p.' lull)" since our officers a:id foldierj
*ie animated by this noble Stimulus,
t!ie defence of that excellent Conltitu
tion, which confers on them the right,
freely to cleft for their President, the
man whom they love and revere, and
which confirms to them the pofleflian
of Liberty and Proper;/.
<
RTCHMOKD, Nov. 12
Yesterday the General Aflrmb'y of
this Commonwealth convened at the
Capitol in thiv City, and a quorum of
the House of Delegates being alfcmblfd,
proceeded to the choice of a Speaker,
when-John Wife, Esq. was elected, and
to th.* chair, from whence he
made his acknowledgments to the House
for the honor conferred on him : After
which, Charles Htr, Esq. was nomi
nated and appointed Clerk.
PHILADELPHIA,
NOVEMBER 20.
[FV om a lat>- London PaperJ
THE ABBE SYEYES.
1 A
It !i lingular how this man has hi
therto escaped that fate to which his
conduit, during the former part of the
revolution, teemed to have inevitably
consigned him.
It lias Seen said, that he is devoted
to the fyllcm of equality, and that in
supporting those principles which he
thinks mathematically true, he has fon
itnntly kept alt>of from all parties, and
has thus saved himfrlf from the deftruft
ion in which they havtf all successively
been involved.
That the principles of the Abbe
S>eyes are favourable to the system of
equality is so far fruoi being the cafe
that he has repeatedly deelaied himfelf
the champion of monarchy. On the
Kings return from Varennes a periodi
cal paper was begun at Paris under the
direction of Condor cct, BrifTot, and
Athillc Duchatelet, entitled The Re
publican. Syeyes engaged to defend the
monarchical system against the attacks
of the Republicans, which drew from
Thomas Paine a letter to the Abbe, in
which he agreed to enter the lifts with
hint alone and unfuppoited,
Paine declared that in defending Re
publicanism, he did not mean to defend
the Republic of Holland or Venice, Sy
eyes replied, nor. did he mean to defend
the Monarchies of Turkey ot of Eng
land. The controversy was soon dropt.
Th« cafe of the Abbe is by no means
lingular. La Clas, author of the Sai
ions Dangereufes and th« friend of Or.-"
leaus hat long been io prison, where
the government have availed themselves
Ci of his talents ; he has thereby prolonged
ha precarious exittence.
The Abbe Syeyes has always affect
ed the manners of a Cynic, but there is
not a party with whom he hat not in-
trigned : His arrogance during the firft
aflemblv was extreme. He affeiSed to
despise even the talents of Mirabeau but
• he has lived to be the slave and the crea-
ture of Robespierre.
It is so fai from being true, that the
Abbe's influence in the French govern
ment, has lately been great, that the
only tenure upon which he has long held
his life, has been in unremitting labors
in the service of the Committee of Pub-
lie Safety.
Robespierre knew hist alents, and en
, gaged to save him, if he wonld labour
In hi» service, without taking any {hare
in the administration of affairs. The
Abbe hat long been little more in Paris
than a prisoner at large.
By this Day's Mail.
. BALTIMORE, Nov. 17.
Arrived yesterday, the brig Rover,
Capt; Smith, from Gibraltar, which
place he left the Ift of October. Capt.
Smith paflej, in the Gut, an Algerme
cruiser (the only one out) which he
law, two days after, captured and des
troyed by two Portuguese veflek. He
also informs us, that the Moors had sent
out from Tangier and Sallee, their ro
vers, to capture all vessels they met with,
belonging to those nations that had no
consul there to represent them. In con
sequence of which, a Ragufan vefTel had
beed captured and carried into Sallee.
Thebrig Rover failed from Gibral
tar in company with the snow Fair
Kebe, Brown, Philadelphia; brig La
vinia, Hobble, do. schooner Madison,
Yetkey, do. At the time she left Gi
braltar, there was great rejoicing by the :
i'lench arillocrats, in confluence of
news having arrived of the Dauphin
Being crowned king. The arrival of
Hood's fleet was hourly expetfted.
Yesterday arrived, the French priva
teer Marat. We are informed, that du
ring her cruise, she took four ptizes—
;wi of which have arrived.
ALEXANDRIA, Not. 13.
[The floor, Betsey arrived here on Tuef-
J«iy from D.ubadrvs—the
following article is ixtra&.d from
a paper brought by her.]
