hat officcra, and men fell or. this occa sion. - Trom General O'l ira's abfonce, the command devolves on me. I ihall endea vor to difcbai ge it to the best of my abil ity and health, till his majetty's farther pleasure is fignified. With great refpeft, I have the honor to be, &e. (Signed) D. DUNDAS, Maj. Gen, Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, &c. Vidory, Toulon Road, Nov. 30. STR, The enemy having erected and open ed a battery against the post of Malbouf quet, from which (helli would reach the town and arsenal, Governor O'Hara fig nificd to me yelterday, his intention to attempt to destroy it, and bring off the guns j and tequefted some seamen to be sent to a post he proposed to withdraw the Britilh soldiers from. The Governor proposed not to go out himfelf, but un fortunately, did not keep his word. A molt clear diftinft, and regular plan was fettled, and the commanding officer of the troops of each nation had a copy of it. The troops moved at four o'clock this morning, and surprised the redoubt moll completely. Never was a ferviee performed with more regularity and ex a&nefs; but the .ardour and impetaofity of the troops (iflftead of forming on the height where the battery was raised, as they were particularly ordered to do,) led them to rush after the enemy, near a mile on the other fide, in a very featured and irregular manner. The consequence of which was, the enemy collected 111 very great force; and, in the retreat of our troops, they fuffered extremely. I herewith transmit an account of the lofj of the British in killed, wounded and miffing : But Major-General Dundas will give yon more particulars. The Gover nor mod unfortunately was wounded and taken prisoner. A surgeon was sent to him immediately (by permission of Gen. du Gomrtiier, Commander in Chief of the Eastern Army at the siege of Tou lon,) who reports, that the Governor's wound is a flefh one only in the arm ; but being faint by the loss of blood, he was obliged to fit down under a wall, and there nude prisoner of. X have the honor to be, See. Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, &c. AMERICA. NASSAU, Dec. 27, In theft islands we kno<vfi little of a war exijling, except from report of what is doing tlfewbere-, or from fcfoe low price of our flu pic article of produce, And the enhanced price of the necessaries of life. The privateeri.ig buftnefs, which created such an ast 'tve scene here during tlx Summery is now nearly at a fland ; and with the sur render of the French Islands, which we cannot regard as a very diflant event > mufl entirely xeafe 9 January 7. The ship Eliza, Hartley, from Liverpool ard St. Vincent, for the Caicos, was loft on Philips's Reef, off the Ealt Caicos, 2d Dec. at 10 P. M. owing to the rapidity of a cur rent setting to the weft ward. At the time the ship struck, (he had ill fail set, standing off shore with a lip.ht breeze from E. While aground on iiie reef, nine miles from the land, on the 3d of December, with a signal of distress flying, at noon, a sloop, which proved to be the Bermudian, Bartlett, a pri vateer of twelve guns, belonging to Bermu da, came to them ; when, instead of giving relief to people in such a diftrefled situation, the crews ot the privateer' boats, by dire<ftion .of their officers, plundered the cargo of the Eliza. One of them, named Ingram, who was called Captain, was particularly active in this lhameful business. Captain Hartley, at the time the privateer's boats boarded the Eliza, was making for the ihore in his long beat, with part of the cargo ; and had, pre vious to his leaving the ship, ordered the mate to request the afliftance of the sloop, then coming down to the ship. At night the mate, with all the crew left on board, came ashore to Captain Hartley, informed him of the above particulars, and also told him that while the. private r's men were plundering the ship, they put all the officers in confine ment. The mate, James Steel, and two sea men, John Ramsay and John Mather, have fincc died at Turk's Islands. Affidavits frcm several of the officers and feawen of the Eliza, refpeiting the brutal be haviour of the Bermudian's people, are ob tained ; and the neceflary steps are now tak ing for bringing the perpetrators of such barbarity to punirtunciu. PHILADELPHIA, Extra# of a letter from a* gentleman now inNew"Vork, belonging to Salem, to his son ift th;s city, dated th« aoth inft. " Bince writing you last, I have received a letter from my partner Mr. H. of Salem, of the ijth inft. g.ving an account of the ar rival there, of our schooner A&ive, from a fortunate voyage ; the A<slive was carried into New Providence, which place (he left the aift ult.and informs that but one Ameri can veflel was th n there, which was the O livc Branch from New York, and she was to leave there the next day; that Capt. Hodges of the A&ive, was generously supplied there with frefh beei and fplrits, gratis, and all port charges paid, thus feme are treated in some Britilh ports, while in others they are plun dered, i^c. At a general meeting of the Citizens of the city aiiJ county of Philadelphia, held at the State House, last Tuesday, the follow ing rcfolutions were adopted: so. .'u', That a c. mfnittee conliiting of five citi zens, b< appointed to prepare a plan for soli citing dona'ions from all benevoknt and pa triotic freemen, for th? purposes of eftabliihr & fund, to relieve and redeem our unfor tunate few citizens, wlio,failing cn board of veftels belonging to the port of Philadel phia have been c >tured and enslaved by the Algerines or any other piratical lUte. Rejoined. That the *above committee fliall report th 1 r plan to a general meeting of the cit.zjlis, to be iiolden 0.1 the 33d day of March inft. Rufolved, That the following named persons flinll be the committee for carrying ir.to effect the foregoing reiolutions, viz. John Swanwick, Stephen Girard, Israel Israel, Jacob Morgan, and Alexander James Dallas. The above pamed Committee being ready to report, GIVE NOTICE, And particularly request the attendance of the citizens of the ciiy and county of Phila delphia, at the State House, THIS DAY", the 2zd inft. at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. By this Day's Mail. NEW-YORK, March 21 Yefterdayat a m eting o C:::zfn3, a Committee was appoin edto prep-vet pe ti ion to the Legiilature of the Hate, re fuelling them to grant a sum oi money, in addition to the sum appropriated bv Congress, for the purpble of fortifying the port of Ncw-Yoik. HOOD. Chairman, Genera! James Alner. The following gentlemen compose the Edward John Broome, Richard Harrifon, R. R. Living]ion, J amij Aluer. By captain Orne of the {hip Favorite, who has arrived at this place from Bour deaux, which place he left Jan. yti., we are informed, that when he failed the embargo oil American {hipping was not taken off, nor was there any profpvet of it—The number of American veffe!s detained there, he beleives to be about I 25. The reason for this embargo was altogether a mystery. The embargo extends to the Swedilh and Danish veflels as <Vcll as to the Americans. The cargoes of a'.l ves sels are taken by French officers, valjed, and paid for; but they are seldom valued at more than half the firft colt. A Danish vefTel had been dispatched from that kingdom, with provisions for the Danish crews which were fuffering in that port, but ihc had no sooner arrived, than her cargo was seized, except a small allowance for the fevcral crews. Allig nats are the principal medium of buiinefa in France, and it is death to make any difference between paper and specie. Brig Penelope, George Bray, i'rom New- York, was met in the river on the sth Janua ry. 1794. by Capt. Orne, bound to Bour deaux. The Maflacuhufetts Captain Wlii;e, failed from the river on the ;th Jan. f.r New- York, on the 14th was captured by the lhii) James Capt. Thomas Wilks, a letter of marque of 16 guns belonging to Liverpool, bound to Jamaica, fufpeiftin/ the cargo was French property, and intended to carry the Mafiachufetis to that I (land. On the 59th of Jan. the James fell in with the Anna Boletta, a Danilh brig from Leg horn bound to New-York, and Capt Jame- Orne of Portsmouth N. H. who was a paflln ger on board the Maflachufetts, took paflag, on board her for New-York, and arrived on the 17th of March. The I4lh of February while on board the Anna Boletta, in lat. 14 00. lat. 35 • W. fell in with tke lloop Betsey, MARCH 22. Committee. c*pt. Enoch Coffin, belonging to C" ati-flon, S. C. 24 days from Cadiz, boyiid to Balti- informed that twelve fa.il of Ame ricans had been taken by the Algerines, whic/i they .hat: certain accounts of in Cadiz, Cbflin failed in company with 20 fail qS other American veflels, under convoy of rt\»o Spa nifii fliips of war, the Spaniards giving them 110 signals neiiher informing them the day they were to fdil, f< on ran away from them and left them to ihift for themselves. —On the 22d of Feb. iunfce the schooner Patty, of Norwich, aR well, from C-diz, bound to Norwich. Tfce Richmond of Richmond,Capt. Lee ; and Nymph, Captain Weft of Phila delphia, by some means obtained permiflion aud faded about the 20th of December— (he -Aurora, Capt. Stewart of Pordmouth, N. H. failed, loaded with brandy for New- about the 21ft of December. Any American vessel with proviflons, the French nation will take at about half the firft cost, and keep us in the port to llarve after. Extra&of a letter from Philadelphia, dated March 9, "We bad a town meeting lad night, and we are to support Congress with our lives and fortunes—an embargo was talked of, and every body fears it—from the con vention 1 have had with several mem bers of Congress, they imagine they shall fit the grcateft part of the summer, at least a considerable time longer than that talked of, but they did not seem to inti mate an embargo likely to be laid, and said if it was, it would not be coaftways." For the Gazette of the United Statu, A CARD, Addrtjfed to Mr. S . A CITIZEN presents his compliments to Mr. S——k, and begs leave to alk him how many days have pafled over, since he sent some of his veflels with cargoes to the ports of that vindictive, ambitious, arbitra~ .7, fauage, injidious, clandejtine, unjuj,l, in humane. arrogant, piratical, violent, info, knt, mean, contemptuous, nation Great Bri tain, & whether he has not received, & dees nor expect these fame veflels heme again with cargoes—T he Citizen also begs leave to afit how many veflels he has sent to France lardy, and if any, whether he does not ex pect them to be embargoed, or freighted back with aflignats, if his Captain (houid not be in a capacity to bribe Rational Commiflion ers to let him bring off produce ? How dare he trust his veflels 'Or cargoes to the ports of that iif t named bad nation, who wiil fcize them and confifcate them ? I declare I will tell of him, if he does not use more genteel language in future. 