immediately fro.n bunting to agriculture— Thi» leeras to ha»e been tlie cafe with tiie .ancle,it Greelcs and tlie Peruvians. Other*, in a certain of their progrellion, praftile fouic-thing that belong to every state ol ini provejjAenT, without taking a cltara{hr lr-oni either—This f r>pens generally wl.en the tranlitiort it f ; from one |.erind ot im provement 10 another. Tlie progress or nar nont in.refine.-rnr li by no mea's equal; a combination of natui al and moral causes may accele-ate or retard thjir advancement — .V favorable climate, a genial foil, a healthy atmnfijlieve, rapid population, iecurity from invasion, and domeltic peace, flatten their progrefi i i improvement—while, on the con trary, circuniftai ces the leverfeof the le have an oppofi'c effect. Again, the neighborhood of an improved and focia! people—frequent and friendly in tercourse with them—connections by mar riage, by treaty and alliance—a mutual com munication of favors and exchange of com modities—and efpecia-lly all exertions made directly for this purpofo, fcften the native fe rocity of tlieir temper—humanize their affec tions— cxc re the tender movements of the foul, and render them fulceptible of liberal fentimcr.ts and delicate fenlations —inspire them with a taste tor focietv, and greatly ac celerate the progress of national refine; ment. From tail fuojeft we learn, ift. Thar the civilization of a lavage nation may be greatly accelerated by the concurrence of foreign causes—and 2d. That all attempts for this purpose, (hould !>e conformable to the natural order and progress of society. fSOM A LATE IRISH PAPER, CURIOUS LETTER. •* fr' 1 ' 1 ' f The following letter was found, two months ago, in a porter-house, and we give it to 9ur readers as a curiosity.l My Dtct Mr. Prii I ME a very plane man, I hav no lattin and vene litiel English, tho I can tauke Irish as fade as any man in Munfter, excep my wif, \fcho tobe sure can tauke me def; and afterwards tauke onn til! line tired of hear ing hur. Eur tlio lme not booklarrid, yet fa ther Tedy O'Rorke, who is a deepe fkollard, offten tells me, when lme giving him a jorum of whiJkey punchy that tholme ignorent, yet 1 hav a goode undurftandirig. But if this be aule blarny, and if I have no undurftanding at aule,,this needs nat hindor me from riting abaute poll/ticks, becaife this is a thing that every bodie undurftands. But it is time for me to be after t'elling you what it is I mane. The society of United Irish men are fartinlv mity fine peeple ; they can't but noe every thing,for they hav amung urn aule aturnits, and bruers, and fteymakurs, and dotfturs, aud grand jontlemen, who ware for merly j)arlament men, and, if they ware able to by burroes, wud be the feme agen;.and they hav likewevs amung um, pieefts, and profpiterion miniflurs, and etfeeifts, and aule the othur religions in the kindom. Now t!.is society t-ls us that the Frenlhe revoluihon is the mod charmin, vartuous, noble biznKle that the wnrld ever fawe, anil that weaut to lmiteteit as fade as we can. But on the othur hand, ther ere toppin bookmakers who five re that it is the mod abominable, hellilh worke that ever was done sense Addem was criftened, and that if we attemt any fucli thing, we fliall deflrey aule Irelcmd, and what is worfer, diilroy ourselves Now by the velf ment, these grete peeple bodder me so, by their palauvering on both fides, that I don't noe what to think of it, at all at all; and tiierefoar I lend you my own thaiits about the fubjetf—l thinks then that ten years is littei enuff for giving the Frenihe revoluthon a 'are trie]. It we finde in the yeare 1800 that it has broat to the Frenfhmen, riches, and honor, and happynefs, and all that, then in the name of the blefiit virgin, let us aule drawe our fpedes, and flautn, and fhilelier, and hav a grand bodderation of our aun. But iff we fee that it has made the Frenfhmen poor and infimous, andwiket, then lett us remare snug, and pafible, and content ourselves with and singing trezon, and drink ing rebelion, jest to fho that we are breve Irish boys,but not carry.the joak any farthur. In the mane time, until that hapy yeer lha] come, in which we may pofibly have the ple fure of cuting one anoders troats, let us be in duftrus, and ern a grete dele of money, and save more. For tho England, to be fhure, is no mach for us, vet in cafe of a war wid hur, we (hud want sum money.