Continuation of Foreign In
telligence, by the Waihing
ton, from Cork.
PORTSMOUTH, Oa. 29,
Vice-Admiral Sir John Jams' flag con
tinues in the Boyne, it is therefore pro
bible that he is to convoy the trade to the
iWeft-Ilidies ; but the idea of carrying an
armament there is certainly given up for
the prefer.?.
The transports with the troops intend
ed for the Weft-Indies, failed yesterday
morning at fix o'clock with a very favora
ble gale, and mult nearly reach Oitend
this evening.
DOVER, Oft. 29.
This morning pafled by to the Downs,
about 18 fail of transports, with 7000
troops on board, under convoy of two
frigates, bound from Portsmouth to Of
tend.
The gun-boats, which have remained
here fjnee the siege of Dunkirk, left this
harbor yeflerdav mjrning for Nieuport.
LONDON, October 30.
Jnft as this paper was going to ptefs,
we received addition to the intelligence
brought by our private letters from Of
teud, an account of the raising of the
siege of Maubeuge, which it is said, was
occasioned b)' the defeat of General Clair
fait, who w?s forced to cross the Sambre
in great precipitation. This defeat of the
Aiiftrian Genera! is alluded to in other
Oftend letters.
Although the account of the raising of
the siege was transmitted to us from moil
rrfpe&able authority, the want of time
has not enabled us yet to make such an
enquiry as would induce us to pledge our
fclves to the truth of the account.
It is determined, that 140 independent
companres are to be regimented, ten eom
pinies to a regiment. The field-officers
are to be taken from old regiments, Cap
tains to majors, m:\jors to be Lieute
nant Colonels, 4c. without purchases, and
their former commissions to be fold, the
produce of which is to be applied towards
the recroiting service.
Rai/ing of the Siege of Mauleuge
This intelligence was received from
Lord Elgin's brother, the Hon. Mr.Bruce
who is at Bmffels.
The French for several days past, had
made sallies from their entrenched campat
Maubeuge. As in many of those they
had been fuccefsful,it was resolved to make
a general attack on the division undergen.
Ckirfait.
The attack was conduced with such
force and perseverance, that Gen. Clair
fait was under the neceflity of dispatch
ing an aid-de-camp to the Prince of Saxe
Cobourg, him to advance im
mediately to his afliftance
The Prince of Saxe Cobourg accord
ingly crofTed the Sambre with his whole
army.
The afliftance which the Prince furnifh
ed to Gen. Clairfait, was not so efficaci
ous asto refill the torrent which the French
poirred upon the Allied army. It was
onlyiufficient to prevent Gen. Ciairfait's
army from being cut to pieces.
After a vigorous endeavour to drive the
French back to their entrenched camp,the
allied army found it neceflary to retreat,
and recrofs the Sambre.
The railing of the siege was the neces
sary and immediate consequence of this de
feat.
The Prince of Saxe Cobourg had two
horses killed under him.
The bad news, which was transmitted
to us yesterday, by an express that left
Oftend a day after the mail; but which
we did not think proper to publifli, left
we (hould give groundless alarm, was, that
the Duke of York had been obliged to
throw hirafelf, with his whole detachment
that was to reinforce the Prince of Co
bourg, into Valenciennes, where he was
said to be surrounded by the French—
One part of this we now find to be un
doubtedly true ; the other part, it is to
be hoped will not be confirmed, by the
letters which we impatiently expect from
the Continent, by the Flanders mail now
due.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
October 16.
The Commtffioners aixl Secretary of
the diftricl of Louviere> for discovering
non-juring priests, wrote to the National
Convention, as follows :
" The genius of Liberty conduAed us
in the middle of the darkest night, to the
retreat of a non-juring priest, more than
sour-score years old, on whom we found
Jo pieces of gold of 24 livres, 65 piieces of
filvcr, of 6 livrss, stamped with the old
•mould, which formed the treasury of this
refractory obflinate man, with a gold watch
and a Manheim fnuff box, &c."
