the brave Tailors of Holla nd be one
body of men with France.
The firft who (land forward ill all
enjov the firft spoils of tyranny !
I am at the head of 60,000 free
and ever vittorious Frenchmen—
60,000 more, the defenders of Bra
bant, are ready to follow me if
Heedful —We go to seek at the
Hague the plotters against our and
your liberties—for them we reserve
our vengeance.
Batavians, confide in a man whose
name is known to you—who leads
Frenchmen to battle, before whom
have fled the auxiliaries of your ty
rant. ,Tb? Belgians call me their
deliverer, I will speedily be yours !
DUMOURIER.
DUTCH MANIFESTO
In anfwerto Dumourier's proclama
tion, a manifefto has been pub
lilhed, which confutes, and at the
fame time treats with contempt
that idle gasconade, as well as the
obicure faction called the Batavi
an Committee, to which it is more
immediately addrefl'ed, —it con
cludes thus :
WE rather expect that all citi
zens, laying aside any parry spirit
which disunites them, will unite
their efforts to ours and to those of
all the true friends of his country,
to defend and preserve, under Di
vine protection, the territory which
has given them birth, and in which
they have been bred—that they
will snatch religion and true liber
ty, those guarantees of our h.appi
nefs, from the insupportable yoke
of foreign and barbarous hordes.—
We expert every thing from their
courage and bravery ; and we are
persuaded that they will not fuffer
thenvfelves to be intimidated by the
exaggerated ilatement of the forces
which are represented as advancing
against them. We persuade our
selves, that they will neither for
get the invincible valour with which
pur immortal ancestors refilled fuc
cefsfully these very Frenchmen, at
a time when the greatest powers in
Europe did not, as at this day, com
bat with us, but on the other hand,
■were leagued with our enemies ; —
nor the lituation of our country,
which more especially in this fca
fon, op.poses unfurmountable obtta
cles to an hoftije invasion ; no, the
diligence and energetic of
the government, which will neglect
nothing to secure the fuccefies of
our 'common efforts ; nor, lastly,
the efficacious succours weeexpertc r t
in a little time from our faithful
allies. If after so many important
considerations, they may still need
a motive to confirm them in their
resolution to facrifice every thing
to the defentre of their dear coun
try, we will place before their
view the example of our neighbors
the inhabitants of the Austrian Ne
therlands, who have called on and
welcomed as friends, the very ge
neral who dares to call himfelf their
deliverer, and those very French
men he commands ; those Belgians
now reap the bitterest fruit of their
heedless credulity.
Deign, thou Supreme, and All
puifl'ant Being, who haft lo often
extricated this republic from the
1110 ft imminent dangers—deign to
preserve it at this day from such a
deliverance, and from such friends.
Caution to Ladies.
Lady Elizabeth Pratt has kept her
bed this fortnight, from the dread
ful accident fbe met with by burn
ing her handkerchief and head
diefs. She was alone when it hap
pened, and had the presence of
mind to endeavor to roll herfelf in
the carpet, which unfortunately was
nailed to ihe floor. Her cries, on
the discovery of this, brought Mr.
Stewart to her aififtance, who imme
diately pulled off his coat, threw it
round her, and extinguiflied the
flame. Her ladyship is attended by
Dr. Karqubar, whose method ofcure
is a very limple one, namely, the
application of ice, which e*trai!is
lite fire, without leaving any fear
after the part affctfted is healed.
An industrious exhibiter of rari
ties, commonly called a fhew-maii,
is now tr?velling round the coun
try with Mr. Burke's dagger,which
he difplavs to the curious at a pen
ny a head.
Philadelphia, April 27.
ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN NEWS,
A body of Frcnc!) troops have taksn by
furpi"ife,C.ul{bu> g, the re fide nee of the Dtfke
of Deux Pouts—the Duke with his family had
a narrow escape.
The Pope it is said has written a peniten
tial letter to the National Convention—ex
prefling his for row for the murder of M-
Bafleville, and acknowledging in fawning and
abject terms the French republic.
:YL de Burgoing the French Ambaflador at
Madrid has not been received at that Court
since the death of the King of France; the
Leyden Gazette fays he was to have been ar
retted, but found means to escape. Tfce
Duke dp Ci*illen is to have the command *f
the Spanish army—lt is said there is a scarci
ty of bread in Paris—great uneasiness is ap
prehended in consequence. The Conventio/i
of France has decreed that all the ports off
the French colonies should be open to tVie
vefiels of the United States of America, pay
ing duties as French veflcls.—The deputa
tion from the French Weft-India Illands now
in England, have received, it is said, an an
fwerfrom the Britifti government-—and that
the French Iftands as offered by the deputies,
will be accepted by the Englilh.
