the Count was 4 times attacked near Bif ingen, "by 25,000 Sans (jullottes, but the enemy were each time repulled, and left about 1 coo men killed 011 the field of bat tle. On the 20th the French made a fifth attack upon the Prussians, who repulfcd them, and took 7 pieces of cannon. On the 18th ultimo at day break, 'the French made a general attack on general Wurir.fer's position from the Rhine to Hockfeuded. The conflict which wan long and bloody, ended in the defeat of the French, from whom 43 prisoners were taken. The allies had 23 men and thir teen horses killed, and 200 men and 62 horses wounded. The French at the fame time attacked the Co.ps of Conde, supported by the battalion of Wallis, a divilion of Hussars of Dedody, and another of the Imperial dragoons. On this occasion they were defeated, and left at least 1000 men dead on the field of battle. The lolls on the fide of the allies confided of 61 men and 18 horses killed, and 241 men and 4.5 hor ses wounded. Unfortunately Major Fran cou't de Huff was among the killed. The matter of a veflel, arrived at the Isle of YVijjht on Monday from Guernsey which pi ape, he left on the Bth at 11 in the forenoon, reports, that admiral Mac bride, with the fleet and trafiiports under his command,wasthen at anchor in Guern sey road, waiting the arrival of moie troops from Oil end. It was said at Guernsey, that the great jody of Royalists assembled at St. Maloes had been obliged to retire back into the country, from the difficulty of getting provisions for so numerous a body. He added that the Crescent, Sir James Sau marez,had been cruizing along the French toad, and had driven on shore, near the ille of Briac, 2 French armed (hips and a cutter NEW THEATRE. To-Morrow Evening, Feb- 21, Will be performed, a Comedy, called The Dramatist, Or, STOr HIM WHO CAN. Lord Scratch, Mr. Bates. Neville, Mr. Cleveland. Florivi'le, Mr. Moreton. Willoughby, Mr. Green. Ennui, Mr. Finch. Peter, Mr. Francis. Vapid (with the Epilogue) Mr. Chalmers Miss Courtney, Mrs. Francis. Lady Wait tort, Mrs. Shaw. Letty, Mrs. Rowfon. Mnrianne, Mrs. Marshall. End of the Comedy a DANCE, culltd the HIGHLAND FROLIC. To which will be added, a Comic Opsnj t called the Flitch of Bacon, OR, DUNMOW PRIORT. Jnftice Bembow, Mr. Warrell Major Bembow, Mr. Harwocd. Cipt. Grev illc, Mr. Marshall. Cant. Wilson, Mr. Darley. Tipple, Mr. Francis. Eliza, Miss Broadhurft- Places in the Boxes to be taken at the Box- Office of the Theatre, at any hour from nine in the morning till three o'clock in the after noon, -r\ the day of performance. Tickets to be had at the office near the Theatre, at the corner of Sixth-street, and at Carr & Co's Musical Repository, No. 122, Market-street. The Doors will be opened at 5 o'clock, and the performances begin at 6 o'clock pre cisely. Botes, one dollar —Pitt, three quarters of a dcllnr—and Oallfry, half a dollar. No places can be let in the fide boxes for a less number than eight, nor any places re tained after the firft a&. Indies and Gentlemen are requeflcd to fend their servants to keep places, at half an hour past 4 o'clock, and to order them to withdraw, as scon as the company are seated, asthev cannot on any account be permitted to remain in the boxes, nor any places kept after the-firft a&. N. B. No money or tickets to be returned, nor any person admitted on any account whatever behind the scenes. The managers requcft, to prevent confu £ on, servants may be ordered to set down and tnke up with the horses* heads towards the Schuylkill, and drive off by Seventh-ii reet. Vtvat Refpuhlirp. PRICE os-Si 6 per cents, 18/2 3 . 1 off Defmeu, • ■.• • ~/ t : U. ißank, 11 , per cent. adv. Pennfylvam'a do. 10 ditto ditto. Mr. Fen no: Tlx enclosed uaifent to Mr. r Ix for pub lication, and as ki km r I it a finer under the ii«a tbui is cou Ppear *witb propriety In bis pop,., thepiect to winch it is a rrpl <T I requejl you to gh't - * ■ • —You will further evince your impartiality b repub lishing. the piece u,i.kr tlx- j:gnature Gracchus, which frfi aplKa :d in [he Ge neral Advertiser. 7. c uilic will how far the Editor oj tuat paper is jufii fahle in njtaing this eJTay, for no other avowed reason ihan beca ife be did not give a place to that of A. B.