Domestic Articles.
CHARLESTON, March Y>.
The company for opening the navigation ot
the Catawba river is revived, and proceed
ing with sprit in making the arrangements
for competing the object ot their mft-.tution.
At a late meeting they elected the honorable
Grimke, for their Preiident; and the
honorable William Smith, Gabriel Maiiigault,
T o iin S. Cripps, Charles E. Miller, Cbnftian
Sens, und Dav.d Ramsay, Elqrs. Directors
It is witli pleal'ure we notice a novel insti
tution that place in this city, within
a few days pal*, which equally contributes to
the comfort and con venience of our citizens,
as well as strangers—we mean the eftabhfti
ment of hackney coaches, which now daily
ply in our streets.
BOSTON, April 8.
£xlra3 of a letter to a gentUmsn ' hi ' tcmn ' da " d
Port-au-Prince, March 13, 1793-
«' The army which is out on the Plains have
pat quarrelling among themselves, and are
coniinff in to day, to leave the Plains to the
mercy"of the Negroes, and you mav depend
that it will all be burnt to ashes. The Mu
nicipality made a request, or rather ademand,
yesterday, that all the mailers of veflels fhoqld
furnifli one third of their crew to go out 011
the Plains—which they refute. They are
willing to guard the town to save tlietr own
goods if possible. What' will be the conse
quence of our refufal I don't know ; but we
luppofe that they will lay a general embargo.
The people ate in the greatest consternation
you can conceive ofthey exfleft when the
army coines in thev will again fight among
themselves, and if they do, this town will
again be burnt. There is another circum
ftsicc 'vHch u!« aw.afraid Commiffary
is expeftsd here every moment, from, the
Cape,' to enforce some ast, which the people
here are determined fhnll not take place
How it win lie fettled, God only knows. I
with I was clear of this place of contusion, tu
mult and disorder ; but it is impossible—they
will not let cfre go."
htrad of a letter dated Au* 14, jrom
letter twin* "w* » » »-« -IT
« Mertihtr of the Colonial AJjembly.
" -Tranquility is not yet restored td/thu
Col«ny, cannot be restored Until' f>ell»
force,s Wcive, commanded by true repub
lican'- , . •
" SOme of the rebels haye lately set tiro to
the iiigar works in the des Ances, be
longing to several planters."
By Ihe ttturss from a grept number of
towns, (Here I* nu'doubt but the preient Go
vern«r aid Lieutenant-Governor will be re
Hoitsn.i« ejeifted j Eed»r«t- a '
prefejiUtirfc-— —"
IN WHALE FISHERY.
Cipt. Paul Worth, of Nantucket, in a let
ter to a friend of his at that place, communi
cate? the following agreeable intelligence of
thefuccefsof our Whalemen fitted out the
paftfeafon. He dates the letter from Marti
nico, lSth Feb. 1793 —and mentions, that he
has >ios barrels of sperm. and 2000
whale-oil.
Obad. Barnard, on the coast of Peru,
20th July,
George Bunker, ditto,
William Swain, on the Brazil coast,
20th December,
Gilbert Folger,
Seth Coffin,
David Barnard,
Philip Fofdjck,
Zenus Coifin,
Peter Foidick,
William Gliiby,
Thomas Brook, 70 sperm and
barrels whale.
Dunkirk 1 nth Deccmbtr.
PHeg Bunker,
Benjamin Paddock,
Prince Coleman,
The Penelope,
William Hawer,
HARRIS&URGH, (Perm.) April 8.
from a Correjpvndent.
I. IT&kARY INTELLIGENCE.
A gentleman lately from Fiance informs, that
tlie love»s of modefn ethics will Ihortly be gra
tified with ihe foWowing cdnlolatory publica
tions, vie. 14 The Wrongs of Man," by Mi.
Paine; being a masterly illustration, in the way
of contrast, ot his former fubje£fc— 14 The Mille
nium, a poetical Vijiort," by J. B. a fraternifed
Ameiican—" State Regeneration, or the politi
cal RWf&ngs of Aiheifm," by Citizen D ipom—
And ** The Id<-a of Humanity on the new Srhemc
of universal Fraternity," by Ci'iz-ns Egalite
and kobetfpierre—an immortal work, with this
motto, haifl M'Fmgal—
hor now in itfprimptolfmfc,
Ike term, human'tk comprehends „
All things+of which, on this fide he/f,
IKc human mind is capable.
