UNITED STATES. NEW-YORK, Jan. 16. Capt. Dodge, of the ftip Aftrea.who arrived in th;s port lail evening froia Of tend in 47 days, informs, that lince the raising of the siege of Nieuport, nothing «>f conference had happened between the Fiench and Combined Armies at the time he left Oftend. It was given out, that theEnglilh and Dutch troops were imme diately to go into winter quarters, and the Auftrians were to keep the field. The brig Minerva of this port, was bil ged in heaving down, and is likely to be condemned. The brig Neptune, M'Namara, of this port, loft her rudder, and put into Often J "the Ift of Nov. B. 6\'=. Extradt of a letter, received lalt Satur- day, by a gentleman in this city, dat ed Dublin, Oft. 29. " Ap express to the Lord Lieutenant, brings intelligence, that the Prince de Co bourg had funounded and beaten the French army, by which the latter loft 40,000 men. The Auftrians having pal led the river Sambre, forced all their work;. The glory of the day, was in fume degree, owing to a fuccefsful feint of the Prince de Cobourg's failing back, by which he cninatcd and turned the left flanks of the French line." ixirat! of a letter from on board his Majeflfs JLif Courageux, dated off Sardinia. " Mi nfleur St. "Julian, late commander of, the French fleet at Toulon, after proceed ing for MarfiUcs, returned in disguise, out entering that city, and fearing equally from the refetjtment of the Tmdonefe and the National Convention, he came to the deter mnatiin of trufling to the clemency of Lord Hood, and actually got on board the Victory, andfurrendercd hirnfef to the Britifb Admi ral, who with that clemency that ever accom panies a Britifb officer, put him on board a frigate def.'wedfor Barcelona, in order com pletely to put him out of the reach of any re fenlment his ebuntryinen might entertain a gainjl him" Lisbon, 03. 29. The captains of the American vessels st Lisbon, defiruyi to make an acknowledg ment to their friend and fellow-citizen Ed waid Church, Consul of the United States at this pgrt, for the very eminent and hap py services he has rendered to them in ob taining a convoy from her Majesty of Por tugal, gave him an elegant entertainment at the principal hotel in this city : After dinner the following toafls were drank : 1. The C)ueen and Ro\al Family cf Portugal. 2. The lar.d we reside in, 3. The United States of America, 4. George Washington, may his fuc ceflors in office imitate his virtues, and aim to be as ufeful to their country. 5. Thomas Jeffcrlon, and all the true friends to the rights of man throughout the globe. 6. Our true friends and allies, may fuc yefs, unity, peace, liberty, and prosperity, Speedily crown their glorious struggles. 7. Fidelity and competent abilities, to all the servants of the people. 8. May the flame of American Liberty never be extir.guifhed by British engines. 9. May the citizens of the United States never acknowledge any god or king of man's making. 10. St. Tammany ; may he always (land firft in the lift of American tutelary Saints. i I. May the towering Eagle of Ame rica disdain to {loop to be tied by ribbands, or to button-holes. 12. Freedom to the Press, and Inde pendence to the Printers. 13 The Fair of America; may they honor merit, and merit honor. 14- May no Crown ever be valued a bove five (hillings in America. 15. May the profeffed enemies of Afri can Slavtry never fell themselves. FRENCH CALENDAR. Humanity is not more shocked at the Gothic baibarities of the French, than religion at their impiety,, The divine law, ordaining a Sabbath once in seven days, is violated by the National Conven tion, who have decreed, that a week {hall conlift of ten davs, and cverv tenth day be appropriated to reft and to the Celebra tion of the revolution. God Almighty .has said, Six days Jbalt thou labor and do all thy work ; the Convention fay nine dar6 (halt thou Libor and do all thy work. Query, how will poor laborer* like tUc alteration ? The divine iriftitution of the Sabbath, allows fifty-two days in the yeai for repole ; the French, mighty zealous friends of the poor, decree that they lhall be allowtd only thirty-fix days in the year for reft !