—War is like a lawfhute ; and I know, to my grief, what's lawlhute is, for I was almost ruind by gain ing a cauzt agairift a gossip of mine,that rhet ed me ; but the devel (hall have all mv gof fups, men, wimen, and childrin, befoar 1 go to law with one of um agen. War requires money as bad as a lawlhute: withoute mo ney our generuls and cornits, and granny deers wood'nt fire ; without mony our preefts wood'nt prey us out of purgaturry, when we weie kilt; nay, our drummors wood no moar rattel their fliks without mony, tlmn Coun cilor O'Curran,. or Counfillor O'Drifcol wood rattel their tungs without their hire. When we hav got mony, then wil be the time to in vaide Englond, take Lunnon, bring it hoam with lis, and bild it in Belfaft. My deer cou trymen, every one of yon noes parfitlv, that you are a wize nafhion ; therefoar, my sweet duels, take a fool's advice, and be quiet. I am, my deer printur, your farveut, to cummand til deth. PATRICK O'FL AHERTY. itthhoiy, near Tiperairy, Cf gm the fvj), 1792. Foreign Intelligence. F R A N C E. NATIONAL CONVENTION. March 19. THE minilters for the home de part ment laid before the conventi on feveial papers refpetfting the dis turbances which broke out lately in the departments of La Vendee, La Loire, Inferienre, &c. referred to the committee of general fafety. The minilter for foreign affairs announced, that several the population of which pnioiinttd to forty"or forty-five thonfand per sons, had exprefled a defite to be united to the French republic. Julien moved, that all those who had been guilty of profanation in churches ihould be profecuied be fore the tribunals. — Decreed. The admiuiftrators of tiie dillrift of Vendee informed tlie convention, that being threatened by a body of rebels, they had called forth tlie national guards of their diflrift, to the number of from two to three hundred men. The municipal officers ofßochelle announced, that inflead of 240 vo lunteers which that place ought to furnifli, 263 had offered them.felvfs for the defence of their country; they added, that the patriotic gifts already received, amounted to for ty fix millions, in gold, silver, or aflignats, and that the women were bringing in their rings, bracelets and other jewels. The convent jor ordered, that honorable mention should be made in their journals of this patriotic spirit. Different bodies of. new raised vo lunteers filed off through the hall in the couife of this fitting ; and swore to live free or die, amidst the acclamations of the convention. March 20 A letter from ihe commiflioneis in the department of Mont Blanc, announced two advantages gained by the French troops. They had taken an important port: in the low er Alps, where the Piedmontefe loft 27 prisoners. The other affair took place at 1 he bottom of Mount-Cenis > from which the Piedmoniefe were dislodged, with the loss of 30 men killed. The minister for foreign affairs requefled the Convention to take into consideration the state of the French who are in Spain and who he said were fubjeded to the molt croel proscription.—The Conventi on ordered the diplomatic commit tee to give in, daring the fitting, a report on the measures to be pur fned for affording protetfion to the French in foreign countries. Letter from a CommiJJioner in Belgi um, to Saiangron, a member of the Convention. " Bruflels, March 18. " Good news.my dear Salangron ! Dumourier for two days has been butchering the Auftrians and their cavalry. I hope my next letter will be dated from Liege. A consider able force is arrived here from the north to guard the Belgian towns. (Signed) " GOSSUIN." ANDERNACH, (Ger.) March 16. Since morning, we have heard a heavy cannonade, which appears to have proceeded from the environs of