Philadelphia, Otf:. 10. Capt. Macpberfon, of the Ship Patfey Rut- arrived here oil Sunday last from Oftend, which place he left onths 26th of Augnft, in forms, that two days before he failed, letters were received by the magistrates of tfe city, informing, that M. La Fayette and a number of his officers were taken by some peasants with in the Austrian lines, and that he was conveyed and securely confined in the Castle of Antwerp, about 10 leagues from Oftend. Reports in Oftend relative to this affair, were various before he failed. Somefaid he was on a reconnoitring party with a few of [lis o'fficers, andwas surprised and taken by about double tlie number of ptfal'ants. Another report is, that lie was in disguise and endeavoring to make his <vay through the coun try towards fosie fc-a port town to take Shipping for America. That he was discovered by some of th..* inhabitants, seized and delivered into the hands of government. He requested, it is also Paid, to be removed from the scene of aflion on the frontiers, and chose Antwerp for the place of his confinement. ,The account of his beim; taken and aftnaily confined, was c.-jimnunkatcd to Capt. Macphcr ioa by tire mercnant to whom h-j was coclign.eri, who had seen the letters received by the magii trates. Twe can therefore be but little doubt ofthe reality of the fail. What led to his being tak?n is not so evident. That a genera] officer should venture into an enemy'- country with so little caution as to be caotured by ped ants is not very probable ; that M. La Fayette fliould desert the cause at the moment it moit needed his support, is more in credible. Information received in town from Bonr deaux," Via New-York, may assist in unraveling the mystery. A vellel -arrived in New-York from i?ourdeaus, which place she left on the last day of August, informs, thata decree of accusa tion again;} M. La Fayette had received the lauftion of a majority of the National Assembly. That orders were in consequence ilTued to ap prehend him, and another commander was cho sen in his Head. M. La Fayette, it is probable, receiving in formation of this decree, before the arm of the Jacobin party>cou!d reach him, may have taken the reio!utiion toefca'pe their fury. T'■: l> -each of the constitution by the Jaco- Mhs ivo.t'.d not have been lufficient to have led hi:n to absndon 'lis country; but the command t. iij» taken from him by the ruling party, put it "ut of his r .)'ver to be any longer serviceable, t: :-ti»!!_yashU:'freft was'decreed, which might b t >Jlo."cd by a fummarv trial, condemnation »cd perhaps death. An attc.r. ■; ' fly to this country as an afy lam, would be e :■ . aely natural in such cir cutiiftances, and . t unworthy of hhnfelf. H; will be r-?..::d with humanity by the deipots in v/ho'fe hanos • lias fallen ; —not fn ; f, the emigrants had hint in their power. Plis j efforts in favour of the King, whose life he has favetl more titan once, will pJead powerfully in | his behalf; but it is much to be regretted, that 1 if it was his plan to fly to this country, he (hould i have been unfutcefsful : Here he might have | enjoyed the sweets of that liberty, in ,the cause i of which he - has been, so active, and we fliould ! have 'lad. an opportunity of teftifying our admi ration ior his character and gratitude for his services. Capt. Macpherfon also informs, that* before he , came away several of the officers of the northern army had arrived at Oftend, & among others, Count Dillon. They were probably im pelled to emigrate in disgust at the proceedings of the Jacobins. The Duke of Brunfwick had taken ot several French towns, without meeting with oppolition. The last accounts from Paris described the > city as in a state of more tranquillity since the | deposition of the King. The decree of accusation against La Fayette; and his capture, added to the depolition of the have made a change in the situation of af fairs in France. The cause of the constitution expires; but that of liberty and re public anifm are fliU t0 be supported. It remains to be. seen whether a majority of French citizens will support the proceedings of! the jacobins at Paris : It remains to be deter- ! mined whether the royalists, ariftocratsand con-; ftitutionalifts, will not be more numerous than republicans. If the republicans can maintain a decided superiority within, the cause of liber ty and equality may still prevail—this mull still be the wifti of every friend to the rights of man. It is better that France fliould feel for a few years the evils of anarchy, than again to expe rience the horror?; of despotism. The French, the great body of the French nation, have seen the dawn of liberty, they can never bend to the yoke of tyranny. ' Gen. Adv. free people of colour and the free blacks ol St. Domingo have not hitherto enjoyed the privileges to which they are entitled by the de cree of the National Alfembly of France ; this has the principal cause of the d ft urban ces in that Colonv. A new election is however to take place of Colonial and other popular Assemblies of the "'and, in which free people of colour and ne groes are to have a voice. . This measure it is expected will restore unan imity among every class of citizens, tvhich is absolutely necefiary to eiFeft a return of good order, and restore tranquility. Capt.Dring, in 35 days from Bourdeaux, ar rived at New-York last Thursday, informs, that n * as quiet in that city when he /ailed. He confirms the account of the murder of the three ag,ed Priests at Cauderan (a village near Bour deaux) as mentiohed in our last, with all the aggravating circumstances. The accounts from France by the Patfey Rutiedge, are to the 26th Au'iift—eleven days later than these by the New-York, Capt Smith. These accounts fay that the King was still fact in the Temple at Paris, and had not been tried. 