and therefore appreciates the advantage
of peace.
In the person of Mr. Jay is concentred
the qualities which an Envoy Extraor
dinary, at this awful crisis of our affairs,
/hould poHcfs. He is indisputably a
great civilian, an able negociator, perfua
iive, though firws ill his manners, irreiifti
ble iu his eloquence, and finifhed in his
personal accomplifhrhents. Add to this
his place of residence, a circumftanfce on
common occaflons not worth mentioning,
but id the present inllance, and in the
present state of American politics, even
this is entitled to peculiar attention. Mr.
Jay is an inhabitant of New-Yo.k, a state
Jincerely .Jcjirous of preserving peace ; her
internal lecurity as well as commercial
prdfperity are at (take—(he bled at every
pore from 1775 to 1753, and will always
have more lofc and leis to gain, by war,
than any other member of the union.—
Last to be mentioned, is the weight
which his judicial character may be sup
posed to give to all his official demands.
Will it be considered in the British cabi
net a trivial business which calls the
Chief-Juftice of the United States to that
Court ? Will he appear there as a solitary
American citizen making demands which
our enemies may accede to or refufe at
pleasure, as they have done heretofore ?
Or will he be viewed as the envoy of an
injured nation, clothed with the judicial
as well as miniftenal authorities of his
country? Let good citizens unite in
their prayers that the Divine Blelfing may
attend his mission, and that war, with all
its concomitant evils, may once more be
baniflied from our coasts.
BALTIMORE, June 3
The Honorable G. Duvall, Efquirej
is ele&ed a Representative of this State,
hi the Congress of the United States, in
the room of the Honorable J. F. Mercer,
Esquire, reiigned.
NEW-YORK, June 3.
France is exerting herfelf to make effec
tual reliftance againit her enemies. And
while her armies stand,' as a firm bulwark
against all attacks, the members of the
Convention, are mowing off each others
heads, with a ipirit of jeafoufy and ven
geance,that has no parrallel in the liiitory
of faction itfelf. Danton, who for a
long time, almost governed the Conven
tion wrtk a nod, is acccufcd, with La
croix, and a large number of other mem
bers, who, a few weeks ago, were imma
culate patriots; they are now denounced
as traitors, arretted, brought before the
Revolutionary and private let
ters fay, are already guillotined. Robe
ipierre now rules the Convention, having
by the removal of Danton, got rid of
his competitors; and if we may indulge
conjectures, Robespierre, will foos be
difiator in fad and name, or he will fink
into his grave beneath the stroke of some
jealous rival.
Tho conspiracy of Hebert is suppres
sed, but has filled every man with jealou
fv and diiiruft. S'he executive council is
abohlhed, and a new one is ordained to
confifi of twelve commiflioners. Such
"as the Hate of affairs, the beginning of
April.
NEW-BRUNSWICK, June 3. .
The late dreadful storm, by accounts fron
'anous parts ot the country, has made great
lepredation ; numerous mill-dams have been
wept away by the torrent, many bridges
much damaged, and some entirely gone off.
i o attempt a difcription would be useless.
I lie river at this city was much higher than
it was ever known before by any fall of
g ' ler than fome ' of th « Pillars
ot the bridge, great quantities of timber,
rails, and a number of cattle were seen float
ing down with the ltream. A Mr. Dixon
the^nn,r tOI I v became a viaim to
the flood, and has left a numerous and help
less family to bewail his untimely death—
also a negro man at Boundbrook was drown
ftream Ptmg '° ' wim * narrow
edTo h mee e t g l? a T re ° f this state arf '"mmon
ea to meet at 1 renton on the 7 th inft.
ALBANY, May
week, patted thro' this citv m l,;.
*ay to New-York, Samuel Mattocks Efa
jn his charge iT'lpl
fate acceded j when
3s» ?* "r stefifs
withiil the boundaries of the state of Ver
mont.
PHILADELPHIA;
JUNE 6.
In tlie Brig Fame, Capt. Hunt in 8
days from Charleften, came 20 Indian
Chiefs belonging to the Cherokee nation.
1 hey are a re r peftablc deputation from
the Cherokee Nation so Congress—their
bufiriefs is to form a treaty of peace and
amity wfth the United States.
