July 27.
A-violent remedy is talked of for the indispo
sition of the Queen of Portugal. This is the
leading her Miijefty into a temporary building
eretted in a large piece of water, into which flic
is to fink immediately upon her entrance, and
to be taken out by persons provided for tha
purpose.
Asfaft as the French army under Luckner,
and that lately commanded by Fayette, retire,
the Auftrians press on to take their ground, and
are now forcing their route, by Bavav, towards
the interior part of the kingdom.
The Elector of Saxony is laid to have joined
the league against France, and furnifhes the al
lied powers with 24,000 auxiliaries.
The Duke of Brunfwick has iflued a procla
mation, forbidding, on pain of death, every
pruflian from entering the camp of the French
emigrants, and every French emigrant from
entering the Pruflian camp. The Chevalier de
Nauldes, either not having heard of the procla
mation, or imagining that the penalties would
not be rigorouily inflided, attempted to enter
the Pruflian camp, and was fliot dead by the
centinel. Count d'Egmont is to command the
right wing of the army of the Princes, but it is
not resolved that this army shall ast at all.
A warrant has just received the royal signa
ture, for from the Treafu y the sum of
20001. to the Trustees of the Protestant Dillent
ing meeting house at Fjirmingham, as a full
compensation for the lofTes and damages sustain
ed by the deftruftion of that edifice during the
late riots there.
Saturday, an officcr arrived at the Admiralty
Office with letters from Lord Hood in the grand
fleet, which were dated ofFUfhant, the 16th inft
where the fleet was then lying, and all well.
Tiit camp at BagiTiot, under the command of
the Duke of Richmond, is now formed, and the
different regiments are arriving daily. The
King goes occafionallv ; the Prince of Wales,
the Duchess of Gordon, Lady Susan, and several
persons of fafliion, are now at the camp.
One of the alTaflins of the late unfortunate
D lion teas executed at Lisle on the 13th inft.
A fort of revolution has taken place at Con
stantinople. The sublime Porte has established
a Privy Council with juriidi<stion in all politcal
matters, without which the Grand Vizier, can
not a<st. Despotism is thus some what fliaken
even in he favorite feat.
RICHMOND, September 5.
We are credibly informed that about 100 In
dians lately made an attack on Galliopolis, a
French settlement on the Ohio, opposite to the
mouth of t ; ie Great Kanahwa, which continued
•for some time. The Indians, after destroying
the Handing corn, killing four or five, and do
ing other mifchief, retreated.—About the fame
time two young women, named Morris, of
Kan; va country, were killed.
iALTIMORE, September 7.
M. lerlin, at the Tribune of the Jacobins,
in Pat s, made use of the following exprelfion ;
" Is * ere not one worthy citizen to be found,
w i" T' all pkirrgc a Porriartf into La Fayette's
Body
ROVIDENCE, Sept. 1
O Wednesday last the Bridge in the centre
of this town was finifhed. The completion of
w kof so much elegance and public utility
.v lought worthy of public notice, and was
ict ingly celebrated on the day following.
Tac artered military companies, under the
com nd of Cols. Tillinghaft and Whipple, pa
rades n the Bridge a little before noon. At
twelv'i o'clock fifteen cannon were discharged
upon t .e Br dge, which was adorned with an
tqu#l» umber of flags, and several manual firings
"ere . lib performed. The military companies
then e .corted his Excellency the Governor, and
1 large number of reipeftable citizens, with
the inafter-bu lder and mechanics of the Bridge,
to I'cderal-Hill, where, having partaken of a
• old collation, the discharge of cannon echoed!
t» toasts :
lis Bridge is built on the model of that
which connects Boston and Charlelton. Though
much inferior to that in length, it is inferior to
none in ftrengthard beauty. It is 120 feet
long, having a draw 22 feet. It is 56 feet wide,
vith chinese fence at the Jides, and palifadqed 8
feet from each fide. It is lighted by 6 lamps,
which were confti u<sted by Major Burrill, of
this towr*, and are suspended 011 polls, whose;
golden tops will long witness the taste and ge
nerosity of tliofe young gentlemen at whose ex
pence they were gilt.
