated fact:—It is confidently asserted, that not more than 8 or 10 were supposed dangerously ill at the Philadelphia hospitals on Saturday last; so salutary a change has been effected in the atmosphere since the rains, that the sick are recovering fast, and very little is now apprehended from the fever, if the people will be temperate, and avoid infected sick chambers.
Ninian Home , governor of GRENADA, the Grenadines being in a starving condition, has been most graciously pleased , by proclamation, to permit Americans, in their own bottoms , to carry them food to eat !
A gentleman from St. John (N. B.) informs, that the British September packet is on her way from Halifax for this port, and that by her, news was received of the surrender of DUNKIRK where 350 vessels were taken or destroyed. It is probable, that the packet will arrive before our next when particulars respecting this affair will doubtless be communicated.
Captain Orne, from St. Ubes (Portugal) to Salem, says, little information could be had there, respecting the powers at war—government was jealous of the people's knowing too much —it was reported, that the Spanish troops had refused to march to the frontiers.
The foreign articles, inserted this day, were received by Capt. Robinson, in the ship Portland, mentioned last Saturday. We are happy to find, after perusing all the accounts current , that their general import, though from British ministerial papers, give a balance much in favour of the defenders of liberty in France—leaving room to hope, that old things will be there soon done away, and all things become both politically and religiously new .
Further verbal accounts to September 12, state, that there had been several engagements at DUNKIRK, in which the combined armies had been BEATEN with great loss, particularly among the officers. Say 2 000. DUKE OF YORK commandant. It was rumoured, that the siege of it would be soon raised—the inundating, or overflowing of the water without their walls, and other ingenious defences, having rendered an approach by land impracticable.
We learn this moment, by some officers arrived from St. Domingo, that the conspiracy so planned in that island, is at length discovered. The Mole and Jeremie have delivered themselves into the power of George the Third: Thus we find the French colonies have also the Vendee. The satellites of the British tyrant have been received there with open arms, and the sign of French emancipation has been trampled under foot.
These two acts of treason, added to Galbaud's flight into Canada, shew who were the real conductors of them, and fully justify those who unmasked that man and his accomplices.
We learn, by the sloop Dolphin, Capt. Brown, from Jamaica on Monday last, that Lord DUNMORE, and his graceless crew at New Providence , were so panic struck, for fear of Admiral Sercey's fleet, from this port, that they had absolutely sent to Jamaica for military succours of various descriptions.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated October 26.
"The sickness is fast on the decline, and people are crowding to town: Too fast I fear, considering the heat of the weather. It is said Congress will adjourn from hence to Lancaster. By the slow procedures in finishing their place of session, one would think the Philadelphians did not expect they would set here."
October 29. By a gentleman, direct from Pittsburgh, we learn, that General Wayne had marched from the Miami, against the Indians, with 300 regular troops and 1500 volunteers, from Kentucky. We also learn, that Stiff-knee, a Chief of the Chippewas, had come into Fort Pitt, with assurances that his nation had resolved to observe a strict neutrality.
The celebrated General Scott, of Kentucky, was to have headed the volunteers; but unfortunately fell from his horse just as the troops were marching, and was obliged to remain behind.
The committee appointed to prevent the introduction and spreading of infectious diseases in this city, REPORT—
That the man on Governor's Island, landed from on board a vessel from Philadelphia, is now so well as to sit up, and in all probability is out of danger—That the case of Mr. Nathaniel G. Phillips, who died this morning, in Water Street, did not come to the knowledge of the committee until this day; and it is but too probable, that his disease partook of that prevailing in Philadelphia. Had the physicians, who attended him, performed the duty required of them, the committee would have it in their power, and would have reported the case to their fellow citizens.
The servant of Mr. Philips, who is unwell, has been this day removed to Governor's Island; and
it is feared, that his distemper is similar to that of which his master died.
PHILADELPHIA. October 24.
The malignant disorder that has so long raged in this city, is visibly moderating from day to day, and where it exists, has assumed a mild appearance. The deaths at the hospital have decreased, and the number of convalescents is becoming numerous. With a continuance of cool weather, there is every reason to presume, that the sickness will wholly disappear in a few days, and the intercourse between this and other cities, by stages, &c. be restored. People are now daily returning to their habitations, and we hear of none having taken any infection.
