winch the Frenrli had ftiftaiued a
coufulcrable loss. The .Duke o.f
York was engaged in'-it, but parti
culars are dm (Twed«?- ■ &
"The whole capture of the Spanish
Galleon, or Remitter Ship, was on
Saturday last adjudged to the cap
tors, and (he Spanish nmbafiador
lias aflented to it, after a minute in
veftig.uion of the fubjeci. Lord
Hood will be entitled to a fbare, as
commander in chief of the fleet
which made the capture ; and it is
laid that his proportion alone will
ainouut to 60,0001. sterling.
Lord Hood, as commander in
chief of the Mediterranean fleet,
conies in for a l6ih of this prize,
whatever it may turn out to be, and
all other captures made by ships un
der his orders, which mult neit his
lurdfliip a very capital fortune.
In consequence of the cargo of
the rich re captured Spanish ship
being allowed by the government
as an entire prize, a troop of light
horse was dispatched from London
on Monday lad to Portfinouih, to
escort this immense wealth diredtly
to town.
The French Convention have vot
ed to their minister at war the enor
mous fuin of $2,800,000 livres ; a
bout 2,300,0001. to provide subsist
ence for the armies.
Bntffcls Gazette Extraordinary.
■" May 2d.
" The French came to attack us
Vefterday in force. They were at
firft repulsed from St.Sauve. There
is reason to believe that their inten
tion was to turn tile left wing of
our army.
" It was determined to make the
second line march by Sebourq, Con
chies, and Prefien. Conchies has
been burnt ; the enemy were heat
en and pursued as far as Famars."
<< Four divisions of Braco drove
them from Saten, and took from
them 6 cannon, with their horses.
" About 1 P. M. the firing ceas
ed, but it began again in the right
wing of the army about 3, and was
still continued at seven.
" The corps under Gen. Clair
fayt are flill in pursuit of the ene
my. Our loss is ellimated at almost
200 men. Our ihafleurs ('tigered
greatly and would have been dis
persed, had it not been for the sup
port of the cavalry.
The French have loft a number
of men. Befidcs 13 ammunition
waggons, we have taken from them
8 pieces of cannon, of which 4 are
four pounders, 2 eight pounders,
and onea 12 pounder, together with
a 14 pound howitzer.
" We wait for more circnmftan
tial details of this affair."
A very important action took
place on the ift inft. between a part
of the combined armies anil the
French.—On the morning of the ift,
the French advanced a considerable
body of troops against the corps of
Pruflians under General Knoblef
dorf, occupying the pelt of Maulde,
and likewise against the body of
Aoftrians occupying the important
port before Conde. The relief of
that place was evidently the objetft
of the French. They meant by ad
vancing against the Proffian Gene
ral, and the advanced corps of the
Prince of Saxe Cobourg's army, to
keep them in check, while tliey
made their chief attack upon the
Auftrians, under cover of a large
wood of which the French were in
pofTellion. They commenced their
attack at five in the morning, and
between that and the evening made
four different attacks, the last of
which, the rnofr vigorous,commenc
ed at three, and was not over till
between fix and seven in the even
ing. The Auftrians (tood all the
different attacks with the otmoft
bravery and firmnefs. The great
ell part of them were engaged with
vnufquerry in the wood. General
Knoblefdorf detached several corps
from ' his poll to their affiftanre,
which he could do with greater fafe
ty, as lie was supported by two bat
talions of British from Tournay.
The French were at length com
pletely repolfed, and several pieces
of cannon were taken.
The lof's was confideralile on both
fides. The French were greatly fo
perior in numbers. They recreated
in corfufii.n tc F?.mars. Itvrasfup
pofed that :lie conlequenee of this
victory on the pan df the allies
umft be attended with the fall of
Conde.
'1 he Paris letrers received yester
day are dated the 301b u!V> They
IVaie that the city was perfectly
tranquil, and that nothing new had
occurred. The triumph of the Ja
cobins on the acquittal of Marat
was unbounded. In Briflot's jour
nal this acquittal is mentioned as
the ruin of France.