Mentz. All ihe boatmen who arrive here assure us, that a nume rous body of PruiTian troops crofled the Rhine on the 9th inft. near St. Goar, to cut off all communication on that fide between the French and the city of Mentz. H A G (J E, March 22 Lafl night dispatches were receiv ed by their High Mightinesses fro.n the Prince of HefTe Caffel, Governor of Maeitricht, dated March 20th, from which we learn, that a 1110 ft bloody & decisive battle was fought 011 Monday the 18th inft. between the Austrian army, headed by the Generalimmo Prince of Saxe Co bourg, and the French forces un der the command of Gen. Dumou rier. *1 he following are the particulars which have transpired refpedlirio this important event : ' ° Qothe 17th Jnftai.t the I'rench 394 drove the AuArians from Tirele mont, after a nioft heroic refinance, and with very coriliderable loss. F1 lifted with this success, Gen. Duniourier made preparations 10 attack the Auftriaus, on ilie ißlh, between Landen and Dormel, at the dift.jnce of fix Englifli miles from St. Tron, where the Imperial Royal armies had iheir head quarters. — The attack commenced at seven o'clock in the morning, and conti nued, with the molt dreadful daugh ter, until half after five in the after noon, when, through the fupetior manoeuvres of the Aiiftrians, and the cnnfnmmaie skill and intre pid gallantry of the Prince of Saxy Cobourg, Count de Clairfayt, the the Archduke Ch.irles, the Prince of Wurtemberg, and other Imperial Generals, and the unexpe«fied .arri val of a corps of Austrian Cuirafliers, Huffitrj, Challeurs and Dragoons, t he ranks of the French werebtoke through from all quarters, and the latter obliged to take flight, and leave the Auftriaus mailers of the field. Clairfayt and the Archduke Charles performed prodigies of va lour, and pursued the French fugi tives, thousands of whom were cut 111 pieces} The battle of Landen will form an epoch in ihe annals of history, , being a decisive pitched en , tnull be followed by the immediate evacuation of the Austri an Netherlands. The French fdnght like lions, but their desperate fury, which. „ pierced twice through the left wing of the Imperialists, could not avail again ft the superior of the Auftrians. The Imperial arhl'y broke irp in the morning of the 19th, tro pursue " t heir glorious career,-and it being impoilible the French dispersed " hosts to rally,-the finaH-corps head ed by Damourier, which made iu retreat to Louvain, will be cot off, and the Aufttians nvuft by thisrinfe _ be matters of Bruflels. The Nati onal<Guards, to the number of - 70,000 men, are drawing together, but having neither djfcipline nor »i»rder auixxog them, they 111 uft JOOll -fall vitXims tq their irrefiftable con querors. Gen. Beaulieu is before Dinaut, a few leagues from Namnr, and has rendered himfelf mailer of Laßoche and Rochefort, where the French furtained a loss of upwards of 3,000 men. Letter frem,the Governor of WiU'ttfm fladrti their High Mightiness. High and Mighty Lords, " I have the honor to report to your High Miglitinefles, that I have been inverted by the French troops, since the 23d of February last. On the 20th, at five o'clock at night, one Berneron, calling hiinfelf Camp Marefchal in the pretended Repub lic of France, sent ine a summons, to which I an!were# in writing, Ti far from intending togiveupthe place which was entrusted to me, 1 should defend it as a mnn of ho nor." Accordingly on the next day, about y o'clock in the morning, the enemy commenced a very lively bombardment of this fortrefs; at tacked it, at the fame time, with red hot balls: bombs, and grenades. This latted, with the interval of feme moments, until the 9th of this month, when, at it o'clock in the morning, I received a ferond sum mons. to which I gave again my re fufal in writing. Upon this refu fal, the cannonade recommenced in the nioft violent manner, and it Con tinued, at intervals, till this mo ment, 10 o clock in the morning, when 1 perceived that the enemy had retired. I sent diretfly a de tachment, which found the batteries of the enemy abandoned, with fomc cannon, two mortars, and a great quantity of amunition and siege u tensils. 