This very neceflary piece of work has been
executed by Mr. Whiting, of Norwich, under
the agency of John Dorrance, Esq. in the course
of a few mouths, much to the Satisfaction of the
public.
We are informed that Mr. Whiting is appli
ed to refpe&ing the Bridge to be erected from
West-Boston to Cambridge.
NEWPORT, (R. I.) Sept. 3.
On Friday morning last, this town fultained
a very heavy loss by the death of Mr. Daniel
Rogers, in the 40th year of his age.
As a merchant and man of business, enter
prise, industry and pun&uality marked his con
duct ; in his temper and disposition he was hu
mane and benevolent, and in his manners affa
ble and polite; as a hulband, father, brother,
friend and mailer, few perhaps excelled him :
itfrfe virtues soon gained him general esteem,
and induced the freemen of the town, in April
last, to call him forth for one of their represen
tatives to the General Aflembly, and at their
lite choice to re-eJect him to fit in the
Goober session.
The anxiety and concern for his recovery,
apparent on every countenance, during a long
a-'d fe\ ere illness, demopftrated the fen'ibilitv
o nis fellow-citizens, and the part they (hared
ii his lufferings ; as did the great number of
si! ranks and denominations, paying the lafi
tibute to his memory, by their attendance at
hs funeral, on yesterday evening, a i-'cover how
fucerely they lament his untimely exit.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
TO ARISTIDES.
THOUGH thcie would be no great hazard of
mistake in inferring the writer of the paper
under the signature of Arijlides from " the appro
priate and prominent features" which chara&erife
theftyleof that paper; yet I forbear to imitate
the example which has been set, with too little de
corum, by naming or defciibing the supposed
author. The similitude of ilyle,or any other cir
cumstance merely probable, is too flight a founda
tion for so improper a procedure.
Peculiar circumltances which it is not neceflary '
10 explain, uniting with the conjrfture which is '
indulged refpecling the real Anjlidcs, lead to a
change of the original party to the charges. The
difculFion will be taken up and pursued hy one r
who is willing to be responsible for the allegations
he shall make, and who consequently will not re
fufe to be known,"on proper terms, to the officer
concerned. It is however not meant to invite en
quiry on that head. It is mod advisable that none
should be made. For any public purpose, none
will be vequifite. For any personal one, none
will be proper. What shall be said, will merely
to public conduit, and will be supported by
proof and argument.
Why then, it may he asked, the intimation of a
willingness to be known, if required ? The an.
Iwer is, merely to put an end to the epithets
" cowardlv afTaflin," 11 finking in the dark," and
other tropes and figures of a similar nature. Some
rhetoric rr.av be spoiled, but the elucidation of
truth will be promoted.
It occurs at once to an observant reader, that
Arijiides partes over in total silence, the leadiug ar
ticle of charge brought by the American against
Mr. Jefferfon —namely, That be is the injlitutor
and patron of a certain Gazette ptlblifhed tn this
city, the object and tendency of which ate to vilify
and depreciate the government of the United
States, to misrepresent and traducethe administra
tion of it, except in the (ingle department of which
that gentleman is the head ; implicating in the
most virulent censure the majorities of both houses
of Congress, the heads both of the treaitriy and
war departments, and sparing not even the Chief
Magiflrate himfelf; that in the iupport ot this paper,
thus hostile to the government, in the administra
tion of which he holds so important a trull, he has
not scrupled to apply the money of that very go
vernment; departing by this conduct from the
rules of official piopriety and obligation, and from
the duty of a and patriotic citizen.
This is the leading and main charge which has
been brought by the American againll Mr.Jefferfon,
which he supports in several ways.
lft. By dirett proof of an official connexion
between the Secretary of State and the Editor of
the National Gazette—coeval with, or rather an
tecedent to the jirjl efidblijhment of that paper.
2d. Bv the fuggeftiori of his being opposed to
the present govei nment of the United Statrs, while
it was under the consideration of the people.
3d. By the suggestion ot his being opposed to
the principal mealures which have been adopted
in the courfc of its adminiflration, particularly
those relating to the finances.
! The obje£t of the above recapitulation is to (hew
1 the true original ttate of the question; in order
that it may be clearly seen ho%v entirel) Arijiides,
in his defencc, loses fight of the principal point,
and contents himfelf with an indirect endeavor to
involve it in uncertainty, by disputing or denying
some positions which form only the collateral evi-
dencc.