BALTIMORE, April 10.
YeflercUy arrived here, the Ichooncr Port-au-
Prince, L<viw Jones, master, in 8 days from S;.
Domingo. During Capt. Jones's stay at St. Jc
rrmic, the mulattocs had revolted ; and at the
timcol bis depart lire, thf ditturbances had not
fubQded. About the *Q(h of .March, a whaling
(loop put iiuo Jcrenv.e, and informed, that a
few" nights before, they loft their Captain and
fix haorfs. She w« callcd the Sally, Captain
Howland. #
Philadelphia, April 13, 1763.
At a meeting of Che Aldermen of the City
of Philadelphia, held at the City-Hall this day,
tliey proceeded to the choice of a Mayor for
the catalog year, when Matthew Clakkson,
Elqoirc, appeared to he unanimously re
elected. Rohxi Huiy DuNUMj Clk.
Philadelphia, April 17.
Articles of accusation and impeachment
for high mifderneahon, were palled again ft
the Comptroller General of flits Common
wealth, by the Houle of Reprefenfatives at
their late feflion. The charges refer princi
pally. to certain negotiations and speculations
in public securities. The House referees to
itlelf the liberty of exhibiting at any time
hereafter, any other accusation or impeach
ment against thefaid Comptroller General.
The Legislature of the state is adjourned to
the fourth Tuesday in August next.
Wjn. Colt, s!'q. Treasurer of tlx state of
Conjjeiftiqut, U. appointed fupcrintendaDt of
the Manufa&ory of Paterfon, N. J.
A publication in a London paper, fgned
Charles J. Fox, Colonel Fitzpatrick, Lord
Robert Spencer, &c. contains the following
declaration !
u That we will, all and each of us, in our
refpeftive stations, colle&ively nd irdividu
ally, contribute every assistance in our power
to the due execution of tl*e laws, the mainte
nance of civil order and government, and the
immediate suppression of all riots and •tu < -
mults, under what pretence soever they may
be excited ; to discourage all illegal meet
ings, and all seditious and inflammatory wnt r
ings, calculated to mislead and seduce the
people from their allegiance, and render them
blind to their true interests."
The Indian Chiefs who lately went froin
this city to the eafte n states, left Boston the
week before last, on their return to the Indian
country.
Various are the reports in circulation—
Spain it is said has declared for a neutrality
in the war; but at the fame time the Spanish
Court is gone into mourning for the late King
of Franc j.
There Is a letter in town from LUbpn,
dated the sth of March, which cpntains the
following account':— a That France has de
clared War against Spain—that a French
cruiser has taken a Spanish velFel, loaded with
hides and tallow, and having on board 100,000
dollars specie—that the Britilh government
had publicly recognized the Dauphin as King
of France—that Lisbon was arming with vi
gour, and would have a fleet ol (hips of the
line in a few days ready for sea."
The fliip America, Capt. Bright, from Cal
cutta, is aVrived at New-York.
A correspondent observes, that as English
accounts of French affairs are said to be par
tial, i'.icqrre.'fl and falfe* ij: is much to be de
sired that the public might be favored with
Tranflatiohs from the Leyden Gazette, un
paper publiflied in Europe,
is constantly received in this coun
try.
A bill has been brought into the Irish House
of Commons to discontinue the rcftraints and
disabilities heretolore imposed by on per
sona in that country profefling the Roman Ca
tholic religion.
A motion h*# alio brer* matte jrrrd irgrerd vof
for the House «o go into a committee of the
whole on thefubjeft Ma parliamentary reform.
The Roman Catholic bill originated with the
Hon. Mr. Hohart. The motion lor the com
mittee on a reform, with Mr.
These salutary mcafures appear to be the re
sult-os accommodating principles, which it is
found neceff.vry to adopt, in order to ensure
unanimity at the prcfent intcrefting crisis of af
fairs. Should the people of Ireland find a re
dress of their public grievances in consequence
of the war with France, ii will verify the pro
veib, "that it is an ill wind which blows nobody
any good."