Second announced that he had found
out the means to direa balloons at plea
sure, and from tliis discovery he thinks the
enemy will receive great injury.—Refer
red to the Committee of Public instruc
tion, where Second will exhibit his disco
very.
Lacuro.be St. Michel, Commiflioner in
Coriica, wrote from Calvi, under date of
October i, that the Englilh, after having
cut off all communication by sea, had fum
moncd Baftia, and St. Florent, and were
determined to attack the latter place in
concert with Paoli, who directed the at
taek by land: but a violent storm obliged
the English to retire.—Paoli has been re
pulsed, and the Corficans have not been
more fuccefsful.
Saint Just made a report oh the law
against the English. The English, said
he, have violated towards us the Law of
Nations in an atrocious manner, and the
Decree against them is only a consequence
of that distrust with which the English
Government has justly inspired us. It is
wished that the law should extend to all fo
reigners. It is not evident that the more
numerous these whom we endeavor to in
timidate, the fewer we {hall in reality in
timidate ? We have not palled a law against
the English people, but against their go
vernment. Let England awake. We will
aflift her as friends to rid herfelf of Kings.
Since the English have maflacred the Re
presentatives of the People, at Toulon,
the House of Commons ought to tremble
for itfelf: the blow inflicted upon us strikes
against it. Thofc who wish that the law
(hould extend to other foreigners, do not
perceive that the other Powerß have not
the fame exclulive system with the English.
We ought to be in a state of revolution,
of force and of energy, against a people
who are in a state of treachery. It is by
force that we (hall conquer. Briflot de
ceived the Convention by philosophy. In
the present moment, they with to deceive
you by politics. The following is the
plan of the decree proposed by the com
mittee of public fafety.
Art. I. Foreigners bom fubjefts of the
powers, with whom the Republic is at
war, (hall be confined till the peace.
2. They (hall be treated with care.
3. Women married to foreigners, pre
vious to the law, are not included in the
decree, provided they are not fufpefted,
or married to fufpefted persons.
Chabot demanded that the conduct of
foreigners (hould be examined into, before
they were' confined, as there might be
found among them, persons of integrity,
and that a tribunal (hould be created for
that purpose. He ackuowledged that he
had espoused a foreigner, but that he was
not influenced by this consideration, and
that he was ready to facrifice nature to his
country.
Roberfpiere replied, that all foreigners
are fufpefted persons, that the most patri
otic are the most dangerous; that they
are the concealed agents of Austria, which
still keeps up a considerable faction in the
bosom of the Republic.—The 3 ift of May
was fatal to the Anglo-Prussian faction.
The law against foreigners will be fatal to
the Austrian faction. This law is rigorous;
it will without doubt involve some valua
ble philosophers, but these are few and
besides the law is so magnanimous, that it
will find apologists even in those who are
affected by it.
Barrere.—" We {hall then have a per
fect Revolutionary law, namely, a law
without any exception. The Engli(h have
committed the most attrocious offence, by
maffacreing a Representative of the People,
and the infamy of that trar.faftion can only
be expunged by the ruin of England."- -
( Loud applause.)
Several exceptions were presented to
the preeeeding law; they were rejefled,
and the plan of the decree adopted. The
exceptions were referred to the Commit
tee of Public Safety.
A Savannah paper of the 18 th ult.fays —
Information it said to have been received in
town, that the Creek Indians have commen
ced If futilities upon the Spauj/h Settlements
in Florida.
fROlt A CORRF.SPO\'D rA' f
He who is more noisy than liis neigh
bors about his religion, will soon be let
down for a man that has none. It is a
lure mark of a defiguing hypocrite, who
wortld let up tlie (hew for the reality, and
make his market of the (hew. The lame
remark is applicable, and (hould be inva
riably applied to the political hypocrites—
thole posture mailers, and makers of gri
mace, who would have the world rate the
merit of principles by the bluster of thole
who pronounce them. It is no hard mat
ter for a dozen frothy ranters to get to
gether, and, in effect to bully the still sen
sible, honelt people as much as they may
chufe. A Democratic club to make it's
resolves refpefted, Ihonld come forth—
Who arc these men that would govern us
from their dark hoi • , Are they superior
in light and information, in virtue, or cha
racter to other men ? if not, why do .they
take it upon them to di&ate as a body ?
