frigates are to be built. A considerable
time must of course elapse, before thele
trees can be put into the ftiape of sri-
gates.
From the. present agitation and Humili
ation of European affairs, great changes
before that time may be effe&ed, and the
neceflary delay in equipping the armament
will be the only chance of avoiding a war
by means of the measures.
If the frigates were now afloat, and en
gaged in the expedition againtl Algiers,
helhould view the United States in a state
of actual hostility against the whole com
bined powers.
But the neceflary delay which may
furnifh the only security against war, as a
result of the measure, proves the folly of
an expensive armament, which, before it
■ an be provided, the fluctuation of Euro
pean affairs, may render wholly unnecef
i'ary.
(Speech to be continued.)
AMERICA.
St. JOHN'S (Antigua) Feb. 25
The accounts received lalt week from
St. Kittsi of the capture of Fort Bourbon
in Martinique, are contradicted in that
I (land, it seems, by hand bills circulating
when the Mail Boat left it on Saturday.
By accounts from Montferrat, carried
thither by one of the Privateers,it appears,
that the British army had carried by as
sault, a Redoubt called Bouille, after a fe
yere contest, in which we loft 22 killed,
and 37 wounded ; fifteen Mulattoes and
five Whites, found there, were put to the
bayonet. From this redoubt, it is said,
Fort Bourbon may be battered in breach ;
(hould that be the cafe, we have no doubt,
that our gallant countrymen will soon cap
ture it. Fort Bourbon is attacked by 3
columns, one under Sir Charles Grey,
another under Ceneral Dundas, the third
under Colonel White- General Prefcot
commands one of the detachments a&ing
against Gros Morne and St. Pierre, and
Colonel Myers the other. Bellegardes,
second in command, ha* been taken and
handed; and the greateftdiflenfion prevailed
in Fort Bourbon. Rochambeau talks of
funender, the garrison will not attend to it;
and none will take the command of that
important Fortress. Our batteries play
incessantly upon it, and the fire of the
garrison is very weak indeed. They are
principally annoyed from a Bomb battery
of seventeen 22 inch Mortars;
UNITED STATES.
PITTSBURGH, March 22.
The Governor of this Commonwealth
has appointed the following gentlemen Of
ficers of the four companies to be raised
for the defence of the Delaware, and the
frontiers of Weftmoreland, Waftungton,
and Allegheny counties' viz.
Artillery Company,
Captain, John Rice,
Lieutenant, John Hazlewood, Jun.
Ensign, John Sallberry,
Waftrington County.
Lieutenant, Robert Miller,
Ensign, Chas. Craycraft, Jun.
Weftmoreland County.
Captain, John Sloan,
Lieutenant, John Craig,
Ensign, James M'Comb.
Allegheny County.
Captain, Ebenezer Denny,
..lieutenant, Tho. Bell Paterfon,
Ensign, Samuel Murphy,.
' Prefqu'ifle Command.
Ebenezer Denny,
~ f John Hazlewood, Jun.
Lieutenants, j J Robert Miller>
James M'Comb.
Capain,
£nfign,
PHILADELPHIA,
MARCH 31.
The following <was received lafl night, by
express from Bq/ion.
Boston, March z?th, 1794.
By the Packet from Halifax, arrived this day,
we present the following interesting intel
ligence.
Extra# of Letters from MefTrs. BIRD,
SAVAGE and BIRD, Merchants in Lon
don, to their Correspondent in this town,
dated as under. -
January i, 1794.
AMERICAN merchants, and the Gentle
men of Lloyd's Coffee-Houfe, have experi
enced a great degree of alarm, in conse
quence of inftruftions, dated 6th of Novcm-
Jtr, V"f not ITued until the last of Decem
ber*. The great ground of alarm was a
misapprehension that the terms flop and de
tain, and bring to legal adjudication, meant
a condemnation. But the merchants have
had a meeting about it: and our Mr. H. M.