—l will only ast whether he never did insert arfOiers to es says, which themfilves never were admit ted in his Gazette ? Jf the Editor of the Genera! Advertiser wijhes to prefcrve a confident conduit, Ije will give a proof of it by a republication of this ejjay. Feb. 17 To the Editor of the General Advertiser, Sir, IT would be worse than hypocrisy to Ihrink from the attack of the redoubtable champion, who wiflied to enter the lifts in your papers- It would be ltarting at a shadow, which if shunned might indicate fear, altho , it had not fubftanee to create alarm. Liberal as this ir ritable gentleman has been in his abuse, boun tiful as he has fbewn himfelf in invedlive, his impotent ravings {hall not draw me alidc« om the right I feel to give my opinion cn men and things ; neither frail they deter me irom pursuing him, thro' the maze of ablurdity which his clouded imagination has created — His signature is emblematical of himfelf; for no one who has Uen his supposed prodigy of genius, but will subscribe to the opinion, that he is in his A. B. of republicanii'm, and political knowledge, and that by the time he progrefits further in the alphabet he will be lei's confident, less dogmatical, and lcfs igno rant. It is not a little surprising that a man who makes a boast of his wisdom, and a parade of his knowledge, (hould have so far mifccnceiv ed plain things as to fay, that " the President is a Sovereign for the people"—The sove reignty for the people, or the representatives of iheir sovereignty, are their legislators; the President is merely the Executive of the will of the sovereign ; if he was the sovereign for them, he would be charged with the pow er of making laws: for legifJation is an es sential of sovereignty, and as the people dele gate a portion oi their sovereignty? that bo dy which has the legislative power is the sovereign for them—The President is limited even in his executive functions ; for he can not make appointments to office without the consent of the Senate—The declaration of war and peace is an attribute of sovereignty, and if A. R. does not know it, I will inform him, that the conftituticn has vested this a<St of sovereignty for the people in Congress— The executive of the United States is the re presentative of the power, the legislative of the will of the people —The will is an ema nation of the sovereign, but not the sovereign itfelf, for this is an unalienable right of the people—The power is an emanation of the will, for without the will, the body politic could not a<fl—There may be will without a power, but 110 power without a will; for if the people will not a power, it cannot exist— To suppose a sovereign is to suppose a will and power, felf existent, and dependent on themfclves ; it also supposes a superiority, and to suppose a superior being to the people themselves in a free government, is high trea son against liberty. Toe man who can afiert that the President is a sovereign for the peo ple, must be willful, or ignorant; if willful, he must wiih it, and to wish it, he must be the friend of monarchy and the enemy of republicanism ; it ignorant, he ought firft to make himfelf acquainted with the Constitu tion under which he lives, before he commits his opinion ; for as much mifchief oft times arifesfrom ignorance, as from deiign. A. B. charges me with " ignorance," and to gratify his wishes I will acknowledge it, if he can point out a single instance of a " civil" action having been cognizable by a grand jury. Criminal process wasi slued against Du Plaine, he was arretted by the Marihal of the Federal Government, prosecuted by the Attorney of the diftridt, and acquitted by a grand jury, tho' previously sentenced by the Proclamation of the President, revoking his exequatur —Du Plaine was a citizen of the United States, and as such was intitled to the prote&ion of our laws, he had a common claim to a fair and impartial trial; but the Proclamation was a species of outlawry, which interdi&ed him, before the tribunal of his country had an opportunity to take cognizance of his of fence. An individual in this city, has been imprisoned for publiihing an opinion upon a cause fubjudice, and if the law contemplates this so great an offence in a private citizen, how much greater must be the injury and in justice, when to the publication of criminality is annexed the influential name of the Presi dent of the United States ! To leflen the decision of the grand jury in Du F'» line's cafe, and to cover their opinion with contempt, A. B. modestly aflerts, that they were " ignorant," meaning, no doubt, that everv person who dares to d'lflcnt from the infallibility of his opinion, is a blockhead. To sum up his idea of them, he ought to have charged them with obfeurity of chara&er; for it begins to be a falhienable opinidn with certain gentlemen, that every man who is va not within the vortex of government, or its