A freeman may petition after having
elected rulers—the pie Is is free. There
is no need of combinations and clubs. Let
us know who they are, that we may judge
what they are. It looks very like aristo
cracy, for persons of relllefs fiery spirits,
to cabal together, in order that their knot
may have more power and influence than
equal laws give to as many citizens who
quietly mind their business. Marius was
president of a Democratic club in ancient
Rome, afterwards Cataline and C'odius,
were members.
SHIP NEWS,
Arrived at New-York, January 13.
Ships, Ann, Walker, Briitol ; Wa(h
ington, Silvelter, Ireland ; America,
Bright, Lisbon ; Enterprise, Nowlen,
Oftend ar.d Guernsey.
Brigs, Julia, Riley, Turks Ifiand ;
Ann, Byrne, Jamaica ; Nancy, Harrifon,
Dublin ; Charlotte, Saler, Gaudaloupe ;
Abigail, Tripe, Portfmouth,(N.H.) Eli
za, Stevenson, Dominique.
Sloop Eliza, Johnilon, New Provi-
dence.
Schooners, Aim, MolTcrat, Curacoa \
Molly, Leonard, Martinique.
Capt. Bright of the (hip America, left
Lisbon the sth November, in company
with the following American vefiels, un
der convoy of two 74 gun-ihips, two fri
gates of 36, and two brigs of 20 guns;
granted by her mod Faithful Majesty, the
Queen of Portugal, as protection against
the Algerines.
Ships, Lark, Munro, Providence ;
Wilmingron, M'Gee, Wilmington ; jo
seph, M'Cannon, Portland; Nancy, Good
ridge, Newbury-Port.
Barque Henry, Roberteau, Newbury.
Port.
Brigs, Leopard, Goudnage, Beverly ;
Nancy,Harris,Philadelphia ; Lively, May
hew, Newbury-Port ; Recovery, Hazard,
New-London; Union, Keaquick, Ncu-
York; John, Barret, Norfolk, (Virgin.)
Schooner Elfy, Wells, Boston.
Capt. Bright left at Iji/lon, the Jot/owing
Vejelt
Ship Harden, Williams, Philadelphia.'
Brigs, Sukey, Ch. R. Perry, R. Kland j
Elizabeth, M. Bombery, Portsmouth,
New-Hamplhire ; , Hoyt, Newbury
Port; St. Maria, , Baltimore.
A Britilh frigate arrived at Lilbon,
2jd O&ober. One of the officers in
formed Capt. Bright, that they had fpok;
the Ihip President, Capt. Rofs, belonging
to Philadelphia, off Cape St. Vincent,
then in pofleffion of the Algerines.
Capt. Leonard, spoke the Commiflion
(hip, N?ncy of Liverpool, Capt. Moly
lieux, of 22 guns, who boarded him
After examining his papers with polite at
tention, permitted him to proceed. He
spoke in the Mona Stratis, a fleet of Spa
nilh men-of-war, consisting of 7 fail of the
line, viz. one of 90, three of 84, two of
74, and one of 64 guns ; together with
two frigates from Porto Cabello, bound to
Cape Nichola-Mole, as he was informed
by the Commodore. Capt. Leonard fup
plicd them with sundry necefiaries for
which they paid him a generous price, and
treated him with great politeness.
To the Creditors of the French Republic.
C? SUCH persons as are Creditors of
the Republic of France, for supplies fold
to their commissioners in the Weft-India
islands, are requested to meet at the City-
Tavern, on Thursday evening the 16th
inft. to consider of the best means of mak
ing application for payment of their re
fptflivc debts.
Congress of the United States
House of Reprcfentatbves.
Wednesday, Jan. i.