It will now remain to fee how the charges of
the American have been and can be supported.
As to the connexion between the Secretary of
State and the Editor of the National Gazette, nei
-1 her of the following fa&s can or will be disputed.
I f any of them should be denied, it will be proved
beyond the pofiibility of doubt.
Ift. That the Editor of the National Gazette is
a Cletk in the department of State for foreign lan
guages, and as such, receives a salary of two hun
dred and fifty dollars a year.
2d. That he became so antecedent to the eflab
lifhment of his Gazette, having actually received
his fa! arv from the 17th August, 1791, and not
having publifhcd the fir ft number of his paper r«ll
the 31ft of O&ober following.
3d. That at the time he became so, there was
another ch.ara&er, a Clerk in the fame depart
ment, who undcrftood the French language; and
that the Editor of the National Gazette is a trans
lator of that language only.
4th. That the appointment was not made under
any Ipecial provision, marking out a particular
Clerk (hip of the kind, its duties, or its emolu
ments ; but under a general authority to appoint
Clerks, and allow them salaries, not exceeding the
average of 500 dollars to each.
sth. That the Editor of the National Gazette,
immediately preceding the eftablilhment of thar
papei, was the fuperintendant or conductor of a
paper belonging to Childs & Swaine, printed at
New-York.
These are the facts : The conclusion is irrefifta
ble. The ferret intentions of men being in the
repofitorics of their owrt breasts, it rarely happens,
and is therefore not to be expe&ed, that direst and
pofiiive proof of them can be adduced.
Presumptive fa&sand circumstances must afford
the evidence ; and when these are fufificiently
strong they ought to decide.
We find the head of a department taking the
Ed itov of a Gazette into his employment,as a clerk,
w:ih a stated (aiary—not for any special purpose,
which could not have been accompltfhed other
wile ; for he had, at the time, in his department,
a clctk Who was capable of performing the very
service required, and could without difficulty
have procured others fnnilarly qualified ; nor from
any particular neceflity arising from a too limited
allowance, or any other cause ; for he had it in
his power to allow an adequate compcnfation to
a character who might have been regularly attach
ed to the department.
The verv exiitence of such a connexion, then,
is alone a fufficient foundation for believing, that
thedefign of ihe arrangement was to secure an in
fluence over the paper, the Editor of which was so
employed. But the circumflances which attend
, t the nature of it beyond a doubt. That
which has beenjuft mentioned, namely,there hav
j ing been prcvioufly a clerk in the department qua
lified to render the service, is a weighty one. The
coming of a new pi inter, from another State to in
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ftitute a Jiew paper—his having bfcen appointed?
clerk in the department prior to his removal t
this city—his having been compenfaied before 1:
was even present, to latisly the appearance of ren
dering service ; these circumftanccs give a pon.
and energy to the language of the tranfadion whia
render if unequivocal.—There perhaps never w.
a more flimfy covering for the pensioning of
printer. Some ostensible ground for giving him
the public money was necessary to be contrive.l—
the cleikfhip of foreign languages was deemed,
plausible pretext—But no man acquainted with I
human nature, or with the ordinary wiles O'
political intrigue, can be deceived by it.
The medium of negociation between the Secre
[ i-ary of State and Mr. Freneau, in order to the in
. dilution of his paper, is known, and documents
i are poflVflcd which ascertain the person ; but thev
arc. at piofent withheld, f»om considerations of a
particular nature.—These are the more readily
yielded to ; because the ta£ts, which have been
stated, render it unnecessary to exiiibit them.—
Those fa&s prove to the fatisfaefcion of every im
partial mind, that Mr. JefYerfon is the Institu
tor and Patron of the National Gazette.
As to the complexion and tendency of that Ga
zette, a reference to itfelf is fuflicient. No man
who loves the government, or is a friend to the
public tranquillity, but must reprobate it as an in
cendiary and pernicious publication, and condemn
the auspices under which it is supported.
In another paper, the charges which have occa
sioned so much umbrage to Ariflxd.cs, will be more
corre&ly stated and enforced. The preciie terms
|of the advice which was given by Mr. Jefferfon to
Congress, refpefting the transfer of the French
debt to a Company of Hollanders, will be recited.
