1
out ceafingj oppress you by he.
fcutions ? ■ ■
| uid what hath been the effe£t of all
H-ns enormous wickedness ? Infignificance,
Uifgrace and raffery ih Europe ; wretched
livery, and (kit!) to thousands in Ameri
ia, have distinguished the Spaniih tyran
jjjy.fHWhen lavages intend to gather the
bruits of a tree, they cut it down.—Be
lli :ld a dreadful emblem of despotism !—
'Tyrants, in ihort care little for the condi
tion of the people under thepi. Every
|thing inuft be facriSced to tlyAr gratifica
tion ; all mnft bow to their vdit.—French
nnen of Louisiana! the opprefiions you
liwe endured have too fully confirmed
Illume truths in your experience ; and your
LiCerings have doubtleis imprinted in your
1 breafls the glorious refutation of revenge.
Compare your own conditions with
it-iofc or your friends, your neighbors th<
free Americans. Look on the state o:
.Kentucky 5 a country deprived of a f«
port ; unreasonably fubjedted to (hackle:
I iingL: influence-of a free government grow
s mg with a rapidity, whieh prefagts hei
future greatness, and already impreffcster
ror on the court of Spain.
unravels the secret of despotism, and un
' Ms it's abominable policy. —Men were
'**: to love one another; to unite; tc
; happy ; and so they would be, if those,
mo call themselves the images cf God on
I'ib., if kings did not seek to divide them,
tfiil to G.jpofe theirhappinefs.
: F i"ne population of Kentucky is the
fork of a few years. Your colony, better
firiiited, but deprived of the blessings i !
.Ji ;ertv, is decreafmg every day.—When
j'ti e free citizens of America by perlever
f ir.g induitry have improved their lands,
they are aifured of enjoying the produce
Efcf their exertions : all tliat yen possess de-
BHend.> on the caprice/xjf a viceroy, almost
flfver unjust, avaricious and vindictive.—
gCi'i, tern plate the evils which your own re
' solution alone can remove ; —by courage
[■and energy you may in an instant change
pyo; r conditions : but wretched indeed will
■it be, if you fail to make the attempt; for
the name of a Frenchman, already become
lodious to kings, and the creatures of kings,
■T/ifl eventually make your chains more
■ heavy, and expose you to new vexations,
r —You glow with indignation ; and feel
' within vcu the ambition of deserving the
glorious appellation of free men : but the
ft-ar ixt riii/ir tlw 4r«od of •">* 1 " ■*;*
fupjxjrtid, depraves your zeal. Know
then that your brethren of France, after
having fuccefsfully attacked the Spanish'
dominions in Europe, will ioon appear on
1 our ceaft with a naval force ; that the
republicans of the Weitern Country who
are ready to fail down the rivers Ohio and
MifTifippi, in conjunction with a powerful
body of your brethren will fly to your as-
Cftance, under the auspicious standard of
Galiia and liberty ; —and that our united
efforts cannot fail to secure success to the
undertaking.—Step forward, therefore,
Lcuifianians ; manifeft to the world that
slavery hath not debased your fouls ; but
that you flill retain the valour, the spirit,
and intrepidity of your forefathers ; ar.d
that you are not unworthy of independen
ce and freedom.
It is not to our government, but to
the -'orious domion of liberty that we de
lire to unite you. When emancipated,
you may form a constitUtion for yourselves;
vVich constitution will be supported by
F-ance, as long as your imbecility (hall
make : t necessary.—Moreover you ma'
enter into a triple compact with her, 3 d
the neighboring States of
by a confederation which may be
calculated to advance the political ap com
mercial intereKs of each.—lt is R ,
your parent country will deriveo'" cat a
advantages from so beneficial' change ;
and it is ss clear your glory/ ll not be e '
quailed but by the felicity 7°» a " d
your posterity will rcceiw irom t,ie revo "
lution, if i
Banish imbecility ! Hi wlth te2r •
courage, flrmnefs ; cJ ir f - )(
" Audaces fortt lia j uvat -
A very happy i a
fn.ll strain of conjtruftjon may be render
ed in Engli!h, » Daring vjUainy is too ot
ten profperouß."
UNITED STATES.