After reading and referring several pe
titions—a motion was made to go into
committee of the whole, on the report of
the Secretary of State, ref'pefting the fo
reign commerce of the United States—
This motion was succeeded by another, to
suspend the consideration of this fubjeft*
till the correspondence of the Executive
with the British Minister should be printed
and in the hands of the members—this
motion was negatived—and the Hoiile
went into committee—Mr. Trumbull in
the chair.
The Debate was continued till near
three o'clock—when the committee rose,
and reported progress.
A meflage was received from the Presi
dent ofthe United States, c< mmunicating 1
a letter fromM. Genet, Minister Plenipo
tentiary of the Republic of France to the
United States, dated the 2cth December
1 793 — a, -d a copy of the proceedings of
the Legislature of South-Carolina. The
letter was read—it llat'es that the minister
had not authorized the enrolling, arming
and tipping of any force in any
part o. the territory of the United State?,
but that pursuant to authority and induc
tions from the Executive Council of uie
Fiench Republic he had delivered com
mifiions to sundry republican citizens in
the state of South-Carolina who had de
termined to expatriate themftlves—thefe
persons were to go to join the people cal
led Savages, to fight under the orders of
the French Republic against their enemies,
the Englilh and Spaniards.
A further communica*. ion on the fubjeft
is mentioned in this letter. *
1 he proceedings of the Legislature of
6outh Carolina relative to this business
were then read—by which it appeals that
a number of persons in that state had ac
cepted commissions and inftru&ions frbm
Mr. Genet—that they had proceeded to
enlist, equip and arm sundry persons pur
suant thereto ; —thefe,—-when embodied,
were to rendezvous in Georgia, and to
a& on the Spanish fettlemei:',s or tlte
Frontiers,orutherwife in conjunction with
a French fleet, in cafe such fleet fnouki
appear on the Southern coast.
{To be continued.)
NEWS.
WHEN men are in a gaping humor,
What may not be th' effc& of rumo, !
A host of learned legislators,
Sedate, commercial con:mevtjtersi
By rumor taken hy the ears,
Prove restive like a colt in geers ;
And in a buzz of agitation.
Adjourn-—the bufinel's of the nation !
Kj" Tb: continuation of Mr. Smith's
Speech to-morrow.
STATE or SOUTH-CAROLINA.
In the House of Reprefentafi ues,
Dicimber i ft, i 703.
TXTHF.REAS the Comnuflionefs ol public
▼ V Accounts, hove reported, that they can
not proceed to the investigation of the Trrafury
Accounts, res pelting lp.cia 1 Indents, without
knowing the outstanding ; mount thcieof in cir
culation :—Therefore,
Resolved, That all holder* of special Indrms
be duelled, and requireo, on or before the firit
day of November next, to deliver the special In
dents in their poffeflion lo one or other of the
Commifliom*'* of the Treifury, who arc to give
rcceiots for the fame, and 10 report to theCom
miffioncrk on public accounts, on or before the
tcntk day of November next, thr amount l»v
thcn» refpeftively received, and also to the Le
gifl<«ture, at thpir meeting m November next.
And thrft all special Indents nor rendered into
the Treasury as above 4 on or before rhe fit ft c!ay
of November next, shall be, and the fame *r C
hereby barred.
Revived, Thai public notice of this icfoUtioc
in the fevrral Gazettes in this State,
once every three weeks, until the firft day of
November next. And that the Delegate* of this
State in the Congress of the United States, b* re
quested to cause this nfolution to be published
iu one or more papers in the cities of Philadel
phia and New-York, and that provision will be
n:ade for the expences attending such publica
tion.
Ordered, That the resolution be sent to tho
s«nate for thrir concurrence.
Bv order of the House,
JOHN SANFORD DART, C. If. B.
In thi SENATE,
Dec i MB en ,1793.
Fefalvrd, That this House do concur w:ih the
Houie of Representatives in the forego ; ng reso
lutions.
Ordered, That the refoluiions be lent to the
House of Representatives.
By order of the Senate.
FF.LIX WARLEY, Cl-ik
cwtNov.