21/?. March. Awi iter'ln the Hampshire Gazette con cludes some observations on the Com mercial Resolutions, which have so long been the topic of conversation, with the foHewing remarks and queries 1 rejoice to find that the New-England Members have learnedly combated those a:iti commercial and anti-agricultural re -1 'utions—the pro'b'ind wisdom and un (haken pitriotifm which they have exhibit- Ed mult be as pleating to their friends as t-rribleto their enemies. And rtiav we never fee a Ward, a S a Foster or a I.yman, out immediate R prefenta tlves, eith -r so ignorant, M-eak or kicked as to adopt meafnres diametrically iite to the real interest of their laborious constituents. Let them be careful not to interrupt our preient prosperity at this irritating crifre, by chimeric p ojefts—Put may they meiit our future friendihip and fup pert, by their united endeavors to feeure to us the .bleflinrs we now enjov under our own flourifhing vi: s aiid fig-trees. Farmers—ire v ir \kts under the ge neral governine,.t easy ! Is there a ready market and hi; h , nee for whatever your Farms will p-o,;ucff ? Do you wi(ha con tinuation of tac e benehts, and deprecate their interruption ? Laborers—ls there not an increasing call on you for your labor ? Need you spend one idle hour for want of employ ? And are you not paid more, and better than formerly ? Mec'ianicks—Has not the price of your Labour greitly risen, and your ingenuity infinitely better rewarded than ever it was before ? Shopkeepers—Did you ever experience a readier sale of goods and prompter pay than at tin's foment ? If these queitioni are answered in the affirmative there can be no doubt on your m ds, but that it is for the general bene fit o. the community to prefer the prof p-' ity we now enjoy to the adoption of a string of refutations that have not Hood t)>C ted of of novelty! A Hampshire Farmer. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIr A L S. Ship Aurora, Stewart, Brig Flora, Carson, John, Cooper, Sloop Molly, Curracoa, 20 Smith, Bermuda, 11 IMPORTED In the Brig George and Harriott, from Havre de Grace, and for sale by Louis OJmont, A PERFECT Aflbrtment of Hanging P&pcr" high co'oured and pi. in. ' Stocking,, high drelf.d and put up English f»lhion. I he handsomest artificial Flowers and Fea thers. Some Looking Glass Plaies to, be fold by the cafe. A few hampers of Champaignc wine, fix years oid. ALSO, An elegant parcel of Bear skin Muifs, And very beiutiful Silk Cloaks, which on iccouiitof thtfeafon will be fold low. and at a ldng credit. LIKEWISE 42 pipes Madeira wine, aad a few casks of Claret. A Quantity tf Hamburgh Demijohns. In a few Days, He qvill have for sale, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF White and Black I .aces, Leghorn hats, fens and cambricks, claret in cales, a quantity of window glais well fort • d of all size , and a few pair of remarkable Looking Glasses framed, all arrived at Nor folk, now coming round. March 22. H r f NEW THEATRE, THIS EVENING, March 22, Will be performed, A COMEDY, called The Jealous Wife. Mr. Oakley M r . Fcnnell Major Oakley, Mr. Whitlock S h^ rleS ' Mr. Moreton _ , Mr. WigneU Sir Harry Beagle, Mr. Chalmers Lord Trinket, Mr. Finch Captain O-Cutter, Mr. Bate. Wdham, Mr. Barley jun. J° hn ' Mr. Warrell J 0 ™' . , , , Mr. Francis Lauy /reelore e fer v't. Master. Warrell Mrs. Oakley, Mrs. Whitiock Lady Freelove, Mrs. Morris Mrs. Francis I -J Mrs * Chambermaid, Miss. WUlema Tbefcenes dejigned and executed by Mr. Milbourne. End of the Opera, a charadteriftic Ptiniomimical DANCE, called C 1 he Sailor s Landlady, OR, Jack in Distress. J? C j' u Mr. Francis Ned Hlulyard (-with a new Jon\g) Mr. Dar. . lev, jun. Sailors, MefFrs. Warreli, Bliffet, Warreli. jun. Lej, Baf n and Dc Moulin, Lafles» Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Batts, Miss. Rowfon, & Mils. Willems. Landlady, Mrs. Rowfon Orange Girl, Mrs. De Maraue To conclude with a double HORNPIPE by Mr. Francis and Mrs. De Marque, To which will be added, 7he Musical Entertainment, calk Ay Sailors, LafTes, The Virgin Unmask'd. Goodwill, Mr. WarreU Coupee, Mr. Francis (Quaver, Mr. Marshall Bl' fter > . Mr. Bate. Thomas, Mr. Grteu M ist. I.ucy, Mrs. Mlrihali INFORMATION Is Requested By the Ediior, of a Mr. Willi-m Kilion, a Brick Layer, who went trom New-England, and at Philadelphia ift Aujull, 1793, since which fime nurhing has Lei-n heard of him—'Great relief will be afforded to his aged parents and friends, by any intell gence con cerning him—as Uicy are tearful that he has fallen in the late general calamity. March 32. Davs. Bourdeaux, 7 6 Havanna,
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