Says a Correspondent, ;
The manner qf treating Societies formed •
for the end of censuring and checking the
Government, is very different ,in different
countries. In England the members are hunt
ed down by prosecutions. In America, pub
lic opinion is.a. mjjjler and equally effeaual
antidote against their poison. A very few
adventurers, of slippery principles, are known
to take the lead in their meetings.—The
public knot's these leaders and rates them at
their current value—that is to fay, at the
rate of known rfothirtg.—But
i.ne greater number of the members are well
disposed btit nulled citizens, i iiey are let
alone, their violent*, and delusion ire re
gretted, bu,t nobody wlfhfcs to do them any
barm. The effect of this mild forbearance
already appars. The Society and their wild
resolutions are almcft forgotten. Like othe
fanatics they droop for lack of persecution
A correspondent observes, that a long la
bored attempt to vindicate the conduit of a
lately appointed officer, and to reconcile his
nconfiftency and that of his party which ap
>eared in this paper of Wednesday, niuf
ail in its object.
His apologist admits that the blending tht
Executive And the Legif.ativL■ departments is
as reprehensible as that of the Executi-ve and
Judicial, but juftifies the opposition of Mr.
M. to the appointment of Mr. J. on this
ground, that Mr. J. did not after his appoint
ment reGgn his office of Chief Justice, where
as Mr. M. resigned his feat in the Senate.
But the fallacy of this pretended diftincHon
is obvious.
How could Mr. J. resign before his ap
pointment r Mr. M. when he opposed the
appointment, did not certainly know what
Mr. J. would do after it. Mr. J. was Chief
Juflice when he was nominated; Mr. M.
was a Senator; the cases therefore are so
far parallel; what each would do, after the
appointment was uncertain and depended al
together on the voluntary aifl of the party.
As far as there was any thing wrong in the
appointment of the one, it was equally so
with regard to the other. Mr. M. opposed
the appointment ot Mr. J. bccaufe he was
Chief JuJiice when nominated ; and Mr. M.
acquiesced in his own nomination being Sena
tor ; on the principle admitted by the apolo
gist where is the difference; both were at
liberty, after the appointment to resign or
not. Mr. J. has not resigned; his appoint
ment was for a short period and the func
tions he was to execute would only occasion
an absence from one Court, the Supreme
Court in Au'juft: the law does not more re
quire the attendance of the Chief Justice
than of the AlTociate Judges, and it is well
known that at every session of the Supreme
Court, one or other of the AlTociate Judges
is absent. Where then is the mighty oflence
in doing that which is done twice a year by
some other of the Judges,without complaint i
Mr. M. it is true, resigned his feat in the
Senate ; but his appointment being perma
nent, his resignation was of course, and there
is no merit on his part, for had he failed tc
resign, the Legislature of Virginia could have
tonlidered the acceptance of the Embassy
as a virtual resignation and appointed a fuc
ceffor.
The apoligft has not attempted to fhevs
the confijiency of reprobating an Embassy tc
France, on the ground that no Minister oughl
to be sent to that country, when anothei
perl'on was appointed, and now accepting
that very office ; this was rather two difficul
to get over : Silence was therefore judicious
No censure is aimed at the Executive so:
nominating Mr. M.—There may have beei
good reasons in policy for it: but it is pro
per that the public ftiould be acquainted wit)
fncli, and that the condutt of the faction oi
this occasion should be iontrafied with theii
conduct on a recent one. It is so glaring ant
prominent that it would have been unpatri
otic not to have brought it forward to put
lie notice and animadverlion.
By this Day's Mail.
BOSTON.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTAT IVES.
Thursday, May 29.
The committee appointed for the purpose
of counting and ascertaining the votes of the
people of this Commonwealth, for Go
vernor, and Lieutenant-Governor, reported,
That
His Honor SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq.
Was elected Governor of this Common
wealth for the year ensuing, by a large ma
jority of furirages—He was in'the pretence
of the two houses immediately declared elect
ed, and was qualified agreeably to the pre
scriptions of the .Conltitution —That no
choice had been made by the People of
Lieutenant-Governor, and that the sour.per
sons having the highest number of votes werej
His Honor SAMUEL ADAMS,
Hon. MOSES GILL,
NATHANIEL GOKHAM, and
ELBRIDGE GERRY, Efq'rs. .
