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.
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