The committee for the relief of the sick and distressed, feel the highest pleasure in announcing to their fellow citizens throughout the United States, that the abatement of the disorder is beyond all expectation, and affords the most flattering prospect of our being soon freed from it entirely. They, however, strongly recommend to the absent citizens of Philadelphia, not to return for a week or ten days, or until we have some considerable rains, as the change of air would prove dangerous, and might probably prove destructive to many.
MATTHEW CLARKSON, President.
Committee Chamber, Phila. October 26, 1793.
HARRISBURG, October 21.
A gentleman just arrived in this town, from the Holstein settlements, informs, that the Indians, in that quarter have commenced their depredations in good earnest: that on the 5th instant, the day our informant came away, an express arrived from Gen. Smith, with orders for the militia to march immediately to Knoxville; that the inhabitants of that town were in a momentary expectation of an attack from a large body of Indians, who had assembled within seven miles of the place, where they had committed the most cruel murders on the whites; that on the first instant says our informant, 13 or 14 inhabitants fell victims to savage barbarity, all within a few miles of Knoxville; among which was the family of Mr. Cabbot, a gentleman who has long been esteemed for his humanity to those who have suffered by these tawney sons of cruelty.
RICHMOND, October 26.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Abingdon, dated October 4, to a gentleman in Manchester.
"By John M'Kee, who has just arrived here, on his way to Philadelphia, with Piomingo, the great Chickasaw chief, and four others of the principal chiefs of that nation, we are informed, that on the 24th September a large body of Indians, Cherokees and Creeks, foot and horse, computed at from 1000 to 1500, crossed the Tennessee at Coyatee, 30 miles below Knoxville, with an intention to surprise that place that night, but day overtaking them 8 miles short of it, they contented themselves with killing Alexander Cavil and his family, consisting of 13 men, women and children.
"For this precipitate retreat of so numerous a body of Indians, we are indebted to General Sevier, who is in the field with a small body of men.
"The cruelty and obtusity practised and exhibited in the murder and on the bodies of Cavil's family, particularly the female and infant part of it, equal, if not surpass, whatever has before been seen, or the imagination can conceive.
"Governor Blount has also arrived here, and upon holding a talk with Piomingo and the other chiefs, they have declined the visit to the president, and return with him to Knoxville.
BALTIMORE, November 4.
Yesterday afternoon arrived here, the Schooner Experiment, captain Ward, in 23 days from Jeremie. A gentleman who came passenger in her, confirms the account of the capture of Jeremie and the Mole, by the British. Through the same channel we learn, that Cayemite shared the same fate.
ALEXANDRIA, November 6.
Sunday evening last the Brig Nancy, Capt. Magruder, arrived here in 36 days from Whitehaven, he informs that the Duke of York had twice attacked Dunkirk and was repulsed with considerable loss. Captain Magruder left England later than the vessel said to bring the account of the surrender of Dunkirk, as given in the Mirror of Saturday last.
MARTINSBURG, November 11.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, dated October 27.
"By the Camilla, Capt. Service, who left Cadiz the 14th of September, we have received an official letter to Mr. Duff, British consul there, from the minister plenipotentiary of Madrid, which mentions that both Marcellles and Toulon had surrendered to Lord Hood, and that 30 sail of the line had been given up to him as a guarantee."
Tuesday the 29th ult. the President of the United States arrived in Baltimore, on his way to Germantown, 6 miles beyond Philadelphia.
The president of the United States has in terdicted the Sieur Antoine Charbonet Duplaine, Vice-Consul for the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, from exercising or enjoying any the functions, powers or privileges allowed to the Vice Consuls of that nation, he having, under colour of his said office, committed sundry encroachments and infractions on the laws of the land, and particularly having caused a vessel to be rescued with an armed force out of the custody of
an officer of justice, who had arrested the same by process from his court.
The President has likewise recognized Citizen Dournery, as Consul for the Republic of France at Boston.
A letter of the first inst. from Alexandria, says, "The President has set off for Chester, ten miles from Philadelphia, to meet the heads of the departments."
General Valence, says a London paper, has embarked for America. In a private letter of that General's, he says, "I am now going to America, and I hope to find in that happy country, that lateiny and protection, which the English, under the influence of an ambitious minister, have denied me."