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(AYS A CO R B ESPOKDE NT (
The real friends of freedom and the equal
rights of m*n in the United Siaies, and io ail
other countricxs, are the h tends of reafwn, juilice
and humanity; but there are those in aii Darn
of the civilized world, who while they a flu me
the honorable appellation of Republicans, dis
cover the mod intolerant and rancorous temper
towards those who piefume to controvert the
juiltce of maxims which lead to the ixieimina
tion of the human race.
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Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the De/a-
ware State, to hisJr'end in this city.
" I have jll ft been reading the hiltory o!
.lie crimen, enormities, and absurdities ol
human nature, from the end of the 9th cen.
tury, down to the present time—Such a pic
ture mull disgust every thoughtful person,
with the (pecies he belongs to, unlets indeed
he reflect that the aggregate of human worth
was ever to be found in the private walks ol
doineitic retirement. But for many centu
ries 1 fear, little of this worth was to be seer
even there The small frock of curreui
knowledge feeins only calculated to oppreP
with more plaulibility the ignorant multitude,
who without the honor or fortitude of il>er<
savages; without any interest i« the <joar
rels of their rulers, were fatrificed, withnu'
remorse, t8 the irrational ant) barbarous poll
cy of tnonfters called Popes, Kings, and Em
perors. At length, however, a dawn of hop*
feeined breaking in upon the world, that th«
condition of poor human nature was altering
for the better. The progress made in science
id the knowledge of civil liberty and genuini
religion, was cheering every liberal and goo<
heart, with the idea, that the ferocity of met
was foftening into humanity, and the perio<
nearly at hand, when the deftru&ion of thi
human fpecie< would be confined entirely ti
the savages of the forefr But alas ! How i
weep again, over the woeful tragedies no*
acting, on a theatre, which is continuallj
boafrmg its preeraiuence in politics and ir
philolophy ! Refinements in cruelty, barbari
ty and profligacy, instead of yielding to the
light of reason, appear to keep pace with its
progress, and the fame enthusiasm which for
ages lias desolated the earth, is as active as
ever in the work of death and ruin, though
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cloathed in the plausible garments of Freedom <
and finality. In reading the dii'courfes of the i
present rulers of France, one won id be ted to
imagine that the human faculties had been
suddenly promoted to a degree of energy un
known to ancient times'; that man lu'id oflu
med a superior rank in the o.der of intellec
tual beings, wJ.ilft at the fame time we be
hold all the low and boisterous passions. mark
ing every ft age of their conduit, and the apos
tles of liberty and humanity, funk as deep in
blood as the inquilitor or the despot. The
fact, I believe, is, they have determined to
make the experiment upon Bayle's fentinient,
that a nation of Atheifls may be a moral and free
people 9 and all but themselves muft-clearly Ice
that they have failed in the very outset-—
Even a tlem of I fufpedt, will never
anfweritieir piirpofe, and it is really aftoii
iftiing' that 'men of abilities in legislation,
should rank the doctrines of tlie Gospel, among
antient prejudices and abuses. Nothing
would be moreeafy than to demonstrate that
of all tbe fvftems ever held out to mankind,
the tenets of the Gospel are the nioft demo
cratic. It contains exprellions and injunc
tions of equality not to be met with elsewhere.
In vain will either despotism or aristocracy I
look for fan&iorf or shelter under the law of
Christ ; and I will venture to fay, that the
CHrifkian comftitution has provided more ef
fectually for the Rights of Men 9 than any that
can bef frafnetl by the National Convention
of France.
In the tfereli&ion of this divine fyftern, I
think we may discover the source of all their
enormities. In combating ancient prejudi
ce", they have fallen into modern ones equal
i ly groundless and fatal. They have attribu
ted to religion the tyranny of despots, and the
tame fubmilfton of nations—They have con
founded Papal ambitfon and Prieft-craft, with
the do&rinex ps Christianity ; and forgetting
the tipe old maxim that corrupt!o optind fit
ttg&fnve greedily fw allowed ail tll<t
extravagancies of their dogmatizing Uphifts,
who hive wanted either discernment or can
dor, todvflringuirti between the genuine tenets
of religion, and the follies which knavery or
ignorance have grafted upon it, and fan&ified
under-that name.—They have not consider.