fyllems is ebfeurg, and that every one who' queftionsany of the governmental measures, io either a beggar, an incendiary, a fool cr a rascal. Thus far has our freedom already proc ceded! rejcHed— 'Tie true, that the people and the govern ment ought to be the faine, but it is no less '•true, that they have not been the fame, that they have fpokendiffcrentfentiments. Henfield was declared guilty by the government, he was acquitted by the people, Du Plaine was declared a criminal by the government, and was declared innocent by the people, docs it appear, therefore, that the people and the go vernment are the fame : It we take A. B's. ideas as the standard of truth and judgment, we must suppose that juries are not the people, and that government alone is wife, and all else is folly. That A. B. is not under the influence of Hamilton or Knox, or that he is not a depend ant or expectant of the President, 1 have no more reason for believing, than he has for supposing me the creature of a French Mi niiter, or the tool of a fa<Stion.—Men who make such loud declarations in favor of their own integrity and difintereilednefs beget luf picion ; for the man of real virtue, never makes it a fubjeft of public declaration —As a man ought to be moral, and ought to be public spirited for his own fake; and as we : nave reason to believe, that man to be a hy pocrite, who boaits of his virtue, so we have reason to conclude him to be a sycophant, who vaunts of his independence—lf to be of the order of paper noblemen, is to be independ ent, I have no claims to it—l have, neither Gracc HUS, have I ever had any expe&ations from go vernment ; disappointment, therefore, cannot be laid to my charge—l am easy in my fili ation, and neither the smiles nor frowns of government lhall draw me from my duty. As a freeman, I have a right to give my sentiments on public men and public mea sures, and as a freeman, I will aflfert it; and altho* such sentiments should curdle the rich stream of fubmiflicn, which flows in the veins ■of the idolater A. B. even this ftiall not ex cite difmav. I have not, neither do I deny, that the President has rendered important services to our country ; but does this prove that he cannot do wrong, that he is above the lot of humanity, that we ought not to challenge the exceptionable parts of his con dud, or that we ought to prostrate ourfelvcs in flavilh fubmiflion before him ? I repeat that I am not his enemy, that I admire his virtues; but I alio decl ire, that no admira- tion of his character shall shadow the jull re pugnance that every fr. eman ought to have, when he fees his rights and security invaded even in the person of another —To a Hate of debasement indeed have we arrived, if we are not at liberty to point out exceptions, because the general rule of his conduct has been good. A. B. has dragged a Minister of the French Republic, before an American tribunal —he has exerted all th force of his eloquence to render him odious ; but in the extremity of his zeal, he has defeated himfelf, by fubflitut- ing abuse in the place of fa<sl and argnment. The officer who is amenable to the people of this country, he strives to cover with the mantle of inviolability, and the officer who is not responsible in any degree to us, he rains vengeance and condemnation upon ; but his hillings, like those of the harmless black snake, indicate the will without the power to injure—The protection which is a (Forded by the law of nations to foreign Miniftcrs, has no consideration in the heated mind of A. B. he is determined t« revile, and no obligation of truth or jullice, has power to restrain him. —He fays that he is neither a (lave, nor a tyrant; for that "he has not tamenefs for the one, nor power and influence, nor congeniality enough with Gracchus, Ge net, or hollow democrats of any party, for the other"—l wiih he had given a better proof of his afiertion ; —for he has come in such a questionable (hape, that he might be spoken to, as the ghost of republicanism, or a tool o£ the Dey of Algiers. Feb. 15,1794. GRACCHUS. PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 20. Intercjling Intelligence. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Norfolk, to a gentleman in this city, dated Feb. 11, 1794- " A fleet of French men of war are ar rived here, with an Ambafiador and Con suls ; and from report, full of treasure.