1 he Duke of Bruniwick was marching towards* Paris, and had threatened to put every one there to the lword, in cafe of opposition. The people at Oftend were of opinion, that the Duke is able to march through all France without meeting with much opposition. The French-officers, it is said, desert daily— but this is perhaps counterbalanced by a great number of defertionsof Austrian (bifiiers toLuck net's army.—Oftend, it is to be remarked, isin the Austrian territories——these aCconnts are therefore to be credited with due limitation. M. Defparbas'is appointed Governor of St. Domingo, in the room of M. Blancheland, and failed from the Isle of Aix, near Rochefort, the 22d July, with 30 transports, having on board between 6 and 7000 troops, deftinea for St. Do mingo,and convoyed by some men of war,com manded by M. de Camhis. Letters from Cape-Francois advise of the arrival of the above fleet. The letters to the merchants of this city,even those to Mr. Rofs, the owner of the ship Patfey Rutiedge, Captain Macpherfon, from Oftend, mention nothing of the capture or defertlon of the Marquis La Fayette. 7* RAN SLAT ED TSOM THE COLOCNE GAZETTE OF AUGUST 14. Paris, AuguJ} 9, THE factious redouble their efferts ro oblige the King to quit the Capital, despairing perhaps of being able to execute their lalt attempts. For se veral days the rumor of his intended l flight, repeated with design, has kept the people constantly in commotion';. Every night they beat thc general in the Fauxbourgs, to colleift round the palace a continual coiicourfe of peo ple. They arc preparing new and more conliderable movements for the night of Wednesday or Thursday At an entertainment yesterday at Rincy, where were the Mayor of Pa ris and two feeret envoys or emifla ries from England, the dethronement of Louis XVI. was irrevocably sworn, and the Duke of York proclaimed' King of the French.—lf theParifians tand National Guards do not redouble their efforts, zeal and vigilance, the conduct of the flagitious will bring upon this immense city, and on its iniferable inhabitants, all the doods of justice and vengeance. 1 he,. Englilh Ambad'ador has in formed the Diplomatic Committee, that he shall take his departure, with out taking leave, the day after the deposing of the King (hall be pro nounced. We learn by letters from Valenci ennes, that the rumour being made in the garrison that the National Aflern bly had decreed the deposing of the King, the news excited a great fer mentation among the troops of the line—and that a great number ofihe soldiers were ready to desert to the pneniy with their arms and baggage. The department, the municipality, and the chief officers, have retained them only by afl'uring them that the news of the dethronement was with"- : out foundation. There is ho doubt that the fainedifpofition will be found in general in all the other armies. Luxembourg, Augufl 5. The advance guard of the Prussian army has enter ed thi3 Province—The troops are cantoned at Grevenmacker, Remich, ■ Echternach, &c. From a Richmond Paper of 08. I. By a letter to his Excellency the Governor, we are anthorifed to an nounce to the.public, that Col. Har den, with his companion, on a million to the Indians, refpetfting a treaty of peace,on delivering their credentials, were immediately made prisoners, and sentenced to be burnt as spies. Col. Harden saw his companion ex pire, under all the tortures which la vage ingenuity could invent ; and was himfelf the next morning after his friend's execution to have Experi enced the fame fate—but, was ifolen from his confinement by eight young Wyandot warriors, who fafeiy con dueled him to Fort-Washington. Banbury, Sept• 29 We learn from Woodbury, (Con nefticut) that on the 26th inltaat, a young man by the name of Perry, was killed by the falling of a tub of sand ; he was digging a Well, had funk it about forty feet, the rope parted, and the tub fell upon his head, which deprived him oflife, tit the age of eighteen years. 151 FROM A CORRESPONDENT, A government of laws, and not of the def potilm, caprices, pafTions, or prejudices of men lias been the deiire of every friend of liberty lince the temple of freedom was eredted in the United States.