Whereupon the House proceeded to the
election of two of the Candidates to be ferit
up to the Hon. Senate ; and the
Hon. MOSES GILL, and
NATHANIEL GORHAM, Efq'rs,
Were elected and sent up.
Tht Senate, by mellage, informed the
House, that by an unanimous vote, they had
chosen
The Hon. MQSES GILL, Esq.
Lieutenant-Governor of this Commonwealth,
for the year enfuirtg. (His Honor has ac
cepted the trust, and will be qualified before
the two Houses, this day; at 12 o'clock.)
Friday, May 30.
The two houles met in convention in the
Representatives chamber, for the purpose of
choosing nine Councilors to advise the Go
vernor in the Executive part of government
when the committee railed for the purpose
hav.ng counted the votes, reported,the whole
to be 140 —71 making a choice, that
The hon. Azor Orne, Esq. had 136
Hon. Eleazer Brooks, Esq. 140
Hon. Thomas Durfee, Esq. 136
Hon. Oliver Wendell, Esq. 137
Hon. William Shepard,' Esq. 138
Hon. Samuel Baker, Esq. 134
Hon. Nathaniel Wells, Esq. rjz
Hon. Stephen Metcalf, Esq. 127
Hon. Tomfon J. Skinner, Esq. 73
And that they were chofon. The two Houses
then separated.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
PARIS, April 3.
We learn from Marseilles that the patri- 1
ots there are to be again armed, provided
they are members of any one of the clubs.
Saliceti, in a letter from Maifeilles,
dated the 19th inft. advises, " tjhat Baftia
(till holds out, the garrison being' deter
mined to defend themselves till the last ex
tremity. The ferocious conduit of the
Englifli at St. Florent had so exasperated
the citizens of Baftia, that even the mo
derates seemed to be determined rather to
perish than fuffer these new cannibals to
plunder their houses, ravish their wives
and daughters, and cut the throats of the
aged and infirm. In a fortic the garrison
of Baftia had driven the Paolifts from the
village aL Carhnp ; Jellied a great number
of the enemy, and burned the village.
The galley, la Moselle had reached Ballia
with troops, 11,000 sacks of meal, af
fignates, and succors of every description,
after an escape from eight or nine English
(hips by which (he had been chafed. The
(hip of the line le Duquefne, and the
frigate la Fauvette, had arrived at Toulon
with two Spani(h prizes: at the latter
place the armament was going on with the
utmost a&ivity,"
The cut-thtoat Jourdan has been de
nounced in the Cordeliers, for several a<Ss
of despotism and tyranny in his llation
of Colonel of the National Gendarmerie
of Avignon.
The military committe of Lyons is an
nulled ? and JFauche, the national repre
sentative Rationed there, is recalled. He
is to be fuccecded by Reverchen.
LONDON, April j—l3.
Our papers from Paris, received yes
terday down to the 29th ult. are so far
important, that they prove the preponder
ating influence of Robespierre and the
committees of public fatety and welfare,
who now hold the fnpreme and uncontefted
authority in France. A better proof can
not be given of their uncontrouled power,
thai? their Having so early disbanded the
whole revolutionary army, which was rais
ed under the influence of the clubs in Pa
ris, and was subservient to their will. As
this army had shewn some symptoms of
disapprobation to the late executions, and
had refufed to congratulate the Conventi
on on the discovery of the late conspiracy,
the firft ast of Robespierre's power has
A. B.
. adl ol -
jeen to diftc.nd it.
The time, fatal to Danton, is at length
arrived ; He falls with the Cordeliers, of
whom, originally, he was the firft sup
port ; and no doubt but that if Marat,
who was his agent, and directed his con
vulsive motions, were alive at this moment,
he would partake in the disgrace of his
friend. Perhaps, ih the day when Dan
ton (hall ad his lait part upon the fcaffold,
Marat will be dragged from the Pantheon,
to be trailed in the dirt, which ought to
have been his fate long iince.