— They took an Englifti frigate loaded with the spoils of Pondicheny, and the colors —and fevaral other vefiels—but before this gets to hand, you will be furniflied with better accounts than I can give, as the Consul for Philadelphia is gone on. Extract of a letter from Norfolk, Feb. I to a gentleman in this city. " Two French ships of the line, two frigates, and two sloops of war are arrived in Hampton Road. They failed from France the 25th of Dec. Oftend was not then taken but closely besieged ; that a great number of towns in the Austrian Netherlands had fallen into the hands of the French. That the French army were in poffeflion of the Spanish province of Catalonip—That Toulon had twice pro posed to capitulate, but refufcd by the French General—That the combined ar my were retired from Stra(burgh—Thai the squadron fell in with the British East- India fleet, took a frigate, a targe (hip, and several small ones—on board were the trcafure arid colors taken at Pondicherry. " The new Minister is surely on board, and several Consuls. A Baltimore paper contains a report, via Norfolk, that the Cork fleet of 70 fail, destined for the Weft-Indies, iscaptured by some French (hips, sent from Brcft for that purpose. The English papers under the Bruflels head, state that in three Battles fought on the 28th, 29th & 30th Nov. between the French, and the Combined Forces com manded by the Quke of Brunfwick, the French had 18000 men killed, and 5000 taken prisoners—the Allies, loft 16000 men killed, and 138 officers, Saxon, Prus sian and Imperial—and 212 wounded; three of them Generals—Kalkreuth mor tally. The Allies remained mailers of the field. The vitlory, tho' signal, the accounts add, was dearly purchased. The (hip Norfolk is arrived at Norfolk from Belfail, with 400 passengers. Letter from George Fox ts" Sons, dated Falmouth, Ivh Dec 1793, We have now to inform thee, that the American Ihip Cleopatra, Capt. Donavan, having taken in a cargo of hemp and dry goods at Hamburg, for Philadelphia, was on his paflage taken by the French man of-war, le Rafoirey Nationale, of 80 guns, on the 24th ult.. Capt. Donavan and all the crew, were taken out except the mate, and {he was re-taken the 1 oth inft. by part of Lord Howe's fleet and sent into Ply mouth ; where we shall desire our friend to do what is neceflary, and shall this even ing write our mutual friends, J. ly J- K. in London, on the bnfmefs. HALIFAX, N. S. Jan. 28. We find in a report made by Roberf pierre, in the National Convention, of the political fittiation of the French, as it rcf pected the conduct of other powers towards them, among other observations, the fol lowing remarks on the conduit of M. Ge- " By a very Angular fatality, the Re presentatives of the French Republic in America, are the agents of the traitors whom (he has punished—The brother-in law of Brifiot is Conful-Gerteral with the United States from France ; another man of the name of Genet, sent by Le Brun and Briffot, with the charge of Plenipoten tiary Agent, resides at Philadelphia, and has faithfully fulfilled their designs and in ftruftions. He has made use of the molt unaccountable means to irritate the Aroe l icam Government against us ; he affected to speak without any pretence, in a mena cing tone, and to make propofalsto that government equally contrary to the interest of both nations; he endeavoured to render our principles fufpefled or formidable, by exceeding them by the most ridiculous ap plications. By a very remarkable contrast, while those who had sent him to America, persecuted at Paris, the popular Societies dxnounced as Anarchilts the Jacobins, courageously draggling again ft tyianny, Cenet, at Philadelphia,made himfelf chief of a club there, and never ceased to make and excite emotions equally injurious and perplexing to the government. Thus the fame faction which wanted to fubjeft the people in France to the aristocracy of the rich, endeavoured in a moment to set free and arm all the negroes to destroy our co lonies." Last evening the Tragedy of Isabel la, with the Comic Opera of Rosin a, were a&ed at the New-Theatre, with the highest applause, from a crouded Audi ence—Something further, To-morrow. Cj* This Gazette Jhallle enlarged, at it receives encouragement —The Svlfcription encreafes daily—Advcrtif.rg Favors are folicited —Tbefe conjiitute an ejfihtwl Item in diminijhing the Debit fide cf the Account. Mordecai Lewis, Has for Sale at his Store, No. 25, Dock- Street :— A FEW bales ot Rodi* Slireiing*; Barcelona Handkerchiefs in bnxrs ; a bale ot low priced Cotton Handkerchiefs; a Quantity of Souchong T>.a. Hyson and Tonkav, ditto; Hol land (tin in Cases; » Quantity of Bnmttonr. Feb. ao. m' 3'2vv 6v»r
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