—Nothing else can give that it a oility to government, which is necessary to ren der it adequate to the maintenance oftiie rights of man. When, therefore, the grand jury of Augusta county, at a State court held in Vir ginia, pieiented, of their own mere motion, certain perlous who had commenced an associa tion against the laws of the union for raising a duty 011 riiltilled spirits;— when thfe traverse jury of Chester county, in Pennsylvania, con victed certain offenders against the fame laws of an alfauit upon the ofhcer, and fined them for the lame ; when the hand of just govern ment (the power of a free people) was laid upon similar offenders in Cumberland, and in the wel tern country of South-Carolina, every friend of government and freedom mult have,felt his peacej fafety, and property secure a gainrt the inroads of defpotil'm or anarchy i be cause they were comfortable proofs that we live under a government of laws. Devoutly is it to be wished, that a fa<ft of a very different com plexion had not occurred, in the due noticing of which, the fandlitv of the laws, and the dig nity of our free government at this momentde pend. Persons, who for years have held a fliare of the legislative power of Pennsylvania, where in an excise law existed, which imposed a larger duty, and who never took a mealure, as legifla tors, for the repeal of that law, nor for an op polition to its execution, until a similar, though duty was required by the national go vernment, have begun to associate thamfelves against the laws of the union. If there be aught of foiemnity or efficacy in the ordjiining of the federal conftitutiori by the ti eemenof these United States, of obligation in the national laws, or of efficiency in the re hand to whom the people have commit ted, for a time, the guardianfliip of their peace and property, the lacred government of laws will be efficiently maintained and vindicated. It would be the play of children to bring; re prelentatives of the people and of the States from every quarter, from Georgia to New- Haiiiplhire, and from the western waters to the Atlantic occan, to go through the solemn farce of enacting constitutional laws, if they are open ly opposed in their execution by a few confined circles of mifguidcd citizens. The whole of the petitioners for a repeal of the excil'e law, do not amount to the number of the inhabitants of one of our principal borough-towns, or one half of one of the smallest counties. Where is liberty, if such minorities are to iiifult the civil authority ? People of America ! remember the days of* anarchy ye have pafled, and oppose your every effort against their return, before it be too late ! Gen. Advtrtifcr. COMMUNICATIONS. Hfa times of tumult and faction the worst men in society naturally take the lead of parties.— Not being used to govern their paHions on other occasions, i heir vehemence surprises those who are moderate from feeblenefs of mind, or from temperate reflection. Such turbulent spirits arc the fitteft to be evoked when the world is to be set on fire. Impatient of all restraints, of those of virtue as well as of government, they are always complaining, always active to fo ment sedition. Yet when difTentions arise, they make a merit of their zeal, as if their regard to public principles had inspired it. Is the ho nest part of mankind duped by their pretensions, for in troublesome times, such men are certain ly brought forward—or do they underftanc! them, and make use of them, as they would of a poker to l\ir the fire when they would have it burn brighter ? We meet with men of blasted; chara&ers, some of whom however are not so bad as to make any pretences of private virtue, because if they should the world would laugh in their faces. How often do we hear them hold ing forth in favor o( public virtue ! as if in po litics they were as much too (trait as they are too Jodfe in morals. They abhor* speculation— they would guard the laws against the nioft in direct influence of avarice—and so jealous are they of feeing republican principles impaired they can scarcely endure to hear others pray, thy kingdom come, as it lrnells of monarchy.— They will not allow their hearers to laugh ei ther at their extravagance or their bypocrify ; they accuse the laughers of being speculator*; or monarchy men.—But those who have had the edifying opportunities of liftcning to tavern orators and the holders forth at public corners may be allowed to laugh in their sleeve when they remark the contrast between the practices and the profeifums of the declaimers. Surely virtue must have made great progress when its very enemies make speeches in its praise. Happy is that people whole, oppreflions exifl only in theory, who read in the Gazettes that government has leized all, and yet find at their tables nothing wanting. Is there a people who thrive fafter, or who enjoy more, and yet is there a government on earth To bad as certain falfc democrats describe our own ?