PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 26. From the American Star of ytjlerday. Extra £k of the Gazette Nationale, ou Monitcur Univerfel, No. 276. facotin Society. Coupe de Loife in the Chain. October 1793. The Republican Society of Charleston in Carolina, one of the United State's of America, demand of the Jacobin Club its adoption. Hauthier. " We have spilt our blood tortlie eftablKhment of American liberty-'— I think that the Americans ought to do the fame for us, before we grant them adoption. A Citizen. " Before engaging them to intermeddle with our war, it is neceflary to underlland one another, to come to an agreement with them. Ido not fee then, a more efficacious way for the previous re-nni.on, than an adoption of their foeiety. Coilot D'Herbois. " Dispatches are received by the committee of Public Safety, informing it, that America has permitted French veiTels to fell in their ports all English prizes which they might make. On a close examination of these dispatches it appears, that although they carry official marks, they are not from the American o-overnment; bnt merely from a consul of one of the Anglo-American cities, who being nothing but a commercial agent, and not a political one, may very likely have written them from interested motives, rather than authentic authorization. Ne vertheless, we Ihould not neglect the ad vantages which may arise from this ad vance. I conclude, that we agree to this adoption." RefolrccL FRENCH INDIA MAX. This cargo is valued at the lowed efli mation at seven millions worth of mer- chandize, Deductions to l>e mad: Commiflion of the chief agent in the sale at 5 per cent. Commifiion of the auctioneer at one per cent. Porterage of the gooes to the place of sale. Expences of unloading the vefiU, Without including in this calculation all the fnbcommiflions of under agent s, of ail the auxiliaries that were engaged in it, and who must have the eoir.miUions of brokerage. Such a number of persons were interested in this business, that it is not astonishing that theie was as much cabal for assuming the direction of it, as there was formerly in the Conclave of Rome for the nomination of a Pope. The General Advert ifer of this morn ing fays, It is reported that the commu nications. from our Minister at London, arc far from bearing a pacific afpeft. A Society wr-.s lately formed in Lon don, called the Bible Socisty, thcde fign of which is to create a fund for the benevolent purpose of furnifhing a large number of Bibles, to be distributed gratis among the poor people of Franee. The ship Edward, from Ruflia, yefter dav morning, ran foul'of the brig Katy, of'Bofton, near Fort Mifflin, by which the latter was so much injured that (he funk immediately, the grcateft part of her cargo, (flour) howt\er, was foved. A brig outward bound, at the fame time, got aground on the Jerfcy fliore, and the fiMjw Henry and Charles, was damaged in her stern by rtfnning foul of another ve*!«:i. In the fitting of the National Conven tion of France, on the November, tbe following letter from a Priest. was read: " Citizens! Lcgiflators! u Yon now hear the voice of a Friefi, wfio has'lived forty years by his trade, but, be now renounces it with pleasure. LrgiftaSor* 5 I nm now going to make nvy public cotifrflion, and to declare my irpcTitstnee: Why (Kould 1 ft ill cherilh yttjn&ctt ? I bcKeve then, that Religion its 00 CttWfitfVf ts founded on 1 ruth. 1 Lclie*e they are sH the offspring of pride ami ignorance—that mtereft has rendered them &cred, and that rulers, have every where employed them to eliablifh their power—{hat foperftition, has always been the work of Pttcfts, and that they them frfcrs, are erery where, cither, wicked or ■fed upon liv fa'ifehood or tyranny'. I bcliuve above all, That Jultice is True Rtligion—and that no other wuilhip is nec»flary on the earth, but the practice of Trite Virtue. I believe also, that Hea ven is nothing else, than the happy iccol- TeAion of having been virtuous. I ren der this solemn homage to Truth—Fana- ticifm will not hear me, but I brave its anathemas. Legislators ! A man mull accustom himfclf to tliis truth, in order to i>e converted to teaf»n ; and I hope that :he Priests of all Religions will compre- lend, to the triumph of I'hilofophy and tlie l.iberty of Nations, that there is still a difference between a Priest and an Ha- nest Man. As for me, I have made my choice, and I resign to the State a pen sion of 1500 livres ; but as I am 60 years old, and without any fortune, I demand from the nation the means of having ii> my retreat, bread and milk. (Signed) "PAUL ROLAND, ci-devant " Cure of Villos de Luchon." Atrafl from a work now in the press of John Parker of Philadelphia, en titled " A Vieiv of the United States ef America." " The following will be found to be fume of the principal articles of expor tation from the United States, daring the year ending in September 1795. 3,145,255 bulhels of grain and pulse, (principally wheat, Indian corn, rye, beans and peas.) 44,752 horses, horned cattle, mules, ,459,723 barrels of flour, and other meal, bufcuit and rice, re ducing eafi39 1 tons tirn ber. 18,374 pieces of timber. t,OBO cedar and oak (hip knees. 71,603,863 (hingles. 31,760,702 (laves anil hoops. 19 f frames of houses. 73,318 oars, rafters for oars & hand- 48,860 fliouk or knock-down calks. 52,381 lihds. of flaxfeed. sJrporr.'TMEHTs Br AL'THORITT Die 10—Walter Stewart, Infpeftor of the Revenue for the Port of Philadel phia. Walter Stewart, Surveyor for the Dif trif Lucy Clark—Mr. Bourn in the chair. This bill provides for granting a sum of money which was due to her late husband Thomas Clark deceased, for public fcrvi ces and for the hire of a negro slave, for whose time in the public service a bond had been recovered against the petitioner. The bill was opposed, as contravening the ast of limitation, and as opening, a door to innumerable other claims now bar red by law—if taken up, it ought to be done on a general principle. It was supported as providing for a cafe Handing on its own merits, attended with peculiarly unfortunate circumstances that bore extremely hard on the petitioner and these were principally imputable to the officer who had neglie&ed to make the proper returns in season. The committee on motion, at length rose, and were discharged from any fur ther proceedings thereon.' It was then moved that the bill (hould be re-committed to a special committee. This motion did not obtain. It being moved by Mr. Nicholas, to take into consideration the confidential communications of the President of the United States, for the p::rpofe of deter mining whether they {hall be made pub lic—The galleries were cleared. A Correspondent observes, that where a question can poflibly arise, whether a thing submitted in confidence ought to be made public or not, it is instead of a tuou fand arguments in favor of secrecy.