GEORGE-TOWN, Jan. ift, 1794'
By the 44th and last day of drawinj
04,000 tickets are drawn, and the grl
prizes ftffl in the wheel—wnich has ga J
PHILADELPHIA,
JANUARY 7.
At a meeting of the Stockholder's of the
Banh of the United Stales, held lajl evening
at the City Hall, the following Gentlemen
were eleded Dire dors of tjmt injlituiiou for
the year I viz.
Thomas Willing, Joseph JM, Robert
Smith, Matthew M'Conneli, Joseph An
thony, John M. Kefbitt, Samuel Breck,
Jeremiah Parker, Isaac Wharton, William
Bradford, James C. Fifter, Thomas Ew
ing, William Bingham, Jacob Do.v.aing,
Archibald M'Call, Ifr-tl Whelcn, Mat
thew Clarkfon—Philadelphia.
Herman Le Roy, John Lawrance, Ri
chard Harifon, John Delafield, Matthew
Clarkfon, Abijah Hammond New*
Youk.
David Sears—Boston.
Henry Nichols—Baltimore
At an election held yeflerday for ofn-
C?rs of the Delaware and Schuylkill Ca
nal Company, :>ndof the Schuylkill and
Slifquchannah Canal Company, the fol
lowing gentlemen were chosen.—
Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
I. Robeit Morris, Pref.dent.
Managers.
David Rittenhoufe, John N!cho!f.>n,
'illiam Smith, D. D. Walter Stewart,
tandifh Ford, Robert Hart, Benjamin
Morgan, Wliiiam Bingham, Joseph
all, Samuel Breck, Charles Biddlc,
ftrCOiiab Parker.
Tench Francis, Treasurer.
William Moore Smith, Secretary.
SU S QUE KAN X& H AND SCHUYLKILL
John Nicho
Steinmetz, i
Smith, D. E
Bingham, Sai
die, Chailes
ling, Samuel
Tencli |
Timothy
The following articles are copied from
the General A vertifer of this morning.
It mult app r surprising that the late
arrival at Bait icre from Havre (fitnild
cm. tavc flrrnli :s rr.c pliant in (bftK
intelligence- rie Baltimore papers com
municate none and those here who ex
petted to recei information by that ves
sel have been ifappointed. The vefTel
left Havre abot the middle of October,
and this mucfos known, th&t the com
pletion of Finch affairs was then very
favorable; nr..,perhaps tin's may be one
reason why ware not in poffeflion of de
tails, as the cJy of Havre is well known
to be not well Hefted to the ruling partv.
Substance ofa letter from Havre-de
' Grace.
The whounation is determined to re
ceive laws no foreign power. All
perfins fytpited of aristocracy are taken
up. Nflet'i members uave been expelled
theroAC'itJn, being fufpetted of royal
iirni
P e exportation of all articles of firft
isjprohibited. Silks, glass, &c.
. aree to fe exported.'
i iie Spanish forces have been beaten in
evjy- quarter ; snd the king of Sardinia
soon to be left without. a kingdom.
file whole energy of the Republic is
dieted again ft England, and preparations
aj making for a descent, fur which one
Idred thousand men are intended, and
nerchant vefTels in a state of requisition,
i millions have been placed in the hands
he minister of marine for the conftruc
i of boats carrying each four 24 pound
to cover the landing of the troops.
Toulon is blocked Wy 70,000 men, and
expected to surrender.
The troubles of Vendee draw to an end.
We have it from -very good authority,
at a peace is on the tapis, between all the
'eiligeretit powers of Europe, except France,
iujlria and Spain.
| A gentleman, on whose authority full
dependence may be placed arrived in this
city from Jamaica, via New-York, in
forms, Viat when he left Spanifhtown a
Briti(h£acket had arrived there. The in
telligence brought by this vessel was or
dcvii to be kept a profound secret from
t!y governed, but the captain told ourin
f'/finant that the affairs of France were in
. -r-
Canal.
Moiris, Prffvlcnt,
Managers.
Rubei
Ton, Walter Stewart,John
iam'ifh Ford, .William
jnf.ph Ball, William
.uel Brtck, Charles Bid
alefce, Thomas M, Wil
'eieiii h.
lancis, Treasurer.
■ latlack, Secretary.