—lf Constan tinople had newi'papers, which it has nor, even Turkish tyranny could not be painted in colors better adapted to create abhorrence- Do these men thus paint republican government to make us love it, or hate it ? The friends of liberty, as they aicdeltly call themselves, but who would destroy all that the laws have done for liberty, tell us, that the mo ney of the south and weft is feut to pay interest to the middle and eaftej?h"creditors. The fain writers complain of Handing armlefc and an In dian war. Is not the mbnev of thd ntiddle and eastern citizens feet for this purport south ward and westward ? How happens it that the virtuoun writers who cant about the fchemei and ipeculation, and corruption, of the federal government, are silent in regard to the projects of the states i Do the tontines, and banks, and ca nals, and Itate debts, and accounts, and depreciation, and lauds, &c. fur nifh no facts—or can their jealom virtue play the nioufer only at one rat-hole ? Probably the United are feeing their best days. A growing ftaie is bencr than tits most improved ltationary one. Hope now gilds our horizon with a lustre which wou.V Cade on polleifion. Our towns are glowing, our Hums improving, the fettled frontier extending, arts and lciencesare makjrigprogiefs— that Hands ftili? Nothing—not even the tongue of ingratitude, which dates to charge heave* with blame for all these bleflings. Samuel Smith, Esq. is elected a Reprefenfa tive in Congrel's for the State of Maryland, JV>r the Diftvift of the Town and County of Bsiti- more. Yesterday at about one o'clock the election commenced in this city formembersofCongrefs and the State Aflembly—the poll was notclofed when this paper went to pre(s. The Jacobin Club in Paris, in a petition 19 the National Affembly,which was to beprcfent ed in the name of the 48 fe&ions, fay " Without enumerating the long lift of La Fayette's well-known clime 1 ;, that they do de clare him infamous and a traitor to his country ; that they da allow any soldier or citizen to fall upon him (de lui courir j-j>) J::d bring him dead or alive to the bar of the National Assembly." Sir Richard Arkwright died at Gromiord, Derbyshire, England, in Attguft Jaft; a flatus of this gentleman is to be erected in the centre of a spacious square in Mancfrelter ; this wiJ be a tribute to the worth of a man who from the humble situation of a barber, had not only accumulated vast wealth to himlelf, but been the means of enriching the surrounding country. It is laid the profits of his works for several years amounted to annually. When the fir ft cotton mill was erected by this gentleman at Dei by, the manufacturers were imprefied with such an idea of its being pregnant with ruin to them, that they rose in a body with a determination to destroy it; and would undoubtedly have done so, had not the military been called in for its protection. SHIP NEWS, ARRIVED at ike PORT oj PHILADELPHIA. Ship Adriana, Curwin, Liverpool Patfey Rutledge, M'Pherfon, Oftend Hannah, Hawkes, Oporto Friendlhip, Gould, London Snow iSukey, Rogers, Ki'panioia Brig SweHow, Gheefcman, Briton Fair Hebe, F.ldridgc, Tenerifte Theodofia, Leake, Bourrieaux Kitty, Shurtlifi, Cape-Francois Conncll, Sally, Peter Augustus, Robfon, Sch'r Friendship, Art, Charming Betsey, Odlin, SJoop Two Brothers, Hill, Illinois, Hughes, Hope, Hufley, Polly, »Cahoone, Industry, Almy, Vency, Henly, Industry, Harding, PRICE OF STOCKS. 6 per Certs, 2, /9 i Im.cl 3 per Cents, 13J ) Deferred, *4/6 Full /hares Bank U. S. 48 per cent. prem. shares, 60 To the Public. THE fubferiber returns his most refpeftful compliments to his friends and the public, for the many favors he has received, and begs leave to inform tbem that he has upon hand a few fine toned Forte Pianos, which he will warrant superior to any imported, and which he will dispose of on reasonable terms. The great number of Forte Pianos lately imported from London and Dublin, induces the fubferiber to caution the public against the art ful insinuations of persons commiifioned to vend them—who, for a very trifling compensation, recommend inftrumeuts that are nothing but the refufe of the European Music-Shops, and imported at a mere trifle, and fold for the lame price as a good instrument, to the great disap pointment of the ignorant purchaser, who ge nerally pays as much for repairs in a year or two, as the original cost of a good instrument. N. B. Musical Instruments let out by the month or quarter, likewise Musical lnftrumenti tuned and repaired in the best maimer, and on tlie most reasonable terms, by CHARLES TAWES, [4t] No. 6" 1 , Walnut, near Third-Street. John Gould, HAIR-DRESSER, INFORMS his friends and the public in ge»«- ral, that he continues to carry on his buiinefs as usual, at No. I, South Third-Street, near Marker Street, and thanks his former customers for the favors he has received. Said Gould has for sale, an infallible cute for Weak or Sore Eyes, which on trial, has and will e found to answer the purpose.—He has it in vials from one quarter of a dollar to a dollar.— \vy person trying the above, if not found to .iiifwer the character giv*en, the money will be returned. [tf] Port-au-Prince St. Euftatia Chai lefton Fayal Montlerrat St Thomas Maflachufetts R. Illand ditto St. Croix Cafco-Bay
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