P-rofecutions abound in England of persons
who pnblifti or vend seditious writings—se
veral booksellers have been severally fined
for felling " Paine's Rights ot Man ; and
some, it is said, for only exprefling an appro
bation of the sentiments it contains.
The French it appears, have a fleet ps nine
teen fail of the line in the Mediterranean —
Two French prizes captured by two Britiih
(hips of War are eft i mated to be worth 70,000]
—-Eight thousand Hanoverian troops are to
march into Holland. It is reported that the
Grand Senior is dead, and that his successor
15 going to renew the war ag'ainft Ruflia.—
A Mr. Butler and Mr. Bond —who had signed
a publication reflecting on the committee of
the House of' Lords in Ireland-— as Chairman
and Secretary to the Society of United Irifti
men—have been condemned to 6 months im
prisonment, and 500 pounds penalty each for
their offence.—Lord Barry more of the Oueens
Regiment—was lately killed by a fll zee which
went of accidentally as he flopped into a car
riage with the gun in hW hand.
The field pieces belonging to the different
volunteer corps in Dublin have been lately
seized by the military and lodged in the go
vernment arsenal.
English papers of the 9th of March contain
the King's proclamation tor a general Fail.
The Prussian army was at Vcnlo and Clcves
in February, and part of the French at St. Mi
chael, opposite, and at no great distance ; an en
gagement was hourly expe&ed.
The fortification of Choczim Has been evacu
ated by the Auftrians, and polTcffion given to
the Turks.
The cfty of Hamburgh being tliie.ittncd by
the King of Pruflia with having 5000 nim quar
tered in ii, in cafe they do not fend away the
French cmiffaries who were purchasing fupplics
there, the m;igiftiMtes complied with the requi
sition, and ifTued orders accordingly.
The French national gaaid in Paris has been
new organized, and a new commandant ap-
pointed.
• The new French Conftiiution has been report
ed by the committee appointed to draft the fame.
It contains a bill of rights. The Lrgiflature is
to confitt of one House of Representatives, to be
ele6led annually ; the Executive, of seven princi
pal officers, each to a£t as Prcfident alternately,
for fourteen days. A new convention to be
called in twenty years, to revise and improve the
Conflitutioa. The army to be under the c.on
troul of the executive. The punifhmtnt of
death for all private offences to be abolished,
and all foreign conquests renounced.
The city of Lyons is icported to be in a state
of infurre&ion.
Four ships were carried into L'Orient,
one supposed to be an Eaft-Indiaman.
The British frigate, the Juno, has captured fix
prizes, rwo of them said to be valuable.
The French are making ihe mod aflive pre
parations to equip a fleet equal to the English.
50,000 seamen are ordered to Brest. A letter
from Havre-de*Grace fays, that men are as plenty
as aflignats. M. Dcflotte, the FienchConful at
Rome, who escaped when M was
murdered by the mob of that city, is arrived ac
Paris ; he gave an account to the Convention of
the murder of two more Frenchmen, and de
mandfd vcngeance againlt the Pope and bis
fubje&s.
Mobilities against the Dutch on the part of
the Algerines, were to coramcncc the 13th Fe
bruary.
The new Constitution of France was ordered
ti» be printed and lent to all (be Departments.
When the Conftilution was reported, a member
reminded the Convention that they had decrced
t>W their aflembly (hoold be diffolvrd the mo
ment that the committee had prefentcd their
plan of a Conftilution ; he demanded an imme
diate execution of that law. The Convention
pafied to the order of the day.
The new Conilitutioa do < not meet the ap
probation of all parties ; the J»Cobttil in parti
cular are dilTattsfied with it. It is appnne4-
howeyer, if is fatd, by the great mals of tfcf
citizens ol Pins.
The followingjielch of the D*Utt< nr the Jacotin
Club, Feb. 2iJ), unit ilUftrati the furtgting.
Anthoine said, it ">vas a mafter.pieciof am
fenfe and treachery. Couthon complained,
that a dear exposition of the natural rights of
man was not to be found in it.—The principle
of resistance to oppression was exprefled in an
absurd, and a'moft unintelligible manner—
The theory of ele&ion was too complicared,
and favoved the intrigues of the rich. Above
all, he found it ridiculous to indicate a legal
manner of refilling ; as if, said he.
when an aififfin U to be got rid of, time migkt
to be allowed him to confumraaK hi* gu>l:y
defigis.
379
The society eame to the Following relblu
tvotts. That they con fide red the plan of" the
jCSnftit\itior» as a public calamity, and would
ilake incetfan t eSorts toprevent the adoption
it by the people.
Tie society also took into consideration the
means ofpunifhing such deputies as had vo
ted againfi the execution of the Jate King.