"The national convention having heard the report of its committee of public welfare, decreed—
The young men shall march to the combat: the married men shall forge arms, and transport the provisions: the women shall make tents and cloaths, and wait in the hospitals: the children shall make lint of old linen: the old men shall cause themselves to be carried to the public squares, to excite the courage of the warriors, to preach hatred against Kings, and the unity of the republic.
INDIAN WAR.
We may expect soon to have important intelligence from our army at the westward. If this army should meet with a fate similar to St. Clair's, &c. it is hoped the eyes of "The People" will be so far opened as to call on Congress for an explicit declaration of the validity of our claim, together with the views and designs of those who are urging that hitherto, disgraceful, expensive and destructive business. Millions of dollars expended and thousands of men slain, will call for a public investigation, as no freeman, who pays an "additional TAX" to support this war, will any longer be satisfied with a bare recital, on paper, of the "mismanagement and neglect" of any department whatever. A war for territory, at this period when millions of acres lay totally uncultivated within our own borders, though beneficial to individuals, must eventually prove ruinous to the United States, and absorb a revenue which ought to be appropriated to the useful purpose of discharging our foreign and domestic debt.
The inhabitants of this town are cautioned to be on their guard against encroachments made on their repositories—a recent instance of a gentleman's having a bushel of oysters taken from his cellar in the meridian of the day, which he had appropriated for a particular use,* and from which invaluable productions were expected, has induced us to give this notice.
*YARDLEY.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
A SOBER, decent, industrious young Man, as an Hoster. If he answers the above description generous wages will be given.
Inquire of the Printer.
November 11, 1793.
CAME to the Subscriber's Plantation, some time since, a black and white HEIFER, with a white face and black over the eyes; has a crop in both ears, and a bit off the right ear. She has been posted and appraised according to law. The Owner is desired to prove his property and take her away. JAMES HOGELING.
November 11, 1793.
THE Subscriber requests those that are indebted to him by open account, to come and settle, and if they cannot discharge what may be due, to give their obligations, as their accounts may be closed by the first of April next; he then purposed to open a large assortment of Merchandize, and wants his books settled before he begins business again, as they have been long standing.
JOSEPH MINGHINI.
November 11, 1793.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, on the night of the 10th of September last, a Negro Man named SOMERS, about 26 or 27 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, tawny complexion, has a down look. He took with him when he went away, a light cloth coat and breeches, a red thag waistcoat, a round white sailor jacket, a pair of striped and a pair of tow overalls, a good wool hat, and shoes. He will endeavour to pass for a freeman. Whoever apprehends said Negro and returns him to me, or commits him to goal so that I get him again, shall have the above reward, and necessary charges.
JOHN KEARNEY.
Berkeley County, Virginia, November 11, 1793.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
A JOURNEYMAN SADDLER.
If he is a workman, and of good character, he will be taken as a partner, or constant employ, good wages, and punctual payment made, either by the month or piece work. WILLIAM SKINNER.
Martinsburg, Nov. 11, 1793.
ON Saturday night last, the cover of the Subscriber's waggon was taken off and carried away, as also several bushel of oysters taken out of the waggon, while standing in the street in this town. I will give a generous reward to any person who will give me any information, whereby I can discover the thief or thieves of so daring a robbery.
HENRY CRAGHILL.
Martinsburg, Nov. 11, 1793.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
On the death of that Patriot, Philanthropist and Christian, JOHN HANCOCK, Esquire.
YES! all must yield to death's remorseless rage; Creation's brow shall wrinkle up with age; Time shall remove the keystone of the sky; Heaven's roof shall fall—but ah, must Hancock die?
What then, is greatness? what, this thing call'd fame? A meteor's flash—which glitters but in name? For he whose arm a bleeding realm could save, Now bows a victim to the tyrant grave!
A N E C D O T E S.
People who are resolved to please always at all events, frequently overhoot themselves and render themselves ridiculous by being too good.—A Lady going to eat plumb cake and caudle at a friend's house one morning, ran to the cradle to see the fine boy as soon as she came in: unfortunately the Cat had taken up the baby's place; but before she could give herself time to see her mistake, the exclaimed with up lifted eyes and hands, "Oh! what a sweet child! the very picture of its father!"
Ah, honey! (said an Irishman to his friend one day) pray can you lend me ten pence?—"No, indeed I can't, (replied Paddy) for I have no more nor four."—"Well give me that, (returned the other) and then you'll owe six-pence."
N O T I C E.
