FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONTENTION.
Sitting of the gth day of the 3d decadt ,of
the 2 d year of the Republic.
The Miniller at War sent the follow
ing letter from General Doppet:
" On our arrival, our firlt care was the
appointment of a military tribunal or
commission ; and several chiefs have been
fliot. You write to me to take proper
precautions to prevent the rebels from
making their escape. They are all
cither destroyed or imprisoned : This ope
ration has wonderfully succeeded.
(S'gned)
" DOPPET."
The Citizens and Citifles of Tartas,
in the Department of Landes, have sent
to the adminillration of that department,
to be diftribnted to their brethren in arms
on the frontiers of the Pyrennees—{hirts,
spatterdashes, fume linen, 33 pairs of
ftoekings, some handkerchiefs, and 28
pail's of (hoes. Honorable mention.
Sevtsal popular societies have written
to the Convention, congratulating them
on their decree tvhith tats the price on
all commodities of firft neceflity, and in
viting them to continue at their pcft.
The popular society of Provenee, re
turn their thanks to the Mountain, for
having procured them an entire Liberty;
they express their gratitude to the brave
Parisians who have destroyed the triple
aristocracy of the rich, nobles, and priests.
The commune of Graulhet sent to the
National Convention a resolution which
they took, by which they look upon the
Mountain as the Saviour of Liberty and
£ quality.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, Jan. 27."
Authentic news from Franre.
Extradl of two letters from a gentleman
of undoubted veracity, vvhofe informa
tion may be depended upon, now in
France, to his friend in this Town,
dated
Paris, 03. 2t>, 1793
" The (late of France is much altered
within a few weeks for the better. Liber
ty mud triumph, and I thank God there
is such a nation as the French to defend
her cause—some di ft relies mull happen—-
some wrongs mull be committed ; —but
the principle is eternal, and mull finally
prevail."
" I cannot help fending you this, in
hopes it will reach you by the fame velTel
that I wrote my last. The affairs of France
are much altered within a few days, and
every appearance juihfies the moll san
guine expectations in favour of their final
success. Nothing could have placed them
on so good a footing as the total destruc
tion of all their internal enemies, or ra
ther civil wars : but they have not only
done that, but appear in a fair way to re
pel all the combined armies. They have
been beaten upon the Rhine, a complete
surprise was effe&ed; but in every other
part they have the advantage, should Tou
lon be re-taken which is quite probable,
(as thi French have driven the Spaniards
English quite into the town) 1 think
the dance will be up. I cannot but be
lieve, that in cafe France falls, America
will follow."
It is presumed fays a correfpondcnt,
that the two branches of the Legislature
will be exceeding careful about answering
the speech of the Lieutenant-Governor,
least they should give offence —this Gentle
man was for many years a member of the
Senate, and was always of opinion that
it was improper for Speeches to be made
from the Chair, and he uniformly and
pointedly opposed answering them ; this
circumstance is well known—how-then is
it to be accounted for, that the more we
aim at the principles of " Liberty and
Equality," the ftrongerwe feel attach
ed to MONARCHICAL FORMS
AND CEREMONIES.
We are told that the New Theatre will
be open on the 3d of February.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 31.
From Martinieo, Dec. 17th.
We learn, that on the 12th Dec. a
Britilh squadron of 8 fail of the line, and
frigates and transports to the number of 50
fail arrived at Barbadoes. That General
Rochambeau has but a fma'.i regular force
of whites and artillery, but had seven
thousand armed mulattoes and i.- jrocs, 111
whom he inltilled the idea, 11 ■. (hould
the British conquer Maitinico, they would
be fold to slavery. It is therefore expec
ted that they will light witli great brav
ery.