The French are said, from very
good authority to have ten fail of
the line at sea.
Accounts have been received frpm
Jersey, of the date of the 29th ult.
It appears that on the 23d, a French
fleet, under three frigates
of considerable force, flood very
close in with theifland, which occa
sioned the alarm guns to be fired,
and thebeacons to be lighted. The
French, however, towards the even
ing flood away, without attempting
any descent. One or two of the
French ships flood so dole in, as to
fire on some of the batteries 011 shore.
Arrived at Plymouth the Niger
frigate, of 32 guns, commanded by
Capt. Kenrz.— It isfaid (he had been
cruizing off Brest, and brings intel
ligence that there are in Brest wa
ter 2; fail of men of war, befldes
frigates and sloops.
Conde still holds out, but the gar
rison is reported to be in such
tress for provisions, that itmuftfoon
fall. All the heavy artillery end
ammunition will be before Mentz
by the jth of May. From that city,
the inhabitants, to the amount of
15,000, have been expelled by the
French, to prevent a famine. The
garrison has still some supply of corn
left, and a little horse flefh, but no
eggs nor vegetables. It is provided
with wine, which is drank abun
dantly by the French, who pull to
pieces the old houses for fire-wood.
There is no longer any hope of the
capitulation ofMentz. An attempt
has been made to inundate the
French mines near the city.
It is reported, that the Commis
saries from the National Conventi
on have ordered all the English;
merchants residing at Dunkirk, to'
quit that town in less that 24 hours
from the lft instant.
Private letters received at Brus
sels from Nantz, inform that that
city has surrendered to the victori
ous arms of the counter-revolution
ists The fame letters announce,
that Philip Egalite was carried back
to Paris ; thole who were carrying
him to Marseilles, being afraid of
meeting the Marfeillefe upon the
road.
The Empress of" Russia has taken
pofteffion of a considerable part of
Poland. She has attempted a juf
tification of her conduct, which has
much the fame truth and justice to
recommend it as the King ofPruf
fia's reasons for seizing on Danjzic.
The King of Poland was given to
understand by the Ruffian Minister,
that unless he attended the confe
deration at Grodno, Prince Louis
of Wirtemberg, would be appointed
by the Imperial court to succeed
kini on the throne.
Russia, after having divided Po
land, we now fee dictating to Swe
den. What may she not be expe<t
ed to do, as soon as the affairs of
France are fettled to the fatisfatti
on of the combined powers ?
Intelligence is in town from Paris
of so late a date as the 27th ultimo,
when all remained in sullen tran
quility.—The report refpedting the
state of the granaries was, that they
contained a fufficient supply of corn
for a fortnight. The royal family
were fafe and in health.
Recruiting for the armies conti
nued in the capital ; but in the pro
vinces it every where inet with 07"
position.
Some fituatioru ofconfequence on
the frontiers, towards Spain, are
said to have fallen into the hands
of that p«wer.
The combined armies, we do not
understand, have made any progress
since the last accounts received—
neither have we heard any thing
more of the meditated attack upon
Dunkirk.
It appears to be the deterniinati
450
on of France in the ensuing cam
paign to act trruiielj on i)'C defcn
(i»e ; thus firmly occupied, it is ge
nerally considered, that wiil
be enabled to exhaust the patience
of all tlieir enemies.
By a gentleman arrived in the
Eliza, Blynn, ar Penzance, from
Nantes, from which place lhe failed
on the joth inlt. we have the fol
lowing important particulars :—
The Iloyalilts were in great force,
which was augmenting every day.
They were in polleHion of the whole
south bank of the Loire, and part
of {he north ; different actions had
taken place with various success ;
•but the Royalifls wete in pofleflion
of Machecoul and the Me of Hoedic,
near Bellifle, and were so daring as
to approach the very gates of Nantes
in final! parties of 20 or 30. They
were headed by Galton, a bold, de
termined, entetprizing man.