Bridgk-Tows, Sept. 30. —Capt.
Reed, late of the fchooffif Hope. who
has returned here America, in
forms, that on hisarnVal at Button in
the above velfei, he deceived in
dignity from the populace, whote firtt
faliiutiou was the bettcwing on him a
biuket of water, accjihparued with all
the point epithets now in use in the Re
publican world. They detained his
veliel as American property, notwith
(landing (he had been lega'iy condemned
as a prize to one of our cruisers, and
had been purchased by merchants of
this town, who obtained for her a Bri
ti(h regiltcr, and let her on charter to
go the voyage.
PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) Nov. 8.
The Honourable General" Aflerhbly
of this State, which met here last wreck,
stands adjourned to the la It Monday in
Jamjar/ next, then to meet at Eall
Greenwich.
A Return was made to the General
AlTembly of the Number of votes in
the several Towns, given in August last,
for Representatives to Congress.—
The Result is as follows :
Benjamin Bourn, Esq.
Pelcg Arnold, Efq,
' Francis Malbone, ,Elq. 19 11
Joseph Stanton, jun. Esq. 1178
BOSTON, .VMember 30.
A R R TVED.
Ships Atlantic, Delano, Hull, Nuacy,
Follet, Liverpool; Barque Harriet &. fcli
za, Slewman, Halifax; Brigs FuGleer,
Ealterbrook, St. Helena ; Clarifla, Abra
hams, I.ifbon ; Juno, Freeman, Gotten
burgh ; Peregrine, Barker, Figuera;
Schooners Nancy, Bishop, St. Michaels ;
Rover, Drew, Gottenburgh ; Harmony,
Lincoln, Demerar?. ; Freedom, Millet,
Madeira ; Bctley, Fellows, Jamaica; Der
borah, Higgins, Cape Frai.jois; Sloop
Rhoda, Leavitt, St. Johns (N. B.)
When the Katv left Hamburgh, there
were near fifty American flags flying at
that port; They had chiefly been to France.
A fliip, a constant trader from London
to Halifax, laden with goods to the amount
£27,000 fteriing, has b?en captured by
a French frigate, and sent into Cape Ann.
She is expected rotlnd here every hour.
Two Ihips and ,'everal brigs arrived yet
lerday : one of the (hips is the Neptune,
of this port, bound from Carolina to Eu
rope ; having sprung a leak, put in here
tc repair.
The brig Hannah & Eliza of Charles
town, has been cast away in a hurricane
at Guadaloupe, and is loft. She had some
sugars on board. \Y e ai ' e happy to hear
that none of the crew are loft. Mr. Sa
muel Prince was fspercargo of the brig.
Captain Follet, arrived here from Hull,
was boarded ii. the bay by a boat from
the Thetis Britilh frigate of 31 guns.
She was looking after French frigates.
NEW-YORK, Nov. 18.
Died on Wednefdav evening last, after
a lingering illness, aged year* Mr. Ab
raham Brevoort, eldest lor. of Henry Bre
voort, late of this city, merchant; and cyi
Friday evening his remains was intcrr'd in
the Family Vault, in the eld Dutch Church
Yard.
On thfe 17th inftaat departed,tWlifc, at
Philadelphia, it the tHrty-fccond yt» of
bi» igc, Mr. John Swain*, btte>utftcr
of the pubJHher of A« Paily AdwtffeT-
He wms a map ohiWpejaed,. andui
blemiihed integrity—of very c«|UmUc
Ikeraryabilitiej'Modeft, %nd mailutip
kg j; of gre*t induftrjr swd
rod in e*«yrtfpe<3 a »ilu»Wr«»ewter <jf
Society.,
AR^VSD.
Ship H*re, Carrier,' Hamborgk
BrigT Hxad, N<^-^vidcocfe
JMttWm..:' ~ i^crWik'
yirjg&n*
, *** e » Worthy, .. 4 J*au&a
9&uxxw S*fßower, Conger, Turin W*nd
'Sofl® Brtfcy* R«uW«, Bcnr»ud»:
Lift of American veflels is Bermuda the
firft of November.