—lf however the bodies of man and beast can fultain this additional la bor, it will be no fmail faring of time. There are at least eight Trillions of laborers in France, whefe labor is worth twenty cents a day—sixteen days labor in a year amounts to three dollars and twenty cents, which each laborer will earn in a year, more than he did under the divine esta blishment. This sum multiplied by eight millions, gives a produ& of twenty-five millions iix hundred thousand dollars, the annual extra earnings under the new insti tution. This is no trifling sum ; indeed fucn an extra sum will be wanted to re pair the loss of Lyons, and other towns vyantonly burnt by order of the Conven tion or the Generals of their armies. Died at the iiland of Curracoa, the 14th of Dec. last, Dr. Paul Micheau.who failed from this city in October, with a view of fettling there as a Physician and Surgeon. BOSTON, January 8, Yesterday arrived in this town, Capt. Benj. Calley. who on the ioth of Oft. last, was taken in the schooner Two Bro thers, of Newbury port, by the privateer Pallas, of Jamaica : and who on the 22d of the fame month, whilst in the posses sion of the said privateer, was call away on Auckland's Keys, where the vessel and cargo, which was very valuable, and con lifted of cotton and coffee, were entirely L-ft, as were two of the crew. After ex periencing this disaster, Capt. Calley took pafTage for Jamaica, where he entered his prated against the said privateer. Capt. Calley informs, that the most disagreeable proceedings mark the conduct of the Ja maica privateers, who frequently destroy the papers of the American vessels they capture, and thereby deprive the comman ders of the evidence necessary to prove their being American bottoms, and load ed with American property—that several vessels and cargoes which he believed to have been American, have been condem ned ; and that those libelled at the time be left Kingflon, which was on the 19th Dec. were under the disagreeable necessity of being detained there, until March next —until then no admiralty court fits. When Capt. Calley left Jamaica, the following, among other vessels,' wqre detained there, viz. brig Beaver, Capt. Peirce, cf New buryport, brig Nancy, Capt. Clements, of Portland—schooner Malahey, Captain Wadfworth cf Duxbury—brig Dolphin, Captain Bradbury, of Kennebunk. " All the cargoes of which, were libelled—and that of the beaver condemned. We understand, that Captain Calley in tends again to enter his protest against the above spoliation ; and it is hoped, that fach spirited measures will be pursued by the government of the United States as will, besides restoring to him, and his own ers, the property they have loft, prevent similar vexations from being praftifcd. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY iS. The National Convention, after having heard the report of the Committee of Pub lic Safety, decrees as follows : Government. Art. I. The Provisional Government of France is revolutionary, until peace. 11. The Provisional Executive Council, the Ministers, the Generals, the Ccnftituted Bodies, are placed under the fuperiutend ance of the Committee of Public Safety, which (hall render an account of their pro ceedings once in eight days, to the Con vention. 111. Every mtafure of fafety is to be taken by the Proviiional Executive Coun cil, under the fanftion of the committee, which (hall render an account thereof to the Convention. IV. The revolutionary laws mufl be speedily executed ; the government (hall correspond immediately with the diitricts, as to the measure* us public fafetv. V. The Generals in chief (hall be up pointed by the National Convention, on the presentation of the Committee of Pub lic Safety. VI. The tardinefi or government being the eaufe of the mifcarrisge of operation*. the term for the execution of the lawi aivl of the meal'iire. of pubiic fafcty (h.tll be fixed. The trat>fgreffion of tlic hxeil tt-'rm, fha]l be pumfhed a: an attempt against liberty. Subsistance VJI. The itateinent of the produc tions in corn of each district, made to the committee of public fafety, (hall be print ed and distributed to all the members of th? Convention, to be put into execution without delav. VIII. The provisions for each department, {hall be eltimated by ap proximation, and guaranteed. The sup plies fnall be fubjedt to requisition (,?