The present commercial distress
certainly does not proceed from any
diminution of the acftual capital of
the country, but merely from the
circuinftances of the sudden check
given to the circulation of Paper.
This is an evil which will find a cer
tain remedy in time,and mean while
the Minister with true patriotifin,
does every thing he can to alleviate
it.
At the present moment of alarm
and distress amongst the mercantile
and manufacturing communities,
the Minister, with that vigilant at
tention to the trading interlls of the
country which has uniformly mark
ed his administration, has expressed
a wish to adopt lome plan that may
(lop the evil now existing, and give
frefh energy to public credit.
We daily hear of new stoppages
among persons, many of whom have
ever been considered as men of large
real property ; on a very minute
and fair enquiry into the truth of
t his fuppofiiion, we have the belt
reason to believe the faifi is so j and
that a very large proportion of mer
cantile houses, which have been
lately obliged to suspend their pay
ments, is ltill solvent, and well able
to pay every demand in the course
of time. At Manchelter, Liverpool,
and other large trading towns, par
ticularly at the former, this is
well authenticated ; but the failures
at the country batiks have flopped
the circulation of money so Sudden
ly, that present engagements have
not been able to be fulfilled.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Atril IJ.
The Convention were about to
proceed to a difculfion on the peti
tion of the 48 fedtions of Paris, a
gainst 22 members of the Conventi
on, when one of the Secretaries read
a letter from the commissioners on
the Northern frontiers, ftating,tliat
the French troops had been obliged
to fall back »n the glacis of Valen
ciennes. They ascribed this check
to the treachery of the xoth regi
ment of foot chasseurs, ported in the
advanced guard, who deserted on
the commencement of the a<fiion.
Letter from General Dampierre.
" Valenciennes, April 13.
" The enemy attacked our ad
vanced polls at this place in differ,
em: points ; they were, however,re
pulfed with considerable Joss. In
the advanced guard which I com
manded we had much the advan
tage. 1 have refunied the camp of
Faniars. I cannot bestow too high
praises on the courage and ardor of
the soldiers. 1 can affureyou, that
in a little time the army will reco
ver that superiority which it loft
only by the treachery of thole who
commanded it.
(Signed) DAMPIERRE."
Banere read a inanifeffo drawn
up by Condorcet, refpedting the in
sult offered to the national repre
sentation in the persons of the four
commiiHoners arretted by Dumou
rier.
Mauce and Garran de Coulon com
municated fonie letters written to
them by the commissioners Camus
and Bancal ; which Hated that they
were well ; that they had heen al
lowed pens, ink, and paper, and
that they were conduced to Maef
tricht by ealy journeys.
Ar ril 17,
United States.
N E W- Y O R K, June 95.
C«,*v tf« I'll'" freni * gentleman in Wi/nt-rgien,
.Vcrlt-Caro/ha, tn the printer of the Daily Ai-
rtrlifcr, June 16.
" On Thursday last was brought into this
port, an E'iglifli sloop called the Providence,
from Montego-Bay, James Robertfnn, maftei,
a pr ze to the French privateer Le Vainrjueur
de la Baftile, Francois Henri Hervieux, com
mander—since when thep»iva«£r hcriclf has
arrived.
« 11 appears that the Vainquer de la Baf
tile, late the Hector of Philadelphia, wa« pur
chased in CharleJton by C»pt. Hervieux, at,
officer in the French navy, who having,
through the medium of the Corj/ul-of the
French Republc rending in Charie/ton, pro
cured-a commission for his vefTel,' armed her,
and having caused the American papers be
longing to the Hector to be depnfitcd at the
Custom Houf; in Charleston, failed on a cruize.
ii That between Cape Fear and Cape Hu
man, at the distance of 4 <-2 leagues from
land, he fclhin with the Providence, which
he captured after having chaled h«r some
time.