Tho' there appears to be an extraordinary
unanimity of the people ot England tor f»p-
the measures of government, vet forne
petitions against the war have been brought for
ward ; and the object of a parliamentary reform
>i l)y no means lolt fight of.
The House of Commons of Great-Bri
tain have agreed to a grant of 437,837!.
is.rjid. for. a% additional number of men
-for the land service ; 139,9001. for the
: 103 independent companies; 32,0001. far
( 285,428!. Js* 6a* South-Britain
**<ilt«»f»45,oool. broad money, and 15,639!.
, 55. lid. tin: Weft-Indies——all this is an over
pi n". of the forine t eftabiifhment.
SAYS A CORdESrONDENT,
A cursory view of foreign intelligence will
serve to shew that the (pint of fa)(hood and
nnfreprefcotation was never more alert than at
the present day. Not to advert to palpable con
tradictions in the European prints, it is evident,
from the greatest part of the paragraphs relative
to the Belligereut powers, that the writers anti
cipate events agreeably to their wishes, and in
inanyinftances palm them on the public for fa&s.
—The public is frequently cautioned to be on
its gnard against the mifrepreftmations of
French affairs in the Engli(h papers—but it is
evident that there are Britiih publications as
much-in the interest of Franco as any publifbed
:n Paris—the partizans on both fides no doubt
aregjilty of great exaggerations—but is it aU&
that truth has fled from the earth, and that not
one fjjlitary printer can be found who finds it
for h is inteteft to pubhfh a just reprefentauon of
tS: hnpoitant tranfa&ions now pafiitig on the
European theatre ?
In afligning rcafons for the war wich France,
an Enghlh paper fay?'— u It is the cause ot hu
man nature we are engaged to support; of a
conilitution which our an:eftors cemented with
their blood, which is the source of our pride,
and the foundation of our happmefs againfta (yf
tem of innovation which has swept before it,
like an overwhelming torrent, the sacred infti
tuiions of antiquity, the pure consolations of re
ligion, the duties of domestic life, and the obli
gations between man and man. In ancient
limes war was conduced with dignified feroci
ty ; among the moderns it has been carried on
with fcieniific (kill: the recent hollilities of the
French have been ferocious without dignity,
and fcientific without humanity ; and if we
meet their forces with fucb accumulated horrors,
we have still the cotnfoit of refle&ing, that to ab
stain from war is impoflible, and to doubt of
success would be impious.*'
ExtraS oj a letter from an Amoican Gentleman at
"nantz, feb. 3 An embargo is laid up
on alt veflels here, except American and Spa-
The greater part of the powers oi* Eu
rope are hostile to France, but she will tri
umph over them all. England will pay dear
ly for her folly in this war. Be allured the
resources ot France are inexhaustible. The
greater the danger, the less will be their di-
vision.
" All Europe is aftoniihed to lee with
u>hat rapidity they go on. t verity .believe
•thejfwilj make'a descent in England, in the
course of the Spring, with6o, or*Bo,ooO men :
,«-Ti> raise such an army, is but an affair of 3
or 4 weeks; for men are as plenty as al'-
figuats."
Tbis day., and Monday, the Cnmmiffioners'
.. for hoidittft-a Treaty with the hostile Indians
will leave this city, on their route to the Indian
country.
1; We hear the time fixed for holding the Treaty
is ibe firft of June next.
COMMU NICATIO N S.
It is not without example to find porfons who
like ihe treason, and vet despise the traitor.
Those who throw rotten eggs at a government,
may do a piece of fcrvtce to the public. But
.those who like to fee the government thus
adorned and peifumed, would be afhamcd to be
seen in the company of the men who funiifh
their amilfement. These Grub Greet writers
may fay> the world is not our friend, nor the
world Ylaw—and therefoie that dcfcription of
pcrfons very naturally, some will fay very justly,
make war upon both.
We are commanded to love our enemies.—
There are in cveiy country perions who find the
laws their worst rnemies—enemies, which infli£l
impnlonmcoi, fines and ftiipcs. This is too
much 10 be forgiven. It is cheaper, as well as
more honorable, to car*y on war with such per
sons, than to buy a peacp.
i What is public credit!—lt is the animating
. principle of public ejiertion—which, having
braced the nerves of indtuftry, and fist the
machine of general enterprize in motion is at
the present moment, the tenure on which
hundreds of tbouf.tnds of our fellow-citizens
JtoM the means of subsistence.
"Every attempt (and many are made) to
depreciate the public confidence in the honor
and faith of tbe government of this conntry
is a fti oke at the vital principle of our fecial
exiftencc.