/ the disposal of government.) IX. The statement of the produ&ions of the Republic (hall be laid before the Reprefcntatives of the people, before the miniftcrs of marine and home departments, and before the administrators of iubn-t&nce. They (hall make demands in the different divisions refpc&ively afligned to them. Paris (hall forma diltinct division. X. The demands in tavor of the barren departments, lhall be authorized and regu lated by the provlfional executive council. XI. Paris lhall on the ill of March be fupphed with one year's provisions. General Safety XT I. The dire£tion and employment of the revolutionary army lhall be regu lated without delay, in such a manner as to check the progress of the counter-revo lutioniils. The committee of public fafe ty thall present a plan for this purpose. Finances XIV. There lhall be created a tribunal and a jury of refponlibility. This tribu nal and this jury thall be appointed by the National Convention ; their office (hall be to prolecute all those who have had the management of the public monies since the revolution, and to demand of them an ac count of their private fortune. The or ganization of this tribunal is referred to the committee of legislation. That an American citizen has a right to leave the United States and go where he plesfcs, in a peaceable manner, unarm ed, and without hostile intentions, no one will dispute. Bvrt that any citizen may .aim himfelf or enlifi; others aud arm them, with a vieiv to commit hostilities on a na tion with whom we are at peace, is a doc trine highly dangerous to the government and to the peace and prosperity of this country. Such a doflrine would lead us into endless confufion, and perpetual war. Yet this doctrine is preached and strongly inculcated by certain anti-patriotic peo ple, called democrats, who pretend every one has the privilege of doing what is right in his own eyes ; that town meeting's and evening clubs are the great fafe guards of our liberties, and that patriotism con lifts in condemning government, and flnd rng out a world of evils and dangers, which no man feels nor has reason to fear. From all fucli dangerous do&rines, and all restless hypocritical patriots, who would overthrow the government that protefta them—Good Lord deliver us. Afhterva.] From the General Advertiser. Great pains are taken in an everitig paper to cry down all popular affocialions, and to propagate an opinion that government can do no wrong, or that the people have \o right to "watch over the conduit of their frvavts, and prevent their doing wrong. If indivi duals have a right to express their (ip'tuwns on the fubjeS of public measures, tbfe indivi duals havefurely that right collectively, an d the exercise of it is necessary at this moment, ■when public officers, not content -with their individual influence, club it to carry points which individually they laould not dire to advocate. ECHO. " Club it to carry points, &c." * Married, at Baltimore, Mr. William Mefl'erftnith, merchant, of that town, to Miss Frances Cromwell, of Baltimore County. i Died, in the 64th year of his age, Mr. James Franklin, of Baltimore County. In Boston, Thomas Wooldridgr, Esq. Etat. 54, late an alderiran of the city of London. Mrs. .Rebecca Holbrook, relitt of Mr. Abiah Holbrook, formerly mailer of the South Writing School, in that to-.vn. By this day's Mail. NEW-YOK.K, Januaiy 16. L*it evening arrived irt this p >rt, the (hip A'l.ea, Capt. Dodge, from liicitH, arid 47 days from Oltend.—From the re cent departure of this vcflel from Oftend, and the precarious Jit;ution of thct rhi. L" 11 om the lall accounts, one mull fu],jot. tliat this veiTel would have b'een tilt iui biuger of important news ; but from ig norance or obstinacy, the application of several gentlemen to obtain information > had been ineffectual when this paper wei.t to prtfs— except, some one on board be lieved that Oftend and Nieuport were cot taken. Col. Cox. January 17, COMMUNICATIONS. By the ship Allrea, Captain Dodge, in 74 days from Ofiend, we* are informed, That the Duke of York, had ordered the several regiments, lately landed at that port, to embark, and join other corps tit Portsmouth, to proceed for their original deitination against Martinique, Guaaa loupe, &c. under the command of Jieute nant general Sir Charles Grey, convoyed by the. fleet of admiral Sir John Jervis. Thus The Subscribers to " the Penn sylvania Socicty for the encouragement of Manufactures and the ufeful Art*," are hereby notified, that an Election fur Officers Hi serve during flic prefenl ycur, will be he! ibcm »ui the booKfcllcis. JMI. 18. • 44