This chara&eriftic trait in the political princi
ples of that gentleman, will be submitted to the
honest feelings not only of the great body of the
yeomanry, to whom such affe&ed appeals are so
often made,but to honest men of whatsoever clafsor
condition. CAT ITLUS.l T LUS.
Philadelphia, Sept. 15.
By the latest accounts from the Westward it
appears that the Indies discover a temper di
rectly the reverie of pacific—that they have
facrificed Col. Hardin and Major Trueman ap
pears to be too true. That they have incelT
antly committed depredations on the frontiers
—that within the bounds of the State of Ken
tuckcy alone between forty and fifty persons
have been killed or made prisoners since last
spring ; and a party of 18 near Fort Jefferfon
who were making hay, were lately attacked—
one only escaped—and four that were
prisoners were burnt by the Shawanefe.
By accounts from Albany it appears that the
various plans of Bridges and Canals in contem
plation by the citizens in that part of the State
of New-York, are in a train of prosecution.—
The recent examinations of the rivers, See.
have ascertained that the proje&ed improve
ments in the interior navigation is much more
pra&icable than was ever conceived of.
Tuesday last a young man was committed to
the g£iol of this city, on suspicion of hisftaving
been concerned in the murder of Elizabeth
Reeve.
The State Gazette of Georgia, printed at
Augusta the 25th August, fays, that\V. A. Bowles
was hanged ac Madrid the 7th June,at the com
mon place of execution. This is probably pre
mature, as accounts of Bowles' being at Cadiz
fublequent to the 7th June, have been published.
By a public communication from Governor
Telfair, to the Representatives in Congress of
the State of Georgia, it appears that it will re
quire One Million of Dollars to be afiumed on'
account of that State, to cover its State Debts.
On Friday the 17th August, a fire broke out
in Halifax, Nova-Scotia, which consumed fix
tenements and the Ordnance Laboratory before
it could be got under. A Mr. Wellnor and his
wife periftied in the flames. The loss of pro
perty is said to be great.
The Pittiburgh Gazette of last Saturday con
tains no Indian intelligence.
Sunday the 26th August, three soldiers be
longing to* the Federal Army were (hot at Pitts
burgh, for desertion.
The British July Packet arrived at New-
York, last Sunday, via Halifax.
Mr. James Carey, late printer and proprie
tor of a iDublin Newspaper, entitled the Rights
of Jrijhnen, proposes publilhing a daily paper in
Richmond—to commence the firft of October
next.
The publication of 41 the private Life of Ben
jamin Franklin, Esq." is begun in London—it
appears to be from the Doctor's own notes, and
begins thus—
" My Dear Son,
" I have lately amused myfelf with colle&ing
some little Anecdotes of our Family, like."
Wednesday the sth instant was celebrated at
Providence, the anniversary Commencement of
Rhode-Island College. The proceifipn, at half
past ten o'clock, moved from College-Hall to
the Eaptift Meeting-house, where, after an in
troductory prayer by the Rev. Dr. Sti/lman, the
exercises of the day began—these being finifhed,
highly to the acceptance of a numerous audi
ence, the Degree of Bachelor in the Arts was con
ferred on leventeen, and that of Master in the
Arts on fix candidates.
The Degree of Doit or of Divinity was conferred
on the Rev. John Rippon, of London—the He v.
John Ryland, jun. of England—and the Rev.
Benjamin Fojler s of New-York. The Degree of
Doctor of Lazvs was conferred on the Rev. Perez
Fobes t of Raynham—!Ylr. Benjamin Weft, of Provi
dence—and the Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secre
tary of the Treasury of the United States.
Ac the Commencement at Dartmouth CollegeJ
the 2sd uit. the honorary degree of M alter of Art J
was conferred on the Hon. Je r emi ah Wads!
worth—and that of Doctor o! Laws on th<3
Hon. Samuel Livermore, and the Hon. Joh u
Picks&inc, Chief Jullice of Ncw-Hampfhire.