BIRD was of the committee, who went to
the Admiralty PROCTOR and Mr. DUN
DAS, to require an explanation of the in
ftruilions—the result of which is, that the
term " legal adjudication" means no more
than that i'uch cargoes (hould be brought to
trial, to find out if they are not French pro
perty—but if they are found to be American,
they will be released, fubjeit only to charges,
as there are grounds of suspicion fufficient to
juftify the detention arising from a dil'covery
haviug been made that property is frequently
mailced. This only relates to cargoes landed
in and (hipped from America.
But the committee, under Mr. Dundas's
directions, are preparing a petition, to mi
nistry, of such a modification as would
relieve vessels laden in America, on Ame
rican accouht, with French colonial pro
duce for Europe, if not bound to France,
and we hope to be able to fend you a fa
vorable account from ministry, by our rlext.
This information you may deem authen
tic, and as it probably may be of a differ*
ent tenor from other letters frond hence,
it may be proper to make it public."
* Error—This order issued in Nov.
January 10, 1794-
" WE have the pklfure to hand you a
copy of frefli Inftruftions, which have been
iflued, in consequence of the representations
of the Committee of American Merchants
to His Majesty's Ministers, which we flatter
ourselves will give as much fatisfacHon in
America, as we experience, and that it may
tend to strengthen the friendlhip and good
understanding between the two countries, so
eflentially to the prosperity of both. The de
lays arising in the Commons, do not reft with
Ministers, bat with the Judge, who presides
in the Admiralty Court, and they (hew a
disposition to redress this grievance, by re
moving him, if it can be done."
Her follow the inJlruJlionj publi/hed in our
paper of Friday lajl.
Extraifl df a letter dated January 11, 1794,
from a mercantile house of the firft refpec-
tability m London.
" WE have now the fatisfcicftion to ac
quaint you, that the memorial of our mer
chants, has been attended to, and that the
order of Council of 6th November, is res
cinded, and in lieu thereof, the following
iflued:
"To stop and detain all shipS laden with
produce of the French IHinds, coming dircil
from the IQands to Europe," and likewise
" all {hips laden with Frcnch property, and
to bring them into' our ports, for legal adju
dication."
By which you will observe, that the trade
between the Islands and America is not af
fefled—and we are persuaded from this de
liberate discussion, and from the consequent
order, that the property bona fide American,
and coming diredl from America, will be
prote<sled—but all produce of the French
Islands coming direfl from the Islands to
Europe, will if captured be confifcated —let
the property belong to whom it may.
The militia of Maflachufetts consists of
eighty regiments of infantry, of nearly one
thousand men each ; the major part in uni
form. Thirty companies of artillery, in
compleat uniform, with two pieces of field
artillery each, principally brass ; and upwards
of ten squadrons of cavalry, in uniform, all
officered, and compleatly equipped.
The whole of this force is in the field four
times a year annually in detachments j be
sides being multered and reviewed by the ma
jor-generals of DiviHons in large bodies, col
lected to a central point by regiments and
brigades.
These field days and reviews form the
mod pleasing and attracting public exhibi
tions of the country, collect the largest aflem
blies of citizens of both fexes,who by their
presence and approbation, animate the guar
dians of our liberties in the pursuit of thole
military accomplishments, which are the
surest fafeguard of the blessings of society.
Extrafl of a letter from Charleston, dated
the 24th instant.
" At this moment our commerce is at a
stand, owing to a momentary expectation
of receiving accounts from those in power
with you, that we are no longer at peace
with the Briti(h,againft whom the merchants
of this place, in consequence of the great
and unwarrantable depredation on their com
merce are much incensed."
By this Day's Mail.
GEORGE-TOWN, March 25.
At a meeting of the Direßort of the Bank of
Columbia, March 22d, 1794-
Benjamin Stoddert was unanimously,
chosen Prefidcnt of the Bank ; and
Samuel Hanfon «f Saml. unanimous
ly, Cafuicr.
BOSTON, March 25.
Civic Festival Sufpendcd.
From the uncertainty of our present
political situation, and the diitreffes and
embarrafiments of our trade, the commit
tee appointed to prepare a Civic Feast,
recommended a temporary suspension of
all feftive appearances on account of the
brilliant and unexampled successes of our
friends and allies the French nation.
By order of the Committee,
Thomas Crafts, Chairman.