Sloop Hannah of New York ; fchoo'r»
Polly, Boston ; , Grozier, Ditto
for condemnation ; Hope, Dean, Phila
delphia, condemned ; Refluback, Carr,
Baltimore, condemned j Sloop Harriet,
S.nith, Ne\r York ; Brig Two Brothers,
Prince, Salem, condemned ; schooner Ag
nes, Philadelphia : barque John, New-
York ; schooner Swallow, Foster, Bever
ly, condemned ; schooner Industry, Cop
pinger Philadelphia, captured by the Ex
periment pnvatepr, within one mite of the
store, and three from Cape Henlopen, but
notwithstanding was condemned, and the
owner obliged to compromise with the j
captors.
NKW-BEDrORD,
Friday, Nov. 7, 1794.
FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE.
(First Southern D.'flrict).
Those town? in this DiAriS, ficm
which we have retcived accounts' of the
! vote**!** -n on Monday Uft for a Fede
ral Kiprefenuiive, is fallow :
Ll.rtrr.ouih—Nathaniel, Freemin, jun.
i» —IMeg Coffin, Juu.
NjS^ncxct—Coffin, ■ —rrternan 11
New-Be<iford— t'rtrman, 30 —Cot tin, I.
NORFOLK, November 8.
ARRIVED, V .
ohjt) John, Boggifs, Brest
Brig Hazard, Bradie, Jamaica
Edward, Linne], Philadelphia
Brig Eliza, Colley, London
Sloop Raven, Williams, Bermuda
CLEARED.
Dunlap, Liverpool
LONDON, Sept. 12.
The Corunna mail which arrived ye
ilcrday, brought letters giving the ve
ry' agreeable information that Fontara
bia and St. Sebastian had been recover
ed by the Spaniards who were making
great preparations, far the ptirpofe of
repulsing the enemy from their fron
tier.
In the latter city every apprehension
ha 3 fubiided ; in consequence of which
an order has been iflued for the (hips
which had been loaded with iiores, &c.
preparatory to their departure in the
firlt moment of alarm, to unload, as alio
it has been fignified, that the port is
again open for trading veflels of everv
description.
iBBo
1133
Friday the Rufiian fquadton confiding
of fix ships of the liitc and four Frigates
under the command of Admiral Poya
liflten, failed from Leitk roads with a
fair wind for Crondadt.
Majority,.
The communication with Bredi and
Maeftricht is dill open,' a proof that
the Enemy have not yet fat down be
fore either place.
A letter from Constantinople dated
the 12th tilt. States the melancholy
circuniftance of three towns, situate bet
ween Angore and Efdrum having been
swallowed up on the 3d of July by an
earthquake. One of these places. Tef
cogram, contained upwards of 50 O
houses ; Ainalie, another of them a (till
greater number and the third, Agrim,
npar four thousand. It is added that
out of 100,000 fouls which they contain
ed not move than one tenth escaped ;
the remainder perished. This dread
ful cataftrophy has spread universal con
ftcrnation in that part of the world.
Majority, 733
From the English Review, to Septem
ber, 1794.
OF FRANCE.
THERE is not to be found, in the
whole compass of history, any circum
(lance, or combination of circumdances,
i irom which the human mind has receiv
> edfo violent an agitation as that which
has accompanied the different (hades and
lhapes of the French revolution. The
reformation of religion is one of those
great events to which this revolution
bears the greated similarity. But the
reformation, modified by German
phlegm, Was deliberate and regular in
itsprogrefs: The French revolution,
deeply t injured with French levity and
fire, has pafled suddenly from form to
form ; nor can it yet be conjedtured in
what its devious course will terminate.
In France the gradations from despot
ism to limited monarchy ; from limited
monarchy to republicanism ; from re
publicanism to democracy ; and from
democracy to anarchy ; have been ex
tremely rapid ; so rapid indeed, that, in
the mid It of all these changes, the form,
if form it may be called, of anarchy a
lone is seen; on a general view, as a fiery
objett, whirled rapidly round and round,
exhibits the appearance of a permanent
circle. In this political whirlpool the
fecial feelings have all been swallowed
up and loft. The name of freedom has
been proflituted to the molt oppressive
and cruel purposes; a barbarous feroci
ty has usurped the name of national
courage the completed internal tyran
ny has been disguised in the garb of re
volutionary ardour ; and every popular
leader has fallen a facrifice to popular
fury.
