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]
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