Qdaltr 16,
a moll flourifhfag situation ; many of the
principal towns in England in r.'lUte of
efferveicence, that traopswerefAit tofop
prefs die fpfnt, but joined the people in
the cry of no par,.' Prufiia, he alio inform
ed, had aftuatly withdrawn from the coa
lition.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore, dated
the 2d inft.
The schooner Eagle, belonging to
Meflrs. Hollins and Barney, has arrived
here from Port-au-Prince.- The Eagle
failed in company with the (fyip Sampson,
Capt. Barney,belonging to the l;.mc hou&,
a 9d fa-'- her captured by a British frigate.
She is' now probably sent to Jamaica. It
is reported Capt. Barney had on board his
fltip, a very valuable cargo, citirnated at
not less than 300,000 dollars, ar.d various
are the conjectures with reipect to his
•probable fate. It is no doubt in
your memory that lie retook his vc.Tel
from an crew the last summer, in
consequence ci which' he armed for felf
defence in a second voyage undertaken
principally to recover aHd bring home the
proceeds of the cargo of the firlt voyage.
It is reported that the next Britiih mail
for the United States, may be expelled
b> a Frigate.
fro\.oitßhsroi\'bi<Nrs.
What blessed times some per fans are anti
cipatitig from the assumption of the powers
'of government detached bodies cf the p>eo
p't ! Ail the confufion, vexation, andtxpence
aienuartt on a di ifion, endfuldivifion of the
piwers of government, which were experi
enced in the days of our af/liElion, are not
fufficient to deter the busy and reliefs sons of
anarchy from attempting to bring us back to
those scenes of humiliation and diflrefs, from
which the new Conflitution has so wonder
fully extricated us.
But the days of infatuation are pnffed—
and disappointment •will attend the plans of
those who would diflurb cur union, and blafl
the reputation tf our country.
IVhat have 1 p hfe fyi Catiline—
Another war may set me on my legs.
A correspondent queries, whether the
paragraph which appeared in a morning
paper of Monday—pointing out certain
reasons for the resignation of Mr. Jeffer
fon, was wrote by a friend or an enemy of
gcr.iltt7wn"» rtputatfmi I—This ccr
refponde.it further aiks, whether Mr. Jef
ferlon did not announce a determination
to resign previous to the difcuflion of cer
tain fubje&s, which it is "ihrc wdly ful'peft
ed the paragraphia alluded to r—and whe
ther it was not in the power of the Secre
tary, to have resigned immediately on
his.discovering, (if such a discovery was
even before made) that " his influence was
but trifling" in the councils of the Execu
tive ?
lu the HouJ'c of Reprefentativei of the V~
tilled States, Thursday the id if ySnu-
ary 1794,
THE house proceeded to colder the
resolutions, reported f™ m the
committee of the whole louse, on the
confidential cornmunicy lo " 3 from the
Ptcfidcut, refpedling measures which
havs been pursued tof obtaining a recogni
tion of the treaty between the United
States and Morocco, and -for the ransom
of prisoners, and eftab-'flhnaeut of peace
with the Algerines--wherei:pon
The firft and C-cond of the said lefolu
tions being Cverally twice read at the
clerk's table, were, on the quefiion put
thereupon, agreed to by the house, as fol
low :
RefAved, that a furr. not exceeding
dollars, be appropriated, in addition to
the provision heretofore made, to defray
any expence which may be incurred in re
lation to the intercourse between the Uni
ted States and foreign nations.
Res illed, that a naval force, adequate
to the protection qf the United States a
gainst the Algerine Corsairs, ought to be
provided.
The third resolution being read in the
words .following :
Rejclvecf', That a committee be ap
pointed to report to this House, the naval
force necefiary for the purposes aforefaid,
together with an efumate of the expences.
A motion was made and seconded, to
amend the fame, by adding to the end
thereof, the words, " and the ways and
means for defraying the fame."
And the queltion being put thereupon,
it was resolved in the affirmative, Yeas 46
—Nays 44.
s 1 - • : MB 1 •
..
tt \Th<: yeas anil naVi lermg aimimlta bY
ffeuV fifth < f the members prefcut.
Those who voted in the affirmative ave/
ThecVoms Bailey, Abraham Baldwin,
John Beattv, r ?hos. Bldurit, Thos. 15-I 5 -
Carne's, Gabriel Chriiiie, AbrjiianiClarki:..