It has been ca'led an in'ult to republicanism
for the free citizens of the United Statet to
cxprels their feelings on the fate of the un
fortunate King of France ; but the people
of this country know how to diftingnifc be
tween the principles of humanity and jullice,
and thole which cast a (hade on the tuft c.iufe
that mankind pollibly he engaged in—the
cause of Freedom—Americans will eternally
leprohate the crneltiei of arbitrary end dsf
potic po;ver, under whatever fanftisn they
maybe extrtiftd.
Nartiz.
TO THE PUBLIC
I AM adviled that it will be iluprnpcr, li.
the present cii eumllan< es, to bring before
VO4l the merits of my caule, on tire fubjeft of
the articleof Hrqjuwchuifnt v.'ltich you have
lately foenin the psjWic paprrs. I was jrttxiou -.
that an imreftigatfcmvf tfco!e charges IhnuM
have take*, place 'fc»fc»e the adjournment «»i"
the legifitture, tint jcflice i>>'~iit he done,
and vou be «eqnainted -vli-i. I't facts; and [
preifcd it with all tha r.irncitiicfs m ray pow
er. As the opportunity is liiit until another
feflion, all 1 have to retjueft is, thafrniv ft!
low-citizens would ftifpeiid t!'eir judgment
until I have ao opportunity tu !>e he.ird.
JOHN NICHOLSON.
FROM Till BALTIMORE DAILY R £ PO'S I T Q K Y
Revenue Cutter AS/(ve t April 22, 1793.
Mr. GraKam,
Plea(e to give the. following a place in your
ufeful paper, that the public may be bene
fited thereby, and that dangers may thfe
better be guarded a^ainft.
WE, the Officers of the United States
Cutter A&ive, did, on the ißth loft,
examine that dangerous CJuiter of R.ocks
which lie, in a true direction, half way be
tween North and Sparrow's Pointy and bear
from
North-Point,
Sparrow's do.
Bodkin do.
White Rocks, lying at
the Moothofßock- vN. N. E. J E.
Creek, 3
Major Jones's Hmife, ~ " " "
N. W. by W. £ W.
S. E. bv E. & E.
N. N. \V.
There is about 7 Rocks, fame of which are
riot more than 3 feet under water, and but a
small distance apart. The Shoal is round,
about the fi2e of half an acre, and has a hard
bottom.
That this dangefous placc rnav be the bet
ter avoided, we have fixed a long Spar on the
most dangerotrs font, wtth a red at the?
top, on which is the worj " Rocks," in large
white letters.
A", thcfe Rocks h.lve occafionpd many
heavy lo!Te«, the printers in the different fea
jports in the United States, are requcfted to
publifti the above, for the information of those
who may not be apprised of the danger.
DAVfD PORTER, Caffjin.
WILLIAM THOMAS, Mole.
A Dr. Gant, who had been committed to the
goal ol Baltimore, on suspicion of having rob
bed the Eastern Mail, has made his efcapo. A
generous reward will be paid tor apprehending
him.
The ship Industry, arrived at Norfolk, the
night before (he m«?dc the Capes, whilst running
at the rate of 9 knots an hour, (truck a Ichooner,
and from the dreadful cries of her people, and
from her disappearing immediately, it is sup
posed IVe must have lunk. The sKip received
such damage, as rendered it dangerous to put
her about.
The Indians, have made inctlrfions to Kana»
wha. couoty ; .taken two .negroes belonging u*
William Morris; a Col. Boone and another
person weie killed or taken.
Other accntNUS of murders and depredation's
by the Indians are publifh'd in some of the
southern papers; but the flat and pointed con
tradictions of these accounts, which so fre
quently fuccecd their publication, may well
beget a degree of incredulity till time (bail
ascertain what foundation they reft upon.
From the a&ive preparations that arc making,
it is anticipated that the Bridges over ihe Hack
infack and Pa (Tup will he ere&ed the ensuing
summer, and be pafTable next autumn. Mr.
Nottage, of Boflon, is arrived at Newark for
the purpose of directing these important under
takings. 4
A letter from Guarialoupe, dated April 3,
to a gentleman in New-York, fays, V The En
glifli colours are now flying 011 one corner of the
works at Martinique, and the white flag on the
other; the inhabitants having fubmittcd 10 the
Englrfh."
Died at Woodbury, G'oucefter county, New-
Jersey, on Sunday the 14th inDant, Mrs. Ann
Hunter, wife of th»» Rev. Andiew Hunirr, of
that place; auji on Tucfday following her re
mains weie attended by a large concourse of her
friends to the Presbyterian church, where, pre
viouflv to her interment, a sermon was/lelivered
by the Rev„ Dr. Afhbel Grren, from Psalm xc.
12. ii So teach us to number our days, that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom." She hail
borne much affltftion with patience and resig
nation, and finally left the world with christian
confidence and composure.
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