BEING sworn in, at the last Worshipful Court of Berkeley County, to collect the arrears of taxes, clerks fees, &c. due JAMES CRANE, late of Berkeley, deceased, as a former Deputy Sheriff for said County. I therefore earnestly request all persons in arrearages in like manner, to make immediate provision for payment, or they will be compelled as the law directs, which will be very disagreeable to me, as no longer indulgence can or will be given. JOSEPH CRANE.
October 23d, 1793.
N O T I C E.
ALL Persons who stand indebted to me in any manner, are desired and earnestly requested, to make an early provision for the payment of the several sums which are due; those who neglect the observance of and compliance with this request, will not hope blame me for commencing suits against them, which I am determined to do.
MOSES HUNTER.
Martinsburg, 17th October, 1793.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their Friends and the Public, that they will receive raw cloth at Mr. Seth Duncan's, (formerly Mr. Thomas Duncan's) in Martinsburg, and return the same when dressed the first day of Court following. We return thanks to those who have favoured us with their custom, and those who wish to continue, may depend on due attention, and an immediate dispatch, by
THOMAS BUTTERFIELD, and Co.
October 28, 1793.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the Subscriber, an apprentice boy named ZACHARIAH LOULAND, bound to the blacksmith trade, about nineteen years of age, six feet high, and fair complexion. Whoever apprehends said apprentice and brings him to me, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
SAMUEL M C LELLAND.
Mill-Creek, Berkeley County, October 20, 1793.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, living in Berkeley County, Virginia, 2 miles from Martinsburg, on the 30th of September last, a black horse, about 15 hands high, 9 years old, no brand, a middling large blaze in his face, a piece of skin under his fore top loose from his skull or pate, cress fallen, marked with the collar near the weather, slim tail and short, natural trotter, his hind hoofs turn out, shod behind and near fore foot. Whoever takes up the thief and horse, shall have the above reward, provided the thief be brought to conviction and the horse returned to the owner, and for the horse only two dollars, paid by
JOHN DAVIS.
N. B. The horse does not see well with the right eye.
N O T I C E.
ALL Persons indebted to the estate of Captain Isaac Evans, deceased, are hereby notified that unless they come in and settle the same by March Court next, their accounts will be put in suit. Any persons having any demands against the said estate, are requested to bring them in immediately, for settlement.
MARTHA EVANS, Executrix, JOHN EVANS, jun. } Executors. JOHN FRAYATT, }
October 14, 1793.
ALL Persons indebted to, or have any demands on, the estate of William Morgan, late of Berkeley, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same to the subscribers, as they are determined on a speedy settlement of said estate.
ABRAHAM MORGAN, } Executors. GEORGE MORGAN. }
October 21, 1793.
THE Subscriber informs the public, that he has established a
N A I L F A C T O R Y
in Charlestown, where Nails, Brads, and Sprigs of all kinds in his way of business, may be had very reasonable for cash.
GEORGE WARK.
3m.
N O T I C E.
MY duty, as Inspector of Flour at this place, obliges me strictly to enforce the act of Assembly passed at the last session, for regulating the inspection of flour and bread. If the Farmers and Millers would duly consider the subject, they would find themselves deeply interested in the faithful execution of this act. If their staple, by any neglect or inattention, loses its credit at any foreign markets, the price will most certainly fall at home as well as abroad. This must be obvious to every person, and requires no chain of reasoning to prove. That the loss, whatever it may be, will ultimately fall upon the Farmer, is as evident. That those who may be affected by the enforcing that act, may not plead ignorance, I have judged it proper to transcribe and publish those clauses of the act by which they may be affected.
"All bread and flour casks which shall be bro't to any of the places before mentioned for exportation, shall be well made of good seasoned materials, tightened with ten hoops, sufficiently nailed with four nails in each chine hoop, and three nails in each bilge-hoop."
"Every miller of flour, and baker of bread for exportation, shall provide and keep a distinguishable brand-mark, with which he shall brand every cask of flour and bread, and mark thereon the Tare and Nett weight, before the same shall be removed from the place where it was boulted or baked, under the penalty of forty-two cents for every cask of flour not hooped and nailed as aforesaid."
The points in which the manufacturers of flour are too generally deficient, are the quality of the timber of which the barrels are made, being often, very often, too green, which will destroy the quality of the best flour; and neglect in nailing agreeably to the directions of the act. My duty demands from me a rigorous execution of the law, which I will most assuredly perform. The interest of the Manufacturer loudly calls for it, though he may, and frequently does, turn a deaf ear to it.