What the ultimate views of
ROBESPIERRE
with his creatures or aflbciates, were, or
whether he had any fixed and determi
nate plan at all, farth'er than the imme
diate gratification of an intriguing and
refllefs disposition, incapable of co-part
nership or moderation, cannot yet be
certainly known. Some have thought
! that it was his design to bring the Dau
phin out of his confinement, and, in hjg
person, to restore monarchy. But Ro
befpievre was generally confidcred as a
determined fanatic: nor could he hare
any reasonable hope, ib the adual tem
per of the nation, and under the new di
vision of property, of being able to car
ry that plan into execution. On the
other hand, if he refle&ed at all on the
inveterate pailion for liberty that had
pervaded all France, and difcomfited so
mjny attempts to restore monarchial go
vernfner.t, he could not suppose that the
French naiion would brook tyranny in
the perf.n an upitart di&ator: a
delator u.iaj uncd with the f;«lenduur
of military aicliievcincnis, andMuilicd, in
public opinion at leall, by that liitleiufs
and chicane which are uicribed to the
profefiioil of the Jaw, in every nation of
Europe.
Yet what shall we fay ? That this de
magogue did, in fa&> meditate the de
lign of controlling the National Con
vention bv means of the Cortimittee of
Public Safety, the Revolutionary Tri
bunal, the armed force of the muniei
palit), or, iu plain Eiiglith, the city of
Paris, and by changing the democrat i
cal oouilitutjon or tI»V army into a train
of dependencies, at the head of which
he was to place himfelf. As to the
views and motive of Rpbcfpicrre, there
would be uo end of conjecture : but,
independently of these, the catailrophe
that involved his fuU", with that.of his
partizaus, is a moll copious fubjeft of
refletrion moral and political. 1. A
mong' the fcatilres that disfigure the
French revolution, and confequendy the
national chara&er of the French, from
whose minds and tempers the revolution
directly springs, is this, that, in their
internal dificntions and contests, there
is no gradation in punifhmenr, no mo
deration in victory. Death is awarded
to every crime, proved or fufpefted :
the political partisan is to be appeased
only by the death of his adversary.
How many individuals, like poor Si
mon who waited on the Dauphin, and
several domestics of the late King aud
Que.en, have fall™ facrifices, not to
crimes, not to venial tranfgieflions, not
to flight and unfounded suspicions, but
to their very virtues.
(To be Continued.)
I- -; — 1:
" The Editor of the Level of c
" EurojW and North America, ever anxious t(
I- to communicate to Europeans, who may be *
O defiruus of fettling in this Continent,what-
U ever may tend to inform them of the ad- c
( vantages they may find here, whether iu
' agriculture or in comrofcrce, ha« r!i« honor j
11 to acquaint the public, that he has nnde. '
(- taken the tranflaticn of a woik just publish
; cJ undei lhe title of A View of the Untui <j
|. Slttts. of America. This 11 ai iintion will be
executed with the permiflSon of the Auih.,t
T e ''Ch Coxe, Efq Comm ILnner of the P
Revenues of the United States. ri
P. Egron, L. i. b.
Nnv - 2nv 3 w ' tj
Old American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
for the Benefit of Mr. Afh
ton and Madame Gardie.
The Public are refpe&fully informed
that Mr. Afhton, who on a former night
was advertised for a benefit, with Mr.
Wools, did not, owing to very bad wea
ther, receive such emolument as could en
title it to the name of benefit : he ha«
therefore purchase.l a (hare of Madame
Cardie's night, and folicitt the patronage
of the citizens in general.
TO-MORKOW EVENING
November »i.
The Play of the " Jealou. Wife," for
the benefit of Mr. Afhton and Madame
Gardie, is changed (by particular de
sire of several ladies and gentlemen) to
a COMEDY (never performed here
but once) called
Love's Frailties;
o R,
Precept against Pradice.
Written by the Author of the Road to
Ruin, and received with un
bounded applause.
Between the 3d and 4th A<ft, an Eulogium
011 the marriage state by Mr. Afhton.
Aftfcr the Play a favorite Ballet Dance
called
The Bird Catcher 1
In the courje of the Ballet, Monf. Quenet
will dance a Pas Seul and a Pas de Deux
with Madame Gardie.
particular desire ) an Eulogium on Free
Masonry, in the character of a Royal
A«rh Mason, by Mr. Afhton.