I r aac Coles, Win. Johnfoii Dawfon, } Icti
rv Dearborn, Geo. Dent, V-m. Findley,
W. B. Giles, Chrilt. Greenup, Andrew
Gregg, Wm. Barry Grove, C?rter B.
Ilarrifon, John Heath, Danl. Ileifcer,
Wm. Irvine, Richd. B. Lee, Matthew
Locke, Nathti. Macon, James Madison,
jcfepli M'Dowell, Alex. Mebane, Wm.
Moj!tg»meiy, And. Moore, Jofejh Ne
ville, Anthony New, John Nicholas, A
lcxandei D. O.r, Joliah Parker, Ana.
Pickens, i'rancis Preston, llobt. Ruther
ford, John S. Shtrboariie, John Smilie,
Israel Smith, Thos. Tredwell, Philip Van
Cortlandt, Abraham Venable, Francis
Walker, Bsnj. Williams, Paine Wingate,
and Richard Winn.
Thcfe who voted in the Negative—are
Fiflier Ames, James * Armstrong, Elias
Eoudinot, Shearjafhub Bourne, Benjamin
Bourn, Lambert Cadwallader,David Cobb,
Peleg Coffin, Joshua Coit, Jonathan Day
ton, Samuel Dexter, Thomas Fitziimor.s,
Uriah Forreft, D wight Foster, Ezekiel
Gilbert, Nicholas Gilrnan, Henry Glen,
Benjamin Goodhue, Samuel Griffin, Tho
a Hartley, James Hillhoufe, Samuel
ten, JohnW. Kittera, Am?.fa Learned,
William Lyman, Francis Malbone, Peter
Muhlenberg, William Vans Murray, Na
thaniel Niles, Thomas Scott, Jeremiah
Smith, William Smith, Thomas Sprigs,
Zephaniah Swift, Silas Talbot, George
i liatcber, Uriah Tracy, Jonathan Trum
bull, John E. Van Alen, Peter Van Gaaf
beeb, Peleg Wadnvortb, Jeremiah Wadf
worth, Artemas Ward, and John Watts.
And then the main question being put,
that the house do agree to the said refuta
tion, amended to read as followeth :
" Rjfsivcd, That a committee be ap
pointed to report to this houfc, the naval
force neceflai y for the j.urpofcs afon- <aid,
together with an eftimat- of the exp. i.te,
and the ways and means for defraying the
fame." "
It \v?s rcfolved in tire affirmative.
Ordered, That Mr. Fitziimci'3, Mr.
Goodhue, Mr. J. "VWf'.voi th, Mr. IV
reft, Mr. Malbone, Mr. Bcudinot, Mr.
Parker, Mr. Macon, and Mr. Vpr.n, be
appointed a committee, to t/.e
la it reioiution.
Extract from the Jourr*'
JOHN ' Clerk.
NEW YO/V Jan. £■
A gentleman rai: ity» who arrived
here yesterday ,ln Ni,nt; ;> which place
he left the z' :l Odtober, inform that the
patriots h' 1 taken poflcflion of Lyons;
and th? Cambrajr had furrepdered to the
He also afl«rts that there was no
enery
of peace
P (Tr* Strictures on a paragraph y refpeft
ing the truce with A'gttfs, and otherfavors
—together with the minutes of this day's
proceedings nf tke'lloife of Repftftitaiives
are untitled till to-murruw for wart of
room,
Algerine Robbers.
Ti-morrow afternoon, at four ivVl
he
By M/VnjKW CAREY,
.\< 1 18. Ai.A -K 1 rK I ,
(Piicf « itt.~rf.-r d:.!! r)
An hifcorical and geog:
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Said CAP < y h.;< huh tukVfkrd.
A Map of the Sc: t .>f War in Fnics
of tho Netlitr'-mtk—of Wir.cit—
and of the TenneJFee Govcrnmear
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Also, LadlV Habit*, Snrtnms, Gowns, am] ,i)
kinds of dteffes for halls, compl.-ted in the
heweft and mult elegant fafhjon.
Anv ladies in New Y.nk and (liar left ftp'
who may wifti to employ liitn, ami will !>t
plea'cd to fend thuir mea tires Hiail ihi-ir
work finHlied with the utiiioft neatnefj ami
dispatch.
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