Ed, that to discard both together, or to attack
the firft on account of the last, is at least as
far from true wisdom as fupe.ftition itfelf.
lfchriftianity is to be difmifled because evil
men have made it instrumental to abuses, let
us for the fame reason banish reason, philo
sophy and freedom from society. The pic
ture now exhibited by that powerful nation,
is certainly dark and disgusting to ever)* un
prejudiced eye ; and for my part, I can feel
but little grounds fit the exultation that has
been nianifefted at the success of their amis.
It woukl have been time enough for America
to rejoice over the defeat of Francis and Fre-
when the conduit of their conquerors
should be marked with the mild feature of
Philanthropy and Benevolence. At present
the most sanguinary ostracism is their only
law, and as the last and best of their kings
!«*■» victim tn wc rrrrsv trr.ftly
couclude what will be the fate of thousands of
more ignoble fufFerers. A revolution ce
mented by such torrents of blood—much of
which has been unnecefTarily Hied, must af
ford b&t {lender hope for the future happiness
of a nation ; for however certain it is, that
the left of man has ever been to smart under ail
the branches of tyranny and oppreflion ; yet
will not this consideration excuse the afiert
ors of liberty, when they wantonly pursue
the fame desolating plan. In my opinion the
only credit due to these reformers, is, to have
demolilhed the foundation of ancient def
potifra, and to have eradicated-abuses, which
have for ages been the reproach and scourge
of human nature ; but political happiness con
sists not in deftrullion alone : New systems
must be e relied on the fcite of the old ones.
A chasm in coercive laws, would be as dan
gerous as tyranny in a Prince or Minister,
and every artful villain would become a des
pot ; wherefore, unle's a government be a
dopted immediately that may tranquilize that
agitated nation—that may increase their
cbmforts wttilft it secures rheir rights, that
prptell individuals from mobs ar.d de
magogues, more effectually, than former laws
defended them from nobility and courts; un
less it check the spirit of conquest and pro
mote the peace of mankind, by countenanc
ing urefill knowledge and genuine religion, the
only fruit of this revolution will be, to have
vouzed an impetuous people from the lethar
gy of slavery, to the fever of liberty, without
furnifhing remedies for reducing them to that
temperate composure, for want of which, po
litical equality can never subsist.'' Fed. Gaz.
Extrafl oj a Utter from a gentleman in London, dated
Feb. 3, to his friend in this city.
il All is working in Europe for the freedom
of man, the downfall of Antjcbrift, and the
dawn of that day, when all /hall fit under their
vines and fig-trees* and no ty ants make them
afraid. Even war, our fooliih war, will aid
thofeevents,and ere long the spirit ofdelufion
will cease.
4< France is ailing under an unfeen,and an
unacknowledged influence, that influence
which dictated to prophets what they knew not,
! and tbe time of its acconiplifhment was equal
j ly htl frim them. You may, in your peace
ful clime, obierve the signs of the times, and
approach, which may be as instanta
neous as the lightning, which ftarteth from
the eart, and Ihineth unto the weft !
" Your old acquaintance Fayette—alas,
how degraded, how justly fallen. He was in
league with the King, not deceived by him,
and is fu r peltsd of a design unfavorable to the
great objects we all desire to fee realized. He
is confined in the callle of Magdebourg, and
at the mercy of the despot of Pruilia, who, by
tbe way, as one of the villainous confederacy
of p. ir.ces, is taking his share of the kingdom
of Poland—ant this a!<o is in aid of what they
think not. All mil work for good."
f.xtraCl of a letler from a o'tigymi* iji Liverpool,
dated Feb. 9, to kii er>rrtfponde*t in this city.
" Th'rig' at pre'ent look very dark and
gloomy, wish refpeft to political matters in
Europe. The French nation have declared
war with and H ii!r.i;ri. . In France
all at pielen.t feenr: to te little leis than one *
entire fccne of a;-.! 1 , cimi'u/ion.