Boston, March 22. 1794.
FRANCE.
Pars, Dec. 31. Armand-Louis Goutaud,
ci-devant Duke de Biron, born April nth,
1747, married to Emilia Boufflers, February
4th, 1766, formerly General of the armies
of the Republic in Italy and in La Vendee,
has been executed, convicted of being an ac
complice in a conspiracy against the internal
and external fafety of the Republic.
The principal leaders of the infurreftion
at Lisle, now confined in the dliferent prisons
at Paris, are the Governor Vjlette, the lam:
who denounced General Lamorliere, who
has periflied on the fcaffold ; Dufraiile, Ge
neral of the Revolutionary Army, who so
late as the last year trod the Aageat BrufTelj;
Lis Adjutant-General Beauvofin ; Serdeaux,
aid-de-camp; and Capperon and Target, ge
nerals of brigade, and some others.
Yesterday being the day appointed for
the Civic Festival on the re-vaptiire of
Toulon, the Convention did not fit. The
ceremony, the order of which was arrang
ed by David the Painter, was urtiered in
by the firing of cannon. Fourteen chari
ots, with devices emblematic of the four
teen armies of France, and the figure of a
ihip, as the emblem of the navy, formed
the principal objedts in the procefiion; and
an occasional hymn was sung.
NEW-LONDON, (Con.J March 24.
ExtraS from Thomas Pool's Marine LiJ},
Arrived brig Neptune, Burnham, in 20
days from New-Providence, where he was
carried in by a privateer, detained eight
days arjl then released. All American
vefiels in tliat poit are relealed.
Arrived, brig Apollo, J. Williams, in
13 days from Grenada, via Turks-ifiand,
touchei at St. Thomas's, where he law
Capt. Gurdon Saltonftall, of this port.—
Capt. Williams saw Mr. Fortefque Cum
iiaitig in Grenada, 22d Jan. last, hearty
and well, who was to fail in a few days
sos Trinidad, and expected to .lail foi New
Haven about the 15th February ; Capt.
Williams had letters for his \yife and
friends in New-Haven, but being chafed
by a French privateer, was obliged to
throw them overboard.
Tuesday 15. Arrived, fehooner Polly,
A. Gilbert, in 20 days from the Cape;
left there, fehooner Lark, Tittle, Bevei ly,
fchoner Farmer, Allen, Martha's-Vine
yard, brig Bayonne, Rhode-Island, brig
Columbia, Barney, Hudson, fehooner An
drew, Norton, Philadelphia, fehooner Ju
no, do. brig Salome, Watson, do. fehoo
ner Hope, Higby, New-York. The a
bove veifels are waiting payment from go
vernment.
Capt. Gilbert fays the Republicans had
regained several forts which had been ta
ken by the Spaniards near the Cape.
The resolutions of Mr. Dayton ref
pefting the sequestration of British pro
perty were this day, on .motion of Mr.
Mercer postponed—several members who
are oppoled to the resolutions fjfoke againil
any delay of a decision,
The resolutions rt ported by a feledt
committee relative to placing the force of
the United States in a more efficient state,
were taken up ip committee of the whole—
some amendments took place—which with
the resolutions were reported to the house.'
The house agreed to the amendments—
an, additional resolution for veiling the
Prdident with power to raise twenty five
thoivfand men, in cafe war (hould take
place, was postponed till to-morrow.
P&RT OF PHILADELPHIA.
A R R I V E D.
days
Ship Hibernia, Mafley, New-York 7
Abigail, Horton, do. 8
Sloop New jorge, Lincoln, Boston 13
Ranget, Gates, New York 5
Schr. Friendftiip, Patton, Bermuda 9
Ship Liberty, Caldwell,' returned
Brig Brandywine Miller, Curfen, do.
Mo'ly, Trerr.clls, do.
Jetierfon, Morris, do
A letter from a gentleman in Antigua
to his friend in this City, of March 4b,
mentions, That seven American vefcls
v.-crc condemned there, from the 28th of
February, to the above date, (March the
4th.)
Arrived, the (hip Enterprise, Captain
Jones, in 12 days from Havannah, he in
forms, that on the igth of Mai eh, in la:.