1 have had the whole trans ported into the town. " High arid Mighty Lords, " I cannot fuffic'iently praise the condutfi of the brave gari ifon, which is under my orders, as well as that of the Burgefles. The town has fuffered much. There is not one house, which it not damaged by the bullets of the enemy, I (hall have ilie honor to rend yeupkl.k . nefles a more detailed report ' ring my lei/ lo Uie w ,he lieutenant 0 f .I' I*"'.1*"'. ®ent of Saxe Goth., Efi» er ol the above, (bail baie ,t j"' nor to make to your hi.»K Ck *" «»«.. Holfte.n, ol the ,egi Hlei „„/) * f mette, fcrved as volume,! / the siege of the town and r ed ihemfelves in a n.ar. ner does them much honor." ' * C " LO NOON, March j (■eneral Buucjielaar, i|, e ' . commander at WilJiamJUdt the 68th year of bis age. Col ut ,e| 1 ailetoa has offered , ral,e a re-june,,, „f |; ght Wva | | to Major Hai,gp, has made a ' sal 10 government, ,a,her J J ' gular nature, to raise a corps nf J,! 1 among the ccnvit'ts He l received his answer, ,hat at government can giv c 110 count# nance to his application Commerce. 1., the reign of Eli z f«h )I Rela r geft V e(leli„ th e^; °. P o ® l ' was olll y 40 tons Li,r then, and the tonnage of its W |, o ] e trade no more than |ij, ~. 1 year 1766, the people of Liver,, oul had 400 velfels, and their aveLe burthen was IJO tons. The accn mulation of two centuries via®;,, the proportion of 269 to t. Can n be be!ieved-n', ]mr)lln>r lately pubblhed a canting proc'a .nation at Brussels, expreflfite ofthe deeply in.prefled (enfethe National Convention of France had of t| e prpphane insults which had been offered to the Belgic places of wor- Hup . What a different kind of language iliis-is ;o that which he held out when advancing towards the Dutch territory. • Th * de jV' en *' ho have poured into Dunkirk, Calais, &c. from the French armies, »rc <« w „f e( , (, foipe to be no other than the Sais Culottes, which it •_ TTnUaiVaeVr ai--crrulTe Is. " Qnere, Did not the Sans Culottes dilband themselves, atid afterwards the cunning general makes a merit of doing that which was already done to his hands, or how came the deserters in queflion pnffeffed of arms, and above all artillery ! It ihould appear, cowards and knaves as they were, that he difmifl'ed them with all the honor s of war ! I he French papeis of the ijth and 16th inft. ai e entirely silent re fpedling any capture of vellels. We may therefore conclude ihat the re port of three of our East Indiamen having fallen into t heir handsis un founded ; for they would not have been flow in announcing luch a:i event. The conquest of Holland, in at tempting which the French have loft the flower of their army, and the whole of their fpirir, was pro iwifed in t heir Convention by Ifnard exadly in these terms, " Jnflcrdam eft a la vsilie d'ouvritr fa porta a Dumuuricr." It was in the fitting of Monday, the r ith inft. that these ever memorable words were used. Two Provincial regiments are to be railed in America, viz. One in Nova-Scotia—Colonel — Gov. Went vrorth—Lt. Col. Boide, and Major Kearnez. One in New-Bi onfwick —Col.—Gov. Carlton, Lt. Col. Ro binfun, an American gentleman — Major, Murray. They are to be in service, in the absence of the regu lar troops, who are ordered to the Weft-Indies. The Fox frigate of 36 guns, is loft on the Gunfleet (and in the Swin. MARCH 26. The Englilh fleet goes our with lingular advantage in point of fi nals and manoeuvring, the enemy s (hips being wholly officeied with captains and mates of merchantmen, who may no doubt be able naviga tors, hot certainly totally ignorant of military tatftics ; besides, want of proper subordination in their fleet, is a mill-stone about ilieir neck, which niuft inevitably destroy thent. We have accounts from Jerley, as iate as Friday, which (late, that no descent on these islands had then been attempted. The force the 1 (fenders have to oppose to an invading enemy, con
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