The preservation of the m. arts of know
ledge, among the /cur/? ranks, is of more
importance to the Public, than all the
PROPERTY of all the RICH MEN
in the COUNTRY. It is even of more
consequence to the rich themselves, and
to their prjhrity. The only question is,
Whether it is a public emolument ? And
if it is, the rich ought undoubtedly to
contribute in the fame pi oportion as to all
other public burdens, i. e. in proportion
to their wealth which is secured by pub
lic expences. But none of the means of
information are more sacred, or have been
cheri(hed with more tenderness and cart,
by the" settlers of America, than the
PRESS. Care has been taken that the
Art of Printing (hould be encouraged,
and that it (hould lie easy and cheap, and
fafe for any person to communicata his
thoughts to the public.
For the Gazette of the United States,
COMMERCE.
From calm, commercial sage debates,
Held in th' A {Terribly of the States,
We find our commerce underftpod—
By merchants ? No—by men of wood—
Men who from inland regions came—
Where commerce scarce is known byname!
Alas—what ignorance prevails,
Where commerce fpreadsher broadest fails!
Ye hardy sons of northern climes,
Howchar.g'd from gooioldfi/hion'</times;
Once to your Interest, Heady, true,
That Interest ye no more pursue :
But fend to patch your navigation,
The greatell botchers in the nation—
When Patriots from the old dominion,
Quite twilled round from old opinion,
With Resolutions ready made,
To help your artists and your trade,
To raise your commerce, sadly smitten,
By the haughty power of Britain—
To keep vour money in your hands,
To purchase boundless trails of lands;
To pay old debts—aye this is true,
So long to Brxtifh merchants due—
To keep y our wives and ekeyouv daughters,
From buying baubles, gauze and garters,
Or which is better—bid defiance,
To Europe's Despots in alliance ;
And brave the storms which rage afar,
By bringing home the sweets of War—
Of this you cannot fee the Glory,
But turn to ridicule, the story—
Nor patriots from the Allegany,
(Sans doute as candid too as any )
Nor all the powers of eloquence,
Can force you to be men of sense ;
Nor make you cease to apprehend, ~j
That all these projefls really tend, >
To bring our commerce to an end. J
" oSober 25
PHILADELPHIA,
Extradt of a letter from the Captain of
one of the American vefTels to his owner
in this city, dated Bourdeaux, 4th No
vember, 1793.
" We have been loaded since the 4th
Sept. failed on our voyage, (bound to
Philad.) but were ftdpped at the mouth
of the river by a guard (hip, and ordered up
to Paulack, where we were obliged to lay
until the 18th October; then all the load
ed (hips were forced back to Bourdeairx,
where we now lay, and cannot tell when
we (hall be permitted to depart."
It can no longer be a doubt, fays a
correspondent, that the tendency of certain
measures is to (hake the public credit of
this country to the foundation—to reduce
the value of our exports more than one
have—by destroying all competition in
our market for the produce of our coun
try —to dimimjh., in lieu of encreajing our
commerce —to deprive us of what every
other nation has always considered as an
advantage—our neutrality ; to arrest our
progress in the Scale of Nations, and to
blast all cur profpe&s of happiness under
the auspices of peace, freedom, and a
government of laws—and to plunge us in
to all the horrors of foreign, if not domes
tic war.
If any one can doubt x>f the foregoing,
EX T K
FEBRUARY 5.
let him read, let him hear those remarks,
which denounce as enemies to their coun-
try, all the enemies of war, all the friends
of peace, all thole who, ur.liie John Hull,
would think before they run their head in
to the tire—may we be preserved from an
cient or modern European politics—Nature
has placed this happy country at a goodly
dittance from them—may we be so wife as
to lee, think and ast for ourselves—this
will (hew that we are in fa 3, and that we
deserve to be independent.
Egbert Bknson, Esq. is appointed
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
of the state of New-York.
At an election held on Monday last, the
following gentlemen were chosen Di
rectors of the Bank of Pennsylvania, for
the ensuing year, viz.
John Barclay, Samuel Howell, Charles
Pettit, Philip Nicklin, William Sanfom,
Robert Ralltor., William Montgomery,
John Rofs, John Leamy, Godfrey Haga,
James Crawford, Jdhn Fry, George Pen
nock, Matthew Eawler, S. Forde, P. J.