49. he spoke the brig Industry, Captain
Laya, from New -York, bound to Havan
nah—out 28 days.
Capt. Jones further informs, that on the
24:}] inft. off the Delaware Capes., he lpohe
the lhip Fame, Cspt. Eldridge ; lame time
he saw the (hip Aerial, Capt. -Decatur, both
from Philadelphia, a few hours out.
Capfain Patton left at Bermuda, 22
fail at American Veflels, part condemn
ed, and others waiting for a trial.—-He
also informs, that , the sloop Sally, Cnpt.
Weft of Philadelphia, was to fail the
fame day he left Bermuda : In which
Capt. Hayes, of the sloop Sally of this
port, was to come paflenger—he further
informs, that he saw a brig yesterday
morning, coming into the Capes.—
* In the 3d column firft page —7th line
of this paper, for frequently read perfectly.
For Norfolk & Fredericksburgb,
LITTLE^SALLY,
John Earl, Matter.
A ltaunch good veflel, will fail in a few
days. For freight or psflage, apply to the
mailer on board at Chefnut fireet wharf, or
to
JOSEPH ANTHONT tf SON.
March 31
NEW THEATRE.
this Evening,
March 3 I ,
Will be performed,
A -TRAGEDY, caikd the
Grecian Daughter.
Evander, Mr. Whitlock
Philctas,
Melanthon,
Pliocion,
Dionvfms,
Galippus,
Areas,
Greek Herjild,
Euphrafia,
Erixene,
End of the Tragedy,
A Pantomimical Dance, called
The' Sailors Landlady i
OR
Jack in Distress.
To which will be added,
A FARCE, in two acSs, called.
The Spoil'd Child.
Little Pickle.
Old Pickle,
Tag,
John,
Thomas,
Milt. Pickle,
Maria,
Margery,
Susan,
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to
fend their l'ervants to keep places, at half an
hour pall 4 o'clock, and to order them td
withdraw, as loon as the company are seated,
as they cannot on any account be permitted
to remain in the boxes, nor any piaCts kept
after the firft adt.
No places can be let in the fide boxes for a
less number than eight, nor places re
tained after the firft ail.
The -Doors will be opened at 5 o'clock,
and the performances begin at 6 o'clock pre-"
cifely.
* As inconveniences to the public have
arisen from the Bex book being open on the
days of performance only, in future attend
ance will be given at the office in the Theatre
every day from ten 'till one, and on the days
of performance from ten till three o'clock in
the afternoon. Applications for Boxes, itis
refpe<ftfully requeued, may be addrell'ed, to
Mr. Franklin, at the BoxC'ffice.
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, en the day of performance. Tickets
to be had at the office near the Theatre, at
the corner of Sixth-ftreet,and at Can- & Go's
Muficalßepofitory, No. 122, Market-street
Boxes, one dollar —Pitt, three quarters
of a dollar —and Gallery, half a dollar.
ADVERTISEMENT.
To the diitrefied inhabitants of St. Do-
mingo now in Philadelphia.
The dillribution of the money allotted to
them will be made on Wednesday next, at tfcc
south-West corner of WalnutandWater ftrecU
from nine V clock 'till noon, and from three
to five afternoon.
Aux Habitants de St- Domingue de nu£s
de toute faculty a Philadelphie.
La Diftributioti de la fomme accordee fe sera
tylecrcdi prochain, au Coin de!a Rue fud oueft
de 1' EaU &De la Rue de Walnut, cmre neuf
heures& niidi & de trois &Cinque apres midi.
(f3T The Printers of Philadelphia, are re»
quested to republilb the above. -
dtf"
Mr. Moreton
. Mr. Green
Mr. Cleveland
Mr. Fennel
Mr. Warrell
Mr. Francis
Mr. Harwood
Mrs. Whitiock
Mrs. Cleveland
Mrs. Marfliall
Mr. Finch
Mr. Francis
Mr. Bliffet
Mr. Darl y jun.
Mrs. Kop'fon
Mrs. Cleveland
Mr. Bate 3
Miss. Wiliems