On the 2ifr cf \>ft month they.put theii late
King to death, by uuMidy off his head.
Our preparations for war aw very vigorous,
and except the Lot d in mercy prevent, til®
approaching lumraei seems likely to be a very
bfopdy one iiirierd ; the Lord prepare us for
all h's holy jvill!—l an l often of late thinking
on those twopaffages of scripture, viz." The
Lord rergfietfc, let the earth rejoice ;" a ß d
" The Lord reigneth, let the people tremble."
I am well fatisfierf that the judge of all the
earth mull and will 'do-tight—though from
the present appearance -of things I cannot help
frequently exprefimg rnyielf in those words of
the apostle*—'" How unfearchabk are hit judg
ments, and hiv ways pall finding out
" I rejoice much with you m the profpeft
you have of peace with the Indian nations on
your frontiers ; the good Lord bring'it about,
and eftabliih it ! And with you I hope I can
and. do heartily pray ; O that the kingdom of
the Prince of Peace may come, and that the
"knowledge of the glory of his name and lore
may increase, and spread from pole to pole,
and from the river to the ends of the eavth 1"
FROM THE NHW-YORK JOURNAL.
A late publication, /row London x called u 77/£
JOCKEY CLUti," while treating on the intrigues
of the QUEEN of France, introduces the foil quo-
ing natc '• —
u To us who are acquainted with the ac
tual resources of Frartce -and with the spirit
arid unanimity that now prevail through the
v country, the idea o{_ toucjutrirg it ap
pear;? insanity ; but while the momentary
excefles of an outraged and justly exaopera
ted multitude, are at present so maliciously
dwelt on, in order to depreciate the gene
rous universal principle on which the nation
a fly let us refer our readers to the savage
horrors now daily exercising on the frontiers,
without a lhadow of interest or provocation,
by the cfifciplined armies of Pruftia and Au
fti ia, under tl?e coriimand of that humane, ex
perienced, and philosophic general, the Duke
of Brunfwick, the val'rant brother of our Roy
al George, and in order to give Tome idea of
the tendemefs and companion of the French
aristocracy, we (hall relate the follow ing an
ecdote, the veracity of which is generally ac
knowledged throughout Pari??, and we our
felve* heard it triumphantly recorded by a
young French aristocrat, who occasionally
aflifted ot the ceremony.
For a considerable time before the tenth of
August, the royalists alTumed a very imperi
ous ton^itheir numbers were formidable, and
they announced, without reserve, their hopes,
which with them amounted to a certainty of
a couotter-revolution, and their paflimcs
were adapted to the sanguine expfeftations
they indulged.
" There has been a machine lately invent
ed in France, for the execution of < riminals,
called a Guiilotin, after the name of its in
ventor, and It is contrived, that on dropping,
instantaneously to fever the head from the
body. In the ariftoeratic families, and chief
ly among those connected with the Queen, it
was the cufl-om every day, as soon as dinner
was fjnifhed, to have one of these Guillotine
in miniature, brought in with the desert.
Around it were fixed figures representing
some of the piincipal and moll obnoxious pa
triots, Messrs. d'Orleans, Condorcet; Briffot,
&c. Abont the neck of each, was a ImaU
phial containing a ctimfon coloured liquid
perfume. A magistrate (one of the party)
was appointed to try the criminals, and im
mediately on sentence being pronounced, by
an ingenious mechanical pi'ocefs, down drop
ped the Guiilotin, the head was 2t once chop
ped off, and the blood flowed, when the com
pany in general, and particularly the ladies,
eagerly and joyfully fteepeck their handker
chiefs in it, and applying Vt to their noses, in
extacy exclaimed, 4< qu'il eft doux, le
fang des patriotes Ah ! how sweet is this
patriot blood!" for amongst them, as with
our fine gentry in London, the word patriot
is an epithet of mockery and dcrifion.
" From the above well known fact, we
leave our readers to conclude, what the re
sult would have been, if victory had inclined
to their fide. Eleven thoufar.d victims were
already firedeftined to the block, and it can-
not be supposed there would have been much
pains bestowed on th * formation of tribunals
for trial."
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