I have just opened, and have for sale, at my house in this town, a choice assortment of BOULTING-CLOTHS.
ALEXANDER SMITH.
Alexandria, Sept. 23, 1793.
3m.
T O B E S O L D,
FOUR Lots in the town of Middletown, all under improvement, one has a good House, Shop, draw Well and some fruit Trees, two others with small log Houses, one of which has a Stable, and one other Lot under good fence. Indisputable titles will be given. For terms of payment and other particulars, apply to the subscriber on the premises.
EDWARD JENNINGS.
Middletown, Sept. 23, 1793.
3m.
JOSEPH & JOSHUA RIDDLE, Have just received a neat and general Assortment of Well chosen FALL GOODS.
Imported in the last vessels from Europe. They hope to be able to give full satisfaction to all that may please to call on them; they are determined to sell for ready pay only, and have opened their goods at as low an advance as any others in the County. The highest price given for country produce of every kind in cash or goods. They return their thanks to the public for the encouragement they have already received and hope to merit a continuance.
N. B. Saddles of all sorts at the shortest notice.
N O T I C E.
THE Subscribers request those that are indebted to the estate of Thomas Thornberry, jun. deceased, late of this County, to come and settle immediately, as we are determined to have the estate settled as quick as possible. Those that have any demands against said estate, are requested to bring them forth immediately, properly stated, for settlement, and oblige us.
P. THORNBERRY, Administratrix.
J. PEIRCE, Administrator.
Berkeley County, Shepherd's Town, October 20, 1793.
T O B E S O L D,
From 300 to 700 acres of LAND lying in one body, on both sides Back-Creek, including said Creek two and half miles on one side and two miles on the other. This land is divided into four plantations, well watered; there is a two story log house, barn, kitchen, &c. on the principal plantation, also a good apple orchard of near 100 bearing apple trees, a peach orchard and some cherry trees, about 16 acres of good meadow, and a mill seat near the dwelling house. The whole of the said tract of land is well timbered, and the bottom equal to any in the settlement. There is on one of the plantations a log house of one story and an half, and an excellent lime-stone spring, suitable for a distillery. The above tract will be divided, or sold altogether, as may suit the purchaser. For terms of sale, apply to the subscriber, on the premises, or at the Printing-Office hereof.
WILLIAM BAILEY.
October 21, 1793.
WILLIAM RIDDLE,
Has just received, and is now opening,
A large and general assortment of
EUROPEAN GOODS,
Suitable to the present and approaching seasons, which he is determined to sell at a very reduced profit, for ready pay, in cash or country produce.
He returns his friends and the public his sincere thanks, for the encouragement he has met with since he commenced business in this place—shall ever make it his study to merit a continuance.
Martinsburg, October 21, 1793.
At a Court continued and held for Berkeley County, the 23d day of August, 1793.
George Myles, eldest son and heir at law of George Myles, deceased, } Compt.
against David Watkins, Jane Logan, widow, executrix and devisee of James Logan, deceased, Bryan Bruin and James Wilson. } Deft.
IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Watkins and Bruin, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an Act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant, by his Counsel, it is ordered, that the said Defendants Watkins and Bruin, do appear here on the third Tuesday in November next, and answer the bill of the complainant, 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.C.
BOULTING CLOTHS.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that he has just received a large and general assortment of Boultng-Cloths of all kinds and of the best qualities, chosen particularly by Mr. Smith, the Inspector at Alexandria.—The Cloths consist both of the wide and narrow kind, and will be sold on lower terms than any of equal quality have ever been sold in this County.—
I have, as usual, on hand, a large assortment of other Goods, suitable for the present and approaching season, which will be sold very low for cash or produce, in consequence of a determination to decline the retail business.
I earnestly request all those who are indebted to me, either by bond, note, or otherwise, to make immediate payment; and those whose accounts have been standing open more than six months, are requested to come in and close them, either by payment, or give their obligations. Those who do not choose to comply with this reasonable request, before the middle of September next, may depend on having their accounts closed according to law.
WILLIAM WILSON.
Middletown, Berkeley County, 24th August, '93.
3m.
FOR SALE, AT THE PRINTING OFFICE, Blank Deeds of Bargain and Sale, Magistrates' Summons,