n Since Captain Hervieux's arrival, it
basing been rumoured that a certain Gideon
Olmftead, forme; lv the owner of the Hector,
had acted as an officer on board the French
privateer, at the time of the capture oi the
sloop, although sn American citizen, two
magifcrates of the county, in pursuance (as
they supposed) of the proclamation of the Pre
sident of the United States, thought proper to
i.Tue their warrant for apprehending of fa d
Olmftead —and, npon examination, conceiv
ed the evidence to beof a nature, and his ca>a
and fituatiop, such as defirrved to be Pubmit
ted to the cognizanc' ofthe Federal Judiciary.
They accordingly canfed Mr. Olaoftead to e»-
ter into a recognizance in the ium ot 2oa|. for
his appearance at the next diftrtft court, to
be holden fur the diftrift of North-Carolina,
on the firft Monday in July next.
" Captain Hervieux is acknowledged to
have treated his prisoners with unusual gene
rosity, nor have they since their arrival in the
harbor, been at all restrained of their liberty.
" The Captain of the Briti/h sloop tailing
advantage of this indulgence, availed him
felf of the countenance and fopport he has re
ceived in this town, and by advice'of ton Tel,
has instituted an adtipn of trespass 3Tair.fl the
commander of the privateer »nd Mr. Olin
ftead, in the sum of 2000 L opon pretence that
the capture was illegal.
" Vexatious as is this suit, it v 11 cci'tainr
ly be produdtive ot the most fe >ous n con
venience to Captain Hervieux. who is iliii in
the custody of the (heriff, and .will probably
discourage that liberality in others which has
prompted his conduct in this circumstance—
since, far from releaiing their prisoners in
speedy humanitv, caution will tecic 1 the
French cruisers in future, the necelfit 7 of
confining, at leafl:, their English captives till
they reach the territories of the French re
public, or until the chance of war (hall bring
them'relief and liberty."
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. Fenno,
AS attempts are making very dangerous
to the peace, and it is to be feared not
very friendly to the conftitutton of the Uni
ted States—it becomes the duty of those who
wifn well to both to endeavor to prevent
their success.
The obje&'.Qns, which have been raised
against the proclamation of neutrality late y
issued by the Preiident, ha*e been urged in a
spirit of acrimony and inve&ive, which de
monstrates that more was in view than mere
ly a free difcuflion of an importantvjpublic
measure ; that the difculfion covers a design
of weakening the confidence of the people in
the author of the ineaiure, in order to remove
or let Ten a powerful obstacle to the fu£Cefs of
an opposition to the government, ,v bich how
ever it may change its form, according to
circumstances, seems still to be adhered to
and pursued with persevering indnftry.
This reflexion adds to the motives con
netted with the'roeafure itfelf to recommend
endeavors, by proper explanations, to place
it in a just light. Such explanations at lealt
cannot hut be fatisfa&ory to those who may
not have leisure or opportunity tor pnrfuing
themselves an invelliggtton of the fubjeft,
and who may wifli to perceive, that the poli
cy of the government is not inconsistent with
its obligations or its honor.
The objections in question fall under four
heads :
i. That the proclamation was without
authority.
2. That it was contrary to our treaties
with France.
3 That it was contrary to the gratitude,
which is due from this to that country, l° r
the succours rendered us in our own revolu
tion.
4- That it was out of time and unnecc.-
fary.
In order to judge of the solidity of the fii ft
of these objections, it is neceffhry to examine,
what is the nature and design of a proclcma
tion of neutrality.
The true nature and design of such an act
is—to make known to the powers at war and
to the citizens of the country, whole govern
ment does the ast, that such country is in the
condition of a nation at peace with the belli
gerent parties, and under no obligations of
treaty, to become an ajfociate in the war with
either of them that this being its situation,
its intention is to observe a conduct conform
able with it, and to perform towards each the
duties of neutrality ; and. as a consequence