To which will be added a New Panto
mime, as performed at the Theatre de
mes plaifirs at Paris with unbounded ap
plause, called
Harlequin Pq/iry Cook.
Iji the course of the Pantomime, Madami
Gardie will sing a French forig, callet
Chose Vauxt Micux que It Mot.
Places in the Boxes may be had at the
Box Office, from ten to one every day*
(Sundays excepted) and on days ©i" per
formance from three to five P. M. where
also tickets may be had, and at Mr. Brad
ford's beok-ftore, No. 8, south Front
ftrcet, and at Mr. Carr's mufic-ftorc.
The dcqrs will be opened at half after
five, and the certain drawn up precifelv at
half after fix o'clock.
BOX, one Dollar—PlTT, three Quar
ters —GALLERY, half a dollar.'
CONGRESS.
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
; Nov. 19,
1 This day precisely at 1 j o'clock the Pre,
fident of the United States met both Hou"
fcs of Congress in the Hall of the Houf*
of Representatives pursuant to appointment
—when he addrefled them ina speech,
[for which, fie yeftefday's Gazette]
The Prtfient was accompanied by his
Secrrtal-y, the Secretary of State, the Se
cretary of War, the Attorney Gcnejal,
See.—The Hall wa« crowded with a large
collection of Citizens Ladies and Gentle
men—l he foreign miniftcrs were alio pre
fnit on the occasion—The moll impressive
silence prevailed while this moll import
ant address was delivi red —The Prefideat
then retired amJ the Senator! having with
<ira'.fn, the Speech was twice read, by
the Clerk, and 011 motion, referred to a
Committee of the whole, and made the
order of the day ■ for to-morrow —After
ordei ing that the addrefi Ihould be printed
—the Iloufe adjourned.
Tuesday, November 20. »
The house resolved itfrlf into a com
mittee of the whole oil the Prefident't
speech—Mr. Trumbull in the chair;
Tlie following resolution was moved and
agreed to—That, it is the opinion of thii
comfriitiet, that a refpeftftd addreft
ought to be presented to the President of
the United States, in answer to his ad
dress to.both hpufes yeftercfay—with af-.
lurances that this house vill take into
their ierious confident ion, the import
ant matters recommended to their at*
tentiofi. , . , ,
The committee rofi; and reported this
refohition to the house, by whom it was
adopted—and Meflrs. : Maditon, Scott
fnd Sedgwick were appointed a com
mittee to prepare the address.
A meflage was received from the Pre
sident of .the United State*, by his Se'
cretary Mr. Dandridge—who brought
to/the house tundry documents alluded
to in .the Prefident'* adcirefs. .'
' The house then proceeded to the.
choice of a Chaplain for the feflion, on
counting the ballots it appeared that the
Rev. Dr. Alhbel Green was re-elected.
The papers received from the Presi
dent were then read by the clerk they
are numbered from one to twelve and
principally relate to the wefterw infur
redlion—Difpatches from Gen. Wayni
received in the reccfs, &c.
I The reading of thef? papers Was con
tinued till the adjournment.
The Cleopatra and Lynx Briti/h
(hips of war are both at Norfolk.
I he Huflar British frigate has taken
off Cliarlefton, the Republican, and Jou
Jou, two French Privateers. ,
tirf" In the PreCdent's fpeeciipublrfhed
yesterday, in fourth cohirnn »xft line from
the batiom, for cannot be " distrusted"
read, an not be dSAurbed.
POUT or PHILADELPHIA
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Arrivxd.
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Virginia, Tomlinfon do. 4
Trial, Davis, Auxsayt 34
T^Mo^
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X*Srr:*s:-' . ."=*'. 4*
A Goqd Preflman
lyanted Immediately.
ENQUIRE OF
Steiner and Kamrmerer,
No. 85, Race near Thjrd street.
Nov. 10 t
Dr. Loutherbourg, jun.
So.w and Pupil to the CMrated Dr
LoutherLourg of Londcn.
HA S the honor of announcing to ibe
Public, that he v. fhes to exert hit
I alenti in AUnlatwke p„i NT ikg-Thole'
that are inclined ,o avail them elve, 0/
Wuftvy, Will be atfm'ed cn, by fa.
voting liim with their sddrerj.
No- t73, South Setoi d-S:re*;t
I»OV. 23. '