ABSTRACT cf EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE,
Marshal Luckner was in Paris tlie 17th July
—the public mind was greatly agitated in ac
counting for the motives of his heing there.—
T ie late apparent reconciliation of parties in
the National AlTembly turns out a temporary
oufinefs, as violent debates {till take place, and
tactions still diftraft the public councils.—M.
Luckner left Paris about the 20th July—he in
much dilTatisfied with the decree which inter
dicts petitions from Generals of the armies.—
The decree, which declares the country to 1«
in danger, has been published with great cere
mony in all parts of the city—and books were
opened in which great numbers of citizens en
rolled their names.—-The Ailenibly have de
creed that the army lhall be reinforced, jo as to
make it confjft of 452, qoo men.—M. Dufaillant
the rebel ariilocrat and several of his friends
and followers have been cut to pieces, the per*
Tons legally authorized not being able to prevent
their being maifacred; the forts of Banner Sc Jaies
are. reduced to afhes.—Oll M. Dufaillant were
found papers which disclose an immense plot a
gainst the Conftituticn ; by far the most exten
sive of any attempted against it. M. Dufaillant
in these papers is named Generalifftmo of the
South, in which the counter-revolution was to
commence—copies of these papers were read
in the AlTembly, by which it appeared that M.
Dufaillant and a Count de Combet were agents
to the French Princes, that the Catholics were
to rife against the Protestants, the Royalists who
are for the old monarchy againlt the Patriots*
&:c.—The Cure de Bannes was facrificed by
M. Dufaillant and his troops. —Long and loud
debates ensued on reading these papers, and it
was decreed that fifty-feven persons were guilty
of high treason.—Since the death of Dufaillant
quietness is restored to the South of France —
The anniversary of the French revolution was
celebrated by the patriotic locieties in London.
—Accounts are received from Lord Cornwal
lis to the fourth of March, in which he speaks
in high terms of the officers and soldiers of his
army—but makes, no mention of the death of
Gen. Meadows.—The Amsterdam Gazette re
presents the partition of Poland as a matter fix
ed on—That notwithstanding the efforts of the
nation, the unhappy fate of that country leems
to be at length decided—Thus a people which
had set an example to the civilized world, by
eftablilhing a government which has railed the
human species, long deprefled and humiliated
by the iron hand of feudal despotism, to the rank
ailigned them in the original constitution of na
ture, are again to be made the sport of ambiti
on, the miserable slaves of arbitrary power and
lordly domination—That the righteous gover
nor of the universe may blast the designs of the
despots of the earth, and yet interpose that pow
er which is omnipotent to save, in favor of Po
land, mull be the ardent prayer of all good pa
triots.—The English army nnder Lord Corn
wallis is now in pofTeflion of Hyder Ally's su
perb Tomb, and an elegant palace near Serin'
gapatani—The Tomb is converted by the Bri
tish General into an *holpital for the sick and
wounded of his arm v.
Paris, according to the latest accounts, is in
a state of violent agitation ; every thing ap
pears to be guided by the impulse of the mo
ment —the constituted powers despised, and the
voice of faction allowed the utmost latitude that
imagination can conceive—Great desertions of
the officers of the army continue.—Compara
tive accounts of the British Cufloms, ExciTe,
&c. for the weeks ending the 2ift of July 1791,
and 1792. 179 1.
L. s. d. L. js. d.
Customs, 67,234 1 o 150,797 ti o
Excise, 300,456 o o 329,550 o o
Stamps, 16,269 o o 21,254 o o
Incidents, 13,486 40 9,317 17 o
L - 397,445 5 o 510,091 8 o
Increase for the week ending July 21, 1792,
above its corresponding week in 1791, one hun
dred thirteen thousand four hundred feventy
four pounds three {hillings !
The amount of the revenue in 1792, above
1791, has already considerably exceeded half a
million !
On the 20th July, a fire brol;e out in the
general hospital at Valenciennes. The build
ings, which served as magazines for the camp
equipage, were burnt. The Tick in the hos
pital were happily rescued from the flames.
This dreadful calamity, is said to have been the
effect of treachery, part of a match having been
found where the fire firft broke out. Soon af
ter the appearance of the fire, the Auftrians ad*
vanced from Bavay to Jeanlin, within a league
and a half of Valenciennes ; but they were vi
gorously repulsed with loss.
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