It is not the least remarkahle circum-
that Barrftre fliould pronounce
the New Government to be determined to
support Reiigion and Virtue ! ! !
Momoro, who was laately guillotined
at Paris witb the Hebertilts, was lately
in London, and fcoutcd out of all the fo
cities as the vaunting butcher of the Prin
cess Lambelle He was the villain who
treated her so batbaroufiy in the lirft in
ftante, and the savage Rotondo, who has
since been hanged, finifhed the dreadful
carnage—a relation of the particulars
would (hock even brutality.
Lady Wallace is to be called in future
the Political Prophetess. The predic
tions in her pamphlets are now generally
verified ; arid the public, from what has
palled, may expert much gratification in
her speculations and admonitions on the
present state of English politics, which
have been read and aflented to in the fii ft
political circles.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
CLEARED.
Ship John, Whitwell, Amsterdam
Bacchus, George, . Hamburgh
Maria & Eliza, Clements, Boftoti
Brig Charlotte, Walfli, St. Thomas
Schr. Delight, Wallington, p. Nicola Mole
Sloop Jefferfon, Stewart, St. Marcs
Captain Davis who arrived here yesterday
in ii days from St. John's liland informs,
that a Britifli fleet of 160 fail of merchant
men, foiled from Tortola on the 12th of
May, bound to. England, convoyed by two
ships of the line. In this fleet were included
all the American veflels carried into and
condemned in the different Islands.
appointment's.
The President of the United States,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, has appointed the following per-,
sons Commanders of the frigates, to be
built pursuant to an ast of Congreis, viz.
JOHN BARRY,
SAMUEL NICHOLSON,
SILAS TALBOT,
JOSHUA BARNEY.
RICHARD DALE,
THOMAS TRUXTON.
NEW THEATRE.
Mr. Darlet s Night.
THIS EVENING,
June 6.
Will be presented,
A COMEDY, called
Every One has his Fault.
Lord Norland, Mr. Whitlock
Sir Robert Ramble, Mr. Chalmers
Mr. Solus, Mr. Morris
Mr. Harmony, Mr. Bates
Captain Irwin, Mr. Fennell
Mr. Placid, Mr. Moreton
Hammond, Mr. Green
Porter, Mr. Warrell
Edward, (firfttime) Master Warrell
Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Whitlock
Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Shaw
Miss Spinster, Mrs. Bates
Miss Wooburn, Mrs. Morris
End of the third a<fk a humourous vocal Pa
rody, "on Shakespeare's Seven Ages—will
be sung by Mr. Bates.
End of the Play, a characfteriftic Pantomi
mical Dance, ailed
The Sailor's Landlady ;
Or, JACK IN DISTRESS.
To conclude with a double hornpipe by Mr.
Francis and Mrs. De Marque.
To which will be added,
For the firft time at this Theatre, a COMIC
OPERA, called
No Song no Supper.
Frederick, Mr. Marshall
G r°P» Mr. Darley
Endless, Mr. Harwood
Robin, JVI r . Bates
William, (with the ballad of Black
Eyed Susan ) Mr. J. Darley
Sailors, Meflrs. Warrell, BlilTet, Lee,
Bason, De Moulin, &c
Dorothy, Mrs. Shaw
Louisa, l ,T, fsßroadhurft
Margaretta, Mrs. Oldmixon
Nell y> Miss Willems
Tickets to be had of Mr. Darley, No. 68,
north Eighth street.
At the usual places, and of Mr. Franklin
at the Theatre, where places may be taken.
On Monday next, an Historical Play, cal
led The BATTLE OF HEXHAM : Or
DAYS OF OLD, with The DEtJCE IS
IN HIM, for the benefit of Mrs. MORRrS
Mrs. WHITLOCK's Night will be on
Wednesday next.
Places in the Boxes to be taken at the Box-
Office of the Theatre, at any hour from nine
mthe morning till three o'clock in theafur
f noon, on the day of performance. Tickets
to be had at the office near the Theatre, a *
the corner of Sixth-ftreet,and at Carr & Co's
Musical Repository, No. m, M^kst-ftreet
E.