Norris, J. Wilcocks, J. A(h, J. Vanux
em, S. M. Fox, W. Miller, K. Whar
ton, C. Biddle, J. Morgan, J. Swan
wick.
Mr. Fenno,
As the following contains as cogcst argu
ments for the United States going to
War with all the world, as any I have
heard of, you will please to republifh it.
FROM THE BOSTON GAZETTE.
Mejfrs. Edes iff Son,
HAD the United States of America
discovered their Jlrengtb and prowess, by
breaking off all commercial connection
with Great-Britain and her Colonies,
when flie declared war against our allies
the French ; had we even declared war
againjl her, we should have shown to the
world that we deserve to be ranked among
the nations of the earth, and we should
not have been impeached with the fin of
ingratitude. Belipve me, my country
men, that our character as a nation, his
fuffered more by the pufdlanimity with
which we have borne the insults and in
dignities from thd creatures of Great-Bri
tain on the high seas, and from the crea
tures of that creature residing among us,
to our injury and ruin, than if we had dis
covered a boldness and freedom of spirit to
(land by those who once saved us from de
ftruftion. Believe me, that the powers
of Europe will continue their opinion of
us as an ignorant, timid and a stupid peo
ple ; nay, from our conduct towards our
only friend, they will have cause to difpuie
our bravery. But I hope in God the
time is near at hand, when our enemies
the Britijh will be again convinced of our
understanding, integrity, refuurres and
COURAGE. The PEOPLE at this mo
ment have a good will to {how their cou
rage, notwithstanding they are told by de
famcrs of Liberty, that we have no resour
ces, and are in no condition for war. But
such, and such only, you will find are in
the Funding who lurk and Jhulh in
an Infvrance-Ojjice —or such as afifume the
character of a rich Priest, the fly one of a
Bank Scrivener, or the dirty, infamous,
abandoned ope of an Informer, who are
all the creatures of that system of tyranny
—the FUNDING SYSTEM.
From the General Aavertifer.
A correspondent thinks this the time
to distinguish the patriot from the enemy
of his country, to diiiinguifh between the
man who has private, and the one who has
public good for his object. That man
who seeks to cast the United States at the
feet of Great Britain is any'thing hut a
patriot, is any thing but a republican ; —
and he whocan fee no injuries that the U
nited States have fuftained v from Great
Britain, he who is unconfeious of the
wrongs which have been done us by that
nation,who can fee nothing but a conduct
which can be juflified or at lead extenuated
is that man. If to have a public debt is
to produce the blessing of the influence
and injlrumentality of Britiih policy, to
little purpose has America contended ; to
little purpose have her patriots dyed the
foil with their blood. Where a public
debt can enter into competition with the
general interest and rights of a nation# it
certainly cannot be denied that that na
tion and her creditors have separate and
diffinft interests, and that the preponde
rance of credit to those general interests
and rights, must be subversive of public
liberty.
After reading and referring a run'.bcr
of private petitions—the order of the day
011 Mr. Madison's refutations being called
for—Mr. Lyman moved that their fur
ther consideration Ihould be postponed to
the firlt Monday in March—this motion
was seconded by Mr. Sherbourne, and
occasioned some debate—the motion wa»
grounded on an ailertion made yeftcrday,
that the mercantile interest was oppoled to
the regulations propofed—scd that rime
might be given to receive the result of cer
tain European negociations refpetling (he
spoliations on the commerce and navy of
the United States, now pending—this
motion was carried in the affirmative—
Ayes 51 —Noes 47, as follow :
Ayes—MeflVs. Baily, Baldwin, Blount,
Gaines, Chriliie, Clark, Coles, Dearborn,
Dent, Findlcy, Giles, Gillcfpie, Oilman,
Greenup, Gregg, Grove, Hancock, Har
rifon, Heath, Heifter, Hunter, Irvine,
Locke, Lvman, Macon, Madison, Me*
bane, Montgomery, Moore, Muhlenberg,
Nevill, New, Nicholas, Niles, Orr, Par
ker, Patton, Pickens, Prefion, Ruther
ford, Scott, Sherbcrne, Smiley, I. Smith,
Sprigg, Treadwell, Van Cortlandt, Vena
ble, Winfton, Walker, Williams, 51.
Noes—Mefirs. Arties, Armftr cng.Beat
ty, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourn, Cad
wallader, Claibourne, Cobb, Coffin, Coit,
Dayton, Dexter, Fitzfimons, Forrejl,
Fclter, Gilbert, Glen, Goodhue, Gordon,
Griffin, Hartley, Hillhoufe, Hindman,
Holten, Kittera, Learned, Lee, Malbone,
M'Dowell, Murray, J. Smith, S. Smith,
W. Smith, Swift, Talbot, Thatcher, Tra
cy, Trumbull, Van Alen, Van Gaafbeck,
J. Wadfworth, P. Wadfworth, Ward,
Watts, Wingate. Winn, 47.
Mr. Tracy of the committee appointed
to consider and report whether any and
what alterations are neceflary to be made
in the law for establishing the post office,
brought in a report which was twice read,
and refer:'cd to a committee of the whole
house on Monday next.
A report was read from the Secretary
of theTreafury, made pnrfuant to an or
der of the House, of the 30th Jan. last.
This report exhibits a statement of the
money in the treasury, an estimate of tlie
amount which may be expected to be paid
in by the firft of April, and a statement
of the domeltic loam,with the fuir.s which
have been paid on account of the said loans
to the Committee of the
whole on the appropriation bill.
" All me, Mr. Printer ! if my neigh
bour Cornelius I'/aterfpout, or my trufiy
friend Sloptup, were at the helm of affairs,
we would have other guess work on't—
But no odds, some of them are determined
to offer their service. Mr. Printer—the
nation of Great-Britain—found it, Sir, —
Is it more harmonious than the nation of
the United States ? The Jleet of Great-Bri
tain—compare it—is it more numerous
or more powerful, than the Jleet of the
United States ? And as to our armies, ex
perience proves what vafl bodies of valiant
heroes we can muster. And now, Sir, alt
true Patriots cry war, War with Britain.
AMERICA.
City Commissioners Office,
-January 30, 1794.
JN purfnance of a Kefolvc ot ihc Common
Council, dated the 20th day of January,
1754, for dividing the City inu» five Diftritts,
by nnc» drawn East artd Weft, whereof each of
the Citv Commiflioners is to take the fuperin
trndance of one of the faiil Diitn&s, and to be
accountable tor the cleaning, good order and
regularity of the fame.
The Commiffibners have accordingly made
the following airangrment tor the prcirr.t :
Dijlrifl the \fi. Naihan Boys, to have the
charge of that part ot the ftter t.s, lanes and alte\ t
from jC<dar-ftieet, to the north Tide of Spruce--
tiieet.
DiJliiEl the 2d. Hugh Roberts, from ihr north
fide of Sprucc-ftrtct to the north fide t»l Waliut
street.
Dffirrß, the 3d. Jofcph Clavpoole, from the
north Tide of Walnut 10 the loath Tide ot Hi^h-
ftrcet.
Dijiiitl the \th. William Mn»|der t from the
north tide ot High, to the north tide of Muibert y
ftrcct
Difirifl (he $fh. Nicholas Hicks, from the
north fide ot Iviulbcny, to the nonh fide ot Vine
ttreet.
Ext' rH frqw the Mrnut'S.
JOHN MEASE, CM.
V. B. The Carriage way 111 Markruftrter, is
under the charge ot the Commiflxonrrs grm raltv,
for the present,< >hc foot-ways on the norili ami
south fides thereof, are conne&ed witt* ibe ad
joining D.ftnitk rftpeflivelyK
CONGRESS.
Itoufe of ReprcftntativN•
WedneJday» February 5,
Adjourned.
E X T R A C r.